THESE YU-GI-OH CONSPIRACY THEORIES COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE... RIGHT?
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The only explanation people came up with for Air Neos being MIA is that there is an Italian airline with a similar name (Neos Air) and EVEN THEN that is extremely unlikely grounds to erase a card from history for.
Unfortunately, that isn't how trademarks work. They depend on the business sector. An airline and a TCG are two different sectors. For example, there are other companies that have the name "Meta", but since they don't operate in the same sector as the big one (i.e. the one that owns FB), they are fine legally.
@@tq1238reading comprehension at 0 it seems
@@tq1238 business sectors has nothing to do with it, if Air Neos (Neos Air.) was to slap them with a cease and desist during a period of time where a large portion of profit from a product comes from selling a product with a trademarked name, then it does add up.
similar to how certain colours are trademarked, regardless of where you use it, if you were to use the colour "#e0218a" for a product and advertise it, you would have to pay royalties to Mattel for using Barbie pink. same could go for a trademark on a literal airline company for an entire booster box set and tv show using the name. i'd imagine if this was true, Konomi would have to pay royalties to the airline company is they wanted to sell product. which would not be cost effective or profitable.
i do not however believe it to be true. but to say its not possible is silly, as this theory holds the most truth or viability and actually has some legal backing.
Even if they were
Just change his name, they did it woth frog the jam, why not him?
Also for the people who believe the superhero conspiracy, WHY HASNT THE ENTIRE HERO ARCHETYPE DISSAPEARED THEN?! also THEY CAN JUST GIVE HIM AN ALT ART, they made Bigfoot the abominable snowman in his alt, if they can do it for that darkworld engine fck they can do it fir him
@@idosarts_and_kraftsyeah the mask heroes are literally Kamen riders
Remember that one guy a while back that had a multiple page theory on why the same players kept topping at events and just could not comprehend that good players will consistently do good.
The theories about why the 5ds/Vrains girls get shafted in the back half of those shows is extra funny because the guy who wrote those shows has openly gone on record stating that it's because he just doesn't really know how to write female characters
Sauce?
The female characters in all the anime (pre Rush, I don't know anything about Sevens/Go Rush) can all be said to have been screwed over towards the ends of the ends of their runs. Especially the fucking bracelet girls in ARC-V. Where is the conspiracy theory for them?
@@gravethestampede3454 makes sense Alexis was the only female character for a large part of GX and she spent most of the show losing explaining how cards work or needing to be rescued.
I thought it was because Aki's VA was pregnant during the voice over period of 5Ds so she couldn't be in office for as long?
That's just every yugioh show.
Such a shame that people expected 5G zombies and not 5Ds zombies.
SMH.
Zombie on motorcycle? Zombie duellings on motorcycle? It's good either way.
@@nghiahuunguyen9015 duelling on zombie motorcycles
If a text alert could turn me into a Dark Signer, I'd do it in a heart beat.
Side Note: Konami, when can we get Dark Synchros?
@@SomeRandomJackAss ursarctics lol
@@SomeRandomJackAss Dark Synchro Monsters? So Synchro Monsters you summon using a high level Tuner and a lower level monster with the difference between those levels being the number of stars on the synchro?
Let me introduce you to Ursarctics....
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Enough Air Neos, lets even put Shuttleroid to the side for a moment, WE WANT BASTIAN MISAWA'S FIRE DRAGON 😤 How did you give us Water Dragon legacy support (Cluster) and not add Fire it was literally free retail.
Cause maybe the chemichal formulas for fuels have more than 3 of an element so you cant make them.
@@hexi9595That was always the biggest copout. The card I need to see most is named Judgment Arrows.
@@hexi9595CH4 would indeed be an issue unless we had a hydrogeddon retrain
Who’s “we?”
@@aidanyoung9133 the community I guess
7:58 It wasn't Accesscode Talker since he only appeared in one of the final episodes. It was Firewall eXceed Dragon, the XYZ monster. The time line is Firewall eXceed Dragon appears, Firewall Dragon gets banned, and we never see Firewall Dragon in the anime again
Tbf Firewall dragon was summoned like 3 times in the show so calling it an ace monster isn't really that convincing. It has the 2500 atk but decode talker gets way more screentime.
@@luminous3558 I think the marketing and openings (specially the second one) definitely wanted Firewall to feel like an ace monster, but I'm glad Yusaku's final attack wasn't even with Accescode, but with Decode. Way better for the plot.
Yeah. After the banning, they had to shift the marketing hard since Firewall was banned. Which is why they had an emphasis on the Code Talkers for a while. Hell, we're now just getting more new Firewall forms which shows that Konami is ready to put Firewall back in the spotlight as Yusaku's definitive ace. The only thing about this that makes me sad is that Cyberse Clock Dragon, Cyberse Quantum Dragon, Cyberse Magician, and Firewall eXCeed Dragon all just don't have a deck where all 3 can mesh perfectly. Konami had to make new monsters just so that it was easy to hit the requirements for the newest Firewall Dragon form. Which is a shame cause while, they're mid cards for today's standards, they just seem like fun cards to tool around with. :T
what's funny is that the original Carly-VA still did the character up to and including the Aesir-arc. The conspiracy depends on the anime staff knowing about the cult-stuff before it officially came out, rewriting the show to minimize Carly's and therefore the cultist's role, and then still hiring the actual cultist to do a few lines every couple of episodes.
As always, the simplest answer is almost definitely the right one: Carly was a female character in a Yu-Gi-Oh anime, so of course she basically became a background character.
Its even funnier with the "Aki's VA was pregnant" one because she only announced that after 5Ds was over.
It still didn't make sense though, because there was a cult-ish organization as well as a character that never showed up after the Dark Signer arc.
regardless, Carly isn't such an important character that her departure would turn the entire second half of the show Sci-Fi.
@@Kerim9991 She was very clearly meant to be Jack Atlas' romantic interest.
I think a fun thread would be: which archetype showcases their lore through their playstyle/gimmick the best. I think storytelling through card design has been really interesting in yugioh esp in recent years and would love to hear what the community thinks
SS definitely up there
While it's not a "lore" archetype, when I think of "showcase through gameplay" I always think Kaijus first. The fact that kaijus can be summoned from any tributing (bypassing everything) relates to how they will arise seemingly unstoppable, taking anything out in its way. The fact that you are meant to start by having an opposing kaiju then you can freely summon one relates to how in most kaiju movies, an enemy kaiju will often show up first, and only the "hero" kaiju will be on your side when there's another one to stop. And the fact that you can only have one on each side relating to how most kaiju movies are basically a one on one battle, though this is certainly not the case for many movies.
Let me tell you my favorite card design. *Stellarknight Constellar Diamond* was the collaboration between the Tellarknights and the Constellars with a single purpose in mind: Being the ultimate weapon against the Shaddolls. Not only does it stop milling from Deck (which is what Shaddolls are known for) at the cost of stopping its own archetype member's effect altogether (it stops Unukalhai's effect, who was the only Tellarknight monster that got corrupted and turned into Shaddoll Squamata in the lore), it even makes the effects that adding Shaddolls from the GY to the hand banish them instead. Oh, and did I tell you that it can negate whichever DARK monster effects, specifically, multiple times in a turn, as long as it still has Xyz material underneath?
It's as if someone at Konami look at the Shaddolls and said: Let build the ultimate weapon against them, specifically.
@@amamiyaharuto8407yeah the playstyle is almost perfect for the lore tbh.
Time to shine, Ally of Justice Loreman
The Crow theory actually states that around episode 51-52 is when the change happened. He first appears in episode 30, yes. But then around episode 40 or so he duels Lazar due to his hatred of what the Dark Signers were doing to the Satellite, which results in Crow's supposed "Death". However, he returns in episode 51 without any explanation as to how he survived the explosion or the cave in or the area crumbling into a pit, so the theory is that he was meant to die in episode 40, then come back as a dark signer instead of Greiger, since to become a Dark Signer you have to die while in an emotionally dark space. My guess is, if the theory IS true, he was planned to die when the character was introduced, they changed their minds when Blackwings became popular, and changed episodes 52 or so, which was 10-20 episodes away after his introduction, so they'd have enough time to, especially with there being a 3-4 month gap between episodes directly when Crow comes back as himself and not a Dark Signer as well as Life Stream Dragon constantly being shown as the final Signer Dragon and not appearing for over 100 episodes, and Crow getting a signer mark for little reason or fanfare. Its still a theory without much evidence, but there is SOMETHING there.
But then that raises the question: was Leo and the Power Tool Dragon thing planned from the start? They made such a massive fuss about Leo NOT being a Signer only for his big reveal later. Would that have happened sooner if Crow had become a Dark Signer or was there something else planned for how Season 1 ends instead of Rex Goodwin becoming both Signers?
Also, Black-Winged dragon seems like such a weird card to add. Not only does it not actually support Blackwings, but it was in none of the marketing material.
@@colossaldonut5190 My guess is that in the episode where him and Luna dueled Devak, he was going to get Life Stream Dragon and become the last signer, but it was changed and they won in a different way.
@@colossaldonut5190I believe it was meant to be similar to Crow, where in the final battle Leo would do something heroic and take Yusei mark when he took Godwins. But then Crow was just so popular he took over instead.
Which is a shame because Leo and Luna don't get to do much in the show
@@haruhirogrimgar6047and it looks like SHIT
Ok here’s the thing about the Air Neos conspiracy: WE HAVE NO IDEA! Dude has literally been cut from everything to the point where Konami flipped him around backwards and covered parts of him that needed it in Instant Contact! You don’t think he’s there but he is! You can still see the wings but they’re the backs of the wings!
It's literally just because reprint probability : 1/price.
Nope those are dark neos wings
Air Neos is an existing airline company with the same name. I suspect they received a cease and desist and didn't want to engage
@@XCATX25 that is fucking stupid. 1. It's Neos Air for the airline, and 2. they operate in wholly different sectors with no chance for commercial confusion. If someone were to look for Neos Air but type in Air Neos and got yugioh results, they'd just add airline to the end of the query.
@@XCATX25 this theory has been put forward and debunked, anyone who says this has no idea how copyright works, you can't just c&d everything that shares your company name, and all the reasons for such a thing, mainly market confusion don't apply here, nobody is going to confuse a card for an airline company
Someday we’ll find the truth.
Someday, A*r Neos’ erasure will be explained.
Someday, we’ll get justice for the worst Neos fusion since Glow Neos.
Someday.
I'd argue Air's worse than Glow Neos because at least Neos and glow moss don't contradict each other's effects like hummingbird and air neos do (Not that it helps to resolve Glow moss in 2023 but still)
@@nellewoodruff6337 and you’re probably right, I just never forgave Neospacian Gow Moss and Elemental Hero Glow Neos for wasting such cool ass designs on shit cards.
@@TheFourthBlackReaper Fair enough. I feel the same about Konami butchering the TCG versions of dark sage and Neos Wiseman
Don't you mean kashtira extender number 5?
Air Neos is the biggest "why" of YGO
people thought it was an issue with the artist claiming intellectual ownership - if that was true, konami could hire a new artist, even changing the entire design if needed and using that for all other cameos.
others believed it was because Air Neos looked to much like a different superhero - if that was true, konami again could easily change the art.
some also said it was the airline with the extremely similar name winning a suit - if that was true, Konami would easily errata the name and be done with it after.
another group guessed TV Tokyo held the rights and refuse to let go - if that was true, they'd own the rights to all the Neo Space members, but we regularly see them.
the only major theory that seems plausible, even if really dumb, is if the Air Neos artist had been secretly blacklisted, and Konami was both petty and stupid enough to refuse to associate with Air Neos at all afterwards.
Too iconic?
Okay here's my crackpot theory on the Air Neos conundrum and it all hinges on one Question. Do you know what Japan and Italy have in common?
Organized Crime.
Neos Air is actually owned and operated by the mob. (they have their hands in a lot of businesses to this day and corruption still runs rampant in the country.) Maybe it's a legit side hustle or maybe they use Neos Air to smuggle drugs and other illegal contraband who knows. Anyway the mob gets wind of Yu Gi Oh and this monster that has a very similar name to their operation, the Don presumably noticed his son playing the game or watching the show, and they get cold feet. They want as little attention as possible on their pet project and fear the card is going to shine a light on it, it is after all part of an internationally successful childrens card game. So the Don and his men, in a paranoid frenzy, call up their pals in Japan, the Yakuza.
Now you have to understand this is the mid 2000s, the japanese government has started a widespread crackdown on organized crime and the Yakuza are in decline and desperate for international support and possible funds.
They fucking jump at the chance when THE DON calls and they overshoot massively. What was supposed to be a small time visit at the Konami offices, to let them know that friends of theirs don't appreciate the name of that card, turned, into a frightening campaign of terror and torment traumatizing dozens of Konami employees who then and there swore to never again let Air Neos see the light of day so that they may live in peace.
@@Yslohr They don't reprint expensive cards. It's not that hard.
They won't be able to, if the artist happened to be Kazuki Takahashi himself. None of the cards he designed (Alternative Ultimate, Holactie) have ever been reprinted.
@@grafzeppelin4069lmao the complete opposite is true with Konami. Dark Armed Dragon might have been a $300 card in 2008 but it's like 50 cents now. The only exceptions are one of a kind limited rarity cards which Air Neos certainly isn't. It also wouldn't explain why he isn't in any recent videogames or on the Instant Contact art.
I'm not WRONG!
I'm just...correct in a delayed fashion.
I remember reading somewhere that during the time Duel Links' servers were being exceptionally terrible, and the infamous "Microwave" incident happened, that Konami was actually going to try, and spin it by saying it was happening on purpose because they were planning on adding Zigfried, a character whose role in the anime involved him hacking into Kaiba Corp with the intention of making it look bad, into the game.
Nothing of the sort of ever happened, and outside of the inclusion of some of his Valkyrie, and his brother's Fairy Tale cards, nothing pertaining to him has ever been added to Duel Links.
Konami is too lazy to ever do something that creative
I think the crow one actually probably has a kernel of truth to it in that he probably wasn't meant to be a signer initially. Life Stream Dragon appears in the Dark Signers opening but then goes unsummoned for ONE HUNDRED EPISODES for no adequately explained reason, it'd make sense if putting Crow in over Leo was why.
There was quite a bit of info uncovered about it and the TL;DR is that Crow wasn't supposed to be a dark signer, but his character was changed significantly due to a changeover of production staff after early development of season 1. He was made to be a better fit for the main character + best friend + rival trio that they wanted to push in season 2 (akin to Yugi Joey and Kaiba) which is also why Luna and Akiza get pushed to the side.
To be fair, there are many reasons why people think Crow could've become a Dark Signer. Monke guy aside, all of the other Dark Signers have some connection to the main cast - Misty with Aki, Carly with Jack, Kiryu with Yusei and Godwin brothers with Yusei's dad and Satellite as a whole. Crow would've been another easy link to make. He was the heart and soul of the Satellite, when Jack was the king and Yusei tried to escape to the New Domino City, finding new friends there. It could've caused friction (like it kinda did in Arc V, where Crow and other Satellite people hate the Tops) and possibly Crows arrest or an accident, while Yusei would be protected by Security, kinda like in the Kiryu situation. And the biggest one, that kinda surprises me nobody was pointing out, Godwin's Earthbound God was Wiraqocha Rasca - a black-winged bird based on Andean condor. I mean, if it's isn't truth, then it's a very strong bait.
@@xerael4659 From episode one, Godwin is wearing a giant condor ON HIS SHIRT.
@@xerael4659ok, but describing Wiraqocha as a "black-winged bird" like the entire Earthbound Immortal archetype aren't all the same color is kinda forcing it
@@xerael4659 Monkey guy had a connection to Luna because of the spirit world.
For all the people who bought out Ancient Leaf, there is still hope! You will be very rich if Konami announces official support for tag duel tournaments.
I have bad news for you about Konami's official rule set for Tag (it's 8000 LP)
5:01 In GoldenNova's defense, he had some decent reasoning, it needed to be fusion summoned and lost 100atk for each banished card; those are effects you use on a card you're worried will break the game, not the middest superpoly to ever exist. Turns out it was just an interesting filler pos with baffling effects that randomly fit the Albaz lore.
Mention of the old SJC players just made me think how I still don't understand how that one Gladiator Beast player won the SJC where full-power TeleDAD debuted.
He just knew how to "shuffle" better
You answered your own question, it was where TeleDAD debuted, so the people piloting the deck hadn't quite mastered it yet.
Still think the best consporacy theory was the carloncho store leaks of maximum gold. The reprints looked too good, and people cried fake, but in the end they were 100% true, and were somehow leaked like, half a year or more in advance
The Synchron mismatch at 7:55 reminds me of the Pokemon mismatch where you'd expect Venonat to evolve into Butterfree and Metapod into Venomoth instead of the other way around.
I have fond memories of being in the Arc V fandom while it was occurring before it got bad, not that I remember many theories that were circulating to explain the plot. I do remember one idea where the consensus was that after yosenju, Shingo Sawatari was going to settle in as the pilot in the anime of an igknight deck. This is because every time we saw him, he had a new deck with a new elemental attribute but the only one left was fire. Igknights were revealed if I recall correctly some time after his yosenju duel with Yuya but before he played again in the synchro dimension. Of course, we got abyss actors and are probably better off for it.
Konami is 100% in on the joke with Air Neos, there's no other reason that would make sense
the three leading theories I hear about air neos are that it's plagiarized (from either a character that no one can provide or one that does not look any closer to air neos than like, star wars characters look to kozmos), that it's violating a neos air trademark (but then why not just rename it to bird neos or w/e? Also why would that effect OCG printings as well?), or that there is some kind of contract/rights issue with the artist (in which case it's odd that it only effected this one card and that the card was in legacy of the duelist). The last one is the most compelling imo, there's some other instances of that kind of thing happening with companies that mostly use work for hire contracts, where they just fuck up and accidentally give someone a fair agreement for their work and end up choosing to purge it completely rather than have to pay compensation. I think without knowing who the artist was that created air neos it's very difficult to really put forth a compelling theory
when i read your comment, for a split second i thought you misspelled "fur hire"
I think its really unlikely that somehow the artist retained the rights for this one card and chose to fight over it. I doubt the person who made Air Neos only made Air Neos and not all the neos forms or at least some of them.
Air Neos did make an appearance in Legacy of the Duelist, but that was the last time. Bro is like The Time Traveler's Wife of yugioh.
I'll admit, I didn't know that the "Crow was originally meant to be a Dark Signer" thing was actually misinformation.
That said, the fact that he did eventually become a Signer, along with his own SIgner Dragon in Black-Winged Dragon (a monster that was not featured in the battle against the Earthbound Immortals) which effectively made 5Ds into "6Ds", does seem to suggest that the writers had a soft spot for the character, at the very least.
The Firewall Dragon theory is definitely true to some extent
Its lesser presence in season 2 of Vrains for sure but it's not really something that has a reason to believe it was intended to be the core ace monster. Things from Vrains' marketing, its writing (having an effect that reflect's Yusaku's mentality as well as it being a DARK attribute when Yusaku is directly tied with the DARK Ignis), and even the opening sequence all give a presentation of Decode Talker as the main ace.
I don't think so.
I whole heartedly believe that the reason firewall finally got banned was because of the 200th YCS.
A bunch of Konami employees (including Jerome himself) actually played in the main event of the 200th YCS. This also happens to be the last YCS that firewall was legal for.
I'm convinced that all these Konami employees got there asses handed to them for 9 rounds by various firewall combos, and were like "hmm, this shit is broken. We should ban it."
@@Zetact_ the thing is that while firewall was irrelevant af by the end, the treatment it get during its debut was very much ace level. It got 3 duel consecutive usage and one of the poster of the show even had it upfront. The second OP too. Theres very few Yusaku cards to get treated THAT well(its basically just Fluid who have 2 duel total and Clock who gets 3 episode worth of it balling out before it goes absent until the final boss, where its still Yusakus most important card. Each Code Talkers basically only get 1 episode or so each)
Something definitely was up after the Saizen episode
Well it wasn't Accesscode talker that was Yusaku's ace, Accesscode was his best card, similar to Yusei's Quasar Dragon. They were planning to ban the card, even after it selled so much through the anime exposure+it being generally OP so they made Decode Talker his ace and put Firewall aside. Or that's what I've heard
I still don't understand why they didn't initially print it with a HOPT effect. Accesscode is literally a final boss ass-pull so there's no reason to treat it like that.
"Air"Neos is around us, always with us, you just can't see😂😂😂
1:13 - 1:20 this but unironically. The rarity changes and card price difference from tcg to ocg has me convinced of it.
I can't believe Shuttleroid wasn't mentioned, it's in a Air Neos situation except it hasn't even been imported yet
My conspiracy theory is that the last card you add to a deck in MD will appear in your hand way more often than the statistical average.
Unless you set the 3 "signature cards" that appear when you hover over the deck in the deck select screen, those 3 cards are the last 3 you added by default.
And I have noticed that the signature cards (even when manually set) tend to appear more often than it seems like they should.
YES I noticed that too!
I added _one_ copy of a single new card the other day, and for the next 3+ duels or so _in a row,_ I drew that card in my opening hand. And it is _still_ around way more often than it feels like it should be(just not drawing it in opening hand consecutively anymore)
@@GeneralNickles me when all my decks cover cards are Maxx C 😂
you guys are really so desperate you're trying to manipulate rng using magical thinking?
@@catfan913 it’s not magic.
It’s the heart of the cards.
Till this day, the biggest conspiracy is the farfa and cimo beef
My favorite conspiracy theory related to the game might be Shuttleroid. It's the same thing as air neos, but it's not only recently, the card was never imported, never on any video games, anything.
Here's a better Prog conspiracy theory: Both of them were cheating the winner's wheel in season 1. At least during the time period when I decided to keep track, they both landed on the tournament pack slice a lot more frequently when the tournament packs were any good.
That was 50% of the wheel to be fair.
@@kristoduka8012 That just means that they should have been spinning them about 1/2 of the time, regardless of what was in the packs. Instead, they spun them about 1/3 of the time when they were bad, and about 3/4 of the time when they were good.
Now to be fair, the sample of bad packs was small enough that the variation from what you'd expect is reasonably believable. But the rest of it is really suspicious.
@@TheLetterJ0 That’s not necessarily how probability works
@@kristoduka8012 I don't know how you think probability works, but hitting a 50% chance 20/27 times is incredibly unlikely.
@@TheLetterJ0 Every event is independent from the other events. It’s a 50% chance to roll tournament packs, and 50% for something else. It’s the same as flipping a coin. If you flip it 20 times you won’t get 10 heads and 10 tails every time, because whatever it lands on during a previous flip, has no impact on whatever it lands on during the next flip.
The Firewall Dragon thing is silly, if you looked up Yugioh Vrains at the time on Google Image search, every image of Playmaker was him featured with Decode Talker. He literally summoned Decode Talker in more episodes than Fire Wall Dragon. What kind of Ace Monster disappears for 9 episodes, then 8 episodes, then 17 episodes, then 18 episodes, then summoned the final time in the series on episode 82? The series went on for 38 episodes past that. I know Decode Talker also disappeared for 40 episodes at one point, but, he showed up more consistently than the so called Ace Monster of Playmaker. Who appeared in the final episode? Decode Talker. Who didn't? Firewall Dragon. Imagine if during Yugi and the Pharaoh duel the Pharaoh just didn't summon DM at all.
The conspiracy is that Decode became the new ace after the Firewall ban, so taking into account anything after the ban when comparing their relevance makes no sense. I agree that Decode was probably meant to be the ace since the beginning, though it's weird that they decided to make an ace with 2.3k ATK breaking the tradition.
I kinda agree with it. Before I watched VRains on my own I did hear some things about "Oh Firewall Dragon was his ace card." By the time it showed up I was like "Wow, took a while for his main card to show up but okay." And by the time it finally showed up again I was like "Geez I forgot about you."
But yeah in terms of showing up, Decode is closer to Dark Magician, and Firwall is more like... Idk Black Luster Soldier or Magician of Black Chaos or something.
Doesn’t the anime follow the ocg banlist? So why would they include a card that is banned in the ocg in the final duel?
I remember there was a conspiracy idea back in 2005 or 2006 when ude started the pre release events, giving away a special card from the set.
There were many rumors that people were getting sjc crush cards as there card. I remember St Clair being behind it.
Carly was removed because she was supposed to stay dead after the events that occurred, they just brought her back to life because they wanted a good ending
This is a spoiler for a different anime, but it makes sense. Clannad after story did the exact same thing.
@@illdoittomorrow2368 Thats different because of how VN to anime adaptations work. VNs don't have 1 coherent story but are split into routes, often having a true ending you only get after unlocking the other endings.
Her staying dead would unironically be more preferable to what they did to her in season 2.
The predaplant makes no sense. They were maining Predapractice, which was the card that got bought out, and Predapractice still sees play in Predaplants.
It is good in Predaplants. PURE Predaplants. Branded Predaplants doesn't use it because it's a brick when you have no Predaplant in hand to pair it with.
@@gravethestampede3454They were maining 3 in their lists. The conspiracy theory is still nonsense. There are literally nonsense buyouts by people all the time. The idea that they tried to purposely engineer one is just silly.
@@gravethestampede3454Y'know, I don't know that I've ever seen it played pure in my life.
@@1stCallipostle if you ever do, they're sure to be running predaplanning though
people always cite the ending theme of that time using Life Stream Dragon as evidence that plans were changed, but the same ending theme also features Crow prominently with Jack and Yusei all the way through, even driving into the sunset with their ace-monsters out. The same ending also shows Leo and Luna confronting a hooded figure together, which goes against the theory that Leo was supposed to duel Greiger and was shoved into the Devack duel after Crow stole his spot.
My theory is that a little was changed, but nothing much. I suspect the three-on-one-duel against Rex was always planned, only difference being that Leo would have gotten Yusei's mark instead of Crow, and that the King of the Underworld would have turned out to be a corrupted Life-Stream Dragon for Leo to receive. I also think Greiger was a late addition to give Crow something to establish his credences, cause he's the only Dark Signer not even remotely hinted at in the endings and openings. Even his Earthbound-monster was missing in previous flashbacks, even though those same flashbacks featured other Earthbounds who weren't officially revealed yet at the time.
I mean with Crow it explains why his dragon conflict with Blackwings so much.
In all fairness, YGO was still ironing out the jank even in that supposed “they figured it out this time” era. Like, what were even 90% of Duel Terminal cards? So many archetypes in those had 30+ cards each with only 2-5 playables out of each, if that. And that was even if you were playing them pure. In short, what I’m saying is that Black-Winged Dragon sucking is normal. Blackwings actually being good was the anomaly.
Blackwings and black winged dragon is not even he's card's.
I have a collection of all the Yugioh R cards. Im so happy they made the puppet cards etc lately.
I got one for you, and you're welcome test this shit yourself if you don't believe me:
Master Duel only allows you to draw a good hand a certain number of times in a row. After you do your full combo several games in a row, it will force you to brick in a fairly regular and predictable pattern.
The game recognizes what cards you activate and resolve most often, and then does everything it can to hinder your ability to access those cards for a few games. This is likely a method by which Konami actively slows your progress up the ladder, to keep you playing for longer.
I swear on my life, when I was playing master duel religiously not long after it released, I would full mermail combo for exactly 4 games in a row, and then brick like hell for exactly 2 games, then draw full combo again for exactly 4 games.
Now whether or not these are the exact numbers for everyone, I don't know. But that's what it was for me. I haven't played enough master duel in a long time, so I can't confirm if this still happens. We'd need a shit load of people doing a shitload of testing.
No I believe you 100%
When Baronne dropped I made a speedroid deck for the event. I literally never lost a game, never bricked.
The day the event ended, I was drawing all my one offs, or bricking like hell with useless non starters.
Accesscode Talker was like 6 to 9 months after Firewall got banned
I have this theory that Konami only prints cards to make money.
On the 5Ds one, while still unsubstantiated, there were a couple factors that might have lead to them to be more believable because they at least seemed like sound logic on the surface.
1) Carly being written out due to the VA being in the Roma Sophie cult also often included the explanation that this was why the show suddenly veered Yliaster away from anything involving the occult and being a cultish secret society to the Sci fi "oh no it's actually time travellers from the future pretending to be a cult like secret organization." The fact that yugioh veered away from the overtly supernatural and into more Sci fi stuff in almost every series afterward helped fueled the flames because it seemed to line up with that (off topic, but I kind of miss the supernatural bend yugioh used to have. It was always supernatural AND sci-fi, but it used to lean more supernatural)
2) Crow being a Dark Signer and even the final boss may be a combination of a few things. I don't have the source, so maybe it's just another rumor, but iirc he was originally imagined as an antagonist. Not a dark signer though, and more of team rocket "let's steal yusei's duel runner" type. His blackwing's are dark winged beasts like Rex's Earthbound Immortal. Finally (this is really weak, even by bad conspiracy standards), his criminal marks look like they would fit as dark signer markings ( although tbf, this happened with kallen). So I think all of these just got rolled into antagonist±matches the big bad's type/attribute±criminal mark kind of looks like dark signer mark= final big bad dark signer
I never did buy the idea that Crow was supposed to be a Dark Signer, but I could believe the idea that he got upgraded to a larger role. It seemed like he was supposed to be used as something to warn the audience of the danger of the Dark Signers, as he grazes too close to the truth and dies. But then he comes back without explanation and then has his duel with Bommer that at least I feel like it undercuts the rematch the Bommer and Yusei should have had. Him becoming a signer and getting Black Winged Dragon also kinda ruined all the subtle setup they had been doing for Life Stream Dragon by slotting him into the spot that was clearly being set aside for Leo.
The change of Yliaster in Season 3 could be explained by the fact that the anniversary movie that was being produced at the time had to fit in with the current narrative.
Regarding Dark Signer Crow's conspiracy, Goodwin sports the crow glyph on his jacket from his very debut as a massive foreshadowing sign, the Earthbound Immortal couldn't have been intended for Crow.
3:05 I’ve heard this theory countless times. Apparently he was basically never gonna be more than a recurring character hence him becoming a dark signer but he was so popular he got Daniel Bryan’d into the main cast
Also 4:42 the rumour is something to the nature of the guy who drew air neos up will not and has not surrendered the IP to Konami
‘Did they just scrap the plans for Crow’
Would explain the random fridge he survived in that was nowhere to be seen when he got consumed by darkness. And him taking Rua’s fight against Bomber
Fun Fact: Judai/Jaden actually have a line with Air Neos but he's not in the game for some reason
the past behavior he's talking about is probably them increasing rarities for the tcg, making cards more expensive than they otherwise would be
Dire, your openings keep getting better and better. Pat on your back for the hard work
errata was such a fun little horror ARG a few years back, lol
Spectre in VRAINS being sidelined in the last season. He was one of VRAINS most interesting characters. An Orphan raised by a tree then kidnapped for the Lost Incident who joined Revolver, as his second in command. He had a great personalty, deck and all his duels were very fun to watch. Yet he didn't do anything in the last season. He appears in scenes with the rest of the gang but never says anything. Then he gets offscreen defeated alongside the other 3 Knights of Hanoi, which is a shameful way to go.
People theorised that the VA was tired of playing the role. Though, now it's clear VRAINS was extremely rushed and they didn't have time for anything in the last season.
Right, forgot the "raised by a tree" part...really puts the "adopted by pigeons" thing in Sevens in perspective...
@@christopherb501 He wasn't adopted by pidgeons. He had one as a friend and was apart of a family which used Carrior Pidgeons as workers.
My conspiracy as a kid was that we would get a despair from the darks alive version before he was a zombie as there are a couple of cards in which he a huge looking creature with legs but we sadly never got him :(
that one about erratas... if you're googling erratas, you're already going crazy, no govenment involvement needed
In the Italian dub of Arc-V, Sylvio Sawatari is named Shingo, like In the original (all the other names are the same as in english), my conspiracy theory is that they changed the name to avoid similarities with controversial politician Silvio Berlusconi.
Of all the theories, this is the one I feel is closer to being true
Shingo cosa fai quella ragazza è minorenne fermo-
So glad someone brought up the errata one…too damn funny
Master Duel conspiracy theory: You have a higher chance of drawing your garnets in your opening hand.
Firewall actually was not ever really presented as the ace. From the beginning marketing of Vrains through the entire first season, the ace has been treated as Decode Talker. Firewall's ban happened way, WAY earlier than Accesscode Talker's debut (Accesscode was literally the final duel of the series). Yusaku's Decode Talker thematically is tied to his character and it or another Code Talker is what he uses to end his duels most often. The actual conspiracy is people claiming Firewall was the "planned" ace when nothing in the marketing or the series itself really implies that.
The problem with a bunch of theories is that multiple theories can get clustered together and combine some things that are known to be true with some things that are plausible and some things that are total stab in the dark theories. Crow is the perfect example.
The verifiably true part is that he had an expanded role mid-development of the first season. He wasn't planned to be a Signer. The flashbacks involving Life Stream Dragon in the first season while NOT showing or even implying the existence of Black-Winged Dragon should be proof of this.
The semi-plausible part is his expanded role being due to Blackwing's popularity. Most TV anime are made about two months in advance, so basically anything in the anime that has an event that could have lined up to an event about 2 months prior would be in-line with a typical production schedule. In something like Yu-Gi-Oh it's even possible that the production is more rushed, but I don't know how it stacks up compared to other anime series. I don't really think that he was planned to be a Dark Signer but his expanded role in the plot of 5D's DOES coincidentally start around the episodes in the 40s... which was two months after the first Blackwing monsters were printed.
[But after Arc-V where you have "the director loves Crow so much he put three Crows in the show" it's most likely just, you know, the director's favoritism.]
The stab in the dark theory is that Crow might have been planned to be a Dark Signer, which is based on circumstantial evidence such as his criminal marks or aesthetics of Earthbound Immortals that are in-line with his deck. Possible? Yeah, but it's all circumstantial. He COULD have been a Dark Signer, but it was scrapped early enough in the development that there really isn't evidence of that being planned.
My conspiracy is: After Danger?! released and basically broke the game, Konami Japan decided that the power level of World Premier themes was too high, so now the make sure every new one is kept at a low power level. As seen in Beetroopers, whose first wave was a bit too strong, so the 2nd wave had to suck hard.
The Predaplant thing reminds me of the UG Karn fracas from Magic.
A team of (very good!) pros thought they had cracked the meta, and then WotC published their decklists early.
They were pretty miffed, but then it turned out the deck was very bad, actually.
Surprised no one brought up the That Grass is Greener conspiracy in which Grass only got printed because card sleeve companies coluded with konami to make yugioh plahers need to by more packs of card sleeves
That first guy has a point. Konami does hate Americans, as well as every other consumer they have considering their treatment of franchises like Castlevania, Metal Gear, Suikoden, Silent Hill, Goemon, Contra, Frogger, Zone of the Enders, Rocket Knight Adventures... christ they do actually hate us this was supposed to be a joke.
im surprised that the "YCS' are rigged" theory didnt show up
Where's that French Yusei pfp guy that went on and on about how every single YCS is somehow rigged in favor of the "famous" players and that pro yugioh isn't real
The Carly thing is interesting because 5ds had some writing issues outside of her being in a cult. Though if true would add negative connotations to the show. I personally think that they simply had the road map for dark signers practically pre written for how well it flows and the second half winged it so they could finish up the WRGP stuff with as little issue as possible.
5DS was written via Kazuki Takahashi notes for a manga he was thinking of doing before deciding he didn't really want to go back into the regular serialization lifestyle so this is likely it, His notes probably only covered the first arc
Takahashi wrote the first arc of 5Ds and basically retired, saying he wanted to enjoy the rest of the series as a normal viewer, and left the anime staff on their own to come up with stuff for the rest of the series and surprise him. My guess is the anime staff was just throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks, and generally fumbling around in the dark until halfway into the WRPG Preparations arc.
@@mateusrp1994 I believe the general conclusion is that a lot of the issues from the back half of 5Ds is because of this lack of direction + Shin Yoshida decided to make BBT canon.
The firewall conspiracy is only half right.
I personally do believe that being the Ace monster was influential to why it did not receive the hammer until orcust truly became the bane of everyone.
But it wasn't banned until acesscode came along. It was actually much earlier with its XYZ counterpart firewall Exceed dragon. As I remember that card being hyped in articles as Yusaku's new ace leading up to his fight against cyber gou, and the fact that while the code talkers were far more prominent as Yusaku"s ace than firewall ever did. Acesscode didnt made its debut until the very last episode of Vrains and its final release pack related to the anime.
They hyped all the extra deck summon type gang of Yusaku cards as new ace iirc
The only one where its warranted ended up being Cyberse Clock Dragon. A card so prominent in the anime the final boss of the show had a card specifically designed to handle it and gloated about it at the episode it was played
@@screwtokaiba true but I feel like Exceed is particularly odd because while Clock and Quantum were cyberse dragons. Exceed is the only one that is an actual variant of firewall rather than an equivalent. That would be like having the 4 dimensions dragons but Yuto has odd eyes absolute instead of dark rebellion. This alongside the fact that it was promptly revealed relatively to the original's Ban in the OCG gives the theory that it was built as a replacement for the link in order to make sure yusaku has a firewall dragon as his ace
@@makairidah8354 they do manage to push firewall aesthetic as ace. Its just that its from darkfluid. Even then the way the games are played youd be forgiven to think Clock evolved into Fluid since every duel with fluid plays out in a way where Clock will destroy the first boss, then die then sets up the summoning of Fluid(notably Darkfluid is technically the evolution of the summon method crew from its effect and id argue their effect are a natural evolution from Clock). Exceed was only ever used as a body lmao.
Also when talking about this i think people forgot how irrelevant Yusaku as a character was in season 2. Theres a 10 episodes string where Yusaku doesnt duel. The exceed thing doesnt feel as weird between the early finale of season 2 to the end of season 3(roughly the timelime between Exceed introduction to the end of the series) Yusaku only dueled 4 times and you can argue Yusaku vs Kotler is basically a filler.
The @wiki entry of Cyberse Clock Dragon and if i remember right pixiv wiki actually joked about it by saying how "Clock actually saw high amount of use since its appearance and can be considered an active player being the first monster who defeated a Link 5 but it doesnt have that much appearance due to the lowered relevance of Yusaku"
@@makairidah8354 oh and on a related note. The example you put out kinda did happen sort of with Yuya - despite being the Odd eyes guy, in part because Yuto is his "Atem" hes featured with an Xyz boss more often then not on the show opening. Rebellion was only heavilly pushed as Yuyas big guns during Synchro arc though tbf
My personal theory is that prior to Master Duel's release, Konami didn't see it as profitable to make a card game simulator since that would pull players away from the TCG and sales of cards were still profitable. Only when links got introduced and sales numbers for the TCG began going down did they release Master Duel to make the game "more accessible" to players.
Will never forgive what happened with Carly.
The branded predap one is so funny to me, cause I've seen so many people act like it was obviously terrible when in reality it was still good, just not quite better than regular branded despia.
On MD, if you see a three kanji name as your opponent, 9 times out of ten its an North American player using a bot, or someone that believes this conspiracy 0:43
5:01 to be fair the theory was like "it's probably related to maximus", and the card has inverted maximus stats, a similar color scheme, is a spellcaster+dragon fusion, and can't be used as fusion material (showing that he can like resist albaz now or something)
ah yes, the only nationalities that plays yugioh, American and Japanese
My YGO conspiracy theory is Monstergate.
I thought the air neos thing was due to an Italian airline of a similar name...
"People just thought it sounded like it would be cool if it was true, so they decided that's the same thing as it being true". He just explained like 90% of conspiracy theories.
That and seeking justifications for maintaining a worldview and/or ego, particularly if it involves hating on specific minorities, usually Jews or queer people.
Reason why kosmos doesn't have support is because Konami is afraid of Disney
Konami, give us Air Neos 2 please. Change the art, make a new hummingbird. I don’t care. WE NEED THE BIRD PERSON.
The only conspiracy theory i'll believe to be true is that Sixth Sense was added to LC Joeys World just to sell that dogshit box.
That set is actually fucking fantastic though. There are a ton of really good cards.
It just sucked in prog, because all the good stuff was either banned or they already had playsets.
Wait did no one mention the Farfa and Cimooo conspiracy theory. Why does Cimoooo not interact with Farfa at all. We never see those two together. Is there some bad blood between the two people?
They are the same person obviously.
7:50 got that Butterfree/Venomoth and Salamence/Flygon logic
Dire's editing is perfect for this series. Thank you for making me go start a rewatch of Adventure Time.
While the "Crow was supposed to be a Dark Signer" is kinda wack, the "Crow took Leo's position as 5th Signer" has some merit, especially since he didn't get Black-Winged Dragon until over 60 episodes after Life-Stream Dragon appeared, meaning they absolutely had time to make that change. Hell, the "popularity" of Blackwings could've even mattered there.
someone at YCS dortmund had a Tshirt which had a missing poster of Air Neos, it was so funny
They could just change the air neos art and reprint him. So its not the art, its the name
They could also just errata the name.
As long as they don't go full ship of theseus him
@@raydhen8840 SEA MONSTER OF THESEUS IS THE REAL AIR NEOS 🤣
Ok here's my unhinged theory as of today's early box breaks for age of overlord. Konami is giving the influencers rigged boxes. There is no way Dzeef of all people just happened upon what was essentially a god box in terms of the set. I refuse to believe that a box like that could exist naturally, let alone just happen to be on an early box opening of a relatively large creator. (Apparently farfa pulled similarly, but I don't know for sure as that would require me to watch a farfa video)
Farfa pulled Diabellestar, the searcher for Diabellestar, Arias, and one of the Horus Secrets. What did Doug pull? I did not see his video yet.
Revz opened two boxes, one was mediocre, but the other was cracked.
I am completely willing to believe this theory though.
And all the times dzeeff opened a bad box you didn't say a fucking thing did you.
I remember rev's pulling 2 starlights in one of those vids (the gold pride xyz)
Two conspiracy theories I found hilarious, both related to UDE:
1. Back when the Near-Apocalypse of 2009 happened, when UDE was caught printing counterfeit cards for Vintage Cards to release in those weird blister packs, they posited a theory that they had found secret Chinese counterfeiting businesses run by Konami to "prove" that Konami was the one printing the counterfeits and that Vintage was lying. Like, yeah, nice way of trying to save your ass there, UDE...
2. That UDE had secret exclusive legal printed versions of various anime cards - including an original version of The Seal of Orichalcos, of which there were like 15 that were handed out to specific employees - that were played by said employees at various tournaments in a "beat the master" style duel, and they had to give them up to Konami when they lost the license (but some of them didn't, and are still out there to this day). I keep on hearing this is true, especially the one with The Seal of Orichalcos, but the thing is, even back then, there should've been some video evidence of the matches to show off the cards, like a photo or something, but to this day, no one I know of has been able to find such evidence to corroborate it.
The seal of orichalcos is a real card. But printed on it is "cannot be used in a duel." So the only evidence they had for this. Doesn't exist.
That said. There is a series of cards called boss fight decks (If I recall correctly) based on antagonist from Yu-Gi-Ohs history. The last one being don thousand. These are real and where used for events. With real prizes. You can also buy these sets. Weather they are still printed is another matter.
Basically the theory is based on real cards with no proof outside of... these real things. Like bleh.
@@NCemloen But I have yet to come across any sort of visual proof that they exist, just anecdotal evidence from duelists who supposedly saw it. Hate to be "that guy", but with this, I have to insist "pics, or it didn't happen".
I don't think it was just that people "got it in their heads" crow was going to be a DS it was because there was a scene in 5ds where it showed the 5 signer dragons attacking an Earthbound immortal, and specifically one of them was life stream dragon while black-winged dragon was nowhere to be found until they had to make a signer dragon for him in season 2. That along with how all of the dark signers have a connection to another main character EXCEPT Devak. And Devak is the only one they don't explain a backstory for, which all this leads people to think either they were lazy with writing a reason for him to exist or they had other plans initially and changed their minds. There's also just the fact that blackwing armor master has the Earthbound lines on its body which could've implied it was meant to be his "dark synchro" monster in having a specific tuner as well like the rest at the time and yet it's all chalked up as a design choice.
Also crows in general never really signified good things in media and literature. But no he just is a bog standard quirky nice guy with seemingly everything under the sun pointing against him.
My favorite is: Konami's Yugioh TCG division is being run by monkeys.
Oh wait, that's actually a fact.
The turbo/nitro theory reminds me of Pokemon's Butterfree/Venomoth theory
Wasn't the issue with Air Neos that an airline exists with the same name and Konami could not win the lawsuit to maintain Air Neos the card?
But why would they edit him out of arts?
Don’t you just errata the name in that case to like humming neos or something
Again, we literally do not know. This is one of the popular theories.
I can't find any information about an airline called Air Neos. It's likely it's a legal issue, but I'm not sure what
No it was copyright issues as Upperdeck's art team made the artwork of Air Neos, so having it be reprinted would give Upperdeck the opportunity to file a lawsuit on Konami.
The solution to this is to make a completely different & original artwork to have the card be reprinted without much issue.
The Golden Nova shade; I love it!
Australian wcq 2020 is the best one not spoken about
Wait hang on, Turbo Synchron has an effect about changing things to defense position too. I actually believe that one now.
The fact that I never knew there was a Wind attribute DT "misprint" for Nitro Warrior, one of my favorite cards, from my favorite series, blows my damn mind lmao. THAT was super interesting to find out
I remember the stuff about Crow and NOBODY could ever provide conclusive proof that he wasn't supposed to be a main character/not supposed to exist/supposed to be a Dark Signer. 5Ds had some copium among some of its fanbase, but it's still my favorite series of the franchise.
The thing that bugs me about the Crow theory is that a having a beloved character deck and a character’s alliance to good or evil don’t always align. If they supposedly ssved Crow from being a dark signer because of blackwings being popular, wouldn’t they have done the same thing for some like Kalin/Kiryu? Infernity was (and still is) a popular fan favorite deck, so why couldn’t they do the same thing?
TL;DR - the crow theory makes no sense because being a fan favorite deck and a character’s alliance to good or evil also makes no sense.
I have a small MD conspiracy. I think there's a Striker fanboy on the balancing department. Like there's no way that any normal person saw Kagari and Engage and just thought "Yeah. Both at 3 is fine." Add to the fact that for months, the Striker pack was the only upgraded pack with most new shit just sitting in the master pack. Hell, ALUBER is still not in the Alba Lenatus pack and Exosisters still don't have a secret pack! But you know, 3 Kagari and Engage is JUUUUUUUUUUUUST fine. :')
Engage is at 2 in MD, just like in every other format.
@@gatocochino5594 It is? I thought it was at 3. Either way, I still don't think 3 Kagari with more than 1 copy of Engage should exist at all.
@@karetsu889 The deck is literally doing nothing.
4:49 I know this theory about Air Neos is a little far-fetched, but the thoery suggests that the background behind the monster is very similar to a card from a different card game (I can’t recall the card).
What I think happens to Air Neos (and other GX era monsters): The design for the monster most likely came from a temp artist and this particular artist have the rights over the character design. When his contract ended, so those monsters rights to be used. Simple like that.
This happened before in comics, I just don't remember which character it was. MiracleMan maybe?? Or in games, like Geno from Super Mario RPG, that was in a legal limbo for a long time before the remake.
What you're describing sounds less like miracleman and more like the echidna characters in archie sonic, where Archie forgot to make one of their writers (Ken Penders) sign a work for hire, and so he owns all the stories he wrote and characters he created. If it were a similar situation with Air Neos I think we'd know because the artist that owns Air Neos would probably say something. Also, you'd expect to see more characters affected, it would be strange if this artist did literally only 1 design for the entirety of GX, especially since air neos wasn't removed from everything until fairly recently.
And then you realized that's bullshit because STON keeps being printed in SK, right?