Pokemon or Yu-gi-oh???

[Tagrineth]

Yu-Gi-Oh! is actually a pretty solid anime. Half the time, pokemon feels like a cheap cash-in with even worse dialogue than Dragonball Z's worst moments and the whole Team Rocket crap got old after no more than two episodes for me.

If you want to see some real anime greatness, go watch Trigun or Berserk... but between those two, Yu-Gi-Oh! is a lot closer in overall quality to those two than Pokemon could ever dream of.

 

[Gardyrocks!]

with even worse dialogue than Dragonball Z's worst moments

BOOOO, DBZ is a cool as program

 

[Miss-Skitty]

Pokemon lost it's steamfor a while, but this season is better. Not just the addiction of Skitty to the cast but also Meoth's fantasies are the funnir\est thing going in aneme right now!!

 

[Psycho_Lugia_X]

I dunno. I'm going with Pokémon over YGO here for a couple of reasons.

YGO uses way too much dialogue to go around angles they have covered already. You end up just hearing the same thing repeated over and over. And the acting isn't that great.

I think TR needs a little extra oomph lately, but the show has improved since Master Quest, which was kind of bland. Plus Pokémon is funny sometimes, but YGO is just...sad.

 

[Marril]

I think TR needs a little extra oomph lately, but the show has improved since Master Quest, which was kind of bland. Plus Pokémon is funny sometimes, but YGO is just...sad.

The "humour" in Pokémon mainly consists of Team Rocket acting like their collective IQ is lower than your average gouda cheese's. YGO at least tries to have a serious plotline, while Pokémon reuses the same generic plot for every episode.

Pokémon as a whole is better than YGO, but in terms of shows... YGO's got it beat, no contest. The Pokémon movies and specials are its strongest points, which doesn't say much.

 

[dantheballer]

I would choose pokemon over yo-gi-oh anyday. I yo-gi-oh it takes sometimes 3 episodes to finish a frickin battle. Also in the show they are fighting with holograms not "living" things. Yo-gi-oh is way to serious for a cartoon, you want to watch a cartoon when you want to chill out and laugh

 

[Marshtomp]

Dude, you are so correct

Yugioh's plot isnt the only thing serious about that show. The characters are too... WAY too serious. Im not joking, listen to them talk while they play! Especially Yami-Yugi and Kaiba. Thats why pegasus is the best character, not stern and "trying to be cool when he's not". Also, they dont play the game even close to correctly. A lot of the cards are played wrong, and they play multiple monsters and dont tribute summon for the FULL FIRST SEASON! I'm not saying pokemon is much better, but yugioh is a waste of TV.

 

[Marril]

I would choose pokemon over yo-gi-oh anyday. I yo-gi-oh it takes sometimes 3 episodes to finish a frickin battle. Also in the show they are fighting with holograms not "living" things. Yo-gi-oh is way to serious for a cartoon, you want to watch a cartoon when you want to chill out and laugh

It's obvious that you aren't even bothering to watch it. While they're fighting with holograms, DOOM (it's all-capsed for some reason) is stealing people's souls to actually resurrect their god and restore Atlantis to power.

A lot of the cards are played wrong, and they play multiple monsters and dont tribute summon for the FULL FIRST SEASON!

The first season was made before the TCG was. Then they actually made a TCG and had to go change a lot of the ingame rules. You'll note that once they hit Battle City, the game is played correctly aside from the halved life total.

 

[Psycho_Lugia_X]

I think the reason Pokémon beats YGO is because YGO tries to take itself far too seriously. The show itself is a joke, but it insists on taking itself as some kind of drama. Pokémon isn't trying to make itself out to be some hard-core serious show; it knows its a cartoon.

But YGO seems to think of itself as an actual, true blue drama. They put too much into its supposed solemnity, but that just makes their rediculous actions come of as comical, not serious. The more they try to increase the tension in their show the more they increase the shows aura of can't-take-it-serious.I hope that made sense.

Basically, Pokémon isn't trying to hype itself as anything that it isn't, while it seems the opposite is true for our friend YGO.

 

[Marril]

It's worth noting that originally Yu-Gi-Oh had a fairly decent air of seriousness, but take a look at the very name of the company that dubs it into English: 4Kids. They basically bastardize the show into some form of kids' drama, by removing the things that actually make the show able to take itself seriously without being ridiculous.

Yes, "Alister" comes off as being a right nutter for trying to avenge his family after they became captured by some unnamed soldiers. It makes a lot more sense when you realize that Amelda's family was killed by the military and the only person he could turn to was a crazy priest from a long-dead civilization.

 

[Bobby]

OK. I just... RAWR I hate the Yu-gi-oh tv show. It is sooo rediculus I laugh out loud whenever it comes on. A few things...

1) Everything the characters say is like a declaration. They shout every single action they do! Calm down...

2) I don't see why they take three episodes to finish a single duel. If you miss one episode, you're totally lost

3) The plot is a joke. They walk around battling people, Yugi turns into an egyptian guy, send some souls to the shadow realm while we're at it... So what? Most of the time I don't know what they're trying to accomplish.

4) It's a walking advertisment for the TCG. The show has no background other than there were egyption guys that played an evil game. Woot. I don't want to see them do something that I can spend ten dollars on and do myself.

Yo-gi-oh is way to serious for a cartoon, you want to watch a cartoon when you want to chill out and laugh

Oh, it gives me a laugh all right .

 

[Dek]

Right now, I would have to say that the Yu-Gi-Oh anime is better right now basically because it not only has a story, but it also makes good transitions from one story to the next story...

3) The plot is a joke. They walk around battling people, Yugi turns into an egyptian guy, send some souls to the shadow realm while we're at it... So what? Most of the time I don't know what they're trying to accomplish.

Then you obviously haven't watched it enough to understand the plot of the 1st season...

"Yami" Yugi sent souls into the shadow realm because they were working for Peagusus, the main enemy who also stole the soul of Yugi's Grandfather.

4) It's a walking advertisment for the TCG. The show has no background other than there were egyption guys that played an evil game. Woot. I don't want to see them do something that I can spend ten dollars on and do myself.

And the Pokemon anime isn't a walking advertisement for hte TCG? the Game Boy games? The Manga?

Anything with an alternative form of entertainment is basically advertising the alternative forms of entertainment.

 

[Marril]

"Yami" Yugi sent souls into the shadow realm because they were working for Peagusus, the main enemy who also stole the soul of Yugi's Grandfather.

In the first YGO series (before Duel Monsters), Atem—Yami Yugi's former name as the Pharaoh of Egypt—was basically this psychopath who'd make up insane "Games of Darkness" (usually involving overly dangerous conditions)... then he'd invariably win and drive the loser insane magically.

It's easy to see why they didn't dub this series. Seriously, though, in the series we all know and love, you really need to watch it to get the plot, but it's there, and it's superior to Pokémon's. The dub just doesn't do a good job of translating, mostly in the quasi-religious details that the plot has a hard time dealing without. I love how they totally skipped over (for example) the fact that the reason why Kaiba could control Obelisk was because in his previous incarnation as the High Priest, he had the Sennen Rod (they also changed the Hieratic that Mai failed to chant to control Ra).

 

[Bobby]

And the Pokemon anime isn't a walking advertisement for hte TCG? the Game Boy games? The Manga?

Maybe blatant would have been a better word there. In the Pokémon show, they don't walk around battling ;x. You could say that either show is a form of advertising, but Yu-Gi-Oh is much more obvious IMO.

Marill, thanks for that info.

 

[Dek]

It's easy to see why they didn't dub this series. Seriously, though, in the series we all know and love, you really need to watch it to get the plot, but it's there, and it's superior to Pokémon's. The dub just doesn't do a good job of translating, mostly in the quasi-religious details that the plot has a hard time dealing without. I love how they totally skipped over (for example) the fact that the reason why Kaiba could control Obelisk was because in his previous incarnation as the High Priest, he had the Sennen Rod (they also changed the Hieratic that Mai failed to chant to control Ra).

Although they did show Kaiba's Egyptian past a little (as well as him holding the Mellenium Rod), sadly, it was only focused on his past with the Blue Eyes White Dragon (Kaiba vs. Ishizu and then Kaiba vs. Yugi, obviously) only because they want to portray Kaiba as a BEWD nut.

 

[Marril]

They also forgot to mention the significance of the woman who he sacrificed to summon the BEWD... ¬_¬

 

[Psycho_Lugia_X]

Ok, maybe we've nailed the issue of seriousness.

But what about animation?

I prefer Pokémon's style over YGO's hands down. YGO has sharp, unpleasant faces, strange shaped humans, bizarre-over-the-top creatures, and unreaslistic hair (for an animé).

Pokémon wins here because it has softer characters. Stuff that looks a little more natural, realistic, plausible. Everyone looks pretty normal, and the costumes are a little better than in YGO.

Plus the backgrounds in Pokémon crush anything else, I think. YGO has stale, trying-too-hard-to-be-unique animation.

...Oddly, my dad was impressed with YGO's animation when it first came out over here...

 

[Marril]

Apples and oranges, Lugia, apples and oranges. See, Pokémon is a show that doesn't try too hard to have a serious theme to it (actually it tries to do the exact opposite). YGO tries to have drama and whatnot, so a sharper animation style would convey that theme a lot better.

 

[Xeno]

1) Anybody who recommends Dragon Ball Z is not worth listening to.

*Claps*

I find Yu-gi-oh's more complex plot over Pokemon. Pokmon has a kid and two of his friends traveling to join a legaue will fending off evil organizations such as the infamous Rockets. Yu-gi-oh is usually more complex and varies more between episodes.

There are a lot more better anime out there but I guess these two are good animes to start out with at a young age. I do make fun and mock the way the card players over damatize everything while dueling though. Once, a kid went to the store with an actual duel disc, it was halirious!

 

[Super Sonik]

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