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[Kiaida]

No one is denying the original series is popular, but it wouldn't help the game at all, the main product of the franchise. It's an extremely long manga that already got a full adaptation, it's no wonder some people have no interest in remaking that and would rather have new series.

Yugioh is popular enough for several generations it doesn't need to rely on DM nostalgia. If anything, that already hurt the franchise by imploding Arc-V and Gallop's production pipeline.

 

[Lord Anubis]

Here are my favorites:

Yoshiharu Kataoka (Ping Pong Peril) with "Saikyo Joreishi Kan-chan!", with an official color page


Hidechika Matsui with " The Demon of Shadow Burial" or known as "Kagesou no Akuma"


Shun Yabe with "Onmyo Donkan Massugu se Ima"


Kemuri Taimatsu with “Pen wa ken yori etosetora"


Tatara Kyou with 'Inyoroku Battle Fantasy Bu'


Hayashi Tatsuya, with "Mamono no Yusha"


Takumi with "OHALIVE"


Jou Tanakura with "Kitsune no yume"


Murano Shiki(Or Fumuki Murano) with "Yamori no Iemori"


Hokazono Akira, with "Sūpānakkuru ojōsama" or known as "Super Knuckle Lady"

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shonenjumpplus.com

I felt this to be a pretty strong issue to me, IMO.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

No one is denying the original series is popular, but it wouldn't help the game at all, the main product of the franchise. It's an extremely long manga that already got a full adaptation, it's no wonder some people have no interest in remaking that and would rather have new series.

Yugioh is popular enough for several generations it doesn't need to rely on DM nostalgia. If anything, that already hurt the franchise by imploding Arc-V and Gallop's production pipeline.

The original anime is not a faithful adaptation to the manga.

You guys are underestimating it, reducing the original series to something that can only get a remake if it helps to sell some cards is crazy, the original series is much more than just a tool to sell card game and it would get way more attention and money than whatever Konami ever does to this franchise currently, if anything it would bring much more people, old ones and new ones, back to the franchise since it would be a big nostalgia for the original fans and easy way to get into the franchise for new ones.

 

[Phantom RPG]

Without commenting on the quality of the work, I just wanna say I find it hilarious how this exorcist series has a guy that looks exactly like Gakuro. Maybe in a couple years he'll become the new Deku, but for exorcist mangaka.

Just so you know, his previous one shot called Anti Service was also exocist oriented.

Also he was the writer of an old one shot called senran freaks in weekly shonen jump, but only as a writer as the art I believe was done by the illustrator of a manga called ziga.

The more you know.

 

[Aqyurs]

But that's the point; the original characters are still everywhere with the franchise. They constantly get legacy support, they constantly get new merch, the other branches of Konami constantly make exclusive product to appeal to DM fans or only import the cool DM side products instead of the other series, most of their anime and social media push outside Japan revolves around DM. A remake isn't needed because everyone that likes the characters still get to see the characters. Konami already shoves the old characters down people's throats. People still like the original DM anime (even the filler arcs). You're not appealing to anyone new by making a DM remake because original DM never went away.

And being like "the series is far more than just an excuse to sell the card game" is pointless because that's how Konami views everything with YGO: how does it translate to people playing the card game. Master Duel's separate banlist and unique card release schedule? Designed so people still have to play paper if they want the newest cards. Why do the filler arcs exist in YGO in the first place? So they can advertise cards they released that weren't in the original manga (or new products they want to sell like Dungeon Dice Monsters). Why did the TCG make Genesys format to begin with? They wanted people to buy sets and feel like the not meta cards they pulled were still useful, aka, you're still meant to play paper YGO. Why are the OCG shorts only mini episodes? Because you have to play the actual game and buy the actual cards (and lore books) if you want the entire fleshed out story instead of the cliffnotes. That's just the reality of how Konami treats the franchise.

If anything, I think people underestimate how big the non DM series and game original decks fanbase are. People joke about 50 years of Sky Striker support or "I love Raye", but it really does justify it. You have to be really popular to be the first archetype to get a manga about its lore, to be the first archetype for Konami's OCG shorts, the first archetype to get animated cutscences for its story in Master Duel, the first archetype to be the official mascot of a series (Raye is still considered the OCG Stories mascot despite Sky Striker's story being over for years in the manga), to have side sets where you're either the main or the selling point. HEROes might be the most popular archetype of all time (Blue-Eyes as a card is obviously more popular, but the archetype itself has way less fans than you would think. I can promise you it's not Dark Magician.): its playstyle is literally everything people hate about Modern YGO (floodgates, combos that take a billion hours, gets support every year that doesn't fix any of the weaknesses of the deck), and yet people still go all in for the new cards and try to pretend that Hero isn't the same as something like Maliss. Zexal is the second or third most popular series in Japan, and they were unapologetic for its 10 year anniversary: a structure deck, Number Files for Number Hunters, tons of merch in general, most of the anime cards are actually adapted into the game at this point unlike the other series (I think Vector is the only real glaring omission now). Both the Rush anime had to be pretty successful because Rush exists today and gets support and events, Konami of all companies aren't afraid to immediately pull the plug if someone isn't working (RIP Cross Duels). I've seen Rush Duel sets appear several times on card shops top 10 releases of the month, so it has people that buy it. DM is the most popular, but in Japan, it's really not "DM or bust"; the other series support the franchise just fine and plenty of people will care if a new original Master Rule anime happens.

On the TCG side, it's been almost ten years since the last Master Rule series ended (and if we're being honest, the last relevant anime for the West was 5Ds, so it's been closer to 20), but YCSes constantly reach max capacity and a lot of the newer players say they got into the game without watching any of the anime. Master Duel, Duel Links, content creators (I don't think people understand how much things like The Progression Series or Sealed Only Yugioh helped attract casual players, and not to mention how much YGO Abridged has impacted the series online), maybe Genesys if they keep supporting it, they have plenty of methods besides the anime to get new players in that have historically worked. The reason the TCG is bleeding less competitive players now is because they're getting priced out the game and card shops lose money selling YGO because the products are all awful to open so no customer wants to buy them, and again, a DM remake is not fixing that. And a faithful DM remake doesn't fix the issue that the game from DM is not the game of today, so a lot of people who try the game because of DM end up hating it and don't stay with the game.

Yes the original DM is extremely popular, especially in the West, but remaking it doesn't fix the fundamental problem the TCG faces with new players and the OCG is far more receptive of the other series that an original series would cover 90% of what they would want a DM remake to do (and the 10% it doesn't, is already covered by the fact they still push the original characters anyway). Yes, YGO is more than the card game, but the majority of people like the original anime and its accessible everywhere (they have it literally free on Twitch on rotation with every other series if you're that lazy with streaming services), so you can still experience the story.

 

[Shonenfan]

But that's the point; the original characters are still everywhere with the franchise. They constantly get legacy support, they constantly get new merch, the other branches of Konami constantly make exclusive product to appeal to DM fans or only import the cool DM side products instead of the other series, most of their anime and social media push outside Japan revolves around DM. A remake isn't needed because everyone that likes the characters still get to see the characters. Konami already shoves the old characters down people's throats. People still like the original DM anime (even the filler arcs). You're not appealing to anyone new by making a DM remake because original DM never went away.

And being like "the series is far more than just an excuse to sell the card game" is pointless because that's how Konami views everything with YGO: how does it translate to people playing the card game. Master Duel's separate banlist and unique card release schedule? Designed so people still have to play paper if they want the newest cards. Why do the filler arcs exist in YGO in the first place? So they can advertise cards they released that weren't in the original manga (or new products they want to sell like Dungeon Dice Monsters). Why did the TCG make Genesys format to begin with? They wanted people to buy sets and feel like the not meta cards they pulled were still useful, aka, you're still meant to play paper YGO. Why are the OCG shorts only mini episodes? Because you have to play the actual game and buy the actual cards (and lore books) if you want the entire fleshed out story instead of the cliffnotes. That's just the reality of how Konami treats the franchise.

If anything, I think people underestimate how big the non DM series and game original decks fanbase are. People joke about 50 years of Sky Striker support or "I love Raye", but it really does justify it. You have to be really popular to be the first archetype to get a manga about its lore, to be the first archetype for Konami's OCG shorts, the first archetype to get animated cutscences for its story in Master Duel, the first archetype to be the official mascot of a series (Raye is still considered the OCG Stories mascot despite Sky Striker's story being over for years in the manga), to have side sets where you're either the main or the selling point. HEROes might be the most popular archetype of all time (Blue-Eyes as a card is obviously more popular, but the archetype itself has way less fans than you would think. I can promise you it's not Dark Magician.): its playstyle is literally everything people hate about Modern YGO (floodgates, combos that take a billion hours, gets support every year that doesn't fix any of the weaknesses of the deck), and yet people still go all in for the new cards and try to pretend that Hero isn't the same as something like Maliss. Zexal is the second or third most popular series in Japan, and they were unapologetic for its 10 year anniversary: a structure deck, Number Files for Number Hunters, tons of merch in general, most of the anime cards are actually adapted into the game at this point unlike the other series (I think Vector is the only real glaring omission now). Both the Rush anime had to be pretty successful because Rush exists today and gets support and events, Konami of all companies aren't afraid to immediately pull the plug if someone isn't working (RIP Cross Duels). I've seen Rush Duel sets appear several times on card shops top 10 releases of the month, so it has people that buy it. DM is the most popular, but in Japan, it's really not "DM or bust"; the other series support the franchise just fine and plenty of people will care if a new original Master Rule anime happens.

On the TCG side, it's been almost ten years since the last Master Rule series ended (and if we're being honest, the last relevant anime for the West was 5Ds, so it's been closer to 20), but YCSes constantly reach max capacity and a lot of the newer players say they got into the game without watching any of the anime. Master Duel, Duel Links, content creators (I don't think people understand how much things like The Progression Series or Sealed Only Yugioh helped attract casual players, and not to mention how much YGO Abridged has impacted the series online), maybe Genesys if they keep supporting it, they have plenty of methods besides the anime to get new players in that have historically worked. The reason the TCG is bleeding less competitive players now is because they're getting priced out the game and card shops lose money selling YGO because the products are all awful to open so no customer wants to buy them, and again, a DM remake is not fixing that. And a faithful DM remake doesn't fix the issue that the game from DM is not the game of today, so a lot of people who try the game because of DM end up hating it and don't stay with the game.

Yes the original DM is extremely popular, especially in the West, but remaking it doesn't fix the fundamental problem the TCG faces with new players and the OCG is far more receptive of the other series that an original series would cover 90% of what they would want a DM remake to do (and the 10% it doesn't, is already covered by the fact they still push the original characters anyway). Yes, YGO is more than the card game, but the majority of people like the original anime and its accessible everywhere (they have it literally free on Twitch on rotation with every other series if you're that lazy with streaming services), so you can still experience the story.

Does Shuesia care about Konami’s stuff with the cards? I’m sure they get something off the top, but I feel like shuesia is looking at a remake as more of a way to get a new gen checking out the OG anime/manga that spawned the franchise it is now. Konami doesn’t have much of a say for YGO’s anime right?

It is kind of shocking that shuesia hasn’t tried to encourage something similar to yu gi oh that’s merchandise rich like similar to a TCG or something. Yu gi oh and playing the card games was kind of my intro to anime as a very young kid.

 

[Reyes]

I think Konami even complain that despite Master Duel making them money it's less successful in getting new player actually playing/buy the TCG then they expected.

 

[Lord Anubis]

Just so you know, his previous one shot called Anti Service was also exocist oriented.

Also he was the writer of an old one shot called senran freaks in weekly shonen jump, but only as a writer as the art I believe was done by the illustrator of a manga called ziga.

The more you know.

Yeah, I feel like we now know what kind of stories interest Yabe

 

[Broseph]

I'd love a YGO remake, I actually read the manga for the first time only a few years ago and it was legitimately great coming from someone whose experience with it was the original on Kids WB back in the day plus the card game circa 2002-2004.

I actually think the problem with a remake would be that the first 24 episodes wouldn't have the card game at all and instead focus on Yami playing different death games so it would have to come from Shueisha or someone else. But I'd love to see that bit adapted even if its unlikely since it was really cool to see how that slowly transitioned into the YGO that we all know

Fun Fact: I actually had no idea of the Seal of Orichalcos was a filler arc when I watched the show growing up mostly cause I didn't even know what filler was till Naruto. In hindsight it doesn't really fit the story but as a kid, I thought that concept was really cool and some of those battles were really fun

 

[Kiaida]

Does Shuesia care about Konami’s stuff with the cards? I’m sure they get something off the top, but I feel like shuesia is looking at a remake as more of a way to get a new gen checking out the OG anime/manga that spawned the franchise it is now. Konami doesn’t have much of a say for YGO’s anime right?

Konami produces the anime. And Shueisha cares about the card game, they always promote it on WSJ and V-Jump has two series about the OCG.

 

[Reyes]

If there one benefit to a Yu-Gi-Oh remake the final season can actually look better as it was hampered by GX Production happening around the same time from what I recall.

Didn't watch it myself.

 

[WyldViolet]

Does Shuesia care about Konami’s stuff with the cards? I’m sure they get something off the top, but I feel like shuesia is looking at a remake as more of a way to get a new gen checking out the OG anime/manga that spawned the franchise it is now. Konami doesn’t have much of a say for YGO’s anime right?

It is kind of shocking that shuesia hasn’t tried to encourage something similar to yu gi oh that’s merchandise rich like similar to a TCG or something. Yu gi oh and playing the card games was kind of my intro to anime as a very young kid.

I'll always be heartbroken Akuten Wars never got a real serialization. A Togashi created and written card game/manga could've been such a massive hit.

 

[Dongus]

But that's the point; the original characters are still everywhere with the franchise. They constantly get legacy support, they constantly get new merch, the other branches of Konami constantly make exclusive product to appeal to DM fans or only import the cool DM side products instead of the other series, most of their anime and social media push outside Japan revolves around DM. A remake isn't needed because everyone that likes the characters still get to see the characters. Konami already shoves the old characters down people's throats. People still like the original DM anime (even the filler arcs). You're not appealing to anyone new by making a DM remake because original DM never went away.

And being like "the series is far more than just an excuse to sell the card game" is pointless because that's how Konami views everything with YGO: how does it translate to people playing the card game. Master Duel's separate banlist and unique card release schedule? Designed so people still have to play paper if they want the newest cards. Why do the filler arcs exist in YGO in the first place? So they can advertise cards they released that weren't in the original manga (or new products they want to sell like Dungeon Dice Monsters). Why did the TCG make Genesys format to begin with? They wanted people to buy sets and feel like the not meta cards they pulled were still useful, aka, you're still meant to play paper YGO. Why are the OCG shorts only mini episodes? Because you have to play the actual game and buy the actual cards (and lore books) if you want the entire fleshed out story instead of the cliffnotes. That's just the reality of how Konami treats the franchise.

If anything, I think people underestimate how big the non DM series and game original decks fanbase are. People joke about 50 years of Sky Striker support or "I love Raye", but it really does justify it. You have to be really popular to be the first archetype to get a manga about its lore, to be the first archetype for Konami's OCG shorts, the first archetype to get animated cutscences for its story in Master Duel, the first archetype to be the official mascot of a series (Raye is still considered the OCG Stories mascot despite Sky Striker's story being over for years in the manga), to have side sets where you're either the main or the selling point. HEROes might be the most popular archetype of all time (Blue-Eyes as a card is obviously more popular, but the archetype itself has way less fans than you would think. I can promise you it's not Dark Magician.): its playstyle is literally everything people hate about Modern YGO (floodgates, combos that take a billion hours, gets support every year that doesn't fix any of the weaknesses of the deck), and yet people still go all in for the new cards and try to pretend that Hero isn't the same as something like Maliss. Zexal is the second or third most popular series in Japan, and they were unapologetic for its 10 year anniversary: a structure deck, Number Files for Number Hunters, tons of merch in general, most of the anime cards are actually adapted into the game at this point unlike the other series (I think Vector is the only real glaring omission now). Both the Rush anime had to be pretty successful because Rush exists today and gets support and events, Konami of all companies aren't afraid to immediately pull the plug if someone isn't working (RIP Cross Duels). I've seen Rush Duel sets appear several times on card shops top 10 releases of the month, so it has people that buy it. DM is the most popular, but in Japan, it's really not "DM or bust"; the other series support the franchise just fine and plenty of people will care if a new original Master Rule anime happens.

On the TCG side, it's been almost ten years since the last Master Rule series ended (and if we're being honest, the last relevant anime for the West was 5Ds, so it's been closer to 20), but YCSes constantly reach max capacity and a lot of the newer players say they got into the game without watching any of the anime. Master Duel, Duel Links, content creators (I don't think people understand how much things like The Progression Series or Sealed Only Yugioh helped attract casual players, and not to mention how much YGO Abridged has impacted the series online), maybe Genesys if they keep supporting it, they have plenty of methods besides the anime to get new players in that have historically worked. The reason the TCG is bleeding less competitive players now is because they're getting priced out the game and card shops lose money selling YGO because the products are all awful to open so no customer wants to buy them, and again, a DM remake is not fixing that. And a faithful DM remake doesn't fix the issue that the game from DM is not the game of today, so a lot of people who try the game because of DM end up hating it and don't stay with the game.

Yes the original DM is extremely popular, especially in the West, but remaking it doesn't fix the fundamental problem the TCG faces with new players and the OCG is far more receptive of the other series that an original series would cover 90% of what they would want a DM remake to do (and the 10% it doesn't, is already covered by the fact they still push the original characters anyway). Yes, YGO is more than the card game, but the majority of people like the original anime and its accessible everywhere (they have it literally free on Twitch on rotation with every other series if you're that lazy with streaming services), so you can still experience the story.

Sometimes I sit down and read Aqyurs posts and wonder how this man has time to dive this deep into like five different hobbies.

 

[WyldViolet]

Sometimes I sit down and read Aqyurs posts and wonder how this man has time to dive this deep into like five different hobbies.

I mean, I'm like basically autistic but not autistic about Jump, film, geopolitics, Abrahamic history, and retro JRPG's.
It's not rare for people in these sorts of niche communities who have too much time on their hands to be like this about multiple passions.

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

But that's the point; the original characters are still everywhere with the franchise. They constantly get legacy support, they constantly get new merch, the other branches of Konami constantly make exclusive product to appeal to DM fans or only import the cool DM side products instead of the other series, most of their anime and social media push outside Japan revolves around DM. A remake isn't needed because everyone that likes the characters still get to see the characters. Konami already shoves the old characters down people's throats. People still like the original DM anime (even the filler arcs). You're not appealing to anyone new by making a DM remake because original DM never went away.

And being like "the series is far more than just an excuse to sell the card game" is pointless because that's how Konami views everything with YGO: how does it translate to people playing the card game. Master Duel's separate banlist and unique card release schedule? Designed so people still have to play paper if they want the newest cards. Why do the filler arcs exist in YGO in the first place? So they can advertise cards they released that weren't in the original manga (or new products they want to sell like Dungeon Dice Monsters). Why did the TCG make Genesys format to begin with? They wanted people to buy sets and feel like the not meta cards they pulled were still useful, aka, you're still meant to play paper YGO. Why are the OCG shorts only mini episodes? Because you have to play the actual game and buy the actual cards (and lore books) if you want the entire fleshed out story instead of the cliffnotes. That's just the reality of how Konami treats the franchise.

If anything, I think people underestimate how big the non DM series and game original decks fanbase are. People joke about 50 years of Sky Striker support or "I love Raye", but it really does justify it. You have to be really popular to be the first archetype to get a manga about its lore, to be the first archetype for Konami's OCG shorts, the first archetype to get animated cutscences for its story in Master Duel, the first archetype to be the official mascot of a series (Raye is still considered the OCG Stories mascot despite Sky Striker's story being over for years in the manga), to have side sets where you're either the main or the selling point. HEROes might be the most popular archetype of all time (Blue-Eyes as a card is obviously more popular, but the archetype itself has way less fans than you would think. I can promise you it's not Dark Magician.): its playstyle is literally everything people hate about Modern YGO (floodgates, combos that take a billion hours, gets support every year that doesn't fix any of the weaknesses of the deck), and yet people still go all in for the new cards and try to pretend that Hero isn't the same as something like Maliss. Zexal is the second or third most popular series in Japan, and they were unapologetic for its 10 year anniversary: a structure deck, Number Files for Number Hunters, tons of merch in general, most of the anime cards are actually adapted into the game at this point unlike the other series (I think Vector is the only real glaring omission now). Both the Rush anime had to be pretty successful because Rush exists today and gets support and events, Konami of all companies aren't afraid to immediately pull the plug if someone isn't working (RIP Cross Duels). I've seen Rush Duel sets appear several times on card shops top 10 releases of the month, so it has people that buy it. DM is the most popular, but in Japan, it's really not "DM or bust"; the other series support the franchise just fine and plenty of people will care if a new original Master Rule anime happens.

On the TCG side, it's been almost ten years since the last Master Rule series ended (and if we're being honest, the last relevant anime for the West was 5Ds, so it's been closer to 20), but YCSes constantly reach max capacity and a lot of the newer players say they got into the game without watching any of the anime. Master Duel, Duel Links, content creators (I don't think people understand how much things like The Progression Series or Sealed Only Yugioh helped attract casual players, and not to mention how much YGO Abridged has impacted the series online), maybe Genesys if they keep supporting it, they have plenty of methods besides the anime to get new players in that have historically worked. The reason the TCG is bleeding less competitive players now is because they're getting priced out the game and card shops lose money selling YGO because the products are all awful to open so no customer wants to buy them, and again, a DM remake is not fixing that. And a faithful DM remake doesn't fix the issue that the game from DM is not the game of today, so a lot of people who try the game because of DM end up hating it and don't stay with the game.

Yes the original DM is extremely popular, especially in the West, but remaking it doesn't fix the fundamental problem the TCG faces with new players and the OCG is far more receptive of the other series that an original series would cover 90% of what they would want a DM remake to do (and the 10% it doesn't, is already covered by the fact they still push the original characters anyway). Yes, YGO is more than the card game, but the majority of people like the original anime and its accessible everywhere (they have it literally free on Twitch on rotation with every other series if you're that lazy with streaming services), so you can still experience the story.

Man you wrote a bible and still missed my point about why doing a remake because you're so focused in the TCG aspect that you cant look further that and saying a remake is not necessary because the OG characters still feature in merch or people can watch the original free on Twitch shows even more how you're missing the point.

Still, i appreciate the post with all the info and etc.

Anyway, imo a remake faithfully adapting the original is just a matter of time

 

[cameronney618]

The point of the anime is to advertise the card game. Even the Remasters are used to promote the game. The next set is Beyond the Brave, and it has Destiny Hero support because the remaster is going to be on Edo's duel with Judai where he debuts his Destiny Heroes when the set releases. Chaos Origins had Sacred Beast support and I assume the set came out when the remaster got to the Kagemaru duel.

The TCG is losing popularity because Konami NA is a garbage branch who intentionally screw over sealed product by rarity bumping everything remotely meta in the OCG and have quality control issues up the ass, making it a loss for card shops to sell Yu-Gi-Oh!. The OCG has been doing perfectly fine until maybe last set when they started copying the TCG's greedy policy of making meta cards high rarity only, and even then it's still prbably fine for now with the introduction of Overframe cards. A remake of DM isn't fixing Konami pricing out the playerbase.

Konami knows exactly what they're doing with the anime. They introduced a new game, Rush Duel, and decided to make a show that appealed to Rush Duel's targeted audience, just like how Vrains was meant to advertise both Speed Duels (because Duel Links was new) and Master Rule 4 (even if MR4 is dogshit). The OCG shorts are something fans specifically asked for (they literally had a survey asking if people wanted to watch them and most people said yes). They're even starting to put actual effort into Master Duel's animated stories as shown with the I:P and S:P story. Also Gallop was a shitshow for Yu-Gi-Oh! since at least halfway through Arc-V when they had to do DSoD at the same time.

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For Konami, a DM remake would accomplish literally none of the goals they would want an anime to achieve. If they don't change the decks to be more modern, they aren't going to sell any product off it because 99% of the cards in original DM are useless. No one new is going to enter the game because DM era YGO is nothing like current day YGO, and they already have Rush and Duel Links to serve as alt games meant to act as a bridge to the regular game. They already nostalgia pander the characters (literally the current series of core sets is the first series since like 2005, where the pack covers include anime characters) so no one has a chance to miss the characters enough to wish a remake exists to see them again. They aren't short on merch releases without an anime or anything.

The main people who want a DM remake are people that won't ever buy product. If they want to refresh the OCG and reach new players, they're better off just making a new original Master Rule series.

What a weird judgement. People who find interest in the series will find a way to learn the game, one way or the other.

You don't seriously think all the people playing Master Duel are only people who've been following the tcg from the start, expansion after expansion, do you? This is a complete non issue that even fighting games faced.

Besides, a Yugioh remake is there to build new interest to the franchise. The fans will do the rest. Be it through the TCG, cosplays, buying artbooks, merch, manga / spinoff manga and what not.

Saying they shouldn't remake the anime because it's purely nostalgia bait and muh tcg is absolutely moronic.

 

[Kiaida]

There's already a popular anime adaptation, with a few changes that mostly nobody cares about. A remake wouldn't help out the main product line, the card game, and they already do nostalgia bait on the regular anyway.

Pokémon kept trying Kanto pandering for a long time and yet it's Scarlet Violet that is finally pushing for Gen 1 numbers. It's probably the generation that focused the least on appealing to Kanto fans or using nostalgia as a huge part of the marketing, and the current anime is the first one without Ash and the original story continuity.

Digimon tried an Adventure reboot and basically failed in all fronts because modern kids don't care about it at all and older fans don't move to new series and products of the franchise.

Yugioh already did the best thing it could and moved on to making popular sub series. Some people grew up with 5D's, Zexal, etc, so their nostalgia is for that, not DM. I'm not denying the first one is the most popular, but I doubt there is a reason for new fans to specifically care more about a DM remake than a brand new show.

Not saying it would be a failure or anything, but I doubt it would be an Yugioh renaissance.

 

[JBC008]

There's already a popular anime adaptation, with a few changes that mostly nobody cares about. A remake wouldn't help out the main product line, the card game, and they already do nostalgia bait on the regular anyway.

Pokémon kept trying Kanto pandering for a long time and yet it's Scarlet Violet that is finally pushing for Gen 1 numbers. It's probably the generation that focused the least on appealing to Kanto fans or using nostalgia as a huge part of the marketing, and the current anime is the first one without Ash and the original story continuity.

Digimon tried an Adventure reboot and basically failed in all fronts because modern kids don't care about it at all and older fans don't move to new series and products of the franchise.

Yugioh already did the best thing it could and moved on to making popular sub series. Some people grew up with 5D's, Zexal, etc, so their nostalgia is for that, not DM. I'm not denying the first one is the most popular, but I doubt there is a reason for new fans to specifically care more about a DM remake than a brand new show.

Not saying it would be a failure or anything, but I doubt it would be an Yugioh renaissance.

That’s the challenge. Basically we are always going forward, we never go back and we never can. But if we did, sure nostalgia does help, but it has to be made on good will, not profit strategy by suits. Then there is the other way of going back but still going forward, continuation sequels of that brand. The argument that everyone brought up with Yu-Gi-Oh!, regarding the DM storyline, it did get both a continuation and conclusion in Dark Side of Dimensions which the script was penned by Kazuhiko Takahashi himself. So really, there is no point rebooting to go back. Is the current card game a mess, yes, but in all honesty, the franchise will only continue for as long as there is mileage left or it is time to shelve it for both the quality of the product and listening to consumer demand, which is much harder to keep old fans happy and new fans from coming in.

--- Double Post Merged, May 10, 2026, Original Post Date: May 10, 2026 ---

The other issue that plagues Yu-Gi-Oh!, is the timing of when it came out. I mean that and Pokemon came out in the time when anime was still releasing stuff every week around the clock nonstop. But now with the transition into seasonal anime, it creates both better quality animation and a more consistent story (most of the time given the production committee).

 

[Franz]

The argument that everyone brought up with Yu-Gi-Oh!, regarding the DM storyline, it did get both a continuation and conclusion in Dark Side of Dimensions

What?

 

[cameronney618]

Can't praise Tanimoto's art enough. It looks especially good this chapter.

Not expecting UD to stay for long, but i hope he comes back quickly.