Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Weirdest Manga is Basically Back to the Future
The strangest Yu-Gi-Oh! spinoff manga has a twist that makes it a bizarre version of Back to the Future. The Yu-Gi-Oh! and Back to the Future franchises are about as different as two franchises can be, but the fifth Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, somehow managed to combine the two. The anime version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V was already one of the stranger entries in the franchise, but the manga somehow surpassed it in terms of weirdness.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V anime and manga have a different relationship to each other than most anime and manga adaptations. The Arc-V manga actually began after the anime had started and instead of being a direct adaptation of the anime, it tells a very different story with many of the same characters. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V anime focuses on Yuya Sakaki and his friends as they get embroiled in an interdimensional war. Over the course of the series, Yuya meets three alternate versions of himself from the other dimensions and they discover that they share a mysterious connection that is central to the reason the different dimensions exist. It turns out that the four dimensions were originally one united dimension until an evil duelist Zarc tried to destroy it. In order to stop him, a girl named Ray split the world into four separate dimensions, causing Zarc to split into Yuya and his counterparts and splitting Ray herself into four versions as well, with one of them becoming Yuya’s romantic interest Yuzu. While this is all incredibly convoluted and bizarre, the manga’s story is arguably even stranger.
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In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V manga, written by Naohito Miyoshi, the interdimensional war plot line is dropped in favor of
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