Thanks ridiculously impractical armor designs for curing my art block

YUGIOH DUELIST OF THE ROSES FANART???? more likely than you think 0_0….

(yes i just wanted to draw ryou in yami bakura’s red armor from the games)

“What irony, a king trapped in his own dungeon.”

“And you think I would not find some way to escape?”

"Try as you may, King Henry. You can never step out again.”

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Just making Henry 'Yugi' Tudor from Duelist of the Roses because school is whooping my behind.

Christian Seto Rosenkreutz in Yugioh! The Duelists of the Roses.

Meduim: watercolor, salt, color pencils

Soo I finally played Duelist of the Roses and I understand now why it's so loved.

I have fallen into the common pitfall of wanting to make a physical version... But instead of making a DOTR format where all modern cards are legal, I've elected to remake all of the cards by hand that were in the game, updating their texts to be more consistent & coherent.

And I plan on making new cards for it as well!

That way I can breathe new life into an old classic.

I intend to make every modern summoning mechanic besides Pendulum, just because Pendulum would be far too complicated to figure out the logistics of.

And each card will have a Deck Cost and a Set ID to distinguish base DOTR cards from my original designs. That way, it's easy to exclude whichever cards you don't want to play with!

The intention is to have it be malleable. For instance, I wish to support multiplayer. Another case is me wanting to nerf Terrain Bonuses to just be +/- 300 rather than 500 to lessen the impacts of Terrain. But I will have it be user preference on which they want to abide by.

So really there will be hard and true rules and then a list of suggestions. This way it shouldn't be a disaster to play with.

Good news: I found a new game to throw all my time into

Bad news: it's Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses (2001) so uh bit of an interesting one

today on ”i can’t believe it’s not a fanfic but an actual official thing”

they need to make another fun yu-gi-oh game where the cards don't make sense.

like forbidden memories 2 or duelists of the roses 2.

i won't explain further

cringetober day 3: unnecessarily complex fit

open letter to whoever dressed kaiba for duelists of the roses: i just wanna talk.

And finally I could do another drawing for my project #YamiNeedsMoreClothes 😆 Yes, I know Yami uses this clothes in Duelist of the Roses, so basically is not new clothes, but I wanted to draw it and I needed an excuse! 😂 Anyway, doesn't he look handsome? 😍

*wakes up in a cold sweat* the reason the black rose arc had to be forgotten by everyone is because its foundational tenet operated on giving the Brides agency to protest against their role in the dueling system and seek to leave it, further exemplified by its final shot being that of anthy's complicitness in the dueling game. the black rose arc gives a 'voice to the voiceless' and exploits their rage against their lives into rage against the Bride - which though it furthers ohtori's system of oppression (the dueling game is built upon exploiting the internal conflicts of the duelists after all), the methodology of giving 'voices' to the Brides by allowing them to Speak Their Mind within the framework of 'self improvement' via seeking out therapy is shown to be antithetical to ohtori academy as a whole because true self actualization of the bride will mean the end of ohtori academy as a system. in this essay i will

Not me drawing Henry "the goth king" Tudor

Henry Yugi Tudor,

He is one of the main characters of the KONAMI game soft “Yugioh! The Duelist of the Roses”🌹

My cutie ( ˘ ³˘)♥

I think it's interesting how one of the healthiest relationships in the show is Wakaba and Utena's friendship. Obviously, it has its flaws and tensions. But those tensions arise directly from the concept of being "special," from Wakaba dealing with their sense of inferiority towards Utena, who actively puts their sense of self-worth in winning these duels to keep Anthy at their side (a noble Prince...) People talk about Tatsuya being rejected as a Black Rose duelist a lot, but it's so notable that he's rejected because he's just...a more emotionally mature, less toxic person. Yeah, his heart is broken, but there is something decidedly human and mundane about how he approaches the conflict by asking, "What's wrong with me?" He sees him and Wakaba as two equals, he doesn't put their love conflicts on a pedestal, and he wants genuine solutions and hopes to confront his own flaws to understand why Wakaba rejected him.

Literally no one else is doing it like him.

A key theme in this show is critique of the nuclear family, but an extension of that theme is how said family unit breeds deep dysfunction into the characters' lives. The lack of communal infrastructure means characters are constantly putting their eggs in one basket. Everyone wants to return to their past because Ohtori and the patriarchal system doesn't offer chances to form new connections outside of the ones born of your trauma/childhood. Their lives are defined by their suffering. I view Wakaba and Utena's relationship as so important BECAUSE of how mundane it is, these 2 people met and they became friends and they eat bentos together and Wakaba views herself as non-special, but she doesn't realize how severely fucked up and lonely all the special people are.

I could go on. I want to write essays about this anime, for real. But it's something that struck me as I watch the show for the first time.

one of the reasons i find utena and wakaba's friendship so interesting and appealing is the fact that it and its issues are so mundane in the middle of all melodrama of the duels and the student council relationships and all of those things. their flaws feel very real for a teenage friendship, and they're all things i can personally relate to on some level. they obviously genuinely care about each other, but their friendships suffers from them not truly understanding each other, mostly because of their own lacking communication (utena doesn't tell wakaba any of the weird things going on in her life, probably out of some desire to protect her from it, and wakaba doesn't tell utena how upset that makes her, and ends up resenting her.) and it's completely accurate what you said about the tragedy of wakaba wanting to be special like utena is, but not realizing that said "specialness" comes at the cost of abuse and trauma. ohtori (akio) purposefully obfuscates that abuse to make it seem like something you should want. trying to disguise grooming as romance, etc. etc. the beauty of the rose hides its thorns and all that.

i'm not sure i'd call it the healthiest relationship in the show (although the bar is so low that it probably is by default) but it's important that the ways in which it is harmful are so normal. who hasn't ever been bad at communicating their feelings to people they care about? who hasn't kept secrets that they probably shouldn't? who hasn't grown apart from a middle school friend once new things started happening in their life? i'd argue that the flaws in the show's other relationships are also pretty normal when you strip away the layers of metaphor and symbolism from them (in the sense that abuse is exceedingly common.) but utena and wakaba's friendship exists almost entirely outside of that, which makes it stand out.

It's a very belated gift for my dear friend but I hope you like it! @arcatsk. And yes, I will gonna improve on Kaiba's armor. Maybe a full version if my creative juice can imagine one. <3~