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Hey, Nightfure pointed out that the new character discussion threads are going unnoticed now that they're in a subforum, but I can't think of anything else to use that subforum for, so I'll just be using this thread to alert when new discussion threads are up. Hope this helps!

Alert: The Bakura Ryou thread is up!

Yeah, though I do consider Malik more of a main character, I decided I want to present the two personality halves with their respective 'twin,' so since I just did Yami no Bakura, I wanted to do Omote next. And Yami no Yuugi came directly after Yuugi as well.

Yay. XD
Awww, I luff Honda, but he definitely is easy and fun to make fun of. And Tristan is my favorite Abridged character. <3 I'm glad his voice was revived.

Yeah, totally understand the asthma thing; I have it too, and it's really hard to breathe around people smoking. ^^;; It especially sucks walking around campus, where everyone seems to always be smoking... but I also have friends who smoke, and they're very respectful, and understand when I need to keep a distance from them.
But yeah, I have no problem with virtual tobacco. I mean, we already have super gory items and stuff; it doesn't necessarily mean Gaia is promoting people to be skinned alive just because of the Death Whisper. XD;; It was silly to do that in the first place, but it's nice to know Gaia listens to its whiny users.
You may not care for those characters so much because they don't get many chances to be shown being cool. XD

True, it seems like random people smoking in public make no effort to stay out of crowds or anything.
I honestly can't say that the banning of the tobacco items bothered me too much. I felt that it was a silly thing to do, but I never cared for any of those items anyway, so it didn't bother me personally, and didn't give me enough motivation to complain. I am glad others took a stand for what they wanted though. ^^
Awww, Brock's my favorite character in Pokemon. XD;; Even though I didn't really care for his 'girl crazy' side. It was cute and funny sometimes, but overall what I liked about Brock were the more developed character features he had, like being the mature voice of reason, being a good 'house wife,' being the most intelligent of the twerps, being the oldest, and just being himself overall. ^^ As for Honda, he only ever seemed to really be portrayed as girl crazy when Shizuka was involved. Jounouchi seemed way more into the ladies than Honda did, at least in the early series. After that, it's like all the guys (except Honda and Otogi for Shizuka) just became cardgamesexuals or something. XD

Yeah, I can definitely understand why people were upset, and agreed in their cause; I just wasn't personally offended. That's funny though that they added new poses. XD
Heehee, s'okay. I always like the goody-goodies, or the dorky characters that don't get much love, so I'm used to it. Honda did have some other important roles though, like saving Mokuba's body in Duelist Kingdom, and having a 'final' showdown with Yami no Bakura, knocking enough sense into Jounouchi to support Shizuka and compete in Battle City, he 'dies' in the Virtual World and ends up being the character to have their body taken by the Big Five, plus he gets to be a monkey, and also had is mind taken over by Yami no Bakura in the Egypt Arc. Not to mention how he was far more of a prominent character in the early manga. Yes, so overall he tends to be more of a hindrance than help, but I still love the guy. XD

That is quite silly. XD
Yeah, I've seen that quote before. I almost never do, and never really have, put Lol in response to something. It's even underlined by my spell check, and I add always add words that I use often to the dictionary so it doesn't give them the red line. I usually use XD if something is mildly funny to me. If someone was funny enough to make me laugh out loud, I usually announce it as well. Only time I use anything similar to Lol is if I'm laughing at something in kind of a dorky manner, in which case I use Lawl... and that more implies that I'm actually saying "Lawl" instead of laughing. XD;;
Yay, goody-goodies! <3 Yeah, Honda can be epic on the rare moments he's alone. And I definitely see him a lot as a comedy relief character in the anime, but much of my love for him actually stems from his manga counterpart. Though I normally prefer the anime, there are just some things in the manga I find better-done, Honda's characterization being one of them. Jounouchi is definitely more of the comedy relief character to me in the manga. Honda is more mature, intelligent, and patient than him. He's usually the character that's telling Jounouchi to calm down and think things through, rather than Anzu, like in the anime. He's not a genius by any means, and he can still be goofy, but overall, he definitely thinks things through, and has some interesting skills, like sharp-shooting. ^^ I tend to like characters like that, that can be used as both comic relief and mature characters. Jounouchi is kind of like that as well, though his cases tend to be more extreme.