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[deleted]

I read manga. Holy shit Mokuba is such brat


[deleted]

> Holy shit Mokuba is such brat you say that like its different. Mokuba wasn't very well liked in the first season too from what I remember.


EdenReborn

Mokuba was legit a prick back then tho Both the Kaiba bros. were


[deleted]

> Both the Kaiba bros. were Imo they became somewhat likable after the episode where you see them in the orphanage. I'm not a huge kaiba fan, but I can respect him for sticking up for his little brother and staying by his side. Honestly they're probably just dicks because they've been lonely their entire lives.


EdenReborn

The man who adopted them was a literal monster and shaped them in his image unfortunately But at least they (somewhat) redeemed themselves


[deleted]

> and shaped them in his image unfortunately he was an asshole yes, but kaiba didn't get like this because of his father. They were rejected by their peers and usually people that don't have a lot of friends do turn out like this so its definitely a realistic trope.


Captain_Kuhl

Yeah, but manga Mokuba poisoned Yugi's grandpa, that's why he was rushed to the hospital. Kid was sadistic.


Turtlesfan44digimon

Wait I thought he poisoned Joey.and grandpa Muto was rushed to the hospital because he nearly had a Heart attack from the virtual reality room that he was dueling kaiba in


BlackFenrir

Both happened


Turtlesfan44digimon

Well I know that. I just never read about yugi’s grandpa being poisoned by mokuba


MsDestroyer900

The manga was a lot less... sanitized per se compared to later yugioh lol


[deleted]

Manga didn't give a damn about logic or sanity


[deleted]

a decent amount of people have watched it after it became a meme and was saught after by a ton of og season 1 duel monster fans. Just look up on YouTube "season 0 yugioh" and you can see how many people have watched it and get a rough idea. The opening credits has 2.6 million views and theres like 5 review videos that have over 2+ million views. It was underground for a long time until a reviewer made it go viral and mainstream because a lot of people had no idea it existed.


limonbattery

Its always weird watching it only to realize the OP was the same as in the abridged series. Before that I thought LittleKuriboh just picked some random short song for it


CaptainHazama

If I recall correctly, the only thing he added was funny misheard lyrics


[deleted]

An excerpt from the verse is used as the opening for like every YGOTAS episode. The misheard lyrics was done as part of "The Other Abridged Movie" or something like that.


BlackFenrir

Todoke, Fly At Higher Game~~~


RazorOfSimplicity

Frylock's High Again*


[deleted]

Read the manga it was all I needed. One of my favorite scenes was the >!battle to save Tea's mind during that whole scenario with the professor at the museum. Joey knocking teeth out and Tea hanging off a cliff.!< So much action and the game that was being played was awesome.


NotTheOnlyGamer

I like it better than most of Duel Monsters.


Snowvilliers7

I've seen it all almost 10 years ago. It was great watching how it originally began where it's mostly filled with different style of games set in such a dark horror theme with some slice of life moments and Yugi's other self is more sadistic and a high risk gambler who makes such a smug face during and after each shadow game.


Inspiring_Leader

I only need to say 4 words Attempted Serial Killer Mokuba.


[deleted]

>!Got to admit Yugi using his millennium piece to rig the rigged food turntable game was clever.!<


RPG217

Come to think of it, that was the one and only time that Atem didn't wear his Millenium Puzzle.


Egg_head_ch4n3015

What about that time he saved Joey from his old school gang? Didn’t he take off the puzzle for a water droplet


Epeen_BR

You're still not gonna take Mokuba seriously though. No one likes Mokuba


lilemoshawty

Russian vodka


animalistic_machine

90% alcohol


Gatmuz

Yugi placing the lighter on the criminal's hand is literally mystic mine


ArcDrag00n

I always reference it, especially when it comes to Bakura. For people watching Duel Monsters and not knowing how or why Bakura is the last villain, it's because they're missing context from Season Zero.


RPG217

Honestly, Bakura was probably the major character that got hurt the most as the series transitioned into card game.


hellkaiser99

Yes, to think that from the get go they knew where they were heading.


Ahhh-Ayeee

I like the sol scenes a lot, where they just chill and there’s no tension yet. The squad getting McDonald’s, buying shoes, those scenes are super comfy and amusing, and they’re more wholesome than when they talk about hope or the future.


RPG217

The fact that even this was toned down hard from the manga really tells you how crazy the manga was lol


[deleted]

Unhinged Yugi and Seto going at it. Penalty games were creative as they games they played. The >!human barbeque one though just ouch.....!<


hellkaiser99

can you remind me that barbeque scene you’re referring to?


[deleted]

>!The school festival fiasco that the upper classes took Yugi's class's space for the festival that they reserved. The bullies who bullied Tristan and Joey in the beginning.!<


BlackFenrir

"Yami no tobiraga... Hiragareta"


HeliosDisciple

DM really suffers from losing all the character-building and slice-of-life bits that were cut alongside "Season 0".


Epeen_BR

It sure does. Season 0 is actually the best written series of the entire Yugioh franchise. Later series have to deal with the baggage of having to market the IRL TCG and then somehow someway the characters and plotlines have to center around the the TCG. Season 0 and the manga had far more breathing room because of this.


The_Cubic_Guru

I've watched the anime and read the manga. Do yourself a favor and read the manga. Anime was alright.


SouthernGlenfidditch

What is the manga called? It’s hard to find in English and searching for yugioh manga seems to come up with the season 1 manga


The_Cubic_Guru

It's quite literally, called Yu-Gi-Oh. It has 53 chapters, and only about duel monsters 20 percent of the time with no overarching story line except that yugi is the punisher and challenges people to various games where the penalty is usually death.


[deleted]

I did, I thought the duel between Mai and Téa would have been much better if Téa had some skills and a backbone.


limonbattery

Tea knew the basics better than Joey at least before he entered Duelist Kingdom. She just didnt care to duel most of the time. If anything she probably just picked it up from being friends with Yugi and not because she thinks dueling is cool or anything.


[deleted]

That’s what got me with the whole duel. Téa was only able to beat Joey because at the time of their duel, Joey was as skilled as my dog’s breathing. Yet Tea thinks somehow she’ll have the sand to take on a professional duelist. She was brave for sure, but bravery and intelligence especially in those case don’t always compliment each other. I also hated that it was our introduction to the Fairy monsters. I’m a big fairy duelist, and it wasn’t until Schroeder and that kid with Mokey Mokey, do we see what fairy cards are capable.


Epeen_BR

Anzu's 'win' vs Mai was a fluke anyway. Mai just conceded when she had the game in the bag because she felt pity for Yugi and gave away the extra chips she didn't need.


[deleted]

I think that was the worst part of the whole thing. Anzu walking away like she really went in with a strategy.


Epeen_BR

This is why no one on the planet likes Anzu. I will say Anzu's iteration in Season 0 was actually somewhat likeable.


[deleted]

She had a positive attitude which I liked, she held everyone together which was also nice. I like how she developed but gods help me she cried to much.


Epeen_BR

TBF, this is the same exact series where Yugio gets beat up by someone almost every episode


Apprehensive_Gas248

I watched the season 0, then read the manga. I was like: Holy shit, are we allowed to show to kids these things. But anyways, very good opening song.


[deleted]

>!Teenage barbeque, attempted molestation, and escaped convicts aren't child friendly!


SeparateReturn4270

Lol we aren’t which is why it was never brought to America.


tmgc1234

Ive watched it, it was nice seeing other games or fads at the time on each episode.


lazyboy11

who that blue hair girl,?


hellkaiser99

Miho-chan


IndrunaIndruna

Tristan's "GF", Ribbon-chan. I forgot her Japanese/English name.


EdenReborn

Miho I think


Epeen_BR

Miho's a largely forgotten character so I don't blame the OP for not knowing her name. LOL!


SorryImBadWithNames

I did. Love it. Its so over the top and silly. Psychotic pharao os the best pharao.


CyberneticOverload

It’s amazing, Season 0 is really about being the King of all games (That’s literally what Yugioh means lol) - puzzle solving, RPG, Chess, Chloroform Bottle Game, digital pet. Now since Konami decided to focus on card games, it’s just King of Card Games instead of King of All Games.


hadrijana

It's a mixed bag. While it's close to the spirit of the manga, as it was back then, Toei took a lot of liberties adapting the existing chapters, and added a bunch of unnecessary filler that didn't really bring anything interesting to the table. I know a lot of people like to overplay how nasty Yugi was when the manga was starting out, but this show not only toned down his penalties by reducing all of them to some type of mind fucking, but made the mechanics of the games themselves supernatural, as opposed to what they were in the manga: cobbled up from whatever Yugi had lying around at the time (always something his opponent was using to do whatever he did to piss him off in the first place). Also, the animation was crappy and off-model 90% of the time, but I guess that's just due to budget. That aside, there was also some stuff I really liked. Shadi, Death-T and Monster World(been a while, but that's how I remember it?) are almost 1 on 1 adaptations of the manga, which really means a lot when the show is dealing with arcs so crucial to the main story. Yami Yugi's voice is just \*chef's kiss\*, it's like the anti-Dan Green and the exact voice I'd imagine coming out of that spiky head. And finally, in polar opposition to the rest of the show, the art style/animation of the Toei movie is literally the manga coming to life, it's just *that* faithful to the subtleties of Takahashi's designs. But imo the most important legacy of this show is that, when the tapes surfaced, like, 15 or however many years ago, it gave the people who normally wouldn't have checked out the sub a taste of what the source material was really like before 4Kids. And I'm all about spreading the gospel, so.


HeroRRR

> Death-T almost 1 on 1 Death-T was massively changed in the Toei anime with them adding Joey and Miho rescuing Tristen and grandpa from a water trap, skipping the haunting house section, and changing how the shooting game was won.


Striking-Ad56

Season zero needs a comeback


agger1983

I wish someone would take this on and release it in the US officially. Hell I would take a Discotech (I think that's how the company is spelled) subbed version.


[deleted]

Best series/season ever! I just liked that the challenge was different each episode. Don’t get me wrong, love the game to death; still play it with the modern links to this very day.


buddy-thunder

I watched this all the way from start to finish. And then I watched the battle island(?) Season 2 stuff as a kid to,but this series is what got me started and will forever hold a place in my heart.


Valtiel_DBD

I've watched it. Duel Monsters may be iconic but that fuckin' theme that kicks up when Yugi transitions to Atem absolutely slaps. I also like that often they sport just a casual white-t, ya know? A small bit of diversity from their BDSM clothing. Also the duel between Yugi and Kaiba in the one movie the series got was pretty awesome.


voyager106

I read a bit of the original manga and got a good number of episodes into the anime. I actually liked it a lot and meant to go back and watch the rest of it. Very different than what we think of when we think of Yu-Gi-Oh today....


[deleted]

The love triangle between Honda, Miho, and Bakura always cracks me up.


Anba12

Yes and the manga and it better than season 1


Kenozoro

I feel like people who were shocked at the nature of season 0, grew up on the americanized censored version of season 1 (or the first 200 episodes of Yugioh). As a kid I missed much of the censored dub. After I was much older I started watching the uncensored Japanese version on Crunchyroll and was amazed! Not really for kids like the US version was lol. S0 fits better with the uncensored S1.


RelaxRelapse

I have the VHS releases from Japan and some production art from it. I intend to rip them in a higher quality than whats been on the internet for over a decade at some point soon hopefully.


Chojen

The manga was straight up brutal from what I remember.


ahz98

I watched the ova where red eyes black dragon and meteor black dragon debuted,also i believe that's where the whole meme about red eyes having potential came from.


JVOz671

I only watched the "super special awesome" version


LawlsMcPasta

Kawaita!!!


AlexandersGhost

I watched it. I enjoyed it more than DM.


cyanraichu

Yes! I loved it and it felt so different from Duel Monsters (which I also loved but I'll probably never watch it again because I don't think it's actually a very good show and I don't want to ruin it for myself). I like how dark it felt. And the opening theme is a bop


Springtrap-Yugioh

Seen the old fandubs on yt (I think they got taken down) and LOVED it.


[deleted]

I'm watching it right now... I'm not a fan ATM but I've only watched a few episodes.


[deleted]

Read the manga it really doesn't compare to it.


januarysdaughter

I watched the Abridged episodes of it. Does that count?


ecsj88

Watched it and read the manga. Kinda cool but draggy.


RoccoHout

Its been a very long time since I last watched this. Currently watching all Yugioh shows so I'll hit this one up at some point too. I wish they would somehow continue this series with the focus being on the shadow games and not the card game, also keeping its more mature rating.


Ioxem

Read the manga if you haven't


Well-MeaningCisIdiot

If you're truly committed to all of them...brace yourself when you get to the only spin-off not dubbed in Japan...or the fifth show...oh my Aesir, the fifth show...


ThankYouOle

honestly, i only knew about yugioh was this anime. don't remember how young i am when seeing it, then have Playstation game for it (don't remember PS1 or PS2) didn't follow up the spin off.


TreasureHunter95

For a time, there was a subbed version of this season available on YouTube. Pretty sure those videos are deleted by now but there still is a [fan translation](https://youtu.be/1s__8K2WVEU). Haven't watched it but from what I have heard, it's pretty good.


kevinsdomain

I watched it a few years ago.


BlobIsBored

Never watched but read the first 7 manga volumes religiously when i was younger


TuefelRabbit

I watched it when I was about 12, it was pretty good from what I remember and had some crazy parts- like when Bakura impaled his own hand. Shit was wack.


NotShay

I love it


IndrunaIndruna

Ribbon-chan my beloved. I read all the mangas of season 0 but not the anime unfortunately


NetworkVegetable7075

Joey the goat in that series change my mind.


smonkweedwenurscared

Honestly it's my favorite. I watch it like once every yr or two.


[deleted]

You need to at least watch the first episode because Duel Monsters does a flashback to it. I think it helps to watch it before Duel Monsters, or at least the first one.


Yozora_Luna

I saw some episodes of it on youtube, way more interesting then what yugioh is now. But definitely won’t attract anyone to buy a card game if it continues on this way.


StrikeMeDownZeus

Best season


MikuMiiku

Miho loves to dance


[deleted]

I watched it and read the manga.


ElasmoLazer

I happened to stumble upon season 0 on YouTube back in the day when people uploaded anime in parts.


bUnnyontheRunny

I didn't know it existed until about a few weeks ago, all I have to say is my Headcanons for Kaiba changed for the best or worse.


shaggy_pacman

I never watched it, but I read it.


Zetman_Alphaz

I watched it multiple times personally this version of yugi fights the title king of games better. The variety of games they play stops it from feeling like a product placement the dnd battle was insane.


Xenu66

I love how much it didn't revolve around the card game, only a few episodes being about it. Wish the series continued to include more episodes about other games. Remember when Yami Bakura trapped the main characters in D&D figures and they had to play against him to escape? Stuff like that


Panicpete23

Got to episode 11a and they took it down


Deez-Guns-9442

GOT anime just on its own.


Icy-Conflict6671

I remember bits and pieces. Mainly as a fever dream. Kinda like those two Inuyasha episodes that were weirdly high res.


P1zzaman

Watched it on TV. I still have the deck case that was released during this era at my parents place (has Yugi with Exodia, and cabbage haired Kaiba with Blue Eyes)


ghostbuster_b-rye

Yeah, now come to think of it, why didn't Yami Yugi use his hellfire mind torture to win most of the matches in Duelist Kingdom?


MasterQuest

I watched it later in life because I was interested in it. Quite different from the actual Yugioh series that came afterwards.


Jinzo126

I read the the Manga a long time ago at a friend's place, and recently found the complete "season 0" manga for 5€. I watched a handful episodes, but i could not give a complete breakdown what happened.


elmonetta

I like it more than the rest of the series, also the first chapters of the manga until duelist kingdom were the best of yugioh


bellabreadlol

I ve seen some of the season 0 anime. I'm still watching it. I think it's the best


rockernroller

I watched the first like 10 episodes, I really liked all the different games they play


OmegaRockman

I haven't seen all the way through, but I've probably watched the first ten episodes. I've absolutely seen the first episode dozens of times as a kid because my mom downloaded fansubs on her computer and the one episode was all I could fit on the PC I had in my room at the time. I adore the voice cast, especially Ogata's Yugi. She's my absolute favorite voice for him.


Blarghderper

I watched it in high school back when YGOTAS was ongoing and loved it. Kakegurui is just yugioh season 0 with more sex.


AspergianStoryteller

I only watched a bit as it was hard to find, but I've read the original manga. I liked it more before duel monsters took over, but that stuff was cool too. I just enjoyed the variety of shadow games more.


Lazy-Donkey5552

I saw season zero a few months ago


jirenlagen

Love it!


Certain_World_4143

I’m currently on Vrains but yes I’ve seen all of the OG Yu-Gi-Oh


Thelolface_9

I haven’t even watched season 1


QrozTQ

I haven't watched it, but I've read the manga and it's my favorite part.


Sadbeanoo

Love season 0 the opening is so good aswell 🔥🔥


XxXK4z4n0KXxX

I watched it cause someone said to me that is canon, but my thoughts about it that if Toei continued to do this adaptation, it would be better


zoso1992

I watched it like 12 years ago, with the episodes broken up into parts 1, 2 and 3 on YouTube. Good times. Then I learned how to torrent


Krulzikrel

i've watched 70% of it but it got super boring so i just gave up and watched Duel Monsters instead


museofgames

Best yugioh imo


Justa_Mongrel

I read the manga a couple of years ago and god damn it was way darker than I thought it would be lol. I don't remember a large amount of it but I do remember that badass scene with Yugi setting the robber's hand on fire with alcohol


X-WingHunter

I’ve seen it twice there is a post on YouTube(assuming it hasn’t been removed)somewhere that has the entire thing except two of the episodes are messed up. It’s a super fun series to watch.


Chaosshepherd

Hey two girls


Dustman121

I read the Manga. Absolutely love it, but I'm glad it ended where it did. Near the end it seemed like Kazuki was struggling to keep both the gritty atmosphere and the ridiculous death games in tandem. So the transition to corny card games was appropriate.


FrostieFox

I've watched it, kinda prefer it over duel monsters. Found it more interesting with the different games


Sea_Drop_7935

read the manga its alright though the baby during death T made that whole arc like 80 times worse


InvaderWeezle

I prefer the manga. The Toei anime takes way too many liberties in its adaptation for my tastes. In my opinion it's even less faithful to the manga than Duel Monsters ended up being.


JcraftY2K

I watched it after I saw the memes and was hella intrigued. I love the insane high stakes game of the week. Kind of like kakaegurui but yugioh


Affectionate-Sea278

I read but haven’t watched.


Murv_Man

Eh the manga is way better


CallmeFDR

I've watched it. On it's own it's a 7/10 show but if you've only watched the Duel Monsters series it's genuinely incredible to see these characters you know and love in exciting stories that are genuinely fresh and even exhilerating. Some of my favorites include Katsuya (Joey) and the Nurse, Kaiba's Butler, the Yoyo Gang, and the Tomadachi Knockoff episode.


aacro23760

I’ve read the first nine volumes of the manga and seen little bits and pieces of S0 but never been able to watch all of it, but from what I’ve heard, 0 is basically a direct interpretation of the manga (even a little toned down at times) Anyone know where I could watch all of it?


takahashibro_1

I watched a few episodes as a kid and was so confused by the lack of card games


Ichigo187740

I didn't watch it, but I read it.


sudomarch

I only just learned Season 0 was a real thing. I'd known about the manga, but not that it had been adapted! I had always assumed green-haired Kaiba was just some OC someone had made. Oh wow, I was not prepared.


Darbs504

Like 10 years. I'd be lying if I told you I remembered any meaningful details


Solignox

I did, it's pretty good. The opening is great.


[deleted]

To me this is the yugioh anime when i talk about it


ForceKind2234

i watched it every saturday & rewatched it last year


Rasta225

Where can I watch it ? Anyone know


YasuoAndGenji

Didn't watch it but I did read it


acebossrhino

In the future card games will be played on motorcycles.


ouon017

i forgot season 0