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Pay no attention to Monday and its Mondayness, instead enjoy the hypnotic sight of these Russian folk dancers appearing to float around the stage while performing a traditional dance called the Berezka.

What looks effortless is actually a perfect combination of impressive upper body control, short and very rapid dance steps, and hooped skirts beneath the dancers’ floor-length gowns to help conceal their busy feets.

Remember that random card-game-obsessed petty thief who goes to Yugi’s high school? The one with absolutely nothing to distinguish him from any of the other antagonists of the week? He is now a genius-billionaire-CEO-sadist-supervillain with unlimited power and resources who can torture someone in front of a live audience without consequences. None of these things have been built up or foreshadowed in any way.

The “sadist-supervillain” part will get dropped like a hot potato a few chapters later. The only explanation provided will be “uhhhh magic made his brain different.”

Tristan has a never-before-and-never-again-mentioned baby genius nephew who uses his age to get away with sexually harassing women. Obviously this is hilarious high comedy. 

Kaiba didn’t anticipate that Yugi’s friends would volunteer to join him, but he apparently believed that his 5′0 pasty gamer classmate could fight a serial killer by himself and win. He also conveniently had the perfect number of electric chairs just lying around.

Let’s jump straight from a man dying because a baby pooped on him to the gang having a heartfelt conversation about how Yugi changed their lives for the better and they won’t abandon him no matter what to more baby sexual harassment jokes to the gang mourning Tristan’s apparent death. It won’t be tonally jarring at all.

What’s the best way to prove the villain is truly evil? By having him try to torture his own little brother into insanity! Don’t worry, if later on we decide to make his love for his brother the foundational core of his character, “magic made his brain different” will definitely be an adequate and satisfying explanation.

How will Yugi finally defeat the villain after 15 chapters of suspense? By drawing the magic never-before-mentioned auto win card, of course!

We still haven’t really addressed the looming question of whether that “other Yugi” guy is supposed to be a horror movie monster or a sympathetic protagonist, but it’s coming to kind of an awkward head considering that this all started because he tortured someone but we’re expected to root for him unconditionally when he wins (and puts the teenager he tortured earlier in a coma).

Oh crap we actually need an explanation for how all this shit happened don’t we. Uhhhh let’s infodump the sparknotes version of a tragic backstory as quickly and contrivedly as possible.