Millennium World was the final one where everybody goes to Egypt and gets sent to the world of the Pharaoh's memories.
I believe the order was...
Duelist Kingdom (Villain: Pegasus)
Virtual World (Villain: Big 5)
Battle City (Villain: Marik)
Virtual World v.2 (Villain: Noah/Big 5/Gozuboro)
Battle City Finale (Villain: Dark Marik)
Dragons of Atlantis (Villain: Dartz)
KC Grand Championship (Villain: Zigfried)
Millennium World (Villain: Dark Bakura/Zorc)
Final Duel (Yugi vs. the Pharaoh)
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 04:17 AM
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 04:23 AM
Okay, so I didn't realize there was a first Virtual World... and I also thought that the series ended with the duel with Marik. I had no idea there was stuff after that. It just... seemed like the end of it all. Was it supposed to be the end, or did they always plan for it to go on after that?
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 04:53 AM
The first Virtual World arc was where Kaiba had built a virtual reality video game based around Duel Monsters. The Big 5 set up the typical "win the game to escape" scenario because their first plan, having Pegasus get rid of Kaiba, failed. Mokuba brought Yugi and Co. to a warehouse with the prototype virtual reality pods to help save Kaiba because the programming had been tampered with.
The setup with Marik was that the Pharaoh needed all three of the Egyptian God cards. You've already seen that one, so I'll skip over it.
After Battle City, the filler arc "Dragons of Atlantis" started, because they needed to buy the original author some time to write a conclusion to the series. In it, a new set of villains steal the Egyptian God cards so that they can revive the Leviathan, some sort of great beast that feeds off the souls of both humans and Duel Monsters. Because the God cards are gone, the heroes' new trump cards are the titular Dragons. Kaiba, Yugi, and Joey each get one, and they're basically used by fusing them with other monsters, traps, or spells to add new effects. To keep the villains as a threat, they use the Seal of Orichalcos, which allows them to keep 10 monsters on the field at a time instead of just 5, and every monster gets about 500 extra Attack Points. Also, like a Shadow Game, the Seal takes the soul of the loser and feeds it to the Leviathan. The main plot point here is that the Pharaoh actually loses a duel by giving in to his inner darkness and playing the Seal himself, and Yugi saves him by sacrificing his own soul.
KC Grand Championship is another filler arc where Kaiba Corp's public image has gone down the drain because of all the Duel Monsters coming to life and wrecking havoc during the Atlantis arc. Because he desperately needs to fix his company's reputation, Kaiba starts another tournament where he gathers the best duelists in the world and has them compete against one another at the finally-completed Kaiba Land theme park for a shot at dueling Yugi, who's still holding the World Champion title from both Duelist Kingdom and Battle City. The villain is Zigfried, the head of another company who for generations has always been one step behind Kaiba Corp. He uses the tournament as a distraction and plants a virus in the computers so that the Duel Discs accept a non-tournament regulation, never-released card, and when the card is played, it activates the virus and it starts deleting all the critical files in the Kaiba Corp database. It's pretty much a breather arc for the series.
Millennium World is the final story arc. The Egyptian God cards were needed to recover the Pharaoh's memories, and the process for doing so sucks the Pharaoh into an alternate world made up of his past memories. However, back in Battle City, Dark Bakura had hidden a portion of his own soul in the Millennium Puzzle, allowing him to travel there as well. The main gang finds their own way there as well, and it's a race between the heroes finding the Pharaoh's true name and Bakura stealing all the Millennium Items and resurrecting Zorc, the creator of the Shadow Realm, and destroying the world. The big twist is that while the Pharaoh is in the world of memories, the present-day version of the Pharaoh is looking down at the world as a tabletop-RPG alongside Bakura, who's taken the role of the GM.
Once that arc finishes, all that's left is a duel between Yugi and the Pharaoh to see if the Pharaoh gets to go to the afterlife, or spends the rest of eternity still trapped in the Puzzle. I've got an old Shonen Jump magazine with the ending to that duel, so I know what's going to happen, I just haven't gotten to that point in the TV show yet.
And of course, after that there's Capsule Monsters, GX, 5D's, Zexal, and all of the other series going on because Konami doesn't want to let go of their big cash-cow franchise. At this point, I don't think that Yugi has anything to do with things anymore, so they should really think of renaming things to drop the whole "Yu-Gi-Oh!" part of the title. However, there's a manga-only continuation that still follows the original cast called "Yu-Gi-Oh! R", but I haven't read that one yet. All I know about is is the entire plot hinges on Mokuba getting kidnapped yet AGAIN. (Really, put a bell on that kid or something. He goes missing way too often.)
...Yeah, I originally figured I'd watch the series because I remembered liking it when I was a kid, and never got to see how it ended. After a little bit, I looked it up on TVTropes, and realized that 5D's, Zexal, Capsule Monsters, and R all exist, so I'm going to be stuck on this for at least another two freaking months. It's not too bad, it's just that I tend to stick with a series until it ends before I start another one. The only way this could be worse would be if I had picked Pokemon or DragonBall. I haven't seen all those, either. I'm going to be really busy when I get to those ones. I'm picking a couple short 12-episode series after I finally finish this one. I need a break from long-runners.
The setup with Marik was that the Pharaoh needed all three of the Egyptian God cards. You've already seen that one, so I'll skip over it.
After Battle City, the filler arc "Dragons of Atlantis" started, because they needed to buy the original author some time to write a conclusion to the series. In it, a new set of villains steal the Egyptian God cards so that they can revive the Leviathan, some sort of great beast that feeds off the souls of both humans and Duel Monsters. Because the God cards are gone, the heroes' new trump cards are the titular Dragons. Kaiba, Yugi, and Joey each get one, and they're basically used by fusing them with other monsters, traps, or spells to add new effects. To keep the villains as a threat, they use the Seal of Orichalcos, which allows them to keep 10 monsters on the field at a time instead of just 5, and every monster gets about 500 extra Attack Points. Also, like a Shadow Game, the Seal takes the soul of the loser and feeds it to the Leviathan. The main plot point here is that the Pharaoh actually loses a duel by giving in to his inner darkness and playing the Seal himself, and Yugi saves him by sacrificing his own soul.
KC Grand Championship is another filler arc where Kaiba Corp's public image has gone down the drain because of all the Duel Monsters coming to life and wrecking havoc during the Atlantis arc. Because he desperately needs to fix his company's reputation, Kaiba starts another tournament where he gathers the best duelists in the world and has them compete against one another at the finally-completed Kaiba Land theme park for a shot at dueling Yugi, who's still holding the World Champion title from both Duelist Kingdom and Battle City. The villain is Zigfried, the head of another company who for generations has always been one step behind Kaiba Corp. He uses the tournament as a distraction and plants a virus in the computers so that the Duel Discs accept a non-tournament regulation, never-released card, and when the card is played, it activates the virus and it starts deleting all the critical files in the Kaiba Corp database. It's pretty much a breather arc for the series.
Millennium World is the final story arc. The Egyptian God cards were needed to recover the Pharaoh's memories, and the process for doing so sucks the Pharaoh into an alternate world made up of his past memories. However, back in Battle City, Dark Bakura had hidden a portion of his own soul in the Millennium Puzzle, allowing him to travel there as well. The main gang finds their own way there as well, and it's a race between the heroes finding the Pharaoh's true name and Bakura stealing all the Millennium Items and resurrecting Zorc, the creator of the Shadow Realm, and destroying the world. The big twist is that while the Pharaoh is in the world of memories, the present-day version of the Pharaoh is looking down at the world as a tabletop-RPG alongside Bakura, who's taken the role of the GM.
Once that arc finishes, all that's left is a duel between Yugi and the Pharaoh to see if the Pharaoh gets to go to the afterlife, or spends the rest of eternity still trapped in the Puzzle. I've got an old Shonen Jump magazine with the ending to that duel, so I know what's going to happen, I just haven't gotten to that point in the TV show yet.
And of course, after that there's Capsule Monsters, GX, 5D's, Zexal, and all of the other series going on because Konami doesn't want to let go of their big cash-cow franchise. At this point, I don't think that Yugi has anything to do with things anymore, so they should really think of renaming things to drop the whole "Yu-Gi-Oh!" part of the title. However, there's a manga-only continuation that still follows the original cast called "Yu-Gi-Oh! R", but I haven't read that one yet. All I know about is is the entire plot hinges on Mokuba getting kidnapped yet AGAIN. (Really, put a bell on that kid or something. He goes missing way too often.)
...Yeah, I originally figured I'd watch the series because I remembered liking it when I was a kid, and never got to see how it ended. After a little bit, I looked it up on TVTropes, and realized that 5D's, Zexal, Capsule Monsters, and R all exist, so I'm going to be stuck on this for at least another two freaking months. It's not too bad, it's just that I tend to stick with a series until it ends before I start another one. The only way this could be worse would be if I had picked Pokemon or DragonBall. I haven't seen all those, either. I'm going to be really busy when I get to those ones. I'm picking a couple short 12-episode series after I finally finish this one. I need a break from long-runners.
Edited by kurt91, 07 February 2013 - 05:00 AM.
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 05:00 AM
Uh huh... well... I'm kinda glad I stopped watching the show when I did then, cuz all that sounds... really contrived and kinda stupid. I mean, the whole show, looking back, seems kinda stupid to me now, but at least the first few arcs made sense. That last few... don't. Especially the whole tabletop RPG bit.
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 08:16 AM
Well, to be fair, during the entire series they set it up in a way that they basically had to do something to explain the Pharaoh's past. I mean, they made references to it constantly, so it would have been bad to completely ignore all of that. 
That being said, I actually stopped watching at the beginning of the "Dragons of Atlantis" arc, as you call it. I was getting a bit too old for the series, and plus the villains didn't seem that menacing, and they had just gotten too many absurd cards into the series. I saw random bits of the Millennium World arc, but not a whole lot.
That being said, I actually stopped watching at the beginning of the "Dragons of Atlantis" arc, as you call it. I was getting a bit too old for the series, and plus the villains didn't seem that menacing, and they had just gotten too many absurd cards into the series. I saw random bits of the Millennium World arc, but not a whole lot.
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 09:16 AM
Watched Miyazaki's Totoro this morning.
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I loved it.
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 11:11 AM
QUOTE(LinktheMaster @ Feb 7 2013, 07:16 AM) 
Well, to be fair, during the entire series they set it up in a way that they basically had to do something to explain the Pharaoh's past. I mean, they made references to it constantly, so it would have been bad to completely ignore all of that.
God forbid they just follow the manga, which was entirely ABOUT the Pharaoh's past with the card games making a cameo.
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 04:55 PM
But that would mean they might not have made as much money with the cards...
Anyways, I really liked Toei's version ("Season Zero") much better than the main series. It was nice to see games other ("Stack this money on top of your hand, then stab it with a knife. You can keep all you can stab, but you lose if you impale your hand.") than cards, and the story was much better.
Anyways, I really liked Toei's version ("Season Zero") much better than the main series. It was nice to see games other ("Stack this money on top of your hand, then stab it with a knife. You can keep all you can stab, but you lose if you impale your hand.") than cards, and the story was much better.
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Posted 15 February 2013 - 02:04 AM
So I just finished Baka and Test season 2. Absolutely fantastic - about twenty times better than the first season. They really stepped up their game. It would be a total shame if there wasn't a third season.
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Posted 05 May 2013 - 02:17 AM
Wow. It's been a while since somebody posted in this topic. Anyways...
I just finished watching "Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt" for the first time. It was... Interesting, to say the least. Absolutely batshit insane, but rather entertaining. I wouldn't mind if they made another season, but I guess I'm fine with the point it ended at. It wasn't bad, but it didn't quite match all the hype I had heard about it.
At one point, I was watching One Piece, but the torrent I had downloaded of it stopped at episode 91, and I don't have the PC space for the next batch. (I haven't deleted the initial torrent yet because my little siblings want to watch it as well, and I'm still seeding it. I'd kind of feel bad if I didn't seed a decent amount for a big one like that.) I was looking for somewhere to watch the rest online, but everywhere I look is all the Japanese version. I don't have a problem usually with watching subbed anime, but I'd really rather continue watching it the same way I started.
I just finished watching "Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt" for the first time. It was... Interesting, to say the least. Absolutely batshit insane, but rather entertaining. I wouldn't mind if they made another season, but I guess I'm fine with the point it ended at. It wasn't bad, but it didn't quite match all the hype I had heard about it.
At one point, I was watching One Piece, but the torrent I had downloaded of it stopped at episode 91, and I don't have the PC space for the next batch. (I haven't deleted the initial torrent yet because my little siblings want to watch it as well, and I'm still seeding it. I'd kind of feel bad if I didn't seed a decent amount for a big one like that.) I was looking for somewhere to watch the rest online, but everywhere I look is all the Japanese version. I don't have a problem usually with watching subbed anime, but I'd really rather continue watching it the same way I started.
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Posted 07 May 2013 - 01:01 PM
I'm surprised this thread actually took off... for a moment, I thought I was the only one who watched animu regularly.
Anyway, I've been watching Suisei no Gargantia and Attack on Titan.
Anyway, I've been watching Suisei no Gargantia and Attack on Titan.
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Posted 11 May 2013 - 01:22 AM
Great news for me! I've finally found a good, reliable site to watch the dubbed version of One Piece right where I left off. Strangely enough, Funimation's official site doesn't seem to work as well, and it keeps cutting me off every three or four minutes. So, I've finished Episode 93. Just how many episodes do I have to watch to catch up to where Toonami is going to start?
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Getting into Steins;Gate now, up through the first six episodes. Enjoying it pretty well so far, it's funny, intelligent, and intriguing.
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Is mayonnaise an anime?
One piece.
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Posted 17 May 2013 - 03:49 AM
Been watching Soul Eater. Nearly finished it (up to episode 47/ 51).
This anime is just ridiculous, especially when you see Excalibur. That's the all I can say.
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