Yu-Gi-Oh!, otherwise known as the next step anime after
Pokémon, has a rather complex history with yours truly. I watched the original
series a LOT as a kid, played many a game in the playground at school (and saw
kids keep getting the show’s rules for the game confused with the actual rules) and then there’s its place
within my background in YouTube with LittleKuriboh’s seminal work in online
parody with Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series. It’s rare that I can point to a
single franchise as being so influential to my upbringing in this many points
of my life. I fell out with the game a few years back until I started doing a
work skills course and found a few yahoos that got me back into the franchise
through all three of those signifiers. I still suck at the card game but at
least now I have some semblance of an understanding of the insanely in-depth
rules of the thing, and I can still have a good laugh at the series (both the
original and the parody by LK). Naturally, when news hit of a new film from the
franchise hitting cinemas, I brought in a close friend and fellow fanboy and
sat down to watch this thing. So how did that turn out?
