Current Events > TIL that Duel Masters is still airing in Japan

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You know that Yu-Gi-Oh knockoff-looking anime from the mid-2000's? It got two dubbed seasons, and tbh they were pretty garbo. I caught a couple of episodes as a kid, but it was never as good as Yu-Gi-Oh.

Well, in Japan, they're still making the show and the Duel Masters card game. It's been running since 1999. They've swapped the protagonist twice, with the first guy's kid brother and then his nephew.

I remember getting these following cards in McDonalds happy meals. Honestly I'm a fan of the art.

Funnily enough I remember 'twister fish' being a dragon, but looking at what all the possible cards were in the happy meals, it only could have been twister fish that was blue and looked this way.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/7/AAcZIZAAC48r.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/8/AAcZIZAAC48s.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/9/AAcZIZAAC48t.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/5/0/AAcZIZAAC48u.jpg

The game was co developed by Wizards of the Coast and a JP company and I think you can tell. The art is like Magic but with some anime influence, while the card terminology borrows from both Magic and Yugioh.

Also, the original manga was about Magic the Gathering - it was licensed by Wizards of the Coast. It didn't do well, and they changed it for the TV show which took off. Wizards of the Coast apparently produce the official Duel Masters card game or something though.

That also means that this is the second card game started in tribute to Magic the Gathering, only to take up a life of its own and become a competitor. Duel Monsters from Yu-Gi-Oh was originally a tribute to Magic which only took off the way it did because people were interested in Duel Monsters.

The only scene I remember from that show is this one because of how weird it was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAxg7iVVWo4

Looking back, maybe it was actually worth watching. More memes per minute than I recall.

The automatically generated captions on that video are amazing because whenever Shobu's name is said, the captions wig out.

Yeah a few years ago they tried to revive it in the US. They rebranded it as Kaijudo.

The game was actually pretty fun iirc. I had the GBA game

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/7/2/AAfLowAAC5Jk.jpg

This is apparently one card made of five separate cards.

This game got weird later on.