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Plot Synopsis

Yu-Gi-Oh is about a boy named Yugi and he gets bullied all the time. Joey(Jonouchi Katsuya) and Tristan (Hiroto Honda).They pick on Yugi because he's small and doesn't really talk alot. One day when he gets home he solves the legendary millenium puzzle and Yami Yugi comes to be and with that the shadow games are back. Yugi now must face numerous foes and rivals. Some of the enemies and rivals are Seto Kaiba,Maxamillion Pegasus.and countless others. These enemies are seeking to destroy the world (except for Kaiba who just wants to defeat Yugi and get revenge.) Another one of Yugi's friends is Tea who is also known as Anzu in the Japenese version of the anime. She has been Yugi's friend since childhood and she wants to go to America to become a dancer. With the shadow games come enemies and Yami Yugi punishes them with the shadow games and things usually work out. No one really knows about the other Yugi until later on.

Duelist Kingdom

It's a dark night and when Yugi gets home he gets a mysterious package and it has a dueling glove and two starchips in it. When he goes inside his grandpa and his friends want him to play the tape. The tape comes on and Pegasus appears on the screen. He challages Yugi to a duel and Yugi has no choice but to accept. Yami Yugi comes out of the puzzle to play. Pegasus starts out as a crappy duelist to toy with Yugi but as the game goes on things start to get worse and there is now a time limit. The timer runs out and Yugi loses. Pegasus steals Yugi's soul as punishment for losing. Moving along Joey gets one from his sister Serenity and she says that she may go blind.

Yugi,Joey,Tristan,and Tea set out for Duelist Kingdom to save Serenity's eyes and to save Yugi's grandpa. After countless duels they finally go to duel in the castle. Yugi duels Pegasus and wins. Yugi gives Joey the prize money for his sister's operation. Everyone is saved now.

Battle City

Well in Battle City Kaiba hosts a tournament and the new God Cards come into play. To tell this in a nutshell Yugi defeats Kaiba and he also beats Marik who is one of the many enemies and he has to get Yami Yugi's memories back. In the duel with Kaiba they have a flashback of when they were in ancient Egypt as the priest and pharoah. In the end Kaiba gets defeated by Yugi and Kaiba has alot of past anger inside of him which goes away thanks to Yugi's words. Kaiba goes on to America to start a new dream and to build an amusement park known as Kaiba Land.

Memory World

Time is running short and Yugi has to say goodbye to Yami. His friends are sad about it too. Yami Yugi has all the god cards and the millenium puzzle. When he reveals these things he goes back to ancient Egypt to recover his past. But wait,something seems a bit off. This isn't the same as before. The whole memory world turns out to be a table top RPG game. Yugi and his friends must find the pharoah's true name in order recover what was lost and to defeat the bad guy Zorc. Yugi duels Yami Bakura and wins and they find the pharoah's name. Later on Yugi and Yami Yugi have one final duel to see whether Yami goes back or stays with Yugi. Alot of his friends gather to watch the duel. Even Kaiba is there. As the duel goes on Kaiba finally admits to Yugi being the King of Games. Yugi wins the duel and Yami actually Atem goes back and becomes the pharoah in the real millenium world.Yugi and his friends are sad to see him go but they leave the cave where the tablet is and they set out towards their dreams.

By: SoraShadowsMP

Story & Characters

I will be reviewing the intire Yu-Gi-Oh! anime including the \"Shadow Games\" and \"GX\" seasons. This review will be over the season cut out of the American the 1st one. Now because of the American dubbing company 4Kids entertainment, the anime known as Yu-Gi-Oh! is given bad reputation for being a show for reserved only for children. This is not the case, Yu-Gi-Oh! was presented to America in second season (because the first season was \"too violent\"). Anyway I\'ll start by reviewing the first season, \"A Shadow Game\". The main character is a 16 year old male named Yugi Muto. He is like any other high school student with the exeption of his short hight (and interesting choice of hairstyle). Yugi is timid and shy and so because of these thraits Yugi doesn\'t have any friends other than his childhood friend Anzu Mazaki (Tea Gardner in the American dub) and so he plays a varity of differnent games by himself. His grandfather Sugoruto Muto (nameless in the American dub), gave to Yugi an dark artifact from called the Sennen Puzzle also called the Millennium Puzzle, a puzzle once completed grants a user one wish. Anyway during breaktime in school Yugi is contiuing his eight year work (not mentioned) on the Millennium Puzzle, Jounouchi Katsuya and Honda Hiroto (Joey Wheeler and Tristin Taylor in the American dub) steal a piece of the puzzle and tosses it in the pool (Jounouchi belives this will make Yugi into a \"man\"). The school monitor (and a huge brute of a man) named Oshio confronts Yugi and offers to be his bodyguard. Yugi declines but Oshio insists. The next day Yugi finds that Oshio brutally beat up Jonouchi and Honda. Yugi then tries to defend them and Oshio tells Yugi that he\'ll stop but charges Yugi 200,000 Yen (2000 dollars). Before the day is over Yugi finishes the puzzle he realizes he\'s missing a piece. Yugi the goes to the school suspecting the lost piece to be there only to be found by a money-hungary Oshio. Yugi tells him that he cannot possibly pay him and his beaten up. Jounouchi and Honda had just found the last piece of the puzzle. Jounouchi gives an unconsence(sp) Yugi the last piece before him and Honda futlilly trying to fight Oshio. It is now shown that what Yugi wished for this entire time were true friends. After Oshio finishes of Jounouchi and Honda he walks away laughing. Yugi then discovers the final piece resting in his hand and puts in with the rest completing the puzzle. This in turn awakens the dorment spirit within the puzzle known later as the \"Other Yugi\" and even later as \"The Nameless Pharaoh.\" The Other Yugi then challenges Osiho to a Yami no Game (A Game of Darkness also known as a Shadow Game). Keep in mind there is NO SHADOW REALM! Anyway the Other Yugi wins punishing Oshio with insanity. Normal Yugi remembers none f this and continues daily life with his new friends facing thiefs, crimnals, and an unknown evil intity.Yugi\'s rival Seto Kaiba and his brother Mokuba Kaiba appears in this series along with another one of Yugi\'s friends, Miho (who is also Honda\'s love interest) who only appears in this series. The Duel Monsters cards show up only twice in the series and those times are against the arragont, CEO Seto Kaiba. Bakura and Shadi also make a brief appearence here as well.

Rating

8 (good)

Art

The art is kind of dated, but hey this series was released in 1997. Overall the backgrounds are great and the characters are drawn well too. As expected the artwork evolves as the series moves on to the Duel Monster series but I\'ll talk about that in my next review.

Rating

5 (moderate)

Sound

The voiceovers are great and the Openings and Ending animation is great as well, untarnished by dubbing.

Rating

8 (good)

Presentation

Mystery, romance, action, fanatsy, humor, ect. This anime has it all, it\'s very enjoyable and I\'m glad this series didn\'t get aired in the U.S. so it can stay they way it is. The offical card game wasn\'t released a few years later. If you want to watch this series, unfortunatly you\'ll have to download it as it hasn\'t yet been released in America. If you want figure out where to get these episode I\'ll be happy to tell you so feel free to ask.

Rating

7 (above average)

Final Verdict

7.17 (above average)

Reviewed by HellKaiserZarel, 1y 50wk ago