Feb 16, 2020
Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Transcend Game is a prologue to the Dark Side of Dimensions movie. However, it is barely connected to the movie. As someone who had seen the movie before reading this manga, I had a hard time seeing any links except the characters present. For instance, the VR system that this manga is focused on is absent from the movie.
If you try viewing it as it's own entry while ignoring the movie, it is also a disappointing manga.
Story 5/10
As it's only two chapters long, you cannot expect much in the way of story. However, the story is still rather uninteresting and vague. A lot is
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left unexplained at the end.
Art : 8/10
The art is pretty decent.
Characters : 5/10
Considering how short the manga is, all the characters are paper thin. There are basically only two characters that have some presence : Kaiba and Sera. Kaiba has his usual personality and Sera is made overly cryptic, probably to keep the suspense for the movie.
Enjoyment 4/10 :
As the characters and the story are mediocre, the manga isn't especially interesting to read. Furthermore, the duels, the main point of Yu-Gi-Oh, are trivialized in two-three pages each with monsters having arbitrarily high attacks numbers. All the interesting story points seem to have been reserved for the movie.
Overall 5/10 :
This manga fails both as a prologue to the movie and as an independant entry.
It cannot stand on it's own, as it's just a setup to the movie, but it's also mostly irrelevant to the movie and doesn't enhance it's experience.
As it's pretty short and the manga is more mediocre and pointless than straight up bad, I do not rate it lower.
However, I would only recommand it for the fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh serie who wants to see all the content on this serie.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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