I must have watched the series at least five times over. I was never a trading card fan and I never owned my own deck, but I loved the anime passionately. Although it is extremely generic, every single episode is pretty lame, and it's a show about a children's trading card game with added evil spirits from Ancient Egypt, I found the plot compelling at the time. The reason I have rated Yu-Gi-Oh! so highly is because I can't not like it. And the score was boosted by two just for Yugi's hair.

If it was on Cartoon Network, Boomerang or Jetix, I watched it. I watched them all as a kid Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Avatar: The Last Airbender (though technically not anime), Sailor Moon.

I can remember watching badly dubbed episodes of Sailor Moon as a very small child, which eventually drew me back to anime as a teenager, but it was Yu-Gi-Oh! that was on pretty much constantly between the ages of 6 and 12, by which time I had turned off the kiddie channels it played on. It's up there with Sailor Moon, although it came slightly later. Although it is by no means the greatest anime ever, I have to pay homage to Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters as the anime that got me into anime.

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