S5 Ep 40 Pt2: Time to Bother Bakura (In Kul Elna)
We have arrived in Kul Elna! And it looks like a bomb exploded on it. Which like...I dunno how the process of making the Millennium items works, the show gracefully cuts away at the inferred carnage, but it removed the roofs.
And then this blessed being shows up.
BLESSED BABIES.
Look at their eyes!
Their funny little open maws!
Obsessed.
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Down in a crypt where the Millennium items were forged, Bakura is vibing in the best way he knows how. If my brain weren’t so strewn with so much freakin long covid that turns it into moth balls and if I weren’t behind on everything in life, it would be fun to draw this situation. I mean look at this situation.
Like when this anime wants to get extra and weird, it gives it the full weird, and I appreciate that. This is not subtle at all, and that’s why I like it. Corny as hell. Extra aesthetic. Keep it up, this is the good stuff.
Pharaoh enters the tomb (or whatever the hell it is--not entirely sure what this underground Legend of Zelda temple was before it became the super haunted place where the items were made. Probably a cellar for storing that garlic they like to eat so much.) and the rest of his crew stays behind to fight oodles of skeletons.
The whiplash between silly skeleton fight and Pharaoh facing his demons down in the crypt was pretty funny.
This is probably some Dark Magician girl lore that I should know but I don’t. Like on a good day I don’t watch the card fights and so on an off day like today you bet your ass I have no memory of it.
Since it’s About Time Already, Bakura finally explains this guy who we saw waaaay back in Season 1.
As I was remarking with bro how there was symbolism to the puzzle being over the heart Bro said “and the ring is over the dick” and he also says he wishes to rescind his statement, but he’s not wrong I mean...look where it is.
But now we know, this big ol millennium stone was filled with dead people the whole time! There we go, that’s uh...that’s new information. Not like we haven’t had a bunch of items with dead people souls in it in this show, but this guy is like when you go to the gas station and they got like little chips and sandwiches you can buy--but then there’s the REALLY BIG PICKLE.
Which like I dunno if this is a universal thing, the big pickle, but at every single store there’s this massive pickle and you’re like “well that’s weird, but who is buying these???” and then you see one in your fridge and it’s “OMG is it my roommate?” and then you go to your friends house and the big pickle is there, and then you go to your mom’s house and big pickle is there. Everyone gets the big pickle. Everyone respects and understands the weird ass giant pickle but you.
That’s Yami and this tablet.
Forgive me if that makes zero sense but my long covid brain is convinced that was a good metaphor.
Anyway long story short, Yami is about to get chewed up by ghosts which...he’s a ghost already but don’t worry about it.
Bakura will try and redeem himself constantly with how he’s the last soul survivor of a dead civilization but when you think about it...everyone from Pharaoh’s era is dead by now so like preaching to the choir a bit.
Also, we get a glam up by Mahad, back in business, as the Dark Magician, in a suit he cannot turn his head to the right or left in.
Every time I see Dark Magician man it’s like
I get that they’re committed to the hat at season 5, but like It’s a banana. It screams banana.
Y’all I haven’t touched this card game in like 5 months because of the LC and I gotta tell you: I already forgot every single one of the rules so I’m thankful this season that the card fights are kind of just normal ass fights.
PS if this is like the fault of my brain or the dub, like you can let me know but like...
...did Mahad in his banana suit really infer in this episode that it’s OK that Bakura’s town got supermurdered because they were criminals? Like, Mahad, that’s a bad tweet, you should delete it.
But then again, that is on point for how the justice system worked in 3000 BC.
Convinced that Pharaoh’s Dad died in order to free Pharaoh from the burden of All Those Dead People, he is ready to play cards and unite Egypt. hallucinate.
And then Guess who shows up, that’s right...the girl who once gave us a giant sword in a dream about an evil Aurora Borealis. It’s Dark Magician girl, who exists before I thought she should exist yet in the Yugioh timeline. But that’s OK, because she’s here now.
...man here I was thinking Mana would hella die and get turned into a card in order for Dark Magician Girl to exist--but if that doesn’t need to happen. They’re two seperate people. Like in the same way Yami and Yugi are two seperate people (that look very different although similar haircuts) Which like, sucks for Mahad because he super died--but great for Mana, I guess.
It makes you wonder like...does anyone else die then? Is there hope for Seto’s Soon to be Dead Wife?
None. None hope, that wife is super dead, but maybe?
haha absolutely not.
Anyway here’s my link to read these in chrono order. Lets hope the next episode comes out quicker than the last one. I do have a goal to finish this season by the end of the year -- I think we can do it, but we shall see how the long covid pans out.
https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono
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“I have something to tell you, mister. For the past years, I've been focusing on honing my skills. I wanted to become a shàng shí (*In charge of the emperor's meals) and also I've always admired you. Never for one day have I forgotten it.
However, those walls made of food are a promise that I must keep my whole life. This promise involves the lives of many people, therefore I didn't contest to become the shàng shí and endured the pain of not confessing to you.
Although I'm just a humble cook, but there are also things that I need to do. Now that everyone knows the secret, I wanted to tell you my secret so that I will have no regrets. Thank you for listening, to what I wanted to say.”
– 方含英
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