was trying out a new means of sketching and i came up with a somewhat solid base for me to trace over when i add important stuff like the character i'm trying to draw in question and the details

i think i should focus more on my anatomy

..but i didn't know what to draw so i ended up drawing yugi because i've been consuming some yugioh content recently

(this is normal yugi, not dark/yami yugi since he gets more attention)

(i'll draw the chain around the millenium puzzle when i add the lineart, don't @ me)

more specifically i've been watching season 0, both the manga and the anime

it's kinda weird since duel monsters is an after-thought in those adaptations and focuses more on games. not video games or board games, but like these batshit insane ones (then again, yu-gi-oh does mean something along the lines of "game king"). not to mention that the series is darker than the anime most people are familiar with (the one with exclusively duel monsters and not the other games) since dangerous and life-threatening situations happen to yugi and his buttbutties in almost every chapter (e.g being held in gunpoint, fighting serial killers being forced to play games with death as a penalty for losing like being electrocuted on an electric chair)

take this one for example:

a game where you can only move one of your ten fingers. yami tricks a guy (he's a criminal don't worry) into lighting himself on fire

...i'm sorry, is he really the hero??

oh yeah, and anzu/téa gets sexualized semi-frequently (which is kinda weird because she's like 15 or 16), here's a panel where there's a baby (he belongs to tristian/honda's sister) trying to rape her

i shouldn't be suprised though since japan has a thing for underage girls

there's a frame where you can see up meiru/mayl's skirt in an episode of rockman exe (it was snipped in the english dub (megaman nt warrior) THANK FUCK), and there are several instances of goku and bulma being buttass naked with little no censorship in dragon ball (not z, just dragon ball), and chi-chi's entire getup when she was a kid speaks for itself (is this why liking anime was taboo back in the day?)

still... what the hell am i getting myself into

this version of yu-gi-oh isn't bad, it's just.. madddd weird

i'm still gonna read and watch the anime cause it's actually really interesting once you look past all the typical japan tomfuckery

i might even get into the actual card game (like, the video games, not the actual thing. im not wasting money on card games, especially because i have nobody to play with, i don't have friends outside of internet mutuals 💀💀)