Yu☆Gi☆Oh! (Movie)

This was my childhood right here. Growing up, this anime always gave me excitement and always left me on the edge of my seat.

If you enjoy sexy characters, with a mix of cute, funny, and kindness, then this show will truly open your heart up to anime.

If you love the Yugioh classics like I do, then this action packed anime of duel monsters is for you!

Great series to get into, great story plot, and even though it has some sad points, every episode has a twist! Enjoy!

Children's Card Games Saga Part II: One Card, One Duel, One Useless Rulebook

Okay, so why is it that Kaiba wants this Red Eyes card SO BAD? Seriously, Kaiba is so rich, he's able to hire personal security, owns limousines, CREATED A DUEL MONSTERS THEMED THEME PARK, and an entire expo center complete with 3D holographic animated versions of the duel monsters game, and owns his own corporation
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and the mother f*r still can't go to the game shop and buy booster packs.

No. He has to go to the extreme lengths of setting up a contest in an enormous expo center, inviting thousands of onlookers ... and commentators PAYING THEM TO BE THERE, all just so that he can beat a little kid at a card game and take his rare card.
Kaiba don't care. He's Kaiba, b*tch.


*Enter kid with anime haircut, and Seto Kaiba, now off the drugs and looking normal without green hair.*

Seto Kaiba: Hey kid, I heard you have rare cards.

Dumb Kid: YEAH IT'S THE BESTEST!

Kaiba: Watch me go to extremely convoluted and exorbitantly expensive lengths to set up a duel in which we play for your one rare card!

Dumb Kid: Dude, you have like 50 armed henchmen... couldn't they have just, you know, robbed me for it? Or like, you offer me a hundred bucks for it? I mean, I'd probably take like 75, but you know.

Kaiba: BUT THAT RUINS THE GAME! I derive no enjoyment from purchasing things with this plebeian money! I have ALL the money!

Dumb Kid: But if you just want the card, I'm sure you can like, buy 10 of them on ebay for a hundred bucks...

Kaiba: YOU IDIOT! My only joy in this adult life is beating children at a children's card game that doesn't have any rules! (Not like I'd follow them anyway, buuuut) How could I possibly have any fun beating kids for cards that I already own?

Dumb Kid: But didn't you do exactly that to like... basically everyone else, including Yugi's grandpa for a 4th Blue Eyes?

Kaiba: Shut up Charmander. I mean, shut up, Mokuba. I mean, shut up kid.
SCREW THE RULES I HAVE MONEY!

*Kaiba gets on his computer and purchases an entire deck full of Red Eyes*


See? Now everyone can be happy. Except Kaiba. He's always angry.

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What Actually Happens:

So, this episode is essentially a special episode/epilogue to the 1998 season. It's not a movie, despite what MAL says- it's 5 minutes longer than a normal episode and was released on home video as a stopgap between Season 0 and Duel Monsters.

So basically what happens is that this little kid name Shogo buys a booster pack of Yugioh cards and gets an ultra-rare out of it, then goes around showing it to everyone, claiming he can beat them in a duel, even though he never duels anyone because he suffers a mental breakdown and turns into a blubbering mess anytime even the mere thought of "losing in a duel" flashes through his three neurons.
Anyway, the kid attracts the attention of one greedy corporate assbutt named Seto Kaiba, who, despite owning three of the best card in the game: Blue Eyes, decides he also wants this particular second best card in the game: Red Eyes Black Dragon. So he sends his goons to deliver an invitation to this little kid for the most extravagant duel this side of "On top of a blimp flying over a city Kaiba had built specifically for the purpose of playing a card game tournament".
The kid suffers a lapse in having a brain, and refuses to commit, so Yugi, being the only person who has ever even come close to beating Kaiba takes up the invite, and an epic duel commences.

Seriously, like, this duel takes about 20 minutes of screen time, but it feels like 5. What Yugi and Kaiba took 3 episodes to do in Yugioh 1998, and about 20 episodes in Duel Monsters took them 15 minutes, and oh boy was it ever sweet. The pacing for the duel is very fast, but the flow couldn't be better. Seriously, this episode basically has everything in it that makes Yugioh cool- allowing the gameplay to drive the show, including twists and turns in who holds the upper hand, and some of the classic Yugioh trick plays.

The characters in this episode also show up looking like they do in Duel Monsters- Yugi sporting his signature sleeveless edgemaster vest and cape, and Kaiba with his infinitely long swooshy blue trenchcoat- the art is MILES better than it was in Yugi '98- so much so that it actually upgraded to N64 graphics from Phillips CD-i! (and in the span of only 6 months. Jeez, Toei, you came a long way.)

Anyway- to wrap up, this episode is basically the entirety of Yugioh in a nutshell. Heart of the Cards, friendship, card games, and pulling a win out from way, way up inside one's butt- Egyptian Pharoah style.