Yuu-gi-ou: Omit Card Games

I feel motivated to watch it after seeing some pics of Yusei and Yuma on Danbooru. Does the series make sense if I just skip over all the dueling stuff?

Since the dueling is mainly to advertise for the real life card game I guess not. But I recemond watching the duels anyway. Do you plan on watching 5D's or Zexal?

Probably both. Eventually...

I suppose, but it'd be like skipping over the fights in a battle series.

You'd probably get just as much info reading summaries and looking at pictures.

Still, it does kinda make you wonder: how would everything go over if you take out the duels?

For one thing, would the guys be less dense to the girls if they weren't so preoccupied with duels? :P

I really recommend watching it since it's pretty epic and awesome especially towards the end of 5D's. As for Zexal, I'm on episode 3 and I'm just waiting for it to build up right now until at least 50 episodes then I'm gonna watch.

How does Zeal feel to you so far? You think it might get better in the future?

From where I'm currently at right now (episode 3) I can't really make a judgement on it. But I can say that I'm liking the new summons.

I don't see YGO as any different from standard battle series like Naruto and Bleach. The only real difference is that they fight by proxy, using cards.

In Bleach, Ichigo is oblivious to any and all romance, between himself and Rukia or Orihime. While Naruto likes Sakura and Hinata likes Naruto, and they're not big secrets, nothing is ever done by anybody.

Whats the point of watching Yu-Gi-Oh if you don't watch the duels? That's like saying, "I'm watching Lost for the great plot!"

Exactly. I'm interested in the plot.

He meant that watching Lost for the plot is the wrong reason to watch Lost. Because the plot is shitty, just a bunch of weird crap thrown together. But that's a different discussion.

The thing with Yu-Gi-Oh is that, excluding the original YGO, if you don't want to watch the duels, then there's no reason to watch the show. The plots aren't that good. Rather, the plots are there just as an excuse to have duels.

The Dark Signers arc in 5D's, for example, is very simple for the amount of episodes it takes up. When certain people die with a strong vengeance in their hearts, they get revived and filled with an evil god. They then band together to stop the good guys, the Signers. They duel, and whoever wins the duel, wins the battle between good and evil. That's it. There isn't any double-crossing or huge twists. The good guys are introduced, the bad guys are introduced, and then they duel. It's thirty-eight episodes long.

Also, a lot of the story (what story there is) is revealed while the characters are dueling. A duel will start, a few moves will be made, then there will be a flashback to something that happened that sheds light on the current situation, then the duel will continue. It'd be very hard to skip over the "unimportant" duel parts.

If you just want to know who is who and what happens, you'd be much better off going to a wiki devoted to Yu-Gi-Oh and reading it.

"Stop developing your characters! We have card games to play!"

I knew what he meant.

I just figured I'd give it a watch even if everyone says it's not that great. Guess I'd have to search the shows for all the story.