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遊☆戯☆王 [Yu-Gi-Oh!] (Original Numbering) #1-3
Yu-Gi-Oh! 3-in-1 Edition, Vol. 1
The manga series that inspired the card game that swept the globe!
Tenth-grader Yugi always had his head in some game—until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing the spirit of a master gambler from the age of the pharoahs! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games…weird games with high stakes and high risks!
Let the games begin! Meet Seto Kaiba, master of the world's most dangerous collectible card game. When Kaiba discovers that Yugi's grandfather owns the incredibly rare "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card, he will stop at nothing to get it...even if he has to duel with Yugi's dark alter ego Yu-Gi-Oh! Then, out of the sands of Egypt, the mystic Shadi has come to test Yugi's powers, which will give Yugi his greatest challenge yet. If he loses, his best friends will die!
Tenth-grader Yugi always had his head in some game—until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing the spirit of a master gambler from the age of the pharoahs! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games…weird games with high stakes and high risks!
Let the games begin! Meet Seto Kaiba, master of the world's most dangerous collectible card game. When Kaiba discovers that Yugi's grandfather owns the incredibly rare "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card, he will stop at nothing to get it...even if he has to duel with Yugi's dark alter ego Yu-Gi-Oh! Then, out of the sands of Egypt, the mystic Shadi has come to test Yugi's powers, which will give Yugi his greatest challenge yet. If he loses, his best friends will die!
592 pages, Paperback
First published February 3, 2015
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About the author
Kazuki Takahashi
290 books236 followersTakahashi started as a mangaka in 1982. His first work was Tokiō no Tsuma (闘輝王の鷹), published in 1990. One of his earliest works was Tennenshokudanji Buray (天然色男児BURAY), which lasted for two volumes and was published from 1991 to 1992. Takahashi did not find success until 1996 when he created Yu-Gi-Oh!
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July 4, 2020
Really fun manga! I of course watched the 4Kids dub growing up, and boy did they really edit the source material lol. I was not expecting it to be THIS dark. I’m still getting used to calling the characters by their Japanese names. I still really like Téa’s english name better tbh. Also really liked getting to see more of Shadi. He was always really interesting to me when he showed up in the anime and I finally got to see his original introduction.
May 22, 2018
After a slow start this became a really fun read. The history element with Egyptian tones was well written. I also liked the numerous games that Yugi or Dark Yugi played. It was alot darker than I was expecting after having watched a few of the anime episodes. Will continue and see where it takes me.
February 14, 2021
Юги ми е така скъп на сърцето, колкото е и Хари. Помня как навремето ставах в 6 сутринта, за да гледам анимето преди новинарската емисия. Съвсем естествено бе в даден момент да подхвана и мангата. Е, тя съвсем не е пълна с дуели с чудовища, поне не в този том на сагата, но пък бе също толкова интригуваща и пълна с опасни игри. С леко бавен старт, но пък богат арт и любими герои. Определено чакам с нетърпение следващите срещи с Юги.
January 24, 2020
What is not to love about Yugioh. I mean the manga has got everything you could ever want from these characters while completely going off the rails from the anime. Theres questionable Egyptian archaeology, teenage perverts, saucy old grandpas, gangs of teenage children, life or death games with the stakes being way too high, cute school romances, and much more. Oh and how could I forget the overall moral being the power of friendship? Truly a motivational message for all. So far it is like a wackier version of Death Note, which is why it is my new fave thing right now.
June 9, 2020
This manga was really different than expected. I used to watch the anime and I played the game a little bit, but the manga is what came first. These first 3 volumes don't even really touch the card game, there are maybe like 20-30 pages that are about the card game and all the rest is about these shadow games that Yugi plays. This is really interesting to see because from what I remember, the anime starts off way later in the story. The manga feels more like a prequel at the moment if anything, which I don't mind. The story is also more mature than the anime, which is a welcome change.
Normally I don't really count a regular manga as a book for my Goodreads reading goal of the year, since it's quite short. I wouldn't feel like it truly counted towards my goal. This book however, is a 3 in 1, which means that you got 3 manga volumes in 1 edition, which is around 600 pages. So that's good enough in my book.
Anyways, back to the book itself. At first, the story took a while to get going for me, but when it did it was great. It was also interesting to see that so far Tristan (Honda) plays a much smaller role in the story, he's not even there for the vast majority of it. Téa, Joey and Yugi are the main friend group so far.
Anyways, I really enjoyed reading through this and I will definitely pick up the next 3 in 1 volume!
Normally I don't really count a regular manga as a book for my Goodreads reading goal of the year, since it's quite short. I wouldn't feel like it truly counted towards my goal. This book however, is a 3 in 1, which means that you got 3 manga volumes in 1 edition, which is around 600 pages. So that's good enough in my book.
Anyways, back to the book itself. At first, the story took a while to get going for me, but when it did it was great. It was also interesting to see that so far Tristan (Honda) plays a much smaller role in the story, he's not even there for the vast majority of it. Téa, Joey and Yugi are the main friend group so far.
Anyways, I really enjoyed reading through this and I will definitely pick up the next 3 in 1 volume!
September 8, 2024
Maybe I am being very harsh, but this book was a huge chore. The art is fine, the writing is god awful. Throughout the three volumes all I could notice is how poor the writing is, if I had to use a word to describe it, I would say childish. New character appears, new character physically strikes another character and expresses generic motivation, Yugi’s friend appears and gets in fight, new character does something cunning, Yugi beats him in shadow game, rinse and repeat. Every situation Yugi got into with his friends was so unrealistic and resolved with probably the probably the only good part of the book, the games. I guess this was before the writer realized people cared about the card game and not the random “shadow games”. For that reason he gets a pass, the next volumes will probably re focus on the things that are actually interesting, the card game. Outside of my reservations about the dialogue, and “gags”, the characters are interesting. I like Yugi enough, his friends are fine archetypes, but the best character has to be the other “Yugi”. He is cool, love his hair. Sigh, I’ll continue reading since I know it will re-direction into what I’m interested in, but this book was a damn chore to get through, wow.
July 13, 2022
Mi sono presa del tempo per leggere con calma e con la dovuta concentrazione questo primo volume del manga. Premetto che sono una fan dell'anime conosciuto grazie alla Mediaset, per poi appassionarmi al gioco.
La ristampa del manga è stata una bellissima sorpresa e non ho potuto fare a meno che acquistarla (anzi pre-ordinarla). La panini ha fatto un bellissimo regalo a noi fan di Yu-Gi-Oh!
Mi sono presa del tempo anche perché dopo qualche giorno dall'acquisto e dall'inizio della lettura dei primi capitoli, il creatore Kazuki Takahashi ci ha lasciato. E' stato un duro colpo perché voleva dire che non ci sarebbe più stato nulla di questo mondo da lui creato. Ma lo ringrazio, perché Yu-Gi-Oh rappresenta la mia infanzia, adolescenza e anche età adulta.
Ma torniamo al manga: per chi ha seguito unicamente la serie sulla Mediaset, dimenticatevi di ritrovare le stesse cose in questo primo volume. I primi volumi del manga rappresentano quello che è la "Season 0": mostra il giorno in cui Yugi inizia a comporre il puzzle e il Duel Monsters non esisteva ancora.
E' stata una lettura inaspettata perché viene mostrato un lato più horror, più crudo e violento. I disegni completamente diversi, più semplici, ma d'altronde credo sia normale essendo l'inizio. In questo primo volume ci vengono presentati, oltre al gruppo di Yugi, Seto e Mokuba, in una veste completamente diversa (soprattutto il piccolo e - non - innocente Mokuba).
Non vedo l'ora di leggere il secondo volume perché sicuramente inizierà la fase dedicata al "Regno dei duellanti" e finalmente Yugi prenderà coscienza della presenta dell'altro lui.
La ristampa del manga è stata una bellissima sorpresa e non ho potuto fare a meno che acquistarla (anzi pre-ordinarla). La panini ha fatto un bellissimo regalo a noi fan di Yu-Gi-Oh!
Mi sono presa del tempo anche perché dopo qualche giorno dall'acquisto e dall'inizio della lettura dei primi capitoli, il creatore Kazuki Takahashi ci ha lasciato. E' stato un duro colpo perché voleva dire che non ci sarebbe più stato nulla di questo mondo da lui creato. Ma lo ringrazio, perché Yu-Gi-Oh rappresenta la mia infanzia, adolescenza e anche età adulta.
Ma torniamo al manga: per chi ha seguito unicamente la serie sulla Mediaset, dimenticatevi di ritrovare le stesse cose in questo primo volume. I primi volumi del manga rappresentano quello che è la "Season 0": mostra il giorno in cui Yugi inizia a comporre il puzzle e il Duel Monsters non esisteva ancora.
E' stata una lettura inaspettata perché viene mostrato un lato più horror, più crudo e violento. I disegni completamente diversi, più semplici, ma d'altronde credo sia normale essendo l'inizio. In questo primo volume ci vengono presentati, oltre al gruppo di Yugi, Seto e Mokuba, in una veste completamente diversa (soprattutto il piccolo e - non - innocente Mokuba).
Non vedo l'ora di leggere il secondo volume perché sicuramente inizierà la fase dedicata al "Regno dei duellanti" e finalmente Yugi prenderà coscienza della presenta dell'altro lui.
June 3, 2024
"Panty Tank!"
Ah, Yu-Gi-Oh!, one of the most important anime series from my childhood! And, like I assume many young Americans, I was certainly confused when I started reading the manga only to learn there's like seven volumes of stuff before the events of the anime! Dark Yugi is often referred to as "King of Games," but in the anime we really only see it in the context of the Duel Monsters card game, and I guess the brief Dungeon Dice Monsters arc. The beginning of the manga covers a lot more types of games, at least until Takahashi Kazuki (pbuh) decided to go all-in on the card game. Now we stand with eight anime series about card games, seven of which act as spin-offs to Takahashi's original series, and I don't believe any of these bother with games other than the card game....
It's taken me too long to finally work on collecting the whole manga. I wanted to complete it shortly after Takahashi passed away, but some of the later Battle City Arc volumes were either out-of-print or simply out of stock for what seemed like forever. Some of the volumes were going for stupid prices on the aftermarket. Actually, I'm now remembering I tried to collect more volumes over the COVID-19 lockdown era, so before Takahashi died; VIZ, and other manga distributors, were affected by supply and shipment difficulties, and they took a while to recover. I actually kind of gave up on waiting. I just bought the Duelist Kingdom books the other day, and will just get what else I can from Amazon, new or pre-owned. Nothing seems outlandish in price anymore, at least. It sucks that I'd have to pay retail on Amazon because Crunchyroll (formerly RightStuf) doesn't look like they'll get stock of most of the Battle City stuff any time soon....
The start of Yu-Gi-Oh! is a series of mostly disconnected Shadow Games to show Dark Yugi as a more general "King of Games," as the manga's title suggests. Rather than, you know, being the King of Magic and Wizards (to be later known as Duel Monsters), specifically. As such, there isn't much in the way of longer arcs. The entire first volume consists of one-off chapters. The second volume starts introducing more two-parters until Shadi is introduced, the keeper of both the Millennium Scales and Millennium Key, and his story lasts until pretty deep into the third volume, after which point we return to single- and double-chapter stories. There's not really an official name for the arc(s) here, aside from lumping the whole pre-Duelist Kingdom section of the series together as "Season Zero," a fan name inspired by the brief Toei Animation adaptation that covers the manga before Studio Gallop took over for Duelist Kingdom and onward (that is, the main show my millennial brethren know from Kids WB in our childhood). I personally refer to this sequence of the manga as "the King of Games Arc," and then isolate large-ish arcs within it, such as the Shadi Arc we see here, or Death-T and Monster World which we'll see later.
Takahashi's early art is so different compared to what will become the established aesthetic for the bulk of the franchise (including spin-off anime through VRAINS). Jonouchi has a middle-part in his hair, for example! He doesn't start really resembling his "classic" self until around Chapter 11. Takahashi's art really starts coming into its own with the Digital Pet story; Kujirada's pet has a sort of art-style we can expect for a lot of Duel Monsters cards going forward, particularly some of the less goofy Toon Monsters.
Dark Yugi is kind of a huge asshole. Basically a school-shooter on the side of Justice. Bullies hurt his friends, so he fucking kills them.
Yugi does not wear his neck-belt until he transforms for the first time. Dark Yugi somehow has his own set of BDSM clothing that works similarly to Super Saiyajin 4 pants in Dragon Ball GT, I guess. After transforming at the end of Chapter 1, Regular Yugi continues wearing the neck-belt, as we come to expect as those many fans who got into the franchise with the Gallop anime adaptation. Interestingly, in the first two chapters Dark Yugi has large ankh-shaped cufflinks which he seems to abandon after the second chapter. I guess it's because the first two chapters give Yugi time to change between transforming and challenging the bad guys to a Shadow Game; later chapters have Yugi transform on the spot, so Dark Yugi is stuck with Regular Yugi's clothing. I guess he forces his host to wear the neck-belt? He does have the cufflinks again in Chapter 6, so whatever.
The first two chapters' Penalty Games end with a little "Game Over" panel as a cheeky way of poking fun at the enemies' fate. This is dropped by Chapter 3.
Yugi starts the series as a bit of a perv. Well, that is to say he has a level of horniness to be expected of a fifteen-year-old, but which we don't see at all in Duelist Kingdom. Or maybe just not in Gallop's anime? Or maybe just not in the 4kids dub?
"The Cards With Teeth" is, understandably, the most important story in this collection. This is the origin of the card game whose name will become synonymous with the manga. Of course, it has its quirks here. Kaiba will become infamous for his obsession with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, but unbeknownst to anime-onlies he didn't start with ownership of the three copies. His first appearance involves him trying to still the one copy owned by Yugi's grandpa, but not quite to the point of "I have three copies, which is the maximum for a legal deck, so I'll destroy the fourth copy in existence" yet. The game plays in a rudimentary fashion, as it will be quite some time before the game's rules are really ironed out - like, after Duelist Kingdom, I mean. The game here is inspired by Magic the Gathering, but plays more like the simple game of "War," just using more unique monsters than classic King, Queen, Jack, Ace, and number cards. Most interesting, Yugi's strongest Monster Card is Summoned Skull, which is actually entirely better than his eventual ace, Black Magician, as the single-sacrifice cost is superior to wasting another sacrifice just for added Defense. But whatever. Anyway, the duel is too short to know if Takahashi had the idea for Effect Monsters at this time, but I guess it doesn't matter too much since most duelists will use Normal Monsters for a long while. Well, Normal Monsters as augmented by the "tabletop RPG" zaniness of Duelist Kingdom's loose rules....
The Digital Pet and Zombire chapters are pretty nostalgic to me because I owned the monthly Shōnen Jump magazines from VIZ containing those stories. It's interesting to think how popular Spawn was in Japan, between the Zombire thing here and the creator of Rurouni Kenshin writing about collecting the McFarlane figures all the time.
Shout-out to Ms. Chono, who looks like a prototype for Mai.
****
Tangential note: My copy of this omnibus looks quite nice. I've had it for nearly eight years, and there's no crease in the spine, or yellowed pages, or anything. I purchased the second omnibus volume pre-owned, and it looks a little rough. Not terrible, but definitely makes me wonder what the fuck some people do with their manga. Books in general, actually.
Ah, Yu-Gi-Oh!, one of the most important anime series from my childhood! And, like I assume many young Americans, I was certainly confused when I started reading the manga only to learn there's like seven volumes of stuff before the events of the anime! Dark Yugi is often referred to as "King of Games," but in the anime we really only see it in the context of the Duel Monsters card game, and I guess the brief Dungeon Dice Monsters arc. The beginning of the manga covers a lot more types of games, at least until Takahashi Kazuki (pbuh) decided to go all-in on the card game. Now we stand with eight anime series about card games, seven of which act as spin-offs to Takahashi's original series, and I don't believe any of these bother with games other than the card game....
It's taken me too long to finally work on collecting the whole manga. I wanted to complete it shortly after Takahashi passed away, but some of the later Battle City Arc volumes were either out-of-print or simply out of stock for what seemed like forever. Some of the volumes were going for stupid prices on the aftermarket. Actually, I'm now remembering I tried to collect more volumes over the COVID-19 lockdown era, so before Takahashi died; VIZ, and other manga distributors, were affected by supply and shipment difficulties, and they took a while to recover. I actually kind of gave up on waiting. I just bought the Duelist Kingdom books the other day, and will just get what else I can from Amazon, new or pre-owned. Nothing seems outlandish in price anymore, at least. It sucks that I'd have to pay retail on Amazon because Crunchyroll (formerly RightStuf) doesn't look like they'll get stock of most of the Battle City stuff any time soon....
The start of Yu-Gi-Oh! is a series of mostly disconnected Shadow Games to show Dark Yugi as a more general "King of Games," as the manga's title suggests. Rather than, you know, being the King of Magic and Wizards (to be later known as Duel Monsters), specifically. As such, there isn't much in the way of longer arcs. The entire first volume consists of one-off chapters. The second volume starts introducing more two-parters until Shadi is introduced, the keeper of both the Millennium Scales and Millennium Key, and his story lasts until pretty deep into the third volume, after which point we return to single- and double-chapter stories. There's not really an official name for the arc(s) here, aside from lumping the whole pre-Duelist Kingdom section of the series together as "Season Zero," a fan name inspired by the brief Toei Animation adaptation that covers the manga before Studio Gallop took over for Duelist Kingdom and onward (that is, the main show my millennial brethren know from Kids WB in our childhood). I personally refer to this sequence of the manga as "the King of Games Arc," and then isolate large-ish arcs within it, such as the Shadi Arc we see here, or Death-T and Monster World which we'll see later.
Takahashi's early art is so different compared to what will become the established aesthetic for the bulk of the franchise (including spin-off anime through VRAINS). Jonouchi has a middle-part in his hair, for example! He doesn't start really resembling his "classic" self until around Chapter 11. Takahashi's art really starts coming into its own with the Digital Pet story; Kujirada's pet has a sort of art-style we can expect for a lot of Duel Monsters cards going forward, particularly some of the less goofy Toon Monsters.
Dark Yugi is kind of a huge asshole. Basically a school-shooter on the side of Justice. Bullies hurt his friends, so he fucking kills them.
Yugi does not wear his neck-belt until he transforms for the first time. Dark Yugi somehow has his own set of BDSM clothing that works similarly to Super Saiyajin 4 pants in Dragon Ball GT, I guess. After transforming at the end of Chapter 1, Regular Yugi continues wearing the neck-belt, as we come to expect as those many fans who got into the franchise with the Gallop anime adaptation. Interestingly, in the first two chapters Dark Yugi has large ankh-shaped cufflinks which he seems to abandon after the second chapter. I guess it's because the first two chapters give Yugi time to change between transforming and challenging the bad guys to a Shadow Game; later chapters have Yugi transform on the spot, so Dark Yugi is stuck with Regular Yugi's clothing. I guess he forces his host to wear the neck-belt? He does have the cufflinks again in Chapter 6, so whatever.
The first two chapters' Penalty Games end with a little "Game Over" panel as a cheeky way of poking fun at the enemies' fate. This is dropped by Chapter 3.
Yugi starts the series as a bit of a perv. Well, that is to say he has a level of horniness to be expected of a fifteen-year-old, but which we don't see at all in Duelist Kingdom. Or maybe just not in Gallop's anime? Or maybe just not in the 4kids dub?
"The Cards With Teeth" is, understandably, the most important story in this collection. This is the origin of the card game whose name will become synonymous with the manga. Of course, it has its quirks here. Kaiba will become infamous for his obsession with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, but unbeknownst to anime-onlies he didn't start with ownership of the three copies. His first appearance involves him trying to still the one copy owned by Yugi's grandpa, but not quite to the point of "I have three copies, which is the maximum for a legal deck, so I'll destroy the fourth copy in existence" yet. The game plays in a rudimentary fashion, as it will be quite some time before the game's rules are really ironed out - like, after Duelist Kingdom, I mean. The game here is inspired by Magic the Gathering, but plays more like the simple game of "War," just using more unique monsters than classic King, Queen, Jack, Ace, and number cards. Most interesting, Yugi's strongest Monster Card is Summoned Skull, which is actually entirely better than his eventual ace, Black Magician, as the single-sacrifice cost is superior to wasting another sacrifice just for added Defense. But whatever. Anyway, the duel is too short to know if Takahashi had the idea for Effect Monsters at this time, but I guess it doesn't matter too much since most duelists will use Normal Monsters for a long while. Well, Normal Monsters as augmented by the "tabletop RPG" zaniness of Duelist Kingdom's loose rules....
The Digital Pet and Zombire chapters are pretty nostalgic to me because I owned the monthly Shōnen Jump magazines from VIZ containing those stories. It's interesting to think how popular Spawn was in Japan, between the Zombire thing here and the creator of Rurouni Kenshin writing about collecting the McFarlane figures all the time.
Shout-out to Ms. Chono, who looks like a prototype for Mai.
****
Tangential note: My copy of this omnibus looks quite nice. I've had it for nearly eight years, and there's no crease in the spine, or yellowed pages, or anything. I purchased the second omnibus volume pre-owned, and it looks a little rough. Not terrible, but definitely makes me wonder what the fuck some people do with their manga. Books in general, actually.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 4, 2018
Just a fun trip down memory lane. I forgot how dark the series started off with these "death' games and how creepy Yu-gi-oh could be. Menacing evil smile, sending people to death, or making them go brain dead. So haunting stuff. The writing is def cheesy though and the pacing can pick up for sure. Still fun though, fans of the anime should check it out.
September 11, 2022
Ich hab die originale schon im Regal stehen und werde mir trotzdem jeden einzelnen der massiv Bände kaufen
April 22, 2024
Where my Dark Magician at?!
August 6, 2022
This is my first dip into the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and what better time to do it than in the wake of Takahashi's untimely death, in order to celebrate his magnum opus? For Yu-Gi-Oh is not only Takahashi's greatest work, it is one of the finest shonen manga ever written.
The first three volumes have no resemblance to the first episodes of the anime we all know, but you can see clearly, through them, how much Takahashi enjoyed games, in general. This is the very early stories of how Yugi almost released another self altogether, with the help from the Millennium Puzzle, extracting revenge on anyone who wronged him, his friends or innocent bystanders. Revenge might be a too general word for the mass murder this kid inflicted but, hey, didn't you want to torture bullies at sixteen?
The stories have no succinct continuity, but we do get to meet Seto and Mokuba Kaiba, two characters that will play a major role in the upcoming Death T arc. But that will arrive in later volumes. For now, if you're into games of any sort, Egyptian magic, and a homicidal teenage boy who enjoys using penalty games to punish the bad guys, this manga is just for you. It definitely was for me. ;)
The first three volumes have no resemblance to the first episodes of the anime we all know, but you can see clearly, through them, how much Takahashi enjoyed games, in general. This is the very early stories of how Yugi almost released another self altogether, with the help from the Millennium Puzzle, extracting revenge on anyone who wronged him, his friends or innocent bystanders. Revenge might be a too general word for the mass murder this kid inflicted but, hey, didn't you want to torture bullies at sixteen?
The stories have no succinct continuity, but we do get to meet Seto and Mokuba Kaiba, two characters that will play a major role in the upcoming Death T arc. But that will arrive in later volumes. For now, if you're into games of any sort, Egyptian magic, and a homicidal teenage boy who enjoys using penalty games to punish the bad guys, this manga is just for you. It definitely was for me. ;)
September 2, 2024
Really fun to read the original manga with slightly darker concepts than the anime we grew up with and I enjoyed the variety of games/challenges
October 12, 2024
I loved it.!
December 21, 2024
The show was my childhood, so it was nice looking at the source material for the show! How different it is from the show! There’s a few things I wish the show kept from the manga, but nonetheless, I’ll keep reading the mangas
April 17, 2025
What a wild trip! But with the Power of friendship and the Power of Making up the rules of games that end deadly, I made it through.
August 5, 2025
10/10, my favorite part is when Yugi electrocuted a gang of high schoolers to death because they tortured his bro
May 15, 2021
Piacevole sorpresa, non mi aspettavo mi prendesse così tanto. La prima metà è molto introduttiva, ma quando inizia la trama orizzontale diventa molto avvincente. Poi tanti feels per i giochi di quando ero bambino
July 15, 2022
Completamente diverso dall'anime.
Parte molto a rilento, abbastanza noioso.
Si riprende verso 3/4 di questo primo volume e diventa nettamente più interessante.
Vedremo più avanti...
Parte molto a rilento, abbastanza noioso.
Si riprende verso 3/4 di questo primo volume e diventa nettamente più interessante.
Vedremo più avanti...
March 5, 2024
I've finally found it. A manga that is so astronomically different than the anime that they could be their own separate series starring the same characters. I'm giving this a decent rating, but I'm not sure if it's that deserving? Most of my excitement for reading this series is finding that there is next to no Duel Monsters to be found. It's more like a series of...murderous games. Haha, it's pretty crazy when contrasted with the kids show I grew up watching.
I don't think this is anything too inappropriate. Anzu gets the litter that most female characters do from these older series. While the games have a serious edge to them the violence and situations are so far fetched that I'd hope no one takes them as plausible. There's a lot of bullying that takes place through the vehicle of fist fighting. If any of the above don't sound too pleasant I would read a chapter or two to decide if it's for your liking.
There is no real overarching plot. It's all just a hodge podge of one-offs starring Yugi and whoever he is involved with or gets involved with. I still had fun. I did enjoy the chapters when Egypt came in, particularly because the soul is portrayed as a room. Abstraction is always fun. I just wonder how close to the truth we get sometimes even in children's tales.
I'm starting to ramble. If you enjoyed the anime I'd say take a bite of the manga if you have not read it. It's quite the breath of fresh air. If this is your first step into Yu-Gi-Oh...Well, tell me what you think, I'd be very interested about those opinions. That's it peeps. On to the next!
I don't think this is anything too inappropriate. Anzu gets the litter that most female characters do from these older series. While the games have a serious edge to them the violence and situations are so far fetched that I'd hope no one takes them as plausible. There's a lot of bullying that takes place through the vehicle of fist fighting. If any of the above don't sound too pleasant I would read a chapter or two to decide if it's for your liking.
There is no real overarching plot. It's all just a hodge podge of one-offs starring Yugi and whoever he is involved with or gets involved with. I still had fun. I did enjoy the chapters when Egypt came in, particularly because the soul is portrayed as a room. Abstraction is always fun. I just wonder how close to the truth we get sometimes even in children's tales.
I'm starting to ramble. If you enjoyed the anime I'd say take a bite of the manga if you have not read it. It's quite the breath of fresh air. If this is your first step into Yu-Gi-Oh...Well, tell me what you think, I'd be very interested about those opinions. That's it peeps. On to the next!
April 7, 2016
YuGiOH was working on a puzzus and he sovles puzzus. he away go out to play card game and then he win ever day but some thing he didn't no he been change in to his other sad. he not want to tell his friends then like he been change in to some one he didn't he about. he was feeling side that if his friend no that he been change he to people that he didn't no then they make not want to be his friends only more. my friend Emma will like this book and my other friends then they make like that book. i hop my friend like this book
September 22, 2016
I know what you're thinking: "5 stars??!!" No joke, the manga at this point has little correlation to the anime. The stories are short and sweet and the bad guys always get popped. It's very satisfying.
December 11, 2022
2,5 ⭐
Non molto fedele al cartone animato che guardavo quando ero un po' più piccino. Continuerò la serie per affetto, ma per ora non mi fa impazzire. Spero che i volumi successivi mi facciano cambiare idea
Non molto fedele al cartone animato che guardavo quando ero un po' più piccino. Continuerò la serie per affetto, ma per ora non mi fa impazzire. Spero che i volumi successivi mi facciano cambiare idea
March 30, 2018
The story wasn't bad but all the guys came across as total creeps to me.
March 3, 2022
Anders als der Anime aber toll.
September 7, 2024
INHALT: Yugi lebt bei seinem Opa und dieser hat ein Spielzeuggeschäft. Er bekommt eine neue Lieferung in der sich auch das Milleniumpuzzle befindet, ein Gebilde, das, richtig zusammengesetzt, eine Pyramide ergeben wird. Yugi schafft es tatsächlich, das Puzzle zu lösen. Doch mit der Lösung erwacht in Yugi eine 2., dunklere Seite von ihm und er beginnt, das 'Spiel der Finsternis' mit Leuten zu spielen, die ihm und seinen Freunden Böses wollen.
Dann kommt in Yugis Schule ein neuer Trend auf: alle Spielen das Kartenspiel 'Magic and Wizards', selbst Yugis Opa und dieser besitzt tatsächlich eine super seltene Karte: den Blauäugigen Weißen Drachen. Yugis Kontrahent Kaiba bekommt Wind von der Sache und will sich die Karte einen Abend ausleihen. Dabei tauscht er sie gegen eine Fälschung aus, doch diese wird sich die dunkle Seite von Yugi wieder zurück holen.
Danach macht Yugis Opa ihn und seine Freunde mit einem alten Freund bekannt. Dieser hat vor kurzem ein Pharaonengrab geöffnet, die gefundenen Gegenstände werden nun im Museum ausgestellt. Auch Yugis Milleniumpuzzle findet für einen Tag einen Platz in der Ausstellung, doch dann soll sein Puzzle gegen ein Duplikat getauscht und das Original verkauft werden. Dies wird von Sha Dee verhindert, einem Grabwächter, verhindert, der mit dem Täter ebenfalls ein Spiel der Finsternis spielt. Er ist fasziniert von Yugi und versucht mithilfe verschiedener Techniken, seine dunkle Seite so aus ihm herauszukitzeln, dass auch die 'normale' Yugi sie wahrnehmen und nutzen kann. Die Methoden, die er dabei anwendet, könnten allerdings tödlich sein.
MEINE MEINUNG: Yu-Gi-Oh! kenne ich natürlich als Anime aus dem Fernsehen und ich mochte das Kartenspiel, bei dem mich die Monster doch recht stark an Digimon erinnern, immer richtig gerne. Zumindest ich kann mich allerdings gar nicht an Spiele der Finsternis ohne Karten erinnern, vielleicht ist mein Gedächtnis dahingehend aber auch einfach schlecht, schließlich ist es bestimmt 20 Jahre her, dass ich die Serie zuletzt gesehen habe. Dieser Aspekt ist in den Mangas leider gar nicht allzu wichtig, dementsprechend musste ich mich erst ein wenig umgewöhnen und leider hat das nie ganz funktioniert. Ich mochte die Zeichnungen gerne (wobei Zeichnungen ohne Text manchmal etwas schwer zu verstehen waren) und auch die Schrift war gut lesbar, aber irgendwie hat das Manga nie einen richtigen Sog erzeugt, sodass ich gerne dazu gegriffen habe, aber auch problemlos wieder mit dem Lesen aufhören konnte. Vielleicht bin ich auch einfach ein wenig zu alt für Yu-Gi-Oh! (wobei ich Zelda ja super fand), die restlichen Bände werde ich auf jeden Fall nicht kaufen.
FAZIT: Ein netter Shonen-Manga, mir gefällt der Anime aber tatsächlich besser.
Dann kommt in Yugis Schule ein neuer Trend auf: alle Spielen das Kartenspiel 'Magic and Wizards', selbst Yugis Opa und dieser besitzt tatsächlich eine super seltene Karte: den Blauäugigen Weißen Drachen. Yugis Kontrahent Kaiba bekommt Wind von der Sache und will sich die Karte einen Abend ausleihen. Dabei tauscht er sie gegen eine Fälschung aus, doch diese wird sich die dunkle Seite von Yugi wieder zurück holen.
Danach macht Yugis Opa ihn und seine Freunde mit einem alten Freund bekannt. Dieser hat vor kurzem ein Pharaonengrab geöffnet, die gefundenen Gegenstände werden nun im Museum ausgestellt. Auch Yugis Milleniumpuzzle findet für einen Tag einen Platz in der Ausstellung, doch dann soll sein Puzzle gegen ein Duplikat getauscht und das Original verkauft werden. Dies wird von Sha Dee verhindert, einem Grabwächter, verhindert, der mit dem Täter ebenfalls ein Spiel der Finsternis spielt. Er ist fasziniert von Yugi und versucht mithilfe verschiedener Techniken, seine dunkle Seite so aus ihm herauszukitzeln, dass auch die 'normale' Yugi sie wahrnehmen und nutzen kann. Die Methoden, die er dabei anwendet, könnten allerdings tödlich sein.
MEINE MEINUNG: Yu-Gi-Oh! kenne ich natürlich als Anime aus dem Fernsehen und ich mochte das Kartenspiel, bei dem mich die Monster doch recht stark an Digimon erinnern, immer richtig gerne. Zumindest ich kann mich allerdings gar nicht an Spiele der Finsternis ohne Karten erinnern, vielleicht ist mein Gedächtnis dahingehend aber auch einfach schlecht, schließlich ist es bestimmt 20 Jahre her, dass ich die Serie zuletzt gesehen habe. Dieser Aspekt ist in den Mangas leider gar nicht allzu wichtig, dementsprechend musste ich mich erst ein wenig umgewöhnen und leider hat das nie ganz funktioniert. Ich mochte die Zeichnungen gerne (wobei Zeichnungen ohne Text manchmal etwas schwer zu verstehen waren) und auch die Schrift war gut lesbar, aber irgendwie hat das Manga nie einen richtigen Sog erzeugt, sodass ich gerne dazu gegriffen habe, aber auch problemlos wieder mit dem Lesen aufhören konnte. Vielleicht bin ich auch einfach ein wenig zu alt für Yu-Gi-Oh! (wobei ich Zelda ja super fand), die restlichen Bände werde ich auf jeden Fall nicht kaufen.
FAZIT: Ein netter Shonen-Manga, mir gefällt der Anime aber tatsächlich besser.
March 6, 2021
I remembered this manga being dark..... but it was even darker than I remember it being and I loved it for that.
I loved all the different shadow games, I love how different the Dark Yugi is. It takes a while to get used to characters having their Japanese names instead of the English ones they have in the anime but you get used to it after a whie.
The only thing that bothered me just a little bit was that Yugi, Joey and Yugi's grandma all are perverts - it's a freaking stupid trope and I am glad that it was seemingly dropped halfaway into the story because it just made the story worse for me. Especially when both Yugi and his grandpa creeped on Anzu. It was just .... weird and gross. And I know that it's a popular Japanese trope but I just loathed it. Also weird upskirt shots of Anzu. That was just... meh.
This manga also contains one of my absolutely favourite scenes that just made me crack up: Everyone is obsessed with Tamagachi type of game- where everyone keeps a little virtual pet and when Joey/Junouchi realizes that they can mate he screams: "Awright Yugi!! Let's you and me mate right away!!" and that was just so funny and unexpected and I just loved it. That part of the manga was super short compared to the rest but it becamse one of my favourites just for this line alone.
This was overall a decent start of the series and we meet a lot of the characters from the anime. I can't wait to read the rest now.
I loved all the different shadow games, I love how different the Dark Yugi is. It takes a while to get used to characters having their Japanese names instead of the English ones they have in the anime but you get used to it after a whie.
The only thing that bothered me just a little bit was that Yugi, Joey and Yugi's grandma all are perverts - it's a freaking stupid trope and I am glad that it was seemingly dropped halfaway into the story because it just made the story worse for me. Especially when both Yugi and his grandpa creeped on Anzu. It was just .... weird and gross. And I know that it's a popular Japanese trope but I just loathed it. Also weird upskirt shots of Anzu. That was just... meh.
This manga also contains one of my absolutely favourite scenes that just made me crack up: Everyone is obsessed with Tamagachi type of game- where everyone keeps a little virtual pet and when Joey/Junouchi realizes that they can mate he screams: "Awright Yugi!! Let's you and me mate right away!!" and that was just so funny and unexpected and I just loved it. That part of the manga was super short compared to the rest but it becamse one of my favourites just for this line alone.
This was overall a decent start of the series and we meet a lot of the characters from the anime. I can't wait to read the rest now.
November 20, 2022
Mi piace sempre riscoprire opere che hanno segnato la mia infanzia e approfondirle mi permette effettivamente di capire se sono ancora di mio gusto oppure no, nonostante il tempo passato. In questo caso nella mia infanzia c’è l’anime di Yu-Gi-Oh! seguito fino al GX e poi abbandonato perché non faceva più per me, perché sostanzialmente a me interessava la storia originale, quella con protagonista Yugi. Grazie alla riedizione di Planet Manga in un nuovo formato 3 in 1, mi sono rituffato nel mondo di Yugi e compagni e ho notato subito le differenze sostanziali che l’opera originale ha con la sua trasposizione animata: si è calcato subito la mano sul gioco di carte; invece, in questo primo volume ci saranno stati due capitoli che lo riguardavano, su 24 totali. Il manga ha un più ampio respiro e si prende del tempo ad introdurre i personaggi e la lore dell’opera, presentando Yugi come esperto di qualsiasi gioco, in possesso del Puzzle Millenario grazie al quale riesce a evocare un suo alter ego che lo aiuta nelle situazioni più difficili, vincendo sempre la sfida in questo “gioco delle tenebre”. Impressioni finali: sono sorpreso e curioso di leggere il seguito di questa storia vedendo effettivamente cosa poi abbia preso l’anime e cosa no; tutto questo non mi da affatto il senso di già visto, anzi mi sprona ad approfondire l’opera originale.
May 26, 2020
It's been around seven years since I've read any of these but the first volume and now that I've finally collected them all, I'm going to re-read this whole childhood-favorite series, as a legal adult, and I'm already loving it so much!
I had forgotten so many things that happen in these three volumes and especially how brutal the punishments of the games are (who let me read these when I was 10? they are literally rated over 12 in Finland ahah). I had also forgotten how much fun and how funny these stories can be (or maybe I just did not get the jokes when I was a child). Anyways, to keep this brief: these also have their fair share of icky-towards-the-only-girl scenes that did not sit well with me, but at least said girl fights back I guess.
I love the art style of this one, even though I prefer the sharper art of the later volumes. It fits this strange start to the series well. This is such an absurd series with even more absurd stories, coated and filled with games, friendship speeches, games, cruel punishments, games, connections to ancient Egypt, games, witty moral-related comebacks, games, lovely characters and also games. I love it!
I had forgotten so many things that happen in these three volumes and especially how brutal the punishments of the games are (who let me read these when I was 10? they are literally rated over 12 in Finland ahah). I had also forgotten how much fun and how funny these stories can be (or maybe I just did not get the jokes when I was a child). Anyways, to keep this brief: these also have their fair share of icky-towards-the-only-girl scenes that did not sit well with me, but at least said girl fights back I guess.
I love the art style of this one, even though I prefer the sharper art of the later volumes. It fits this strange start to the series well. This is such an absurd series with even more absurd stories, coated and filled with games, friendship speeches, games, cruel punishments, games, connections to ancient Egypt, games, witty moral-related comebacks, games, lovely characters and also games. I love it!
July 11, 2022
Ho preferito prendermi qualche giorno di tempo per scrivere questa recensione, anche se so che alla fine ciò che scriverò non mi soddisferà mai completamente e quindi tanto vale smetterla di procrastinare e dare una forma ai miei pensieri legati a quanto ho letto.
Questo primo tomo (perché quasi 600 pagine equivalgono a un bel tomo da leggere) comprende i primi tre volumi e, di conseguenza, i primi 24 capitoli del Manga di Yu-Gi-Oh!, opera di Kazuki Takahashi che ha letteralmente cambiato il mondo.
Io sono visceralmente legata a Yu-Gi-Oh!, negli ultimi anni è diventato il mio fandom del cuore con tutte le sue serie, i suoi personaggi, i duelli e le tematiche affrontate, quindi poter finalmente avere il cartaceo tra le mie mani mi ha reso la persona più felice al mondo e, lo ammetto, ho realizzato uno dei miei tanti sogni – che ovviamente è ancora lontano dall'essere realizzato del tutto, dato che mancano ancora dodici uscite per completare la collezione.
Teoricamente avevo intenzione di leggere un capitolo al giorno, visto e considerato che per il secondo volume bisogna attendere il mese di agosto, il pratica il giorno successivo alla dipartita di Kazuki Takahashi (ovvero il giorno in cui ho scoperto della sua scomparsa) ho divorato questo primo volume trascorrendo tre ore buone a leggere dove ero arrivata quando ancora stavo “centellinando” i capitoli fino alla fine, senza pentirmi di nulla.
Mi sono sentita davvero sazia e in pace con me stessa – e con ogni probabilità è stato il mio personale modo di esorcizzare il dolore che la scomparsa di Kazuki Takahashi ha portato con sé.
Ma penso che, oltre al legame affettivo, ci sia anche di più: la mia sazietà è sicuramente dovuta al fatto che unire tre volumi in uno ti permette di leggere molti capitoli in più e di averli subito a portata di mano, di conseguenza ti basta sfogliare pagina per proseguire con la storia anziché dover attendere la prossima uscita.
Poi ancora, i primi capitoli del Manga sono molto introduttivi, ma ti catapultano subito nel mood della storia: la vastità di giochi ai quali Yugi (o meglio dire: Yami) partecipa è incredibile e variegata, e anche molto coinvolgente; nonostante all'inizio sia praticamente certo che Yami vinca, passa in secondo piano perché ti godi proprio il gioco con il quale sfida il “villain” di turno del capitolo e ti ritrovi a proseguire nella lettura perché ti viene proprio voglia di scoprire quale sarà il nuovo gioco nel capitolo successivo e quello successivo ancora e così via.
Difatti “Yu-Gi-Oh!” significa proprio “Re dei Giochi” e non “Re del Duel Monsters”: Kazuki Takahashi, infatti, inizialmente voleva far seguire alla storia questa traiettoria, quella in cui Yugi (Yami) partecipa a un sacco di giochi diversi mettendo in campo l'ingegno, la perspicacia e perché no, anche la fortuna.
Tra i tanti giochi è apparso anche il Duel Monsters, ma doveva essere, appunto, uno tra i tanti, con Seto Kaiba come rivale supremo riguardo il suddetto gioco. Inutile dire che ho strillato in maniera a dir poco indecente quando Seto e Yami hanno duellato per la prima volta, se penso che proprio da quel duello sia nato tutto ciò che al giorno d'oggi abbiamo modo di vedere nelle diverse serie di Yu-Gi-Oh!, non posso fare a meno di commuovermi.
E poi quel primo duello era così diverso rispetto a quelli a cui siamo abituati con le serie... era molto più semplice e quasi “sbrigativo”, ma va benissimo così, dopotutto era un gioco tra i tanti ma che già mostrava tutto il suo potenziale – e se penso che in quel primo duello appaia Drago Bianco Occhi Blu... che feels, mamma mia, CHE FEELS.
In generale, i primi 24 capitoli sono stati godibilissimi e molto coinvolgenti.
La lettura l'ho trovata scorrevole e interessante e sono felice che quasi fin dall'inizio si ponga la questione che Yugi sembri “un'altra persona” quando partecipa ai giochi e che già diversi personaggi l'abbiano notato – così come il fatto che Yugi ne sia stato informato e che abbia dato un senso ai vuoti di memoria che ha quando Yami prende il suo posto.
Attendo con trepidazione agosto per leggere il secondo volume, sono sicura che mi intratterrà ed emozionerà proprio come il primo.
Ringrazio di vero cuore il Maestro Kazuki Takahashi per aver creato questo capolavoro e per averci messo il cuore, perché si percepisce.
E con Yu-Gi-Oh!, il tesoro più prezioso che ha lasciato al mondo, nessuno lo dimenticherà mai.
Questo primo tomo (perché quasi 600 pagine equivalgono a un bel tomo da leggere) comprende i primi tre volumi e, di conseguenza, i primi 24 capitoli del Manga di Yu-Gi-Oh!, opera di Kazuki Takahashi che ha letteralmente cambiato il mondo.
Io sono visceralmente legata a Yu-Gi-Oh!, negli ultimi anni è diventato il mio fandom del cuore con tutte le sue serie, i suoi personaggi, i duelli e le tematiche affrontate, quindi poter finalmente avere il cartaceo tra le mie mani mi ha reso la persona più felice al mondo e, lo ammetto, ho realizzato uno dei miei tanti sogni – che ovviamente è ancora lontano dall'essere realizzato del tutto, dato che mancano ancora dodici uscite per completare la collezione.
Teoricamente avevo intenzione di leggere un capitolo al giorno, visto e considerato che per il secondo volume bisogna attendere il mese di agosto, il pratica il giorno successivo alla dipartita di Kazuki Takahashi (ovvero il giorno in cui ho scoperto della sua scomparsa) ho divorato questo primo volume trascorrendo tre ore buone a leggere dove ero arrivata quando ancora stavo “centellinando” i capitoli fino alla fine, senza pentirmi di nulla.
Mi sono sentita davvero sazia e in pace con me stessa – e con ogni probabilità è stato il mio personale modo di esorcizzare il dolore che la scomparsa di Kazuki Takahashi ha portato con sé.
Ma penso che, oltre al legame affettivo, ci sia anche di più: la mia sazietà è sicuramente dovuta al fatto che unire tre volumi in uno ti permette di leggere molti capitoli in più e di averli subito a portata di mano, di conseguenza ti basta sfogliare pagina per proseguire con la storia anziché dover attendere la prossima uscita.
Poi ancora, i primi capitoli del Manga sono molto introduttivi, ma ti catapultano subito nel mood della storia: la vastità di giochi ai quali Yugi (o meglio dire: Yami) partecipa è incredibile e variegata, e anche molto coinvolgente; nonostante all'inizio sia praticamente certo che Yami vinca, passa in secondo piano perché ti godi proprio il gioco con il quale sfida il “villain” di turno del capitolo e ti ritrovi a proseguire nella lettura perché ti viene proprio voglia di scoprire quale sarà il nuovo gioco nel capitolo successivo e quello successivo ancora e così via.
Difatti “Yu-Gi-Oh!” significa proprio “Re dei Giochi” e non “Re del Duel Monsters”: Kazuki Takahashi, infatti, inizialmente voleva far seguire alla storia questa traiettoria, quella in cui Yugi (Yami) partecipa a un sacco di giochi diversi mettendo in campo l'ingegno, la perspicacia e perché no, anche la fortuna.
Tra i tanti giochi è apparso anche il Duel Monsters, ma doveva essere, appunto, uno tra i tanti, con Seto Kaiba come rivale supremo riguardo il suddetto gioco. Inutile dire che ho strillato in maniera a dir poco indecente quando Seto e Yami hanno duellato per la prima volta, se penso che proprio da quel duello sia nato tutto ciò che al giorno d'oggi abbiamo modo di vedere nelle diverse serie di Yu-Gi-Oh!, non posso fare a meno di commuovermi.
E poi quel primo duello era così diverso rispetto a quelli a cui siamo abituati con le serie... era molto più semplice e quasi “sbrigativo”, ma va benissimo così, dopotutto era un gioco tra i tanti ma che già mostrava tutto il suo potenziale – e se penso che in quel primo duello appaia Drago Bianco Occhi Blu... che feels, mamma mia, CHE FEELS.
In generale, i primi 24 capitoli sono stati godibilissimi e molto coinvolgenti.
La lettura l'ho trovata scorrevole e interessante e sono felice che quasi fin dall'inizio si ponga la questione che Yugi sembri “un'altra persona” quando partecipa ai giochi e che già diversi personaggi l'abbiano notato – così come il fatto che Yugi ne sia stato informato e che abbia dato un senso ai vuoti di memoria che ha quando Yami prende il suo posto.
Attendo con trepidazione agosto per leggere il secondo volume, sono sicura che mi intratterrà ed emozionerà proprio come il primo.
Ringrazio di vero cuore il Maestro Kazuki Takahashi per aver creato questo capolavoro e per averci messo il cuore, perché si percepisce.
E con Yu-Gi-Oh!, il tesoro più prezioso che ha lasciato al mondo, nessuno lo dimenticherà mai.
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