So like all greats when they die the media attempts to smear their name as they can not defend themselves. So… What if they went to do that for Seto but Mokuba managed to intervene and rise up to stop it? Putting out the word of all of his big brother’s good qualities? All the anonymous donations no longer anonymous to orphanages and youth survivors of domestic abuse, funding into the art programs in schools, and various other things? Sure, Kaiba was a jerk in his life but life made him need to be that way to survive it and now that he is gone Mokuba is going to make everyone realize that Seto only acted like a jerk but hidden away from public view was a man with a heart of gold he knew too many people would want to sell away.
DSoD opens with a shot of a bunch of different universes swirling around in the multiverse before it zooms in on one of them. The very first statement this movie makes is “this is just one world of many.”
The movie features cameos from a couple of manga-exclusive characters (Duke’s father, the mean PE teacher from Monster World), and Kaiba isn’t visible in the ceremonial duel flashback, but it also uses the character designs, voice actors, and general tone and art style from the DM anime. Events exclusive to a single continuity (like Death-T or Doma) are never mentioned.
The manga and DM are set during the 90s/early 2000s, but in DSoD the tech jumps from VHS tapes to touch screens and smart phones in the span of what would theoretically be
only
a few months.
Conclusion: DSoD isn’t actually set in the manga-verse or the anime-verse. Its basic storyline could work as a sequel to either of them, but the specific world we see in the movie is its own brand-new continuity.
I am Terra 