Recently, I bought a lot of imported board games!! However, when I look at the manual, it's all in English, so I can't play them!! I want to play the… - Kazuki Takahashi

A question that I am guaranteed to get asked when interviewed overseas is “What was the prompt that caused you to draw Yu-Gi-Oh!?”. And that sure is a troubling question. The response I usually give involves putting on a lot of air and saying “I wanted to work with a new perspective on games as a concept and write a battle story that had been unseen before and blah blah blah…” or something of the likes, but truth to be told, I myself don’t really know. It might have been “I just suddenly had the thought…”, or “I just wanted to draw the character Yugi.”… well, that also is part of it.

[My] assistants have been encouraging me to watch the well received Evangelion, but I just don't have the time to watch it. I've recorded them into videos, but... how annoying!!

I am obsessed with Kaiba and maybe Bandit Keith. When creating villains, it's very important to incorporate some human traits so they don't appear entirely evil. Whether someone is evil or not is judged by others, and from their perspective, what's evil might also be seen as good.