Yugi-O opinions

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I have an 8 yr old daughter who feels she is the only child in the world who can’t watch Yugi-O. :rolleyes: I don’t really understand the entire show, but the kids are into these cards and fighting games that it seems so evil. It is all about defeating/killing to get to the top ‘god’ level. Does anyone know more about it? :confused: I appreciate any help I can get! Thank you.:tiphat:
 
Your daughter is not the only one in the world who can’t watch Yugio. There are 3 more at my house…now they can start a “Yugio Deprived Support Group (YDSG)”.😃
 
We personally don’t have a problem with our sons playing and collecting the yu gi oh cards or watching the shows, I know they have gotten pretty popular but my boys can take them or leave them they much prefer legos and building all sorts of creations.
I guess if you don’t want your kids watching or playing the game or collecting cards simply state that, you are the parent and kids won’t always like our opinions but when my husband and I make a decision “like our 11 yr old daughter wants her ears peirced” we said when she is 16 and not a minute sooner and she says but so and so in my class got theirs and we say well they are not my child and you are and when you live in my house you live under my rules and that is that, really, kids don’t need any more information than that, you state your rules and that is that and other kids parents will have their rules but in your house its your rules and that is that 👍
 
I guess my kids can join the YDSG. I don’t like games/activities where the kids appear to get so obsesssed with it. It seems some kids are just susceptible to being pulled into these fantasy worlds. I think my son would be one of them…so, NO on Yu-Gi-O at my house.

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Giannawannabe
 
Hello All,

I’m 22 year-old guy who who has a fondness for Japanimation (Anime) and I have actually played the card game and watched the series. As a hobby it is interesting, especially the part where you develop strategies. For the most part the Yugioh craze is simple teen boy fodder. Much like the Pogs in the mid-90’s. It’s not a spiritualy dangerous game, i.e. Ouija boards and Dungeons and Dragons. There are characters and situations that may frighten younger kids, so keep in mind the TV-Y7 rating. Each parent should know their children. I recommend not to be too overly sensitive towards it. If you do have doubts there are Lord of the Rings card games and even Christian based card game called Redemption. The official website is below.

redemption.com/:yup:
 
I didn’t find anything wrong with Pokemon or Digimon, but there’s just something about Yugi-O that is very troubling.
It seems to have a faster and deeper hold than any fad I have ever seen…its not nausiatingly noisemaking like with Potter or Pokemon or the other loud fads…I would say good for your daughter…even if its simply disintrest that keeps her away, good for her…

My three brothers like the show/cards…my cousins are very into the cards, I don’t like it at all. So tell your daughter your proud for knowing what she likes.
 
It really comes down to ones personal choice in their parenting, if you don’t want your kids to watch, play etc. then don’t and if you do then thats fine too but is it a sin or evil? No, that is not a fair statement. Make it a personal choice for you and yours and then just leave it at that. 👍
 
We literally jerked the cable out of the side of our house seven years ago, and can only get two stations with an antenna. We may turn the TV on two hours during the entire week (evenings). The kids went through withdrawl for awhile, but when you absolutely can’t watch a show there is no where for the discussion to go. We have four kids 13, 10, 4, 1.(no T.V., had to find something to do), and I have no idea what Yugi-O is! Without TV the kids keep more active with play, sports, breaking things, torturing the dog etc…
 
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Your daughter is not the only one in the world who can’t watch Yugio. There are 3 more at my house…now they can start a “Yugio Deprived Support Group (YDSG)”.😃
My two boys can join in too! There is just something too strange about Yugio for me. I just flat out tell my kids that I don’t like it, so they can’t watch it, nor will I buy the cards for them. They whine at times but then get distracted by something else.

Also, these cards were all banned from our public school. Too many kids were trying to “act” out the cards and kids were getting unintentially hurt with kicking, jumping off things, etc.
 
You can blame me. I was one of those who thought anime was cool before many Americans ever heard of it. Me and my anime fans buddies worked to get it in the states. Now it is here and we can’t put the genie back in the bottle and now Japan uses the US for its cultural garbage dump (I still like their cars however. :)) It has infected everything–games, movies (Sin City anyone?) So it is not so much the moral content (although much of this stuff is ripe with deadening paganism), but the fact that is one more addiction to pop-culture sewage.

Scott
 
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TZiggy:
We literally jerked the cable out of the side of our house seven years ago, and can only get two stations with an antenna. We may turn the TV on two hours during the entire week (evenings). The kids went through withdrawl for awhile, but when you absolutely can’t watch a show there is no where for the discussion to go. We have four kids 13, 10, 4, 1.(no T.V., had to find something to do), and I have no idea what Yugi-O is! Without TV the kids keep more active with play, sports, breaking things, torturing the dog etc…
Amen! Growing up, my two older brothers and I didn’t watch TV because … we didn’t get cable. We had a VCR for movies - but no TV shows. I cannot express my gratitude to my parents for this. After college (when I could afford it) I tried cable for a while, but eventually had it disconnected. I found that the shows were just … drivel … and that I could get all my important news from the internet. I also found, however, that TV was strangely addictive and that I found myself watching pointless shows that I didn’t actually WANT to watch - but there I was, watching anyway. I’m very glad that there is no TV (just vcr and dvd!) in my house.

My parents mistake, however, was that they allowed video games and computer games. These were new, at the time, so they weren’t aware of the dangers. I’m not talking moral dangers here - these things aren’t in themselves evil. They are, however, addictive. And they’re designed to be addictive and they target the psychology of young boys (girls as well, but mainly boys, I think) perfectly. Sometimes I wistfully think of the literally hundreds of hours I have spent over the course of my life playing video games that I know cannot remember and that when I “beat” them, I had nothing to actually show for my time. If only I had spent the time reading books, or working on a craft/hobby, or … anything!

The TV/card games series tap into the same addiction, I think. They combine the addictiveness of TV with the addictiveness of video games in which you can become increasingly powerful. Evil? I personally don’t think so. Manipulative and addictive? You betcha.

My wife and I have already decided … when we have kids … no TV, no video games, and the computer is school only (well, maybe I’ll let them read CA and similar sites when they’re old enough!)
 
Hold your ground. When I was in elem. school, I was the only one of my group of friends who was not allowed to watch “Dirty Dancing” or own a copy of George Michael’s “Faith” album. I think I turned out OK. 😉

My husband and I are already talking about ditching the cable when we have children. Too much garbage. We hardly watch it, and there’s even less that I would show to children.
 
I watch Yu-Gi-Oh! every now and then, and I used to play the card game a couple of years ago (I’m 17 now.) But it got kind of boring after a while. 😃 I have two younger brothers who watch the show. None of us have a problem with it. I think its up to the parents to decide whether their children should be allowed to watch *Yu-Gi-Oh! *or not. Just like Harry Potter, Teen Titans, Pokemon, Dragonball, etc. *Yu-Gi-Oh! *is fictious/fantasy and the parents should decide whether their children can understand that.

God Bless!
Grant
 
Creepy show. Our kids don’t watch it! With all the junk out there for kids to absorb these days, we do all that we can to keep what goes into their heads positive and Christian. There is an all Christian satellite called “Sky Angel” with an all Catholic station on it “Catholic Familyland”. The different satellite stations also have a lot of old classic TV shows and old movies from back in the days when they were safe for familys to watch.
 
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