Top Ten Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Card Backstories

It's time to "analyze" Yugioh cards once again. Ever notice a monster appears on many cards? Sometimes those appearances are for more than just fun cameos. These cards could be part of a larger story that the card creators are trying to tell using cards that may not even relate to the effect of the card. In this video, I'm going to explore some of my favorite instances of cards getting an extended backstory across other monster, spell, and trap cards that show how they received their upgraded or retrained forms, or just how a monster went on an adventure. A.T. Gonzalez from SoftwareAgentsCorp joins me for this video and captured and cut the Yugioh game footage.

Songs used:
Lay it Down by Silent Partner
Sunday Plans by Silent Partner

[larrydouglas]

"The reason Warrior Dai Grepher and Warrior Lady hate each other so much is he doesn't meet the criteria to be summoned by her effect." haha

[cooltrainervaultboy-]

...WHY THE HELL IS THIS NOT THE ANIME!!!

[suezuccati]

Suddenly an anime about the ygo monsters seems more interesting than one about card games

[Thereallarrybirdfishing]

The lore of the cards is one of the many reasons yugioh has lasted through the years. Early yugioh was so much fun you had to be there.

[weed]

They should do new anime were in each episode they explore these stories.

[listverse-amazingtop]

This is absolutely crazy. After playing this game since I was a kid on and off I always saw monsters reused but never thought that they might have cool lore.

[banvanhelsing]

Video is old but I enjoyed the details!
Some cards bring back memories when I had them and played with real cards lol.

[Wyattoons]

My goodness. I knew many cards were connected, but these are entire massive sprawling sagas. Awesome!

[BlockO]

This was by far way interesting than I anticipated it to be. You just helped 10 year old me figure out a lot of the backstories to some of my favorite cards. I’d definitely be interested in a second video on this series!

[MitchieDBBC]

I loved this video.
There's nothing better than watching a story unfold with cards you didn't think were initially linked in some way

[tomcurl]

the events in the card art needs its own show

[Omicron]

Wow, I knew there were some cards that told stories in their artwork, but this is crazy. I always wondered what Gagagigo and Giga Gagagigo's lore was going on about with his destiny and lost redemption. Never made the connection between him and Altar For Tribute and Compulsory Evacuation Device. Very awesome video. Now to watch the next part.

[aaronhall]

Dark King of the Abyss is on a new Card ! Called “Dark Ruler No More” where he is dethroning the dark ruler !

[SelLillianna]

Sangan's story is adorable. XD Love him meeting Graceful Charity and Witch of the Black Forest in the forbidden realm.

[KartoffelKonig]

At first I wasn't very interested since I felt there couldn't be much to it. Oh boy was I wrong. It is really astounding to see these cards have so many connections. Honestly I totally thought they were just random images of goblins and whatnot but that could be of course because I never so most of these cards in the video :D So for me it was very educational, entertaining and eye-opening. Man I wish hearthstone had some more connections between cards.

[petergilveet]

As a child Gagagigo was one of my favorite cards because of Tag Force 1, since he was on the water starter deck that I kept using the whole time. I liked he's design a lot and he he had really cool stats (I was used to PC's Yugi The Destiny back then), so I kinda act like he was to me what Dark Magician was to Yugi or Neos was to the Jaden, my "key card", the card I'm known for, cause as I kid I didn't want to copy the cards from the anime that I thought were cool, something like "No, that his card, I wanna have my own". I did that with a lot of random monsters with cool designs back then (Neo Aqua Madoor, Fiend Megacyber, Ultimate Baseball Kid, Gaia The Fierce Knight since Yugi didn't give him enough love, etc.), but I believe Gagagigo was the first, all that without ever knowing all the cool story, I knew the other forms but never paid attention to the flavor text. It's so cool knowing that "my guy" is way cooler than I thought it was.

[georgelopes]

Just when I thought Sangan couldn’t be anymore wholesome and pure... *Sanwitch*

[bigd]

The tyrant King gets censored with a shirt yet Konami has no problem with buff shirtless men

[avg]

Quite a full filling video to watch knowing that there is a story behind all these cards. What about awakening of the possessed gigabyte?

[juancarlosparejaosorio]

0:25 Nowadays they could make a new version of Needle Wall that says <if the result is 6, destroy the monster in the extra monster zone that your opponent controls>