I was spending a lot of time the other night talking about the lack of things like emotional closure in all these yugiohs. It’s wild how literal the ‘here are my feelings via cardgame’ is taken sometimes. I feel like in general my response to finishing any of it - particularly even the original manga, which we all know I view extremely highly - has been like it cuts off before anyone has a chance to say anything to each other. There’s a final game, someone smiles knowingly, and we’re gone. This is how I ended up in my angstshipping soup, even.

I think it’s probably just 'shounen series syndrome’, combining with being aggressively not the target demographic, but I still think about how frustrating it is that so many of these characters were used for just, 'lol, wouldn’t this be wild’ purposes, and then Nothing Else.