complete rip-off

I totally agree. I can't believe they haven't been sued for copying off of another show AND making it suck really bad.

This is the worst anime I have ever seen. Even worse than Pokemon.

"See what happens when you stand there like a space cadet?"- Kyo Sohma, Fruits Basket

Yeah, that's what I thought, until I actually watched the show and realized that it's not, it's completely satirical of many of the shows in that genre. A take off, if you will, of several of them.

Actually, Yu-gi-Oh is a complete rip-off of Magic (the now even have to aknowledge that they use the Magic game rules) and Duel Masters has been in existence in japan for a while, starting as a manga for Magic fans. The game was developped and marketed in Japan a few years ago and then they adapted it as a cartoon to launch it in the rest of the world, as you do.

So Duel Masters isn't a rip-off of Yu-gi-ho per se since Yu-gi-ho rips-off the game Duel Masters is "adapted from".

And it's also much better than Yu-gi-Ho

I don't understand why people take this show so seriously. It's ment to be a "PARODY" of various anime, most notably Yu-gi-oh. In one episode they even make a depracating reference to Yu-gi-oh, I don't remeber the quote exactly but it was something like: "That show about the Egyptian kid is pretty stupid." (I think they even show a silloutte of Yami-Yugi) The characters in the show break the fouth wall all the time, and even point out oddities in its own plot, animation, and script that show up in many anime.

The show is just trying to be funny not serious, and while its not the best of anime its defantly alot better then many people give it credit for. The plot is realy just a mechanism for getting from one joke or parody to the next.

If you want an over-serious card battle anime watch Yu-Gi-Oh, but if your in the mood for a light harted comedy that dosen't take itself seriously watch Duel Masters.
BTW I like both Yu-Gi-Oh and Duel Masters. Yu-Gi-Oh for being overly serious about a card game, magical powers, soul stealing, etc. Duel Masters for being a parody of Yu-Gi-Oh, light hearted, pop culture refences,subtle innuendo, etc.

The game is much much more remniscient of Magic: The Gathering. Mana, tapping, blocking. Much more solid than YGO.

And please learn the difference between parody and rip-off.

i use to like yu-gi-oh, but now i hate it because it gave me too many problems that it made my life miserable. so now i like duel masters much better. and that jerk predatory shouldn't tell anyone to shut up just because they have different opinions, so he needs to grow up.

The show overall is a complete ripoff, and the dub is a complete mockery of everything. When hearing a little kid saying to the other kid "fo shizzle" or something like that in the one episode where he tells him to "modernize" I just hung my head in shame. The only time I hear this is when I leave the TV on after Adult Swim in the morning, and its utter crap. When they have commercials during the duel matches that advertise a cola and the slogan is "JUST DUEL IT" who wrote this complete waste of dialogue?

ok, yugioh is not riped off, the games are completely diferent!
also, anyone so shallow that they can't accept others who like things they don't are nearsighted imbasiles, i don't like pokemon the show, and dbz got redundant, but others have the right to like it, otherwise we'd all become mindless atomitons, all doing the same thing, liking the same things, Boring!!! accept one another.
finally, the virsions here are altered to be crappy, like how yugi was a perverted kid who even had an episode with jounuchi (joey) lending him porn, and tea stole it from him not knowing what it was.