And Duel Links follows the anime, not the manga. Otherwise, Jesse would be using insects instead of Crystal Beasts, Jaden would be carrying a completely different set of Heroes, etc.
Maybe he got confused because the DM side of the game follows the manga (Bakura with 20-sided dice, Pandora referenced his fate in the manga when you unlocked him... although it gave him a happy ending rather than him killing himself, Mokuba's deck was based on his Fast Food Roulette game and he mentioned Capsule monsters, the introduction to new characters literally use scans from the manga...)?