Anime!

Seems like Yu-Gi-Oh isn't the only thing created for no reason other than to promote toys.

“Yu-Gi-Oh is an anime created for no reason other than to promote toys (playing cards, to be specific). Realizing this, along with the fact that the target audience for this anime is kids, might have made it easy to go easy on Yu-Gi-Oh. Unfortunately for Yu-Gi-Oh, however, it was proven that it is very much possible to make a descent anime out of a toy/game (i.e Medabots, which is no masterpiece, but is most definitely enjoyable). And Yu-Gi-Oh fails utterly being enjoyable. Very much the same way, it fails on every other aspect too?.