Yu-Gi-Oh! manga creator Kazuki Takahashi (real name Kazuo Takahashi) has passed away at age 60 due to an apparent diving accident.
The Coast Guard reportedly found Takahashi equipped with snorkeling gear. Both the Coast Guard and police are currently investigating the events that led up to Takahashi's death. A person on a passing boat had called Japan's maritime hotline to report an apparent body, floating 300 meters (about 1,000 feet) from the coast off the resort city of Nago, at about 10:30 a.m. on July 6, 2022.
Takahashi's Yu-Gi-Oh! manga launched an international hit franchise that continues to this day with card games, anime, toys, and newer manga series. Takahashi won Comic-Con International's Inkpot Award in July 2015. The award recognizes individuals for outstanding contributions to comics, science fiction and fantasy, film, television, animation, and fandom.
Special animation of popular archetypes made for the Yu-Gi-Oh card game's 25th anniversary
Featuring archetypes and themes such as:
Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Blue-Eyes and Red-eyes
Maiden with Eyes of Blue and Azure Eyes Dragon
The Spirit Charmers
Trishula and the protectors of the Ice Barrier
Melffys and Joyous Forest
Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder fighting the newly released Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis (this being after Melffy possibly being a nod to the two being played together)
The Legendary Six Samurai
Live/Evil Twins
Fallen of Albaz and Dogmatika Ecclesia
With less-animated frames for:
Exodia the Forbidden One
Visas
Fire King vs Atlanteans
Diabellestar
Dragon Rulers
Magistus
Solfachords
Then ending with animations of:
"Passionate Duelist" being played by the Solfachords
jounouchi telling atem to cheer up after atem lost to pegasus and grandpa's soul was sealed
and then later in the same chapter, atem telling jounouchi to cheer up and giving him a star chip for a chance at the duelist kingdom prize money for shizuka's operation
friends giving cheer and receiving cheer back when theyre at their lowest. they even say the same thing! 元気出そーぜ!! "cheer up!"
this also makes me wanna believe atem just absorbs the mannerisms of those he's close to.
Fic: A River in Egypt, by @nenya85
Fandom: Yugioh!
[kaiba voice] MIRU KA II! ENDPAPERS FROM JOANN'S!! WAHAHA!!
Nenya is an icon in Yugioh fandom - and an adored friend <3 It was time she got to hold a hard copy of all her hard work in her hands. Working on these books over the past few weeks has brought me insane joy, and I'm so proud of how these turned out - they are #5 and #6 in my current book tally, and I learned a pile while working on them.
The covers are silk moire in black, gold, and a sandy white, while the blue is Japanese book cloth. The body of this text is set in 10.5 point Perpetua font, with accents in Skandal and Aquifer.
Some additional details below the cut:
Every chapter in this fic starts with a little meditation/vignette on the five stages of grief...
So I translated each of the five stages into their hieroglyphic equivalents (using either direct translation or good-enough approximations - I think the word I used for "bargaining" actually means "to exchange or trade.")
I also managed to split the fic exactly in half, into two volumes of 17 chapters each. Volume I is 216 pages; Volume II is 208 pages. In other words, the volumes are both balanced in their chapter count and almost identical in their widths, a testament to Nenya's skill and consistency as a writer.