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hi i'm not complaining but why is dark signer kalin's outfit kinda yassified??? the fucking crop top and the visible midriff... that certainly was a design decision

I was gonna respond to this with some cool outfit analysis like "Oh well Satellite clothing tends to have heavy punk and grunge influences, so him having off the wall alternative fashion might be a deliberate choice to try and still style himself as a radical freedom fighter" but then I looked again and I AM 90% SURE HE'S JUST WEARING A CROP TOP MADE FROM THE SAME SHIRT HE WORE WHEN HE WAS ALIVE

BRO OWNS ONE SHIRT

Happy Birthday to the Ruler of Hell and the God of Death, a.k.a. Edgelord #1 and Edgelord #2

hi guys did you miss my yugioh shitposts bc i sure did :3

Yugioh characters that canonically threw hands:

Yusei Fudo

Jack Atlas

Crow Hogan

Kalin Kassler

Theodore Hamilton

Adrian Gecko

Viper

Duel Links: Victory/Loss Sprites of Kiryu (Dark Signer and Post-Signer)

Yusei's DM

i was just doodling him randomly and this one kind of went hard for no reason

FINALLY Part two of a silly little ship meme I did where my twt followers gave me ygo pairs to draw.... 5D’s flavored this time around :3

I couldn't sleep one night so I made these instead

Hi! How do you feel about the Crashtown mini-arc?

Ahhh, Crashtown. Honestly, I’m extremely in two minds about the arc. See, here’s the thing. When I watch it, it’s a great deal of fun. It’s a very self-contained little story that has all the necessary setup and payoff built into itself, and the cowboy aesthetics in Crashtown’s unique setting, while technically still being part of 5Ds’ largely futuristic canon, are absolutely hilarious. Not to speak of the excellent dramatics, what with Kiryu being in his depressed bitch era and needing the Power of Friendship to remember why it’s nice to be alive. So, in isolation, I find Crashtown very funny and its self-contained story compelling.

However, sometimes, I get a little frustrated knowing how many episodes this arc takes up, because where the larger narrative is concerned, Crashtown accomplishes… Well, nothing, unfortunately. It doesn’t interact with the main plot in any way, doesn’t develop Yusei’s character in a particular way (because we already knew he’s a special kind of loyal-as-a-dog-devoted when it comes to Kiryu; if anything, Crashtown only shows us that he’s also a little more gullible than usual when Kiryu gets brought up), and while it does give Kiryu meaningful character progression, he’s sadly never relevant again after this point in the show (literally the only two times he shows up after this point is during the flashback of everyone cheering Yusei on during his duel with Z-ONE and in the epilogue as he loses to Jack). Worse yet, the whole arc begs the question of why only Kiryu and no other dark signer got this kind of tying-up-loose-ends treatment. (The answer, I believe, is that he’s specifically the dark signer who has the strongest ties to Yusei in particular, which awards him special treatment. That does nothing to justify why Carly, who I’d go as far as saying is at least equally important to Jack as Kiryu is to Yusei, doesn’t get anything like this, though, and is instead sidelined because she has amnesia. You know. Amnesia. Everyone’s favourite trope. Which Kiryu, curiously, also doesn’t have.) And considering how often I lament about the things I wish 5Ds canon had spent more time on, I don’t think it comes as a surprise that it leaves a slight, bitter aftertaste in my mouth that an arc like Crashtown that adds nothing to the larger plot or any character other than Kiryu gets so many episodes while many things I wish the show had addressed don’t get a single one.

So, Crashtown’s kind of a mixed bag for me. I think the best way to sum it up would be this: If you handed me the reins for a full 5Ds rewrite, one of two things would happen. Either the show would gain another twenty or so episodes where I’d try to give all the other dark signers similar treatment as Kiryu in Crashtown, developing both them and the main cast members they interact with more (and also try to make them at least show up one more time before the Ark Cradle arc, even if only to cheer Team 5Ds on during the WRGP), or Crashtown would be left on the cutting room floor entirely, because if the only way to improve the main cast and plot were to find time for all the necessary adjustments within the exact same episode count we already have, Crashtown (and all of the pre-WRGP arc’s pure filler episodes) would be the first thing to go.

Don’t get me wrong, the yeehaw arc has excellent aesthetics, excellent dramatics, and is great fun every time I rewatch it, so I don’t fault anyone for loving it to bits, I absolutely get it. My inner overanalyst/canon rewriter just can’t unsee how many episodes it took up that were desperately needed for other stuff sometimes.

Kiryu

Just learned that Kalin's bike is named in one of the world championship games and it's name is The Giant L

I literally nearly went insane trying to find this but Yugioh 5Ds character height sheet for any artists or ppl who were curious about heights

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