The thing is, for as “low effort” as these videos are, they highlight one thing: MBT is just an entertaining guy to watch. And having a laid back format where he can just do his thing combined with some tight editing makes for a real winning concept
Yeah, he's just a naturally funny charismatic guy no matter the format and great at explaining too. He's the main reason I enjoy Cimo's "History of" series as well tbh.
7:55 YES SOMEONE ACTUALLY POSTED MY BOY. The ATK digits, in individual kun'yomi pronunciation, can be read as: 1 = hi 3 = mitsu 8 = ya 0 = ma While the DEF digits, in individual on'yomi pronunciation, can be read as: 1 = i 9 = ku 3 = sa 0 = re As a complete sentence, [himitsu yama, ikusare], or [秘密山、行くされ] loosely reads as "you are going to the secret mountain". In Japanese folklore, death gods, called shinigami, are known to possess people and lead them to mountains, seas, and railroads where people have died.
Massive respect to the Dinomorphias being based on Abaranger/Dino Thunder, as someone who grew up with the American show as a kid along with the rest of the Disney era Power Rangers, it's pretty nostalgic and makes me wanna play Dinomorphia on that principle alone!
@@Billy-ot8mk Actually it isn't. I remember seeing a comment on Rata's video specifically calling out the difference. They're based off of Chouseishin, a competitor to Kamen rider and Super sentai that Konami worked with that isn't active anymore
It's kinda obtuse in the TCG naming but many of the D/D/D monsters are titled after business positions. Doom King's Japanese name includes "Shi-i-ou" which is pronounced "CEO," Chaos King Apocalypse's name includes "Kyokuchou" (director general), Abyss King Gilgamesh has "Shi-en-ou" (CNO), and a bunch more. The High King versions of Caesar, Alexander, and Genghis in the Japanese instead of "High King" use "Executive." This is why the D/D backrow cards are all Contracts - they're business demons. On top of their entire monster lineup being named after figures from history and mythology. Sky Striker Raye and Roze are both named after the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Reisen aircraft, Rei is obvious but for Roze it's based on the Allied Reporting Name of "Zero" just reversed. Z.E.K.E. and H.A.M.P. are also allied reporting names for Japanese aircraft. The Sky Striker Mecha are also all named after aircraft. It's also POSSIBLE that Raye is loosely inspired by Char Aznable and his various knockoffs seeing that she's a blonde ace pilot whose signature gear is a bright cherry red, but no mask so it's a bit of a stretch. The reason why the Armed Dragon Retrains are called Armed Dragon Thunder is because it's a reference to Chazz' Japanese nickname of "Manjoume Thunder" which he got for insisting that people add "-san" to the end of his name ("san da" = Thunder). LV10's weird ATK-based effect is also a reference to his catch phrase in the Japanese version that got replaced in the dub with "Chazz it up." Inzektors are more specifically referencing Kamen Rider Kabuto, Masked HERO are moreso the archetype that references Kamen Rider as a whole.
Speaking of Kamen Rider, the Synchro Monster Splendid Rose is a reference to Kamen Rider W (Double), specifically his iconic Cyclone x Joker form, but the colour scheme is reversed. Splendid Rose's effect to halve a monster's Atk is a reference to Double's Signature Maximum Drive finisher where he splits himself in half. Splendid Rose's ability to attack a second time is also a reference to Double's theme of "Two". In addition, Contrast Hero Chaos is a card in the HERO archetype that is also a reference to "W" (Double), namely his Fang x Joker form, except the colour scheme is also reversed just like Splendid Rose.
@@technodragon990 I'd call bullshit on this, if I didn't already know that Etesian (Etesian of Two Swords) Winds are a thing, from a completely separate topic.
Isolde's art has layers to it that I really like. It's all based on Tristan's request (NK Drystan). Tristan was poisoned and asked for Blonde Isolde because she knows of a cure (The cup she is holding.) Tristan's request was for Goth Isolde to inform him of the color of the sails, because that would tell him if Blonde had the antidote (or not on the ship?). If they are black, no cure and if white, cure (the sails in the background). Goth lies and says they're black out of jealousy, leading to Tristan's death. Similarly, both Isoldes are colored based on the color of the sail they represent.
Plus he's married to goth Isolde and blond Isolde has a husband somewhere else. Some versions of the tale even skips the cure entirely and just makes Tristan straight up wanna see the lady he actually loved rather than the one he got forced to marry.
Some additional layers: according to Gottfried's version the goth Isolde was known as "Isolde of the White Hands" hence her pale colouration, whereas the gold Isolde is "Isolde the Sun", daughter of (wait for it) a third Isolde called "Isolde the Dawn" I was so freaking happy to find out Isolde was a playable card because this is gorgeous art
Also this may be a coincidence, but it's neat how Isolde as a card has less than 1800 ATK, meaning they can be protected by the effect of Noble Knight Drystan (Tristan), the knight that fell in love with them.
I remember back when they first printed the train cards, we kept getting new support and my friend was like "You know, this archetype is just actual pictures of trains."
This one's courtesy of Rata aka Rank10ygo: Did you know the Maju Garzett are references to the Mazinger franchise? There's Great Maju Garzett - Great Mazinger. Legendary (shin) Maju Garzett - Shin Mazinger Z. -Emperor Maju Garzett - Mazinkaiser And Gren Maju Da Eiza - Grendizer
Dragunity Dragon Tuners are named after Roman weapons and the Winged Beasts are named after different ranks in the Roman Military. Then they couldn't think of anything for the Synchro Monsters so those are all based on Irish Mythology.
Though Dux isn’t a military rank as such more a civil governance thing. It was the root of the word duke. Also one is named Phalanx which is a Macedonian fighting formation. Drag unity is a confusing archetype
Pretty much every card Zigfried von Schroder used in the anime (The Valkyrie archtype) is a reference to Der Ring Des Nibelungen a dramatic german opera by Wagner
Also, his brother cards are based on fairy tales, some of them very well kwno like Riding Red Hood and Cinderella... others so obscure like Iron Hans... and NO, the Golden Castle isn't a reference to Eldlich the Golden Lord, it would be cool... but he doesn't travel in time.
The reason why all of the male Elemental Heroes have Man in their names is because they are a reference to Western Super Heroes such as Superman and Batman. The Time Thiefs seem to be a reference to Doctor Who and his female assistant they even have their own version of the Sonic Screwdriver. Spyrals have references to the James Bond series in their card artworks.
Just as Elemental HERO is meant to be based on American comics, and Masked HERO on Japanese comics, Destiny HERO was originally intended to be based on British comics.
My personal favorites SPYRALs are a reference to the super agent movie genre and James Bond specifically, the names of Master Plan and Quick-Fix line up with their coresponding characters M and Q.
One especially cool thing about the dragonmaids is that the author of miss kobayashi's dragon maid plays yugioh, and when they were first revealed he said he was excited to play them.
Speaking of: The Burning Abyss cards are a reference to Dante’s Inferno, Purgatrio and Paradiso, which is literally Dante walking through the Catholic Christian hell, purgatory and heaven
@@Rahnonymous I’m sure that Purgatrio is a reference to purgatory. I’m pretty sure that Invoked Cocytus is a reference to the river leading to Hades in Greek mythology, or something like that. But BA literally has Dante, Virgil and Beatrice as cards, the 3 key figures in Dante’s Divine Comedy
@@ashikjaman1940 And coincidentally, the tome depicted in "forbidden scripture" being held by the monster lore wise that ends up becoming "Condemned Darklord." Weird how this all came back full circle
Speaking of Ojamas, another reference can be seen on the card Ojamatch; the clothes that Ojama Black is wearing are identical to those worn by the character Tange Danpei from Ashita no Joe, a boxing manga from the late 60s which had a huge cultural impact on Japan, especially amongst the working class and college students in the New Left. The same reference is also made with the card Second Goblin.
No one mentioned that Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max and Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora are references to the Nazi rail cannons Schwerer Gustav and Dora from WW2.
i was under the impression that almost all the spaceship cards were references to other konami properties. In the tag force games theyre all stuck in a pack that you always unlock in every game by inputting the konami code on the shop screen. That being up up down down left right left right b a. which to those unfamiliar with it is a cheat code that was present in so many old konami games that it got the name. Some of the references in that set they didn't even try for. the card gradius references a game called gradius.
Also, the "Konami Code" is used by Kaiba to activate Enemy Controller... the only useful card from that Konami pack is Fossil Dig (I always build Jurrac on Tag Force) also... they're used by Duke Deviln on Tag Force Special (maybe he is at the level of Paradox Brothers, I mean... his deck is cool and can be tough)
Gradius, XX03, T301, Lord British, Jade Knight, FalchionB are all player ships in Gradius games. Gradius is a generic Vic Viper and Gradius's Option and Cyclon Laser represent its powerups, T301 is specifically from Gradius V, XX03 is a hypothetical future Vic Viper design shown off in one specific art book. Lord British is the traditional player 2 in the Salamander spinoffs, but is also playable in Gradius Gaiden. FalchionB is from Falsion, a weird attempt at making a 3D shooter on the NES, also playable in Gaiden. Jade Knight is original to Gaiden. The B.E.S. monsters are obviously various bosses from Gradius, but also, Brain Golem is a recurring boss starting from the Salamander spinoffs and Ambitious Gofer is the villain of Gradius 2: Gofer's Ambition. DUCKER Mobile Cannon is a common enemy throughout the series, and it's even possible that Mucus Yolk is a reference to an enemy type that tends to show up in biological-themed stages. People keep saying Solar Flare Dragon is based on the recurring Intruder enemies, which appear in fire-themed stages, but imo that could go either way. Delta Tri is a weird one, because its stat line and effects indicate it's the player ship from Trigon, aka Lightning Fighters, which was Konami's attempt to compete with the Raiden series, but its art is of its boss cameo in Gradius Gaiden. Its effect to equip Trigon is kinda based on how it fights as a boss, but Dragon Laser is absolutely based on one of your super moves in Deltatry. Blue Thunder T-45 is from Thunder Cross, and the reason it has a less versatile effect than the other ships is probably that its Option duplicates always appear in a fixed formation above and below it, instead of following your ship's path. Flint Lock is the player ship in Xexex, which was Konami's attempt to muscle in on R-Type's gimmick, and King of Destruction Xexex is its enemy. Flint is obviously Flint Lock's weapon, a semi-autonomous drone which floats around whacking things with its tentacles and blocking bullets for you, and can also be attached to the front of Flint to double as a shield. Flint Missile represents firing Flint into a weak point to rapidly eat away at the enemy's health. On the other hand, Metal Shooter has been tagged as related to B.E.S. for literally a decade on the wiki and I have no fucking clue what that's about. Someone obviously knows something I don't and they ain't sharing. E: I forgot Option Hunter, and probably a couple of others.
@@manjackson2772 holy crap, thank you for this list; i've recently stated collecting all the gradius related cards and this is a huge help. the only cards i can think of that you missed are "Moai Interceptor Cannons" and "The Statue of Easter Island", both referencing the Maoi head statues in some levels of the Gradius games. interceptor cannons has an effect to flip itself face down, referencing the movement of the statues in the game, and Statue of Easter Island has vanilla text referencing how the gradius statues attacked.
While mine didn't make it to the stream, I will mention Chronomaly. It is a bit obvious by this point, but the archetype is literally just real life historical objects that are considered "too advanced for their time", known as Out-of-Place Artifacts, or OOPArts for short, which, fun fact, is the archetype's Japanese name. Examples are Crystal Skull, Moai and my favorite, Sun Monolith, which is the Aztec sun stone.
And Vimana, afaik, is a device in Hindu mythology that has been way to owell described given when it was written about, almost as if the device did exist, albeit no remains of it are present anywhere so far, technically making it an Out Of Place Artifact
To briefly explain what was describe about them is that they were flying cities that could be used in war, being near impossible to destroy, able to cloak with the environment, travel at incredible speeds, move in a jump-like manner, view things at extreme distances (in other words, a radar), and so on and so forth
So, everyone knows about the BAs being based on Dante's Inferno, but there's actually something fun to say about the Malebranche. The name actually refers to a specific group of devils that inhabit the 9th circle of hell and whose main job is to throw crooks and corrupt politicians into a boiling tar pit and keep them there (fire lake of the burning abyss). The fun part is that the Malebranche, while still scary and dangerous, are actually one of the more fun and, well, comedic parts of the Comedy, they're vulgar, rowdy and somewhat stupid, and probably their most iconic moment is Barbariccia (Barbar) giving them the signal to move by farting ("ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta", which could be translated "and he used his ass like a trumpet").
Everyone know the Gradius ships are references to the Gradius games but there is a reference in there even deeper. Lord British Space Fighter is a reference to Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima series of games. His nickname was Lord British and used himself as the basis for the character in his game. The reason he's on the name of a spaceship thou is because his father was an astronaut and he himself has gone into space a few times.
@@manjackson2772 By 86, there were already four Ultima games out. The third and fourth games were also highly influential and had a fairly large fan base even in Japan. So I don't know if it a dev was even quoted saying it was, but it lines up perfectly for it to be.
The Mecha Phantom Beast archetype has loads of references to real life aircraft, not just Dracosac. Similarly, Sky Strikers is almost nothing but references to the Japanese Zero from WW2 and American military aircraft
Yeah, and the token made by Hornet Drones has the same rainbow aura as the Mecha Phantom Beasts, the other archetype full of references to real life aircraft. Makes me wonder if they're by the same artist or if there were plans to tie the two archetypes together at some point before Auroradon got misused for a bunch of dumb stuff, ending any interest in making new MPB cards. If MPB ever got any other good Links(or some actual good Synchros), there'd be a lot more interesting stuff to do under the Cyanos Machine lock(and maybe Auroradon could come off with a Machine lock errata of its own).
Fun fact not brought up: As one could probably imagine due to their connection to zefra, both the infernoids and the qliphorts are also references to the tree of life! The qliphot, namesake of the qliphorts, is sorta the counterparts to the sephirot (yes that is where he gets his name), which is the name for the spheres of the tree of life. consequently, members of each archetype reference different spheres of the qliphot or sephirot to varying degrees. is it any wonder why this game drew a huge moral panic
this is why a bunch of infernoids are listed as female on the wiki, because they reference female goddesses or something. we've come some amount of a circle.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Got cool card designs as well. Like Dugares wich you can kinda see the way they make him "travel in time". The draw is like you passed 2 dp and needed to discard for handsize, and so on and so on
The Toons being a rip on MTG actually makes sense. They have summoning sickness (can't attack the turn they're played), you can play them as long as you have the resources (all can't be normal summoned but are special summoned and require tributes to special summon if lvl5 or more), can attack directly if they want (MTG monsters can either attack the opposing player or their monsters), and require a LP cost to attack (MTG monsters can't block the turn after they attack, so you will take damage from your opponent's attack)
@@ghostlygun2138 I believe you can still target creatures, though. You just don't because there's no point. I know you can attack Planewalkers, at least.
@@Dw7freak You can attack planeswalkers, but not creatures. Planeswalkers are semi-stand ins for another player, lore-wise, which is why you can attack them. Attacks cannot be targeted at creatures, only players or planeswalkers they control, then the defending player chooses which creatures intercept the attacks. One of mtg's most notable differences from other tcgs is the defending player being in control of the combat instead of the attacker.
@@ghostlygun2138I think Toon is a lot closer to Flying, as a MtG mechanic; nothing can block a Toon, but a Toon. Nothing can block a flier, but a flier.
fairy tail cards are references from disney characters. example: fairy tail snow is from snow white and banishing 7 cards specifically is referring to the 7 dwarfs. im sure most people knew this but its just for those who didnt know
@@kotkafer2292 I know that but most people will understand where im coming from, instead of me saying “oh these cards are from some old folklore story from centuries ago” its just easier to say its from disney dummy -.-
@@krystal2445 you could alternativly just say fairy tails. Since the most popular Disney princesses for example all come from extremely famous fairytales.
@@kotkafer2292 dude, its a kids card game. if you hear a kid say “omg these cards are from disney!” and be all excited, are you really gonna be that guy and go up to the kid and say “uhm no, its from the fairy tale story of 1800 blah blah, not from disney” and fun fact, OCG Fairy snow is wearing the same color dress as the disney character movie. but in the TCG, they changed it to red. probably to avoid getting copyrighted or something
@@krystal2445 This isnt an "ackchually" moment though? This isnt some obscure fact that few people know this is common knowledge. Or do Kids these days literally just not know about fairytales? Have they never heard a goodnight story? Like you dont have to explain the origin of fucking Brother Grim stories and their cultural backround to them but what hurt is there in just saying "no they are from fairytales, Disney just adapted them"? Because if they dont know them already thats kinda sad and its about time they do. Also just fuck disney, they actually do try and claim fairytale characters as their own with no regard to the fact that they are FOLKlore and they neither created them, nor own them.
other interesting ones: Eldlich - Based on the legend of El Dorado (a rumored golden city in America, the wet dream of Spanish Conquistators), The Philosopher Stone (Think about Full Metal Alchemist. His necklace can be interpreted as the Philosopher stone, also is a Golden Spiral, and theorically He uses it to avoid the Equivalent Exchange Law, creating from nothing the Cursed Eldland and bringing himself back to life. Also, like in Full Metal Alchemist, the Stone is only like a battery, with time and use the Stone consumes it´s own energy and sometimes, if the exchange is not equivalent, occurs a "Rebote"...sorry, I don't know the English word... and the transmutation uses something from the alchemist to rebalance itself, an arm or a leg... in the case of Eldlich maybe it's own mind, becoming The Mad Golden Lord, but I think that, after some time, Eldlich absorbs matter trought that red vortex and regain his mind, leading to the alternate artwork where he is sitting on the ruins of his kingdom). Also, Eldlixir cards are a reference to the alchemic phases. Monarch - Originally, the Monarchs where apparently bases on Roman Kings... but since there´s some more monarchs over there... each one references something Caius - Gaius a common name in ancient Rome Raiza - I don't know about this one Mobius - A Mobius Strip. Thestalos - The Ferrari Testarossa Grangmar - Marg is an hindu word for "Road"... a Grand Road Delg - Maybe the word "Dirge" Kuraz - Maybe Jesus Christ. Angmarl - The Witch King from Lord of the Rings Ether - A pre olympic god from the Greek Mythology, born from Erebus and Nyx Erebus - One of the primordial gods, born from Chaos Also, the Mega Monarch forms of Raiza, Mobius, Thestalos and Granmarg are, apparently, because they stealed the power of the Dragon Rulers (They grow claws and become a little more "draconic", Granmarg got horns and because of that Redox does't have horns, etc.). Six Samurai - Kagemusha of the Blue Flame is Kagemusha of the Six Samurai (and maybe, Legendary SIx Samurai Shi En and Shadow of the Six Samurai Shien), a Kagemusha is a person that serves as a decoy, impersonating a political leader (Shien, the real one, maybe never fought alongside the Legendary Six Samurai because he was a political leader and the only "version" of him is Great Shogun Shien). Kagemusha took the name Shi En but as the real Shien becomes evil, he and the other Legendary Six Samurai decides take him over with the help of the actual Six Samurai and the Secret Six Samurai (because they´re basically ninjas, there´s this anime only card of an attemp of assassination on Shien by a Ninja, the only "problem" is Rihan impersonating Shien on Secret Skills of the Six Samurai). The old Six Samurai (the OG ones) are based on some famous japanese figures like Nisashi on Musashi Miyamoto and Irou on Sakaki Kojiro (since the trap card Swallow Flip references a technique of Kojiro). Also, all of the plot with Kagemusha may be inspired by the movie of the same name by Akira Kurosawa, who also created Seven Samurai, a movie about a group of mercenary samurais... like that old pixar movie with bugs... and inspired Star Wars media like 3 times... also the Hidden Fortress, another movie by Kurosawa, inspired the first Star Wars (Episode IV) Invoked - Each invoked fusion monster represents something like Purgatrio being Purgatorio or Raidjin a mixture between Raidjin (a wind japanese god) and a Jinn (like the genie of the lamp by Robin Williams but evil), Mechaba being a celestial chariot, Caliga being the Emperor Caligula, Magellanica an Atlantis-Like continent, Elysium bein that nice part from the greek Hades and Augoeides has something to do with, Aleister Crowley (Aleister the Invoker). Also, the Seal of Orichalcos was a reference to Crowley too, and The Book of Law is a real book writed by Crowley about his new church, Thelema... so... your Mom was right, Yugioh is satanic. -Hero - This is easy. The Elemental ones are based on american comic book heros like Clayman being a fusion between Juggernaut and The Thing or Avian bein that winged X-Men... Archangel. This is a good one, Bubbleman is Batman. The Destiny ones are based on british culture and clasic monsters or vigilantes like Plasma being Dracula or Dangerous being (another time) Spawn. Masked ones are based on japanese Kamen Riders. Evil Hero may be based on that time an evil counterpart of Adam Warlock (marvel character) called The Magus cloned some marvel iconic heroes an assembled an army of evil counterparts (like Daredevil being actually a devil or a more savage wolverine). Vision ones are... just maybe based on the X-Men de facto leader, Cyclops. Evil Eye - Just like the Heroes, this ones are easy. All of them are based on vision related themes. The familiars are mythologic creatures that can petrify with their eyes. Gorgon and Medusa are pretty obvius based on the greek myth. Serziel is based on the Archangel Zerachiel, Paraeidolia is the visual effect of finding forms on things... like faces on cars or forms on clouds. Exodia - Based on the Myth of Osiris, his brother Set (the egyptian Loki) killed Osiris and cut him on lots of pieces. Isis traveled to find every part of Osiris just to bring him back to life, now as a god of the underworld (not the god of Death, that's Anubis as, you know... Curse of Annubis, Osiris is like Hades and Anubis is like Thanatos). Predaplant - Every predaplant monster is based on a carnivorous plant and a predator animal (some exceptions). The fusion monsters are based on mythological creatures like Chimaera (a mixture between various animals, not the same as a Manticore, that's just a Leon plus an Scorpion) or a Dragon (yeah, another one). There's the special case of Predaplant Cordyceps, based on the Cordyceps Fungus, a parasitic fungus that grows on ants, using those little friends as a body to look for tall places and pollute with his spores... just think of it like a zombie plague... like The Las of Us, it's the same fungus. Jurrac - They're just dinosaurs on fire. I love them. Not as interesting as the other archetypes but the selection is pretty strange. They don't have some of the most popular hervivores like Stegosaurus or Triceratops. Ptera isn't a Dinosaur, it's a flying reptile, also Meteor is the reason because they became extinct. According to Lore, Jurracs defeated single hand the Fabled becoming Meteor and are the origin of the Neo Flamvell... but that information may be wrong.
I'm still baffled by the fact that the Dark Synchros randos used in the anime are named after US Warships that are in turn named after US Naval officers from the Vietnam War (Frozen Fitzgerald
Satellarknights are references to stars and constellations. All of the main deck monsters are named after stars. Vega, Altair and Deneb are 3 stars that form the Summer Triangle. Additionally, Satellarknight Skybridge references a Chinese legend about lovers Altair and Vega being about to spend one night in summer together each year (because the stars appear closer together on that night)
One thing that I did mention in the thread but wasn’t shown here is that the Dream Mirror monsters are based off of the personifications of dreams, Oneiros (in yugioh speak, the DMirror fusions) in greek mythology.
And Btw Aleister the invoker is a refference to Aleister Crowley, the most famous and notorious ocultists of all time, the fusion monsters represent him going insane with his mad experiments.
@@ashikjaman1940 Afaik, Purgatrio is basically Purgatorium, Mechaba (or Merkabah) is a celestial chariot, Elysium is the Greek version of Heaven, Cocytus is one of the circles of Hell in the Divine Comedy, Magellanica is an Atlantis-like continent lost to history, allegedly, and Caliga someone said was referencing Emperor Caligula
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363Importantly, the archetype is also called "Eidolon" in Japan, blending the ideas he wrote down in his increasing madness about summoning creatures made of your personal energy infused with the power of someone else, with the Final Fantasy concept of Summons, often called Eidolons. Notably, with the way that you were supposed to obtain someone else's energy to summon something, it implies that every Invoked player is commanding Aleister to have sex with every monster they've ever used as the other Material for Invocation.
Scareclaws, Visas Starfrost, and the POTE archetype Tearalaments are all references to the Tokusatsu series "Kamen Rider: Kiva'. The Scareclaws reference the 1980 period of Kiva with a trio of powerful monsters that become allies of the protagonist, while the Tearalaments reference the 2010 period of Fangires, the non-allied monster group, a series of 'stained-glass vampires' that drain lifeforce (and color) from people. If you look closely at the Tearalament art, they all have a stained-glass motif somewhere on each character, and Visas Starfrost is involved with both archetypes at different points in time.
@@AbyssDwellerthetokutuber No, he just traveled in time to defeat evil versions of himself, and then traveled between worlds to do it in Decade. Totally different.
Some of my favorites are A wild monster appears, which obviously reference Pokemon, and the SPYRAL archetype, which is both a ref to James Bond and Metal Gear
Arcana Force was never gonna get away with "The Hanged Man" so it was stuck being incomplete. Prophecy/Spellbook ended up getting addressed on the thread.
I love these twitter review videos, but this one specifically I would really love to see more of. The source material that is referenced in some cards can be really interesting and finding out about them is always a fun time.
Dracosac carrying another plane is a reference to the Mriya *again*, because the Mriya was originally made to fly the Soviet's space shuttle between the build location and launch platform. There were two of the shuttles built, hence two tokens. Look up "Buran Program" on Wikipedia and the second image is one being carried by Dracosac.
Libromancers actually reminded me first of the Persona series. A bunch of high school students with secret identities that have masks that transform into jojo stands fits them more.
It actually looks similar to the way personas work in Persona 5 specifically. However, the actual lore is that the different effect monsters are capable of summonign character from their favourite books and fuse with them. Pretty cool.
I'm genuinely surprised scrap factory was not mentioned in this as it has several references, one of which is glaringly obvious being that it has a reference to terminator
Funnily enough (sorry for the romaji version) but ojamishimasu is literally what you should normally say when you enter someone's else's house in Japan, with the context of being polite and essentially saying "sorry to bother you". The ojamas just want to be polite, ok?
Yeah, translating it as "I am going to be rude" is hilariously stupid. The most literal translation possible and clearly from someone who doesn't understand Japanese.
@@NintendoMasterNo1 But that IS what it literally means, which is what the post was talking about. Obviously with context of normal Japanese speech, the phrase is meant to be polite, but the cards are based on specifically the word おじゃま, which means to intrude or be a hinderance. Which is why I love the archetype, since the Ojamas are both a hinderance to the owner, as they're weak and kinda gross vanilla monsters, and the opponent with the ability to intrude on their monster zones
@@bakawkawk No one says お邪魔します to mean "I am going to intrude". じゃま does mean nuisance and that could be part of what they're based on, but that's not what the person in the video claimed.
@@NintendoMasterNo1 i had read the thread and there was more in the tweet talking about how it is more used as a "sorry for intruding" thing you say when you are a guest and how it relates to them taking up space on your board.
Here's a few other notable things: 1. The girls are in two pairs that mention each other by name, reflecting who the actual couples are, plus Martha who is directly stated to be older than all the others, likely representing either a head priest (fitting the Christian theming), a graduated student (fitting the S-Class Yuri vibes), or an actual older sister, who has a one-sided mention of Elis. 2. Exosisters Magnifica, their Rank 8, features the water ribbons with hands on them explicitly linking the hands of the Xyz forms of one of those couples, who are also in a common "battle couple" pose used in anime, where two lovers are fighting side-by-side.
Cards you forget had 2nd effects. I'll start; Castel the Skyblast Musket can use 1 Material to change the battle position of a monster, but it is most commonly used for its effect to dethatch 2 to shuffle a card into the deck.
Pendulum have a lot of these scenarios. Here are 2 of them. Timegazer magician's monster effect prevents scales of being destroyed by opponents card effects and Endymion the Mighty Master of Card Text cannot be targeted or destroyed by opponents card effs as long as it has a spell counter and searches any spell from deck when destroyed by battle if it had a spell counter.
Fun fact about Tenyi: each of the "Tenyi Spirit" monsters (including the Link) are partially named after the seven Chakras. According to Tantra, Chakras are focal points of the body, focused on through meditation. Additionally, while Tantra practices are common in both Hinduism and Buddhism in India, the Tenyi Spirits specifically reference Hindu beliefs on the matter, as they most commonly believe in seven chakras: Muladhara, Svadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddhi, Ajna, and the final chakra, Sahasrara, which is said to awaken following spiritual liberation.
Crystron Halqlifibrax is a member of the Crystron archetype. Said archetype have lore ties to zoodiac, true draco, true king, metalfoes, dinomist, igknight, dracoslayer, dracoverlord and amorphage :P
They also missed how Solfachord is based on the Solfa. A music thing. Ogdoadic and Hieretic archetypes are based on beings in Egyptian mythology, and how super quants are also power rangers. There are so many.
Super Quants aren't power rangers, they're based on a similar sentai team whose toys were made by Konami. Check out the comments on Rata's video about them.
Magical Musketeers are a really well thought out archetype. The monsters in the atchetype mirror the characters in the story and their roles: Caspar = Kaspar His effect to add any Musket card directly from the deck is a reference to how Kaspar is the only one who forges the magic devil bullets. Starfire = Agathe Her effect on summoning Musket monsters is meant to indicate how the whole opera is centered around who will get her hand in marriage first. Doc = Kuno Agathes father and head forrester often regales of old tales, mirroring his effect on how he adds back Musket cards from the Graveyard. Kidbrave = Max Max is Agathes love interest and the protagonist of the story. In the Yugioh version he is consumed by Zakiels power and later becomes Max. While he is Kidbrave he tries to earn an honest shot which is why his effect dicards a Musket card in order to draw 2 new ones. Calamity = Annchen Agathes friend and cousin who provides calmjng tales similar to Kuno/Doc who brings back Musket cards, she brings more of Agathes/Starfires friends. Zakiel = Samiel the devil lmao (Only present in the artworks of fiendish deal and crooked crown Max and Kaspars bullets as they are the only ones in the Yugioh story who directly have interacted with him). Wild = The Holy Hermit He appears on the last act of the opera (Last Stand) and he deflects the curse of the seventh bullet (which is led by Samiel and leads to tragedy) similar to his effect where he puts back musket cards and gives another chance to repent (draw 1).
Let's see... 1. Everyone knows of the Gradius series of cards, and how they have their own in-archetype archetype in the B.E.S. cards. But other cards in the Gradius line include Solar Flare Dragon, Moai Interceptor Cannon, Brain Golem, and Ambitious Gofer, the last one being a reference to Gofer, the leader of the Bacterian Empire and final boss in most of the Gradius games. 2. Andro Sphinx, Sphinx Teleia, Hieracosphinx, and Criosphinx are all literally based on different types of sphinx statues in Ancient Egypt, which are named after the type of head the sphinx is given (human /Anthro, Hieraco/Hawk, Crio/Ram. Teleia I'm guessing is based on the great Sphinx of Giza). 3. Going further into the Danger! lore, there's one that you likely don't know is an actual cryptid: Danger! Dogman!, who is a reference to the werewolf-like Dogman of Michigan. 4. The reason why the Gunkan Suship archetype are sushis made into battleships? Because that's literally what they represent: Gunkan is Japanese for "Battleship", and Gunkan sushi is a specific type of sushi that is depicted in the Suship cards, that being an ovoid "boat" of Shari rice wrapped in seaweed and topped with fish and other items. 5. Tactical Espionage Expert is basically Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series. 6. Super Quant is also a reference to Super Sentai/Power Rangers, just the show Zyuranger, or more specifically the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. 7. Likely everyone knows that the Ancient Warriors are based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms stories, but do you know what other archetype is based on that story series? Fire Fists. 8. And, finally, here's a rather meta one: the Beast-Warrior Bujin monsters are all based on the main characters of GX in design, from Jaden to Chaz to Bastion to even Sartorious and Aster Phoenix.
I call bullshit reach but after looking at the card art for Yamato, Mikazuchi, Mahitotsu, and Arasuda, I hate how close they are. I can't see it for every other one though.
@@VladimerPootis hirume is alexis and hirume is sartorious. torifune ... possibly breaks the trend, but i've also seen it suggested that it's supposed to be neos meanwhile the xyzs are just the base bujin wearing the bujingi, so while you can't see it, you can rest assured that susanowo still has yamato's jaden hair underneath wolf's deconstructed body
Fire Fists are not based on RoTK, but from the Chinese novel, Water Margin. Fire Fists had so many members(most of them) are reference from the novel with 108 companions, with their names mixed with animals.
ok that Rite of Aramesir one got me good, who knew one of the best spell cards in modern YGO is a reference to rerolling gacha games for multiple SSRs/URs
"unauthorized reactivation" is just an EVA. you can even see the entry plug in the art (and "unauthorized reactivation" is also a plot point in every second episode)
As someone who is learning japanese, I just want to address some disinformation about Des Lacooda: The translators were not "bad at their job", they just had the habit to put romanized japanese names as the english name of cards. In fact, there are a lot of instances where the international name of a card is a japanese romanization, and its japanese equivalent is actually... An english word written in katakana. Here are some examples: Hitotsu-Me Giant: Hitotsu-Me is not just a fancy name, it literally means one eye. So one eyed giant. Which is a cyclops. => In japanese: サイクロプス, which is pronounced "Saikuropusu" => CYCLOPS! Ansatsu: Literally just means assassin => In japanese: アサシン, pronounced "Asashin" => ASSASSIN! There are many other examples! Here, "Lacooda" is one of the valid romanization of 駱駝 (らくだ) => rakuda. The R and the L in japanese are not distinct. Also, there are cards which were literally translated from japanese to english, like the card "Wolf". And it really sounds ridiculous, which shows why it was probably the right call to use the japanese names.
Just here to point out that Luster Pendulum may just be Dragon Jesus : - He was given three gifts (From the Igknights, Dinomist and Majespecter), ala how Jesus was given three gifts from the three Magi - He fought against the seven deadly sins (The amorphage, they are litterally named after them) and the Anti-Christ (Lector Pendulum, the creator and spreader of the Amorphages, aka Sin) - He fought alongside Metaltron XII, a clear reference to Metatron (A human turned into an angel by god), against the Beast/Satan (True King of all Calamities/True Dragon King, the Beast) during the (True Draco) Apocalypse So basically, Master Peace died for our sins.
All the new achetypes are super cool. Libromancer being the Comic book superheroes, P.U.N.K being futuristic traditional theatre and Dinomorphia being the best Power Ranger series (opinion). They've always hit the nail on the head with small details and visual storytelling, even if the decks aren't good. I love it and honestly I'll keep playing just for this shit alone, even if I'm not good at the game. I LOVED the World Legacy story and now Albaz is also badass as fuck in it's storytelling. They just do really well.
Quick but pretty obvious reference, almost all of the spirit monsters have their designs and effects inspired by Japanese Folklore. My favorite one is Amano-Iwato, which was inspired by... drumroll please... Ama-No-Iwato. Translating directly to "heaven's rock cave." It was a cave that Amaterasu was driven into by her brother and while she remained in the cave, the entire land was deprived of light. If you want to reach a little farther we can make that connection with amano-iwato's extremely frustrating effect. Once it hits the field we're essentially in the cave, where we're deprived of light (or monster effects), and once it returns to the hand you are leaving the cave and the light the returns, along with the monster effects. There's a pretty short Wikipedia article about Amano Iwato (the cave, not the card) so you can look into it yourself if you'd like, the story is much more interesting than the short summary I condensed it into.
Whats also crazier was the ending, where Amaterasu came out of the cave because the Goddess of Dawn (Cant remember her name) was literally dancing Naked at everyone
Mad that I missed this one. My favorite in recent memory is the Ogdoatic, which references the primordial deities of Egypt called the ogdoad that refer to the waters of chaos. Would have made for a perfect villain archetype in og yugioh. Also, like how sangan is in jail with the graceful charity one card to reference the banlist. Floowandereze referring to the flight patter of the arctic tern is neat to.
Super Vehichroid Stealth Union is a direct reference to The King of Braves Gaogaigar, specifically Gaofighgar from the Final OVA, it even combines from the exact same set of vehicles in the same way and has the same forearm design and drill knees.
Most of the boxing style cards are based on the hit manga/anime Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe). This can be seen in the card Coach Goblin, who looks like the coach in the show, tange dampe.
So fun fact Dinomorphia might also be a reference to a niche anime called Hundred as evidenced by their glowing animal armor and some of the cards show them looking berserk that's in a way similar to a couple of scenes in Hundred. But yea main reference is definitely dino thunder and I love it. Fav power ranger series
Yeah Dryton and Ursartic are constelations but Satellarknights and Constellars (right in the freaking name) are also constelations, that is 4 archetypes and there is maybe more.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned BA monsters just being literal demons from Bolgia 7 in Dante’s Inferno, but it was probably left out due to being so blatant
I like to think that Onomatopoeia archetype are based on DnD classes Zubaba as the rogue Gagaga as the mage Dododo as the warrior Gogogo as the tank Utopia could be healer or paladin.
Some ago I thinked the same but... What about the Acha Acha Archer/Chanbara and Chachaka Archer? I hate those dudes... I mean, chanbara is a Japanese type of sword (?) like Goyo's one (based on a Edo Period law enforcer) but... they don't make any sense.
my favorite one is metalfoes goldriver, the pose in the art is similar to the Akira bike pose which already has a ton of references in the animation media
F.A's I feel like are closely referencing to the 2008 live action movie of Speed Racer you have F.A sonic meister playing the main character cut to F.A city grand prix where it shows Auto navigator panicking over sonic meister being destroyed which therefore leads to the off-road grand prix which is referencing the cross country race in the movie then F.A test run shows the designers working on Dawn dragster and finally City grand prix along with dead heat and overheat reference the final race with Dawn dragster against Dark dragster
That vampire hunter reference was pretty sick, but did you know that vampire baby actually features Dr Michael Morbius from the world-wide critically acclaimed movie Morbius in his youth? Konami did this 20 years before marvel could! Now that's a #sweep.
I know that the Fandom wiki claims the Reaper of the Cards stat line means "YOU ARE GOING TO THE SECRET MOUNTAIN", but I don't quite see it. There's no source cited, and I can't find anything else on the topic in English or Japanese. 193 could be read as "行くさ" (Ikusa), which is kind of an archaic/regional way of saying "go to", but I can't figure out how 138(0), which could be read as ”いざや" or maybe "いさや" (Izaya or Isaya, ignoring the zero) means "Secret Mountain".
off the top of my head "13" might be "hi" and "mitsu", or "himitsu". as for where the mountain comes from? i dunno. 8 is "ya" so we're halfway to yama but im not great at this
The German story that's referenced by the musketeer is also the inspiration for Hellsing's Rip Van Winkle, and the source of her abject terror of Alucard, comparing him to the Devil. 'The Huntsman' or 'Der Freischütz' is the name of the play.
Super Vehicroid Mobile Base and Megaroid City are based off of Metroplex from the Transformers franchise. Just like Metroplex ,Mobile Base turns into Megaroid City.
nah, I looked up Nibiru once without putting yugioh afterwards, it's a reference to a conspiracy back from that thing about the world ending in 2012 saying that a secret ninth planet called Nibiru was going to collide with earth
The toons get even funnier when you realize that toon barrel dragon is the TCG version of barrel dragon in all artworks, which is still Konami poking fun at the west
Foucault's Cannon do give me a bit fo a chuckle. Like, a litteral pendulum monster based on an author who was also known for a pendulum related experiment, that's quite neat.
The archetypes played by the 4 Yu boys characters in ArkV have references to the 4 previous characters’s decks. The most obvious one being how Yugo’s deck represents toys he used in his childhood while Yusei’s junk deck represents his childhood rummaging through garbage. There are a couple of other references like Yuto’s cards paralleling some of Yuma’s (Ragged Gloves = Gogogogloves, Ancient coat = Gagagacoat, Break Sword = Samurai) Yuri’s deck actually represents Yubel instead of Jaden prooven by the fact that he used Superpoly. The hardest one to make connections is Yuya tho.
Something that was probably pointed out in the thread but didn't make the video is that the bosses and heros of the gradius games have all been printed as cards with the bosses becoming the B.E.S. archetype and the heros becoming a collection of LV.4 light machines with 1200 or less ATK with no common naming scheme meaning the heros never became a proper archetype while the bosses did
I’m surprised nobody in the comments mentioned Gouki. Not only are the main deck monsters mostly named after common wrestling manuevers (Bearhug, suplex, moonsault, cobra twist, dive, etc) but most of their extra deck monsters have names and/or designs that are based on famous wrestlers, particularly those who wrestled in Japan, for example: Thunder Ogre - Jushin Thunder Liger Great Ogre - the Great Muta Giant Ogre - Andre the Giant Powerload Ogre - Rikidozan (whose name translates roughly to “Power road Mountain) Destroy Ogre - Dick “The Destroyer” Beyer Jet Ogre - Tiger Jeet Singh Etcetera
Now we have star wars sequels to reference it's the perfect excuse for kozmo legacy support If they want they could even reference the obscure Wizard of Oz sequals
Let's not forget that although trains are based on regular service and carrier vehicles, all xyz monsters are based on the German 3rd Reich tanks and cannons. They even reference this on Barrage Blast (whose real ocg name is Blitzkrieg Bombardment). Yes, we're all playing Nazi trains. And it's SO MUCH FUN
Obscure reference, maybe. And I may be off on this but there is a moderately popular german cartoon series called "Vicky and the Strong Men" which is a series about a smart Kid that lives in Viking society and uses his smarts to help them at sea. Compare some of their art and I think a case can be made for them being an influence to Plunders
Junior Journey will be up tomorrow! One of the duelists didn't send me their footage. >:(
Wow imagine hating the stoppage of climate change that much
i heard konami bought that footage for big money
hola mijo c:
That sounds like something I would forget to do
@@thehamyton4700 I mean, I feel that way.
The thing is, for as “low effort” as these videos are, they highlight one thing: MBT is just an entertaining guy to watch. And having a laid back format where he can just do his thing combined with some tight editing makes for a real winning concept
And he's surprisingly knowledgeable about many niche archetypes (comes from all the tmt's he's done i suppose)
Yeah, he's just a naturally funny charismatic guy no matter the format and great at explaining too. He's the main reason I enjoy Cimo's "History of" series as well tbh.
The format is low effort but MBT (and Dire) aren't ☺
I honestly don't care about how much effort went into a video as long as it's enjoyable to watch, and these are quite enjoyable
YUP
6:00 About that, they printed a card depicting the “popping bubble”, called (I kid you not) “Bubblyman Shock!”
wowser
I just googled "bubblyman shock" and at the very top of the result it said that some results may be explicit
what the fuck
Nobody tell Bubbleman
isnt that the card that lowers an opponent monster's attack by like a million
7:55
YES SOMEONE ACTUALLY POSTED MY BOY.
The ATK digits, in individual kun'yomi pronunciation, can be read as:
1 = hi
3 = mitsu
8 = ya
0 = ma
While the DEF digits, in individual on'yomi pronunciation, can be read as:
1 = i
9 = ku
3 = sa
0 = re
As a complete sentence, [himitsu yama, ikusare], or [秘密山、行くされ] loosely reads as "you are going to the secret mountain". In Japanese folklore, death gods, called shinigami, are known to possess people and lead them to mountains, seas, and railroads where people have died.
Massive respect to the Dinomorphias being based on Abaranger/Dino Thunder, as someone who grew up with the American show as a kid along with the rest of the Disney era Power Rangers, it's pretty nostalgic and makes me wanna play Dinomorphia on that principle alone!
Speaking of Power Rangers, the Super Quantum archetype is based on the franchise as well.
@@Billy-ot8mk Actually it isn't. I remember seeing a comment on Rata's video specifically calling out the difference. They're based off of Chouseishin, a competitor to Kamen rider and Super sentai that Konami worked with that isn't active anymore
I’m forever playing dinomorphia now since Dino thunder was my favorite Power rangers
The bad guy in the English Dino Thunder series looks scary AF man. His head is litterally a dinosaur head.
I'm just playing dino morphia because life points don't matter and go brrrrrrrrrr. But now I need to watch dino thunder/ abaranger.
It's kinda obtuse in the TCG naming but many of the D/D/D monsters are titled after business positions. Doom King's Japanese name includes "Shi-i-ou" which is pronounced "CEO," Chaos King Apocalypse's name includes "Kyokuchou" (director general), Abyss King Gilgamesh has "Shi-en-ou" (CNO), and a bunch more. The High King versions of Caesar, Alexander, and Genghis in the Japanese instead of "High King" use "Executive." This is why the D/D backrow cards are all Contracts - they're business demons. On top of their entire monster lineup being named after figures from history and mythology.
Sky Striker Raye and Roze are both named after the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Reisen aircraft, Rei is obvious but for Roze it's based on the Allied Reporting Name of "Zero" just reversed. Z.E.K.E. and H.A.M.P. are also allied reporting names for Japanese aircraft. The Sky Striker Mecha are also all named after aircraft. It's also POSSIBLE that Raye is loosely inspired by Char Aznable and his various knockoffs seeing that she's a blonde ace pilot whose signature gear is a bright cherry red, but no mask so it's a bit of a stretch.
The reason why the Armed Dragon Retrains are called Armed Dragon Thunder is because it's a reference to Chazz' Japanese nickname of "Manjoume Thunder" which he got for insisting that people add "-san" to the end of his name ("san da" = Thunder). LV10's weird ATK-based effect is also a reference to his catch phrase in the Japanese version that got replaced in the dub with "Chazz it up."
Inzektors are more specifically referencing Kamen Rider Kabuto, Masked HERO are moreso the archetype that references Kamen Rider as a whole.
That would explain all the spreadsheets needed to play them.
Speaking of Kamen Rider, the Synchro Monster Splendid Rose is a reference to Kamen Rider W (Double), specifically his iconic Cyclone x Joker form, but the colour scheme is reversed. Splendid Rose's effect to halve a monster's Atk is a reference to Double's Signature Maximum Drive finisher where he splits himself in half. Splendid Rose's ability to attack a second time is also a reference to Double's theme of "Two".
In addition, Contrast Hero Chaos is a card in the HERO archetype that is also a reference to "W" (Double), namely his Fang x Joker form, except the colour scheme is also reversed just like Splendid Rose.
Speaking of naming references, blackwing card names reference weather events and I think times fo day for some of them? Which is really cool.
@@technodragon990 I'd call bullshit on this, if I didn't already know that Etesian (Etesian of Two Swords) Winds are a thing, from a completely separate topic.
thanks for the writeup, good read.
Isolde's art has layers to it that I really like. It's all based on Tristan's request (NK Drystan).
Tristan was poisoned and asked for Blonde Isolde because she knows of a cure (The cup she is holding.)
Tristan's request was for Goth Isolde to inform him of the color of the sails, because that would tell him if Blonde had the antidote (or not on the ship?). If they are black, no cure and if white, cure (the sails in the background).
Goth lies and says they're black out of jealousy, leading to Tristan's death. Similarly, both Isoldes are colored based on the color of the sail they represent.
Plus he's married to goth Isolde and blond Isolde has a husband somewhere else. Some versions of the tale even skips the cure entirely and just makes Tristan straight up wanna see the lady he actually loved rather than the one he got forced to marry.
I for some reason read "sails" as "snails" and was extremely confused for a moment
Some additional layers: according to Gottfried's version the goth Isolde was known as "Isolde of the White Hands" hence her pale colouration, whereas the gold Isolde is "Isolde the Sun", daughter of (wait for it) a third Isolde called "Isolde the Dawn"
I was so freaking happy to find out Isolde was a playable card because this is gorgeous art
Also this may be a coincidence, but it's neat how Isolde as a card has less than 1800 ATK, meaning they can be protected by the effect of Noble Knight Drystan (Tristan), the knight that fell in love with them.
I remember back when they first printed the train cards, we kept getting new support and my friend was like "You know, this archetype is just actual pictures of trains."
That's what makes them based
Why make them complicated with their theme, when you can just use actual trains as your monsters. Easiest idea ever!
I’m just going to assume the designer was autistic and had a hyper fixation
This one's courtesy of Rata aka Rank10ygo: Did you know the Maju Garzett are references to the Mazinger franchise?
There's Great Maju Garzett - Great Mazinger.
Legendary (shin) Maju Garzett - Shin Mazinger Z.
-Emperor Maju Garzett - Mazinkaiser
And Gren Maju Da Eiza - Grendizer
Yo really? I play Gren Maju and I watched a ton of Grendizer as a kid. This just made my day.
IIRC he said that in his Pyramid of Light Review.
Speaking of which, is there anywhere to watch his pyramid of light review? I caught it once then it disappeared…
Dragunity Dragon Tuners are named after Roman weapons and the Winged Beasts are named after different ranks in the Roman Military. Then they couldn't think of anything for the Synchro Monsters so those are all based on Irish Mythology.
Though Dux isn’t a military rank as such more a civil governance thing.
It was the root of the word duke.
Also one is named Phalanx which is a Macedonian fighting formation.
Drag unity is a confusing archetype
@@geiseric222 yeah and Mystleteinn and Leyvaten are from Norse mythology
@@motokuchoma Meawhile, Vajryana: "Buddhism represent!"
Then there’s Romulus and Remus who found Rome in Roman mythology.
@@xatuyou8045 And they both search Dragon Ravine, so that helps the reference too
Pretty much every card Zigfried von Schroder used in the anime (The Valkyrie archtype) is a reference to Der Ring Des Nibelungen a dramatic german opera by Wagner
Also, his brother cards are based on fairy tales, some of them very well kwno like Riding Red Hood and Cinderella... others so obscure like Iron Hans... and NO, the Golden Castle isn't a reference to Eldlich the Golden Lord, it would be cool... but he doesn't travel in time.
The reason why all of the male Elemental Heroes have Man in their names is because they are a reference to Western Super Heroes such as Superman and Batman.
The Time Thiefs seem to be a reference to Doctor Who and his female assistant they even have their own version of the Sonic Screwdriver.
Spyrals have references to the James Bond series in their card artworks.
Just as Elemental HERO is meant to be based on American comics, and Masked HERO on Japanese comics, Destiny HERO was originally intended to be based on British comics.
@@EinDose the clock tower suddenly makes sense
I rember when I mistakenly made connections to Persona 5 with the Time Thieves...good times
Another piece of Ojama trivia is that Hideo Kojima's nickname at Konami was Ojama because of the way he would check in on his employees unexpectedly
Dear God now I'm imagining Kojima in the Ojama underwear
@@ashikjaman1940 lmao
@@ashikjaman1940 🤤
My personal favorites SPYRALs are a reference to the super agent movie genre and James Bond specifically, the names of Master Plan and Quick-Fix line up with their coresponding characters M and Q.
One especially cool thing about the dragonmaids is that the author of miss kobayashi's dragon maid plays yugioh, and when they were first revealed he said he was excited to play them.
This video is so damn cool, I hope there's gonna be a second part to it, if there are enough archetypes to go through
Konami: "Remove all the religious imagery!"
Also Konami: **creates an entire archetype based on Lucifer and other fallen angels** (Darklords)
Speaking of:
The Burning Abyss cards are a reference to Dante’s Inferno, Purgatrio and Paradiso, which is literally Dante walking through the Catholic Christian hell, purgatory and heaven
@@phil381100 Now that you mention one of those names, does that mean Invoked Pugatrio is also a subtle nod to Alighieri's works?
@@Rahnonymous I’m sure that Purgatrio is a reference to purgatory. I’m pretty sure that Invoked Cocytus is a reference to the river leading to Hades in Greek mythology, or something like that. But BA literally has Dante, Virgil and Beatrice as cards, the 3 key figures in Dante’s Divine Comedy
@@Rahnonymous Aleister is also a reference to the cultist Aleister Crowley, author of "The Book of the Law" which is what Aleister's tome is named
@@ashikjaman1940 And coincidentally, the tome depicted in "forbidden scripture" being held by the monster lore wise that ends up becoming "Condemned Darklord." Weird how this all came back full circle
Speaking of Ojamas, another reference can be seen on the card Ojamatch; the clothes that Ojama Black is wearing are identical to those worn by the character Tange Danpei from Ashita no Joe, a boxing manga from the late 60s which had a huge cultural impact on Japan, especially amongst the working class and college students in the New Left. The same reference is also made with the card Second Goblin.
I hear Over Limit, another card used with Ojamas in the anime, also makes an Ashita no Joe reference
Good catch. I didn't know that one.
Yo Ojamas based?
No one mentioned that Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max and Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora are references to the Nazi rail cannons Schwerer Gustav and Dora from WW2.
My thoughts exactly the mentioned Derricrane but not the cannons of death
@@kreiden8972 I thought they never actually finished those?
Every member of the Railway (yes thats the name) archetype is a reference to an actual train
i was under the impression that almost all the spaceship cards were references to other konami properties. In the tag force games theyre all stuck in a pack that you always unlock in every game by inputting the konami code on the shop screen. That being up up down down left right left right b a. which to those unfamiliar with it is a cheat code that was present in so many old konami games that it got the name.
Some of the references in that set they didn't even try for. the card gradius references a game called gradius.
The gradius cards and B.E.S cards are not references, they are fan service, after all, gradius was created by Konami.
Also, the "Konami Code" is used by Kaiba to activate Enemy Controller... the only useful card from that Konami pack is Fossil Dig (I always build Jurrac on Tag Force) also... they're used by Duke Deviln on Tag Force Special (maybe he is at the level of Paradox Brothers, I mean... his deck is cool and can be tough)
Gradius, XX03, T301, Lord British, Jade Knight, FalchionB are all player ships in Gradius games. Gradius is a generic Vic Viper and Gradius's Option and Cyclon Laser represent its powerups, T301 is specifically from Gradius V, XX03 is a hypothetical future Vic Viper design shown off in one specific art book. Lord British is the traditional player 2 in the Salamander spinoffs, but is also playable in Gradius Gaiden. FalchionB is from Falsion, a weird attempt at making a 3D shooter on the NES, also playable in Gaiden. Jade Knight is original to Gaiden. The B.E.S. monsters are obviously various bosses from Gradius, but also, Brain Golem is a recurring boss starting from the Salamander spinoffs and Ambitious Gofer is the villain of Gradius 2: Gofer's Ambition. DUCKER Mobile Cannon is a common enemy throughout the series, and it's even possible that Mucus Yolk is a reference to an enemy type that tends to show up in biological-themed stages. People keep saying Solar Flare Dragon is based on the recurring Intruder enemies, which appear in fire-themed stages, but imo that could go either way.
Delta Tri is a weird one, because its stat line and effects indicate it's the player ship from Trigon, aka Lightning Fighters, which was Konami's attempt to compete with the Raiden series, but its art is of its boss cameo in Gradius Gaiden. Its effect to equip Trigon is kinda based on how it fights as a boss, but Dragon Laser is absolutely based on one of your super moves in Deltatry.
Blue Thunder T-45 is from Thunder Cross, and the reason it has a less versatile effect than the other ships is probably that its Option duplicates always appear in a fixed formation above and below it, instead of following your ship's path.
Flint Lock is the player ship in Xexex, which was Konami's attempt to muscle in on R-Type's gimmick, and King of Destruction Xexex is its enemy. Flint is obviously Flint Lock's weapon, a semi-autonomous drone which floats around whacking things with its tentacles and blocking bullets for you, and can also be attached to the front of Flint to double as a shield. Flint Missile represents firing Flint into a weak point to rapidly eat away at the enemy's health.
On the other hand, Metal Shooter has been tagged as related to B.E.S. for literally a decade on the wiki and I have no fucking clue what that's about. Someone obviously knows something I don't and they ain't sharing.
E: I forgot Option Hunter, and probably a couple of others.
@@manjackson2772 holy crap, thank you for this list; i've recently stated collecting all the gradius related cards and this is a huge help. the only cards i can think of that you missed are "Moai Interceptor Cannons" and "The Statue of Easter Island", both referencing the Maoi head statues in some levels of the Gradius games. interceptor cannons has an effect to flip itself face down, referencing the movement of the statues in the game, and Statue of Easter Island has vanilla text referencing how the gradius statues attacked.
While mine didn't make it to the stream, I will mention Chronomaly. It is a bit obvious by this point, but the archetype is literally just real life historical objects that are considered "too advanced for their time", known as Out-of-Place Artifacts, or OOPArts for short, which, fun fact, is the archetype's Japanese name.
Examples are Crystal Skull, Moai and my favorite, Sun Monolith, which is the Aztec sun stone.
the japanese have been obsessed with ooparts for a while, the guy who wrote naruto had a brother who wrote an ooparts manga
And Vimana, afaik, is a device in Hindu mythology that has been way to owell described given when it was written about, almost as if the device did exist, albeit no remains of it are present anywhere so far, technically making it an Out Of Place Artifact
To briefly explain what was describe about them is that they were flying cities that could be used in war, being near impossible to destroy, able to cloak with the environment, travel at incredible speeds, move in a jump-like manner, view things at extreme distances (in other words, a radar), and so on and so forth
They also are able to create an electric field that incapacitates everything near it too
So, everyone knows about the BAs being based on Dante's Inferno, but there's actually something fun to say about the Malebranche.
The name actually refers to a specific group of devils that inhabit the 9th circle of hell and whose main job is to throw crooks and corrupt politicians into a boiling tar pit and keep them there (fire lake of the burning abyss).
The fun part is that the Malebranche, while still scary and dangerous, are actually one of the more fun and, well, comedic parts of the Comedy, they're vulgar, rowdy and somewhat stupid, and probably their most iconic moment is Barbariccia (Barbar) giving them the signal to move by farting ("ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta", which could be translated "and he used his ass like a trumpet").
Everyone know the Gradius ships are references to the Gradius games but there is a reference in there even deeper. Lord British Space Fighter is a reference to Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima series of games. His nickname was Lord British and used himself as the basis for the character in his game. The reason he's on the name of a spaceship thou is because his father was an astronaut and he himself has gone into space a few times.
Is it confirmed they named the Lord British after Garriott? In 1986?
@@manjackson2772 By 86, there were already four Ultima games out. The third and fourth games were also highly influential and had a fairly large fan base even in Japan. So I don't know if it a dev was even quoted saying it was, but it lines up perfectly for it to be.
As a neurologist, the Krawlers being references to the nervous system is pretty neat.
The Mecha Phantom Beast archetype has loads of references to real life aircraft, not just Dracosac. Similarly, Sky Strikers is almost nothing but references to the Japanese Zero from WW2 and American military aircraft
Weirdly, the reason I knew that about Sky Strikers was because it shares a name with a Metal Gear, both pulling from the same origin--ZEKE.
Yeah, and the token made by Hornet Drones has the same rainbow aura as the Mecha Phantom Beasts, the other archetype full of references to real life aircraft. Makes me wonder if they're by the same artist or if there were plans to tie the two archetypes together at some point before Auroradon got misused for a bunch of dumb stuff, ending any interest in making new MPB cards.
If MPB ever got any other good Links(or some actual good Synchros), there'd be a lot more interesting stuff to do under the Cyanos Machine lock(and maybe Auroradon could come off with a Machine lock errata of its own).
Fun fact not brought up: As one could probably imagine due to their connection to zefra, both the infernoids and the qliphorts are also references to the tree of life! The qliphot, namesake of the qliphorts, is sorta the counterparts to the sephirot (yes that is where he gets his name), which is the name for the spheres of the tree of life. consequently, members of each archetype reference different spheres of the qliphot or sephirot to varying degrees.
is it any wonder why this game drew a huge moral panic
Maybe it was the One Winged Angel hidden in the middle of it.
this is why a bunch of infernoids are listed as female on the wiki, because they reference female goddesses or something. we've come some amount of a circle.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Got cool card designs as well. Like Dugares wich you can kinda see the way they make him "travel in time". The draw is like you passed 2 dp and needed to discard for handsize, and so on and so on
yeah they do... as long as they make the article stop over complicating $#!7 and some shoot the a-hole that keeps putting in the orbs!!!
Dugares's design really invokes the 'Timeless' moniker, where you see that he doesn't really belong to any specific time period, but he just exists
The Toons being a rip on MTG actually makes sense. They have summoning sickness (can't attack the turn they're played), you can play them as long as you have the resources (all can't be normal summoned but are special summoned and require tributes to special summon if lvl5 or more), can attack directly if they want (MTG monsters can either attack the opposing player or their monsters), and require a LP cost to attack (MTG monsters can't block the turn after they attack, so you will take damage from your opponent's attack)
Minor nitpick: In MTG, the creatures just attack the opponent, not their creatures. Blocking is up to the defending player.
@@ghostlygun2138 I believe you can still target creatures, though. You just don't because there's no point. I know you can attack Planewalkers, at least.
@@Dw7freak You can attack planeswalkers, but not creatures. Planeswalkers are semi-stand ins for another player, lore-wise, which is why you can attack them. Attacks cannot be targeted at creatures, only players or planeswalkers they control, then the defending player chooses which creatures intercept the attacks. One of mtg's most notable differences from other tcgs is the defending player being in control of the combat instead of the attacker.
@@ghostlygun2138 And this is showcased by Toons not getting to attack directly unless the other player has no Toons out
@@ghostlygun2138I think Toon is a lot closer to Flying, as a MtG mechanic; nothing can block a Toon, but a Toon. Nothing can block a flier, but a flier.
Dian Keto went through a lot in her life. She went from Cure Master to Gold Digging master to Prison Master, and finally Kitchen Master...
The toon mechanic of attacking directly is also similar to magic's flying mechanic.
fairy tail cards are references from disney characters. example: fairy tail snow is from snow white and banishing 7 cards specifically is referring to the 7 dwarfs.
im sure most people knew this but its just for those who didnt know
...you know those arent disney characters right?
Like you know Disney didnt invent Snowwhite or Ariel or Rapunzel RIGHT?
@@kotkafer2292 I know that but most people will understand where im coming from, instead of me saying “oh these cards are from some old folklore story from centuries ago” its just easier to say its from disney dummy -.-
@@krystal2445 you could alternativly just say fairy tails. Since the most popular Disney princesses for example all come from extremely famous fairytales.
@@kotkafer2292 dude, its a kids card game. if you hear a kid say “omg these cards are from disney!” and be all excited, are you really gonna be that guy and go up to the kid and say “uhm no, its from the fairy tale story of 1800 blah blah, not from disney”
and fun fact, OCG Fairy snow is wearing the same color dress as the disney character movie. but in the TCG, they changed it to red. probably to avoid getting copyrighted or something
@@krystal2445 This isnt an "ackchually" moment though? This isnt some obscure fact that few people know this is common knowledge. Or do Kids these days literally just not know about fairytales? Have they never heard a goodnight story? Like you dont have to explain the origin of fucking Brother Grim stories and their cultural backround to them but what hurt is there in just saying "no they are from fairytales, Disney just adapted them"? Because if they dont know them already thats kinda sad and its about time they do.
Also just fuck disney, they actually do try and claim fairytale characters as their own with no regard to the fact that they are FOLKlore and they neither created them, nor own them.
other interesting ones:
Eldlich - Based on the legend of El Dorado (a rumored golden city in America, the wet dream of Spanish Conquistators), The Philosopher Stone (Think about Full Metal Alchemist. His necklace can be interpreted as the Philosopher stone, also is a Golden Spiral, and theorically He uses it to avoid the Equivalent Exchange Law, creating from nothing the Cursed Eldland and bringing himself back to life. Also, like in Full Metal Alchemist, the Stone is only like a battery, with time and use the Stone consumes it´s own energy and sometimes, if the exchange is not equivalent, occurs a "Rebote"...sorry, I don't know the English word... and the transmutation uses something from the alchemist to rebalance itself, an arm or a leg... in the case of Eldlich maybe it's own mind, becoming The Mad Golden Lord, but I think that, after some time, Eldlich absorbs matter trought that red vortex and regain his mind, leading to the alternate artwork where he is sitting on the ruins of his kingdom). Also, Eldlixir cards are a reference to the alchemic phases.
Monarch - Originally, the Monarchs where apparently bases on Roman Kings... but since there´s some more monarchs over there... each one references something
Caius - Gaius a common name in ancient Rome
Raiza - I don't know about this one
Mobius - A Mobius Strip.
Thestalos - The Ferrari Testarossa
Grangmar - Marg is an hindu word for "Road"... a Grand Road
Delg - Maybe the word "Dirge"
Kuraz - Maybe Jesus Christ.
Angmarl - The Witch King from Lord of the Rings
Ether - A pre olympic god from the Greek Mythology, born from Erebus and Nyx
Erebus - One of the primordial gods, born from Chaos
Also, the Mega Monarch forms of Raiza, Mobius, Thestalos and Granmarg are, apparently, because they stealed the power of the Dragon Rulers (They grow claws and become a little more "draconic", Granmarg got horns and because of that Redox does't have horns, etc.).
Six Samurai - Kagemusha of the Blue Flame is Kagemusha of the Six Samurai (and maybe, Legendary SIx Samurai Shi En and Shadow of the Six Samurai Shien), a Kagemusha is a person that serves as a decoy, impersonating a political leader (Shien, the real one, maybe never fought alongside the Legendary Six Samurai because he was a political leader and the only "version" of him is Great Shogun Shien). Kagemusha took the name Shi En but as the real Shien becomes evil, he and the other Legendary Six Samurai decides take him over with the help of the actual Six Samurai and the Secret Six Samurai (because they´re basically ninjas, there´s this anime only card of an attemp of assassination on Shien by a Ninja, the only "problem" is Rihan impersonating Shien on Secret Skills of the Six Samurai). The old Six Samurai (the OG ones) are based on some famous japanese figures like Nisashi on Musashi Miyamoto and Irou on Sakaki Kojiro (since the trap card Swallow Flip references a technique of Kojiro). Also, all of the plot with Kagemusha may be inspired by the movie of the same name by Akira Kurosawa, who also created Seven Samurai, a movie about a group of mercenary samurais... like that old pixar movie with bugs... and inspired Star Wars media like 3 times... also the Hidden Fortress, another movie by Kurosawa, inspired the first Star Wars (Episode IV)
Invoked - Each invoked fusion monster represents something like Purgatrio being Purgatorio or Raidjin a mixture between Raidjin (a wind japanese god) and a Jinn (like the genie of the lamp by Robin Williams but evil), Mechaba being a celestial chariot, Caliga being the Emperor Caligula, Magellanica an Atlantis-Like continent, Elysium bein that nice part from the greek Hades and Augoeides has something to do with, Aleister Crowley (Aleister the Invoker). Also, the Seal of Orichalcos was a reference to Crowley too, and The Book of Law is a real book writed by Crowley about his new church, Thelema... so... your Mom was right, Yugioh is satanic.
-Hero - This is easy. The Elemental ones are based on american comic book heros like Clayman being a fusion between Juggernaut and The Thing or Avian bein that winged X-Men... Archangel. This is a good one, Bubbleman is Batman. The Destiny ones are based on british culture and clasic monsters or vigilantes like Plasma being Dracula or Dangerous being (another time) Spawn. Masked ones are based on japanese Kamen Riders. Evil Hero may be based on that time an evil counterpart of Adam Warlock (marvel character) called The Magus cloned some marvel iconic heroes an assembled an army of evil counterparts (like Daredevil being actually a devil or a more savage wolverine). Vision ones are... just maybe based on the X-Men de facto leader, Cyclops.
Evil Eye - Just like the Heroes, this ones are easy. All of them are based on vision related themes. The familiars are mythologic creatures that can petrify with their eyes. Gorgon and Medusa are pretty obvius based on the greek myth. Serziel is based on the Archangel Zerachiel, Paraeidolia is the visual effect of finding forms on things... like faces on cars or forms on clouds.
Exodia - Based on the Myth of Osiris, his brother Set (the egyptian Loki) killed Osiris and cut him on lots of pieces. Isis traveled to find every part of Osiris just to bring him back to life, now as a god of the underworld (not the god of Death, that's Anubis as, you know... Curse of Annubis, Osiris is like Hades and Anubis is like Thanatos).
Predaplant - Every predaplant monster is based on a carnivorous plant and a predator animal (some exceptions). The fusion monsters are based on mythological creatures like Chimaera (a mixture between various animals, not the same as a Manticore, that's just a Leon plus an Scorpion) or a Dragon (yeah, another one). There's the special case of Predaplant Cordyceps, based on the Cordyceps Fungus, a parasitic fungus that grows on ants, using those little friends as a body to look for tall places and pollute with his spores... just think of it like a zombie plague... like The Las of Us, it's the same fungus.
Jurrac - They're just dinosaurs on fire. I love them. Not as interesting as the other archetypes but the selection is pretty strange. They don't have some of the most popular hervivores like Stegosaurus or Triceratops. Ptera isn't a Dinosaur, it's a flying reptile, also Meteor is the reason because they became extinct. According to Lore, Jurracs defeated single hand the Fabled becoming Meteor and are the origin of the Neo Flamvell... but that information may be wrong.
You are reaching so hard on most of these
I'm still baffled by the fact that the Dark Synchros randos used in the anime are named after US Warships that are in turn named after US Naval officers from the Vietnam War (Frozen Fitzgerald
Satellarknights are references to stars and constellations. All of the main deck monsters are named after stars. Vega, Altair and Deneb are 3 stars that form the Summer Triangle.
Additionally, Satellarknight Skybridge references a Chinese legend about lovers Altair and Vega being about to spend one night in summer together each year (because the stars appear closer together on that night)
This would be a great series that could honestly go on and on. Start back with some Flower Cardians and Burning Abyss 🙂
Yeah. Flower cardians literally have you playing a different card game called Hanafuda (iirc)
One thing that I did mention in the thread but wasn’t shown here is that the Dream Mirror monsters are based off of the personifications of dreams, Oneiros (in yugioh speak, the DMirror fusions) in greek mythology.
And Btw Aleister the invoker is a refference to Aleister Crowley, the most famous and notorious ocultists of all time, the fusion monsters represent him going insane with his mad experiments.
Elysium is Aleister's brain expanding and then ascending to space
@@ashikjaman1940 Afaik, Purgatrio is basically Purgatorium, Mechaba (or Merkabah) is a celestial chariot, Elysium is the Greek version of Heaven, Cocytus is one of the circles of Hell in the Divine Comedy, Magellanica is an Atlantis-like continent lost to history, allegedly, and Caliga someone said was referencing Emperor Caligula
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363Importantly, the archetype is also called "Eidolon" in Japan, blending the ideas he wrote down in his increasing madness about summoning creatures made of your personal energy infused with the power of someone else, with the Final Fantasy concept of Summons, often called Eidolons.
Notably, with the way that you were supposed to obtain someone else's energy to summon something, it implies that every Invoked player is commanding Aleister to have sex with every monster they've ever used as the other Material for Invocation.
Scareclaws, Visas Starfrost, and the POTE archetype Tearalaments are all references to the Tokusatsu series "Kamen Rider: Kiva'. The Scareclaws reference the 1980 period of Kiva with a trio of powerful monsters that become allies of the protagonist, while the Tearalaments reference the 2010 period of Fangires, the non-allied monster group, a series of 'stained-glass vampires' that drain lifeforce (and color) from people. If you look closely at the Tearalament art, they all have a stained-glass motif somewhere on each character, and Visas Starfrost is involved with both archetypes at different points in time.
what the fuck
Uhh, Kiva didn't travel between planet to defeat evil version of himself you know...
@@AbyssDwellerthetokutuber No, he just traveled in time to defeat evil versions of himself, and then traveled between worlds to do it in Decade. Totally different.
Some of my favorites are A wild monster appears, which obviously reference Pokemon, and the SPYRAL archetype, which is both a ref to James Bond and Metal Gear
I'm sad that arcana force Didn't make it because even though it's obvious it's still cool
Arcana Force was never gonna get away with "The Hanged Man" so it was stuck being incomplete. Prophecy/Spellbook ended up getting addressed on the thread.
I want my Lovecraftian fairys
Out.
@Silverwing They are also in Duel Links, at least Hanged Man is
I love these twitter review videos, but this one specifically I would really love to see more of. The source material that is referenced in some cards can be really interesting and finding out about them is always a fun time.
Dracosac carrying another plane is a reference to the Mriya *again*, because the Mriya was originally made to fly the Soviet's space shuttle between the build location and launch platform.
There were two of the shuttles built, hence two tokens. Look up "Buran Program" on Wikipedia and the second image is one being carried by Dracosac.
I am sad he didn't talk about the 10 cards references to Goemon (goe-goe the gallant ninja, yae, ebisumaru and all the sasuke warriors)
Libromancers actually reminded me first of the Persona series. A bunch of high school students with secret identities that have masks that transform into jojo stands fits them more.
It actually looks similar to the way personas work in Persona 5 specifically. However, the actual lore is that the different effect monsters are capable of summonign character from their favourite books and fuse with them. Pretty cool.
I weirdly got Dresden Files vibes.
@@Lira_orpheus Some have even assumed that the Libromancers have some resemblance to Jojo
@weckar mind if I ask how?
1:15 the "burning abyss" answer is outrageous i'm so mad
I think that was a joke.
I'm genuinely surprised scrap factory was not mentioned in this as it has several references, one of which is glaringly obvious being that it has a reference to terminator
Funnily enough (sorry for the romaji version) but ojamishimasu is literally what you should normally say when you enter someone's else's house in Japan, with the context of being polite and essentially saying "sorry to bother you". The ojamas just want to be polite, ok?
Yeah, translating it as "I am going to be rude" is hilariously stupid. The most literal translation possible and clearly from someone who doesn't understand Japanese.
@@NintendoMasterNo1 But that IS what it literally means, which is what the post was talking about.
Obviously with context of normal Japanese speech, the phrase is meant to be polite, but the cards are based on specifically the word おじゃま, which means to intrude or be a hinderance.
Which is why I love the archetype, since the Ojamas are both a hinderance to the owner, as they're weak and kinda gross vanilla monsters, and the opponent with the ability to intrude on their monster zones
@@bakawkawk No one says お邪魔します to mean "I am going to intrude". じゃま does mean nuisance and that could be part of what they're based on, but that's not what the person in the video claimed.
@@NintendoMasterNo1 i had read the thread and there was more in the tweet talking about how it is more used as a "sorry for intruding" thing you say when you are a guest and how it relates to them taking up space on your board.
@@NintendoMasterNo1 I now want the next generation of gamers to use Ojamas before having heated gamer moments.
Learning about the fucking killer lore of what Magical Musketeer Max is based off of single-handedly makes me want to build a Musketeer deck
The exosister thing is bit of a leap...
Here's a few other notable things:
1. The girls are in two pairs that mention each other by name, reflecting who the actual couples are, plus Martha who is directly stated to be older than all the others, likely representing either a head priest (fitting the Christian theming), a graduated student (fitting the S-Class Yuri vibes), or an actual older sister, who has a one-sided mention of Elis.
2. Exosisters Magnifica, their Rank 8, features the water ribbons with hands on them explicitly linking the hands of the Xyz forms of one of those couples, who are also in a common "battle couple" pose used in anime, where two lovers are fighting side-by-side.
Cards you forget had 2nd effects. I'll start; Castel the Skyblast Musket can use 1 Material to change the battle position of a monster, but it is most commonly used for its effect to dethatch 2 to shuffle a card into the deck.
Pendulum have a lot of these scenarios. Here are 2 of them. Timegazer magician's monster effect prevents scales of being destroyed by opponents card effects and Endymion the Mighty Master of Card Text cannot be targeted or destroyed by opponents card effs as long as it has a spell counter and searches any spell from deck when destroyed by battle if it had a spell counter.
Zeus can attach a new material to itself if another card you control is destroyed
SKDSV after copying an effect also makes all your monsters deal piercing damage.
Crystal wing's attack boost is something a lot of people don't seem to remember
Fun fact about Tenyi: each of the "Tenyi Spirit" monsters (including the Link) are partially named after the seven Chakras. According to Tantra, Chakras are focal points of the body, focused on through meditation. Additionally, while Tantra practices are common in both Hinduism and Buddhism in India, the Tenyi Spirits specifically reference Hindu beliefs on the matter, as they most commonly believe in seven chakras: Muladhara, Svadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddhi, Ajna, and the final chakra, Sahasrara, which is said to awaken following spiritual liberation.
Next Twitter thread well be about cards that are part of an archetype but nobody knows
Crystron Halqlifibrax is a member of the Crystron archetype. Said archetype have lore ties to zoodiac, true draco, true king, metalfoes, dinomist, igknight, dracoslayer, dracoverlord and amorphage :P
They also missed how Solfachord is based on the Solfa. A music thing. Ogdoadic and Hieretic archetypes are based on beings in Egyptian mythology, and how super quants are also power rangers. There are so many.
Super Quants aren't power rangers, they're based on a similar sentai team whose toys were made by Konami. Check out the comments on Rata's video about them.
Magical Musketeers are a really well thought out archetype. The monsters in the atchetype mirror the characters in the story and their roles:
Caspar = Kaspar
His effect to add any Musket card directly from the deck is a reference to how Kaspar is the only one who forges the magic devil bullets.
Starfire = Agathe
Her effect on summoning Musket monsters is meant to indicate how the whole opera is centered around who will get her hand in marriage first.
Doc = Kuno
Agathes father and head forrester often regales of old tales, mirroring his effect on how he adds back Musket cards from the Graveyard.
Kidbrave = Max
Max is Agathes love interest and the protagonist of the story. In the Yugioh version he is consumed by Zakiels power and later becomes Max. While he is Kidbrave he tries to earn an honest shot which is why his effect dicards a Musket card in order to draw 2 new ones.
Calamity = Annchen
Agathes friend and cousin who provides calmjng tales similar to Kuno/Doc who brings back Musket cards, she brings more of Agathes/Starfires friends.
Zakiel = Samiel
the devil lmao
(Only present in the artworks of fiendish deal and crooked crown Max and Kaspars bullets as they are the only ones in the Yugioh story who directly have interacted with him).
Wild = The Holy Hermit
He appears on the last act of the opera (Last Stand) and he deflects the curse of the seventh bullet (which is led by Samiel and leads to tragedy) similar to his effect where he puts back musket cards and gives another chance to repent (draw 1).
I don't know if that had already been mentioned but some heroic champion xyzs reference king Arthur's arms. Examples are Excalibur and Rhongomyniad.
Let's see...
1. Everyone knows of the Gradius series of cards, and how they have their own in-archetype archetype in the B.E.S. cards. But other cards in the Gradius line include Solar Flare Dragon, Moai Interceptor Cannon, Brain Golem, and Ambitious Gofer, the last one being a reference to Gofer, the leader of the Bacterian Empire and final boss in most of the Gradius games.
2. Andro Sphinx, Sphinx Teleia, Hieracosphinx, and Criosphinx are all literally based on different types of sphinx statues in Ancient Egypt, which are named after the type of head the sphinx is given (human /Anthro, Hieraco/Hawk, Crio/Ram. Teleia I'm guessing is based on the great Sphinx of Giza).
3. Going further into the Danger! lore, there's one that you likely don't know is an actual cryptid: Danger! Dogman!, who is a reference to the werewolf-like Dogman of Michigan.
4. The reason why the Gunkan Suship archetype are sushis made into battleships? Because that's literally what they represent: Gunkan is Japanese for "Battleship", and Gunkan sushi is a specific type of sushi that is depicted in the Suship cards, that being an ovoid "boat" of Shari rice wrapped in seaweed and topped with fish and other items.
5. Tactical Espionage Expert is basically Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series.
6. Super Quant is also a reference to Super Sentai/Power Rangers, just the show Zyuranger, or more specifically the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
7. Likely everyone knows that the Ancient Warriors are based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms stories, but do you know what other archetype is based on that story series? Fire Fists.
8. And, finally, here's a rather meta one: the Beast-Warrior Bujin monsters are all based on the main characters of GX in design, from Jaden to Chaz to Bastion to even Sartorious and Aster Phoenix.
I call bullshit reach but after looking at the card art for Yamato, Mikazuchi, Mahitotsu, and Arasuda, I hate how close they are. I can't see it for every other one though.
@@VladimerPootis It's mainly the hair that gives it away.
@@VladimerPootis hirume is alexis and hirume is sartorious. torifune ... possibly breaks the trend, but i've also seen it suggested that it's supposed to be neos
meanwhile the xyzs are just the base bujin wearing the bujingi, so while you can't see it, you can rest assured that susanowo still has yamato's jaden hair underneath wolf's deconstructed body
Fire Fists are not based on RoTK, but from the Chinese novel, Water Margin.
Fire Fists had so many members(most of them) are reference from the novel with 108 companions, with their names mixed with animals.
@@rogersrs9261 Ah, thanks for clearing that up. Didn't know that.
8:10
Might be obvious to some but the names of the monsters are also references to infamous outlaws from the american wild west
All ending in Der Freischütz. Which really is fitting given how it really is the capstone to outlaw-type stories.
ok that Rite of Aramesir one got me good, who knew one of the best spell cards in modern YGO is a reference to rerolling gacha games for multiple SSRs/URs
"unauthorized reactivation" is just an EVA. you can even see the entry plug in the art (and "unauthorized reactivation" is also a plot point in every second episode)
Hmm, yeah, I could see it. Worth noting the entry plug is also another card too (Unauthorized Bootup Device)
As someone who is learning japanese, I just want to address some disinformation about Des Lacooda:
The translators were not "bad at their job", they just had the habit to put romanized japanese names as the english name of cards.
In fact, there are a lot of instances where the international name of a card is a japanese romanization, and its japanese equivalent is actually... An english word written in katakana. Here are some examples:
Hitotsu-Me Giant: Hitotsu-Me is not just a fancy name, it literally means one eye. So one eyed giant. Which is a cyclops.
=> In japanese: サイクロプス, which is pronounced "Saikuropusu" => CYCLOPS!
Ansatsu: Literally just means assassin
=> In japanese: アサシン, pronounced "Asashin" => ASSASSIN!
There are many other examples!
Here, "Lacooda" is one of the valid romanization of 駱駝 (らくだ) => rakuda. The R and the L in japanese are not distinct.
Also, there are cards which were literally translated from japanese to english, like the card "Wolf". And it really sounds ridiculous, which shows why it was probably the right call to use the japanese names.
Man translating from non latin-based languages sounds like a nightmare. I imagine it's also the reason for some name changes in the dub
Raigeki is another glaringly obvious one.
Just here to point out that Luster Pendulum may just be Dragon Jesus :
- He was given three gifts (From the Igknights, Dinomist and Majespecter), ala how Jesus was given three gifts from the three Magi
- He fought against the seven deadly sins (The amorphage, they are litterally named after them) and the Anti-Christ (Lector Pendulum, the creator and spreader of the Amorphages, aka Sin)
- He fought alongside Metaltron XII, a clear reference to Metatron (A human turned into an angel by god), against the Beast/Satan (True King of all Calamities/True Dragon King, the Beast) during the (True Draco) Apocalypse
So basically, Master Peace died for our sins.
Fuck that's cool. Boe I kinda hate myself for harking on master peace
Are you telling me that on the third “day,” Master Peace is finally gonna get unbanned???
All the new achetypes are super cool. Libromancer being the Comic book superheroes, P.U.N.K being futuristic traditional theatre and Dinomorphia being the best Power Ranger series (opinion). They've always hit the nail on the head with small details and visual storytelling, even if the decks aren't good. I love it and honestly I'll keep playing just for this shit alone, even if I'm not good at the game.
I LOVED the World Legacy story and now Albaz is also badass as fuck in it's storytelling. They just do really well.
Quick but pretty obvious reference, almost all of the spirit monsters have their designs and effects inspired by Japanese Folklore. My favorite one is Amano-Iwato, which was inspired by... drumroll please... Ama-No-Iwato. Translating directly to "heaven's rock cave." It was a cave that Amaterasu was driven into by her brother and while she remained in the cave, the entire land was deprived of light. If you want to reach a little farther we can make that connection with amano-iwato's extremely frustrating effect. Once it hits the field we're essentially in the cave, where we're deprived of light (or monster effects), and once it returns to the hand you are leaving the cave and the light the returns, along with the monster effects.
There's a pretty short Wikipedia article about Amano Iwato (the cave, not the card) so you can look into it yourself if you'd like, the story is much more interesting than the short summary I condensed it into.
Whats also crazier was the ending, where Amaterasu came out of the cave because the Goddess of Dawn (Cant remember her name) was literally dancing Naked at everyone
Mad that I missed this one. My favorite in recent memory is the Ogdoatic, which references the primordial deities of Egypt called the ogdoad that refer to the waters of chaos. Would have made for a perfect villain archetype in og yugioh.
Also, like how sangan is in jail with the graceful charity one card to reference the banlist.
Floowandereze referring to the flight patter of the arctic tern is neat to.
Super Vehichroid Stealth Union is a direct reference to The King of Braves Gaogaigar, specifically Gaofighgar from the Final OVA, it even combines from the exact same set of vehicles in the same way and has the same forearm design and drill knees.
Most of the boxing style cards are based on the hit manga/anime Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe). This can be seen in the card Coach Goblin, who looks like the coach in the show, tange dampe.
So fun fact Dinomorphia might also be a reference to a niche anime called Hundred as evidenced by their glowing animal armor and some of the cards show them looking berserk that's in a way similar to a couple of scenes in Hundred. But yea main reference is definitely dino thunder and I love it. Fav power ranger series
I am surprised no one mentioned how the gren series is a reference to mazinger z but its a mech series so I am not surprised
"Der Freischütz", the basis for Magical Musketeer Max is a pretty nice opera. Would recommend to watch it.
Yeah Dryton and Ursartic are constelations but Satellarknights and Constellars (right in the freaking name) are also constelations, that is 4 archetypes and there is maybe more.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned BA monsters just being literal demons from Bolgia 7 in Dante’s Inferno, but it was probably left out due to being so blatant
I like to think that Onomatopoeia archetype are based on DnD classes
Zubaba as the rogue
Gagaga as the mage
Dododo as the warrior
Gogogo as the tank
Utopia could be healer or paladin.
Some ago I thinked the same but... What about the Acha Acha Archer/Chanbara and Chachaka Archer? I hate those dudes... I mean, chanbara is a Japanese type of sword (?) like Goyo's one (based on a Edo Period law enforcer) but... they don't make any sense.
my favorite one is metalfoes goldriver, the pose in the art is similar to the Akira bike pose which already has a ton of references in the animation media
They even referenced it early on in 5Ds
Ah yes lovecraft and his cat, crystron smiger
This was an incredibly interesting video, I love that there's somehow multiple Spawn references in YGO, lol.
F.A's I feel like are closely referencing to the 2008 live action movie of Speed Racer
you have F.A sonic meister playing the main character
cut to F.A city grand prix where it shows Auto navigator panicking over sonic meister being destroyed
which therefore leads to the off-road grand prix which is referencing the cross country race in the movie
then F.A test run shows the designers working on Dawn dragster
and finally City grand prix along with dead heat and overheat reference the final race with Dawn dragster against Dark dragster
This one was really cool. I’d like a part 2 please
That vampire hunter reference was pretty sick, but did you know that vampire baby actually features Dr Michael Morbius from the world-wide critically acclaimed movie Morbius in his youth? Konami did this 20 years before marvel could! Now that's a #sweep.
I know that the Fandom wiki claims the Reaper of the Cards stat line means "YOU ARE GOING TO THE SECRET MOUNTAIN", but I don't quite see it.
There's no source cited, and I can't find anything else on the topic in English or Japanese. 193 could be read as "行くさ" (Ikusa), which is kind of an archaic/regional way of saying "go to", but I can't figure out how 138(0), which could be read as ”いざや" or maybe "いさや" (Izaya or Isaya, ignoring the zero) means "Secret Mountain".
off the top of my head "13" might be "hi" and "mitsu", or "himitsu". as for where the mountain comes from? i dunno. 8 is "ya" so we're halfway to yama but im not great at this
maybe 八 just looks like a mountain lol
OH 0 can be read as ○ which is "maru" or "ma". the 0 in the other one is "re" as in "rei"
@@isbeb507 Yeah, I see it now! I think that’s about right.
Still can’t figure out what folktale this is supposedly from, but at least we can read it.
Dark Magician’s pose in its original artwork is a Jojo reference that Kazuki Takahashi has confirmed before
The German story that's referenced by the musketeer is also the inspiration for Hellsing's Rip Van Winkle, and the source of her abject terror of Alucard, comparing him to the Devil. 'The Huntsman' or 'Der Freischütz' is the name of the play.
Super Vehicroid Mobile Base and Megaroid City are based off of Metroplex from the Transformers franchise. Just like Metroplex ,Mobile Base turns into Megaroid City.
"...which is both the Wicked Witch of the West and also Darth Vader." Sentences I was not expecting to hear ever...
Surprised Lord British Space Fighter wasn’t mentioned
The primal being token is a reference to Kars from Jojo's bizzare adventure part 20 battle tendency. I think.
nah, I looked up Nibiru once without putting yugioh afterwards, it's a reference to a conspiracy back from that thing about the world ending in 2012 saying that a secret ninth planet called Nibiru was going to collide with earth
@@iamatrain4397 the token looks like a character out of jojo to me though
@@iamatrain4397 He is not referring to Nibiru itself, but rather the Primal Being Token (which has its own art)
The toons get even funnier when you realize that toon barrel dragon is the TCG version of barrel dragon in all artworks, which is still Konami poking fun at the west
😂
This one was really cool, would love a part 2!
was watching this during my break time in class . that last comment about grass just killed me and I'm dying LMAO
One obvious reference that's missing: Sky Strikers designs derive from the anime "Infinite Stratos"
(ladies in a hi-tech suit with robotic limbs)
Here is one if you do a part 2. Ganbare Goemon characters were made into cards of them selves no trying to hide it just here you go Goemon in Yugioh.
Foucault's Cannon do give me a bit fo a chuckle.
Like, a litteral pendulum monster based on an author who was also known for a pendulum related experiment, that's quite neat.
The fact that these are the lowest effort videos but also the most rewatchable ones is funny
The archetypes played by the 4 Yu boys characters in ArkV have references to the 4 previous characters’s decks. The most obvious one being how Yugo’s deck represents toys he used in his childhood while Yusei’s junk deck represents his childhood rummaging through garbage. There are a couple of other references like Yuto’s cards paralleling some of Yuma’s (Ragged Gloves = Gogogogloves, Ancient coat = Gagagacoat, Break Sword = Samurai) Yuri’s deck actually represents Yubel instead of Jaden prooven by the fact that he used Superpoly. The hardest one to make connections is Yuya tho.
"the grass is a reference to going outside" is the perfect way to end the video.
Something that was probably pointed out in the thread but didn't make the video is that the bosses and heros of the gradius games have all been printed as cards with the bosses becoming the B.E.S. archetype and the heros becoming a collection of LV.4 light machines with 1200 or less ATK with no common naming scheme meaning the heros never became a proper archetype while the bosses did
I’m surprised nobody in the comments mentioned Gouki. Not only are the main deck monsters mostly named after common wrestling manuevers (Bearhug, suplex, moonsault, cobra twist, dive, etc) but most of their extra deck monsters have names and/or designs that are based on famous wrestlers, particularly those who wrestled in Japan, for example:
Thunder Ogre - Jushin Thunder Liger
Great Ogre - the Great Muta
Giant Ogre - Andre the Giant
Powerload Ogre - Rikidozan (whose name translates roughly to “Power road Mountain)
Destroy Ogre - Dick “The Destroyer” Beyer
Jet Ogre - Tiger Jeet Singh
Etcetera
Now we have star wars sequels to reference it's the perfect excuse for kozmo legacy support
If they want they could even reference the obscure Wizard of Oz sequals
A Yoda/Wizard card would be great, and the Witch's Winkie guards could be Bounty Hunters
The Exosister one caught me off guard. I never looked into the archetype and just assumed they were actual sisters.
And they were roommates...
i just assumed they were nuns and that's it, didn't think there was any hidden meaning since nuns are alot of the time called "sisters".
Let's not forget that although trains are based on regular service and carrier vehicles, all xyz monsters are based on the German 3rd Reich tanks and cannons. They even reference this on Barrage Blast (whose real ocg name is Blitzkrieg Bombardment). Yes, we're all playing Nazi trains. And it's SO MUCH FUN
Obscure reference, maybe. And I may be off on this but there is a moderately popular german cartoon series called "Vicky and the Strong Men" which is a series about a smart Kid that lives in Viking society and uses his smarts to help them at sea. Compare some of their art and I think a case can be made for them being an influence to Plunders