The Lost Yu-Gi-Oh! Series Most Fans Haven’t Seen
On April 18, 2000, Kids WB aired the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! The series revolved around a boy named Yugi Moto, a master card player of the fictional card game Duel Monsters. Since then the Duel Monsters card game has become a real-world tournament favorite, and the series has gotten more and more popular as the years have gone by.
It's the kind of success that becomes legendary, as rarely does the world see a cartoon spawn a lifelong culture obsession. What if I told you though that when America got their first taste of Yu-Gi-Oh! they weren’t watching the first episode? What if I told you that there was a series that previously aired in Japan that was never brought over and doesn’t focus on the card game nearly as much as you’d expect. Since the franchise is defined by the epic card battles, what IS this lost series of Yu-Gi-Oh! about exactly?!
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The Yu-Gi-Oh! manga first premiered in 1996 in Weekly Shounen Jump. It was written and drawn by Kazuki Takahashi, who took his inspiration from horror comics and monster movies. His original goal was to write a ‘scary manga’ that the action loving readers of Jump could get into. The story revolved around a young boy named Yugi Moto, who was attempting to piece together the mysterious Millennium Puzzle.
When the puzzle is solved it awakens a dark spirit within Yugi – an ancient pharaoh — who comes alive to solve various conflicts with games that involved gambling and death. The series wasn’t exactly a runaway hit, but the editors of the magazine loved it, and there was one animation studio that felt it had the building blocks of what could be a hit anime: Toei Animation.
Yu-Gi-Oh! premiered on TV Asahi on April 4th, 1998. Due
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