YGO vs Pokemon Topic 9

YGO vs Pokemon was a project created by Icehawk in the Fall of 2008 to settle the debate about which is the better anime series once and for all. His goal was to watch one episode of each show per day and then write up his thoughts on which was better. This is the first time he has ever watched either. This article is a chronicle of his attempt.

See also:

---

EPISODE 107
'''BATTLE FOR THE BRONZE, PART 3

Kaiba still says Joey didn't deserve to be in the tournament. MAYBE you could say that in DK when he kept getting lucky, Yugi always helped him, and Kaiba made him look like a fool, but in BC, thats such a ridiculous claim. Joey has been amazing.

STOP DEFENSE BY KAIBA! KAIBA CAN WIN THE DUEL! NO!

Kaiba attacks... HIS MONSTER IS DESTROYED, NO NO.

WAIT, JOEY IS STILL OK! TRAP CARD! NUTRIENT Z. Joey is now at 2100! YES YES YES.

JOEY DRAWS TIME WIZARD!!!!

Spin.... IT WORKS! IT WORKS! Baby Dragon turns to Thousand Dragon.

Wait, Blue Eyes is safe from Time Wizard! Interdimensional matter transporter by Kaiba. Damn it. Damn it.

JOEY LAUGHS! He tells Kaiba to have fun! YEAH YOU TELL HIM JOEY!!!

Kaiba uses a crazy combo to fuse a monster, Twin headed thunder dragon. 2800 AP.

PLUS QUICK ATTACK! Kaiba can attack right away! He attacks Thousand Dragon!!! It's destroyed. Joey is down to 1700... damn. Now Blue Eyes is gonna attack directly.

JOEY IS HIT! NO! JOEY LOSES. NO NO NO! NO. NOOOOOOOOO. THIS SUCKS. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

Joey tells Kaiba he is gonna keep coming back till he wins. DAMN IT WHYYYYY. They better have another duel.

Kaiba is just going to leave, Ishizu says he needs to stay to help Yugi. Kaiba is still stubborn and denies the past though. Mokuba disagrees with Kaiba! He says Kaiba is filled with rage, Yugi was right about him.

Marik vs. Yugi time.

Kaiba says only one card can take out Rah, he is gonna help Yugi!!! Yessss! The final duel is about to begin! HE TOSSES A CARD TO YUGI! Man, his card throwing skillz are ridiculous >_>.

'''Overall: Fun duel. Kaiba-Joey was kind of a throwback to DK, with them using a lot of the tricks they had from back then, except now with the BC rules. It's been a while since we've seen stuff like the crush card/Time Wizard, so it was a nice change of pace and a fun duel. I was so sad Joey lost though >_>. But good episode.

'''POKEMON EPISODE 137: GRIN TO WIN!

Augh, bad title= bad episode.

On the road to the gym. They come across a town called Bloomingvale. And they meet some girl.

The famous Pokemon in this town is Sunflora. There is a Sunflora festival coming soon. Apparently the happiest Sunflora usually win the contest. One of this girl's Sunflora is all unhappy.

TR is around, they want to steal a Sunflora and enter it in the contest tomorrow to win the year supply of noodles lol. They accidentally set off an alarm though, Meowth gets caught.

Ash and crew save Meowth from like getting arrested, so now they want help.

SNUBBULL IS HERE?!?!? WHAT!?!?!

They are using Meowth to find out why the one Sunflora is sad. Apparently, Sunflora lost a playmate or something. But it was traded to Nurse Joy.

Sunflora is REUNITED with his friend and regains its smile.

Festival time. Meowth is faking as a Sunflora >___>. MEOWTH MAKES IT TO THE FINALS!!! lolol. Top 3.

THEY THINK MEOWTH IS A NEW SPECIES OF SUNFLORA LOL. Snubbull bites off Meowth's costume and bites his tail, lolol. Kind of funny new running gag.

TR now tries to steal the instant noodles >___>. Chikorita! Vine whip misses. Now Poilwag comes out and hits Arbok. They now free the noodles. Wow, Chikorita hits Pikachu before Pikachu can take the glory in the battle. Interesting subplot. Sunflora now uses Solar beam to dominate TR.

Ash's friend wins the Sunflora festival!

'''Overall: Pretty boring overall, but like I said, I am noticing a bit of improvement in the filler. The plots are starting to get a little better, not great, but not absolutely dreadful like they were early on.

YGO vs. Pokemon: YGO had another fun dueling episode, and keeps its hot streak alive, Pokemon was pretty bad filler once again. Now we have a 5 part duel about to start, technically, if YGO is on its game, this is its chance to tie things up before the next arc...

Pokemon: 71

'''YGO: 66

EPISODE 108
'''YGO EPISODE 138: THE FINAL FACE OFF, PART 1

Yugi wonders if he can trust Kaiba's card. Like Kaiba poisoned it or something?

Kaiba is all like ME AND YUGI STILL AREN'T FRIENDS, because he is super cool.

After lots of useless talking, it's Shadow Realm time. Marik has a new shadow game planned of course. Yugi sees Mai now! And now Yami sees Yugi tied up. If Yami loses, Yugi will go to the shadow realm. Also, if Marik loses, good Marik will go to the shadow realm, dun dun dun.

Marik summons a weak monster that I guess can attack directly, Yami is down to 3500. As Yami loses LP, part of Yugi disappears. Yawn.

Marik can now send a card to the graveyard to put his monster in defensive mode. He puts Rah in the graveyard, he plans to use Monster Reborn I suppose.

Yugi plays a 1500 AP monster. He destroys the leech. 2 cards face down ends the turn.

Marik plays a 1700 AP monster and destroys Yami's monster. He is down to 3300.

Yami's turn, TRAP BY MARIK! He discards his hand to get Monster Reborn from his deck. YUGI COUNTERS! Exchange! He takes monster reborn! Marik takes uhh defusion I think.

Yugi uses Monster Reborn to get Queen's Knight, and now plays King's Knight, this allows Yugi to summon Jack's Knight! Yugi though fears Marik's trap cards, so doesn't attack.

Marik's turn, he plays another card face down. Now he plays Card of Sanctity. They must each draw until they have 6 cards. Marik switches his card to defense mode, and then ends his turn. It turns out Yugi now has Slifer, he summons it. It has 6000 AP.

Slifer uses his auto attack. MAGIC by Marik. He uses it to get Monster Reborn back, Rah will now be in play! Slifer's attack fails.

'''Overall: First half was pretty boring, too much talking. Second half is starting to heat up, it's not great, but it's a solid duel early on.

'''POKEMON EPISODE 138: CHIKORITA'S BIG UPSET

Hmm, sounds interesting actually.

Ash is in a Pokemon battle! Chikorita vs. Raticate! Raticate nails Chiko! Chiko is down, but gets back up! Raticate hits Chiko again, still refuses to come out! Chiko hits razor leaf now! It's really tired, Ash wants to replace it with Pikachu... CHIKO REFUSES TO COME OUT! After hours of waiting, the kid has to go eat dinner >_>.

At the Pokemon Center, OAK PHONE CALL TIME!!

All the Pokemon are eating, Chiko is off by herself though. Pikachu offers her food, she pushes it away. They wonder whats up, NURSE JOY!!! She is a Pokemon psychologist!!!

Ash and Chiko are gonna do a counseling session! YES, this sounds awesome.

Joy says Chiko is suffering from envy. Chiko is jealous of Ash's love of Pikachu. Joy says they can work through it. Joy is gonna keep Chiko overnight.

At night, Pikachu runs off to see Chikorita. Chiko escapes from her hiding spot and runs off. Pikachu talks to her, she attacks Pika then runs away. Chiko goes to sleep in some abandoned farm ot something. In the middle of the night, it gets surrounded by a bunch of fighting Pokemon! A Primeape attacks Chika, she hits it hard! It falls over! The rest of the fighting Pokemon now uhhh bow down to Chiko? What? lol.

In the morning, Joy said Chiko ran away to get Ash's attention. They use Bulba to try and find Chiko.

Meanwhile, Pikachu finds Chiko, and now TR enters the scene, sigh. I was really liking this episode! TR tries to capture Chiko, and now all the fighting Pokemon show up. Chiko seems to order them to attack, so TR begs for forgiveness >_>. Meowth now brings out a giant robot. The robot owns the fighting Pokemon. It grabs Pika and Chiko.

Heracross now throws Ash into the air to disable the robot, but he misses!

Ash now climbs some tower to jump on top of the robot, he misses again, but Chiko saves him! Ash now gets tossed to the antenna, and he destroys it. The robot now gets destroyed. TR blasts off.

At the end of the episode, Ash lets Chiko go on his shoulder along with Pikachu. Umm, that doesn't help it get over its jealousy!

'''Overall: Really a pity. I've always liked the Chiko storyline, so a plotline exploring it a bit was neat, but then the episode just degenerated into another formulaic TR attacks episode. Meh.

YGO vs. Pokemon: Pokemon had an interesting storyline, but totally blew it. Meanwhile, in YGO, we got the usual pointless banter to start a duel off, but once the dueling began, the episode got solid. YGO takes it barely.

Pokemon: 71

'''YGO: 67