Updates on ch. 2.

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I actually have nothing against the dub version, but there are a lot of people who do. So... This fic is dedicated to all the YGO purists out there!! WOOO!!!

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Mainstream Lament: YGO Division

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Yugi Mutou gets beat up on an average five times a day

And Shonen Jump had integrity not to censor what they say

Jonouchi is a pervert, Anzu's skirt was hitched

She punched him in the face, and in the dub this was a glitch

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Honda is a friend whose character development was a dud

And Yami Bakura rigged the ratings with his morbid taste for blood

Mokuba's mouth was dirty; this the dubber's didn't keep

The swearing didn't make it with the translation's leap

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Jou made fun of Yugi, so the dubbers cleared his head

Then Yami Yugi came along, and a bunch of guys were dead

One was set on fire; one cursed with eyes through which he couldn't see

In the anime a guy fell off the tower of sanity

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Yami liked sharp objects, with which he cleaned the bully's clock

The scene was cut out entirely and now the purists are in shock

Most were driven crazy by Yami Yugi's mental games

But the distributors didn't like this, and now the show's just not the same

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Anzu's name is Tea, which most people can't even spell

Is it Seto Kaiba or vice versa? The dubbers do not tell

Japanese-y customs are not good for little kids

Cuz Honda is a car co. and so they took it from the vids

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Kaiba's insults aren't as snappy and Joey's accent is a shame

Now most people think the show is just another piece of lame

Now the American distributors are thought to be a bunch of mindless drones

They couldn't match the standards; now it's just another Poke-clone

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The gorgeous music was replaced by the monotone of doom

My friends all cringe at techno, so they got up to leave the room

Yugi's dub voice ends up sounding like a forty-year old guy

Instead of listening to it, most people'd rather die

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The cards they posed a problem, cuz Water Omotics had no clothes

Cover up! they told the artist, so he had to do as he was told

The cards still sold like hot cakes, so Kazuki he was saved

But who will save the purists from the censors of the depraved?

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But wait! You've still got Pegasus, who joined an evil cult

And the occult and the demons could be considered more adult

The violence can be shocking, and the humour is okay

And Yami Bakura and Malik are still around to save the day

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Yet still the visions haunt us, the ghost of a Might-Have-Been

In which the war of censorship was merely a bad dream

And subbers can roam the streets, forever wild and free...

But despite the online petition, I guess it's just not meant to be.

~The Bitter End~