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Seto Kaiba : Anyone who's late for registration will be disqualified. Mokuba, make sure Wheeler's late. Sign In. Episode guide. Play trailer Animation Action Adventure. Creator Kazuki Takahashi. Top credits Creator Kazuki Takahashi. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Trailer Showdown in the Shadows.

Complete 1st Season. Awaking of Evil. GX: Welcome to Duel Academy v. Photos While Jaden is a poor student, his Dueling aptitude is regarded as the best in the whole school, despite his grades and Dorm Rank. He has had rivalries with many of the other duelists attending there, including Chazz Princeton , Zane Truesdale , Bastion Misawa , and Vellian Crowler. His rival is another Signer named Jack Atlas, who betrayed Yusei and his friends in order to get out of Satellite. All three of these Duelists teamed up in Bonds Beyond Time to battle Paradox, a time traveling agent sent by Z-one in an effort to change the future of the world and save it from destruction by destroying the card game in the past.

The Duel Monsters themselves as the primary battle agents in the series' card duels , come into play as characters from time to time, especially Kuriboh, Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Jinzo, and the Ojama Trio.

ZEXAL are Yuma Tsukumo, a hot-blooded boy introduced as a notoriously poor Duelist at the beginning of the series who holds a belief that Dueling a person makes them your friend, and Astral, an otherwordly amnesic being whose memories have scattered into the Number cards. The Numbers are also sought by other parties and individuals, including Shark, the skilled number one bully of the school, Kite Tenjo, a Number Hunter working for Dr.

Faker, the mysterious Vetrix Family, and the Barians, the sworn enemies of Astral World who drive the search for the Numbers behind the scenes. Behind the actions of the Barians is their deity, Don Thousand. He creates the new Pendulum Summoning method and is soon targeted by those who want access to the cards in addition to being caught up in the inter-dimensional struggles that he and his childhood friend Zuzu Boyle are linked to.

Opposing Professor Leo Akaba is Yuya's rival Declan, who has formed a team of "Lancers" to combat the extra-dimensional threat, which include Yuya's friend Gong, rival Sylvio, and enigmatic and scarred Shay. Upon reassembling the Puzzle, he is possessed by another personality who is later revealed to be the spirit of a 3,year-old Pharaoh 5,years-old in the English anime called Atem, with no memory of his own time.

As the story goes on, the two of them together with Yugi's friends , try to find the secret of the Pharaoh's lost memories and his name, with the Duel Monsters card game being an ever prevalent backdrop or plot device. GX, set 10 years after the first series, follows the story of Jaden Yuki Judai Yuki in the Japanese version , a talented young duelist who is given the card "Winged Kuriboh" by the now-adult Yugi before Jaden's admission to Duel Academy Duel Academia in the Japanese version , an elitist boarding school established by Seto Kaiba.

Jaden who receives low marks in his admission tests , is placed in the Slifer Red dormitory Osiris Red , which is reserved for students with the lowest grades. The story goes on as Jaden faces challenges from different students in Duel Academy.

He later finds himself entangled in a conflict related to the hidden secrets of the academy. The story centers around five characters known as Signers, who have birthmarks bearing one part of a monster called the Crimson Dragon which saved the world in the past, by sealing demons known as the Earthbound Immortals into the earth as the Nazca Lines.

The main character, named Yusei Fudo, is a Signer. Each Signer has a unique dragon monster. In later episodes, they fight Dark Signers—duelists who try to revive the Earthbound cards. The story centers around the "Numbers", scattered Xyz Monsters which are also the memories of the mysterious being known as Astral.

Astral teams up with amateur Duelist Yuma Tsukumo in order to recover the "Numbers", but other parties are hunting the "Numbers" as well; Kite Tenjo, who works for Dr. Faker, and the Vetrix Family, out for revenge against Dr.

Faker as their hunt for "Numbers" brings them into conflict with one another. Duel Disks have returned to focusing on holographic technology, but the ARC System used in Action Duels enables Duelists to interact with the holograms with mass. Action Duels involve huge and varied Fields, and contain Action Cards that can aid the flow of a Duel.

The early chapters of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters is played using a holographic image system created by Seto Kaiba following his first match with Yugi.

In the manga and first series anime, these were initially performed on tables, using holographic tubes, while the second series anime uses huge holographic fields.

Starting with the Battle City arc, as well as the series that followed , duels are performed using portable Duel Disks, invented by Seto Kaiba, which allows duels to happen anywhere. There are several games in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Different names can be used to refer to the game depending on where it appears:. According to the author, the game was designed as such because he felt that the rules of Magic the Gathering were too complicated, and he wanted to create something similar but simpler.

After the first appearance of the game in the manga in Volume 2, Duel 9 , the reader response on it was enormous, and Shonen Jump started getting calls from readers who wanted to know more about the game. Takahashi realized that he had hit on something, so he modified the storyline to feature more of the card game.

With the advance of the manga, the game continued to evolve, becoming more complicated. The similarities between the games, of note card design brown with an oval on back , effects and terminology discarding, graveyard, sacrifice , usage, and pictures including occult or religious based icons, alluding to the early days of Magic: The Gathering are all there. Crawford Maximillion Pegasus in the English versions , whom both share the same number of letters.

The first version, known as the Carddas version, was first released by Bandai in September Only three boosters had been released for this version before the license of the card game was sold to Konami later.

The game was popular, although it used a simplified and modified version of the gaming rule used in the manga, and is less faithful to the manga compared with Konami's versions of the game. The second version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. These cards are not to be mixed up with those of Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG released later by the same company.

The two versions are different in terms of design, with the looks of the former closer to those in the manga, to an extent that their effect texts are all directly quoted from the manga. Only 10 cards were released for this version, and Konami didn't have any gaming rules for these cards, as they were intended for collection purpose only. They cannot be used in the later-released Yu-Gi-Oh! The third version, Yu-Gi-Oh! Actually, that was not revealed until about two years into the series.

Yugi's high school and neighborhood was populated with sadistic bullies. Yugi had the courage but not the strength to stand up to them. Dark Yugi would take over Yugi's body and challenge each bully to a game that required skill and nerve rather than strength. When the bully lost, a supernatural revenge would befall him.

The success of Yu-Gi-Oh! Around the fictional Duel Monsters card game, which had been developed into a merchandising spinoff, became unexpectedly popular. The card game and a series of video games were expanded, and the comic book and TV animation story line quickly shifted emphasis to concentrate on these.

Several regular villains were introduced; notably Maximillion Pegasus, the reincarnation of the ancient wizard who created the Shadow Games, and Seto Kaiba, a spoiled teenage millionaire who is the heir of the world's largest toy and gaming company. He arrogantly believes that he is also destined to be the world's gaming champion, and he does not hesitate to cheat to defeat Yugi at Duel Monsters.

Since the cards have now regained their ancient supernatural powers, Yugi must prevent their misuse, which can endanger the world. It is in the long "Battle City" story-arc in the TV cartoons, running from episodes 50 through , that Dark Yugi is identified as the ancient Pharaoh. There are shifting alliances between teams of players. By the end of this series, Yugi has defeated Kaiba once again and won the three all-powerful Egyptian God Cards, which are the treasure of that plot.

Kaiba, seething over his latest defeat, seeks out Pegasus and forces him to surrender a card so powerful that Pegasus was afraid to use it. This Pyramid of Light card was the one with which Anubis almost defeated the Pharaoh in the past. More Products Information and locations have been posted. Event on October , ! Join us for a a three-day virtual event held from October , TCG scene and has prospered as a result of it, despite challenges along the way.

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