And watched a movie. Once again tucked under a read more for your comfort and convenience and existing likely only for the entertainment of myself and @anthropwashere

what the fuck

• My impression of the final arc of the manga is that the author had to find a way to best wrap every dumb thing he’d ever come up with in several layers of plastic wrap in order to appear as though it was one whole. Since it’s plastic wrap, eventually you can’t tell what it’s holding together anymore, how many pieces there are, etc, but if you start unravelling, you are left with Holy Fuck What On Earth Was That. This is weirdly also not a criticism, I guess. If I had to retcon everything I’d done for ten years with the knowledge that the old stuff was already public and printed in thousands of books, I’d have to make a saran wrapped pretzel with an ankh on it too.
• I dislike Kaiba even more now! This arc did not help my feelings about him in the slightest, especially since he was basically a cop.
• also gonna go with a hard No on the Blue Eyes White Dragon Plot Device Woman, no no no yikes, what the Fuck
• I think if even One Person had said, ‘wow the monsters in our souls look like nothing from our world’ then how mismatched they were from the trappings of Allegedly Egypt would not have been so jarring for me
• Egyptian names filtered through Japanese filtered through English, hooboy
• Appreciated actually being able to read the Pharaoh’s name before he yelled it out.
• “The mummy is playing the game with us.” I’m sorry, w hat
• Playing card game as the NPCs in table top RPG of a dead king’s memories on top of a diorama made by Satan’s landlord body because he likes making models and his dad owns a museum while an ancient pendant hangs like a disco ball designed to project realistic versions of ancient mythology soul fighting Satan in a trenchcoat and changing but also not changing the fabric of reality maybe????
• Everyone’s father has the same goatee, and I think 80% of the fathers we know about get murdered (by their own children!), so now I’m left with wonderings about the author’s father as well as his shoe collection.
• I don’t. I don’t think we needed Zorc, or really any of the extra souls in the Ring? I feel like the rage of the sole survivor of a concentrated slaughter/genocide could have been enough and more interesting.
• Got the eerie feeling I was supposed to be sympathizing with or relating to the Pharaoh and his Priests, but I was firmly on the side of 'revenge on society for melting the bodies of everyone I’ve ever known down into magical jewelry’ man. I mean, he’s part of the Bakura Cinematic Universe, so of course I’m biased, I guess, but I was sitting there like, “Why are you booing him? He’s right!” the whole time. I guess dragging the king’s father’s corpse across the floor was a dick move and is probably why we needed to extra manhunt for this dude, but I feel like I could have been spared like a dozen pages of indecipherable monster explosions if someone had just been like 'fuck, hold the ancient egyptian phone, we maybe owe this dude some airing of grievances, the mass murder was bad form’
• speaking of the phone, Ancient Egyptian Bound Book was what made me put it down for several minutes. After everything else I endured, that it was not a fucking scroll of papyrus just shattered what will power I had to continue pretending it was Egypt. Not the dragons, or the stupid hair, or 'why are we all trying to murder the war orphan who is justifiably pissed as fuck’, the Book.
• Walk Walk Fashion Baby. Everyone wearing cute fucking slippers and excessive amounts of rad ankle bracelets and pinkie rings. Yeah, I’ll take that, you all look cute as hell at least from the knees down.
• Pharaoh trying to get out of a bad situation by appealing to Yami Bakura’s commitment to staying in character while RPing, thank you, what a good.
  
  
  Movie stuff , that is, the Dark Side of What The Fuck Is Happening Movie:
• I’m glad Yugi grew up, look at him go! He got taller to fit all his new confidence in himself. Also, Fashion. We love a choker and black shirt.
• Many people got to Fashion! Love alternate wardrobe options.
• Kaiba continues to Get Worse??????? I understand that he’s a fan favorite, I just think whatever makes him appealing to everyone else makes me want to see him get punched in the throat. So every time I felt like the narrative and the visuals wanted me to think he’d gotten more badass, I was yelling “WHY” at the screen. He just seems like a tyrant dictator with too much money. That is everyone else’s speed just like mine is homicidal revenge and dead things, I guess.
• I suffered from not understanding who or why the fuck until like the last ten minutes, despite the thoroughness of my immersion in this weirdly specific hell for two weeks. Also, despite saying it was a manga continuation, it clearly was banking on you knowing more shit about the anime/real life card game than I ever knew, so I spent a long time either confused about what the fucking stakes were with Aigami/Diva (…why did he even need two names???? what purpose did that serve???) or bored as hell (Kaibaaaaaa).
• Yay, Bakura for like five minutes, though. Even though the narrative and everyone in it only cares about him as plot vessel. He comes back from another dimension in the middle of a fucking stadium and no one is like 'shit, dude, what happened over there?’ We are focused on the card game. The last thing he was doing was breaking the fuck down over things he’d blacked out, but Yugi is playing a cardgame while Kaiba insults him at the presentation of the new iPhone, so fuck off I guess. His voice actress getting some time to do Evil Laugh is always appreciated, though.
• Bakura didn’t even get to express a generic post gradation goal like everyone else, why do you guys even hang out with him or take him anywhere then
• I feel like vinegar about this.
• Mokuba being voiced by a 77 year old lady is just fantastic news to me. Also, his haircut and suit, yes, good for him. Cute.
• why was it a movie about another new rando though, just make a movie developing the cast you already have, why do we keep adding more tragic orphans
• just to kill them, usually
• Yu-Gi-Oh: where orphans and fathers with goatees go to die.