@@CircuitReborn well 6 if you count life stream dragon he was supposed to appear wayyy early in the series (plus Leo becoming a signer) when the plot originally involved crow replacing Rex Godwin as the final villan but black wings said nope and they made crow into a hero so that they can market black wings
Australia did put out the first 20 episodes of sevens in dub and I checked it out and Yuga doesn't hate the game. He hates the overload of rules the game has gained which to me acts as a meta commentary on how complicated the game itself has become over the years.
if you dont like that a sport because it has so much rules or some rules that make it complicated for you, it almost the same as saying you dont like the sport, its the same statement in a way, but i agree that its a well done meta commentary about how complex the current yugioh has become.
@bastianokamiro5421 it's like if wilt chamberlain played in the game today. He'd be so confused and sick of the rules now a days. Similar to what they're saying old players feel. Even though in both cases it's apart of evolution
@@bastianokamiro5421 Weak analogy, sports don't have a meta, ever evolving convuluted card texts or straight up adding entire new aspects to the sport, it's more like not being happy with pvp updates that are obscenly broken
@@bastianokamiro5421 not the same thing, the equivalent would be if you played soccer/football since you were a kid but they kept adding new things, like if balls that had wings, change trajectory on its own, had dynamic weight, or if the players could use telekinesis, fly, had super strength, or if the field could change to a sand pit or a large pool of water... but no, the rules of sports are straightforward and unchanging. perfectly valid to not like the sport if they added all those things.
that original yu gi oh art style was awesome i loved the slender sharp jojo's bizarre adventure type designs i remember how badass marik looked when he was pissed and how dark the story got sometimes
Dude yes, the original did all of that SO well. Marik was an evil bastard but bakura was even worse. It’s crazy the main villain of the series was under your nose the WHOLE TIME. It wasn’t till the finial season you figured this out. that right there, is what made duel monsters so great. Oh, and the art style and bad ass opening them ofc!!
I think most people believe the real reasons for the art style change is due to the changing of animation studios and having simpler designs is usually good for more exaggerated animation. Look at how the Pokemon anime changed art styles when they started Sun and Moon. And the reason for the changing of animations studios is most likely due to the whatever behind-the-scenes production problems Studio Gallop was having during the end of Arc-V and all throughout Vrains. I mean if you can compare Zexal to Vrains you definitely notice a big dip in the animation quality. Not to mention Vrains had multiple recaps episodes during the first 50 episodes of the show, and the show ended much sooner than any other Yugioh show. Causing things that were set up during the show to come to an abrupt halt and be abandoned.
Things have been going downhill since Zexal. Zexal had an absolute shit protagonist. V had an awesome story and plot going but after the synchro dimension arc it went to shit. Vrains had an ok protagonist but too many recaps, too few interesting characters besides revolver, and while an interesting new duel concept, got old and boring quickly.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan Gonna have to disagree with you on Yuma being a shit protagonist. Plenty of people in the western community over the years have grown to like Yuma over time. And think he's a good protagonist even if he starts off annoying. Hell, people saying he gets better as the show goes on just shows the character development he goes through in being a better duelist. Zexal is even one of the most popular Yugioh shows in the east. So I wouldn't say Zexal was the starting point of when things went downhill.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan Yeah but as we can see as the show goes on he's able to duel properly without Astral's help. And yeah he's an annoying idiot at the start, but like I said as the show goes on he matures. Because that's character development.
@@FireFury190 Exactly hell if you look at ZeXaLs animation despite certain issues like Cathy in the Vector duel, ZeXaLs animation is beautiful as hell especially with how they animate certain Number Monsters hell besides GX I always see myself Rewatching ZeXaL and looking back at some moments it had. Like in GX we witness the story of teenagers going through high-school issues and growing up to move on their own, mostly in Judai which lead to the manic trip of depression that was Season 3 all the way to Season 4 when Judai's character came to a perfect conclusion. With ZeXaL you got a kid who goes through a similar arc Naruto Uzumaki goes through he starts as an annoying brat who overtime grows into a better individual.
What went wrong is that they made the classic reboot mistake of making it unappealing to the original fanbase. The show and simpler gameplay mechanics are so blatantly aimed at a much younger audience than the series' that came before and so alienate a lot of the fanbase from the other 6 shows, yes they wanna bring in new fans but to do so by cutting off your old fans is the worst way to do it and inevitably leads to the series not doing as well at first.
Yeah. Especially then adding his other point: Nobody starts at chapter 7. So making a show that is blatantly anti-origin fanbase but then basically calling it "Yugioh, but watch 6 shows before this please" practically guarantees you'll also not have any new fans either.
It kinda makes more sense with yugioh, the current format is way too complicated for an anime fan to enter so a new format is much better, also it does get more seriouse later on like zexal
yu gi oh fans: "this serie is bullshit!, this is not yu gi oh i hate it!, why it is so simple it makes no sense!" yu gi oh seven: "we do not have mystic mine" yu gi oh fans: "ok... now i'm interested"
I think most people's problem with the art style isn't even that it doesn't look like YGO. It's that it's so simple and devoid of personality that it looks like literally every other kids' anime. Couple that with the young protagonists, and everyone I've spoke to immediately thought "So they're just abandoning the cool and different things the series was always doing and just trying to cash in on the kiddie market". And while everything you've brought up in this video might say otherwise, I've noticed the one thing you haven't mentioned at all is the story. A lot of people watch only for the story, and Sevens just doesn't seem to have much to offer in that department at first glance.
Whilst the rush duels look fun, im not sold on the shows concept - were essentially following the villain around as hes being oblivious to destroying something many people except apparently for him enjoyed...
I remember seeing Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens on Disney XD one day when flipping through the channels, and I was like "What did they do to this franchise!?", which is why I can understand why so many fans were turned off by it, especially the art style. It's gotten to the point where I consider it to be in an alternate universe and see it as a spin-off rather than a mainline entry.
I could (almost) get past the artwork, how they have changed other animes, made them less visually edgy. But the card play, absolute reworking of the game, and virtually ignoring what came before, I can't green light such an idea myself.
I can see what they were getting at... The card game is in drastic need of just an entire wipe so they can start from the beginning without the mess they made over the years of broken effects. The problem was they went at it completely the wrong way. You don't need "faster duels" because most games I've played last ten minutes or less and that's because the current mess enables you to lose the game without ever playing with surprising ease. They should have just rolled back to the beginning and started rereleasing the entire game from the beginning with the updated card visual format while changing card effects entirely where needed to unbreak them and make it so we can actually play without a pages-long ban list and perhaps work the card limits into the game directly so you don't have to consult a website all the time. Not abandoning everything that came before, just going through step by step to fix it all and if Konami needs motivation, they can get in on all that "resell the same cards for the 100th time" action but better because it would make people stop quitting the game entirely.
Im the complete opposite lol. Imo the new reboot rule seems really fun compare to speed duel but i can't take it when they change the iconic art style of the anime.
@@KertaDrake "we need faster duels!" how!?, what the fuck does it mean!?, should you just start with mystic mine on the field?, yu gi oh already has the problem that a game gets decided by a fucking negate in the second turn so how the heck do you want it to get faster!?
@@KertaDrake The main reason it's a mess is because they started to introduce new gimmicks every new generation, they really should have stopped a XYZ summoning at the most, Pendulum, Speed etc will be hard to keep track of all the rules and make things sooo convoluted.
"The history of the Yugioh anime will change forever" Translation: We're going to combine 2d and 3d animation in a way that is so completely and totally jarring that classic fans of the older animes will never watch it ever again! I seriously cannot watch modern Yugioh without getting a headache, 3D monsters on a 2D plane just does not work... Somehow Konami got it in their head that the best way to celebrate everything that made the YuGiOh anime great was to change everything to such a massive extent that none of the original concepts remained...Yeah...genius...
It took me a long time to watch seven, because of all the stigma aorund it and not featuring the cardgame everyone knows and loves (or hates) It started out as a joke, but actually the more I watched it the more it grew on me. Like as almost completely seperat from other serieses I embraced the goofy nature of it eventually, I love the character writing in the series. There are characters you would see in other yugioh serieses and they would appear for one episode and never again, but in Sevens each on of these characters comes back and contributes to the plot or has their character expanded upon I also love the references the show gives to others. I like especially the Girl that uses a baseball themed Yuma deck
For me personally, I love the new card design for rush duels. My only complaint is with certain legendary cards. While cards like Pot of Greed makes sense to be a legendary since its allows the player to draw 2 cards, especially with no hand limit in rush duel. However, having Normal monsters like Blue-Eyes or any high attack monster from the DM era doesn’t make sense to me. Those high attack beat stick can easily be dealt with cards like dark hole or mirror force , if those cards ever come to rush duels. Which possibly will in the near future. I hope that the legendary tread would be on only certain overpower cards and not iconic Monster from previous Yugioh anime. Rush duel looks simple for now. It’s only inevitable that they were introduced others summoning mechanics like synchro,xyz, and link. Along with monsters with very powerful effects like in the TCG.
I really don't think we're going to get stuff like Synchro, XYZ, and Link. Even with Fusions they took steps to make it less powerful than in the regular card game. You can only fusion from the field and all monsters used two specific cards with usually at least one being used exclusively for fusions. The main thing is you're looking at this like the regular TCG where it will keep going on and getting more power creep but it is not. Like speed duels before it will have a certain shelf life. They have a plan for how to meta will progress. For example, right now in the meta, pretty much any Legecy card is much better than most of the cards in the game. If we were to remove it would pretty much be regular Yugioh. They won't add any cards that disrupt this balance and they haven't.
@@bigwave1713 I disagree, I'm playing a lot of rush duels since the beginning, and the cards are progressively getting better and better, every year, they already pierce the 1500 atk level 4 cap early established (a thing they should never did, to maintain a certain consistency), also cards are having more and more text, and cards with two good effects started to appear. The power creep is real
To be fair, legendary cards are their to represent cards that govern a high status. Blue-eyes is a normal beatstick....it is also, the most well-known card in the entire franchise, hence the legendary status. The legendary status are for cards that govern that title not for overpowered cards.
@@firestarsantos7467 but it's also a gameplay mechanic, as you can only play 1 copy of each per deck. in a way, it's like decorated limited list. it might have "cool backstory", but it's still a limited list. and putting normal monster on such gameplay-affecting list is pretty laughable further the format go on.
I dont know why but drawing more than 1 card in your turn without effects and spells feels so illegal but im not gonna complain about it I kinda like the new card designs too (not to be mistaken with monsters)
@@ONCE_A_MOA_ALWAYS_A_MOA Yeah, top decking may be hype in anime, but in card games when that specific card doesn't give you a comback, might aswell surrender
I don’t like the change in rules or legend cards The change in rules is unjustified because A)Why isn’t whoever creates Duel monsters stopping this kid? Last time I checked, Kaiba left Mokuba in charge so… And B) Why does everyone just go along with it? You can’t say that people find duel monsters too slow because that basically “Say you don’t play your own game without saying you don’t play your own game” at the writers I don’t like legends because of 2 reasons. A)The status is given to cards that ultimately don’t deserve it with pretty much all the examples you give not being meta for years. I mean, Summoned skull hasn’t been meta since duel monsters era dueling where it was just whoever had the biggest stick and B)It completely shuts down a ton of decks
Great Video, but try telling that to someone like Dylan at Yugioh Everything, who is simply just a shill to Konami cos he has contacts there and clearly gets paid by them and free products to suck up to them and promote their product.
From what I've seen so far, I'm digging this new studio but I still really hope that Gallop isn't completely done with Yugioh. I hope it's possibly for both studios to coexist somehow
From what I heard, the animation changed, because it was quite challenging to keep doing the series in line with Kazuki's art style. And the guy who had guided them, and made it possible for them to emulate Kazuki's style, left after Vrains.
That and franchise creator Kazuki Takahashi passed away not that long ago, so they probably don't want to copy his style anymore out of respect... even though he was still alive when Sevens was being made.
@@Masterge77 The change was announced and done I think, at least a year before Kazuki's passing. So, unless they foreshadowed his death, that just doesn't make much sense.
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The main issue from the jump was taking a series that had started out targeting a pre-teen to young teen audience with aspects which appealed to older viewers as well. One that had captured an audience who is now even older now with the majority of former fans and current players being adults, and instead made a show so childish in its construction that no kid above the age of 8 could ever get into it.
It didn't feel like it connected to the game plus the characters didn't have any real dimension to them Even Arc-V got that right I understand needing to change things up but sevens & Go-Rush flew too far in the opposite direction making it feel like something only kids would enjoy When the game has plenty of older players
I really hate it when iconic franchises suddenly changing art styles. I like the concept of restarting the Yugioh meta game (because let's be honest, it has reached insanity at this point), but I think changing the visuals altogether creates such a huge barrier for older fans.
This video completely forgot to point out Sevens is done by a completely different studio because the studio that made normal Yugioh anime was too much of a clusterfuck
I love Rush Duels as it tackles the problems on old school yugioh and why I'll never return to that era: Slow Progressive Play and Resource Management. Here, players can go ham and have a fair chance of comeback with drawing up to 5. Nice reboot without actually intervening the TCG/OCG. As for the anime: while the plot feels one-dimensional and filled with comedic absurdity, there's this hidden layer of overarching mystery that progress and contributes to it. What I loved especially during the Roa Arc was its usage of the side characters. Unlike GX where the "Duelist of the Week" just never gets seen again, Sevens gives them a role to play much later on to help the protagonist(s).
To be honest, I find myself rather enjoying the comic absurdity. I mean, it's not like previous series weren't absolutely full of crazy shit (to begin with, this is a franchise where apparently every conflict in the multiverse gets resolved from playing a card game). I guess you could blame Sevens for cranking that absurdity up to 11, though it also seems to retain a hint of self-awareness (especially in the way Luke's ambitions get played up to be little more than chuunibyou screwiness). I particularly like how the show apparently has zero grasp on how computers actually work and just sorta rolls with it (Kaizou's consciousness "falling" into a bike seat, the Rush Duel system being run by a giant robot on the moon that was haphazardly put together with crashed satellites, and now we've got a child's manga character gaining sentient life through a fax machine). But if there was one thing I can't say I'm very fond of, it's the way that a lot of things end up being some big nothing burger despite their build-up (off the top of my head, one episode ends with the ramen shop guy smirking only to reveal next week that he was laughing at something on his smartphone, and groups like Top of Hexagon and Goha 66 turn out to be complete jokes). And yes, you are very right about the side characters. Hell, in previous series, forget "Duelist of the Week" characters, we'd be lucky just to see anyone who isn't the main character, and the major rival if we're lucky, amount to anything worth shit.
@@YamatoFukkatsu I'm fine with comedic absurdity just as long it fits with its show. The problem is that it can be viewed as "bad" by the standard audience.
Wait until Konami eventually introduces a Yata Lock-type strategy by accident, then the "slow progression" will slowly turn into post 2010 yugioh and people will start complaining how absurdly broken rush duels have become. Let's face it, no one liked the slow older formats when yugioh first came out. It tried to be like MTG, but it didn't have the resource/mana management aspect of it , which meant that the game speed will eventually accelerate like a d-wheeler at some point, else the audience gets fucking bored. And no, I am not referring to playground yugioh, I am referring to the actual tournaments. Competitive people will complain if shit gets too slow, and these are the people who actually buy the product in bulk. How else would Konami be able to sell more cards if they maintain the game speed and power level? Yugioh doesn't have set rotation unlike mtg. Rush duels will eventually catch up to the tcg and ocg.
Quick note on the "Seven" point. It's the alchemical symbol for "rebirth". It makes sense to name it seven to imply that it is a reboot. But y'know, not many knows about this in the first place.
The number 8 has also been visualized as an ouroboros twisting around itself in 2 circles, with the ouroboros long standing for death and rebirth. The number 9 has also been used as a counter for the afterlife, the nine heavens, and that is a spiritual rebirth of sorts. Don't get me started on the number 10 and how it represents the beginning of a new digit, how in binary it can be used to represent "2" in decimal, the continuation or the true sequel as opposed to a decimal 2, how it represents a perfect score in many concepts and as such victory (in a game about victory), etc etc. You can keep digging for meaning where there is none, 7 is just the number for this season and it sounded cool to the Japanese marketing people to call it with an English word, it's something they do pretty often.
Sevens means alot to the show. As you said its rebirth. 7 is also the amount of attributes the game has, which is the amount of attributes yuga needs for his deck. 7has alot of meanings for the show
I really liked the shadow realm from duel monsters era. because there were high steaks at risk. but with these new reboots of the series that “serious” feeling has just been lost sadly.
I truley believe one of the reasons why older fans losts all interest in yugioh was due to all the slight dramatic new additions or changes in the rule of dueling game. This being tied to new yugioh series. Also, yugioh, sevens seemed like a far less creative story compared to its predecessors.
I am at episode 20 almost and yeah till now it is not that interesting I mean rush duels are good. Does it get better? I would love if they some fantasy like in other yu gi oh series.
@@naimairfan5738 I watched Sevens from start to finish and am watching Go Rush as well. Sevens has little fantastical aspects being a more grounded series similar to Cardfight Vanguard Season 1. That said, the closest we get in Sevens is the Future Goha President arc as shenanigans with one of the president candidates happens. Go Rush is a more sci fi kids show and has very few new legend cards shown, relying on its own lore for new cards to be shown. To me these series are a breath of fresh air after the disappointment that Vrains was and its characters that, aside from Soulburner, were as interesting dry paint. Sevens has gone past the Yugi, Jounouchi, Kaiba dynamic for a 4 man band including the best female character in the series performance wise, a team chemistry not seen since 5D's, and a supporting cast that breath life (albeit wacky) into what is essentially a dystopian world. Go Rush is getting there, it started strong, then faltered a bit, but now is getting its full stride in. As you can probably tell, I love these series.
I used to play alot up to about 2007 and came back into because of Master Duel. (f2p on console for YGO is brilliant ) I went to check on the new Anime and i hope it helps Konami bring out different ways to play like a new format or something. Right now the game is very overwhelming and too extra deck dependent.
Ayyy fellow F2P player! I have built an Eldlich and a Chain Burn deck. Does not need an extra deck, fucks over the meta most of the times. F2P is a whole nother level!
Ironically, Duel Monsters was extremely popular in Poland as it ran on Cartoon Network back in a day. I can remember playing with my friends at school on every break - until one of them decided to print the untranslated Japanese cards with absurd damage numbers. We were like 8 back then. Brings bac memories for sure!
It ran through them for nearly the entire world outside of Japan since nobody else thought it was going to do well, and the rest of the world showed it really only works here in Japan.
Art style that deviates completely from the late Kazuki's own style when all other spinoffs/sequels tried to emulate it. Aiming at an even younger audience than ZeXal Infantile storyline Centred around a card game that isn't Yu-Gi-Oh. Gee, I wonder.
In a very similar coincidence, the Pokemon Sun and Moon (or SM for short) anime also went thru similar polar responses when they want thru a drastic visual change after XY and XYZ, most likely due to the growing popularity of Youkai Watch at the time. It also has its issues, but it is quite enjoyable.
Hmm Yokai Watch might be why both Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon tried to go to the child demographic as opposed to preteen one they had before. In both cases it did not work as they expected but for Yu-Gi-Oh it was worse because Pokémon is more episodic whole Yu-Gi-Oh tended to be more serial with long serious story arcs. I actually checked Yokai Watch and it was terribly childish. Like I played the game for a bit and watch the first couple of episodes and my reaction was this is too kiddy.
I felt this, I don’t think it did terrible in u.s tho. When I was a kid (2002) duel monsters was VERY popular.. everyone had a Yu-Gi-Oh deck and if you didn’t you were made fun of lol.
I actually played the Demo for the switch, it was really fun since there's hubs in 3rd person with open areas. It's like the same as the games previously but you actually interact with characters. But I'm gonna be honest sevens was suppose meant to be for newer fans not veterans, since base meta game is complicated as hell. It is weird for them to be the 20th anniversary special, maybe their trying to restart on the whole Children Card Game
I feel like it's a mix if Yu Gi Oh, Duel Masters, and Pokemon because that would explain why their kids in the Yu GI Go 7 because Ash was a kid he wasn't exactly a teen, and some characters if you look closely are just hidden characters from Pokemon and Duel Masters.... Still do love this anime even if other ppl hate it.
I recall the Duel Master's anime being adapted and aired on cartoon network. At least the dub would sometimes lean into the silliness of making a show of a card game...so it didn't take itself too seriously.
I watched this show, the dubbed version. I tried so hard to give it a chance, I had to quit and come back a few times just to get through the first season. By the 5th episode of the second season, I was crying, I literally cried over what this show was. The other six series prier to it could be enjoyed by both kids and adults. I rewatched them recently, a few complaints with the dub now that I know better, but overall, they were still great. This series however is something you would use to introduce children to the franchise, kids between 5 and 8 years old. This series is not geared towards the older fans. It relies to much on comedy and the duels have no stakes. Before lives were on the line, the fate of the world, the future, and multiple realms were at stake. Now, we have duels over a mom not making her sons favorite meal; and championships with construction paper crowns for the victor.
@@BillPlunderbonesTew8 GX and 5D's were in moderation. Zexal, a bit more heavy handed, but it still had enough serious moments to balance out. Seven's is a whole other monster, it's just non-stop and it's more cringe than funny.
....There's new Duel Masters anime?! That's much more interesting than freakin' Sevens! Jokes aside, I do recall there being some push back about when Pokemon changed the style so drastically for Sun and Moon and that's really not a bad series at all. I rather liked the more consistent cast instead of a stream of one off characters.
Funny that the reason I initially checked out Rush Duel after not having played Yu-Gi-Oh since the Battle City era, was because it reminded me of Duel Masters.
How can they even call this a Yu-Gi-Oh! anime if they aren't playing Yu-Gi-Oh! and instead they're just trying to piggy-back off of it in order to promote some new shitty card game? If this was called Rush Duel Sevens no one would know it exists.
They just tried to make Yu-Gi-Oh more accessable to anyone again, that's all, especially to young children who can't catch up with the current rules. "I want to bring back the joy of this card game back to the children." is an actual in this show.
3 card duel have been promoted by the dice studio but failed due to majority like the field with 5 slot and difficult mechanic. So they decide to hire a new mangaka to promote the new main series with 3 slot card with easy to understand mechanic (not a continuation of the past series/use the same dimension)
We should really make Legend cards a category on the TCG/OCG banlist, it would open up a lot of different deck building options and provide more balancing tools. It would basically be a more restrictive version of the limited list and a compromise between the current TCG and Duel Links banlist system.
This can be the hypothetical 2nd format. A category of card where you can only have one of, unless the list says otherwise. Like you can have one Dark Magician and no other legends. But you can have 3 Blue-Eyes. Hell, maybe allow 5 Cyber Dragons in the same deck.
I'd love to just have the accursed list worked into the cards so I can just look at the cards and not consult a website constantly for deckbuilding. Just put a symbol on them for how many you can run at a time! I'd also love to not have all the coolest cards get stuck with effects that slaps them almost directly onto the ban lists as well, but that would require them to actually learn the rules to their own game...
I like the Rush Duels, the rules are simple and fun, and the turns don't take a lot of time until you wait for your opponent to special summon and combo so hard like a gazillion times. What I don't like about the game? The Legend mechanic is great but it hurts that some of the Legend cards will never be used because they are week compared to others, like Sakuretsu Armor. Why would you use Sakuretsu Armor that destroys one attacking monster, when you have Mirror Force that destroys all attacking monsters? Or cards like Mystic Elf or Vorse Rider. Its annoying that you cannot make a Legend card centric deck, like a Blue-Eyes deck and not a Dragears Deck or a Dark Magician deck and not a Sevens Road deck. I wish they would give us more support so that we could add that legend card faster in our hand or cards that allows us to recycle that Legend card. Its annoying that we can't use fusions like Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon anymore because of the Legend rule that prevents us to run multiple copies of Legend cards. Cyborg fusions are way to OP and they work in almost any deck and it's so easy to get the fusion materials on the field. Their affects are extremely strong to. There are some annoying cards that need to be limited or nerfed, the card that I hate the most is Dark Liberation, you shuffle 4 cards from your grave to deck and you can destroy all attacking monsters. It's so annoying to face spellcasters centric decks because when they have 4 spellcasters in their grave you are always afraid to attack and I swear to God they have that card all the time. Another OP card is Dragears, that card can attack a second time after it destroyed a monster. Not so OP like Dark Liberation, but it is not a fair card.
I like the anime, the characters are lovely, the female characters are good duelists and they have a decent win rate, every side character will reappear in the future and it has a importance to the plot. I'm ok with the comedy in this anime, the jokes are good. But I liked the more dark themes of the previous anime, Duel Monsters and 5DS where the best. I don't like the change in art style, the previous one was so unique and iconic. I didn't liked the villains until we got Yuo. They where not bad people and they became friends with Yuga. They where great characters, but not great villains. I don't like the fact that most duels end way to fast, it took a couple of episode until we got a good duel (the duel with Roa).
@@yesman1743 dude do you play rush duels in real life or something? You complained alot about legend cards the idea of rush duels is to step away from the tcg meta and let it be it's own thing. Which it's done quite well as a matter of fact.
You misspoke in your video. You said other than Arc-V no other Yugioh anime had a number in the title but 5Ds did as well. What I think you meant was that none had the number of its series in the name other than Arc-V and Sevens.
You’re completely wrong on this one, the real reason that this failed is because they didn’t play yugioh, they played some game that isn’t even playable in NA, it had hardly anything to do with the art style
Personally. I loved everything from 1, GX, 5Ds and Zexal. But everything after that started to decline the series for me. I really loved the shadow realm and how they had something similar with the barian arc in Zexal. However for me Arc V was just okay. Nothing too special and didnt have a great ending for the series. After they revealed Zarc things started to get boring for the show. What I did admire is how they were able to bring back reoccuring characters from the previous shows which is amazing. Felt awesome seeing Kite return. Arc 5 had alot of potential but got heavily ruined towards the ending. Vrains was just boring and trash to watch. Not an ounce of emotion in the show and now they managed to somehow make it even worse with Sevens taking away from what the first 4 yugiohs did well. Now they are like toddlers wth. I need to see more invasions. Lol thats the LIT stuff. Wish they would bring that back! Instead of making Yugioh only about a kids card game add the shadow realm stuff back lol.
I agree. I did like arc V alot because of Yuya and all of the previous forms of summoning and dueling being used, but they couldve put lots more care towards the ending.
While there are a good deal of stuff from the normal game into rush duels, there is basically no backwards crossovers. While it would be a bad idea to port mechanics, as it would dilute the games and give it no reason for both to be played instead of one or the other, but havig some of the cards sound nice. Especially some of the exclusive types like Omega Psychic or Magical Knight
i find it funny that Duel masters wasnt big in america. mainly because that was one of my favorite card games other than yugioh that i played on my Gameboy Advance.
I feel like it would have taken off if it didn't have the WORST timing of arriving in that time period where EVERYTHING had to have it's own terrible card game. It just got lost in the sea of cardboard waste until the companies and players gave up on it.
I actually like Sevens. Is it the same? No but I don’t think it’s supposed to be. I like that the kids actually feel like kids. I think the art style is easier for the animators. Especially since studio gallop had so many problems. This style will allow bridge to be more consultant since it’s, for the most part been a company that fills in where animation companies can’t. I think it’ll be popular with kids in the west.
its basically just Cardfight Vanguard but with Yugioh, and that's a good thing tbh. We needed the variety for a while, even if not everyone is going to love it.
@@four-en-tee it's a looooooot worse than old Vanguard was. It feels really V era/Buddyfight esque, and while I guess that's not a _bad_ thing, it's not Yu-Gi-Oh and it's not really what kids are into. Both Vanguard and Buddyfight were massive flops in the West and SEVENS has to compete with modern Beyblade and Pokémon. I don't anticipate it doing well
@@damienthonk1506 personally, I think it's time that they stop making the yugioh series into an anime and manga. Not only has the card game become too convoluted to the point it's un-regonizeable and confusing, but now that Kazuki Takahashi is deceased, it just seems wrong and insulting to continue his work without him. I do appreciate them for trying something different and while the animation does look good, at a certain point you need to let a series die out before it becomes so overused that it turns sour.
@@cosmok-1367 Takahashi never had an issue with YGO continuing on without him. He hasn't laid hands on it since the original manga was over. I don't think he would care about it continuing after he died.
I was genuinely disappointed when they rushed the ending to Vrains then gave us Sevens. It wasn't do much the artstyle that took me away, but the Rush Duels. I've watched all 6 series and the 5Ds Turbo Dueling and the Vrains speed duel formats were fun, the Arc-V Action Cards were okay (they got on my nerves towards the end) but Rush Duels, just didn't want to learn a new rule set that I knew I was never going to play IRL
To be fair, Jojo is that kind of series where there really isn't a good entry point. You just gotta jump right in and embrace it or sink into insanity... or both!
Hey great vid Enigma! Love the discussion you brought forth - what you've said hasn't been mentioned before and is both unique and important in this discussion imo. Are you planning on revisiting sevens as it is planned to end soon and the next series is announced? Yugioh 8 is looking interesting. Personally wish Konami would go back to the original continuity, but I am enjoying the sevens continuity as well. Just miss iconic characters like yugi/seto, judai, basically all the cast of each series has something that made them really unique and distinct. Not to say sevens doesn't have this, but I quite miss the old continuity too, so I wonder how best this divide in the fanbase can be reconciled with the eighth series
I still liked Sevens enough, but compared to the other six it just doesn't stand a chance. It tried a lot of new stuff that I think pulled off surprisingly well, but it really struggled with the basics of the franchise. Because of that it feels even more disconnected that it really is.
Sevens' artstyle is the least of the show's problems. I can list a few off the top of my head that have nothing to do with the artstyle: -Seven's protag is a baby kid -the show's intended audience is toddlers when most of the Yugioh fanbase outside Japan are adults -animation is leagues worse than what has come before -hardly any perspective shots that were iconic with the previous Yugioh entries -Rush Duel completely disregards the game we all knew. Every time YGO introduces a new mechanic, the old cards/mechanics still work. Rush Duel only works with Rush Duel cards, which essentially makes it an entirely different entity. -voice acting is garbage. I haven't seen Sevens in years yet I distinctly remember awkward pauses between lines of dialogue.
@@Strato_Casterrr9898 Same. I used to hate Zexal too because my shiny synchro collection suddenly seemed to be worth less as every new poster-card became an XYZ monster. But thats also what 5DS did to Fusion. You should give Zexal another chance; it has the best animation of all the yugioh series--back when Konami were making the most money out of YGO and actually paid their animation staff.
@@KenLinx maybe someday I will. I just have to come to terms with rhe fact that Utopia has the most number of extra deck monsters out of all protagonist aces, except yuya. That just rubs me the wrong way how Yusei only had 4, Yugi only 2, and Jaden, well, no one cares about neos lmao. Yusaku only had 2 variants of Firewall dragon right?
@@KenLinx maybe someday I will. I just have to come to terms with rhe fact that Utopia has the most number of extra deck monsters out of all protagonist aces, except yuya. That just rubs me the wrong way how Yusei only had 4, Yugi only 2, and Jaden, well, no one cares about neos lmao. Yusaku only had 2 variants of Firewall dragon right?
Thanks for the info, may the future series even if they maintain this style gets boosted in a more classic style but being similar to this one, like sure there can be a middle point for it.💚💀💀
I stopped watching the anime after 5Ds. I am slowly trying to rewatch everything (even though I watched GX Religiously for 15 years, both dub and sub, RIP Season 4 Dub) and I seem to just appreciate each Stories as their own. Btw, the Steel Ball Run thing, Araki intentionally didn't name it Jojo because he wanted to start fresh, so technically you can start in SBR because it kinda has nothing to do with the past 6 parts, other then some alterations. Though I will still encourage to start with Phantom Blood.
What are your thoughts on duel monsters tho? GX isn’t bad. But I really like the plot of the originals and what was most interesting to me about it was how the main villain of the series was under your nose the whole time.
What was it? Every 3/4/5 years an gen starts. 2023 better do alot better with their animation and do the story they said they were going to do. And that would be an great way to end with an 8th gen, maybe even an 10th gen by 2032.
For me it’s the gameplay that killed any chance of interest. We already have speed duels (duel links style) that are faster to start and finish with good gameplay. Rush duels use entirely different cards for gameplay that feels empty by comparison
This is by far the worst Yu-Gi-Oh series, I've EVER watched. Aside that there's new Fusion and Maximum monsters, there's no timeline, no Synchro, no Xyz, no Pendulum or Link Monsters ever discovered in this series. Just a bunch of comedic idiots trying to make this series throw up!
Compare that to Vrains with Character Mismanagement, Too Many High Stake duels, and Production Problems. Along with mature theme feeling qualified as "the right way" to make a story.
@@Thisdude850 The only faults I can see Sevens has is the 13 episode arcs and maybe the need of a serious villain. Then there's blatant criticism from boomers and trolls out there. They think they know what's best for yugioh's future but *they don't.*
I don't think Konami switched studios in order to imitate Duel Masters, it's more likely that studio Gallop decided to part ways due to production issues with Konami (which makes sense if you know about how they screwed up VRAINS and the second half of Arc-V), and so Konamki thought it'd be a brilliant idea to cover their cheapness by pretending they're willingly making changes due to the Anniversary, which ultimately led to false advertising and left the fans disappointed.
Actually played the rush duel game. I went in with an open mind. It was fun but the game was extremely short and not a lot of cards either, plus they try to push max summon so hard, that the pvp was really stale.
Rush duels are pretty fun but for a serialized story anime the game is too rushed to have any real tension between episodes. Introduce threat, duel threat, rinse and repeat.
Sevens was so bad. I wanted to give it a chance but it felt like all the bad parts of ZeXal with none of the good ones. Sad that it's sequel is just as bad. Also is it me or is there a vocal minority defending this garbage anywhere online? I get it, you want to like Yugioh but Seven is just a bad kiddie Anime that makes Pokémon feel mature.
I feel the same way. And for that vocal minority you mentioned, it seems like most of the Yugioh reddit tries to make out Sevens and Go Rush as some fantastically written series full of depth. But I'm just not feeling it. Believe me, I have TRIED so hard to enjoy these shows, yet I'm just not. There's no deep plot, the characters just aren't that interesting imo, and I'm not getting that sense of conflict and mystery like with the previous series where I was constantly wondering and speculating multiple theories at once and loving the suspense of finding out more. But with Sevens and Go Rush, the "plots" just seem to be "let's make Rush Duels popular and evil corporation trying to suspend them", and then, "Let's learn about Rush Duels again and there's aliens trying to steal them!". The actual duels are too short and usually end in the most predictable ways with duelist 1 setting up their big boss and duelist then pulling their bigger boss to end them all in just a few short turns. There's also way too many comedy filler episodes (which people who have complained about them in the older series yet love Sevens seem to have no real issue with now), and even though there is some funny humor every once in awhile, even that can fall flat most of the time with the writers' obsession with puns. I am only watching these because they're Yugioh, but I'm pretty much forcing myself to do so, I hate to say.
*"No other Yugioh anime (expect for ARC-V) has a number in the title"*
Yugioh 5Ds: ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)
he meant like number which franchise was it for example yugioh 5ds is third generation while arc v(5) is fifth one.
@@indroj that what he meant but not what he said
@@supermanhun Looks like you've never misspoken before, congrats!!
5Ds=5 Dragons
@@CircuitReborn well 6 if you count life stream dragon he was supposed to appear wayyy early in the series (plus Leo becoming a signer) when the plot originally involved crow replacing Rex Godwin as the final villan but black wings said nope and they made crow into a hero so that they can market black wings
Australia did put out the first 20 episodes of sevens in dub and I checked it out and Yuga doesn't hate the game. He hates the overload of rules the game has gained which to me acts as a meta commentary on how complicated the game itself has become over the years.
if you dont like that a sport because it has so much rules or some rules that make it complicated for you, it almost the same as saying you dont like the sport, its the same statement in a way, but i agree that its a well done meta commentary about how complex the current yugioh has become.
@bastianokamiro5421 it's like if wilt chamberlain played in the game today. He'd be so confused and sick of the rules now a days. Similar to what they're saying old players feel. Even though in both cases it's apart of evolution
@@bastianokamiro5421 Weak analogy, sports don't have a meta, ever evolving convuluted card texts or straight up adding entire new aspects to the sport, it's more like not being happy with pvp updates that are obscenly broken
@@bastianokamiro5421 not the same thing, the equivalent would be if you played soccer/football since you were a kid but they kept adding new things, like if balls that had wings, change trajectory on its own, had dynamic weight, or if the players could use telekinesis, fly, had super strength, or if the field could change to a sand pit or a large pool of water... but no, the rules of sports are straightforward and unchanging. perfectly valid to not like the sport if they added all those things.
@@julietravelvlogAuto aim computer shoes are the new meta in soccer/football
that original yu gi oh art style was awesome i loved the slender sharp jojo's bizarre adventure type designs i remember how badass marik looked when he was pissed and how dark the story got sometimes
Dude yes, the original did all of that SO well. Marik was an evil bastard but bakura was even worse. It’s crazy the main villain of the series was under your nose the WHOLE TIME. It wasn’t till the finial season you figured this out. that right there, is what made duel monsters so great. Oh, and the art style and bad ass opening them ofc!!
Amen brotha
I think most people believe the real reasons for the art style change is due to the changing of animation studios and having simpler designs is usually good for more exaggerated animation. Look at how the Pokemon anime changed art styles when they started Sun and Moon. And the reason for the changing of animations studios is most likely due to the whatever behind-the-scenes production problems Studio Gallop was having during the end of Arc-V and all throughout Vrains. I mean if you can compare Zexal to Vrains you definitely notice a big dip in the animation quality. Not to mention Vrains had multiple recaps episodes during the first 50 episodes of the show, and the show ended much sooner than any other Yugioh show. Causing things that were set up during the show to come to an abrupt halt and be abandoned.
Things have been going downhill since Zexal. Zexal had an absolute shit protagonist. V had an awesome story and plot going but after the synchro dimension arc it went to shit. Vrains had an ok protagonist but too many recaps, too few interesting characters besides revolver, and while an interesting new duel concept, got old and boring quickly.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan Gonna have to disagree with you on Yuma being a shit protagonist. Plenty of people in the western community over the years have grown to like Yuma over time. And think he's a good protagonist even if he starts off annoying. Hell, people saying he gets better as the show goes on just shows the character development he goes through in being a better duelist. Zexal is even one of the most popular Yugioh shows in the east. So I wouldn't say Zexal was the starting point of when things went downhill.
@@FireFury190 Nah hes an annoying idiot that couldn’t even play the game right for half the show without Astral.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan Yeah but as we can see as the show goes on he's able to duel properly without Astral's help. And yeah he's an annoying idiot at the start, but like I said as the show goes on he matures. Because that's character development.
@@FireFury190 Exactly hell if you look at ZeXaLs animation despite certain issues like Cathy in the Vector duel, ZeXaLs animation is beautiful as hell especially with how they animate certain Number Monsters hell besides GX I always see myself Rewatching ZeXaL and looking back at some moments it had.
Like in GX we witness the story of teenagers going through high-school issues and growing up to move on their own, mostly in Judai which lead to the manic trip of depression that was Season 3 all the way to Season 4 when Judai's character came to a perfect conclusion.
With ZeXaL you got a kid who goes through a similar arc Naruto Uzumaki goes through he starts as an annoying brat who overtime grows into a better individual.
What went wrong is that they made the classic reboot mistake of making it unappealing to the original fanbase. The show and simpler gameplay mechanics are so blatantly aimed at a much younger audience than the series' that came before and so alienate a lot of the fanbase from the other 6 shows, yes they wanna bring in new fans but to do so by cutting off your old fans is the worst way to do it and inevitably leads to the series not doing as well at first.
Yeah. Especially then adding his other point: Nobody starts at chapter 7. So making a show that is blatantly anti-origin fanbase but then basically calling it "Yugioh, but watch 6 shows before this please" practically guarantees you'll also not have any new fans either.
It kinda makes more sense with yugioh, the current format is way too complicated for an anime fan to enter so a new format is much better, also it does get more seriouse later on like zexal
yu gi oh fans: "this serie is bullshit!, this is not yu gi oh i hate it!, why it is so simple it makes no sense!"
yu gi oh seven: "we do not have mystic mine"
yu gi oh fans: "ok... now i'm interested"
So alot of us who left at 5D's were actually excited about RUSH.
A kind of, return to form. A simpler game that we lost.
@@sebastianwinters9864 5Ds was when the game literally became combo oriented
I think most people's problem with the art style isn't even that it doesn't look like YGO. It's that it's so simple and devoid of personality that it looks like literally every other kids' anime. Couple that with the young protagonists, and everyone I've spoke to immediately thought "So they're just abandoning the cool and different things the series was always doing and just trying to cash in on the kiddie market". And while everything you've brought up in this video might say otherwise, I've noticed the one thing you haven't mentioned at all is the story. A lot of people watch only for the story, and Sevens just doesn't seem to have much to offer in that department at first glance.
This shit straight up looks like a beyblade spin off
for real the artstyle looks so flat and amateurish it's such an obvious downgrade from the previous seasons
Whilst the rush duels look fun, im not sold on the shows concept - were essentially following the villain around as hes being oblivious to destroying something many people except apparently for him enjoyed...
He's that one kid who watched the first Yugi-Kaiba duel then skipped all the way to Arc-V and said "This game sucks now!"
Yeah it's kind of hard to root for the main character when the entire story is him going "Well I don't like it so noone else should either"
I mean bro just made a new format and everyone in universe agreed its much better, like literally the wholeworld
I remember seeing Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens on Disney XD one day when flipping through the channels, and I was like "What did they do to this franchise!?", which is why I can understand why so many fans were turned off by it, especially the art style. It's gotten to the point where I consider it to be in an alternate universe and see it as a spin-off rather than a mainline entry.
I got bad news for you dude….. except direct seasons all yugioh shows are spinoffs lol
I could (almost) get past the artwork, how they have changed other animes, made them less visually edgy. But the card play, absolute reworking of the game, and virtually ignoring what came before, I can't green light such an idea myself.
I can see what they were getting at... The card game is in drastic need of just an entire wipe so they can start from the beginning without the mess they made over the years of broken effects. The problem was they went at it completely the wrong way. You don't need "faster duels" because most games I've played last ten minutes or less and that's because the current mess enables you to lose the game without ever playing with surprising ease. They should have just rolled back to the beginning and started rereleasing the entire game from the beginning with the updated card visual format while changing card effects entirely where needed to unbreak them and make it so we can actually play without a pages-long ban list and perhaps work the card limits into the game directly so you don't have to consult a website all the time. Not abandoning everything that came before, just going through step by step to fix it all and if Konami needs motivation, they can get in on all that "resell the same cards for the 100th time" action but better because it would make people stop quitting the game entirely.
Im the complete opposite lol.
Imo the new reboot rule seems really fun compare to speed duel but i can't take it when they change the iconic art style of the anime.
@@KertaDrake "we need faster duels!" how!?, what the fuck does it mean!?, should you just start with mystic mine on the field?, yu gi oh already has the problem that a game gets decided by a fucking negate in the second turn so how the heck do you want it to get faster!?
@@fabioviti7384 he wants FTK's I guess.
@@KertaDrake The main reason it's a mess is because they started to introduce new gimmicks every new generation, they really should have stopped a XYZ summoning at the most, Pendulum, Speed etc will be hard to keep track of all the rules and make things sooo convoluted.
"The history of the Yugioh anime will change forever"
Translation: We're going to combine 2d and 3d animation in a way that is so completely and totally jarring that classic fans of the older animes will never watch it ever again!
I seriously cannot watch modern Yugioh without getting a headache, 3D monsters on a 2D plane just does not work...
Somehow Konami got it in their head that the best way to celebrate everything that made the YuGiOh anime great was to change everything to such a massive extent that none of the original concepts remained...Yeah...genius...
It took me a long time to watch seven, because of all the stigma aorund it and not featuring the cardgame everyone knows and loves (or hates)
It started out as a joke, but actually the more I watched it the more it grew on me. Like as almost completely seperat from other serieses
I embraced the goofy nature of it eventually, I love the character writing in the series.
There are characters you would see in other yugioh serieses and they would appear for one episode and never again, but in Sevens each on of these characters comes back and contributes to the plot or has their character expanded upon
I also love the references the show gives to others.
I like especially the Girl that uses a baseball themed Yuma deck
The art style changed because they changed animation studios, so for the first time since duel monsters Studio Gallup is not animating the series.
For me personally, I love the new card design for rush duels. My only complaint is with certain legendary cards. While cards like Pot of Greed makes sense to be a legendary since its allows the player to draw 2 cards, especially with no hand limit in rush duel. However, having Normal monsters like Blue-Eyes or any high attack monster from the DM era doesn’t make sense to me. Those high attack beat stick can easily be dealt with cards like dark hole or mirror force , if those cards ever come to rush duels. Which possibly will in the near future. I hope that the legendary tread would be on only certain overpower cards and not iconic Monster from previous Yugioh anime. Rush duel looks simple for now. It’s only inevitable that they were introduced others summoning mechanics like synchro,xyz, and link. Along with monsters with very powerful effects like in the TCG.
I really don't think we're going to get stuff like Synchro, XYZ, and Link. Even with Fusions they took steps to make it less powerful than in the regular card game. You can only fusion from the field and all monsters used two specific cards with usually at least one being used exclusively for fusions.
The main thing is you're looking at this like the regular TCG where it will keep going on and getting more power creep but it is not. Like speed duels before it will have a certain shelf life. They have a plan for how to meta will progress. For example, right now in the meta, pretty much any Legecy card is much better than most of the cards in the game. If we were to remove it would pretty much be regular Yugioh. They won't add any cards that disrupt this balance and they haven't.
They're Legend cards not only because they're strong, but because they're from the old legend era
@@bigwave1713 I disagree, I'm playing a lot of rush duels since the beginning, and the cards are progressively getting better and better, every year, they already pierce the 1500 atk level 4 cap early established (a thing they should never did, to maintain a certain consistency), also cards are having more and more text, and cards with two good effects started to appear. The power creep is real
To be fair, legendary cards are their to represent cards that govern a high status. Blue-eyes is a normal beatstick....it is also, the most well-known card in the entire franchise, hence the legendary status. The legendary status are for cards that govern that title not for overpowered cards.
@@firestarsantos7467 but it's also a gameplay mechanic, as you can only play 1 copy of each per deck. in a way, it's like decorated limited list. it might have "cool backstory", but it's still a limited list. and putting normal monster on such gameplay-affecting list is pretty laughable further the format go on.
I dont know why but drawing more than 1 card in your turn without effects and spells feels so illegal but im not gonna complain about it
I kinda like the new card designs too (not to be mistaken with monsters)
I like it cuz then there is always a big change of comback and not like you need to draw one right card, you have more change to draw the right one
@@ONCE_A_MOA_ALWAYS_A_MOA Yeah, top decking may be hype in anime, but in card games when that specific card doesn't give you a comback, might aswell surrender
I don’t like the change in rules or legend cards
The change in rules is unjustified because A)Why isn’t whoever creates Duel monsters stopping this kid? Last time I checked, Kaiba left Mokuba in charge so… And B) Why does everyone just go along with it? You can’t say that people find duel monsters too slow because that basically “Say you don’t play your own game without saying you don’t play your own game” at the writers
I don’t like legends because of 2 reasons. A)The status is given to cards that ultimately don’t deserve it with pretty much all the examples you give not being meta for years. I mean, Summoned skull hasn’t been meta since duel monsters era dueling where it was just whoever had the biggest stick and B)It completely shuts down a ton of decks
"None of them except for Arc 5 have numbers in the title"
5Ds: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!?!?
Perhaps I should've been more clear in the video but I don't count 5D's because it's not the 5th series.
We needed a new show with Seto Kaiba
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Great Video, but try telling that to someone like Dylan at Yugioh Everything, who is simply just a shill to Konami cos he has contacts there and clearly gets paid by them and free products to suck up to them and promote their product.
This video was made 7 months ago, you have 757 subs and you have in this video 799 likes. Too many 7 lol
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There was two yugioh anime that had numbers in their name it was 5ds and arc v
You really need help with your yugioh addiction, to claim garbage like this is good. Just disappointing friend.
From what I've seen so far, I'm digging this new studio but I still really hope that Gallop isn't completely done with Yugioh. I hope it's possibly for both studios to coexist somehow
Gallop was in collapse when they lost their deal, that's why the end of Vrains was so weird from a meta perspective
From what I heard, the animation changed, because it was quite challenging to keep doing the series in line with Kazuki's art style.
And the guy who had guided them, and made it possible for them to emulate Kazuki's style, left after Vrains.
That and franchise creator Kazuki Takahashi passed away not that long ago, so they probably don't want to copy his style anymore out of respect... even though he was still alive when Sevens was being made.
@@Masterge77 The change was announced and done I think, at least a year before Kazuki's passing.
So, unless they foreshadowed his death, that just doesn't make much sense.
Konami:*announces new 20th anniversary series with a hype trailer*
Us:Our Precious Gem
Konami:*further inspection* you have been duped!
Us:we’ve been duped by who?!?
Konami:By Me *proceeds to fuck us again*
The main issue from the jump was taking a series that had started out targeting a pre-teen to young teen audience with aspects which appealed to older viewers as well. One that had captured an audience who is now even older now with the majority of former fans and current players being adults, and instead made a show so childish in its construction that no kid above the age of 8 could ever get into it.
Actually, I feel Studio Gallop’s financial issues is what made Yu-Gi-Oh switch to Bridge Studios. Hence the change in art style.
It didn't feel like it connected to the game plus the characters didn't have any real dimension to them
Even Arc-V got that right
I understand needing to change things up but sevens & Go-Rush flew too far in the opposite direction making it feel like something only kids would enjoy
When the game has plenty of older players
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I really hate it when iconic franchises suddenly changing art styles. I like the concept of restarting the Yugioh meta game (because let's be honest, it has reached insanity at this point), but I think changing the visuals altogether creates such a huge barrier for older fans.
This video completely forgot to point out Sevens is done by a completely different studio because the studio that made normal Yugioh anime was too much of a clusterfuck
I love Rush Duels as it tackles the problems on old school yugioh and why I'll never return to that era: Slow Progressive Play and Resource Management. Here, players can go ham and have a fair chance of comeback with drawing up to 5. Nice reboot without actually intervening the TCG/OCG.
As for the anime: while the plot feels one-dimensional and filled with comedic absurdity, there's this hidden layer of overarching mystery that progress and contributes to it. What I loved especially during the Roa Arc was its usage of the side characters. Unlike GX where the "Duelist of the Week" just never gets seen again, Sevens gives them a role to play much later on to help the protagonist(s).
To be honest, I find myself rather enjoying the comic absurdity. I mean, it's not like previous series weren't absolutely full of crazy shit (to begin with, this is a franchise where apparently every conflict in the multiverse gets resolved from playing a card game). I guess you could blame Sevens for cranking that absurdity up to 11, though it also seems to retain a hint of self-awareness (especially in the way Luke's ambitions get played up to be little more than chuunibyou screwiness). I particularly like how the show apparently has zero grasp on how computers actually work and just sorta rolls with it (Kaizou's consciousness "falling" into a bike seat, the Rush Duel system being run by a giant robot on the moon that was haphazardly put together with crashed satellites, and now we've got a child's manga character gaining sentient life through a fax machine). But if there was one thing I can't say I'm very fond of, it's the way that a lot of things end up being some big nothing burger despite their build-up (off the top of my head, one episode ends with the ramen shop guy smirking only to reveal next week that he was laughing at something on his smartphone, and groups like Top of Hexagon and Goha 66 turn out to be complete jokes).
And yes, you are very right about the side characters. Hell, in previous series, forget "Duelist of the Week" characters, we'd be lucky just to see anyone who isn't the main character, and the major rival if we're lucky, amount to anything worth shit.
@@YamatoFukkatsu I'm fine with comedic absurdity just as long it fits with its show. The problem is that it can be viewed as "bad" by the standard audience.
Wait until Konami eventually introduces a Yata Lock-type strategy by accident, then the "slow progression" will slowly turn into post 2010 yugioh and people will start complaining how absurdly broken rush duels have become.
Let's face it, no one liked the slow older formats when yugioh first came out. It tried to be like MTG, but it didn't have the resource/mana management aspect of it , which meant that the game speed will eventually accelerate like a d-wheeler at some point, else the audience gets fucking bored. And no, I am not referring to playground yugioh, I am referring to the actual tournaments. Competitive people will complain if shit gets too slow, and these are the people who actually buy the product in bulk. How else would Konami be able to sell more cards if they maintain the game speed and power level? Yugioh doesn't have set rotation unlike mtg.
Rush duels will eventually catch up to the tcg and ocg.
Anybody noticed the sonic r music
Man I wish duel master was still in the USA I enjoy the game I have a old gba game of duel master
Duel Masters confused the hell out of me, but I loved it as a kid.
Ok I’m pretty sure that Yuga didn’t delete regular standard duels. He just added option of Rush Duels.
They made characters of the same age as the target demographic, thats the issue. Just can't take kids seriously man.
I'm still on the fence about what I think about this series. But this series does have good messages about dealing with and accepting changes.
"because nobody starts a series with the seventh entry."
*Sweats in Starwars Episode 4*
Quick note on the "Seven" point. It's the alchemical symbol for "rebirth". It makes sense to name it seven to imply that it is a reboot. But y'know, not many knows about this in the first place.
The number 8 has also been visualized as an ouroboros twisting around itself in 2 circles, with the ouroboros long standing for death and rebirth. The number 9 has also been used as a counter for the afterlife, the nine heavens, and that is a spiritual rebirth of sorts. Don't get me started on the number 10 and how it represents the beginning of a new digit, how in binary it can be used to represent "2" in decimal, the continuation or the true sequel as opposed to a decimal 2, how it represents a perfect score in many concepts and as such victory (in a game about victory), etc etc. You can keep digging for meaning where there is none, 7 is just the number for this season and it sounded cool to the Japanese marketing people to call it with an English word, it's something they do pretty often.
Sevens means alot to the show. As you said its rebirth. 7 is also the amount of attributes the game has, which is the amount of attributes yuga needs for his deck. 7has alot of meanings for the show
You’re sounding very 2016 Lockstin-coded rn
I really liked the shadow realm from duel monsters era. because there were high steaks at risk. but with these new reboots of the series that “serious” feeling has just been lost sadly.
I truley believe one of the reasons why older fans losts all interest in yugioh was due to all the slight dramatic new additions or changes in the rule of dueling game. This being tied to new yugioh series.
Also, yugioh, sevens seemed like a far less creative story compared to its predecessors.
I am at episode 20 almost and yeah till now it is not that interesting I mean rush duels are good. Does it get better? I would love if they some fantasy like in other yu gi oh series.
@@naimairfan5738 I watched Sevens from start to finish and am watching Go Rush as well. Sevens has little fantastical aspects being a more grounded series similar to Cardfight Vanguard Season 1. That said, the closest we get in Sevens is the Future Goha President arc as shenanigans with one of the president candidates happens.
Go Rush is a more sci fi kids show and has very few new legend cards shown, relying on its own lore for new cards to be shown.
To me these series are a breath of fresh air after the disappointment that Vrains was and its characters that, aside from Soulburner, were as interesting dry paint.
Sevens has gone past the Yugi, Jounouchi, Kaiba dynamic for a 4 man band including the best female character in the series performance wise, a team chemistry not seen since 5D's, and a supporting cast that breath life (albeit wacky) into what is essentially a dystopian world.
Go Rush is getting there, it started strong, then faltered a bit, but now is getting its full stride in.
As you can probably tell, I love these series.
@@kinryuten
What's go rush?
@@stargazer378 The sequel to Sevens.
The unexpected jojos reference
I used to play alot up to about 2007 and came back into because of Master Duel. (f2p on console for YGO is brilliant ) I went to check on the new Anime and i hope it helps Konami bring out different ways to play like a new format or something. Right now the game is very overwhelming and too extra deck dependent.
Ayyy fellow F2P player! I have built an Eldlich and a Chain Burn deck. Does not need an extra deck, fucks over the meta most of the times. F2P is a whole nother level!
@@Strato_Casterrr9898 i use domain monarch and love it.
They didn't even release the game in TCG English, and I was excited to get the Starter decks... well I can't
Ironically, Duel Monsters was extremely popular in Poland as it ran on Cartoon Network back in a day. I can remember playing with my friends at school on every break - until one of them decided to print the untranslated Japanese cards with absurd damage numbers. We were like 8 back then. Brings bac memories for sure!
It ran through them for nearly the entire world outside of Japan since nobody else thought it was going to do well, and the rest of the world showed it really only works here in Japan.
Art style that deviates completely from the late Kazuki's own style when all other spinoffs/sequels tried to emulate it.
Aiming at an even younger audience than ZeXal
Infantile storyline
Centred around a card game that isn't Yu-Gi-Oh.
Gee, I wonder.
In a very similar coincidence, the Pokemon Sun and Moon (or SM for short) anime also went thru similar polar responses when they want thru a drastic visual change after XY and XYZ, most likely due to the growing popularity of Youkai Watch at the time. It also has its issues, but it is quite enjoyable.
Yeah after xyz ended, pokemon fell off hard but sun and moon later made up for its mistakes and got way better than it was
Hmm Yokai Watch might be why both Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon tried to go to the child demographic as opposed to preteen one they had before. In both cases it did not work as they expected but for Yu-Gi-Oh it was worse because Pokémon is more episodic whole Yu-Gi-Oh tended to be more serial with long serious story arcs. I actually checked Yokai Watch and it was terribly childish. Like I played the game for a bit and watch the first couple of episodes and my reaction was this is too kiddy.
I loved Duel Masters and am very sad it failed outside of Japan
I felt this, I don’t think it did terrible in u.s tho. When I was a kid (2002) duel monsters was VERY popular.. everyone had a Yu-Gi-Oh deck and if you didn’t you were made fun of lol.
I actually played the Demo for the switch, it was really fun since there's hubs in 3rd person with open areas. It's like the same as the games previously but you actually interact with characters. But I'm gonna be honest sevens was suppose meant to be for newer fans not veterans, since base meta game is complicated as hell. It is weird for them to be the 20th anniversary special, maybe their trying to restart on the whole Children Card Game
I feel like it's a mix if Yu Gi Oh, Duel Masters, and Pokemon because that would explain why their kids in the Yu GI Go 7 because Ash was a kid he wasn't exactly a teen, and some characters if you look closely are just hidden characters from Pokemon and Duel Masters.... Still do love this anime even if other ppl hate it.
Crazy how DM is still relevant
I loved that game so much
So this was a huge surprise (even tho I did notice the duel master animation)
The reason the art style changed is because the animation studio changed from Studio Gallop for the first time in 20 years.
I recall the Duel Master's anime being adapted and aired on cartoon network. At least the dub would sometimes lean into the silliness of making a show of a card game...so it didn't take itself too seriously.
I watched this show, the dubbed version. I tried so hard to give it a chance, I had to quit and come back a few times just to get through the first season. By the 5th episode of the second season, I was crying, I literally cried over what this show was. The other six series prier to it could be enjoyed by both kids and adults. I rewatched them recently, a few complaints with the dub now that I know better, but overall, they were still great. This series however is something you would use to introduce children to the franchise, kids between 5 and 8 years old. This series is not geared towards the older fans. It relies to much on comedy and the duels have no stakes. Before lives were on the line, the fate of the world, the future, and multiple realms were at stake. Now, we have duels over a mom not making her sons favorite meal; and championships with construction paper crowns for the victor.
forgetting Gx most of S1 and 2, 5Ds S3 first half and majority of Zexal had comedic weird stuff quite a bit
@@BillPlunderbonesTew8 GX and 5D's were in moderation. Zexal, a bit more heavy handed, but it still had enough serious moments to balance out. Seven's is a whole other monster, it's just non-stop and it's more cringe than funny.
....There's new Duel Masters anime?! That's much more interesting than freakin' Sevens! Jokes aside, I do recall there being some push back about when Pokemon changed the style so drastically for Sun and Moon and that's really not a bad series at all. I rather liked the more consistent cast instead of a stream of one off characters.
Could you make a video about Yu-gi-oh OCG structure manga and I wonder if could be adopted into an anime
I'll look into it :)
Funny that the reason I initially checked out Rush Duel after not having played Yu-Gi-Oh since the Battle City era, was because it reminded me of Duel Masters.
How can they even call this a Yu-Gi-Oh! anime if they aren't playing Yu-Gi-Oh! and instead they're just trying to piggy-back off of it in order to promote some new shitty card game? If this was called Rush Duel Sevens no one would know it exists.
Fact
They just tried to make Yu-Gi-Oh more accessable to anyone again, that's all, especially to young children who can't catch up with the current rules.
"I want to bring back the joy of this card game back to the children." is an actual in this show.
@@zad_rasera cap
Looking forward to playing Rush Duel in Duel Links.
3 card duel have been promoted by the dice studio but failed due to majority like the field with 5 slot and difficult mechanic. So they decide to hire a new mangaka to promote the new main series with 3 slot card with easy to understand mechanic (not a continuation of the past series/use the same dimension)
We should really make Legend cards a category on the TCG/OCG banlist, it would open up a lot of different deck building options and provide more balancing tools.
It would basically be a more restrictive version of the limited list and a compromise between the current TCG and Duel Links banlist system.
This can be the hypothetical 2nd format. A category of card where you can only have one of, unless the list says otherwise. Like you can have one Dark Magician and no other legends. But you can have 3 Blue-Eyes. Hell, maybe allow 5 Cyber Dragons in the same deck.
I'd love to just have the accursed list worked into the cards so I can just look at the cards and not consult a website constantly for deckbuilding. Just put a symbol on them for how many you can run at a time! I'd also love to not have all the coolest cards get stuck with effects that slaps them almost directly onto the ban lists as well, but that would require them to actually learn the rules to their own game...
I like the Rush Duels, the rules are simple and fun, and the turns don't take a lot of time until you wait for your opponent to special summon and combo so hard like a gazillion times. What I don't like about the game?
The Legend mechanic is great but it hurts that some of the Legend cards will never be used because they are week compared to others, like Sakuretsu Armor. Why would you use Sakuretsu Armor that destroys one attacking monster, when you have Mirror Force that destroys all attacking monsters? Or cards like Mystic Elf or Vorse Rider.
Its annoying that you cannot make a Legend card centric deck, like a Blue-Eyes deck and not a Dragears Deck or a Dark Magician deck and not a Sevens Road deck. I wish they would give us more support so that we could add that legend card faster in our hand or cards that allows us to recycle that Legend card.
Its annoying that we can't use fusions like Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon anymore because of the Legend rule that prevents us to run multiple copies of Legend cards.
Cyborg fusions are way to OP and they work in almost any deck and it's so easy to get the fusion materials on the field. Their affects are extremely strong to.
There are some annoying cards that need to be limited or nerfed, the card that I hate the most is Dark Liberation, you shuffle 4 cards from your grave to deck and you can destroy all attacking monsters. It's so annoying to face spellcasters centric decks because when they have 4 spellcasters in their grave you are always afraid to attack and I swear to God they have that card all the time. Another OP card is Dragears, that card can attack a second time after it destroyed a monster. Not so OP like Dark Liberation, but it is not a fair card.
I like the anime, the characters are lovely, the female characters are good duelists and they have a decent win rate, every side character will reappear in the future and it has a importance to the plot. I'm ok with the comedy in this anime, the jokes are good. But I liked the more dark themes of the previous anime, Duel Monsters and 5DS where the best.
I don't like the change in art style, the previous one was so unique and iconic.
I didn't liked the villains until we got Yuo. They where not bad people and they became friends with Yuga. They where great characters, but not great villains.
I don't like the fact that most duels end way to fast, it took a couple of episode until we got a good duel (the duel with Roa).
@@yesman1743 dude do you play rush duels in real life or something? You complained alot about legend cards the idea of rush duels is to step away from the tcg meta and let it be it's own thing. Which it's done quite well as a matter of fact.
I just want Yugioh to go back to its dark roots
That's what Vrains was, but just became too boring until they had better characteristic
I’m still waiting
@@That1Smug you’re the guy who mixes up dark and serious.
@@mexicanf160 what?
@@That1Smug exactly
Technically the original duel masters did work great but ONLY as anime it was my first fourth wall break experience 😁
You misspoke in your video. You said other than Arc-V no other Yugioh anime had a number in the title but 5Ds did as well. What I think you meant was that none had the number of its series in the name other than Arc-V and Sevens.
Yes that is what I meant.
You’re completely wrong on this one, the real reason that this failed is because they didn’t play yugioh, they played some game that isn’t even playable in NA, it had hardly anything to do with the art style
Imagine a yugioh anime series about the card lore back stories and archetypes
Personally. I loved everything from 1, GX, 5Ds and Zexal. But everything after that started to decline the series for me. I really loved the shadow realm and how they had something similar with the barian arc in Zexal. However for me Arc V was just okay. Nothing too special and didnt have a great ending for the series. After they revealed Zarc things started to get boring for the show. What I did admire is how they were able to bring back reoccuring characters from the previous shows which is amazing. Felt awesome seeing Kite return. Arc 5 had alot of potential but got heavily ruined towards the ending. Vrains was just boring and trash to watch. Not an ounce of emotion in the show and now they managed to somehow make it even worse with Sevens taking away from what the first 4 yugiohs did well. Now they are like toddlers wth. I need to see more invasions. Lol thats the LIT stuff. Wish they would bring that back! Instead of making Yugioh only about a kids card game add the shadow realm stuff back lol.
I agree. I did like arc V alot because of Yuya and all of the previous forms of summoning and dueling being used, but they couldve put lots more care towards the ending.
The thing is Konami is sitting on a gold mine making rush duels exclusive to Japan.
While there are a good deal of stuff from the normal game into rush duels, there is basically no backwards crossovers. While it would be a bad idea to port mechanics, as it would dilute the games and give it no reason for both to be played instead of one or the other, but havig some of the cards sound nice. Especially some of the exclusive types like Omega Psychic or Magical Knight
i find it funny that Duel masters wasnt big in america. mainly because that was one of my favorite card games other than yugioh that i played on my Gameboy Advance.
I feel like it would have taken off if it didn't have the WORST timing of arriving in that time period where EVERYTHING had to have it's own terrible card game. It just got lost in the sea of cardboard waste until the companies and players gave up on it.
I actually like Sevens. Is it the same? No but I don’t think it’s supposed to be.
I like that the kids actually feel like kids.
I think the art style is easier for the animators. Especially since studio gallop had so many problems. This style will allow bridge to be more consultant since it’s, for the most part been a company that fills in where animation companies can’t.
I think it’ll be popular with kids in the west.
its basically just Cardfight Vanguard but with Yugioh, and that's a good thing tbh. We needed the variety for a while, even if not everyone is going to love it.
@@four-en-tee it's a looooooot worse than old Vanguard was. It feels really V era/Buddyfight esque, and while I guess that's not a _bad_ thing, it's not Yu-Gi-Oh and it's not really what kids are into. Both Vanguard and Buddyfight were massive flops in the West and SEVENS has to compete with modern Beyblade and Pokémon. I don't anticipate it doing well
@@damienthonk1506 personally, I think it's time that they stop making the yugioh series into an anime and manga. Not only has the card game become too convoluted to the point it's un-regonizeable and confusing, but now that Kazuki Takahashi is deceased, it just seems wrong and insulting to continue his work without him. I do appreciate them for trying something different and while the animation does look good, at a certain point you need to let a series die out before it becomes so overused that it turns sour.
@@cosmok-1367 Takahashi never had an issue with YGO continuing on without him. He hasn't laid hands on it since the original manga was over. I don't think he would care about it continuing after he died.
I still haven’t finished it, but it was actually a pretty good show, wish we could get some of the cards from the show in the US
I was genuinely disappointed when they rushed the ending to Vrains then gave us Sevens. It wasn't do much the artstyle that took me away, but the Rush Duels. I've watched all 6 series and the 5Ds Turbo Dueling and the Vrains speed duel formats were fun, the Arc-V Action Cards were okay (they got on my nerves towards the end) but Rush Duels, just didn't want to learn a new rule set that I knew I was never going to play IRL
Steel Ball Run was the first Jojo in the new Universe so it actually is a good entry point for people
To be fair, Jojo is that kind of series where there really isn't a good entry point. You just gotta jump right in and embrace it or sink into insanity... or both!
Hey great vid Enigma! Love the discussion you brought forth - what you've said hasn't been mentioned before and is both unique and important in this discussion imo. Are you planning on revisiting sevens as it is planned to end soon and the next series is announced? Yugioh 8 is looking interesting. Personally wish Konami would go back to the original continuity, but I am enjoying the sevens continuity as well. Just miss iconic characters like yugi/seto, judai, basically all the cast of each series has something that made them really unique and distinct. Not to say sevens doesn't have this, but I quite miss the old continuity too, so I wonder how best this divide in the fanbase can be reconciled with the eighth series
I'm glad you like the video! I plan to make another video about Sevens when it ends and I'll be making videos about Go Rush too at some point.
@@EnigmaAnime thats awesome, thanks! appreciate the response and update :) very excited for the end of sevens and to hear what you say
Not even bagging on the design but for real. Why does the protagonist of yugioh seven look like Spike (Kakeru) from ape escape?
Yugioh 5ds?? Ring bell amyone
It ended at Zexal for me Arc V was kinda a been there done that, so was Zexal but man the second season of Zexal is peak fiction..
It started out fantastic and amazing ...But then somehow it fall apart when the tournament arc began
I still liked Sevens enough, but compared to the other six it just doesn't stand a chance.
It tried a lot of new stuff that I think pulled off surprisingly well, but it really struggled with the basics of the franchise.
Because of that it feels even more disconnected that it really is.
Sevens' artstyle is the least of the show's problems. I can list a few off the top of my head that have nothing to do with the artstyle:
-Seven's protag is a baby kid
-the show's intended audience is toddlers when most of the Yugioh fanbase outside Japan are adults
-animation is leagues worse than what has come before
-hardly any perspective shots that were iconic with the previous Yugioh entries
-Rush Duel completely disregards the game we all knew. Every time YGO introduces a new mechanic, the old cards/mechanics still work. Rush Duel only works with Rush Duel cards, which essentially makes it an entirely different entity.
-voice acting is garbage. I haven't seen Sevens in years yet I distinctly remember awkward pauses between lines of dialogue.
Facts!!!
Problem number 5 is why I hated ZEXAL and XYZ summoning. It fucking ignored Synchros!
@@Strato_Casterrr9898 Same. I used to hate Zexal too because my shiny synchro collection suddenly seemed to be worth less as every new poster-card became an XYZ monster. But thats also what 5DS did to Fusion. You should give Zexal another chance; it has the best animation of all the yugioh series--back when Konami were making the most money out of YGO and actually paid their animation staff.
@@KenLinx maybe someday I will. I just have to come to terms with rhe fact that Utopia has the most number of extra deck monsters out of all protagonist aces, except yuya. That just rubs me the wrong way how Yusei only had 4, Yugi only 2, and Jaden, well, no one cares about neos lmao. Yusaku only had 2 variants of Firewall dragon right?
@@KenLinx maybe someday I will. I just have to come to terms with rhe fact that Utopia has the most number of extra deck monsters out of all protagonist aces, except yuya. That just rubs me the wrong way how Yusei only had 4, Yugi only 2, and Jaden, well, no one cares about neos lmao. Yusaku only had 2 variants of Firewall dragon right?
Thanks for the info, may the future series even if they maintain this style gets boosted in a more classic style but being similar to this one, like sure there can be a middle point for it.💚💀💀
I stopped watching the anime after 5Ds. I am slowly trying to rewatch everything (even though I watched GX Religiously for 15 years, both dub and sub, RIP Season 4 Dub) and I seem to just appreciate each Stories as their own. Btw, the Steel Ball Run thing, Araki intentionally didn't name it Jojo because he wanted to start fresh, so technically you can start in SBR because it kinda has nothing to do with the past 6 parts, other then some alterations. Though I will still encourage to start with Phantom Blood.
What are your thoughts on duel monsters tho? GX isn’t bad. But I really like the plot of the originals and what was most interesting to me about it was how the main villain of the series was under your nose the whole time.
1:32 Looks like even Darth Vader wants to become a duelist now
Wow, I did not draw those comparisons between Duel Masters and Rush Duel 😮
I enjoy Duel masters. Shame it didn't pick up in the states
LMAO i love how i played duel masters here in sweden when i grew up
So the ''two'' new summoning mechanics are Exodia's summon and just how they do fusions in the anime and saying it's different
2 dislikes before video even dropped?
What
Wrong
Two haters maybe? 😅
@@SuperPlacido1 your right
@@Kagami360 3 dislikes now! 😅
Lemme guess 1 of em is dust lmao
@@aurora377real bruh
The characters look like they were taken from beyblade and made to play the Yugioh card game.
who the fuck would play blue eyes and dark magician in specialized deck as a one of
They had an alter version of Kaibaman... Maybe we are about to have a Dm movie or series.
What was it? Every 3/4/5 years an gen starts. 2023 better do alot better with their animation and do the story they said they were going to do. And that would be an great way to end with an 8th gen, maybe even an 10th gen by 2032.
Duel Masters was big in NZ aswell
For me it’s the gameplay that killed any chance of interest. We already have speed duels (duel links style) that are faster to start and finish with good gameplay. Rush duels use entirely different cards for gameplay that feels empty by comparison
The art style did turn off a lot of people, can't blame them like, look at it, looks generic as hell
This is by far the worst Yu-Gi-Oh series, I've EVER watched. Aside that there's new Fusion and Maximum monsters, there's no timeline, no Synchro, no Xyz, no Pendulum or Link Monsters ever discovered in this series. Just a bunch of comedic idiots trying to make this series throw up!
Compare that to Vrains with Character Mismanagement, Too Many High Stake duels, and Production Problems. Along with mature theme feeling qualified as "the right way" to make a story.
@@thatman666 and even with it being overly colorful I’ll take it over sevens!
The series is terrible but I personally was never a fan of those card types or mechanics.
@@thatman666 Yeah and somehow Sevens is worse than it,which says a lot.
@@Thisdude850 The only faults I can see Sevens has is the 13 episode arcs and maybe the need of a serious villain.
Then there's blatant criticism from boomers and trolls out there. They think they know what's best for yugioh's future but *they don't.*
I don't think Konami switched studios in order to imitate Duel Masters, it's more likely that studio Gallop decided to part ways due to production issues with Konami (which makes sense if you know about how they screwed up VRAINS and the second half of Arc-V), and so Konamki thought it'd be a brilliant idea to cover their cheapness by pretending they're willingly making changes due to the Anniversary, which ultimately led to false advertising and left the fans disappointed.
Actually played the rush duel game. I went in with an open mind. It was fun but the game was extremely short and not a lot of cards either, plus they try to push max summon so hard, that the pvp was really stale.
Rush duels are pretty fun but for a serialized story anime the game is too rushed to have any real tension between episodes. Introduce threat, duel threat, rinse and repeat.
Sevens was so bad. I wanted to give it a chance but it felt like all the bad parts of ZeXal with none of the good ones. Sad that it's sequel is just as bad. Also is it me or is there a vocal minority defending this garbage anywhere online? I get it, you want to like Yugioh but Seven is just a bad kiddie Anime that makes Pokémon feel mature.
I feel the same way. And for that vocal minority you mentioned, it seems like most of the Yugioh reddit tries to make out Sevens and Go Rush as some fantastically written series full of depth. But I'm just not feeling it. Believe me, I have TRIED so hard to enjoy these shows, yet I'm just not. There's no deep plot, the characters just aren't that interesting imo, and I'm not getting that sense of conflict and mystery like with the previous series where I was constantly wondering and speculating multiple theories at once and loving the suspense of finding out more. But with Sevens and Go Rush, the "plots" just seem to be "let's make Rush Duels popular and evil corporation trying to suspend them", and then, "Let's learn about Rush Duels again and there's aliens trying to steal them!". The actual duels are too short and usually end in the most predictable ways with duelist 1 setting up their big boss and duelist then pulling their bigger boss to end them all in just a few short turns. There's also way too many comedy filler episodes (which people who have complained about them in the older series yet love Sevens seem to have no real issue with now), and even though there is some funny humor every once in awhile, even that can fall flat most of the time with the writers' obsession with puns. I am only watching these because they're Yugioh, but I'm pretty much forcing myself to do so, I hate to say.
@@raina1848 yea I couldn't keep watching Sevens and when I saw that Go Rush was more of the same I didn't even bother watching that.
They could have made alot more money making a duel monsters sequel of them older or even the kaiba vs atem in the afterlife
I like the 1998 version mixed with duel monsters
Yugioh seven being a jojo reference was not what I expected