yugioh duel monsters owns my whole ass

Yugi has that myspace scemo haircut. You know the one. You know the fucking

^ That. The coloration is very literal because he is a weird goth who loves box bleach and hot pink. But my explanation for his grandpa rocking the same style is. He gave into going full scene cut because there was no way to tame his plethora of genetically passed-down cowlicks. This is genuinely less effort than looking normal for him. Also his eyes are brown but they look pink in some lightings because they relfect his bright ass highlights and waterline eyeliner. Yami pushes the bangs up because he can't see shit like this.

I have been an "Atem's hair is a wig" truther since the nanosecond I realized it was an option everyone go say thank you tumblr user rocketbirdie rn. Exact same makeup-based eye color illusionry as Yugi going on.

On the whole I'd like to interpret every character with dark pink/purple eyes as having brown eyes going forward, ie; Mai

Ryou isn't albino (imagine me dodging a tomato), but he is very pale and he's going grey at the ripe age of 16. This is 50% due to genetics and 50% due to stress and malnutrition and not going outside and the ring sapping up all his energy etc etc. He has the beautiful golden brown eyes of a baby cow. Yami Bakura's hair is "spikier" because he doesn't care about not tangling it up, and his eyes might look pinkish sometimes because they are more likely to be blootshot <3. Tkb has the same early greying genes and his body is clinging onto life abt the same amount Also he has freeforms and mild developing cataracts.

As I've said many times, Malik and Isis have ocular albinism, and their family has a male-dominant genetic history of rapid pigment loss in hair (same gene mutation that lead to said ocular albinism) (everyone pray for maliks hairline) (also this probably had an affect on the tribes beliefs regarding the isolation of their male heirs and the allotted outside time for their women). Malik straightens his hair but Yami Malik actively does not. And Isis wears braids and hair cuffs. Also I like the mental image of their skin getting darker as a physical sign of healing from a lifetime of both metaphorical and literal darkness.

Seto Kaiba Wasian. Hence the blue eyes. Just tacking another layer of "we need to overthrow this adopted ass bitch" onto his coworkers. His hair will be going white early as well because Kisara is permanently tangled up in his threads of fate. (Mokuba Kaiba Also Wasian obv but he takes after his Japanese side way more).

Kisara actually is albino obviouslyy.

Noah didn't have blue hair irl--he wanted to dye it as a kid but his dad wouldn't let him. So he gave his avatar a cool hair color in the simulation to make up for it.

Dartz 100% just has completely grey hair. Maybe he dyes it to be steel blue for funzies. The evil blue eye is a corneal scar--and this has no canon basis but since his eyes are off-center in every third frame, I think being mostly blind in that eye causes it to drift.

And the Von Schroeders are GINGER ("strawberry blond" what ever)

As we can see above, this haircut:

Is dark in the back, blached in the front

split into minimum two groupings: Body and Bangs

Spiked in the back, likely with the use of gel or styling mousse

Obviously this is an anime, and as other features such as eyes, ears, and legs are exaggerated I feel it is safe to interpret the length of hair as exagerrated as well.

This is a convenient assumption because otherwise, spiking shoulder-lrngth hair into seven (minimum) rigid vertical spikes would be impossible to maintain.

Assuming a real-life Yugio haircut could exist as inspiration got this style, I imagine a haircut that is either short and spiked in the back with natural bangs, or long in the back and textured with shorter bangs to frame the face. Either way, either the front is bleached, or the additional blond spikes in the back could be interpreted as highlights throughout the darker, perhaps natural hair.

Given these criteria, I have narrowed the possibilities dow to these three hair styles:

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Yugi and Atem have slightly different hair, with Atem having a more extreme version of Yugi's hair. However, it is important to note that there is likely no actual physical difference in Yugi and Atem's appearances. His close friends, before finding out Atem existed, simply noticed that Yugi seemed more confident, not that he got taller, voice changed or hair changed. So that might not be diegetic, but a difference for the audience's sake.

It's also worth noting that anime tends to exaggerate things, particularly hairstyles. So in reality, Yugi's hair may be less like this:

But more like this:

The show itself had many collaborations with Visual Kei performers and bands, too, so it's pretty obvious how the series takes inspiration from the culture aesthetically as well. You can see it in some of the fashion choices, too, not just the hairstyles, as well as how visual kei took cues from and overlapped with goth and punk styles as well:

It's the costume designer in me, but I always think it's important to remember and reference the period and location something was made when you're trying to figure out why it was designed the way it was, and how to realistically recreate it.

wait a minute ok. i was about to start listing a bunch of absurd shit that goes down in this series but instead i'm just going to make my point by making it everybody else's problem instead

7. YUGI'S GRANDPA DOES NOT TRY TO BEAT A GHOST TO DEATH WITH A FRYING PAN. Congratulations to the 25.8% of people who voted correctly!

here's the receipts lol

thank you all for participating in the What The Fuck Happens In Yugioh Poll! bonus events that weren't included as poll options can be found under the cut.

This iteration of the post got reblogged and for those who don't know: we’re over halfway through the speedrun version of this exchange already with the intent to post works on Ryou’s birthday.

More Yu-Gi-Oh pop up cafe merch was announced. It's SO cute! I love the one of Ryou and all the food!

do you think joey knows the word egyptologist

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Chibi medium shot drawing of Honda and Ryou from Yu gi oh,

Honda is giving the back to camera, facing Ryou.

Ryou is holding with one hand the millennium ring, his other hand is extended, palm up to empathize the ring. he is frowning a bit and has a smile. he has two conjoined speech bubbles, they read:

when you say "get rid of the cursed amulet," i can't help but notice a tone of jealousy. envy, even

Clothes are the ones they use in duelist kingdom, from Honda is the brown coat, and Ryou the pale yellow sweater with a blue V stripe near the top, with a green shirt under it.

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