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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by WhyEssEff@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

yugioh, manga card game, got it. pokemon, video game anime, got it. digimon... tamagotchi anime?

yugioh monsters, projections of cards. pocket monsters, attack pets. digital monsters, like, from what I hear they've got essentially human-levels of intelligence?

I genuinely am having trouble discerning where the hook-on point for this, weird multimedia blob is? It's the anime, right? Because from the outside of having literally no interaction with the franchise over my life outside of like stray mentions in the context of specific contrast to pokemon, it looks like it's a franchise that kinda had a neat little toy, got an anime that hit, and then bumbled into literally every other industry that collectibles do and did them all in a way that made essentially zero cultural impact outside of unlimited contrarianism against pokemon by kids who had a chip on their shoulder about it.

all power to those kids in retrospect, good bit if that was the case, but it's something that's confounded me for a bit: have I been fucking hermetically-sealed off from a major cultural phenomenon? is this like an ozymandias situation where it's all ash in the present? is this just contrarian's pokemon as I thought it was when I was 12? I'm looking at the wikipedia page and my eyes are glazing over, it's like it's designed to be the most unintuitive thing for people who want to get a handle on it.

I don't get it limmy-what

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[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

yugioh, manga card game, got it

yugioh monsters, projections of cards.

Poor naive woman...

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i'm reading it rn, it's easier to say that to encompass both Kaiba's holograms and the Shadow Game spirits (if I'm interpreting them roughly accurate, I just finished the DDM arc), both are technically projections of monsters from the cards shrug-outta-hecks

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Buckle up. Your mind will not return intact.

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

i'll take your word for it and hunker down w/rt that doggirl-thumbsup

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