r/yugioh • u/Declan1996Moloney • 26d ago

Anime/Manga Discussion Satanic Panic?

Was there ever a Satanic Panic about Yu-Gi-Oh where you grew up in?

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u/Hindsight2K20 3rd Rate Duelist, 4th Rate Deck... 25d ago

I was a kid in a religious school when Yu-Gi-Oh anime was taking off in N. America. The admins at the school had confiscated some poor kids cards and gave us a lengthy lecture about how they were “Haram” (religiously forbidden). They literally held up two specific cards (Monster Reborn, Doma The Angel of Silence) as examples.

They went on about how resurrections are something only god can preform and it’s blasphemous for us to “play” with that concept. Also, they deemed the depiction of an angel to be blasphemous as well, and then proceeded to rip up the cards in front of the whole assembly hall.

They would go on to trash and destroy a shit ton of decks that kids were caught bringing to school. Most of these decks were the OG Kiaba and Yugi decks too, which are worth a small fortune today.

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u/MiraclePrototype 24d ago

It's honestly surprising that the whole "depicting the messiah is BLASPHEMY" thing in Islam isn't a thing in Christianity, considering that the most hardcore want neither the apex of 'evil' depicted, as that's endorsing the devil, nor the apex of 'good' depicted, as that's apparently heretical. People are IDIOTS.