Bakura actually dies more quickly in the manga, though. There doesn't seem to be a clear moment where he realizes he's been used, whereas in the anime he's released from his possession and actually told by YnBakura that his usefulness is over. I don't think their deaths are hugely different, though *shrugs*
Gah, and it's still better than the dub, where everything was about the fate of the world. But the anime writers really are terrible at coming up with their own plots- they're much better when they stick to a bit of character extrapolation like with Atemu's childhood in the last arc. Sometimes I think it's a shame that anime are always started up so soon alongside the manga. Who knows what it could have been if it had started up much later and been able to stick to the manga's plot entirely.
I never watched much GX, but I remember being really baffled by that episode where BMG showed up and dueled. I mean, what? If there's a full soul inside of her at all it should be Mana's, which it wasn't, and even if Mana had bound herself to her Kaa, which we don't know one way or the other (though it must have been placed in a Sealing Tablet at some point before her death for Pegasus to be able to make the card)... Um. I really can't make sense of what BMG was doing in GX.
I love the magical details of the last arc, though. Especially Kaa/magical abilities being a part of the soul, and hence obviously something everyone has the potential to tap into. The idea that everyone has magical powers isn't an idea which shows up often in fantasy fiction over here.
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Gah, and it's still better than the dub, where everything was about the fate of the world. But the anime writers really are terrible at coming up with their own plots- they're much better when they stick to a bit of character extrapolation like with Atemu's childhood in the last arc. Sometimes I think it's a shame that anime are always started up so soon alongside the manga. Who knows what it could have been if it had started up much later and been able to stick to the manga's plot entirely.
I never watched much GX, but I remember being really baffled by that episode where BMG showed up and dueled. I mean, what? If there's a full soul inside of her at all it should be Mana's, which it wasn't, and even if Mana had bound herself to her Kaa, which we don't know one way or the other (though it must have been placed in a Sealing Tablet at some point before her death for Pegasus to be able to make the card)... Um. I really can't make sense of what BMG was doing in GX.
I love the magical details of the last arc, though. Especially Kaa/magical abilities being a part of the soul, and hence obviously something everyone has the potential to tap into. The idea that everyone has magical powers isn't an idea which shows up often in fantasy fiction over here.
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