WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR YOU YU-GI-OH FANS TO REALIZE!

If you're going to bash Yugioh you may want to do your research first.

1. The YGO manga was out a year before the Pokemon anime.

2. YGO was never supposed to be about the card game but fans wanted it that way.

3. The cards in YGO are based off of real monster from the past called Kas. These monsters are real in both the Doom and Memory World arcs.

4. The card game has nothing to do with saving the world. The main goal of the story is to find the other Yuugi's memories (aka Yami/Pharaoh Atemu/Whatever the dub is calling him these days). Only twice is their purpose to save the world. Against Dartz in the Doom/Doma arc and against Zork in the Memory World arc. Dartz and the Doom arc aren't even in the original story so really it was only Zork they were trying to save the world from (along with recoving Yami's name and his memories).

5. With the exception of ONE duel there has been no dueling in the original since April so I fail to see how the show is nothing but the card game.

These facts have been stated numerous times before on this board. If you had bothered to do some READING you would have known that.

I fail to see how Duel Monsters is a rip off of Pokemon. In Pokemon you go around gathering Pokemon and battle them one on one. Duel Monsters on the other hand has a long history that was developed 5000 years ago using monsters called ka. Over time these kas gradually became trapped in stone tablets, then in the present day the stone tablets were used to design a lot of the monster cards for Duel Monsters. Duel Monsters however is more then just two monsters battling it out. You have trap and magic cards and need a stratigy using the three types of cards to have the best outcome to win the duel. You also have to take into consideration things like sacrificing your weaker monsters for strong ones. Now I'd admit that the original 'game' using kas is very similar to Pokemon (except in some cases you actually try to kill your oppoinent) but the card game is actually quite different.

The shows are also very different as well. Although the dub of Yugioh is hacked to pieces there is actually a good story and plot in the original. Unfortunately I have never seen the original Pokemon anime (I don't even know if the show is still on the air) so I don't know what has been altered in the dub of that show, but I know enough that I know the two shows have completely different plots (ie in Yugioh there is no travelling around trying to find rare cards).

Just because 4Kids (bastards) decided that Yugioh would be the next fad to replace Pokemon does not make it a rip off. Duel Monsters actually reminds me a lot of a card game that was out years ago when I was younger but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it. I also remember a Star Wars card game being out when I was young that is more similiar to Duel Monsters then Pokemon.

The biggest thing to remember is if you took the card game out of Yugioh then you'd still have the same story which is trying to find the Pharaoh's memory (It would just happen a lot quicker because you wouldn't have 224 episodes of the anime an 344 chapters of the manga) but if you took the Pokemon battles out of Pokemon there goes the story as the story is all about Ash becoming a Pokemon trainer.

The fact that you know so much about this subject is most disturbing.

Pokemon and Co is into making mony with long lasting commercials they happen to name "Episodes" in other words, the Cr.p parents let there kids watch.........

Hey, well. I noticed that. I care. O_O And actually, I do watch both Pokemon and Yu-gi-Oh, thank you very much. *cough*hater*cough* Anyway, e_e, I do care. And Yu-Gi-Oh is not a pretty bad copy. It's actually pretty much the same.
Yu-Gi-Oh has the same idea. Battling. Animals in Pokemon, and monsters of cards in Yu-Gi-Oh. The monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh used to be real, but suppressed in cards by the Pharoah Atem, who, yes, has to save the world, because with the 3 eypgtian god monsters, and the puzzle with which Yami carries, can rule the world with ultimate and unbeatable powers. And yes. When I was little, I was a Pokemon fan. Pokemon is more of a children's show. Yu-Gi-Oh in a way is, but is much more complicated, and advanced than Pokemon, and in Japan, was and still is concidered an adults show for sexual references, cussing, weapons, and goryness. So, yes. You are partially right. Goodbye, now. Hope you feel better knowing the /real/ truth. Later..

What the hell are you thinking, cheap? You might be right, but Yu-Gi-Oh came in 1996(card game) and pokémon RED & BLUE came in 1998!!! Search here in imdb!!! POKEMON is a copy!!! I'm fan of pokémon too, but because of YU-GI-OH!!!!!
Now share up, donkey cheap!!!

*beep* hell, how the *beep* is yu-gi-oh anything like pokemon???!! Please excuse my language but people like you really annoy me.

...how old are you guys?
dont forget Yugi-oh appeals to children, think back to a time when you too were children and could buy into any crap the tv throws at you.
the chances are once you people get older and revisit Yugi-oh you'll be wondering what you were smoking as kids...actually save yourself the heart break dont revisit it...my heart was broken when i rewatched transformers.

*sighs* let's just clear stuff up.

WHY YU-GI-OH IS NOT FOR LITTLE KIDS:
1) Violence
2) Porn or sexual implication
3) Occasional cussing, but all anime has that and it's not really "cussing" in Japanese.

1) Violence: How many children's shows do you know in which the main character plays the "Kill you opponent with only one finger" game? Or the main character uses a 20,000 volt stun gun on gang members, plays Flammable Spray-Paint tag, plays Explosive-in-a-Test-Tube-wedged-in-a-puck-of-ice-over-a-hot-griddle table hockey? The fact that Yuugi actually psychologically traumatizes, severely maims, and even KILLS people without batting an eye kinda shows that the 8-12 audience is NOT the ones who should watch this. Of course, these examples are all from the original series, which I will admit was infinitely times better than Duel Monsters. But even Duel Monsters isn't for little kids; many of the duels are life and death (i.e. if you lose, we'll cut your ankles off with a spinning circular saw, you'll fall 20 stories to your death, we'll tie a cannonball to you and stick you in the ocean, etc.) 8-12...I don't think so.

2) Porn: Yuugi and Jonouchi are UBER PERVs. They trade porn videos with each other, and it's hilarious to see Yuugi's eager, excited face when he gets a new one. Anzu's fan service; so is Mai... even the Duel Monsters are fan service because like HALF THE FREAKING FEMALE CARDS (ok, more like 10%) are nude or very close to it.

3) Not really worth addressing. I mean, "Kuso" usually translates as "*beep*" but it's more of a "dammit" anyway.

As for ripoffs...Yu-Gi-Oh came first. And Tajiri Satoshi has had his idea for Pokemon since he was a little kid. If we want to say anything about ripping off, say that YGO ripped off Magic. Cuz Magic and Wizards was actually a PARODY of Magic, but the stupid then-fans liked it too much.
Besides, if you think that something ripped something else off because they're similar in any way (i.e Monsters and battling=ripped off) you have another thing coming. Monsters and battling has been around since ancient times, with weirdness in old mythology and crap. Just because two things are similar do not mean they were ripped off--if there was a ripoff, there would be intense copyright battles. Anyhow, because ALL artists take ideas from others at some time because no one can be completely original. As long as differences exist, there will ALWAYS be similarities. My suggestion: quit being so blind yourself and get that through your head, or you'll end up looking stupid. With that kind of outlook, EVERYTHING looks like it ripped off EVERYTHING else. Picasso ripped off ancient Egyptian art because both purposely decided to abstract the human form. Riiiiiiiiiight.

Pay attention in your high school humanities classes.