All for 20 year old card game anime

EE a collab i did with @artsarasp !!! they lined I rendered

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original yugioh manga(s):

Shows that Yugi Muto always had extreme skill in intuition and strategy. Hints this even during simple scenes of Yugi playing games with himself or Jounouchi and Honda.

He’s perceptive. He immediately noticed that Kaiba slipped his Blue Eyes White Dragon for a fake, and knows when other villains also try to cheat him.

When he wins games, he gets beat up, with Yami showing up out of anger or for physical defense. When Yugi Muto loses, its because he strategically plans to lose or draw for others’ safety. The only game Yugi Muto himself lost on accident was his game with Imori.

But later in the DDM arc, Yami Bakura implied that Yugi Muto didn’t gain the power to win games only after solving the millenium puzzle, but rather he had that power all along and that’s WHY he’s the only one who could solve the puzzle.

Conclusion: the anime creators (and many fans) misunderstand the manga: Yugi Muto doesn’t switch out for Yami Yugi because Yami is the better duelist/gamer like all the characters (including Yugi Muto) assume, but rather because Yugi Muto isn’t confident enough to fend for himself.

Anytime I think of  Gandora’s first reveal I keep laughing at Y. Bakura’s reaction, he looks so scared and shocked and we never talk about it.

Also I assume they never talked about it so I imagine Atem being clueless at how much ass Yugi kicked using Gandora.