Kaiser Sea Horse was used by Kaiba, whose given name literally translates as “sea (kai 海) horse (ba 馬),” so that’s why it was the light attribute double tribute monster - it brings out Blue-Eyes easier
14:24 Dark Elf has a lore because in the older video games, there are no effect monsters. her lore reads in Forbidden Memories from PlayStation 1 "A wicked elf that just loves to engage in battle."
I think the funniest part about the last one is that technically speaking, Kuriboh is actually ripping off Wretched Ghost of the Attic. Even if only a few months, its the older card, making Kuriboh a recoloured Wretched Ghost. And as the more popular one that became an archetype and everything, that's just hilarious to me
In early Yugioh there were lot of monsters like these, nowadays if they make a monster like that they had like set of cards to explain the reason of what happened, personally I think that we deserve a Mystical Elf archetype or at least more cards explaining how a party girl like her became Mystical.
@@brianaguilar8283 yes, and they are doing it now for Rush duel but with some improvements, just search for the "Gust" trap card and compare the original with the Rush Duel version, is the same artwork with some makeover, the girl in the pole now looks 10 years younger.
Last card to do this was Alien Mother/Zeta Reticulant. The kings of Lazy are Hieratic Dragon of Hieratic Dragon of Nebthet. There both the same monster art just flipped with a new Background and both from same set and Pseudo Space field spell card that is just a colour inverted Skyscraper field spell card
*Fun Fact:* Hibikime translates to "Noise Woman" *Fun Farce:* Wretched Ghost of the Attic translates to "Haunted Dustbunny" Also, one theme I couldn't help but notice were ALL the turtle monsters like Catapult Turtle, Pyramid Turtle, Crab Turtle, Turtle Tiger... honestly, there are SO many! Also also, this video was great on multiple levels! Well done, y'all! 👏😎
@@Slayerthecrow Maybe Turtles could become the first true "reverse-OTK" archetype? With letting the opponent attack your high DEF monster, and then raising your DEF while putting their ATK to 0 so they end themselves.
honestly, if these clones were to actually fight, especially the invader vs. protector of the throne, how do you think it would go down(no help, no assists, free for all).
"Mystical Elf has a calming blue skin tone while Dark Elf is a sinister red." I was so caught off guard, I thought he was talking about Dark Elf's skin tone and had a mini-crisis that I couldn't tell the difference between red and brown anymore.
Look up the card "Lost World" in it among other things you can find Trakadon and Urabi being really confused about meeting one another cause they're the same monster with a palette swap!
It annoys me that Mystical Elf is not an Effect Monster. In the “fake Kiaba” duel, it raised Blue-Eyes’s Atk by 800. If you don’t want to make it OP, make it transfer it Atk to another Light Monster till the start of your next turn or when Mystical Elf leaves the field.
Mystical Elf and Dark Elf are both Queens in my book! Too bad I wasn't prepared for that rousing game of Make Judgment Meter choose. Same goes for the Tsurugi twins and fuzzy ear witches!
If it helps, may I remind you what happened to Inuyasha when he couldn't decide between 2 identically lovely ladies... he too had an unexpected fall! ✌😂
Love Mystical Elf, She was one of my favorite monsters. I got the Yu-Gi-Oh/Kaiba starter decks combo pack for her, Celtic Elf and Dark Magician. As well as Blue Eyes White Dragon. I also had the Joey Starter deck for Red Eyes Black Dragon.
Yup, Eternal Duelist Soul and Worldwide Edition. Back then, I had no idea how to get more than 1 of the good cards because the sets almost always gave me trash, just like I had no idea which deck to choose. It turns out it's been updated on the wiki: yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_The_Eternal_Duelist_Soul Spoilers: All 3 starter decks are basically the same (either swapping Mirror Force for Bell of Destruction, or alternating between Raigeki/Snatch Steal/Premature Burial), but the red comes with an 1800 beater, and all 3 come with most other Staples (a 1700 beater, Summoned Skull, and 90% of the good limited S/T staples). The tiny differences don't really matter since all are limited cards that you could enter 8 digit card numbers to get cards you don't own anyways, and all are limited cards relatively easy to get from multiple packs if you feel that is somehow cheating. That being said, limited cards in boosters weren't really valuable as semi or unlimited cards, so you're better off trying to get Trap Holes and Fissures from the Dark Magician Pack (default), CyberStein/Morphing Jar/Penguin Soldier from Garoozies (Tier 3 default-beat each Tier 2 each 3x), Axe of Despair/MST from Relinquished (win 10 Tier 3's), most decent staples from Blue-Millenium Puzzle (win 10 Tier 4's) and secretly grinding against Mako 20 duels to unlock Gemini Elf pack that came with Gemini Elf, Giant Red Seasnake and Graceful Charity (semi), that is until you get the Vorse Raider/Widespread Ruin from the gold Millenium Puzzle pack (beat the November annual tournament, unlock/beat Simon+you get 1 card of each+unlock Truesdale/Solomon, which is the final character in the game!); [Also worth noting, Battle Ox pack that comes with La Jinn, Launcher Spider that comes with 7 Colored Fish, Buster Blader pack that comes with Harpie's Brother/Extermination/Crossout, and Millenium Eye that comes with other staples, but the problem is you'd need to beat Mai, Umbra, Yugi, and Kaiba all 20x Each, so it's not as rewarding, and outside of those Tier 2 1800's OFFER NOTHING BUT TRASH.] Similarly and most frustrating of all, 80% of the other packs are filled with TRASH, even when you'd think they would be good, like the harder to unlock and intentionally confusingly similar in appearance and unlocking method Green Millenium Puzzle pack (beat each Tier 4 each 10x) comes with absolute trash (except unplayable Obelisk), Cyber Harpie doesn't even have Cyber Harpie (beat Tier 1 each 10x), Blue-Eyes Ultimate is has nothing but 10 fusions but no Cyber Stein (Tier 4 default, beat each Tier 3 each 4x), BLS similarly is 16 useless Rituals (beat each Tier 3 each 10x), Blue-Eyes/Exodia (beat Yugi/Joey each 20x) are literally dilluted OCG versions to the default Dark Magician/Red-Eyes packs, Gate Guardian (win 10 Tier 2 Duels) is just as bad as the first packs you unlock, Tiger Axe and Judge Man, which are secretly worse than the default packs Dark Magician/Red-Eyes/Mystical Elf, in fact all of these are essentially worse!!
Green Phantom King is one of my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! artworks and I somehow never knew about Queen of Autumn Leaves. Thanks for bringing her to my attention!
Did you know Petit Dragon is part of Five-Headed Dragon? Petit Dragon fuses with Firegrass to become Darkfire Dragon which is one of the heads of Five-Headed Dragon.
@@rishnix the only one that bears any resemblance to another card is the fire head, so I'd argue they are just random heads and one coincidentally looks like ol flamey boi
Wow! Mentioning palette swaps like that might certainly make us think of making a top 10 list of fighting game palette swaps one day because palette swaps in fighting games are among the coolest concepts to have in various forms of modern media...
I still believe Tri Horned Dragon has something to do with Zera the mant, where maybe it was the husk that Zera inhabited: -Same color -Roughly the same pose -Similar head shape -Not a stretch to assume they’re the same size -Same level -Almost the same stats -Tri Horned is considered an “unworthy” dragon, so maybe it willingly chose to be inhabited, or it was killed and had its body inhabited.
Brian Aguilar Like I said, Tri Horn’s body might have been inhabited by the warrior of Zera and Ryu-Kishin powered, who most people also believe is involved in the lore. I admittedly can’t prove this by any stretch, but similar to how the attic ghost on this list looks very similar to Kuriboh but doesn’t have any lore relation, it’s just something that’s always been in my mind.
@@brianaguilar8283 There are a few videos of his lore. Basically he has the potential to become Zera the Mant, Mazera Deville, Darklord Zerato, or Angel of Zera.
Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon was always a big headscratcher for me. Like, they just used a pallet-swapped version of a completely different monster (a normal one at that) and called it a day.
I feel like I resonate most with the wretched ghost of the attic, because like them, people I meet for the first time always tell me I look like someone that’s more talented than me. The audacity... maybe I’ll start throwing him in my deck and just plain out summoning him randomly to lure people into a false sense of security. What if all the monsters that look similar are just from different dimensions?
Kaiser Sea Horse is the double light sacrifice monster, because in Japanese Mythology a sea horse becomes a dragon after 1000 years. Kiba's ace monster is the Blue Eyes White Dragon, a light attributed dragon monster.
Yeah. That´s because when first appearing in the manga, the card game was not only a reference of Magic: The Gathering, but also to Dungeons & Dragons. That is also the reason why, when first appearing in the manga, the game was named Dragons & Wizards. That also is the reason of the wierd rules seen in the Duelist Kingdom saga of the anime. The rules we now know and love would not be settled until the Battle City arc in both the anime and the manga. But, returning to the point, in the beginning the game have a lot of RPG elements. And one of the most common tropes in RPGs, specially japanese ones, is the Underground Monkey trope: Enemies in advanced parts of the game that are recolors of weaker enemies. In part because designing new enemies is kinda hard. In part because RPGs games for consoles have limited memory space.
You know what's really funny... I was watching this list with my girlfriend sitting next to me. She didn't recognize a single one of these cards UNTIL... Kuriboh LOL. Instantly validated your point about the number 1 spot being well known IMMEDIATELY.
Basic Insect x Invader from the Darkness: Invader's Fiend type (Demon type in Japan) probably means that Basic Insect basically got hit by some Raid and went to hell.
The most annoying part of Invader from Another Dimension is the 950 ATK. It has double the level of Basic Insect, double the defense, aaaaand... almost double the ATK, just arbitrarily the minimum amount possible lower (unless you include PaniK's math-nightmares).
Here is an idea! A list cover Monster Location Cards?! As in monster cards that are not true monsters: Labyrinth Wall and Temple of Skulls as an example.
This is really creative! I've noticed some reoccurring locations when I've covered monster backstories, like the Soul Absorbing Bone Tower in Red Eyes' backstory
Now I want a wall shadow fusion retrain along with new labyrinth wall and shadow ghoul support and a new ritual gate guardian as a boss monster because level 11 is even now so underused and a ritual would be cool to sack one vanilla gate to get something actually useful and with new ritual support I think this new deck would be sick.
A new Gate Guardian would be awesome! With all the retrains of early boss monsters, a new special summon style Gate Guardian with an actual effect would we welcome. Maybe even have an effect like in the anime where each piece was a different unit that had to be destroyed.
@@MrTopTenList you replied to my retro deck idea, I've said for years since I first got the first printing of gate guardian that this is the hill I'll die on and you sir have made my year
I'm thinking gate guardian could either be retrained as a fusion or xyz monster since xyz summoning is very reminiscent of the way you stack the three pieces to make one body. Either way, good news here is that other people want gate guardian arcgetype too, I'd say it's on the higher end of duel monsters era cards that could get modern support, along side valon's armor cards.
Hibikime is a counterpart to Sonic Maid - Sonic Maid's lore states she uses sound to her advantage, wielding a scythe like a musical note! Cool video! you should totally do another list as there are so many counterparts! :D
Sea serpent and sea horses are related in Japanese culture, refer to how seadra evolves into kingdra. It would still make more sense if Sea Dragon Soldier of Darkness were a dark monster instead of water.
Honestly, Dark Elf was better off being the Fusion and not "Kamion Wizard" XD Also, they were better off recoloring "Twin-Headed Fire Dragon"--just change the word "Fire" to "Thunder" and make it a Fusion! XD
Whoa, I never noticed that Kaiser Sea Horse and Sea Serpent Warrior of Darkness were counterparts to each other. Also I suspect the reason why it's the LIGHT two-tribute support monster is to make it essentially indirect Blue-Eyes support, because the kanji in Kaiba's name (海 馬) can translate to "Sea" and "Horse" respectively, so it's a nod to Kaiba to have a seahorse monster be the one that can bring out Blue-Eyes with one tribute.
also it's 7:44 Kaiser Sea Horse was the first double tributer. also it's effect is based on a Japanese myth about how if a seahorse lives for 1,000 years, it will become a dragon.
Glad you enjoyed it! There's so much I love about early Yu-Gi-Oh that I feel could work in today's game if they weren't afraid of making things too OP back in the day.
Since Kazuki Takahashi is a huge fan of RPGs and DnD, I wouldn't be surprised if these were intended to be similar. Like Blue Slim > Red Slime > Silver Slime.
Fun fact, Wretched Ghost of the Attic actually appeared in Pyramid of Light when Yugi first completed the Millennium Puzzle, but most people just thought it was a Kuriboh because of the design. Still, if we take into account that the pharaoh is somewhat of a friend to Kuriboh, the fact that Kuriboh is actually a pretty good natured and spoiled little creature and judging by what other spirits came out of the Puzzle when it was put together, we can safely assume that it was actually Wretched Ghost of the Attic.
Oh wow, I never noticed that! I was always wondering why they portrayed Kuriboh as antagonistic there without explaining how Yugi "tamed" him. Who would have guessed it actually had an anime use!
@@MrTopTenList At first, when I was little, I always thought it was a random evil Kuriboh. It is a fiend after all. But as the series went on, it was made clear that Kribohs aren't that vicious in any circumstance. So the only possible culprit is Wretched Ghost of the Attic. Though, they drew its eyes purple instead of green if I remember correctly. Or maybe the movie was made before it was established that Kuribos are more loveable and more harmless than hamsters.
If you ask me I think mystical elf and dark elf shud have a effect fusion monster. Their attack and defense is 2800. Effect. A fusion summon must be conducted by the fusion materials above. This card gains 200 at for every spellcasters on the field, hand and graveyard. Spellcaster type monsters cannot be destroyed by battle, also its unaffected by your opponents card effect. Pay 2000 lp to attack
Isn't archfiend of airmot a mascot for Aussa the earth charmer? Not only that fire fox is hiita Gagagigo is Eria And what yugioh monster is the green fox in Wynn
It's "Petit Dragon", a level 2 normal monster with 700 ATK. So it fits in the thematic. Edit: Also, the first Eria doesn't already have Gagagigo, it's his first child-form, Gigobyte.
Some of these counterpartr cards I had never caught onto. However, Mystical Elf and Dark Elf were the two that I knew of since Dark Elf came out. Same with Wretched Ghost and Kuriboh.
9:27 In the game Duelist of the Roses on PS2 Shadow Ghoul can walk into Labyrinth Wall Terrain and changes into Wall Shadow. 19:10 Both have arms near the upper mouth in Duelist of the Roses on PS2 so there's 3 versions of this card. Also you needed the Thunder one to pretty much beat Forbidden Memories on PS1.
I feel that Princess of Tsurugi was an intentional mistranslation in order to censor a reference to Tarot via Queen of Swords. Queen's Double was not a reference to Tarot, and whoever was localizing at the time probably didn't see the similarities to Princess of Tsurugi since they were very likely to have been translated at least a few months apart.
I like how judgement matters like so that's the scratching in my attic, uh yeah it's always going to be a some type of rodent or a ghost trying to kill you there's no middle ground.
It's amusing how Judgements appearances really show off the silly level of censorship that happened to DMG in the US release. Sometimes she uses pictures from that anime version with flat chest and no cleavage, and sometimes the original pics and I'm just here thinking... "...wow this censorship is silly af."
In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, you can fuse Mystical Elf (and any other "elf" monster and Celtic Guardian) with Spellcaster-type monsters (mainly monsters with Mercury as their standard Guardian Star and Castle Of Dark Illusion) to form Dark Elf. Maybe Mystical Elf messed up with some dark arts and became the Dark version of herself.
Since they're not in the weird category, I didn't consider them, but Magician's Valkyria seems like an older or upgraded form of Dark Magician Girl, so perhaps it's what happens to her after the backstory I discussed in my 3rd Yugioh Backstory video.
@@MrTopTenList Magician's Valkyria is weaker that DMG so she would have to be either younger or a completely different monster. As a DM player whos seens these cards alot over the last 15 years, i strongly believe Valkyria is unofficially the first "Magician Girl" monster years before the Fruit gang showed up. But a part of me still believes Valkyria is the younger version of DMG after she's been reincarnated from her past life as Apprentice Illusion Magician. Its just that DM has no such counterpart so still gotta lean towards not being the same
I always assumed it was something along the lines that Magicians Valkyrie was a younger version of DMG, she upgraded to DMG as an apprentice to Dark Magician before finally graduating into Magi Magi Magician Gal. There may be others in between but that's how I look at it from the basics. Then after Dark Magician Girl, I assume Apprentice Illusion Magician becomes the second apprentice.
Awesome video! As a collector of OCG Series 1 Yugioh (pre-Eye of Anubis stamp) there are sooo many of these out there and a reason why i wanted to collect them
Thanks! I collected starting at the beginning of the TCG releases, but whenever they sold the OCG set or I picked up one of those player guides that had pictures of the OCG-only monsters, I was really intrigued in their origins. I love how experimental the old artwork got.
I love that video! Can't wait for part two, since there are plenty of these monsters and I always find it as thrilling as you do how similar they are to each other and how different, at the same time! Also, love the version that the elfs are sisters, and I would say the witches might also be, or it's just the goddess that... you know - met the Curtain.
@@matthewkuscienko4616 me too, konami did something similar with occillio hero #2 changing it to "Wattkid" to make it part of the "watt" archetype for some strange reason. A vanilla in an effect only archetype is a bit of a non starter. Even of you go to the effort of using your spells and traps on it to make it stronger, it's still pretty misplaced as the only vanilla. Why it looks like oscillio hero #1 is now a weird one, its weaker too.
I can explain Kaiser Sea Horse actually! it's a pun of sorts; Seto Kaiba uses Blue-Eyes White Dragon, right? So he needs it to be light attribute. But the word "kaiba" means "seahorse". Thus they made his dude specifically represent the character that uses it.
Ah, Bubbly Elf is not a pop idol. She is a reference to party going women in the Japanese bubble economy era. Additionally, she is friends with Karen the Ganguro Swordmistress. Good luck explaining that one to the international community,
"And apparently, in Yugioh World, the only difference between a beaver and a rat is fur colour" Hey, that one is another dubism. You know Beaver Warrior? In Japanese, her name is Louise. Kaiba means seahorse in Japanese, and seahorses are often compared to dragons. That's why Kaiser Sea Horse can count as two tributes for a LIGHT monster like Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Shadow Ghoul enjoys dancing in its off time. This is true now, you can't disprove it.
I think you should take a look at my "Top Ten Weirdest Translated Yu-Gi-Oh Card Names" list since I talk about the origin of Louise there and go into more dubisms/translation choices
Really really good video. just really fun., and the best part is ou don't need to be a YuGioH expert to Understand everything. I could show it to some of my casual YGO fans from back and the day and they got laughs out of it., If the production values were a little bit better it would be a masterpeice.
11:40 Like a total defence shogun that cannot be destroyed by battle or targeted by card effects while in defence position, except while it's declaring an attack?
As soon as I saw "Total Defense Shogun" in your comment, I was like "I should have thought of that!" Yeah, that's one of the best examples of how I'd imagine his effect.
@@MrTopTenList It was even defeated with Kunai with Chain, which has the effect "When an opponent's monster declares an attack: Target the attacking monster; change that target to Defense Position." The show came before the cards of course, but it still fits with how it's a battle position changing effect
I pretent Mystical Elf got a tan and decided to be evil. Because that happens when elfs get currupted? They become DARK! The invader from another dimension has noticed the Bat Signal. You can see the reflection in his eyes. I recall Two-Headed Darkruler to be a Dinosaur monster. It doesn't look anything like a dino Wretched Ghost of the Attic needs an archetype. We made fun of Shape Snatch and how it will break the meta, but Ghost of Attic deserves better. Even Skull Servant is viable.
A field spell or pendulum monster effect for wall shadow would be cool, something like: If wall shadow was properly summoned. During your end phase return wall shadow to the deck from the field. During your standby phase select Wall shadow from the deck and place it on the field in attack position. It's not meta, just a fun gimmick.
I remember noticing that the two of them were pretty similar once I paid attention to the design. But was never certain since I never bothered to look at the two cards together.
All of this elaborating on Wall Shadow...too bad for a missed opportunity like this: Labyrinth Duel Field Spell When this card is activated, you can Special Summon 1 "Labyrinth Wall" from your hand, deck, or GY, then add 1 "Labyrinth" card from your deck to your hand. Each time a monster(s) is summoned (including in the Extra Monster Zone), place them in the next available Monster Zone(s) closest to their user's Field Spell Zone; also, once per turn, the turn player can move any number of their monsters on their side of the field to the closest (horizontal) available Monster Card Zones. Monsters cannot target other monsters for attacks, unless they are in the same columns. Once per turn, if your opponent activates a card or effect, you can add 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", or "Sanga of the Thunder" from your deck or GY to your hand. Once per turn, if this card is targeted by a card effect, you can discard 1 level 5 or higher monster; negate that effect. The Labyrinth's Power Continuous Spell Level 5 or higher Normal Monsters do not require tributes to normal summon/set. You can only activate one of the effects of "The Labyrith's Power", based on the number of other "Labyrinth" cards you control with different names, once per turn: 1+: You can target any number of monsters on your field, GY, or banished, except effect monsters (minimum 1); shuffle them into the deck, then add 1 "Labyrinth" card from your deck or GY to your hand. 2+: Special Summon 1 "Labyrinth Tank" from your Extra Deck or GY, then you can target 1 Spell/Trap card on the field; banish it. 3+: Special Summon 1 "Monster Tamer" from your hand, deck, or GY and if you do, take control of one of your opponent's monsters they control, but you cannot Special Summon for the rest of this turn. 4+: Add 1 "Riryoku" from your deck or GY to your hand, then flip all face-down monsters and/or change all effect monsters on the field to ATK position, and if you do, draw 1 card. 5+: You can apply all of the previous effects, in any order. A Trap in the Labyrinth!? Trap Activate one of these effects: Send 1 "Jirai Gumo" from your field, hand or deck to the GY, or banish it from the GY; destroy 1 monster in this card's column and inflict damage to your opponent equal to half the original ATK of that monster. Banish 1 "Dungeon Worm" from your field, hand or deck; banish all other cards in this card's column. If your opponent moves a monster(s) to adjacent monster zone(s) while you control a "Labyrinth" card, you can send 1 other "Labyrinth" card you control to the GY; shuffle 1 "Jirai Gumo" from your GY into you deck, then, set this card from your GY, also, this card can be activated this turn. You can only use each effect of "A Trap in the Labyrinth!?" once per turn. The Labyrinth's Guardian Continuous Trap You can only control 1 "Gate Guardian", also, "Gate Guardian" can attack 3 monsters during each Battle Phase. Once per turn, you can reveal 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", and "Sanga of the Thunder" from your hand, field, GY, or are Banished; Special Summon 1 "Gate Guardian" from your hand, deck, GY, or is Banished ignoring summoning conditions. When an opponent targets a card you control with a monster effect or for an attack, you can banish from your hand or GY, 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", or "Sanga of the Thunder"; negate that attack or effect. If this card, or "Gate Guardian" leaves the field because of an opponent's card (by battle or effect), return all other monsters on the field to their controller's hands except "Gate Guardian", also, you can Special Summon 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", and/or "Sanga of the Thunder" from your hand, deck, GY, or banished zone, and if you do, you cannot summon from the extra deck until your opponent's next turn. If you control "Labyrinth Wall", this card can be activated the turn it was set. The Shadow Inside the Labyrinth Quick-Play Spell Equip 1 "Magical Labyrinth" from you hand, deck, or GY to 1 monster you control, and/or, and move any of your opponent's face-up monsters to their other Main Monster Mones, then if you do either of these, Special Summon "Wall Shadow" from your hand, deck, GY, or is Banished, ignoring it's summoning conditions, and equip this card to it with this effect: Once per turn (Quick Effect), you can move "Wall Shadow" to any available Main Monster Zone. If "Wall Shadow" attacks an opponent's monster, during the Damage Step, that monster's ATK becomes half of it's original attack, also, negate it's effects (if any), and if it is destroyed by battle, banish it, and if you do, add 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", or "Sanga of the Thunder" from your deck and/or any "Labyrinth" card from your GY to your hand. You can only activate each effect of "The Shadow Inside the Labyrinth" once per turn. Interesting cards that interact are Ground Collapse (adding a sort of attack block with "Labyrinth Duel"), Wattkinetic Puppeteer might be used as a sort of interruption during the BP, or allow Gate Guardian to fully attack 3x monsters under Labyrinth Duel (when paired with "Shadow"), Senet Switch might speed things up, Indigo Eclipse would probably benefit too. And of course BEWD would be a pretty strong Normal Summon, though this Time I guess it would be allowed to move as long as it didn't use flight, lol. "Guardian" can have players finally experience the indivual pieces power, but all at once. The field spell slows the game down, but should it be removed, Gate Guardian can show off it's true power...
How bout Sangan and kuribou. They look sorta similar. Sangan and kuriboh have the same color fur and hands and legs. Maybe kuriboh kept his 3rd eye hidden in case of emergency so when someone pisses him off he reveals and unleashed his ravaging 3rd eye
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Kaiser Sea Horse was used by Kaiba, whose given name literally translates as “sea (kai 海) horse (ba 馬),” so that’s why it was the light attribute double tribute monster - it brings out Blue-Eyes easier
Black☆Kaiser that’s actually pretty awesome never knew that 👍🏽
It's also a reference to the fact that in Japanese, seahorse “tatsuno-otoshigo” literally means “baby dragon”
So Kaiba is Seahorse
@@MarvelousMeister wait! Is this why kingdra in Pokemon is a dragon type? 🤯
@@yorib.4014 yes and why in Fruits Basket the Dragon zodiac turns into a seahorse
14:24 Dark Elf has a lore because in the older video games, there are no effect monsters.
her lore reads in Forbidden Memories from PlayStation 1
"A wicked elf that just loves to engage in battle."
I think the funniest part about the last one is that technically speaking, Kuriboh is actually ripping off Wretched Ghost of the Attic. Even if only a few months, its the older card, making Kuriboh a recoloured Wretched Ghost. And as the more popular one that became an archetype and everything, that's just hilarious to me
The copycat became an archtype while the original faded away and classified itself as obsolete.
@@WeaponXSigma at least it's not classified as obese
That’s assuming Kuriboh didn’t appear in the manga before Wretched Ghost became a card.
@@GurrenPrime I'm pretty sure Kuriboh appeared in the manga first, before the OCG even existed.
Atromin that’s what I figured. But I didn’t feel like looking it up to double check.
In early Yugioh there were lot of monsters like these, nowadays if they make a monster like that they had like set of cards to explain the reason of what happened, personally I think that we deserve a Mystical Elf archetype or at least more cards explaining how a party girl like her became Mystical.
They seemed to just recycle card artworks in the past
@@brianaguilar8283 yes, and they are doing it now for Rush duel but with some improvements, just search for the "Gust" trap card and compare the original with the Rush Duel version, is the same artwork with some makeover, the girl in the pole now looks 10 years younger.
Last card to do this was Alien Mother/Zeta Reticulant. The kings of Lazy are Hieratic Dragon of Hieratic Dragon of Nebthet. There both the same monster art just flipped with a new Background and both from same set and Pseudo Space field spell card that is just a colour inverted Skyscraper field spell card
I, too, want that backstory
I'd love a defensive slash direct attack burn damage mystic elf deck I'd play that all day.
*Fun Fact:* Hibikime translates to "Noise Woman"
*Fun Farce:* Wretched Ghost of the Attic translates to "Haunted Dustbunny"
Also, one theme I couldn't help but notice were ALL the turtle monsters like Catapult Turtle, Pyramid Turtle, Crab Turtle, Turtle Tiger... honestly, there are SO many!
Also also, this video was great on multiple levels! Well done, y'all! 👏😎
Turtle should be a true archetype.
there was a character in Tag Force 2 that used a Turtle Themed deck, honestly now that Penguins will become a deck I wonder how would be a Turtle Deck
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
@@Slayerthecrow Maybe Turtles could become the first true "reverse-OTK" archetype?
With letting the opponent attack your high DEF monster, and then raising your DEF while putting their ATK to 0 so they end themselves.
@@DerVasto sounds like reptilliane, personally I think that the superheavy samurai style fits the monsters better.
Actually, the armor loss seems to increase the attack speed. But lower defenses slightly. The higher and lower defense
And and if you use wow logic he's using a 2 handed spear hense why he's got more attack than the 1 handed and shield holding version
How about "Invader of the throne" and " Protecter of the Throne"?😃
theres a missed opportunity there for sue...
Or Haniwa and ........I forget the name
Or Disk magician and Holograh
Or Silver Fang and Wolf
@@TheKpa11 Haniwa's counterpart is Rock Spirit (which for some reason is a spellcaster type)
Or Dark Gray and Ancient One of the Forest
honestly, if these clones were to actually fight, especially the invader vs. protector of the throne, how do you think it would go down(no help, no assists, free for all).
"Mystical Elf has a calming blue skin tone while Dark Elf is a sinister red." I was so caught off guard, I thought he was talking about Dark Elf's skin tone and had a mini-crisis that I couldn't tell the difference between red and brown anymore.
Wait what is he referring to? I thought he meant red like Native American skin lol
Look up the card "Lost World" in it among other things you can find Trakadon and Urabi being really confused about meeting one another cause they're the same monster with a palette swap!
That's what I like
It's like
"huh don't I know you"
Yh or more like
Who da Jurassic World are you
It annoys me that Mystical Elf is not an Effect Monster. In the “fake Kiaba” duel, it raised Blue-Eyes’s Atk by 800. If you don’t want to make it OP, make it transfer it Atk to another Light Monster till the start of your next turn or when Mystical Elf leaves the field.
She really needs a retrain like many of Yugi's other original monsters got (beyond Bubbly Elf). Even Giant Soldier of Stone got a retrain!
In Dark Duel Stories Mystical Elf has the same effect as in the anime. If you have Blue-Eyes out you can increase its attack by 800.
@@MrTopTenList I feel like they kinda did but really changed with Maiden with Eyes of Blue
You think +800 atk is op?
@@muji8872 in the early days 800+ attack on something could be crippling for an opponent especially on something with 2500 or more attack.
"What's wrong with him"
"Nothing hes just trying to be a lovable mascot"
....
"He did it wrong"
I love her! Lol she made me lol so much this videos!
Glad you enjoyed our antics!
Wretched ghost of the attic: im not a kuriboh
Kuriboh: hello brother
What about Sagan? Is he related to Kuriboh?
Wretched ghost of the attic: La the do
@@LegitMan335 He's the deformed cousin
@@voltagestorm1787 deformed cousin good enough 030
@@LegitMan335 It took a whole year to respond? Lol
Mystical Elf and Dark Elf are both Queens in my book! Too bad I wasn't prepared for that rousing game of Make Judgment Meter choose. Same goes for the Tsurugi twins and fuzzy ear witches!
who would win in a fight Akane or Shampoo?
If it helps, may I remind you what happened to Inuyasha when he couldn't decide between 2 identically lovely ladies... he too had an unexpected fall! ✌😂
you talked about nipplez z0mg hawt. now do top 60 YuGiOh boobs plz
Love Mystical Elf, She was one of my favorite monsters. I got the Yu-Gi-Oh/Kaiba starter decks combo pack for her, Celtic Elf and Dark Magician. As well as Blue Eyes White Dragon. I also had the Joey Starter deck for Red Eyes Black Dragon.
@@yu-gh-oi4677 Hard to say. Shampoo has colorful battle-maracas and Akane has fire-fists.
This gives me sweet nostalgic flashbacks of playing the Yu-Gi-Oh Game Boy Advance games.
Yup, Eternal Duelist Soul and Worldwide Edition. Back then, I had no idea how to get more than 1 of the good cards because the sets almost always gave me trash, just like I had no idea which deck to choose. It turns out it's been updated on the wiki:
yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_The_Eternal_Duelist_Soul
Spoilers: All 3 starter decks are basically the same (either swapping Mirror Force for Bell of Destruction, or alternating between Raigeki/Snatch Steal/Premature Burial), but the red comes with an 1800 beater, and all 3 come with most other Staples (a 1700 beater, Summoned Skull, and 90% of the good limited S/T staples). The tiny differences don't really matter since all are limited cards that you could enter 8 digit card numbers to get cards you don't own anyways, and all are limited cards relatively easy to get from multiple packs if you feel that is somehow cheating.
That being said, limited cards in boosters weren't really valuable as semi or unlimited cards, so you're better off trying to get Trap Holes and Fissures from the Dark Magician Pack (default), CyberStein/Morphing Jar/Penguin Soldier from Garoozies (Tier 3 default-beat each Tier 2 each 3x), Axe of Despair/MST from Relinquished (win 10 Tier 3's), most decent staples from Blue-Millenium Puzzle (win 10 Tier 4's) and secretly grinding against Mako 20 duels to unlock Gemini Elf pack that came with Gemini Elf, Giant Red Seasnake and Graceful Charity (semi), that is until you get the Vorse Raider/Widespread Ruin from the gold Millenium Puzzle pack (beat the November annual tournament, unlock/beat Simon+you get 1 card of each+unlock Truesdale/Solomon, which is the final character in the game!);
[Also worth noting, Battle Ox pack that comes with La Jinn, Launcher Spider that comes with 7 Colored Fish, Buster Blader pack that comes with Harpie's Brother/Extermination/Crossout, and Millenium Eye that comes with other staples, but the problem is you'd need to beat Mai, Umbra, Yugi, and Kaiba all 20x Each, so it's not as rewarding, and outside of those Tier 2 1800's OFFER NOTHING BUT TRASH.]
Similarly and most frustrating of all, 80% of the other packs are filled with TRASH, even when you'd think they would be good, like the harder to unlock and intentionally confusingly similar in appearance and unlocking method Green Millenium Puzzle pack (beat each Tier 4 each 10x) comes with absolute trash (except unplayable Obelisk), Cyber Harpie doesn't even have Cyber Harpie (beat Tier 1 each 10x), Blue-Eyes Ultimate is has nothing but 10 fusions but no Cyber Stein (Tier 4 default, beat each Tier 3 each 4x), BLS similarly is 16 useless Rituals (beat each Tier 3 each 10x), Blue-Eyes/Exodia (beat Yugi/Joey each 20x) are literally dilluted OCG versions to the default Dark Magician/Red-Eyes packs, Gate Guardian (win 10 Tier 2 Duels) is just as bad as the first packs you unlock, Tiger Axe and Judge Man, which are secretly worse than the default packs Dark Magician/Red-Eyes/Mystical Elf, in fact all of these are essentially worse!!
Honorable mention: Green Phantom King and Queen of the Autumn Leaves
Green Heirophant!
Green Phantom King is one of my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! artworks and I somehow never knew about Queen of Autumn Leaves. Thanks for bringing her to my attention!
Did you know Petit Dragon is part of Five-Headed Dragon? Petit Dragon fuses with Firegrass to become Darkfire Dragon which is one of the heads of Five-Headed Dragon.
I did not know that. I didn't know the dragon heads came from other dragons in the game. What are the other 4 heads from?
@@rishnix the only one that bears any resemblance to another card is the fire head, so I'd argue they are just random heads and one coincidentally looks like ol flamey boi
Wow! Mentioning palette swaps like that might certainly make us think of making a top 10 list of fighting game palette swaps one day because palette swaps in fighting games are among the coolest concepts to have in various forms of modern media...
Top 10 barney
I still believe Tri Horned Dragon has something to do with Zera the mant, where maybe it was the husk that Zera inhabited:
-Same color
-Roughly the same pose
-Similar head shape
-Not a stretch to assume they’re the same size
-Same level
-Almost the same stats
-Tri Horned is considered an “unworthy” dragon, so maybe it willingly chose to be inhabited, or it was killed and had its body inhabited.
50 more attack than Zera oddly though. Slightly stronger
Emperor DarK
Tri horned dragon oddly enough was a ritual kind of monster too for some reason
Where does the Warrior of Zera lore fit into this?
Brian Aguilar Like I said, Tri Horn’s body might have been inhabited by the warrior of Zera and Ryu-Kishin powered, who most people also believe is involved in the lore. I admittedly can’t prove this by any stretch, but similar to how the attic ghost on this list looks very similar to Kuriboh but doesn’t have any lore relation, it’s just something that’s always been in my mind.
@@brianaguilar8283 There are a few videos of his lore. Basically he has the potential to become Zera the Mant, Mazera Deville, Darklord Zerato, or Angel of Zera.
Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon was always a big headscratcher for me. Like, they just used a pallet-swapped version of a completely different monster (a normal one at that) and called it a day.
I feel like I resonate most with the wretched ghost of the attic, because like them, people I meet for the first time always tell me I look like someone that’s more talented than me. The audacity... maybe I’ll start throwing him in my deck and just plain out summoning him randomly to lure people into a false sense of security.
What if all the monsters that look similar are just from different dimensions?
notice how Dark Elf and Holy elfs atk and defense stats perfectly mirror each others....
That's Mystical Elf's Japanese name.
@@admcgregor2006 Japanese is my first language, thats the name I am familiar with.
Kaiser Sea Horse is the double light sacrifice monster, because in Japanese Mythology a sea horse becomes a dragon after 1000 years.
Kiba's ace monster is the Blue Eyes White Dragon, a light attributed dragon monster.
Yeah. That´s because when first appearing in the manga, the card game was not only a reference of Magic: The Gathering, but also to Dungeons & Dragons. That is also the reason why, when first appearing in the manga, the game was named Dragons & Wizards. That also is the reason of the wierd rules seen in the Duelist Kingdom saga of the anime. The rules we now know and love would not be settled until the Battle City arc in both the anime and the manga. But, returning to the point, in the beginning the game have a lot of RPG elements. And one of the most common tropes in RPGs, specially japanese ones, is the Underground Monkey trope: Enemies in advanced parts of the game that are recolors of weaker enemies. In part because designing new enemies is kinda hard. In part because RPGs games for consoles have limited memory space.
You know what's really funny... I was watching this list with my girlfriend sitting next to me. She didn't recognize a single one of these cards UNTIL... Kuriboh LOL. Instantly validated your point about the number 1 spot being well known IMMEDIATELY.
Wow, even Mystical Elf?
maybe ghost of the attic is a kuriboh ghost maybe from Atem's Deck after being blasted by blue eyes one to many
“Strip tease.”
The hell does your internet history look like?
Basic Insect x Invader from the Darkness: Invader's Fiend type (Demon type in Japan) probably means that Basic Insect basically got hit by some Raid and went to hell.
2 of my favorite monsters
Lmao!!
Or basic insect got chuunibyou
Andres reccomended I liked very much. Thank you. Used to be an old school Yu-Gi-Oh OCG player up until 2005 / 2006. This was very nostalgic.
The most annoying part of Invader from Another Dimension is the 950 ATK. It has double the level of Basic Insect, double the defense, aaaaand... almost double the ATK, just arbitrarily the minimum amount possible lower (unless you include PaniK's math-nightmares).
The Mortal Kombat references to YGO I thought I never see the day. I'm sold on this channel. That and your co-host is adorable with her commentary.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! I make fighting game videos pretty regularly, so there's plenty more MK discussion planned for the future!
Hey leave my twin headed chicken legs alone. That sucker alone helped us beat Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories (PS1) !
I like your editing, your script and the intersections with and by your guests. Super refreshing content right here! Subbed
Thank you!
This is a wholesome channel
SIMP!
That chick was annoying and trying too hard
Here is an idea! A list cover Monster Location Cards?! As in monster cards that are not true monsters: Labyrinth Wall and Temple of Skulls as an example.
This is really creative! I've noticed some reoccurring locations when I've covered monster backstories, like the Soul Absorbing Bone Tower in Red Eyes' backstory
Now I want a wall shadow fusion retrain along with new labyrinth wall and shadow ghoul support and a new ritual gate guardian as a boss monster because level 11 is even now so underused and a ritual would be cool to sack one vanilla gate to get something actually useful and with new ritual support I think this new deck would be sick.
A new Gate Guardian would be awesome! With all the retrains of early boss monsters, a new special summon style Gate Guardian with an actual effect would we welcome. Maybe even have an effect like in the anime where each piece was a different unit that had to be destroyed.
@@MrTopTenList you replied to my retro deck idea, I've said for years since I first got the first printing of gate guardian that this is the hill I'll die on and you sir have made my year
I'm thinking gate guardian could either be retrained as a fusion or xyz monster since xyz summoning is very reminiscent of the way you stack the three pieces to make one body. Either way, good news here is that other people want gate guardian arcgetype too, I'd say it's on the higher end of duel monsters era cards that could get modern support, along side valon's armor cards.
Hibikime is a counterpart to Sonic Maid - Sonic Maid's lore states she uses sound to her advantage, wielding a scythe like a musical note!
Cool video! you should totally do another list as there are so many counterparts! :D
Sea serpent and sea horses are related in Japanese culture, refer to how seadra evolves into kingdra.
It would still make more sense if Sea Dragon Soldier of Darkness were a dark monster instead of water.
Don't disrespect my man Twin-headed Thunder dragon. That bitch got me through Forbidden Memories.
You tricked me! I thought for sure you were setting up the #1 spot for the Skull Servant. Just you wait until their King hears about this.
At least I got points with the Kuriboh King!
Top 10 heroic thieves -
Phantom Thieves (Persona 5), Ant Man / Scott Lang (MCU), Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper), etc.
Honestly, Dark Elf was better off being the Fusion and not "Kamion Wizard" XD
Also, they were better off recoloring "Twin-Headed Fire Dragon"--just change the word "Fire" to "Thunder" and make it a Fusion! XD
Whoa, I never noticed that Kaiser Sea Horse and Sea Serpent Warrior of Darkness were counterparts to each other.
Also I suspect the reason why it's the LIGHT two-tribute support monster is to make it essentially indirect Blue-Eyes support, because the kanji in Kaiba's name (海
馬) can translate to "Sea" and "Horse" respectively, so it's a nod to Kaiba to have a seahorse monster be the one that can bring out Blue-Eyes with one tribute.
also it's 7:44 Kaiser Sea Horse was the first double tributer. also it's effect is based on a Japanese myth about how if a seahorse lives for 1,000 years, it will become a dragon.
@@thebookbandit5830 Good point! That's even better evidence of Kaiser Sea Horse being basically intended as Blue-Eyes support.
@@thebookbandit5830 Neat!
Lol all of this is so fitting. Interesting trivia!
@@thebookbandit5830 I guess that's the came case in Pokemon where Horsea can eventually become the dragon-type Kingdra. I never knew that.
This is a fun list idea. And I also agree Wall Shadow is a relic of early Yu-Gi-Oh's missed opportunities.
Glad you enjoyed it! There's so much I love about early Yu-Gi-Oh that I feel could work in today's game if they weren't afraid of making things too OP back in the day.
twin-headed thunder dragon design was fixed in the anime but the real life card was never changed after the anime fixed the design
That’s pretty insane. I actually originally thought the mouth on the neck was a coy way of getting a “Twin head”
@@TheKpa11 like most of these counterparts, I think it's just lazy card design on the developer's parts, regardless of name context or logical stats.
Since Kazuki Takahashi is a huge fan of RPGs and DnD, I wouldn't be surprised if these were intended to be similar. Like Blue Slim > Red Slime > Silver Slime.
This channel has a bit of a Drumsy vibe and I’m all for it.
I have been waiting for this video for a while. Thank you guys.
You're welcome
It's clear after awhile Pegasus just stopped giving a fuck.
lol. He had to meet some deadlines fast!
This was a very funny video, I knew about half of these counterparts.
Also poor judgement meter, she's too adorable for the snake pit
Fun fact, Wretched Ghost of the Attic actually appeared in Pyramid of Light when Yugi first completed the Millennium Puzzle, but most people just thought it was a Kuriboh because of the design. Still, if we take into account that the pharaoh is somewhat of a friend to Kuriboh, the fact that Kuriboh is actually a pretty good natured and spoiled little creature and judging by what other spirits came out of the Puzzle when it was put together, we can safely assume that it was actually Wretched Ghost of the Attic.
Oh wow, I never noticed that! I was always wondering why they portrayed Kuriboh as antagonistic there without explaining how Yugi "tamed" him. Who would have guessed it actually had an anime use!
@@MrTopTenList At first, when I was little, I always thought it was a random evil Kuriboh. It is a fiend after all. But as the series went on, it was made clear that Kribohs aren't that vicious in any circumstance. So the only possible culprit is Wretched Ghost of the Attic. Though, they drew its eyes purple instead of green if I remember correctly. Or maybe the movie was made before it was established that Kuribos are more loveable and more harmless than hamsters.
Pit Full of Snakes: what is that AWFUL SOUND??!
An anime chick getting plowed.
I used to play Dark Elf with Megamorph, easy wins.
it's good to be back!
If you ask me I think mystical elf and dark elf shud have a effect fusion monster.
Their attack and defense is 2800.
Effect. A fusion summon must be conducted by the fusion materials above. This card gains 200 at for every spellcasters on the field, hand and graveyard. Spellcaster type monsters cannot be destroyed by battle, also its unaffected by your opponents card effect. Pay 2000 lp to attack
The translation messiness of Princess of Tsurugi reminds me of Fushioh Richie, gotta love the weird half translation chaos of early Yugioh.
Isn't archfiend of airmot a mascot for Aussa the earth charmer?
Not only that fire fox is hiita
Gagagigo is Eria
And what yugioh monster is the green fox in Wynn
It's "Petit Dragon", a level 2 normal monster with 700 ATK. So it fits in the thematic.
Edit: Also, the first Eria doesn't already have Gagagigo, it's his first child-form, Gigobyte.
Bob is back, now with more saltwater it's still gagagigo the 1850 BEATSTICK. The 1850 BEATSTICK eria has gagagigo
Meda-Bat for Dharc the Dark Charmer
Hasn't anything to do with the Video but it would be neat if we got a Ancient Gear equivilant of the Dark magician Girl: Ancient Gear Girl
Some of these counterpartr cards I had never caught onto. However, Mystical Elf and Dark Elf were the two that I knew of since Dark Elf came out. Same with Wretched Ghost and Kuriboh.
9:27 In the game Duelist of the Roses on PS2 Shadow Ghoul can walk into Labyrinth Wall Terrain and changes into Wall Shadow.
19:10 Both have arms near the upper mouth in Duelist of the Roses on PS2 so there's 3 versions of this card. Also you needed the Thunder one to pretty much beat Forbidden Memories on PS1.
amazing vid i love these type of in depth analysis on old cards and artwork
Thanks! We plan on doing more in the future like we did with the fusion video and this one!
I feel that Princess of Tsurugi was an intentional mistranslation in order to censor a reference to Tarot via Queen of Swords. Queen's Double was not a reference to Tarot, and whoever was localizing at the time probably didn't see the similarities to Princess of Tsurugi since they were very likely to have been translated at least a few months apart.
#1 made me think of how lucky we are that we were never haunted by Casper the Wretched Ghost
His uncle whose only trait was having bad breath was pretty wretched
Yugioh joke: Wat is the singer the weeknd's fav yugioh card?
Starboy
I like how you are giving people who have lower subs some attention GJ
I want crazy staff man to be a real card now lol.
Dark Magician's always gotten a lot of support, so who knows? Maybe one day
I like how judgement matters like so that's the scratching in my attic, uh yeah it's always going to be a some type of rodent or a ghost trying to kill you there's no middle ground.
Go big or go home
It's amusing how Judgements appearances really show off the silly level of censorship that happened to DMG in the US release. Sometimes she uses pictures from that anime version with flat chest and no cleavage, and sometimes the original pics and I'm just here thinking... "...wow this censorship is silly af."
I hope Judgement Meter didn't suffer too much from the snake pit.
Someone cares!!!
@@JudgmentMeter Would be weird if noone would tho
You make very good videos. I especially enjoy your fighting game videos.
MTTL is very creative
I love How Kuriboh was at one point seen as just a cute puff ball we all wanted, and now he has his own archtype!
22:04 22:05 very very sly
I liked the Thunder Dragon engagement the best.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, you can fuse Mystical Elf (and any other "elf" monster and Celtic Guardian) with Spellcaster-type monsters (mainly monsters with Mercury as their standard Guardian Star and Castle Of Dark Illusion) to form Dark Elf.
Maybe Mystical Elf messed up with some dark arts and became the Dark version of herself.
Yep. Back then, nothing but Palette swaps :)
Well now I just want a “Crazy Staff-Man”. Konami needs to do this
Relationship between Magician's Valkyria and Dark Magician Girl I wanted to know.
Since they're not in the weird category, I didn't consider them, but Magician's Valkyria seems like an older or upgraded form of Dark Magician Girl, so perhaps it's what happens to her after the backstory I discussed in my 3rd Yugioh Backstory video.
Class change.
@@MrTopTenList Magician's Valkyria is weaker that DMG so she would have to be either younger or a completely different monster. As a DM player whos seens these cards alot over the last 15 years, i strongly believe Valkyria is unofficially the first "Magician Girl" monster years before the Fruit gang showed up.
But a part of me still believes Valkyria is the younger version of DMG after she's been reincarnated from her past life as Apprentice Illusion Magician. Its just that DM has no such counterpart so still gotta lean towards not being the same
I always assumed it was something along the lines that Magicians Valkyrie was a younger version of DMG, she upgraded to DMG as an apprentice to Dark Magician before finally graduating into Magi Magi Magician Gal. There may be others in between but that's how I look at it from the basics.
Then after Dark Magician Girl, I assume Apprentice Illusion Magician becomes the second apprentice.
Awesome video! As a collector of OCG Series 1 Yugioh (pre-Eye of Anubis stamp) there are sooo many of these out there and a reason why i wanted to collect them
Thanks! I collected starting at the beginning of the TCG releases, but whenever they sold the OCG set or I picked up one of those player guides that had pictures of the OCG-only monsters, I was really intrigued in their origins. I love how experimental the old artwork got.
Judgement Meter should voice Isabelle from Animal Crossing.
I love that video! Can't wait for part two, since there are plenty of these monsters and I always find it as thrilling as you do how similar they are to each other and how different, at the same time! Also, love the version that the elfs are sisters, and I would say the witches might also be, or it's just the goddess that... you know - met the Curtain.
Thunder kid was actually originally named "kaminarikozu"
In germany it was 'Kaminarikozu the Thunder Kid'...
I kind of wish they kept the original name, kaminarikozu sounds cooler than thunder kid.
@@matthewkuscienko4616 me too, konami did something similar with occillio hero #2 changing it to "Wattkid" to make it part of the "watt" archetype for some strange reason. A vanilla in an effect only archetype is a bit of a non starter. Even of you go to the effort of using your spells and traps on it to make it stronger, it's still pretty misplaced as the only vanilla. Why it looks like oscillio hero #1 is now a weird one, its weaker too.
@@dracometeors3010 so wait...it was called "Thunder Kid the Thunder Kid"?
I can explain Kaiser Sea Horse actually! it's a pun of sorts; Seto Kaiba uses Blue-Eyes White Dragon, right? So he needs it to be light attribute. But the word "kaiba" means "seahorse". Thus they made his dude specifically represent the character that uses it.
Mr Top Ten, of all the guest stars in this video I never expected to see Krizalid show up 😅!
That was a good one!
We just spoke about him a few videos ago, so him and his amazing coat were still on my mind!
@@MrTopTenList My man 😆👍!!!
Same here.
this video it's strangely pleasant to watch
I swear, this video inspired the Illusion monsters we have now 😂
Ah, Bubbly Elf is not a pop idol. She is a reference to party going women in the Japanese bubble economy era. Additionally, she is friends with Karen the Ganguro Swordmistress. Good luck explaining that one to the international community,
"And apparently, in Yugioh World, the only difference between a beaver and a rat is fur colour" Hey, that one is another dubism. You know Beaver Warrior? In Japanese, her name is Louise.
Kaiba means seahorse in Japanese, and seahorses are often compared to dragons. That's why Kaiser Sea Horse can count as two tributes for a LIGHT monster like Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Shadow Ghoul enjoys dancing in its off time. This is true now, you can't disprove it.
I think you should take a look at my "Top Ten Weirdest Translated Yu-Gi-Oh Card Names" list since I talk about the origin of Louise there and go into more dubisms/translation choices
Really really good video. just really fun., and the best part is ou don't need to be a YuGioH expert to Understand everything. I could show it to some of my casual YGO fans from back and the day and they got laughs out of it., If the production values were a little bit better it would be a masterpeice.
I've never heard of a lot of these cards. This one was pretty good. Nice job
Thanks!
11:40 Like a total defence shogun that cannot be destroyed by battle or targeted by card effects while in defence position, except while it's declaring an attack?
As soon as I saw "Total Defense Shogun" in your comment, I was like "I should have thought of that!" Yeah, that's one of the best examples of how I'd imagine his effect.
@@MrTopTenList It was even defeated with Kunai with Chain, which has the effect "When an opponent's monster declares an attack: Target the attacking monster; change that target to Defense Position."
The show came before the cards of course, but it still fits with how it's a battle position changing effect
Kaiser Sea Horse may be weaker but his armor gives him 150 more defense. Considering armor increases your durablity it makes sense
I pretent Mystical Elf got a tan and decided to be evil. Because that happens when elfs get currupted? They become DARK!
The invader from another dimension has noticed the Bat Signal. You can see the reflection in his eyes.
I recall Two-Headed Darkruler to be a Dinosaur monster. It doesn't look anything like a dino
Wretched Ghost of the Attic needs an archetype. We made fun of Shape Snatch and how it will break the meta, but Ghost of Attic deserves better. Even Skull Servant is viable.
Scythe song note... *flashbacks to Demyx from KH2* DANCE WATER DANCE
I think the witch and the goddess are the same woman. Her being on the mistaken accusation makes me think that she's been accused of being a witch
I feel like judgement meter was the highlight of this video. Her commentary was very pure.
Konami is like: its time travel,radiation,crisis,football is dinamic, its all guilty of the energetics...
A field spell or pendulum monster effect for wall shadow would be cool, something like:
If wall shadow was properly summoned. During your end phase return wall shadow to the deck from the field. During your standby phase select Wall shadow from the deck and place it on the field in attack position.
It's not meta, just a fun gimmick.
1:33 thunder kid is called Eleckids in Japan
Oh I get Princess of Tsurugi's art now. I thought she had Wolverine-ish jewel blades for a while.
I never noticed the witch and the goddess beeing color swaps
They have the same third eye and feathers
Me neither! All these counterparts were just weird in general. I
I remember noticing that the two of them were pretty similar once I paid attention to the design. But was never certain since I never bothered to look at the two cards together.
Never seen Wretched Ghost before, but his design is cleaaaaan
I have, and I think it's a cute little fuzzball.
All of this elaborating on Wall Shadow...too bad for a missed opportunity like this:
Labyrinth Duel
Field Spell
When this card is activated, you can Special Summon 1 "Labyrinth Wall" from your hand, deck, or GY, then add 1 "Labyrinth" card from your deck to your hand. Each time a monster(s) is summoned (including in the Extra Monster Zone), place them in the next available Monster Zone(s) closest to their user's Field Spell Zone; also, once per turn, the turn player can move any number of their monsters on their side of the field to the closest (horizontal) available Monster Card Zones. Monsters cannot target other monsters for attacks, unless they are in the same columns. Once per turn, if your opponent activates a card or effect, you can add 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", or "Sanga of the Thunder" from your deck or GY to your hand. Once per turn, if this card is targeted by a card effect, you can discard 1 level 5 or higher monster; negate that effect.
The Labyrinth's Power
Continuous Spell
Level 5 or higher Normal Monsters do not require tributes to normal summon/set. You can only activate one of the effects of "The Labyrith's Power", based on the number of other "Labyrinth" cards you control with different names, once per turn:
1+: You can target any number of monsters on your field, GY, or banished, except effect monsters (minimum 1); shuffle them into the deck, then add 1 "Labyrinth" card from your deck or GY to your hand.
2+: Special Summon 1 "Labyrinth Tank" from your Extra Deck or GY, then you can target 1 Spell/Trap card on the field; banish it.
3+: Special Summon 1 "Monster Tamer" from your hand, deck, or GY and if you do, take control of one of your opponent's monsters they control, but you cannot Special Summon for the rest of this turn.
4+: Add 1 "Riryoku" from your deck or GY to your hand, then flip all face-down monsters and/or change all effect monsters on the field to ATK position, and if you do, draw 1 card.
5+: You can apply all of the previous effects, in any order.
A Trap in the Labyrinth!?
Trap
Activate one of these effects:
Send 1 "Jirai Gumo" from your field, hand or deck to the GY, or banish it from the GY; destroy 1 monster in this card's column and inflict damage to your opponent equal to half the original ATK of that monster.
Banish 1 "Dungeon Worm" from your field, hand or deck; banish all other cards in this card's column.
If your opponent moves a monster(s) to adjacent monster zone(s) while you control a "Labyrinth" card, you can send 1 other "Labyrinth" card you control to the GY; shuffle 1 "Jirai Gumo" from your GY into you deck, then, set this card from your GY, also, this card can be activated this turn. You can only use each effect of "A Trap in the Labyrinth!?" once per turn.
The Labyrinth's Guardian
Continuous Trap
You can only control 1 "Gate Guardian", also, "Gate Guardian" can attack 3 monsters during each Battle Phase. Once per turn, you can reveal 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", and "Sanga of the Thunder" from your hand, field, GY, or are Banished; Special Summon 1 "Gate Guardian" from your hand, deck, GY, or is Banished ignoring summoning conditions. When an opponent targets a card you control with a monster effect or for an attack, you can banish from your hand or GY, 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", or "Sanga of the Thunder"; negate that attack or effect. If this card, or "Gate Guardian" leaves the field because of an opponent's card (by battle or effect), return all other monsters on the field to their controller's hands except "Gate Guardian", also, you can Special Summon 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", and/or "Sanga of the Thunder" from your hand, deck, GY, or banished zone, and if you do, you cannot summon from the extra deck until your opponent's next turn.
If you control "Labyrinth Wall", this card can be activated the turn it was set.
The Shadow Inside the Labyrinth
Quick-Play Spell
Equip 1 "Magical Labyrinth" from you hand, deck, or GY to 1 monster you control, and/or, and move any of your opponent's face-up monsters to their other Main Monster Mones, then if you do either of these, Special Summon "Wall Shadow" from your hand, deck, GY, or is Banished, ignoring it's summoning conditions, and equip this card to it with this effect: Once per turn (Quick Effect), you can move "Wall Shadow" to any available Main Monster Zone. If "Wall Shadow" attacks an opponent's monster, during the Damage Step, that monster's ATK becomes half of it's original attack, also, negate it's effects (if any), and if it is destroyed by battle, banish it, and if you do, add 1 "Kazejin", "Suijin", or "Sanga of the Thunder" from your deck and/or any "Labyrinth" card from your GY to your hand. You can only activate each effect of "The Shadow Inside the Labyrinth" once per turn.
Interesting cards that interact are Ground Collapse (adding a sort of attack block with "Labyrinth Duel"), Wattkinetic Puppeteer might be used as a sort of interruption during the BP, or allow Gate Guardian to fully attack 3x monsters under Labyrinth Duel (when paired with "Shadow"), Senet Switch might speed things up, Indigo Eclipse would probably benefit too. And of course BEWD would be a pretty strong Normal Summon, though this Time I guess it would be allowed to move as long as it didn't use flight, lol. "Guardian" can have players finally experience the indivual pieces power, but all at once. The field spell slows the game down, but should it be removed, Gate Guardian can show off it's true power...
How bout Sangan and kuribou. They look sorta similar. Sangan and kuriboh have the same color fur and hands and legs. Maybe kuriboh kept his 3rd eye hidden in case of emergency so when someone pisses him off he reveals and unleashed his ravaging 3rd eye
Leonardo Lim all I can think about now is Hiei
Judgment Meter what's that mean
Leonardo Lim Hiei is a character from Yu Yu Hakusho. He has a third eye called the jagan eye