Ashoka: It’s Dooku

Ahsoka: No doubt he’s going to say the most fiendish and heartless thing you’ve ever heard!

Dooku: What a lovely day

Ahsoka: Take that back, you fiend!

Murugan: W̸̊͜ͅḁ̴̖̯̈̋n̷̖̉̃t̵̋��̟͉ ̶͙̾͌͊t̵̙̀̔̇ỏ̶͍̟̹̒͑ ̵͈̏ṕ̴͇̥̫l̴͕̑͑͝a̴̓͜ͅy̴̢̗̓̇ ̵̡͛́ā̴̛̮̘̦̕ ̶̬͂̓g̶̝̣̋̈͗ͅà̷͈̙͉̓m̵̨̲̉͒͂e̴̢͋̈́?̶̨̺͙̀

Rahwan: What game?

Murugan: T̵̬̓̒̄h̴̛̟̿͝e̵̢͓̫̊ ̶͙̬͉͑̓͘f̶̯͛̇̉ì̶̭̃͒r̷̜̤͖̂̋͝s̵̜̈́̾̎t̴̯͖̪̾ ̴̛͉̟̻̒͌o̸̲̚͜n̸̜̩͗̒ę̵̨̮̅͊͝ ̶̼́͐t̵̟̓o̷̜̽ ̷̤̼̳̍̅d̷̘̓̓́ì̵̜̫̖ẻ̷̹̿̈́ ̷̜̏̄̃l̸̯͖͆͐̀ͅo̷̯̾̍̉s̶͍̦͛͘͜e̷̳͝s̵̫̬̀͛͜.̷͉̂

Shinigami: Oh my Karai.

Leo: Don't you mean “Oh my god”?

Shinigami: You worship your god, I'll worship mine.

So many stairs. I’d like to fight whoever invented stairs. And push him down these stairs. Just to show him how stupid stairs are.

Leon, running around the police station

i just find it ridiculously funny how me and dartz in here became a couple. one of the cohosts, a fictive introject of katsuki bakugo, began crackshipping our source characters one day. that is. pegasus x dartz. leviathanshipping as kai (aformentioned cohost) calls it, though i prefer the term presidentshipping.

and then we introjected a fictive of ygo the abridged series dartz. and we've just sort of... slowly warmed up to each other. even though there was the initial awkward of a host shipping it and that initially made us adverse to acknowledging it. - pegasus (yu-gi-oh! duel monsters, specifically the english dub. fictive.)

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Dumblydore: Ow! My Arthritis!

Dumblydore: (Trying to be all cool and goffik) ...which I got from...er...playing too much Fortnite, of course!

(Source: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series)

How come you got into One Piece but not Dragonball?

Ha, I guess I see the logic behind this question! Well, I enjoy that One Piece is a Journey to the West-inspired story with a powerful idiot for a protagonist, but those aren't the elements I'd consider the draws for me. In the short-term I like power of friendship stories a lot, and in the long-term I ended up vibing with a lot of OP's more slowburn themes (feeding everyone, dunking on the rich, disowning your parents, thumbing it to totalitarian governments, defining freedom, etc. etc.). One Piece is also... Despite the state it's ended up in (very heinous tiddies), it was noticeably non-horny for a pretty big chunk of it, and it has still not capitulated on never doing romance subplots. This is a draw for me.

I didn't catch either of these dubbed on TV at an impressionable age - that would be how I sampled Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon simultaneously and went on to only care about one of them - so I actively sampled them both after hearing about them when I was getting into anime as a teenager who'd just figured out how to stream things. ...I specifically remember staring deeply into a technically correct but extremely useless summary of One Piece before deciding to give it a shot. ("After eating a fruit said to be from the devil, Luffy the pirate CANNOT SWIM.") And I was like, 'Well this is Fine(tm), and I am learning new vocabulary' (after picking up Japanese question words from ygo Season 0, One Piece filled in my pronouns and basic family terms), and then I hit Arlong Park and was like, 'I AM CRYING WITH MY ENTIRE BODY THIS IS NOT FINE,' and like, after you've passed Arlong Park OP owns your ass. I almost dropped it when Foxy happened because the pacing had been starting to suffer from the threat of running out of source material and that arc was just, the last straw, but I switched to the next part of the manga instead and thank god because the manga is even better. What an absolute treat to get to read Water 7 and Thriller Bark as a second beginning of the OP experience. I have still not experienced Foxy in either medium and if I have my way I never will.

With Dragon Ball I just, started the manga from the beginning? It just didn't grab me. I don't even know how much of it I read. It doesn't feel like a lot, but I have no idea. Enough to get tired of it! None of the humor was landing for me because it was largely in various veins I find mildly unpleasant, the kind of big empty-feeling setting isn't really my vibe, and there just wasn't anything else going on. The DBZ abridged series was fun but also failed to capture my interest, ditto the occasional liveblog or video game watched over someone's shoulder.

I see people compliment Dragon Ball as an entry in the comics medium sometimes, and I might sit down with it again at some point for that angle now that I care more about the science of putting comics together. (Have also been meaning to resample Bleach for this reason.) I also understand that it has a pretty established spot to uh, skip to the trolls, as it were, so I might do that if I really just can't pay attention to the first era.

But yeah for now Goku is nothing to me. He's just a guy. I don't know him.

"Ha! Now do you understand why so many people love me, even though I'm the biggest dick in this entire show? It's because I'm Cookie frickin' Masterson! Accept no substitutes."

(Source: Seto Kaiba, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series)

Redacted: Ugh! Really, now?! Why would you do this to me?!

Raven: Hey, the only way to prove that you’re the most evil is to force you to absorb a shadow that makes you more evil. You wanna do this or not?

[after the curse]

Raven: Now do you see how right I was about being evil?

Redacted: Yes, Miss Nevermore. I see exactly what you mean. (slams and pins her against the wall, then pulls out a knife) And now that I know how evil I can be, I am going to destroy you and everything you hold dear, and bathe in the afterglow of your demise. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Raven: Well, well... good. I'm glad this worked out. Yay.

(Source: Yami and Raphael, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series)

On the topic of Yu-Gi-Oh and the tragic recent events regarding Kazuki Takahashi’s untimely death…

I would like to give my experience with the franchise and how it was a great part of my life.

Other that Dragonball and Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh was the one of my first tastes of Japanese animation. Looking back, I don’t remember exactly what made me like the anime to begin with but ever since I started watching it, it became one of my main and most long lasting hyperfixations.

From as long I can remember up until my mid teens, it was the source of my creativity and my comfort show. It made me curious and when I no longer had interest in watching tv, it pushed me to surf the web in search for more episodes and any Yu-Gi-Oh content I could find. That’s what led me to the 4kids website. (Man I feel old.) that is where I learned the magic that was fan fiction. From there I soon learned about a Yu-Gi-Oh abridged series, which brought me to YouTube. From there I met kids who were also super into the anime and made my first fandom friends.

Soon enough, that’s when I made my first (cringy) oc. Looking back on it now, Yu-Gi-Oh is what helped me find courage to make my own artworks. I don’t think I would have ever drawn as much in my life if this anime didn’t exist. I own my well of creativity to it. Thanks to discovering it I had experienced so much despite being such a sheltered kid.

So when I heard of Kazuki’s death, my heart shattered. If not for his creation, I wouldn’t have any of these memories.

So thank you, Kazuki Takahashi. Thank you for creating Yu-Gi-Oh and touching so many lives, for creating so many friendships and for inspiring millions. May you Rest In Peace.

(During the first part of Star Wars: Twilight)

Vilmarh Grahrk: Prepare for your destruction, Jedi!

Quinlan Vos: I have a name, you know.

Vilmarh Grahrk: Really? What is it?

Quinlan Vos: I don’t know.

“A locked door?! IMPOSSIBLE!!

Wait, no, that's totally possible, what am I talking about?”

- the red herring

(Source: Melvin vs a locked door, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series)

If Childe Used Foul Legacy At the Beginning

Aether: Wait a minute, did you just change into your super form on your first turn?

Childe: Yeah, so?

Aether: That's against the rules, isn't it?

Childe: Screw the rules, I have money!

Giant Bowser + Mega Mushroom + Giant Smash: If you think this is huge, you should see my ego.

Jason Todd: And as Roy's pants filled with urine, I finally understood the true meaning of friendship.