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remember when kaiba won a card game by (correctly) saying no one but me is ready to kill and die for this shit then doing this

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He's the dril tweet about going to the desert to either die or prove a very important point, except both the "bunch of stupid assholes" part and the "start a community" part are replaced by dragon shaped fighter jets be built himself

hilariously this is maybe the one genuinely selfless thing kaiba does in the entire manga. battle city kaiba would never let a little thing like his brother get in the way of a fair fight with the pharaoh

one thing that seperates yu-gi-oh from other shonen sports manga is its genuine belief that games are Not Important. so kaiba blatantly cheating isn't framed as a weakness it's a moral victory where he realised there are more important things than winning card games. he would not realise this again

The Pharaoh's ability is fundamentally cheating and the story says "this is cool and good" and it's correct (Pegasus's ability is also cheating and framed as bad but thats what you get when you turn people into trading cards)

i love that yugi doesnt want to be the best duelist. he wants to be a game designer and try lots of different games with lots of different people. just utterly uninterested in the Battle of it. this is why kaiba hates dueling him even though he's just as good if not better than the pharoah at cards

yu gi oh is like really fuckin good bro takahashi one of the goats. the combo of konami's evil card game machine in the background and its memetic status in the west kinda obscures that it's the real deal. one of the genuine great post dragon ball battle manga

I legitimately read your first post and was like "why the fuck would kiaba do some weird cheating stuff in a duel. Not my seto kaiba!" Because I forgot that in season 1 he was trying to save Mokuba instead of just doing life and death duels because he loves dueling.

in the original sub, bc theyre holograms they cant actually knock him off. so here he's actually threatening to just straight up kill himself if he loses

Staring at my opponents board when he has lethal, reaching into my bag and pulling out a revolver and pressing the barrel to my temple