cuuuuuute

this is terrible I love it. how to ruin christmas, invite over the two gamer uncles that will spend time challenging each other

(and arguing, possibly)

(I can see Seto going full 'OH OH OH LOSERS')

I got this one btw. No more money spent on the game for now but it was SO CUTE

and hey in a way it's the whole 'ancient gang'!!!

oh that's the sleeves i use with ishizu!!

I LOVE IT SO MUCH

(I won't really buy more but I love this one so much. the 'characters' ones are a bit on the face

(even if my mokuba deck SHOULD have Seto and my Seto deck should have mokuba)

we get lots of kaiba swag for free so that'll work itself out

my favorite thing about duel links is that its in-universe reason for existing is "we are all helping kaiba generate mind energy to go to the afterlife and play a card game with his crush"

if you watch enough yugioh vids on youtube you start to get duel links ads written as if kaibacorp is a real company and kaiba is selling his product to you

I just rewatched THAT movie recently.

Good lord Kaiba. thank god he lives to get to GX (that I should rewatch because I remember liking the first three series well enough)

(I think I REALLY disliked Zexal tho and that's when I fell off?)

I find also INCREDIBLY funny that when kaiba arrives to the palace everyone is in 'waiting' status? Like they heard him coming, Atem went 'I fucking can't believe it', stopped snacking on dates or whatever and then had everyone ready for a salute becuase no his rival ain't going to see him sprawled on a bed playing old ancient games and eating ancient

junk food.

Atem slapping gold items on himself getting rid of his 'robe' and dressing up while yelling at everyone to get ready

"my lord! a strange man in glowing clothing approaches from the east! he bears a mysterious brace upon one arm and eerily resembles Your successor set! should we ready the guards?!"
atem: nah fam that's my buddy

IDK what the equivalent of 'a piece of tolet paper still stuck under the shoe' is in ancient egypt but I headcanon that was it for him at some point because atem DESERVES to be lazy

PFFT prettymuch

Seto coming to the afterlife like

(also I REALLY want kaibacorp ads about duel link instead of teh crap I get about 'hey do you want to pick up girls we can teach you'

also unrelated but I'm pretty certain by now Atem has some kind of level of fear and respect for hippos. Probably fear.

smart man. nobody in egypt wants to mess with a hippo

He probably never saw one but he saw 'pictures' and heard stories.

Dark one Who? have you heard about the river monsters that even without magic can crush a canoe with a single bite?

p sure that what "curses" archaeologists have found written in tombs are one part things like "if you come in here we will write a strongly-worded letter to the gods about you" and one part "if you come in here the hippo will be after your ass"

Atem, facing almost any kind of threat: I will fight until the very end
Atem, faced with a hippo, having one of his most irrational fears come right to his face since his palace was safe but irrational fears are not easy to handle: running and possibly dragging his 5 favorite millenium item holders with him (uncle asshole can stay)

also it's charming how anything about the 18th dinasty is like 'ah, assholes on power and exploitation' so far mwhile you have atem actually kind of acting like a proper duty inclined leader in the manga

atem is the platonic ideal of an absolute theocracy that concentrates the power for making sure things like "the weather cooperates" into one person, who in turn is given a luxurious life to offset the tremendous responsibility of literally, physically keeping the kingdom stable

the pharaoh gets all the cool shit because if the pharaoh does not intercede for us properly the nile doesn't flood and we all starve!!

atem: OH MY GOD IT'S MY JOB TO MAKE SURE NOBODY STARVES. I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO STARVE.

-nods-it does feel differnet from what I've read until now on the book you suggested me. Atem feels like he had more duties and devotion toward his people (the way he drives the demon away from where innocents are, for example) compared to what I've read so far.

my adhd ain't cooperating well with me reading actual books so I'm a bit slow

YEP that's how I see him.

"SET, ISIS, MAHAD THE NILE DOESN'T LOOK TOO GOOD THIS YEAR WE SHOULD GO AND PRAY and i'll also go check all the trading routes so i can make sure the granary stays full and- what? Oh, no no, nothing, let's go celebrate the gods!"

this makes him and thief king especially interesting foils because thief king, under normal circumstances, should be completely correct. the pharaoh IS just some guy society has been structured to give an out for absolutely everything. unfortunately for him, he is in a shonen manga, and this particular pharaoh Is the gods' special little boy

TRU

the thief king was a lot more interesting than i remembered

anime tkb is a travesty and manga tkb is a riot

I still have to rewatch the anime

I just remember eyes being my favorite ost

it's a good song

but yeah tkb is that one peasant from monty python and the holy grail
"SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM"

he's not entirely wrong

and he just gets More so the more you learn about egypt, like how red was a color associated with negative things because it was the color of the desert and death and etc. by swanning around in that bright red coat he's being an ancient egyptian goth.

Like, I'm sure atem did plenty of 'bad stuff' for our moral standards nowadays

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he sure ain't. he makes fantastic points, he has an EXTREMELY legit grievance. but he is less interested in actual justice than burning everything down

AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GOD

speaking of colors, wait

https://www.smithsonianm...

this felt REALLY cool

oh that is SO neat

have you seen seti i's burial stuff incidentally

Also I love how their trades are soooooo actually more large than we thought. I'm sure Atem is very fond of lapis lazuli. (I made his favorite colors blue and green, the nile's main colors, and those are from a DISTANT LAND)

Oh? I haven't

there is SO much more blue than in almost anyone else's. there's a video on yt of an archaeologist whose horemheb bias is frankly inexplicable but who wants to assert kaz meant for priest/pharaoh set to be seti i and they rightly point out. one sec

I have all the time, I'm just potting plants and being VERY slow about it because I'm talking..

white alabaster, blue inlay.

bruh had a blue-eyes white sarcophagus.

And sudden headcanon of Set doing the same and theming his own after his so not very alive gf

OMG THEY HAVE A 3d model

yugioh archaeologists be like "we have discovered the tomb of the pharaoh set! OH MY GOD HERE THERE BE DRAGONS"

"THERE'S DRAGONS ON THE WALLS. THERE'S DRAGONS ON THE CHAIRS. THERE'S DRAGONS ON THE SARCOPHAGUS. WHY ARE THERE DRAGONS. HOLY FUCK WHO WOULD EVER WANT THIS MANY DRAGONS"
seto kaiba, across the globe, sneezes, and fires the guy who installed the ac

Atem, in the afterlife, having to cover his mouth and try not to burst out laughing when someone tells him

ALSO UNRELATED

but how much is seto spending for.. huh

set: if you can have ducks i can have dragons

copyright reasons

yeah it's gotta be an exorbitant amount

As far as I know Kaiba's not with Industrial Illusions?

Pegasus (in the anime) or his heirs (in the manga) loudly laughing and drowning in extra money

there's probably a stipulation in pegasus's will about how under NO circumstances is industrial illusions to sell the right to the blue-eyes white dragon to kaibacorp and thus kc has an entire budget line item dedicated to funding All This Shit

I want to see Pegasus and Kaiba doing actual business stuff now...

kaiba: I'M NOT SOME ANCIENT PRIEST!
ishizu: takes him into a pharaoh set exhibit and leaves him there

kaiba, three hours later, carrying every piece of custom swag from the gift shop: THIS PROVES NOTHING.

I've seen the anime bit where tem informs him they're cousins

it was AMAZING

eric stuart's completely flat line read.

🫢PROOF Atem & Kaiba Are Related! #yugioh #anime #sho...

Atem: we're relat-
Seto: I REJECT YOUR TRUTH

I also love how atem is like

Seto: Is that me? Bull-
Atem: let me stop everything you're saying to inform you we were related
Seto: >

yugi's self-insert historical fanfiction is getting Pretty weird, if you ask kaiba

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lmaooooooooooooooooo

suck it kaiba you're just jealous because hiS holograms are much better and more realistic and he doesn't even need to get a bazilliondollar company to do that

dan green's late-anime atem voice (he kept being instructed by the directors to go lower) coming out of that short king is amazing

I agree. I agree so much

at the beginning of the dub the yami/atem voice and the yugi voice are fairly similar but the actor kept being told to create a bigger distinction. so by the end of the show yugi is almost squeaky and atem rumbles the pavement when he speaks.

I want to say it's a WONDERFUL dissonance with how twinky he (used) to be portrayed as

ogata's sultry voice worked well for menacing s0 other-yugi but it would've been a harder sell for The Pharaoh yeah

I ALSO got all series 0 and I want to rewatch taht one too

have you seen sailor moon in japanese?

I lke to imagine he just kind of started being so much 'like yugi' because he still had to become part of him

ASDAD STILL HAD TO BECOME AGAIN HIS OWN PERSON

beside themurder goblin of games he was. And no, I have not

I'm not usually into anime, they're a hard sell for me most of the time

know, then, as you enter s0, that yugi/atem are played in that series by the woman who voiced sailor uranus, the lesbian awakening of every little girl into anime in the 90s and 2000s. doing basically the same voice for atem.

season 0 yami is a sexy evil lesbian.

I DID watch the 90s series in italian and I'm still traumatized by the memory of a very specific scream sailor moon made in the second series when she tried to save chibiusa

awwww

It was strong, chilling and unexpected from the level of dubs we had.

And hey. I do embrace season 0 yami being an evil lesbian