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Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Yu-Gi-Oh!

The first series also did that. They changed all the card games to the Americanized ones, and for some odd reason they split up the manga into three 'sections'. Original, Duelist, and Millennium World. The first is obvious some terrible mandate by Konami which ruins the English release to hear them use silly names like Slifer the Sky Dragon or replacing "black" with "dark", but the later is just confusing and makes no sense. With Dragonball Z at least there was the excuse the anime did that, but 4Kids never did that with Yu-Gi-Oh (well, they did throw in lame subtitles like "Enter the Shadow Realm" and junk but that's besides the point)

I'd love to see a proper anime adaption of those chapters but there's just no way or reason for that to happen. Still, with the popularity it's gained it's hard to argue.

TitanXL wrote:

The first series also did that. They changed all the card games to the Americanized ones, and for some odd reason they split up the manga into three 'sections'. Original, Duelist, and Millennium World. The first is obvious some terrible mandate by Konami which ruins the English release to hear them use silly names like Slifer the Sky Dragon or replacing "black" with "dark", but the later is just confusing and makes no sense. With Dragonball Z at least there was the excuse the anime did that, but 4Kids never did that with Yu-Gi-Oh (well, they did throw in lame subtitles like "Enter the Shadow Realm" and junk but that's besides the point)

It seemed like Viz did this in order to release the volumes quicker. After the original game of the week arc wrapped up in Shonen Jump, they jumped straight to the Millenium World arc while releasing the Duelist arc in volumes at the same time. Presumably they did this to show the stories that weren't covered by the anime at the time [I don't remember where the dub was at that point, but I'm pretty sure they had not gotten to the Egypt arc yet but had passed Marik's arc].

On the subject of the manga itself, I love where Yugioh ended up and it was clearly for the best, but I sure do miss the original setup it had, episodic as it was. I'd love to see a proper anime adaption of those chapters but there's just no way or reason for that to happen. Still, with the popularity it's gained it's hard to argue.

Hagaren Viper wrote:

I'd love to see a proper anime adaption of those chapters but there's just no way or reason for that to happen. Still, with the popularity it's gained it's hard to argue.

There was a 27 episode (plus one short movie) adaptation of the original seven volumes back in 1998 by Toei with a compeltely different cast & staff (except for the character design duo of Shingo Araki & Michi Himeno, who returned for Gallop's adaptation). It changed some things, like toning down the violence & dark nature of some of the games, & made a one-off friend of Yuzu's into an important side character, but it is an anime adaptation of those early chapters. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll ever see an official English release of this series, more than likely due to licensing issues regarding the more-popular anime franchise. Hell, even in Japan it has never received a DVD release, making it all the more obscure.

I remember the creator of Yugioh abridged said that while he wasn't a fan of the card game he followed the series due to the characters. At the first chapters the characters looked very creepy with giant hands and creepy faces but art evolution shows up changing even the regular Yugi into a bishonen. The ending was really sad but the 4kids' edits made the whole thing sadder due to the characters pulling lame jokes to lighten up the mood.

Although I'm not happy with Kaiba's characterization in the anime I'm happy with some choices like more screentime on Egyptian characters who appeared as the Pharaoh's bodyguards.

...So, Dragon Penis? How does that even work?!

@ptolemy18 Why do Viz have censorship for even their "13+" stuff? Why? There isn't a good reason. If people under the age of 13 aren't supposed to be reading in the first place, why was Dragonball and "Dragonball Z" so butchered? Why did you censor FMA? Why did you censor so many things?

Why did you censor FMA?

Lord Geo wrote:

Hagaren Viper wrote: I'd love to see a proper anime adaption of those chapters but there's just no way or reason for that to happen. Still, with the popularity it's gained it's hard to argue. There was a 27 episode (plus one short movie) adaptation of the original seven volumes back in 1998 by Toei with a compeltely different cast & staff (except for the character design duo of Shingo Araki & Michi Himeno, who returned for Gallop's adaptation). It changed some things, like toning down the violence & dark nature of some of the games, & made a one-off friend of Yuzu's into an important side character, but it is an anime adaptation of those early chapters. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll ever see an official English release of this series, more than likely due to licensing issues regarding the more-popular anime franchise. Hell, even in Japan it has never received a DVD release, making it all the more obscure.

Who's Yuzu?

for instance, the scene when Yugi has to play Duel Monsters manacled to the floor with a whirring buzzsaw coming ever closer (it's linked to his Life Points)"

...So, Dragon Penis? How does that even work?!

I've actually watched clips of ZEXAL in English and Japanese, and the translation is actually surprisingly accurate.

Unfortunately, the voices are miscast (Yuma is pain incarnate), the original soundtrack is gone (where's my Photon Stream of Destruction, you bastards?), and "accurate" is no guarantee that the dialogue actually sounds good when said out loud by English speakers. It's not phoned-in, it's faxed-in.

YamadaKun wrote:

@ptolemy18 Why do Viz have censorship for even their "13+" stuff? Why? There isn't a good reason. If people under the age of 13 aren't supposed to be reading in the first place, why was Dragonball and "Dragonball Z" so butchered? Why did you censor FMA? Why did you censor so many things?

Out of the stuff you've mentioned, only Yu-Gi-Oh! (including Duelist, Millennium World and R) and Dragon Ball (all 16 volumes) are rated Teen. In chapter 7 of the English Yu-Gi-Oh!, the word "condoms" was removed, and more recently, in Dragon Ball, stuff such as Bulma's breasts were covered.

Hagaren Viper wrote:

I'd love to see a proper anime adaption of those chapters but there's just no way or reason for that to happen. Still, with the popularity it's gained it's hard to argue.

There was a 27 episode (plus one short movie) adaptation of the original seven volumes back in 1998 by Toei with a compeltely different cast & staff (except for the character design duo of Shingo Araki & Michi Himeno, who returned for Gallop's adaptation). It changed some things, like toning down the violence & dark nature of some of the games, & made a one-off friend of Yuzu's into an important side character, but it is an anime adaptation of those early chapters. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll ever see an official English release of this series, more than likely due to licensing issues regarding the more-popular anime franchise. Hell, even in Japan it has never received a DVD release, making it all the more obscure.

It's also pretty bad after the first three episodes.