Merry Christmas Judai, Johan
I can't actually overstate how popular Yugioh was in the 2000s you guys it was on par or moreso than the TMNT phenomenon in the 90s
Mai was on the cover of TV Guide-- Mai, a supporting female character, was on the cover of TV Guide. There were magazines. There was cereal. There were dumb little dogtags that I wore the entire first year I worked at my first real job. There were tie in games and even 20 years later they considered it worth making dsod and releasing it in theaters.
Yugioh is probably the entire reason the Naruto or One Piece mangas got translated, because interest in Yugioh was why Jump tried out a physical monthly release in English in the first place.
Yugioh helped mainstream modern anime.
I need you to understand that. Pokémon absolutely had some influence there but there was a time period that Yugioh was more of a mainstream anime than Pokémon. They did it together.
And the only reason any of you thinks otherwise is because when you're young you just kind of weigh all the cartoons you watch on the same scale. YOU didn't realize that it wasn't normal how Yugioh kept completely taking over the Saturday morning broadcasts. That wasn't normal! The only other shows that they ever did that with were Pokémon and Digimon! And those were always special occasions!
Toward the end of Yugioh DM they were airing something like ten episodes a week, all Saturday morning, for months at a time.
That, my dears, is absolutely bonkers.
Yugioh fandom isn't small, it's just old and exists in pockets and that makes it SEEM quiet.
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