The reboot of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, now based firmly around the Lovecraftian collectable card game, and the show that brought Yu-Gi-Oh to the west. Arriving in the states in 2001, it was the show needed to rekindle the “anime fad” in the US as Pokemon was reaching it’s natural peak 3 years in. Given how successful 4kids were with adapting Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, it’s fascinating how they lost their way when they tried to adapt other shows for their viewers as they grew up, grossly underestimating their audience’s intelligence. That was, of course, best illustrated by Alfred Kahn’s “Kids today don’t read, they read less today” comment.