Yu☆Gi☆Oh!

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Synonyms: King of Games, Yu-Gi-Oh! First Series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Serie Zero, Yugi-Oh, Yuugiou, Yu-Gi-Oh Season 0

Japanese: 遊☆戯☆王

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 27

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 1998 to Oct 10, 1998

Premiered: Spring 1998

Broadcast: Saturdays at 18:00 (JST)

Producers: Nihon Ad Systems

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Toei Animation

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Theme: Game

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.20¹ (scored by 114,237 users)

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Ranked: #2907²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #876

Members: 203,169

Favorites: 944

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Ranked #2907Popularity #876Members 203,169

Spring 1998TVToei Animation

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Synopsis

Bullies often target someone frail and weak—someone exactly like Yuugi Mutou. His beautiful childhood friend, Anzu Mazaki, is always there to stand up for him, but he can't depend on her forever. Katsuya Jonouchi, who is almost always accompanied by his verbal sparring partner Hiroto Honda, doesn't seem like a bad person either, despite always bringing Yuugi trouble. But most of all, Yuugi wishes for a true friend who understands him and would never betray him.

Yuugi treasures his Millennium Puzzle, an ancient Egyptian artifact that was brought into his grandfather's game shop. Believing that solving the puzzle will grant him his wish, he completes the puzzle, unleashing a new personality within him—the soul of the "King of Games."

Dark, twisted, strong, and reliable, the new personality named Yami Yuugi is the exact opposite of Yuugi. Upon any injustice toward him, Yami Yuugi takes over Yuugi's body and forces the opponent into a "Shadow Game." The stakes are high as whoever loses shall have a taste of the darkness that resides within their own heart.

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	Yu☆Gi☆Oh!
Sequel:	Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Duel Monsters, Yu☆Gi☆Oh! (Movie)

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yami Yuugi

Main

Ogata, Megumi
Japanese

Kaiba, Seto

Main

Midorikawa, Hikaru
Japanese

Jounouchi, Katsuya

Main

Morikawa, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Mutou, Yuugi

Main

Ogata, Megumi
Japanese

Bakura, Ryou

Main

Kashiwakura, Tsutomu
Japanese

Mazaki, Anzu

Main

Kakazu, Yumi
Japanese

Honda, Hiroto

Main

Okiayu, Ryoutarou
Japanese

Yami Bakura

Supporting

Kashiwakura, Tsutomu
Japanese

Mana

Supporting

Kaiba, Mokuba

Supporting

Miwa, Katsue
Japanese

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Staff

Kakudou, Hiroyuki

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Sugishima, Kunihisa

Director

Hosoda, Masahiro

Episode Director

Ikeda, Youko

Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director

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Opening Theme

"Kawaita Sakebi" by Field of View

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Ending Theme

"Ashita Moshi Kimi ga Kowaretemo" by WANDS

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Reviews

Jun 9, 2008

27 of 27 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

wowa (All reviews)

180 people found this review helpful

First of all, this series is a LOT different from "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters". While the card game was certainly present in this series, it wasn't nearly as important.

There are a lot of changes from this to Duel Monsters. Mokuba's character is 100% different, Kaiba is somehow more of a jerk, Yugi is tinier and he gets beat up one per episode. And Yami challenges people to shadow games, which end in insanity or death.

The episodes are really predictable, for the most part. One of the main characters is picked on, Yami challenges them to a shadow game and wins, the episode ends. Even so, read more

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Feb 7, 2007

27 of 27 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

OtakuFreak (All reviews)

99 people found this review helpful

Heck, I've been a big player of Yu-Gi-Oh! since the game came out. I never wanted to get hooked on it but I did anyways. Basically, Yu-Gi-Oh is one of those many animes that big named companies makes money off of with collectable cards, toys, and what nots. But before we all came to know the Yu-Gi-Oh! that 4Kids TV showed us on the WB channel every morning, there was a series that started it all way before the Cards were the all so important factor of the show. This was the Original Yu-Gi-Oh thread, to many it's known as the Zero Season.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! we read more

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Aug 26, 2014

27 of 27 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

literaturenerd (All reviews)

69 people found this review helpful

Overview: That other Yugioh series, the one you probably didn't see.

First a little background,

If you grew up in the 1990s, you probably saw at least a few episodes of Yugioh, the anime about children playing a poor man's version of Magic the Gathering featuring holographic monsters and rules that seem to change every episode. Yugioh was localized in the US by the infamous and now thankfully defuct company 4kids. All dark plot points involving death and people getting sent to hell were removed, and replaced with references to the "shadow realm". This is similar to early US dubs of Dragonball Z where in every god read more

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Oct 20, 2015

27 of 27 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

lawlmartz (All reviews)

26 people found this review helpful

Children's Card Games Saga Part I: A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Away, Where Everyone Has Crazy Hair

Well, it's been a long time since I did a nostalgia review, and it took me so long to finish this series due to being unable to find synced audio and video versions of the show, I feel like I can be nostalgic about this show now. (Seriously, I had to quit watching this show for 6 months)

Anyway- so back in 1998, Yugioh was born. Not the 4Kids Yugioh I grew up watching in the early 2000s, but the version that nobody in the US ever read more

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