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Aw yeah polymerization time

[winstein-nin]

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Characters - Garfield Style

This series of images basically started thanks to Lyman Banner being called, well, "Lyman". Given that I already created a series of Mario characters in the style of Garfield, I decided to give the Garfield style another go. Thus, Lyman Banner is basically Lyman with Lyman Banner's clothing, leading to Jaden/Judai being based on Jon Arbuckle, because I think it's funny, and besides, they are practically the main characters in a sense.

While Yubel is based on Liz (and in fact I called the fusion "Yubeliz"), the resulting character doesn't appear to have much in common with the real Liz, so I would probably not attribute much to the character of inspiration. I do personally think that the result is not to shabby, especially with the various details that Yubel has!

Initially, I didn't want to base Pharaoh on Garfield, but ultimately I relented because I wasn't satisfied with the initial sketch for Yubel. My initial idea was to base Odie on Pharaoh and Garfield on Yubel, because Lyman was Odie's original owner, so that would make sense. Also, Garfield has often been joked as some demonic entity so in my mind that seem to make sense. But after I analysed Yubel's details, I became unconvinced that it would be the best idea.

Winged Kuriboh was a late addition, because in my mind, doesn't Jaden/Judai have Winged Kuriboh as a spirit partner? The choice of character ultimately went to Gnorm Gnat for the deep cat and the fact that I felt that this is probably the best character to use for Winged Kuriboh.

And finally, here are some rejected sketches:

To elaborate on why I changed the Yubel and Pharaoh designs, Garfield's smaller body makes the details unable to stand out very well, even though I personally liked Odie's design. But a change of plan necessitate that I redesign the two from scratch. I'm also personally not a fan of portraying Garfield as a demonic entity that a group of fans do, so in a way, I am sticking to my beliefs in this case.

As for the second Pharaoh design (top-left), someone feedbacked that the cat looked too much like Garfield and I am inclined to agree, and I expressed interest in showing off a detail on Pharaoh that never got to be shown: the head pattern. Garfield does have cats with a forehead, like Barney (the cat).

There you have it. They're probably not the most perfect Garfield style, but I think I am satisfied with how it turned out.

Thank you for reading.

[aberooski]

Assigning Final Fantasy summons to GX characters because why not?

With specifications on which version of the summons I've assigned them, only some genuine explanations of my thought process, and I will take no criticisms 😌

In my mind how this works is that the summons function like they do in 13 at least at least to a certain point. Like how they obtain their summon at some point throughout whatever story is being told here, or maybe some of them have obtained them already, and they're summoned via crystals in the heat of battle when needed. So in my mind as I'm picturing all of this, I'm picturing the 13 summoning technique to an extent.

Alright, let's get into it!

Jaden - Anima (FFX)

If you know the Anima lore you know this is actually so big brain

Yubel -> Anima

Syrus - Valefor (FFX)

I like the idea of Sy and Zane having a similar type of summon (Zane gets Bahamut, spoilers) with them both being creatures that fly, a dragon and a big bird. But Sy's is weaker in power and has a gentler spirit, but that spirit is strong. Very thematically accurate for them.

He could also have Doomtrain to sync up with his deck archetype I think that would be funny

But he gets Valefor because I have a lot of sentimental value towards her and she's one of my favorite summons and he's my favorite and I said so 😌

Chazz - Ixion (FFX)

My favorite lightning summon

Thunder boy and his lightning horsie ⚡

I would honestly just love to see it

Alexis - Shiva (FFX version cuz she's my fav summon period)

Decks are being taken into account and she plays an ice deck in the manga and while she's in the society of light in season 2 🧊

I don't have a crazy in depth explanation for this I just feel it in my soul. I've always said she would be a Shiva girl like me even without her and Atty both having an ice elemental association betwixt all the GX media.

Giving my favorite girl my favorite summon

Atticus - Diablos (FFVIII)

Nightshroud -> Darkness -> Diablos.

Another big brain choice actually

He could've also had Shiva pretty easily tbh and I considered that, but ultimately went with Diablos for the Darkness representation.

I mean come in, the guy is basically possessed by the main evil entity of the show and Diablos is essentially the devil.

Bastion - Leviathan (FFVIII)

His ace monster is Water Dragon, come on now. 💧🐉

Hassleberry - Titan (FFXV)

Titan is a big strong man as is our boy

Also he's Earth element and if Hassleberry had an element he would be Earth I feel it in my non-dinosaur bones.

Sadly there are no dinosaur summons I'm sorry bby 😞

Chumley - Choco/Mog (FFVII)

I'll be so for real I had such a hard time figuring out Chumley like from the summons I had left to choose from cuz I added Blair and Chumley to the list last, I couldn't find one I thought fit super great

But as I was going over the summons lists again I pictured these guys appearing alongside Chum and I just smiled. It just made me smile and so does he.

Sometimes it's just that simple.

But I did also consider Fenrir as an option as well.

Blair - Siren (FFVIII)

Siren specializes in status ailments (silence specifically) and you could argue her love deck reolves around a status ailment, namely Maiden In Love causing male monsters to fall in love with her, which actually is sort of a thing in some FFs through the Lamia enemy but shhhh

8's Siren can also heal status ailments so that gives Blair more abilities available to her to support the party

Valefor would've been another choice for her I just feel the vibe there but I want Sy to have her so 😌

Garuda could be another decent potential choice for her as more of a combative summon than a support summon, I feel that vibe too.

But I dunno I was just drawn to Siren for her so there you go.

Zane - Bahamut (FFVII Remake or FFXIII/XIII-2)

Dragon

Bahamut is typically among the most powerful of all the summons if not the most powerful depending on the game.

I'm wrestling between 7R and 13, 7R has almost some cybernetic action going on that gives me Cyber End energy while maintaining the classic dragon design, and 13 has Chaos Bahamut in 13-2 so he could have Bahamut then it could morph into Chaos Bahamut once he enters the Edgelord Supreme era to facilitate the shift from Cyber End to Cyber Dark if you follow my brain's logic

Aster - Phoenix (FFXVI)

......I-I mean..... Phoenix... Aster.... Aster Phoenix..... 😅

I literally could not resist 🤭

I would also except Odin for him though I think that would be cool too that's a vibe

Jesse - Carbuncle (FFVI)

Ruby Carbuncle ✋

Axel - Ifrit (FFX)

The perfected classic design imo

Badass fire boy 🔥

Like dude imagine Axel with Ifrit by his side

Unmatched

Jim - Syldra (FFV)

Syldra was Faris's pet and best friend since childhood who became a summon later in the game after sacrificing herself. Very reminiscent of Shirley being Jim's best friend/pet/protector since they were both young.

The implications of of the idea of Shirley sacrificing herself for Jim and becoming the summon makes me upset tho so we can just delete any timeline where that happens 😁

Crowler - Alexander (FFVIII or FFXIII)

Alexander is typically a machine or like a straight building or structure of some kind and Crowler plays Ancient Gears so 🏰

8 is a very good classic Alexander, just a great summon, and 13's I have a lot of sentimental value for but also him being a guy that turns into a defensive wall in Gestalt mode and with the way Crowler will put himself between harm and the kids at times.... thematically accurate Alexander?

Crowler wouldn't be beating the Dad allegations any time soon with that version on his side

7 Rebirth's Alexander is a close 3rd choice I think too I really like that design

With Alexander I was trying to think about practicality cuz they're all so massive and occasionally story relevant so he's not always a readily available summon so I sadly ruled out 9 and Type-0 as much as I really wanted him to have either of those too

Really wrestling with the specifics of this one

Sheppard - Ramuh (FFIX)

Wise old man

Sheppard is kinda dumb tho and makes some questionable decisions but he means well he's got the spirit

Banner - Chaos (FFXII)

In the lore, Chaos died and and was reborn several times.

Banner died and was reborn when he transferred himself into a new body, then he died, then still stuck around as a ghost.

Debated switching Phoenix from Aster to Banner and finding another one for Aster but clearly I did not lol

Also considered Phantom from 6 because it's just a ghost and uh.... Ghost Banner. But Chaos is cooler.

Adrian - Zalera (FFXII)

I was gonna give him Odin because of the insta kill move and how he had Exodia which is an automatic win but then I was looking at the summons list and was looking through the 12 Espers and listen.

Zalera is an Esper of death who clutches a woman in his arms and uses her wails to inflict death.

This really reminds me of Echo clutched in Exodia's hand screaming as she's being murdered by Adrian in the interest of obtaining Exodia.

Plus we had no 12 representation I chose Banner's after this and as 12 is my second favorite ff behind 10/10-2 that is criminal.

Welcome to my mind. 😌

[yu-gi-poll]

QUARTERFINALS, MATCH 4 OUT OF 4!

This is the finals for Set D!

Monster Stats & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Helios – the Primordial Sun is used by Amnael / Daitokuji (Amnael / Lyman Banner in the English dub). Its stats are the following:

Attribute: LIGHT

Level: 4

Type: PYRO / EFFECT

Effect Type: CONTINUOUS

Effect (according to the anime): “This card gains 100 ATK and DEF for each removed from play Monster Card.”

ATK / DEF: ? / ?

Propaganda:

This was definitely the reason everyone played Macro Cosmos. I mean, they're the sun.

Rescue Cat is used by Momoe Hamaguichi (Mindy in the English dub). Its stats are the following:

Attribute: EARTH

Level: 4

Type: BEAST / EFFECT

Effect Type: IGNITION / CONDITION

Effect (according to the anime): “By sending this face-up card to the Graveyard, Special Summon 2 Level 3 or lower Beast-Type monsters from your Deck. The monsters Special Summoned this way are destroyed at the end of this turn.”

ATK / DEF: 300 / 100

Propaganda:

BABY MEOW MEOW!!!!

OBJECTIVELY THE BEST BECAUSE LOOK AT IT. This cat saves lives.

[cyberdragoninfinity]

Hello! I hope you have a great day, and that I'm not bothering you! But, I was wondering, How would Lyman Banner fit into the college AU? And In general, What do you think of him?

Aw, thanks!!! I hope you have a good day too :^) It's never a bother to chatter about my many AUs, hehehehe

Professor Banner is a bit of a weird case in College AU (i guess to be fair he's a weird case in canon too lol); he WAS Jaden's academic advisor for his freshman and sophomore year, and they had a sort of odd friendship; Jaden even got to catsit Pharaoh a couple times (based off my true life experience of my old roommate who once dogsat our art history professor's shelties.) But then like midway into Jaden's junior year Banner fucking DIED unexpectedly, and now the effects of his presence still linger around Jaden like a ghost. Her and ended up leaving Jay a bunch of academic books on alchemy and art that are still sitting somewhere in his bedroom (Yubel likes thumbing through them.) He also got the cat :) (Though Jaden's been a bit dodgy about whether or not he was Ieft Pharaoh in some sort of will along with the books, of if he just stole Pharaoh so he wouldn't get surrendered to the pound. Either way!)

Lyman Banner is like.... for me he's one of those yugioh characters that for whatever reason doesn't quite scratch my brain the way most others do, but I DO think he's got some fun stuff going on with him. Amnael is cool, I like his design elements more in that state, and in general Banner's just such an Absolute Fucking Bonkers Character i have to respect it. Like you get hit the Yugioh Homunculus lore and then you just keep getting kicked in the head with more insane details about him. He talks like a catboy. He really straight up died and his cat ate his ghost and now he haunts a teenager and that's just part of Jaden's life now I guess??!??!?! I wish he didnt Sound Like That in the dub. "Lyman" is one of the most yugioh dub name choices of all time. He needs to lose his teaching license real real bad.

I've never actually drawn him before! So this was a nice chance to take a crack at him since now I'm thinkin about him :^) He has what I like to call "Dartz bangs" which is one of my favorite ygo character design traits, so that's a treat to draw <3

[heisabanana]

🗡🎣 🐈

some moments around the valley

Part 1     Part 2

[aquekyu]

So, my friends and I finished watching Season 1 of Yu-Gi-Oh GX last weekend. And with me being the kind of person who would grow attached to fictional characters so quickly, I have to ask.

Why is no one talking about Professor Daitokuji/Banner?

You're telling me that this tall, long-haired, sharp-chinned, silly man with a cat and a fear of vampires is mostly ignored by everyone? Are you kidding?!

He even has an Evil Mode. People love an Evil Mode!

I don't think I have been this crazy over a Yu-Gi-Oh character in a while. Don't send help. I am beyond help.

One more thing.

Put him in Duel Links, Konami.

[bestest-dead-best-friend-bracket]

Round 2: Block B

Who is your Favorite Ambiguously Dead Friend?

Reblog to support your favorite!

[ygoartreviews]

Helios - The Primordial Sun

The way they edited this card for the TCG is so funny. They literally gave this monster top surgery. That's not even a joke. Of course, they also got rid of any definition in the crotch area, and also seem to have tried to reduce it's hip size by... Literally moving the whole bottom right section of the card a few pixels over (flip between the original image and this one on the wiki to see what I mean), making some parts look a little off (the left wrist in particular suffers from this). Despite this editing mishap, I really like this interpretation of Helios. It feels both unique and pretty accurate for an ancient, powerful god. I may be a little biased in that I love designs that include weird floating objects that are meant to be heads, but I've never seen an interpretation of Helios before like this. I mean, even the translucent body and bandages are interesting. Overall, a solid design that screams "all powerful cosmic being."

Rating: 10/10, -shoots transgenderification beams at you-

[pdutogepi]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX - Duel Box 3: Booklet Lineart 3

- Daitokuji (Lyman Banner) / Pharaoh -  Alchemy Beast - Salamandra the Steel -  Chaos Distill -  Alchemy Beast - Ekenas the Mercury -  Alchemy Beast - Aretos the Tin -  Alchemy Beast - Ouroboros the Bronze / Alchemy Beast - Leon the Lead - Golden Homunculus / Alchemy Beast - Moonface the Silver - Helios Trice Megistus - Helios - The Primordial Sun / Helios Duo Megistus

[maripr]

Hey Yu-Gi-Oh GX fandom

I'm finally watching the series from start to finish, and I vaguely remember Banner/Daitokuji being my favorite when I watched some of the show as a child.

Now currently he's overshadowed in that spot by Cronos De Medici/Vellian Crowler and Sho Marufuji/Syrus Trusdale, but still.

WHY IS NOBODY EVER TALKING OR MAKING ART ABOUT THIS DUDE

Is it because he doesn't have a first name in the japanese original?

He has an interesting design, a fun alchemy based deck, a fun personality, a KITTY and the voice of Kappei Yamaguchi. If GX had come in the 2010s, you'd bet this guy would be Tumblr sexy man eligible.

Yes, he dies pretty early but he sticks around as a ghost advisor to the protag! What more do you want in an anime mentor?

Also once again I realize where my current fixation in white hair + glasses might have originated from.

[lyriluscss]

Happy Valentines!!!! ♥

Happy Valentines to everyone!!! I hope love comes your way!!!

In celebration, I'll show you all of the people I currently simp for!!

#1: Aster Phoenix 🥵🥵😍😍😘😘

#2: Bastion Misawa <33333

#3 Zane Truesdale (former but still wanna post him)

#4: Alexis Rhodes

#5: Lyman Banner (yes him <3)

And also the ones I love and see as sons!!

#1: Jaden Yuki

#2: Syrus Truesdale

So yeah, here you go!!!

Happy Valentines everyone!!!! ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎

[aberooski]

*in Tania's coliseum where all the missing students are working*

Chazz: CROWLER!? 🤯

Syrus: What are you doing..? 🤨

Crowler: A man's work. 😊

Banner: A man's work? 🤨 My, they must have been running very short on men. 🤔

DAMN

[nerdyoatmealart]

Finally got around to coloring these two cuties! I haven’t drawn an anime animal in a while, and I forgot how fun but challenging it can be.

[the-herdier]

If this was the real world (and in America), Crowler would've had his ass fired from an actual cannon after the "I'm going to try to frame a student for peeping while also peeping myself because I just had to watch it go down" incident.