YGO! has the CCG to go along with it, and yeah ... a couple of video games ... but other than that I can't really think of any official "tie-in" merchandise that I've seen. Nuigurumi would've been cool, but I think they'd look more disturbing than most UFO catchers normally do. ^^;
When those people say "commercial" I think they mean "popular". It's cool to dislike popular things. I've found this to be true in many anime circles. People'll tell me that stuff that's hyped is only in the spotlight because of marketing oppertunities. Then, in the same breath, they'll mention something else that's equally if not MORE hype-laiden ... and say it's much better than my current fancy. This is usually when "DBZ" comes up. I've never seen a shittier show hyped as much as that one, and one can argue that it was ONLY successful because of the hype! YGO! has a plot and deep characters, two things DBZ /doesn't/ have, yet DBZ is infinitely better than YGO! because of some stupid reason or other.
Try and mention Akira Toriyama's other work to those clods. I found Dr. Slump AND Sandland to be much more enjoyable and far less annoying. 20 bucks says they've never even heard of EITHER series.
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When those people say "commercial" I think they mean "popular". It's cool to dislike popular things. I've found this to be true in many anime circles. People'll tell me that stuff that's hyped is only in the spotlight because of marketing oppertunities. Then, in the same breath, they'll mention something else that's equally if not MORE hype-laiden ... and say it's much better than my current fancy. This is usually when "DBZ" comes up. I've never seen a shittier show hyped as much as that one, and one can argue that it was ONLY successful because of the hype! YGO! has a plot and deep characters, two things DBZ /doesn't/ have, yet DBZ is infinitely better than YGO! because of some stupid reason or other.
Try and mention Akira Toriyama's other work to those clods. I found Dr. Slump AND Sandland to be much more enjoyable and far less annoying. 20 bucks says they've never even heard of EITHER series.