[@FoxSoxs][@Tenma Tendo] Aight, so me and Sat sat around a round table and discussed this for the lesser part of an hour, and the TL;DR is that Tenma's through unanimously. I'll just sum up what both me and him thought of them:

[u][b]Me[/b][/u]

For Tenma's, I just love the amount of varied characters in it. There's a good balance and they feel like a cohesive whole that's not out of place in the universe. Felicitas seems like a charming and likable character and the other 4 feel like good additions to fill in the gaps. I'm not a fan of how many foreigners there are, but it's not a major issue. The BG is nothing special but still solid and overall it feels like they feel like a good addition to the cast.

Meanwhile, I'm not much a fan of the way Fox handled his characters. Some feel out of place in the YGO universe by being either too dark or realistic. (and with realistic, I mean just not anime enough) Another problem I feel is that there's quite a bit of overlap with archetypes already present, particularly in Kiya as she feels a bit too similar to my Emi. The backstory of the main guy also isn't getting me sold on the guy; it feels too grounded in our world and less like something you'd see in a YGOverse. We know Jounouchi's dad was an alcoholic and that he had a rough life, sure, but I'm not even sure if the anime even kept that aspect of his backstory. It was mainly a manga and S0 thing, while further series made backstories a little more light and surreal. The darkest one we had was in Yusei, and if you stop to think about it, his entire backstory is "My dad accidentally nuked a city and now I grew up in the slums, but I still got super good at card games and made a ton of friends," which isn't the pinnacle of realism lol.

[u][b]Satoshi[/b][/u]

He was just on-board with Tenma the moment the sheet went up and figured Fox would have a hard time trumping it. I didn't get a lot of details, but he's pretty freakin' alright with the dorm.

Meanwhile, his reaction to Fox wasn't great. He doesn't really like any of the characters and feel like they don't really feel like they have a reason for being in Dark, the dorm with the library and in a cool shade all the time. He feels that "dark character = dark dorm" was the justification there, rather than some personalities that happened to resonate with the staff. He also really doesn't like the backstory for similar realism issues as I described above, especially with how tacked on the love of rock and videogames seems to be. He just feels the characters belong more in a different setting and not this lighthearted series of 'Yu-Gi-Oh!'