First of all this isn't Yu-Gi-Oh, if wizards were going to do an mtg based anime it wouldn't be based around this type of philosophy. It would be more like the setting of the video for the original Ravnica, follow a few different characters, in this case Planswalkers and have them use the mana of the plans there on to cast spells and so forth like they did in the old paper back magic books. It would probably be something similar to the comic that IDW is now doing, following a planswalker that was made from scratch.
If they made it an actual show with decent plot and characterization without characters fighting using cards... I probably still wouldn't watch it, because anime is so bleh.
I can see it now! The storyline for season 1 would start with a white planeswalker who duels but then makes friends with a green planeswalker. The two would find out some evil power is terrorizing whatever plane they're on. They have to take down some red, blue, and black planeswalkers - then when they think they've won - BAM! Nicol Bolas Shows up with the combined abilities of those three and the good guys have to take him down together.
Good Guy #1 (White) would run Soldiers or Knights, then over the course of the season he'd be able to summon angels.
Good Guy #2 (Green) would start with regular forest animals (bears, snakes, squirrels), then eventually develop the power to summon wurms.
Bad Guy #1 (Red) would use burn spells and goblins (and near the end of the fight would have a dragon or something)
Bad Guy #2 (Blue) would run countermagic, bounce, and drakes (and near the end of the battle he'd summon a sphinx or kraken)
Then when they fight Nicol Bolas, he's pretty much a badass and when the good guys team up on him to win, they get cruel ultimatum'ed but still get there eventually with teamwork and luck
If you must based the anime on the game and not its canon I could see a new player that tries and fails with every deck and his experience with all these different decks teaches him intuitively to play 5 color control successively.
If you must based the anime on the game and not its canon I could see a new player that tries and fails with every deck and his experience with all these different decks teaches him intuitively to play 5 color control successively.
While this would be cool, I feel like it'd be too complicated.
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probably red and white. red for the edgy shounen male lead and white becuase he has to be a good guy. he would also have 2 main companions: his childhood buddy who plays some fragile blue/red combo and the awkward hanger-on tomboy girl who becomes the end-of-anime love interest. She would play mono-green elves
The antagonists of the series would be green/red "crash 'n' burn", mono-black vampires and the main antagonist would play blue/black control
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The game is terrible. The anime is laughable. The manga...eh. The players are horrible, and far too many of them are thieves. Yu-Gi-Oh is BAD.
Obviously it would be something like High Tide or Eggs. They could fill an entire episode with just cards cast before even adding anything like a plot.
The only way that statement becomes true is if it's Yugioh Unabridged.
The 1998 series from Toei is pretty good; it's nothing like the 2000 series from Gallop. (The 2000 series is the only YGO anime that aired in the US.)
The '98 series is much closer to the manga, and Dark Yugi is much more sinister. The Duel Monsters card game takes a back seat to the rest of the story, but Dark Yugi's title of "King of Games" remains, as he plays Shadow Games to construct elaborate punishments for those he judges warrant it.
Well as this isn't a Japanese concept I doubt it would be an Anime. But I think it would be pretty awesome to see the comic book adaptations be brought into a cartoon of some kind. And then it wouldn't be a TCG based story but a magic almost super hero-esk based story.
It would probably be either a new planeswalker or be based off of the adventures of Jace. Hmm... I want to petition for this now...
The 1998 series from Toei is pretty good; it's nothing like the 2000 series from Gallop. (The 2000 series is the only YGO anime that aired in the US.)
The '98 series is much closer to the manga, and Dark Yugi is much more sinister. The Duel Monsters card game takes a back seat to the rest of the story, but Dark Yugi's title of "King of Games" remains, as he plays Shadow Games to construct elaborate punishments for those he judges warrant it.
The Toei series SUCKED. Seriously. Yes, I know, it was more dark and sinister, but "more dark and sinister" doesn't mean good. It was seriously stupid, horribly animated, and no matter what they told you, it WASN'T faithful to the manga, with sucked anyway. If you ever go to the NeoArkCradle forums, there's an interesting series of articles about it, and they definitely wreck the myth of "Toei anime was better because it was sooo dark and mature".
Market Research shows that Jace is the most popular Planeswalker, so it'd probably be him running an Illusion/Mill hybrid deck (since destroying someone's mind wouldn't cut it by itself - the audience would be more drawn in by him summoning illusionary monsters).
He would play Miracles. If I know anything from watching Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon when I was a kid, it's that people that watch that stuff are extremely dumb. You could have the main character tap into the heart of the cards, rip infinite miracles to just barely win every match on the show, and people would still be like, "ZOMG ENTREAT FTFW AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOW DOES HE DO IT?!?!?!11!"
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If it was more aimed at kids, probably white and/or green.
If it was aimed at teenagers, blue or red.
College-age, Red or Black.
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I'd say kids and teenagers would prefer Red and Black because it's more edgy.
The only way that statement becomes true is if it's Yugioh Unabridged.
Wizards would probably go for a team like Man of Action, which can tell a decent story and seems to do well with licensed properties.
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Good Guy #1 (White) would run Soldiers or Knights, then over the course of the season he'd be able to summon angels.
Good Guy #2 (Green) would start with regular forest animals (bears, snakes, squirrels), then eventually develop the power to summon wurms.
Bad Guy #1 (Red) would use burn spells and goblins (and near the end of the fight would have a dragon or something)
Bad Guy #2 (Blue) would run countermagic, bounce, and drakes (and near the end of the battle he'd summon a sphinx or kraken)
Bad Guy #3 (Black) would have dark banishing effects, and would use zombies. his battle would end with army of the damned
Then when they fight Nicol Bolas, he's pretty much a badass and when the good guys team up on him to win, they get cruel ultimatum'ed but still get there eventually with teamwork and luck
While this would be cool, I feel like it'd be too complicated.
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The '98 series is much closer to the manga, and Dark Yugi is much more sinister. The Duel Monsters card game takes a back seat to the rest of the story, but Dark Yugi's title of "King of Games" remains, as he plays Shadow Games to construct elaborate punishments for those he judges warrant it.
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It would probably be either a new planeswalker or be based off of the adventures of Jace. Hmm... I want to petition for this now...
The Toei series SUCKED. Seriously. Yes, I know, it was more dark and sinister, but "more dark and sinister" doesn't mean good. It was seriously stupid, horribly animated, and no matter what they told you, it WASN'T faithful to the manga, with sucked anyway. If you ever go to the NeoArkCradle forums, there's an interesting series of articles about it, and they definitely wreck the myth of "Toei anime was better because it was sooo dark and mature".
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