Yugioh had the potential to be a great anime, but there are two things that butchered it. The first thing that butchered it was the fact they only used the card game in it and not the various other games as well. Lets face it, we don't want to see the same thing over and over again it's redundant. The second thing to butcher it and finally turn it into hamburger was that 4Kids was the corporation that did the dubbing. They pretty much censored everything making this show even more bland then it was before making it to only be one huge advert to sell Yugioh trading cards. The manga on the other hand was pretty good and it's worth the money you pay for it. Try it before you bash the series all together, because the anime did have potential.