I shortened Yu-Gi-Oh!’s 5th season down to about an hour ★★☆☆☆

Bakura was really fucked over by adaptation, wasn’t he? Because of filler arcs he’s been gone for over fifty episodes and I don’t know how many episodes ago it was that he put part of his soul in the Millennium Puzzle. Then the big final arc then establishes his threat as the true main villain in much the same way as his earlier appearances in the show: Repeatedly losing at every turn. His final shadow R.P.G. might also have been less jarring if his first appearance was as the Monster World guy instead of every season 0 element having been either excised or reframed in terms of Duel Monsters in this show. And you cannot possibly expect me to take seriously or care about the main villain suddenly announcing “Actually I’m some monster named Zork!” and then Zork turns out to be just a generic devil design with a dragon for a penis. Zork.