Talk:Season 4/@comment-64.119.39.106-20141113195124/@comment-5264252-20141113202059

They both have everything to do with history. Pokémon is the second biggest and best-selling video game franchise, after Mario, and is HUGE. It's had a huge impact on RPGs, games involving animals fighting, as well as impacts in real life on groups like PETA and constantly having controversies with religious groups boycotting it due to the "influence" of evolution on kids.

Yu-Gi-Oh has had a major influence on real life card games and tournaments, tournaments for it still going after so many years. While for a while it started to fade with the show's constant sequel series, the original has quickly picked back up in popularity in recent years with the fan-made abridged series "Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series".

I don't care much for the match up, but both Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh have had a LONG history together where fans constantly considered them rival shows, as well as Pokémon and Digimon as rival shows. In recent years, the rivalry has died down, it's still left its mark and I've still seen fans compare the franchises together. I don't care for it in an ERB, but there's plenty of history behind it.