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Have you read the yugioh manga? Is the season 5 done better in the manga?

hello anon. sorry for replying this late to this.

YES i’ve read the yugioh manga and this also includes millennium world (the part that became season 5) and to be honest with you..................................... it’s hard to pin it down as a yes or no answer because the main biggest issue I have with the season 5 anime was still present in the millennium world manga BUT there are a few more things that are actually better in the manga than in the anime imo. So if I have to give you a short answer it’s: yes. Imo the manga is done better.

Let me name a few things I prefer in the manga without trying to spoil you anything lmao

1- Thief King Bakura, in general. I fell in love with the character because of the manga. In the anime you never actually get to know him - it’s just his body but with the spirit of the ring literally possessing him, so the anime has basically no TKB (this is the main reason why it sucks lmao) and they really made him dirty in the anime. He literally says he doesn’t care abt revenging his village anymore and i’m like ??????? this is not TKB. In the manga, he really makes it a point to remind everyone how atrocious their doing was and he’s very loud and factual abt it. He spills the T. He’s punk as hell this is why i adore him and they robbed him off his best quality in the anime. This is character assassination and i do NOT stand with that. (But before you get all hopeful he still never gets the ending he deserves - not even in the manga so rip to that. we just can’t have nice things 💀💀💀💀💀)

2- The duels/dahas are better in the manga. More blood realistic. And there are no stupid golden duel disks needed to summon the Kas. i hated that sm in the anime. it really belittled the whole thing into a game once again. The ka comes from your soul. It’s part of you. That's why you die/hurt badly when it gets destroyed/attacked.

3- The dark priest/Aknadin/Zorc issue. Listen I hate that dude with my whole heart but at least in the manga, you get to see him as being that dark priest/Zorc aka the main monster/satan of the story. and you also see his mummy in the modern world at the museum and it explains the whole deal much better. The anime just fucking confused me. It confuses everyone and it makes you literally believe that everything is possible atp.

4- Diabound. listen,, liSTEN,,,, IT IS MY FAVOURITE MONSTER . In the anime it’s literally only belittled into a monster who steals powers like???? the first thing we see of it is that it somehow stole the Blue Eyes’ power from Seto before we meet it in millennium world and only thanks to this does he get to win against obelisk which no ! !!! N.O. The whole deal of diabound is that it’s so fucking powerful on its own all the priests are left open-mouthed. it confronted a God. and won. WITHOUT stealing anyone’s power (at the beginning). It is majestic and beautiful. and no one could have believed that just a simple thief happened to have such a powerful ka. A GOD KA. yes. they call it a demon and tkb corrects them and tells him this is a spirit ka. A fucking GOD. born from the whole rage tkb developed for the palace ppl over the years while growing up and making a god like angelic ka blossom from it all!!! in the anime none of it is explained. they belittled it into just some monster that kinda makes the impression to be pretty weak if it wasn’t for its ability to steal other monster’s powers, stripping it of all its power and fucking majesty. And the shitty animation ruined him too. (yes i am particularly bitter over what they did to diabound!!!)

Everything is in general better explained and there are no useless plot distractions like Honda becoming evil????? The dark soldiers/army of tkb??????? Diabound stealing BEWD’s power????? Bobasa??????? like the whole deal of Bobasa is just wrong because of him being the most racist caricature we have in ygo but in the anime, he also contributes nothing to the plot??? (in the manga at least he serves some more to the plot like he weights the hearts of Yugi & co. in the beginning before letting them enter into the memory world - where we also have Ryou sobbing and running away because his soul didn’t get access :((( but it’s still better than not including Ryou at all because yeah i guess we are the anime and Ryou never existed in the anime) Other things that bug me: TKB coming back to life after dying for good with a piece of Seto’s soul??????? SETO in the millennium world?????? Listen, i am not saying these things ruined millennium world but they made it all the more confusing and erased “plot-space” that could have been filled with fix-its for what they did in the manga, that, per see, was never that good to begin with. But still better than the mess that was the anime. 

A few things I can name that they definitely did better in the anime than in the manga is

1- Priest Set, he’s not a megalomaniac classist asshole in the anime and doesn’t torture ppl for funsies

2- Kisara, in the anime she has a personality. I’m not even sure if she utters a word in the manga. Poor girl.

Yeah overall millennium world is a fucking mess and i hate it like the only reason i am attached to it is cause we have tkb (which happens to be my favourite character) and we see him in all his greatness and his tragic backstory!!! but he was never treated as an actual character, only as a villain - he never got the justice he deserved as a character so, sorry for making this all abt bakura lmao but yeah, like i said before, the biggest issue i have with millennium world is only better explained in the manga, but it’s never fixed. So I‘d say the manga is better in a story-explanation-pov. But it still has the same shitty ending. 

Oh and the manga is better cause you don’t have to endure the trauma that is the shitty animation in season 5. Totally not worth it.