Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time

'''Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Super Fusion! Bonds That Transcend Time''' is a film, starring the 3 protagonists of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Yugi Muto, Jaden Yuki and Yusei Fudo. The movie is known to have been produced in light of the Tenth Anniversary of the series.

The film was released on January 23, 2010 in Japan.

"Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon" promotional cards were distributred at cinemas to people attending the film.

The film's main theme music is makemagic by jealkb.

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's present
Paradox travels back in time to find Yusei Fudo Turbo Dueling with Crow Hogan and Jack Atlas in New Domino City. Yusei Summons "Stardust Dragon", but Paradox appears and launches a beam at "Stardust Dragon", absorbing it and creating a blackened corrupt card of it. Yusei confronts Paradox, who shows him the corrupt card, before vanishing through time again.

Yusei, Jack and Crow halt their Duel Runners and look in bewilderment at the original "Stardust Dragon" card, whose illustration has just been blanked.

With the support of the other Signers, Yusei Summons the Crimson Dragon. With its help, Yusei chases Paradox through a time slip.

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX present
In Venice, Paradox finds Jaden Yuki, who still has the powers of Yubel and The Supreme King. Paradox attacks him with "Cyber End Dragon" and "Rainbow Dragon". Jaden manages to resist with "Elemental Hero Neos'" protection. In response Paradox Summons "Stardust Dragon" and proceeds to overwhelm Jaden.

Yusei appears with the Crimson Dragon, who takes the blows for Jaden. Paradox disappears once again.

Jaden explains to Yusei Paradox's true intentions: By stealing various monsters from across time and turning them dark, he plans to kill Maximillion Pegasus before he can recreate Duel Monsters in the modern world, throwing the timeline into chaos, and therefore creating a time paradox. The two agree to pursue Paradox.

Yu-Gi-Oh! present
Yusei and Jaden travel to the past, where they witness an event where Maximillion Pegasus is giving cards to young children. Paradox attacks the crowd with "Cyber End Dragon" and "Rainbow Dragon", killing almost everyone, including Pegasus.

Amongst the ruins, Yugi stands up and searches for other survivors. He finds a bandana belonging to his grandfather, Solomon Muto, and cries over his death.

Yusei and Jaden find Yugi and explain what they know about Paradox to him. Yugi agrees to fight with them against Paradox to free the trapped monsters and save the world.

The Crimson Dragon takes Yusei, Jaden and Yugi back 30 minutes in time. Paradox arrives at the event again, but is confronted by the three. Yugi asks Paradox what kind of person he is, to which Paradox replies that he is from the future which was destroyed by Duel Monsters. He intends to destroy the game to prevent that future happening. Yusei and Jaden try to talk him out of it, but Paradox is unmoved by what they say. Yusei then challenges Paradox to a 3 on 1 Duel, which he accepts.

The Duel


Paradox's Duel Runner transforms into a flying type and he floats up high and the duel begins.

Paradox declares the first move. He activates "Malefic World" that lets him put a random "Malefic" monster from his deck to his hand instead of drawing a card during his Draw Phase. The field begins transforming into a purple atmosphere full of stars. Then, he sends Cyber End Dragon from his Extra Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon Malefic Cyber End Dragon from his hand. He sets a card to end his turn.

Yusei tells everybody that everything was his fault, and asks Yugi and Jaden to let him take the first turn. Jaden and Yugi agree, cheering Yusei on.

Yusei activates "Reincarnation of Hope", which sends "Sonic Chick" and "Quillbolt Hedgehog" from his hand to the Graveyard; but on their team's second Standby Phase, they are allowed to add a monster from their Deck to their hand. Yusei then summons "Junk Synchron", and, due to its effect, he also summons "Sonic Chick" back on his field. He then activates "Quillbolt Hedgehog's" effect to summon it back to his field. He then uses the 3 monsters to Synchro Summon "Junk Gardna" in Defense Position. Yugi and Jaden are impressed with the new cards from the future. Yusei sets 2 cards to end his turn.

Paradox adds "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" to his hand due to the effect of "Malefic World". He then sends "Rainbow Dragon" from his Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" from his hand. Jaden is upset that Paradox is using Jesse's card. Paradox attacks "Junk Gardna" with "Malefic Rainbow Dragon", but Yusei activates "Junk Gardna's" effect that prevents it from being destroyed by battle once per turn, and switching "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" to Defense Position. Paradox then attacks "Junk Gardna" with "Malefic Cyber End Dragon", this time destroying it and inflicting Piercing Damage to Yusei's Life Points. Yusei felt the real damage that Paradox did to him, but not before activating "Miracle's Wake", reviving his "Junk Gardna". Paradox then sets a card and ends his turn.

As Jaden's turn begins, his theme song begins playing. He activates "Polymerization", fusing his "Elemental Hero Neos" with Yusei's "Junk Gardna" to Fusion Summon "Elemental Hero Neos Knight". "Elemental Hero Neos Knight's" ATK increases by half of Yusei's "Junk Gardna", making its ATK 3200. Because of "Elemental Hero Neos Knight's" other effect, it can attack twice during the same Battle Phase. Thus, Jaden attacks Paradox's "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" and "Malefic Cyber End Dragon" with "Elemental Hero Neos Knight". Paradox activates "Malefic Tune", allowing him to draw 2 cards. Jaden sets four cards to end his turn.

Paradox adds "Malefic Stardust Dragon" to his hand due to "Malefic World"'s effect. He then sends "Stardust Dragon" from his Extra Deck to the Graveyard to Summon "Malefic Stardust Dragon". He Normal Summons "Malefic Parallel Gear", and tunes it with "Malefic Stardust Dragon" to Synchro Summon "Malefic Paradox Dragon". He activates its effect, Special Summoning "Stardust Dragon", and decreasing Jaden's "Elemental Hero Neos Knight's" ATK by 2500. Paradox attacks "Elemental Hero Neos Knight" with "Malefic Paradox Dragon", but Jaden activates "Hero Barrier", negating the attack. Paradox activates "Malefic Claw Stream", destroying "Elemental Hero Neos Knight", but Jaden activates "Elemental Mirage", resurrecting "Elemental Hero Neos Knight" with its original ATK (2500). Paradox sets 2 cards to end his turn.

As Yugi's turn begins, his theme music plays. He adds "Dark Magician" to his hand due to Yusei's "Reincarnation of Hope". Paradox thinks it's a useless attempt to try, but Yugi activates "Ancient Rules", which allows him to summon his "Dark Magician" without tributing. Jaden gets excited seeing "Dark Magician". Yugi then activates "Bond Between Teacher and Student", which summons "Dark Magician Girl" to his field. He then activates "Miraculous Magic Gate", which lets him take control of one of Paradox's monsters and which Paradox assumes it is his "Malefic Paradox Dragon". In response, Paradox chains "Malefic Force", which protects his "Malefic Paradox Dragon" from Yugi's card effects. Yugi then smiles claiming his true target is "Stardust Dragon". Now Yusei gets his "Stardust Dragon" back on his field. Yugi then activates "Black Twin Burst", combining his two monsters' ATK together, raising "Dark Magician's" ATK to 4500. He attacks and destroys "Malefic Paradox Dragon", resulting in Paradox losing 500 Life Points. Paradox then grins and activates "Malefic Paradigm Shift", which summons "Malefic Truth Dragon" to his field when his "Malefic Paradox Dragon" is destroyed. This costs Paradox half of his Life Points to activate (Paradox's LP: 1750). Paradox then fuses with his new monster and everyone is amazed to see such a gigantic monster.

Paradox then starts his turn. He plays "Malefic Selector" to remove "Malefic Parallel Gear" and "Malefic Cyber End Dragon" from play to add "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon" to his hand. Paradox then sends both "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" from his Deck to the Graveyard to Summon "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon". He then attacks "Dark Magician Girl" with "Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon", but Jaden activates Yugi's "De-Fusion", sending Elemental Hero Neos Knight back to the Extra Deck and summoning his "Elemental Hero Neos" and Yusei's "Junk Gardna". He then uses "Junk Gardna's" effect to switch "Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon" to Defense Position, thus canceling its attack. Paradox then attacks "Dark Magician" with "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and destroys it. He then activates "Malefic Truth Dragon's" effect which would destroy all of Yugi, Jaden, and Yusei's monsters, but Yusei activates "Stardust Dragon's" effect to negate Malefic Truth Dragon's destruction effect and destroy it. However, Paradox activates "Malefic Truth Dragon's" effect which removes from play his "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" and negate "Stardust Dragon's" effect. He then attacks "Elemental Hero Neos" with "Malefic Truth Dragon" and thus activating its effect again, destroying "Dark Magician Girl" and "Junk Gardna". Yugi, Jaden, and Yusei's LP are all reduced to 100 as all 3 of them are pushed back by the explosion. Paradox then activates "Malefic Cross", Special Summoning "Malefic Stardust Dragon" from the Graveyard. He attacks directly with "Malefic Stardust Dragon", but Jaden activates "The Flute of Summoning Kuriboh", allowing Yugi to add "Kuriboh" to his hand. Yugi then discards "Kuriboh" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0. Paradox then ends his turn, but not before "Malefic Stardust Dragon" gets destroyed by "Malefic Cross's" effect and the original "Stardust Dragon" gets summoned back to Yusei's field. At this point, Yusei fell on his knees saying that everything is hopeless and the future is doomed.

Back in New Domino City, everybody is watching their dimension collapse but Jack knows that Yusei will save them. Yugi and Jaden then encourage Yusei to stand up with a powerful friendship speech.

Yusei then draws and activates "Stardust Mirage", which Special Summons all monsters that Paradox destroyed last turn. This brings back "Dark Magician Girl", "Dark Magician", "Elemental Hero Neos", and "Junk Gardna". Jaden then activates "Neos Spiral Force", which doubles "Stardust Dragon's" ATK to 5000. Yugi then activates "Black Spiral Force", which also doubles "Stardust Dragon's" attack again to 10000. Yusei then attacks "Malefic Truth Dragon" with "Stardust Dragon", thus winning the Duel.

After that, Yusei thanks Jaden and Yugi and hopes to meet them again. Yugi then gives a good old friendship speech, and our heroes return to their respective timelines. Back at New Domino City, everybody comes running to Yusei as Yusei himself looks at the sky and hopes to protect his future so he can meet Jaden and Yugi again.

Featured Duels
The film featured a short one-on-three-Duel, with Paradox facing Yusei, Jaden, and Yami Yugi. Paradox took every second turn. Paradox had 4000 Life Points, while Yugi, Jaden, and Yusei had a shared 4000 Life Points.

Paradox vs Yusei Fudo, Jaden Yuki, and Yami/Yugi
Paradox's turn

Paradox activates "Malefic World".

He sends "Cyber End Dragon" from his Extra Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Malefic Cyber End Dragon".

He Sets 1 card in his Spell & Trap Card Zone.

Yusei's turn

Yusei activates "Reincarnation of Hope", discarding "Sonic Chick" and "Quillbolt Hedgehog". During his team's second Standby Phase after activation, the turn player can add 1 Monster Card from his Deck to his hand.

Yusei Normal Summons "Junk Synchron" and uses its effect to Special Summon "Sonic Chick" from the Graveyard.

"Quillbolt Hedgehog" Special Summons itself from the Graveyard.

Yusei uses "Junk Synchron" (Level: 3), "Sonic Chick" (Level: 1) and "Quillbolt Hedgehog" (Level: 2) to Synchro Summon "Junk Gardna" (Level: 6) in Defense Position.

Yusei Sets 2 cards in his Spell & Trap Card Zone.

'''Paradox's turn

Paradox uses "Malefic World's" effect to add "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" to his hand.

He sends "Rainbow Dragon" from his Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Malefic Rainbow Dragon".

"Malefic Rainbow Dragon" attacks "Junk Gardna", but "Junk Gardna's" effect switches "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" to Defense Position.

"Malefic Cyber End Dragon" attacks and destroys "Junk Gardna". It inflicts Piercing damage. (Yusei, Jaden, Yugi: 4000 → 2600 Life Points) "Junk Gardna's" effect switches "Malefic Cyber End Dragon" to Defense Position.

Yusei activates "The Afterglow of a Miracle", Special Summoning "Junk Gardna" from the Graveyard in Defense Position.

Jaden's turn

Jaden plays "Polymerization" sending "Elemental Hero Neos" and "Junk Gardna" to the Graveyard to Fusion Summon "Elemental Hero Neos Knight". "Neos Knight" gains half the ATK of "Junk Gardna" (Elemental Hero Neos Knight: 2500 → 3200 ATK)

Jaden uses "Neos Knight" to attack and destroy "Malefic Rainbow Dragon". He uses its second attack to destroy "Malefic Cyber End Dragon".

Paradox activates "Malefic Tune" to draw 2 cards.

Jaden Sets 4 cards in his Spell & Trap Card Zone.

Paradox's turn

Paradox uses "Malefic World's" effect add "Malefic Stardust Dragon" to his hand.

He sends "Stardust Dragon" from his Extra Deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Malefic Stardust Dragon". (note: the real-life version of this card requires that you remove "Stardust Dragon" from play instead of sending it to the Graveyard)

Paradox Normal Summons "Malefic Parallel Gear".

He tunes "Malefic Parallel Gear" (Level: 2) to "Malefic Stardust Dragon" (Level: 8) to Synchro Summon "Malefic Paradox Dragon" (Level: 10).

"Malefic Paradox Dragon's" effect Special Summons "Stardust Dragon" from the Graveyard and reduces "Elemental Hero Neos Knight's" ATK by 2500. (Elemental Hero Neos Knight: 3200 → 700 ATK).

"Malefic Paradox Dragon" attacks "Elemental Hero Neos Knight", but Jaden plays "Hero Barrier", negating the attack.

Paradox plays "Malefic Claw Stream" to destroy "Elemental Hero Neos Knight".

Jaden plays "Elemental Mirage", Special Summon "Elemental Hero Neos Knight" back from the Graveyard. "Neos Knight" has its original 2500 ATK.

Paradox Sets 2 cards in the Spell & Trap Card Zone.

Yugi's turn

Yugi adds "Dark Magician" to his hand through the effect of Yusei's "Reincarnation of Hope".

He activates "Ancient Rules", Special Summoning "Dark Magician".

Yugi activates "Bond Between Teacher and Student" to Special Summon "Dark Magician Girl".

Yugi activates Miraculous Magic Gate, but Paradox chains Malefic Force and equips it to Malefic Paradox Dragon.

However, Yugi uses "Magic Gate"'s effect to take control of 1 "Stardust Dragon"

Yugi activates "Black Twin Burst" to combine "Dark Magician" and Dark Magician Girl"'s ATK (ATK: 2000 + 2500 = 4500).

The "Magician"s attack and destroy "Malefic Paradox Dragon". (Paradox: 4000 → 3500 Life Points)

Paradox pays half his Life Points to activate "Malefic Paradigm Shift", which allows him to Special Summon "Malefic Truth Dragon". (Paradox: 3500 → 1750 Life Points)

Yugi Sets 2 cards in his Spell & Trap Card Zone.

Paradox's turn

Paradox plays "Malefic Selector" to remove "Malefic Parallel Gear" and "Malefic Cyber End Dragon" from play to add "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon" from his Deck to his hand.

Paradox sends both "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" from his deck to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon". (note: the real-life version of these cards require that you remove from play their non-"Malefic" counterparts from your Deck instead.)

Paradox gets "Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon" to attack "Dark Magician Girl", but Jaden plays Yugi's "De-Fusion", sending "Elemental Hero Neos Knight" back to the Extra Deck to Special Summon it's Fusion Materials; "Elemental Hero Neos" and "Junk Gardna" in Defense Position. (NOTE: In the real game, special summoning the two monsters would be an illegal play, because "Elemental Hero Neos Knight" was already destroyed due to Paradox's Malefic Claw Stream", and was revived due to "Elemental Mirage". Since it wasn't properly Fusion Summoned when being revived, Jaden would not have been able to bring back the two material monsters.) He uses "Junk Gardna's" effect to switch "Malefic Red Eyes Black Dragon" to Defense Position, canceling its attack.

"Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Dark Magician".

"Malefic Truth Dragon's" effect activates, which should destroy all of Yusei, Jaden and Yugi's monsters. However "Stardust Dragon's" effect activates. "Stardust Dragon" is sent to the Graveyard to negate "Malefic Truth Dragon's" effect and destroy "Malefic Truth Dragon". However, Paradox activates "Malefic Truth Dragon's" effect, removing "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" from play to negate "Stardust Dragon's" destruction effect.

"Malefic Truth Dragon" attacks and destroys "Elemental Hero Neos".

"Malefic Truth Dragon's" effect activates again, destroying "Dark Magician Girl" and "Junk Gardna". (Yusei, Jaden, Yugi: 2600 → 100)

Paradox activates "Malefic Cross", Special Summoning "Malefic Stardust Dragon" from the Graveyard.

"Malefic Stardust Dragon" attacks Yusei, Jaden, and Yugi directly, but Jaden plays "The Flute of Summoning Kuriboh", adding "Kuriboh" to Yugi's hand. Yugi discards "Kuriboh" to reduce the Battle Damage to 0.

"Malefic Stardust" is destroyed during the End Phase, due to "Malefic Cross". "Stardust Dragon" Special Summons itself to Yusei, Jaden, and Yugi's side of the field, using its own effect. (NOTE: In the real game, Stardust Dragon could not have Special Summoned itself to Yusei's field, because it was being controlled by Paradox in the beginning of the duel and thus would have been summoned to Paradox's field. Furthermore, since it was never Synchro Summoned, it could not Special Summon itself at all.)

Yusei's turn

Yusei activates "Stardust Mirage", Special Summoning "Dark Magician Girl", "Dark Magician", "Elemental Hero Neos", and "Junk Gardna".

Jaden activates "Neos Spiral Force", doubling "Stardust Dragon's" ATK (Stardust Dragon: 2500 → 5000 ATK).

Yugi activates "Black Spiral Force", doubling "Stardust Dragon's" ATK again (Stardust Dragon: 5000 → 10000 ATK)

Yusei has "Stardust Dragon" attack and destroy "Malefic Truth Dragon." (Paradox: 1750 → 0 Life Points)

Yusei, Jaden, and Yugi win.

Featured cards
The following cards were used in the film. Italics are used to denote cards whose first appearance was in the film.

Errors

 * During the transformation scene for his Duel Runner, Paradox's hair is seen clipping through his chest and his coat through his leg.
 * During one scene, Yami Yugi has no mouth.
 * When the duel begins, Yami Yugi is wearing his jacket when his duel disk turns on, after the zoom in his jacket is off.

Development
The film was first announced in July 2009. Previews for the film started on July 1st 2009. They appeared at the beginning of episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's in the form of short Yu-Gi-Oh! anime tenth anniversary tributes, starting with episode 65.

The Novemeber issue of V Jump confirmed that the animation would be a 3D film released on January 23, 2010.

A trailer for the film was shown in October at the Jump Fest Anime Tour 2009.

On October 19, 2009 an official website provided a list of theaters where the film would be shown.

Starting November 18, 2009 with episode 85, the previews at the beginning of episodes showed 9 face-down cards. Each week a new one was turned over. The cards in order of appearance are. "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon", "Malefic Red-Eyes Black Dragon" , "Malefic Stardust Dragon" , "Malefic Cyber End Dragon" , "Malefic Rainbow Dragon" , "Elemental Hero Neos Knight" , "Junk Gardna" , "Malefic Parallel Gear" and Malefic Paradox Dragon.

Sakiyomi JumBANG! featured the film in their 35th episode, on November 27, with guests Yuya Miyashita and Takanori Hoshino, Yusei and Jack's voice actors. and their 42nd episode on Januray 22, 2009. In this episode, the Sakiyomi JumBANG! crew mentioned that they would be appearing in the film as MCs.

A trailer is available on the film's official website.

A 30 minute preview of the film was shown on January 17, 2010. Kazuki Takahashi and the V Jump cosplayers, Kaiser Umiuma and Shironosu attended this event.

In March 2010, during 4Kids Entertainment's quarterly conference, Alfred Kahn announced that they were working on dubbing the film in English.

A preview of the English dub of the film was shown at San Diego Comic Con 2010.

Reception
The film debuted at #6 in the Japanese Box Office chart, earning over a million US dollars in 24 theaters in its first week. It had however dropped from the charts by the next week.