Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions

'Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions' is a film that was released in Japan on April 23, 2016. Worldwide, it is slated for a 2017 release. The film is an original story and features Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba as its main characters. The film's story is set after the events of the original manga.

In celebration of the film and franchise in general, TV Tokyo began airing a remastered digital edition of the 2000–2004 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime in Japan. A manga special, "TRANSCEND GAME", parts 1 and 2, printed in Weekly Shōnen Jump, serves as a link between the end of the manga series and the beginning of the film.

Summary
At the KaibaCorp space station, Seto Kaiba observes a virtual reconstruction of the Millennium Puzzle.

In Kul Elna, the Shrine of the Underworld is excavated by KaibaCorp, with Mani, among the workers. One of the other workers takes out a device, displaying an image of the Millennium Puzzle being worn by Yugi Muto, so that he knows what it is they are looking for. He exits the shrine just as a helicopter, carrying Mokuba Kaiba flies past.

At Kame Game, Yugi is leaving to go to school, but is stopped by Solomon Muto, who comments on Téa Gardner. Yugi leaves and at a flight of stairs, meets Téa, who greets him with a shoulder bump.

Joey Wheeler hurriedly cycles to school. His carelessness causes him to get soaked by a man emptying a bucket of water and nearly knock over a policeman. Yugi and Téa arrive at school, where they spot Ryo Bakura, who is being obsessed over by a group of girls. Joey catches up with Tristan Taylor and with one minute before the school gate closes, Tristan gets onto the back of Joey's bike. The two speed downhill and get inside the gate, just as Mr. Karita closes it.

At lunchtime on the roof of the school, Yugi and his friends discuss their futures. Téa has been accepted for a study abroad program and wishes to become a professional dancer. Tristan is unhappy with the job he has lined up working in his father's factory. Joey would like to become a professional Duelist and claims the is no one out there who can stop him, but Tristan points that their math teacher can, having confiscated Joey's Duel Disk for polishing it in class. Téa encourages Yugi to tell the group his plan. He reckons he will stay working in Kame Game, helping his grandfather, but also intends to design on his own games, hoping that one day he will invent one that they can all play together. Joey proposes a pact that they all meet up to play Yugi's game, after it makes it big. Yugi is worried that they're getting overly faithful of his success, but Téa assures him he can do it.

When Yugi and his friends return to class, they spot a new student. They think that they remember him, but struggle to think of his name, before Tristan finally says that it is Aigami.

After school, Yugi is walking with Joey and Téa. Joey has received back his Duel Disk. As Yugi looks through his Deck, he thinks of Atem and pauses. Joey asks him what is wrong and although Yugi insists it is nothing, Joey realizes he is thinking of Atem and say that it is impossible to forget him. Yugi reflects on the Ceremonial Battle, remembering himself sealing "Monster Reborn" in "Gold Sarcophagus", Atem walking through the Doorway to the Underworld and the Millennium Items falling into the depths of the Earth.

Joey notices Aigami, being harassed by Scud and his gang, with Scud commenting on Aigami's cute face and making provocative remarks. Joey jumps down from the bridge and approaches the group. Aware of Joey's past in a gang, Scud and his companions let the matter drop for the time being and leave Aigami alone, but Scud instructs Aigami to meet him at the KaibaCorp construction site later and threatens him, should he not show up. Aigami thanks Joey, Téa and Yugi insists that he is fine, before leaving.

Later at the construction site, Scud and his gang have a video camera to record Aigami. They threaten him with various weapons and say that today's lesson is "pain". Aigami is silent at first, but laughs and asks the gang how long he has been in their memories and if they are aware that he has altered them. He produces the Quantum Cube and the lights go out. A group of children with glowing eyes appear and surround the gang. The gangsters start to glow and a symbol appears on Aigami's forehead. Scud and his gang are disintegrated and drop their camera. Aigami walks away, but returns to collect the camera.

At a church-like setting, Yami Yugi dressed as he was, while sharing Yugi's body and has two additional gold armbands. He walks through a set of doors, where he faces Kaiba. The two engage in a Duel, which ultimately ends in Kaiba's victory.

The Duel is revealed to have taken place in a virtual reality, while Kaiba is in his space station. One of Kaiba's scientists hands Kaiba a bottle of water and comments on how well the system is perfoming, but Kaiba is not happy. He deems the Duel imperfect, because he had not accurately recreated Atem, based on his memories. In frustration, he throws the bottle on to the ground. Mokuba contacted the space station and informed Kaiba that they had found the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle at the excavation.

At a mall, Yugi, Téa, Tristan and Bakura are sitting at Devlin's cafe, being served by Duke Devlin, Yugi reads news of Scud and his gang's disappearance. He, Téa and Duke note that it is only one of many cases of people mysteriously disappearing recently. Bakura mentions how the person responsible could be watching them, but Anzu accredited that paranoia to the obsessive girls, who were stalking Bakura. Nearby, Joey is wearing a dog costume, walking around, handing out balloons. Tristan repairs Joey's Duel Disk at the table, which Duke remarks is brave of him, as he could get blamed for breaking it.

Aigami teleports to the mall, where he stands on a higher level and watches over Yugi and his friends. He reflects on a time he was in Prana Realm, a plateau above the clouds. There were seven pillars on the plateau, each depicting a Millennium Item. As Aigami stands before one of the pillars, children appear and disappear, while he and Sera remain constantly present.

Aigami reflects further back to when he and Sera were alone and thirsty in Egypt. Sera refers to Aigami as "Diva", as she gives him a cup of water. Aigami decides to leave the plateau and is followed by some of the others, including Mani.

In the present, Mani calls Aigami a few times, at the mall, before Aigami takes notice. He tries to talk him out of a revenge he knows he is considering, stating it not the target's fault or what their mentor would have wanted. He then informs him that Kaiba found the Millennium Puzzle, prompting Aigami to teleport away.

Kaiba suddenly appears on screens across the mall and introduces his new Duel Disk, which he says will be demonstrated in an exhibition Duel at Kaiba Land. Joey groans that he will not be able to afford the new Duel Disk and Tristan suggests that he will need to get another part-time job. Annoyed, Joey accuses Tristan of breaking his Duel Disk, despite having asked him to fix it, and insists that Tristan now owes him for it. The two get into a fight and their antics cause a girl to lose a balloon that Joey handed out. Téa tries to break them up, but Joey eats her ice cream, while continuing to fight. Joey's boss, Mr. Clown, sees this and fires Joey.

In Kul Elna, Mokuba and Roland are waiting for Kaiba, who soon arrives in his Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet. The group entered the Shrine of the Underworld and Kaiba notes the location of the Ceremonial Battle. He and Mokuba walk towards the disassembled Millennium Puzzle, whose pieces are being scanned by a computer. Mokuba asks how Kaiba plans on reconstructing the puzzle, when it took Yugi eight years to do so and Kaiba makes a reply about Yugi being a child, when he did it.

Kaiba is informed that it takes 30 minutes to disable the security system for the Millennium Puzzle's lock. To pass the time Kaiba, says he shall have a Duel and aware of Aigami's presence among the crowd, Kaiba calls him out, using the name, "Diva". Aigami is impressed that Kaiba he knew his real name and Kaiba asks how he is in Egypt, having been in Domino City just minutes ago, while showing footage of him.

One of the KaibaCorp men threatens Aigami with a gun. An act, which is mocked by Aigami, before using the Quantum Cube to make the man disappear. After witnessing this, group of workers run away, leaving just Kaiba, Mokuba, Aigami, Mani and some KaibaCorp employees.

Aigami attempts to use his cube on Kaiba, but Kaiba readies his Duel Disk, which counters the effect of the cube. Kaiba yells, asking if Aigami thinks he can defeat him with his own power. Aigami instead challenges Kaiba to a Duel, which he accepts and the cube transforms into a Duel Disk.

Kaiba and Aigami Duel using the Dimension Area ruleset. Kaiba is outperformed at first, but resolves that he cannot lose, since he must face "Yugi", before correcting himself and saying "Atem". Having used virtual cards up until this point, Kaiba slams his hand into the ground and pulls out "Obelisk the Tormentor". He Summons it, which Aigami thought would be impossible, since "Obelisk" was one of the pharaoh's monsters. Kaiba sacrificed two of his monsters to use the effect of "Obelisk", leaving Aigami with 1000 Life Points.

The Duel is interrupted, as the computer finishes scanning the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle. Mokuba then hooks the case containing the puzzle to the KaibaCorp helicopter and flies away, taunting Aigami. However Aigami teleports up onto the case and with a glowing purple hand, reaches through the glass. Mokuba sees what Aigami is doing and headbutts him, knocking him off the case. Kaiba concludes that he has what he needs and gets back into his jet to leave.

Mani notices the pit that the puzzle had been extracted from is glowing, so he teleports into it and finds the Millennium Ring.

Joey wakes up on the top of a flying KaibaCorp blimp, where Kaiba is patronizingly towering over him. He taunts him about the new Duel Disk, saying that a commoner (凡骨 bonkotsu) like him will never be able to afford it and teasingly asks if he wants it. Joey falls off the blimp, but wakes from his dream, during the graduation rehearsal at school, falling out of his chair.

On the stage, Yugi practices his speech, while Aigami stands at the back of the hall, only visible to Sera, who has just arrived. She refers to Aigami as "brother" and asks if he fought Kaiba. Aigami hands her a piece, he managed to swipe from the Millennium Puzzle, and instructs her to keep it safe. He comments on the resurrection of the pharaoh, but Sera is not too enthusiastic. She disappears, leaving Aigami to approach Yugi and his friends, expressing interest in getting to know them better.

The group go bowling with Aigami and then head to a fast-food restaurant. The group tell Aigami stories about their adventures, Joey shows his Deck to Aigami and praises Yugi's Dueling skills. Aigami shows interest in Dueling Yugi, but Joey says that he will have to get through him first, so Yugi invites them to have a Duel tournament at his house.

Kaiba enters an elevator, which takes him to the space station. He takes the Millennium Puzzle pieces to a small room and puts them on a floor, where a computer begins to put the pieces together. It provides a six-hour estimate for completion and Kaiba is thinking to himself "Wait for me... Yugi".

Aigami, Bakura and Joey are on their way to visit Yugi, for the friendly tournament. Aigami shows Joey and Bakura his Quantum Cube, which he says is a Deck case, which was given to him by someone important to him. Bakura mentions having once had an item that his father brought back from Egypt and Aigami replies that he would like to hear more of this story.

At Kame Game, Yugi is preparing his Deck for the Duel tournament, when Sera enters the store. She notices the Millennium Puzzle box, which Yugi had been keeping his cards in and comments that is pretty. Yugi tidies it away and informs her that it is not for sale.

Sera shows him the Prana Realm with the seven pillars and then takes him back to the store. She has now disappeared, but Yugi opens the puzzle box and finds the piece of the Millennium Puzzle that Aigami had given to Sera.

At the space station, the computer has almost finished reassembling the Millennium Puzzle, but reports that two pieces are missing. At first, Kaiba says that this is impossible, but then realizes that Aigami must have taken them when he put his hand through the glass.

Bakura talks about how he stowed away in the cargo of a ship in Egypt when he was young, while his father searched for the Millennium Ring, but he stops talking, unsure why he is sharing this information. Aigami uses his powers on Bakura, who cries out that he does not want to remember. A group of Prana children appear and Joey tries to get himself and Bakura to leave. Aigami sends Joey to another dimension, where he finds himself in a street, with other people walking past him. The world begins to dissolve around him and he hears Aigami taunting him, saying that he cannot escape.

While Yugi is wondering where everyone is, Tristan arrives and informs him that he has found Joey's bicycle and Duel Disk abandoned, something Joey would never do. He takes Yugi on his motorbike to search for JOey and they meet with Téa.

Aigami approaches Bakura, who is cringed on the ground, in a panic. Aigami laughs and asks if he does not remember. He conjures a flashback, where Shadi, is with a group of children including Aigami, Sera and Mani. The Tablet of the Pharaoh's Memories is nearby, with the Millennium Ring and Scales inside it. Shadi explains that three of the Millennium Items are weak to evil, three represent justice and that the Millennium Puzzle contains both justice and evil. He says to Aigami that he is on the same level as the person destined to solve the Millennium Puzzle.

Shadi states that when the seven Millennium Items are gathered the door to a better world will open and that the children may travel there, because they have been chosen. The young Aigami thinks that he wants to go to that world and says that he is not afraid of anything, because of his friends and family, but Shadi replies that it is his fear.

Bakura's father appears and is excited to see the Millennium Ring, having spent his life searching for it. He offers Shadi a bag of money for the item. Shadi explains that the item is not for sale, but that he can put it on, so he can be tested to see if he is worthy. Bakura's father puts the ring on, but after a few seconds, he is thrown across the room, with the ring detaching from him. Bakura's father is attacked by shadows in the shape of snakes, prompting the young Ryo Bakura to emerge from his hiding place to help him. He runs to his father, who begs him to get the ring. Bakura picks it up and a purple light is emitted.

Yami Bakura is awakened, while the Millennium Ring fuses into Bakura's body, disappearing under his skin. Yami Bakura thanks Shadi for bringing him a nice landlord and proceeds to attack and fatally wound Shadi. The children run to Shadi, who gives the Quantum Cube to Aigami, just before dying. Yami Bakura continues to attack the children, with Aigami and Sera managing to survive.

In the present, Bakura is shocked by what he has seen. He weeps and claims that it was all the Millennium Ring, but apologizes for taking away someone important to Aigami. Mani arrives with the Millennium Ring, now warped by its evil. He attempts to kill Bakura, before regaining control of himself. He throws Bakura to one side and tells Aigami to run. Bakura is transported to one dimension. Aigami and Mani go to another, where Mani dies and disappears. Aigami considers taking the Millennium Ring, but stops when he hears Yugi calling for Joey.

At Domino City Plaza, Aigami appears before Yugi and admits that he is a Prana, whose real name is Diva. He explains that the "Aigami" Yugi knew was merely an illusion, implanted in his memory.

Inside, the dissolving dimension, Joey falls and his body begins to fade away with the rest of the world. However there is a flash of light and Joey sees Atem. Joey then finds himself back in his own world, where Yugi, Téa and Tristan and relieved to find him, but still worried about Bakura. Aigami then disappears, calling Yugi and his friends interesting. Joey begins to tell Yugi, about him seeing Atem, but stops himself and says it is nothing, before rushing to help find Bakura.

While Aigami is on the roof of a building, he is suddenly abducted and blindfolded by a group of men from KaibaCorp. He is brought before Kaiba, who demands the pieces of the puzzle. After refusing to hand them over, he is taken to Kaiba Land.

During his search for Bakura, Yugi stops at a road crossing just as the lights change. He takes a moment to catch his breath and notices that the traffic is stopped, when it should be moving. Looking into the intersection, he sees that Kaiba is the source of the disruption. Yugi asks him what he is doing there and Kaiba declares that Yugi is to take part in the exhibition Duel at Kaiba Land, no excuses. He shows Yugi the near-reassembled Millennium Puzzle and expresses his belief that Yugi and Aigami have the two missing pieces. Before leaving on his helicopter, he explains that his goal is to face "the other Yugi" and that Yugi alone is of little interest to him.

Yugi sees that the Millennium Puzzle box with his piece is in the road and proceeds to collect it just as traffic begins to move. He almost gets hit by a truck, but is saved by Sera, who teleports him to safety. Yugi thanks her and she says it is up to him to complete the Puzzle or not once again. She also requests that Yugi save her elder brother.

Aigami dreams of himself and Sera, back in Egypt, thirsty and begging people, who regard them as a nuisance. He wakes up tied to a chair in a glass prison, with Mokuba on the other side of the glass. Kaiba monitors their interaction externally. Mokuba taunts Aigami, who affirms that Kaiba will never get both pieces. However Mokuba claims to already know where the other piece is and shows him pictures of Sera. At the Kaiba Land stadium, which boosts a high attendance, Kaiba Summons "Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" and has it attack Solid Vision fighter jets. He gives a speech to the audience about Dueling and his new Duel Disk. Among those in attendance are Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor. Yugi and Aigami are introduced and Kaiba announces that he will be Dueling each of them for their pieces of the Millennium Puzzle.

Sera appears before Aigami and apologizes, but maintains that she made the right decision in giving her puzzle piece to Yugi. Aigami is relieved to see that she is okay.

Yugi gets annoyed and demands that he be the one to Duel Aigami. Since Aigami had hurt Yugi's friends and caused Bakura's disappearance, Yugi considers this to be his battle. Kaiba allows for it and throws Yugi a new Duel Disk.

Yugi and Aigami begin to Duel. After reducing Yugi to just a few Life Points, Aigami claims he is not doing anything wrong; he just wishes to go the new dimension and leave the current corrupt world behind. He invites Yugi to join him, but Yugi refuses to give up on the current world and its future.

Aigami reflects on his youth, when he was living with an abusive man, who would get children to steal for him. The man would neglect the children and use the stolen money to take care on himself. Shadi appeared before them and immobilized the man. He approached Aigami and pushed against his forehead, causing a gold symbol to momentarily appear. When Sera asked what he did to her brother, Shadi assured her that he was safe. He then proceeded to perform the same action on the other children. Finally, he unfroze the man and used the Quantum Cube to put an end to him.

In the present, Yugi turns the Duel in his favor and defeats Aigami, reiterating that he believes in the future. Aigami disappears after the Duel. While Joey, Téa and Tristan celebrate Yugi's victory, a light appears in the audience, as Bakura is brought back to their world.

Kaiba advances to the field to Duel Yugi for the two pieces. He states that his goal is to bring back "the other Yugi," whom he has unfinished business with. He does not expect the Duel to take long, as he is only Dueling the regular Yugi. Kaiba places the Millennium Puzzle in the center of the field, where it floats in a beam of light. Yugi tries to tell Kaiba that Atem is gone, but he pays no attention and they begin their Duel. A few turns in, Yugi insists that the Duel is pointless and demonstrates by inserting the last two pieces into the Millennium Puzzle. Nothing happens, much to Kaiba's surprise.

Aigami is back in the dimension where Mani had died and sees the Millennium Ring again. Without touching it, he becomes engulfed in its evil and screams for Sera to save him.

Yugi explains to Kaiba that nothing happened because Atem is no longer inside the Puzzle. Kaiba is furious and accuses Yugi of deceiving him. The two continue to Duel and Yugi eventually attacks Kaiba, who had 2500 Life Points, with "Dark Magician", which had 2500 ATK. Kaiba's Life Points decrease, but he smirks as the counter suddenly stops at 100. The power at the stadium is shut down, prematurely ending the Duel.

People in the audience scream as they suddenly disappear in a wave of darkness. Aigami, now influenced by the evil within the Millennium Ring, which is now fused into his chest, appears and Yugi and Kaiba team up to Duel him.

The Duel is a Shadow Game, where players' bodies fade away as they lose Life Points. Aigami reaches a point, where he can defeat one of his opponents and chooses Yugi. However Kaiba redirects the attack to himself and hands Yugi the Millennium Puzzle, before disappearing, demanding that Yugi "call him now". Yugi puts on the puzzle and continues the Duel. Towards the end, Yugi's body reaches its limits and he finds himself incapable of drawing his next card. He apologizes to everyone and begins to black out, but is suddenly engulfed in a beam of golden light. Atem, dressed in the Domino High School uniform, appears. Without speaking, Atem Summons "Palladium Oracle Mahad", who kneels before him. "Mahad" then defeats Aigami, whose body reverts to normal, before disappearing.

Gold light moves throughout the stadium and other people whose bodies had faded away reappear. Yugi and Atem split into separate bodies and stand facing each other. After a moment of silence, Yugi nods and Atem presses on the Millennium Puzzle, making it and himself disappear. Mani is revived and is now with Aigami, Sera, and the other children. Joey, Téa, Tristan and Bakura congratulate Yugi, who informs them that he saw Atem. Joey mentions seeing him earlier too and the group is approached by Kaiba, who is interested in the fact that they saw Atem. Kaiba acknowledges Yugi as a competent Duelist and Yugi thanks him for believing in him. Kaiba gives him a smile and parts ways.

During the graduation ceremony, Yugi reads his speech, causing Téa to tear up and Joey and Tristan to cry uncontrollably. In Egypt, Aigami and Sera part ways from Mani, on good terms. At the airport, Téa boards a plane and her friends all see her off.

On the KaibaCorp space station, Kaiba is in a pod, on a call with Mokuba, who is warning him that what he is attempting is dangerous. Mokuba says that the item in question has not been fully tested and the safety precautions have not been ensured. Kaiba says not to worry and despite Mokuba begging him otherwise, continues with his plan and says that Mokuba is in charge. He activates the Quantum Cube, which is next to him, causing the space station to be covered in gold light, as he shoots down the elevator shaft that connects the station to Earth.

Kaiba appears in a desert and walks to the top of a hill, overlooking a city containing Atem's palace. Kaiba advances to the throne room, where Atem is sitting, wearing the Millennium Puzzle. Atem stands up, faces Kaiba and confidently smiles.

Yami Yugi vs. Seto Kaiba
Turn 1: Kaiba

Kaiba draws and activates "Polymerization", fusing the three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" in his hand to Fusion Summon "Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" (4500/3800) in Attack Position. Kaiba Sets a card.

Turn 2: Yugi

Yami Yugi activates "Dark Magic Veil", paying 1000 LP (Yami Yugi: 8000 → 7000) to Special Summon "Dark Magician" (2500/2100) from his hand in Attack Position. As he controls "Dark Magician", he activates "Thousand Knives" to destroy "Neo Blue-Eyes", but Kaiba activates his face-down "Dark Sacrifice", letting him send a Level 3 or lower DARK monster from his Deck to the Graveyard to prevent the destruction of his monster by a Spell or Trap effect. He sends "Saggi the Dark Clown". Yami Yugi Sets two cards.

Turn 3: Kaiba

"Neo Blue-Eyes" attacks "Dark Magician". As a monster he controls is being attacked, Yami Yugi activates his face-down "Time Chain", preventing the destruction of his monster and then treating both monsters as though they are not face-up on the field until their controller's second Standby Phase (Yami Yugi: 7000 → 5000). Kaiba Sets a card.

Turn 4: Yugi

Yami Yugi Normal Summons "Celtic Guard of Noble Arms" (2100/700). He then activates its effect, letting him Special Summon an "Elf" monster from his hand. He Special Summons "Celtic Guardian" (1400/1200) in Attack Position. "Celtic Guard" and "Celtic Guardian" attack directly (Kaiba: 8000 → 4500). The effect of "Celtic Guard" activates, letting Yami Yugi draw one card for each "Elf" monster he controls, so he draws two.

Turn 5: Kaiba

As he controls no monsters, Kaiba Special Summons "Kaiser Vorse Raider" (1900/1200) from his hand in Attack Position. "Kaiser Vorse Raider" attacks and destroys "Celtic Guardian" (Yami Yugi: 5000 → 4500). Kaiba Sets a card.

Turn 6: Yugi

As it is his second Standby Phase after the activation of "Time Chain", "Dark Magician" is treated as being on the field again. As there is a face-up Spellcaster-Type monster on his side of the field, Yami Yugi activates "Magical Dimension", letting him Tribute a monster to Special Summon a Spellcaster-Type monster from his hand and destroy an opponent's monster. He Tributes "Celtic Guard" to Special Summon "Dark Magician Girl" (2000/1700) from his hand in Attack Position and destroy "Kaiser Vorse Raider". As one of his monsters was destroyed by the effect of a Spell Card, Kaiba activates his face-down "Induced Explosion", letting him destroy a card his opponent controls. He destroys "Time Chain", making "Neo Blue-Eyes" be treated as being face-up on the field again.

Turn 7: Kaiba

"Neo Blue-Eyes" attacks "Dark Magician". As an opponent's monster declared an attack, Yami Yugi activates his face-down "Dimension Reflector", letting him banish two Spellcaster-Type monsters he controls, then target the attacking monster and Special Summon "Dimension Reflector" as a monster with ATK and DEF equal to the targeted monster's ATK and inflict battle damage to the opponent equal to that value. He banishes "Dark Magician" and "Dark Magician Girl" to Special Summon "Dimension Reflector" (4500/4500). As he would take battle damage, Kaiba activates his face-down "Enhanced Counter", reducing that damage to 0 and increasing the ATK of a monster he controls by an amount equal to the damage he would have taken ("Neo Blue-Eyes": 4500 → 9000). "Neo Blue-Eyes attacks and destroys "Dimension Reflector" (Yami Yugi: 4500 → 0).

At the end of the Duel, it is revealed to be a virtual reality Duel programmed by Kaiba so that he could Duel Yami Yugi.

Seto Kaiba vs. Aigami
At the start of the Duel, the Dimension Summoning rules take effect. A player may Special Summon a monster from their hand by using their 'Spirit' to determine its ATK or DEF value (whilst not surpassing its original ATK). Players take no battle damage with battles involving Dimension Summoned monsters, but will take damage equal to their ATK or DEF when they are destroyed, whichever battle position it was in.

Turn 1: Kaiba

Kaiba's hand contains "Krystal Dragon", "Lord of D.", "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon", "Dragon's Orb", "Counter Gate" and "???". He Dimension Summons "Krystal Dragon" (2500/1000) in Attack Position and Sets 2 cards.

Turn 2: Aigami

Aigami Dimension Summons "Vijam the Cubic Seed" (0/0) in Attack Position. Aigami Sets 4 cards.

Turn 3: Kaiba

Kaiba Dimension Summons a second "Krystal Dragon" (2500/1000) in Attack Position. Kaiba attacks Vijam the Cubic Seed with Krystal Dragon, Aigami takes no battle damage because Vijam the Cubic Seed has 0 ATK points, the effect of Vijam the Cubic Seed negates the effect of Kaiba Krystal Dragons and prevent it from attack and move itself to the S/T Zone. Kaiba's Second Krystal Dragon attacks Aigami Directly but Aigami activates Cubic Ascension to Special Summon 1 Vijam the Cubic Seed (0/0) from his deck and it becomes the attack target. The effect of Vijam the Cubic Seed negates the effect of Krystal Dragons and prevent it from attack and move itself to the S/T Zone. Kaiba activates Dragon's Orb and with its effect the effects of Dragon-Type monsters cannot be negated. Kaiba activate the effects of his 2 Krystal Dragons to add 2 Blue-Eyes White Dragon from his deck to his hand. Kaiba Dimension Summons Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon (3000/2500) during the Battle Phase and Attacks Aigami Directly but Aigami Activates Cubic Rebirth Special Summoning the 2 Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500) from Kaiba's hand to Kaiba's field and 1 Vijam the Cubic Seed from his hand, while negate the effects and reducing the ATK of all Blue-Eyes Kaiba controls to 0 (3000→0)*3. Kaiba Sets 1 Card.

Turn 4: Aigami

Aigami Special Summon the 2 Vijam the Cubic Seed from his S/T Zone and tributes 1 to Dimension Summon Dark Garnex the Cubic Beast (0/0) and gains 1000 ATK because tributed Vijam to summon it (0→1000). Dark Garnex the Cubic Beast attacks and destroys 1 of the Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon, but since all the Blue-Eyes has 0 ATK Kaiba takes no Damage. Dark Garnex the Cubic Beast activates and Sends it to the Grave to Summon Vijam from the Grave and add 1 Blade Garoodia the Cubic Beast from his deck to his hand, and dimension summon it by tributing 2 Vijam (0/0) and gains 2000 ATK because tributed 2 Vijam to summon it (0→2000). Blade Garoodia the Cubic Beast Attacks and destroy the 2 remain Blue-Eyes White Dragons. Blade Garoodia the Cubic Beast activate its effect to Special Summon 2 Vijam and add 1 Buster Gundil the Cubic Behemoth to his hand, and Aigami tributes the 3 Vijam to summon Buster Gundil the Cubic Behemoth (0/0) and gains 3000 ATK because tributed 3 Vijam (0→3000), Buster Gundil the Cubic Behemoth attacks and destroys the 2 Krystal Dragons (Kaiba 8000→5500→3000), then Buster Gundil the Cubic Behemoth Attacks Kaiba directly, but Kaiba activates Counter Gate to negate the attack and draw 1 card, and if it is a monster Kaiba can be normal summoned inmediatly, but Aigami activates Cubic Mandala to Special Summon to Kaiba's field the 5 monsters from Kaiba's Graveyard that has been destroyed by battle this turn and declaring that kaiba has no Monster Zones to summon any monster, and the monsters summoned has their effect negated and cannot attack. to Kaiba's Field are summoned 2 Krystal Dragon, 1 Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon and 2 Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

Turn 5: Kaiba

Kaiba is about to draw a Virtual card from his Duel Disc but Kaiba decides that things can not end like this, after all their effort and sacrifices, and being so close to reviving Atem. Kaiba raises his hand and strikes the ground declaring that he draws a card.

Kaiba Tributes the 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Normal Summon Obelisk The Tormentor (4000/4000), then Kaiba Tributes his 2 Krystal Dragons to inflict damage equal to Obelisk ATK to Aigami, Aigami claims that Kaiba monsters can not activate their effects because the effect of Cubic Mandala, Kaiba tells Aigami that Obelisk is not a monster, it is a "God", Kaiba Attacks and destroys Buster Gundil the Cubic Behemoth with Obelisk (Aigami 8000→4000→1000)

At this point Aigami leaves the duel to steal 2 pieces of the Millennium Puzzle

Yugi Muto vs. Aigami
At the start of the Duel, the Dimension Summoning rules take effect. A player may Special Summon a monster from their hand by using their 'Spirit' to determine its ATK or DEF value (whilst not surpassing its original ATK). Players take no battle damage with battles involving Dimension Summoned monsters, but will take damage equal to their ATK or DEF when they are destroyed, whichever battle position it was in.

Turn 1: Yugi

Yugi Dimension Summons "Sentry Soldier of Stone" in Defense Mode (1300/2000) and sets 2 cards.

Turn 2: Aigami

Aigami Dimension Summons "Vijam the Cubic Seed". (0/0) He then sends "Vijam" to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Geira Guile the Cubic King" in Attack Mode. Its effect activates, inflicting 800 damage to Yugi (Yugi 8000→7200) and gaining 800 ATK (0→800/0) Aigami then activates "Cubic Karma", sending 2 Vijams from his deck to the Graveyard to give "Geira Guile" 800 ATK for each and the ability to inflict piercing damage (Geira 800→2400) "Geira Guile" attacks "Sentry Soldier of Stone" (Yugi 7200→ 5200) Yugi activates "Dig of Destiny"; since he took battle damage, he draws one card. Aigami activates the effect of "Geira", Special Summoning 2 Vijams from the Graveyard. He then sends the 2 Vijams to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Vulcan Dragni the Cubic King" from his hand Vulcan's effect activates, inflicting 800 damage, (Yugi 5200→ 4400) and gaining 1600 ATK (0→1600/0) "Vulcan" attacks directly (Yugi 4400 → 2800) Aigami activates the effect of "Vulcan", Special Summoning 3 "Vijams" from the Graveyard. He then sends the 3 Vijams to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Indora Doom Volt the Cubic Emperor" from his hand Indora's effect activates, inflicting 800 damage, (Yugi 4400→3600) and gaining 2400 ATK (0→2400/0) Indora attacks directly, but Yugi activates "Warrior's Devotion", sending a Silent Swordsman monster from his hand to the graveyard to reduce "Indora"'s ATK by the ATK of the sent monster's (Indora 2400→100/0) (Yugi 2000 → 1900).

Turn 3: Yugi

Since Aigami controls a monster and Yugi controls no monsters, he Special Summons "Lord Gaia the Fierce Knight" from his hand. "Lord Gaia" attacks Indora (Aigami 8000 → 7900) Indora's effect activates, Special Summoning 3 Vijams from the Graveyard. Since Vijam was Special Summoned, Aigami sends Cubic Karma to the Graveyard to halve Yugi's life points (Yugi 1900 → 950) Yugi sets 3 cards.

Turn 4: Aigami

Aigami sends the 3 Vijams to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Indora Doom Volt the Cubic Emperor" from his hand Indora's effect activates, inflicting 800 damage, (Yugi 950 → 150) and gaining 2400 ATK (0→2400/0) Since a monster with higher ATK points was Special Summoned, "Lord Gaia"'s effect activates, increasing its ATK by 700. (Lord Gaia 2300→3000) Aigami activates "Cubic Wave", doubling Indora's ATK (2400→4800) and halving Lord Gaia's (3000→1500) "Indora" attacks "Lord Gaia", but Yugi activates "Dimensional Sphinx", targeting Lord Gaia, reducing the damage to 0 and inflicting damage to Aigami equal to the battle damage he would have taken. (Aigami 7900 → 4600) Yugi activates "Dimensional Guardian", targeting Lord Gaia, preventing it from being destroyed by battle or card effects. Finally, Yugi activates "Dimensional Mirage", targeting Indora. Since "Indora" failed to destroy "Lord Gaia", it is forced to attack again. "Indora" attacks "Lord Gaia", with the effect of "Dimensional Sphinx" reducing the damage to 0 and inflicting damage to Aigami equal to the battle damage he would have taken (Aigami 4600 → 1300). Since "Indora" failed to destroy "Lord Gaia", Yugi activates the effect of "Dimensional Mirage", forcing "Indora" to attack again. It attacks, but "Lord Gaia" is not destroyed due to "Dimensional Guardian", and the effect of "Dimensional Mirage" causes Aigami to take the damage Yugi would have taken from the battle (Aigami 1300 → 0).

Yugi Muto vs. Seto Kaiba
Turn 1: Yugi

Yugi Normal Summons "Marshmacaron" (200/200) in Defense Position and Sets 2 cards.

Turn 2: Kaiba

Kaiba Normal Summons "Assault Wyvern" (1800/1000) in Attack Position. "Assault Wyvern" attacks and destroys "Marshmacaron", but Yugi activates the latter's effect as it was destroyed, Special Summoning 2 more (200/200) from his Deck in Defense Position. Kaiba responds by activating the effect of "Assault Wyvern": since it destroyed a monster by battle, he can Tribute it to Special Summon a Dragon-Type monster from his hand. He chooses "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" (3000/2500) in Attack Position. Kaiba then activates "Dragon's Fighting Spirit", allowing "Blue-Eyes" to gains a number of additional attacks equal to the number of monsters Yugi controls. "Blue-Eyes" attacks and destroys both "Marshmacarons", and then attacks directly (Yugi: 8000 → 5000). Since Yugi took battle damage, he activates his set "Dark Horizon", Special Summoning "Dark Magician" (2500/2100) from his Deck in face-up Attack Position, since its ATK is less than the battle damage he took.

Turn 3: Yugi

Yugi activates "Metamorphortress" and equips Dark Magician to it "Metamorphortress" treated as an Effect monster equipped with "Dark Magician" (1000/1000 → 3500/3500) attacks and destroys "Blue-Eyes" (Kaiba: 8000 → 7500). At the end of the battle step, the effect of "Metamorphortress" switches it to Defense Position. Yugi Sets 1 card.

Turn 4: Kaiba

Kaiba activates "Chaos Form", Ritual Summoning "Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon" (4000/0) in Attack Position, without tributes since he has a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in his Graveyard. "Chaos MAX Dragon" attacks and destroys "Metamorphortress", inflicting doubled piercing battle damage (Yugi: 5000 → 4000). Since "Dark Magician" was equipped to "Metamorphortess", it is also destroyed.

Turn 5: Yugi

Yugi Normal Summons "Apple Magician Girl" (1200/800) in Attack Position and Sets 1 card.

Turn 6: Kaiba

"Chaos MAX Dragon" attacks "Apple Magician Girl", but Yugi activates the latter's effect, Special Summoning "Lemon Magician Girl" (800/600) from his hand in Attack Position and redirecting the attack to the Summmoned monster, while also halving the ATK of the attacking monster ("Chaos MAX Dragon": 4000/0 → 2000/0). Yugi then proceeds to activate the effect of "Lemon Magician Girl", which is the same as "Apple". He Special Summons "Dark Magician Girl" with its effect negated (2000/1700) ("Chaos MAX Dragon": 2000/0 → 1000/0). "Chaos MAX Dragon" is forced to battle "Dark Magician Girl" and is destroyed (Kaiba: 7500 → 6500).

As a "Blue-Eyes" monster was destroyed, Kaiba Special Summons "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" (0/0) from his hand in Attack Position, with its effect inflicting 600 damage to Yugi for each differently-named Dragon-Type monster in Kaiba's Graveyard. He has three (Yugi: 4000 → 2200). "Deep-Eyes" then gains ATK equal to one of the Dragon-Type monsters in Kaiba's Graveyard, and he chooses "Chaos MAX Dragon" ("Deep-Eyes": 0/0 → 4000/0). "Deep-Eyes" attacks and destroys "Lemon Magician Girl", but Yugi activates his Set "Magicians' Defense" to halve the battle damage (Yugi: 2200 → 600). Kaiba Sets 1 card.

Turn 7: Yugi

Yugi hands Kaiba a Spell Card (Monster Reborn) to activate "Magical Contract Door", which lets him add "Gandora-X the Dragon of Demolition" from his Deck to hand and subsequently Tribute Summon it (0/0) in Attack Position by Tributing "Apple Magician Girl" and "Dark Magician Girl". Yugi activates the effect of "Gandora-X", destroying all other monsters on the field and inflict damage to Kaiba equal to the highest ATK on the field among the destroyed monsters (Kaiba: 6500 → 2500), then make "Gandora-X" gain an equal amount of ATK. However, as "Deep-Eyes" was destroyed by a card effect, Kaiba activates its effect, destroying "Gandora-X" as well. Kaiba activates "High Speed Aria", sending "Monster Reborn" to the Graveyard to activate its effect. He targets "Deep-Eyes". Since a level 8 or higher monster was destroyed from each side of the field this turn, Yugi activates "Final Geas" to remove all monsters in the Graveyards and Special Summon "Dark Magician" in Attack Position, so "High Speed Aria" resolves without effect. "Dark Magician" attacks Kaiba directly (Kaiba: 2500 → 100). The LP counter of Kaiba stops at 100, as the Duel is interrupted.

Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba vs. Aigami
At the start of the Duel, the Dimension Summoning rules take effect. A player may Special Summon a monster from their hand by using their 'Spirit' to determine its ATK value (whilst not surpassing its original ATK). Players take no battle damage with battles involving Dimension Summoned monsters, but will take damage equal to their ATK when they are destroyed.

Turn 1: Aigami

Aigami Reveals 3 other "Cubic" cards to Special Summon "Crimson Nova The Dark Cubic Lord" in Attack Position (3000/0). Sets 1 card. During the End Phase, Crimson Nova's effect activates, inflicting 3000 damge to all players. (Kaiba: 8000 → 5000) (Yugi: 8000 → 5000) (Aigami: 8000 → 5000)

Turn 2: Kaiba

Kaiba Dimension Summons "Pandemic Dragon" in Attack Position (2500/1000) and activates its effect, paying 500 LP (Kaiba: 5000 → 4500) to decrease Crimson Nova's ATK, but due to the effect of "Crimson Nova", it is unaffected as "Pandemic Dragon" has less than 3000 ATK. He sets 1 card (Krystal Avatar).

Turn 3: Yugi

Yugi Dimension Summons "Silver Gadget" in Attack Position (1500/1000) and activates its effect, special summoning "Gold Gadget" (1700/800) in Attack Position. He Sets 2 cards (Spiritual Swords of Revealing Light and Metalhold the Moving Blockade).

Turn 4: Aigami

Reveals 3 other "Cubic" cards to Special Summon a second "Crimson Nova The Dark Cubic Lord" in Attack Mode (3000/0). Yugi activates his set Metalhold the Moving Blockade, Special Summoning it in Attack Mode and equipping it with Gold and Silver Gadget (0→3200/0) The first Crimson Nova attacks and destroys "Pandemic Dragon" (Kaiba: 4500 → 2000). The effect of "Pandemic Dragon" activates, reducing the ATK of all monsters on the field by 1000, but both Crimson Novas are unaffected as the ATK of "Pandemic Dragon" is less than 3000 (Metalhold 3200→ 2200). The second "Crimson Nova" attacks "Metalhold" (Yugi: 5000 → 2800) Both Crimson Novas declare a second attack, but Yugi activates "Spiritual Swords of Revealing Light", paying 2000 life points to negate both attacks (Yugi: 2800 → 800). Aigami activates his set "Unification of the Cubic Lords", fusing the two "Crimson Novas" on the field with a third in his hand to Fusion Summon "Crimson Nova Trinity the Dark Cubic Lord" (4500/3000). "Crimson Nova Trinity" attacks Yugi directly, with its effect halving Yugi and Kaiba's life points. (Yugi: 800 → 400) (Kaiba: 2000 → 1000) Kaiba activates his set "Krystal Avatar", Special Summoning it in Attack Mode (?→1000/0) redirecting the attack to it. (Kaiba: 1000 → 0) Due to the effect of "Krystal Avatar", Aigami takes 1000 damage (Aigami: 5000 → 4000) "Crimson Nova Trinity" attacks Yugi again (Yugi: 400 → 200) but Yugi sends "Clear Kuriboh" from his hand to the Graveyard to reduce the damage to 0.

At this point, Atem returns and takes over the Duel from Yugi.

Turn 5: Atem

Atem draws "Palladium Oracle Mahad" and Special Summons it via its own effect. "Mahad" attacks "Crimson Nova Trinity", with the effect of "Mahad" activating, doubling its ATK as it is battling a DARK monster (2500→5000/2100). Crimson Nova Trinity is destroyed and the Millenium Ring is also destroyed. (Aigami: 4000 → 0)

Featured cards
The following cards appeared in the film. Cards in italics made their debut here.

A poster for the film shows virtual projections of cards held by Kaiba, including three cards with the artwork of "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon", but with the names, "BLUEEYESWDRG", "OBRZK of GIANT[...]" and "BLUEEYESAL[...]", seemingly referencing "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", "Obelisk the Tormentor" ("Giant God Soldier of Obelisk") and "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon" respectively.

Development
The film was announced in the West before it was in Japan. 4K Media revealed the film's existence on the official Yu-Gi-Oh! website. They teased that the movie was already in development in Japan and that they were shopping for a distributor in all non-Asian territories.

In Japan, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper's MAiDiGiTV streamed a video teasing the film, alongside a recap of the history of the near-twenty year franchise. Here, it was revealed that the film would feature Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba as its main protagonists.

Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump also unveiled a synopsis of the movie: "In the past, Dark Yugi and Kaiba have clashed many times! Dark Yugi, who resides in Yugi Muto's body, and Kaiba will have a Duel that bets their prides and accepts each other's mutual experience."

The forty-seventh issue of Weekly Shonen Jump unveiled two new monsters that will be played by Yugi, "Lemon Magician Girl" and "Apple Magician Girl", and specified that "Dark Magician Girl" will also be appearing. "Clear Kuriboh" was also revealed, but its name was not announced.

Design
A number of the characters and elements are given redesigns by Kazuki Takahashi, as well as new ones being introduced.

Characters
 * Yugi Muto: He was drawn to look more mature and to show he inherited Dark Yugi's strength.
 * Seto Kaiba: His expressions are closer to the more sinister look that he had when he was first introduced.
 * Joey Wheeler: Joey's expression reflects the maturity he gained from his battles in the original story. As a favorite of Takahashi, he paid particular attention to giving him a nice face.
 * Tristan Taylor: Tristan has a much calmer expression.
 * Téa Gardner: Téa continued her career as a dancer after the original story. Takahashi considered this to be Téa at her cutest.
 * Bakura Ryou: Takahashi considered Bakura to be the most mysterious and consequently the least changed out of the major characters. He, however, now has a smoother haircut and a long shirt underneath.

Cards
 * "Dark Magician". "Dark Magician" looks similar to it did in Duel Art. Originally, "Dark Magician" was more blue and purple than black. This was because in manga, a completely black character weighs the page down and can be difficult to deal with, but this is not a concern in movies.
 * New "Blue-Eyes White Dragon": When designing monsters, Takahashi felt adding a lot of lines can make them look cool at the cost of quality, and that simple designs are most beautiful. However, as he was dealing with animation, lighting and other effects would bring out the differences, so he designed this "Blue-Eyes" with a style not used before.

Items
 * Duel Disk: The new-and-improved Duel Disk, developed by Kaiba Corporation, creates Solid Vision holograms from images in the user's brain.