Bwahahaha! You've discovered the soul-sucking smarm-trap that is Yu-Gi-Oh!
As I originally did with DBZ, I had dismissed YGO out of hand for a long time. The "subtle-as-a-mallet" opening chapters reluctantly intrigued me (being the total sucker for friendship stories that I am) and each additional WAFF-fest chapter intrigued me a little bit more. I tried checking out the anime, but whereas I can deal with the DBZ dub (and actually, it was the dubbed anime that originally hooked me on the series), the YGO dub is just OMG KILL ME NOW PLEASE kind of bad. ^_^
Anyway, a few months ago I accidentally ran across some scanslations of later chapters of the YGO manga. Now, I should point out that I'm usually REALLY good about avoid fan-trans of licensed series. I even quit downloading Full Metal Alchemist fansubs when it was licensed (with the result that I now have to avoid most anime fan sites because the series and the MASSIVE SPOILERS THEREIN have become so ubiquitous). So I have no idea what made me read some chapters of a manga that I was kinda lukewarm on.
I downloaded and read pretty nearly the whole damn series in about 2 days. This in spite of the fact that the scanslations were very poor quality and intermittently missing chapters. I skipped the Pegasus arc because I wanted to give myself a good incentive to keep buying the official manga, but the rest of it, I practically swallowed whole. I can't believe how much I have come to love this series considering that the card battles bore me to tears, the writing is generally mediocre even when it isn't being mis-translated by someone with only a limited grasp of English grammar, and the plots are trite to the nth degree. I don't care. It's a nonstop wallow in friendship WAFFiness and I adore it. It was a sad, sad day for me when I realized that I was actually beginning to understand the rules of the card game.
Anyway, I'm overjoyed that you're writing fic for the series now, because I had discovered that same dearth of gen fic that you complained about above -- it's pretty damn hard to find ANY well-written fic for this series, slash, gen or otherwise. Mostly what I've been looking for is Jounouchi/Yugi friendship smarm, which is of course completely non-existent. I may have to write my own...
Come over to the DAAAARK SIIIIIIIDE!
As I originally did with DBZ, I had dismissed YGO out of hand for a long time. The "subtle-as-a-mallet" opening chapters reluctantly intrigued me (being the total sucker for friendship stories that I am) and each additional WAFF-fest chapter intrigued me a little bit more. I tried checking out the anime, but whereas I can deal with the DBZ dub (and actually, it was the dubbed anime that originally hooked me on the series), the YGO dub is just OMG KILL ME NOW PLEASE kind of bad. ^_^
Anyway, a few months ago I accidentally ran across some scanslations of later chapters of the YGO manga. Now, I should point out that I'm usually REALLY good about avoid fan-trans of licensed series. I even quit downloading Full Metal Alchemist fansubs when it was licensed (with the result that I now have to avoid most anime fan sites because the series and the MASSIVE SPOILERS THEREIN have become so ubiquitous). So I have no idea what made me read some chapters of a manga that I was kinda lukewarm on.
I downloaded and read pretty nearly the whole damn series in about 2 days. This in spite of the fact that the scanslations were very poor quality and intermittently missing chapters. I skipped the Pegasus arc because I wanted to give myself a good incentive to keep buying the official manga, but the rest of it, I practically swallowed whole. I can't believe how much I have come to love this series considering that the card battles bore me to tears, the writing is generally mediocre even when it isn't being mis-translated by someone with only a limited grasp of English grammar, and the plots are trite to the nth degree. I don't care. It's a nonstop wallow in friendship WAFFiness and I adore it. It was a sad, sad day for me when I realized that I was actually beginning to understand the rules of the card game.
Anyway, I'm overjoyed that you're writing fic for the series now, because I had discovered that same dearth of gen fic that you complained about above -- it's pretty damn hard to find ANY well-written fic for this series, slash, gen or otherwise. Mostly what I've been looking for is Jounouchi/Yugi friendship smarm, which is of course completely non-existent. I may have to write my own...
-Layla (Sholio)