I shortened Yu-Gi-Oh!’s 4th season down to about an hour ★★★☆☆
Yu-Gi-Oh! briefly takes a break from being weird about Egyptians to being weird about indigenous Americans.
Rebecca is a strange character. No one else in this show has aged at all but she seems to be twice as old as the first time she showed up. It almost makes her seem like a reasonable love interest for Yugi until you remember he is not actually ten and is meant to be the same age as the rest of the cast despite being half their size, making it all very weird.
Reviving some of that season zero darkness and Atem having to face the consequences of that before letting him go back to being more straightforwardly heroic for the finale I think really justifies this as being more meaningful than just a filler arc and I do love Kaiba being jealous that the pharaoh let someone else beat him. Some great Kaiba moments in general in this series. His continued insistence that magic isn’t real does start to strain credulity but I find it funny more than anything else and “Nah. As the president of a major corporation I have to [destroy people’s souls] every day.” is iconic. I was shocked that the editor cut that one short in this. One of the few editing decisions I fully disagree with. The U.S. navy escorting them to an aircraft carrier to tell the protagonists to go play a children’s card game is also great.