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Yu-Gi-Oh!, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (遊☆戯☆王デュエル モンスターズ Yūgiō Dyueru Monsutāzu) is an anime based off of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga.
The series is not connected in any way to Toei Animation's Yu-Gi-Oh! television series, which aired on TV Asahi; both anime series are based off of the same manga series.
The second series of the anime was produced by Studio Gallop and Nihon Ad Systems, and the Duel Monsters series became popular in Japan and other places around the world. In North America, the series is distributed by Warner Bros. Television Animation and 4Kids Entertainment.
The "Death T" fight between Yugi Moto (Yugi Mutou in the manga and original Japanese adaptations) and Seto Kaiba is redone in the second series, and Miho Nosaka doesn't appear in the Duel Monsters series, unlike in the case with Toei's show. The second series more or less corresponds with the second fight between Yugi and Kaiba, and the Duelist Kingdom and Battle City plots and all of those onward in the manga. The Duel Monsters (a.k.a. Magic and Wizards) card game in the second season and beyond is a central plot device. Some "filler" material such as the Doma arc and the KC Grand Prix was added in the second series.
The series began its 224-episode run in Japan on April 18, 2000. The series ended its run on September 29, 2004.
The characters did not play by the exact rules of the card game right away in the anime. In the Battle City tournament, the characters started to play by the exact rules of the game.
English anime
Like many anime shows originally created for the Japanese market, a number of changes were made when the Yu-Gi-Oh! television show was released in the United States. These changes are frequently done to make the series more understandable, and to remove material which might be considered inappropriate for the target audience - young children. The changes to Yu-Gi-Oh! include:
- Americanization of character names (e.g. Yugi Mutou, Katsuya Jonouchi, Hiroto Honda, and Anzu Mazaki became Yugi Moto, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, and Téa Gardner, respectively)
- removing all instances of weapons (like guns and knives, which are often prevalent)
- removing scenes where two or more characters are fighting
- removing or obfuscating many references to religion, such as the pentagram
- removing or rewriting scenes where characters are in real danger of death (In the English anime, characters are instead threatened with the possibility of going to the Shadow Realm, or they are "captured").
- removing or editing scenes where monsters undergo some form of violent death (such as being eaten or being stabbed)
- removing scenes where characters make obscene gestures
- editing scenes where a character or duel monster appears nude
- removing assorted sexual innuendo
- removing much writing in Japanese and English (this resulted in the unusual design of the Duel Monsters cards in the English version of the series)
4Kids Entertainment has not translated the 27 episodes that make up Toei's series (e.g. the first series). The English version only consists of the second series made by NAS. Some people mistake Toei's series for a lost first season of the TV show.
The rating is either TV-Y7 FV or TV-G in the edited on TV version.
4Kids and FUNimation since began to issue an uncut version of the Duel Monsters series on DVD. The uncut DVDs show episodes in their entirity without editing, use an English script that is much more faithful to the original Japanese, and include a Japanese-language track.
Voice actors
Japanese version (seiyū)
English version
- Yugi Moto / Yami Yugi - Dan Green
- Joey Wheeler - Wayne Grayson
- Téa Gardner - Amy Birnbaum
- Tristan Taylor - Sam Regal/ Frank Frankson
- Bakura / Yami Bakura - Ted Lewis
- Maximillion Pegasus - Darren Dunstan
- Marik Ishtar / Yami Marik - J.T. Ross
- Mokuba Kaiba - Tara Jayne
- Seto Kaiba - Eric Stuart
- Mai Valentine - Megan Hollingshead / Bella Hudson
- Serenity Wheeler - Lisa Ortiz
See also
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