Round 1
Propaganda Under Cut
Misa Amane
she gets treated in-canon the way fandoms treat female characters that Threaten an m/m ship. it's like, "oh why don't you go sit in the corner and be pretty, misa, while the Men have intelligent conversation and pretend they aren't ten seconds from fucking each other, doesn't that sound nice?" it's infuriating. and MAYBE it's better now but i remember her getting treated the same way in fanfiction too, like we all need to do just as badly by our female secondary characters as fucking tsugumi ohba, but with the added insult of making her be alternately oblivious of the relationship between light and L or actively trying to sabotage it—incompetently, of course, because god forbid misa be allowed dignity or moments of cleverness.
she's one of the first characters I think of when I consider old school fandom misogyny. The annoying bitch and clingy crazy gf allegations were AFTER HER ASS. She's also a lot more intelligent than people gave her credit for, but most seem inclined to take the Very Biased word of our unreliable, narcissistic narrator and his homoerotic arch nemesis and claim that just because she's bubbly and into romance that she's also a complete moron. Which is blatantly untrue. Everyone was afraid of Misa girlbossing too hard. Killing people and devoting yourself to the deranged twink of your dreams even though you know he'll never love you back??? Having a hardcore goth aesthetic and being so Hot even literal Death Gods are into you?? God forbid women do ANYTHING!
Not only is she the victim of yaoi culture, she is the victim of early 2000s misogyny by an author that wanted to introduce a girl character because he knew his male rivals were getting too homoerotic. She is a goth bimbo icon who portrays what I think is one of the few callouts for stan culture and what parasocial relationships can do to both the stan and the idol. The fact that she is a toxic fan of Kira and also hot, funny, sociable is tragic in its own way, which I think the author did try to touch on but was too misogynistic too really get through. Of course, she was reduced to villain status by the fandom and anime alike because she got in the way of the supposed romance in their psychological horror anime.
Téa Gardener/Anzu Mazaki
She's friends with Yugi, the main protagonist, who is usually either shipped with his other self (Yami Yugi), or Yugi/Yami will be shipped with the main antagonist (Seto Kaiba). She tends to get demonised a LOT. I have read SO many stories where she is turned into this evil, scheming harpy of a woman who will get in the way of Twu Wuv.
the fandom does her so dirty bc she's in the way of at least 3 different yaoi ships she's so amazing and underrated tho she's such a great character
Was portrayed as a bitch very often in fandom! Is very not a bitch in canon! Supportive, occasionally snarky, occasional damsel in distress, good card player in her own right (this is important in universe, trust me), and very very loyal!
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ROUND 1A, MATCH 4 OUT OF 16
Monster Stats & Propaganda Under the Cut:
Dark Magician is used by Yugi Mutou/Yami Yugi and by Pandora ("Arkana" in the dub). Its stats are the following:
Attribute: DARK
Level: 7
Type: SPELLCASTER
Description (according to the anime): "The ultimate wizard in terms of attack and defense."
ATK: / DEF: 2500 / 2100
Propaganda:
Absolute icon. The OG.
Dark Magician Girl is used by Yugi Mutou/Yami Yugi and Anzu Mazaki ("Tea Gardener" in the dub). Its stats are the following:
Attribute: DARK
Level: 6
Type: SPELLCASTER / EFFECT
Effect Type: CONTINUOUS
Effect (according to the anime): "This card gains 300 ATK for every "Dark Magician" or "Magician of Black Chaos" in either player's Graveyard."
ATK / DEF: 2000 / 1700
Propaganda:
Iconic
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:3c @sowideasea thanks for the prompt of ygo friendship shenanigans (sorry to Jonouchi)
[ID: In a chibi style at a restaurant table scene with Ryou, Yugi, Anzu, Jonouchi and Honda is drawn.
Ryou is sitting on the bench laughing with closed eyes, a fist close to his mouth to cover it, the other by his stomach. next to him Yugi is building with cards a tower over Jonouchi's head, he has a card on one hand close to the top of the tower, the other is on the table.
Anzu is smiling standing, filming with a pink phone she is holding with both hands on horizontal mode.
Jonouchi is sleeping, he is drooling, has his head over an arm. he has blue drawings over his face and hand. a little spiral mustache and a smiley face on his hand. next to him Honda is smiling with closed eyes, he is holding a marker with blue point.
there is a black napkin holder with salt and pepper containers. the cards are pink by one side and blank by the other.
clothes are mostly their casual DSOD clothes except for Ryou, anyway, Ryou is wearing his light blue shirt with the stripe white and blue shirt under it, for Yugi the light purple dress shirt with rolled sleeves up the elbows with his black with metallic framing and the purple vest. Anzu is wearing a yellow trutle neck with no sleeves, and a pink skirt with a belt, Jonouchi and Honda are both wearing a green jacket with a white shirt, but Jonouchi's green is more light and saturated. END ID]
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