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I mean the damage done outside duels with supernatural elements or with some
device that causes the players to get damage.

Even in normal duels the holograms cause some damage to the players, although
one far from a serious one, which looks pretty dumb, as an hologram in reality
is not going to hurt you in any way.

As far as I know first 4 seasons of Yu-gi-oh only show holograms, this changes
in the 5th season as solid things are created from the holograms, so in this
one it makes sense that they could hurt, and I don't know for the sixth one as
I didn't watch it yet.

Is it ever explained how holograms cause damage to the players?


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How do holograms damage players in Yu-gi-oh?


My best guess is immersion, like if you're playing a vr game and you're about
to get attacked or something and flinch a bit, let's be honest here though
it's just to make the duels dramatic. (I'm talking about the first and second
series')


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There are holographic technologies that allow you to "touch" holograms using a
machine that applies pressure to anything that touches the hologram.

Maybe the machines Kaiba made with the colourful lights, are able to do that,
in a minor scale that is not harmful.


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It is called solid vision. They are not exactly holograms but more like an
actual things with conscience as you can see the characters interact with them
quite often. In DSOD we see Kaiba implementing a much more realistic,powerful
version of it. But honestly,they never explained how it works. In Arc-V too
this can be seen.


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In the manga, Kaiba created Battle Boxes which used **Solid Vision** to
enhance Duel Monsters and made a deal with Industrial Illusions to produce
them.

During Death-T (Death Trial), a series of games which Kaiba created to test
Yugi, Kaiba used Battle Boxes, to create holograms of the monsters Summoned in
Duel Monsters and Capsule Monster Chess. Whoever lost a game, would be subject
to the Illusion of Death by virtual reality. He tested this version of Penalty
Game on human subjects, finding that the average person went insane after ten
minutes of the torture. Which explains how Solomon Mutou was hurt in the manga
when Kaiba forced him to play against him.

In the anime, Dueling Arenas were used instead of Battle Boxes and Death-T did
not happen.

In the anime, Kaiba was still responsible for the creation of the Dueling
Arenas. Throughout the series it is implied that the monsters that are
summoned are not just a hologram projections but **Solid Visions**. This
implies that there is some kind of artificial mass that is formed behind the
projection. How Kaiba managed to achieve this, is not explained in details,
but it is implied that he programmed the dueling system to **simulate combat
damage** , which explains why when monsters attack, there are shock waves that
are felt in the air, and why when direct attacks are made on the players, they
are pushed and sometimes even physically hurt. This can explain why Solomon
Mutou was hurt during his first duel with Kaiba in the very first episode of
the anime. Even though direct attacks where not in the rules of the game back
then, the shock waves from the attacks between the monsters could still be
felt in the air. And the psychological shock of seeing solid vision monsters
for the first time, took their tool on the fragile body of Solomon Mutou, who
was at that point, a retired old man. In the episode where Kaiba received
Obelisk the tormentor from Ishizu, he decided to test the might of the god
card while also testing the new dueling disk with the updated game rules. The
scientist working for Kaiba, expressed concern about the decision to include
direct attacks in the rules, since the **solid vision** combined with the
**combat simulation** could really hurt the players who participate in the
duel. This is shown in the same episode when Kaiba summons Obelisk and uses it
to destroy the Blue eyes ultimate dragon, while also dealing 4000 points of
damage to the duel bot. The shock from that attack, destroyed the machine.
However, if Kaiba didn't summon Obelisk to win the game, he might've been
injured by the attacks of the Ultimate Dragon which the duel bot was using
against him. The japanese version of the anime, does a better job than the dub
version, in explaining how the monsters could push and hurt the players. I
guess the real questions to ask here are, how come no one sued Kaiba for
creating a technology that can physically damage people and advertise it for a
game of cards. And why did kids where given access to posses such a dangerous
piece of technology. :D But I guess someone has to write that question and I
will do my best to give the best logical answer to that.

I hope my answer was helpful and fun to read. :)


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