[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Yellow Ranger

*Rua was always the intended fifth Signer and Akiza was supposed to be far more prominent in the plot*

Isn't her name just Aki?

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

The anime always tries to upsell new decks.

I was so pissed at how they portrayed the Nordic deck. Don't get me wrong, it was a great deck, but by the time I finally had a solid deck, the rules had changed and it was way too slow to accoplish anything. While I was building it I found myself really dominating the game, but then a few month's later I could barely make it past turn 3.

The anime though, made that out to be like the next coming of the God Cards.

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Yeah, actually the non-card arcs/stories were what drew me to Yu-Gi-Oh. I got hold of the manga first and I got hooked because of those non-card stories. I did read up to Yugi getting the Slifer card and then kinda stopped.

The manga is fantastic, especially the memories arc that came after Battle City. It's a shame the anime screwed it up by making it still focus on the cards rather than the story. Despite there being more focus on cards, Takahashi made them feel like a natural progression in the story telling and that they were actually important and not a gimmick. The anime just turned the whole thing into a gimmick.