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This was brought up in the other forum. Are they the same or are they different? To me, they are totally different. But you are all free to state your opinions. Just please don't bash one or the other, since it is against the rules. And as such I'll keep my opinions on Puppyshipping to myself. But these are just my opinions, and ignore the fact that I am one of the biggest Prideshippers on Gaia.

Prideshipping - Yes, Seto and Yami are rivals. And they argue, but maybe not as much as Seto and Jou do. Yami earns Seto's respect as a duelist, maybe a person as the series goes on. Yes, they do hate each other at the very start but over time that slowly melted away. Battle City you can tell the respect showed a little more with their first tag duel, even though Seto was in obvious denial.

Further on into Doma, the respect showed a little bit more. He actually felt bad that Yami lost to Dartz, or rather was ticked off... in the dub when they were at Kaiba Corp trying to find out about who Dartz and Paradias was, they were attacked by monsters once they were out of the elevator. There was a slight smirk, maybe smile directed toward one another. After that they jumped from the building and into Seto's jet. But the best quote will always be "I trusted you, now you trust me." That shows Seto does trust Yami. And of course the ever popular episode 180, but I don't think I need to say anymore about that. Most of you know what happens there.


Puppyshipping - Yes, they argue constantly. Seto calls Jou various names, Jou gets ticked off and threatens to fight said CEO. And Seto just walks off, satisfied that he annoyed Jounouchi. Maybe somewhere under all that there may be a teensy hint of respect, maybe some weird feelings as well. I don't know. To me Jou seems to enjoy getting under Seto's skin. He would never see Jou as a true challenge, or as a dueling rival. He just sees him as a second rate duelist and person. But maybe that is a facade, I can't see it but I'm sure someone else can enlighten me.

I can't really think of anything else for these two, but again feel free to add on or state your own opinions.

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To be fair I only did this to give Puppyshippers a chance to speak their mind since I noticed there was no Puppy thread. And it would be ironic if I made one.

Meep. I knew I should have kept it in the yaoi subforum, gomen Ohkami. I thought because Puppyshipping doesn't involve Yami that I would move it to the regular one... it won't happen again. I just hope this doesn't affect anything...

Meep? I'm the only one that notices the differences? This was a bad idea... and yet this is also highly ironic considering I like Kamishipping. But nine times out of ten I convert it to Pride and then I'm happy.

Ohkami is attacking this subforum with love today! And finally unlazy enough to post in this topic for real! ((And she can't believe that puppyshipping is actually winning in the poll.))

Prideshipping- Ok, first of all these two have a legitimate rivalry going on between them. It's mutual, and each is always trying to best the other, though moreso from Kaiba. But either way they show a relationship where, even if it's just as duel monsters rivals, that brings them pretty close. After all, duel monsters makes up 99% of both of their lives.

Then you can go back to look at their past relationship in Egypt, and I understand this is a bit unfair to Jou since he has no Egyptian counterpart but that further supports the argument, really. Seto was extremely caring towards Atemu, even not knowing that they were related. When Atemu fell off the cliff during his battle with Touzouku, Seto would have been willing to search the entire country to find Atemu, when it wasn't even known if he was alive or not. Even though all of the priests were obviously worried for the pharaoh, Seto seems to be the one that shows it the most. And they fact that Akunadin has to force him to help in the plan of overthrowing the pharaoh, and even then he doesn't really respond.

Puppyshipping- Key to my problem with this shipping; They. Hate. Each. Other!!! It's not a strong rivalry between the two of them. Seto barely even acknowledges Jounouchi's existences, and when he does he thinks of him as no better than a dog. And Jounouchi most times would rather be ignored than called a dog. He simply wants to beat Kaiba to prove all of his jerktastic comments wrong, and Seto couldn't care less about Jounouchi either way. Honestly, that's what this pairing comes down to to me.

Now does this seem slightly biased? Yes, and I acknowledge that. But at the same time I don't feel this way because I don't particularly like the pairing. I don't particularly like the pairing because in my opinion their relationship makes it highly unlikely.

For clarification: Does this mean I think prideshipping is extremely likely, probably going to happen tomorrow and even a canon couple? No. I simply find it more likely than puppyshipping, that's my main argument here. So I see evidence of prideshipping in the show on ocassion? Of coure whee . But I won't deny there have been a few puppyshipping moments in there as well.

Puppyshipping is Jou x Seto. My most disliked pairing for reasons I stated. Called Puppyshipping because of Seto using canine references, at least in the dub. Maybe a few in Japanese too.

Yuugi x Yami is Puzzleshipping because Yami was the spirit of the puzzle, self explanitory really. I know you probably got confused so it's alright. I just don't like either pairing really. I see this as a brotherly relationship.

Prideshipping? This one is easy to explain too. Seto and Yami are both very prideful people. We know that Seto probably has more pride than any other character in the series, but Yami does too. Just not as noticeable as Seto at times.

Ok I would like to join such a conversation and as you guys have stated before there are differences and reasons to why there seems to be couples such as prideshipping and puppyshipping. I apologize beforehand if I did anything wrong and I am willing to delete my post as soon as I can… if I did something wrong. Prideshipping has their similarities and differences, but they are different.

Prideshipping- Now as a fan myself it goes on along the lines that I would support them. As many have stated before me they have respect and with this there opens a lot of possibilities. Yami and Kaiba do hold a strong family heritage that spans for many generations before they ever became rivals so it brings upon the account that they have that tendency to come together in some type of relationship romantic or not. Being that they both struggle with an ego and a pride it makes them quite similar and causes a higher chance of them actually relating in some way and coming close to trusting each other as Buka has already stated in one of the episodes.

Of course you have the fact that Kaiba isn't the most sociable of people and that Yami and Kaiba were family members so it strains an intimate relationship.

Either way as long as they have such a bond in similarities a relationship can exist, which gives a good reason as to why prideshipping is how it is. Another thing Kaiba chases after Yami in some ways doesn’t he? Well many of the real evidence has already been stated... so it's best not to repeat things.

Puppyshipping- It brings about the fact that many animes do have what you would call the opposites attract couples. Where their traits are so unlike and yet similar in the oddest of ways that they come together. Couples from the animes Naruto, Yami no Matsuei, Digimon have couples like this. Yet Yugioh does not have the same straight layout as many animes where there is a serous character, who rivals against another character with an opposite personality. Kaiba, Joey (could never spell his Japanese name), and Yami hold a three way rivalry and being that Yami and Joey are pretty much at good ends of each other this leaves Kaiba with the opportunity to pick off either of the two. Yami for his pride and Joey who actually comes to him. As stated Kaiba trails after Yami while you have Joey, who trails after the two, but holds something against Kaiba because of his friendly relationship with Yami. Puppyshipping comes over the lines that even with such stressing aspects that Joey can even just easily fight back against Yami he does more so with Kaiba and from there he can get much more retaliation that bring up deeper emotions from Kaiba in some ways. Yes, I know I’m bringing up things like dragonshipping, but why did they call JoeyxYami this instead of SetoxJoey… hey as I’ve noticed this whole coupling thing is quite stressing…. -_-" Ok enough rambling…

Both Joey and Kaiba may have had a few similarities, but they did not accept them causing the pairing to be fuled by their differences. Kaiba does not show as if he respects Joey in any way, neither does Joey vise-versa.

One of the main differences is that takes place in between the two pairings is that puppyshipping is that a relationship occurred from differences and prideshipping occurred by similarities.

In the japanese version Seto calls Jounouchi a makeinu which is sort of a play on words, since it means loser, but it is made up of the two kanji make and inu, which mean loss and dog, respectively. So it literally would translate to loser dog in english. 3nodding

He also calls him a bonkotsu which is the equivalent I believe of calling someone trailer trash in english.