Still JP-EN, but more focused on how “best” to suit an EN audience.
What do you get when you put together musical motifs, demonology, Greek legends, and really poor coping mechanisms? You get a lot of puns that don’t flow well in English at all!
You also get the Orphegel theme of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, the stars of this Archive installment. And never has the devil been more in the details than with these fellows!
Today, the Trickstars take center stage – and these Yu-Gi-Oh girls are seedier than appearances would have you believe…
Because they’re based on toxic flowers.
So they already look pretty seedy.
In a sense.
But not innocence.
You get the idea.
Summoned Skull, one of the oldest cards in both the Yu-Gi-Oh card game and the original manga, has long been suspected to be an homage to a famous(?) Magic card.
While we may never get a true answer on the matter, the introduction of a new Summoned Skull card in 2018 lends a little more credence to this theory…
I don’t know how to break it to you if you don’t already know, but…this game has a lot of puns.
Like, a whole lot. Especially in Japanese.
Get your feet wet before diving headlong into the wordplay abyss with some of these more well-known examples!