Anime Thread

[puggsoy]

So, the first episode?

The first season, with Pegasus, was nice. After that when the portable hologram machines are released by Kaiba Corp, that's also cool. Even the Egyptian God Cards were OK. But it's when the deadliness happened that it was getting slightly too serious for me.
I'm not saying it became horrible after that, it's still Yu-Gi-Oh. It's just that what I find annoying in anime is when some harmless game like Duel Monsters is created, and then after a while it becomes so serious that the fate of the world rests on it. Same thing with Bakugon (although I've never properly watched that).
Now Beyblade, that was OK. As far as I can remember, the original series (with Tyson and Dragoon) didn't get any more serious that world tournaments with prize money. The new series is pretty annoying though, what with whirlwinds coming to destroy cities because of some guy with spiky hair and leather boots (I haven't seen much of the new ones either, though). However that's as bad because, as far as I can tell, it's set in a totally different universe than the originals.

However, all of this rambling is a bit pointless. It's been a while since I've seen any of these, so I can't exactly remember what I did and didn't like about them. It's just that, in my personal opinion, a toy made of plastic or a card held in a cool way between two fingers shouldn't be able to decide the fate of the Earth. That's all.

Wish I could. It was awesome, but once that pharaoh guy or whatever came in and it got all super-serious (like you can die when you lose a match), that's when it started to be less cool.

In equation form:

If: Yu-Gi-Oh = DBZ... It sucks...
I guess most of the anime in this world have a tendancy to get serious over time.

I still play the trading card game every now and then. How about you guys?

If I had my cards I'd play it, but we left them back in NZ (I have no idea why). I have the PC game, but it's just not the same. When we get back I'll be sure to have some duels, the only people I can play with are my siblings, but that's cool.