i didnt watch yugioh as a kid so i have no experience with the 4kids “shadow realm” thing but i remember an episode of danny phantom where the characters sent a villain to an empty void with “one way in, no way out” and it fucked me up so much i had nightmares about it because i ruminated on the concept so much. the existential dread of a fate worse than death was NOT easier for me to process than actual death what the hell were those studio execs thinking
okay now imagine the whole series is about that stuff.
i guess that explains why ive never met a yugioh fan that wasnt mentally ill
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