Post by Desert Rose on May 1, 2016 17:40:49 GMT
What can I say? I've been a huge Atem/Yami Yugi fan since I watched the dub version on the WB circa 2000-2004. I've also read Takahashi's manga, seen Season Zero and the Japanese version of the Duel Monsters anime. I've also read the Transcend Game manga two shot and am hoping to see Dark Side of Dimensions in the next few months.
Anyway, I just love Atem so much probably because aside from how handsome he is, he's such a complex character. In the original YuGiOh manga volumes, Yami Yugi is rather a villainous character, killing, maiming and driving to insanity all who "trespass" in Yugi's soul or that of their friends. By the end of the entire story, he's a beautiful, godlike character with a generous and compassionate heart. It's not often a character can be a scary villain and a beautiful godking.
Also, the psychological themes of YuGiOh are just fascinating. At first we think Yugi may be suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and that Yami Yugi is an alter created by his fractured mind to deal with the constant bullying and harassment at school and just the general loneliness he suffers from. Yugi certainly displays the symptoms of this disorder, with the blackouts, the talking to his "alter," and the alter personality taking over and making him act differently enough for his friends to notice it and worry. Yugi isn't all too different from Sybil and Norman Bates at the beginning of the story.
It's only much later that we learn that he in fact has a separate soul residing in his mind and then the beautiful friendship, soulbonding between them really takes off, creating all kinds of feels. Whether or not one sees Yugi and Atem as lovers, brothers or friends is really irrelevant. Their relationship is simply something that can't be defined and labeled.
And well, that's why I like YuGiOh and love Atem.
Anyway, I just love Atem so much probably because aside from how handsome he is, he's such a complex character. In the original YuGiOh manga volumes, Yami Yugi is rather a villainous character, killing, maiming and driving to insanity all who "trespass" in Yugi's soul or that of their friends. By the end of the entire story, he's a beautiful, godlike character with a generous and compassionate heart. It's not often a character can be a scary villain and a beautiful godking.
Also, the psychological themes of YuGiOh are just fascinating. At first we think Yugi may be suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and that Yami Yugi is an alter created by his fractured mind to deal with the constant bullying and harassment at school and just the general loneliness he suffers from. Yugi certainly displays the symptoms of this disorder, with the blackouts, the talking to his "alter," and the alter personality taking over and making him act differently enough for his friends to notice it and worry. Yugi isn't all too different from Sybil and Norman Bates at the beginning of the story.
It's only much later that we learn that he in fact has a separate soul residing in his mind and then the beautiful friendship, soulbonding between them really takes off, creating all kinds of feels. Whether or not one sees Yugi and Atem as lovers, brothers or friends is really irrelevant. Their relationship is simply something that can't be defined and labeled.
And well, that's why I like YuGiOh and love Atem.
