DxD Anime in Yu-Gi-OH
Yugioh has countless people creating custom decks of their own design. A deck custom deck I came by is the DxD Archetype which was made by a user from Yugioh forums. The deck is based around fiend types and dark attributes which fits the anime well. Fiend types in this deck resemble the demon Gremory household and being dark refers to the transformation into demons. Also, each member of the Gremory household each has a vital role in involving chess pieces. The chess aspect is incorporated by the monster being their respected chess piece on the card. For example, Issei from High School DxD is a pawn and has that as the third card type on it. The third card type is special cards where additional conditions are placed on it like tuners (this special status applies to spirit, toon, Gemini, extra deck monsters, ritual, and other similar cards). Now back to Issei, he has the text of Fiend, Effect, and Pawn monster. Other third types are King, Bishop, Queen, Knight, Rook, and Ace with exclusive effects and once per turns as well. DxD focuses on equip cards giving them effects like shuffling spells/traps and monsters on the field and revealing that equip card to add that monster to the hand. Monsters can add the equip cards to the hand and allowing you the chance to attach to per exclusive monster associated with each specific spell. There are also effects to attacking again, gaining life points, adding from the graveyard to the hand, banishing cards, giving counters, and even granting attack boosts. The extra deck includes a special summon Fusion, Synchro, Link, and Rank 4 with many more effects. We saw the full chess aspect in High School DxD through battle like the monsters in battle during the duel. My favorite part of the custom deck is Issei being a vital piece in chess as the Pawn. Pawns are meant to block attacks, threaten spaces diagonally, and sometimes having class upgrades to other pieces (extra queen or others). The show gets really involved in DxD's lore and different characters and personalities. However, be cautious for the show contains lots of innuendo and moments deserving of viewer discretion advised. Believe it or not, I faced a similar custom of DxD on dueling book and only won thanks to Blue-Eyes Chaos Max Dragon. Overall, the ten main monsters and equip spells could both each have two copies while there could be 2 field spells and continuous traps making the deck have a total of 44 cards in it. Check out the link below with CAF further explaining his deck and the cards involved in his DxD Archetype.
https://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/topic/366243-high-school-dxd-archetype-v1/