Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (manga)

The '''Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's''' manga is a spin-off of its anime series. Like the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga, the events that take place, as well as the cards used by characters differ from those in the anime. It is published monthly in the V Jump magazine in Japanese, and has been released in English via the Shonen Jump magazine starting with the January 2011 issue. The author of the manga is Masahiro Hikokubo and the artist of the manga is Masashi Satō. The manga is supervised by Kazuki Takahashi.

Rules
The OCG Master Rules are used. The rules of Turbo Duels are changed; "Speed World" and "Speed Spells" are not required. Also, monsters are not Set and Flip Summoned, but Normal Summoned in face-up Defense Position instead.

Plot
Unlike the anime, Yusei Fudo and Jack Atlas have no history between them. However, Yusei has still managed to acquire a criminal mark. Akiza Izinski is a popular student at the Queen's Duel Academy, where she is known as the "Queen of Queens". She lost to Jack at one point, which still upsets her. A number of people have lost Duels to Jack and are looking for rematches.

Sect faces Yusei in a Turbo Duel in a Satellite factory. Yusei wins, but is impressed by Sect's performance and accepts Sect as his rival. Afterwards Sect is taken captive by the Skeleton Knight. Yusei defeats the Skeleton Knight in a Turbo Duel in order to save Sect.

Rex Goodwin arranges for Jack Atlas to go to Satellite, while he and Mina Simington make preparations for the D1 Grand Prix.

As Yusei rushes Sect to the hospital, he is confronted by Jack Atlas, who forces him into a Turbo Duel. Yusei abandons the Duel to save Sect after he falls from the back of the Duel Runner. Jack continues and wins the Duel, leaving Yusei and Sect fall into a body of water. Yusei manages to get Sect to the hospital afterwards. As he repairs his Duel Runner, he meets Lazar, who invites him to the D1 Grand Prix.

Akiza defeats Ran Kobayakawa in a Turbo Duel over the title "Queen of Queens". Afterwards, she hears that Jack is in Satellite, so she travels there hoping to find Jack. She instead finds Yusei, who she learns dueled Jack. She faces him in a One-Shot Run to find out more.

Yusei attends the D1 Grand Prix and faces Greiger in the first round. After Yusei beats Greiger in the first round, the second match of Akiza vs Sherry starts.

Throughout the duel Sherry was able to counter everyone of Akiza's moves with the use of her psychic ability "Hand Scan". However Akiza was able to block Sherry's "Hand Scan" by closing her eyes and she eventually won the duel.

The third match was Crow Hogan against Bolt Tanner. Before the match began, Crow mentions to Yusei that they are going to get along great. Crow manages to impress everyone by performing a double Synchro Summon and defeat Bolt using a First Turn Kill.

The next day the second round of the D1 Grand Prix starts. Yusei faces Hunter Pace as his next opponent. During the duel Yusei finds out that his Duel Runner is unable to accelerate. This is because the night before, Hunter Pace sneaked into Yusei's garage and ripped out a part from his Duel Runner. This, along with the effects of Hunter's monsters put Yusei at a serious disadvantage. But despite the odds, Yusei manages to win.

As this duel was going on, Sect finds out from Hunter's gang that they were the ones who stole the part from Yusei's Duel Runner and gets into a fight with them. Hunter's gang managed to get the upper hand at first but Sect's rare card infects him with darkness allowing him to defeat the gang easily.

Following this, Akiza next match is about to start with her opponent being Kalin Kessler. Throughout the duel, Kalin uses his "Handless Combo" to push Akiza into a corner. But she manages to fight back using her hidden ace, "Rosaria, the Stately Fallen Angel", a monster that she was saving for Jack. Kalin counters this with his own ace monster, "Void Ogre Dragon" and using its effect, he defeats Akiza causing her to drop out of the tournament.

While this Duel was going on, Jack finds Sect and challenges him to a Duel for his shadow card. Yusei appears between the two and tries to convince Sect to stop the duel but Sect refuses as he believes Yusei is looking down on him for being weak. Sect continues the duel and summons the new card he got from the Skeleton Knight, "Beelze, King of Dark Dragons". To Jack's disappointment, it isn't the card he is looking for but he fights back using "Dark Highlander". However before the duel can continue any further, the Skeleton Knight appears and takes Sect away so he can master the powers of darkness. Before he disappears, Sect vows to uses his powers to defeat Yusei and Jack and anyone else who looked down on him.

After this Kalin appears before Yusei and Jack. He reveals to Jack that he has the card Jack is looking for, "Jeweled Red Dragon Archfiend". Jack walks toward Kalin with the intent of taking back his card but as he does so the "Jeweled Red Dragon Archfiend" card begins to cause Kalin's Duel Disk to malfunction. Kalin rips up the card as he said it is nothing more than a copy. Jack starts to become angry, demanding to know where the real "Jeweled Red Dragon Archfiend" card is but before he could punch Kalin, Yusei stops him as a card like that is the reason Sect changed and despite that he will save Sect. Yusei wants to know more about the Duel Dragons from both of them. Kalin merely responds that both of them are qualified to play the game for the Duel Dragons.

Meanwhile back at the stadium, two kids have just defeated their 5th opponent in the tournament and a missle from one of their monster's attacks is about to hit the audience. However Crow uses his "Blackwing Tamer - Hawk Joe the Jet Black" to intercept it. Rex Goodwin appears on a giant hologram and informs everyone that the two kids, the twins, Leo and Luna are eliminators he hired to defeat and weed out the weak duelists. Afterwards he informs everyone that the second stage of the D1GP will start soon and it will take place in Satellite. Back with Yusei, Kalin, and Jack, Kalin tells both of them that the showdown will take place in Satellite.

During the night, Yusei is working on his Duel Runner along with Crow when they are approached by the twins and they challenge Yusei to a duel while revealing that they have information about the Duel Dragons. Yusei accepts the duel, seeing it as way to save his best friend.

At first Leo seemed to gain the upper hand in the duel by Synchro Summoning his Duel Dragon, "Power Tool Mecha Dragon". However after Luna got hit by one of Yusei's attacks, Leo becomes blinded by his own anger and fills his field with Spell and Monster cards. By using a combination of Synchro Nova and "Gravity Warrior", Yusei defeats the twins.

The remaining contestants have to travel by boat in order to reach Satellite. While heading there, Yusei thinks about Sect and wonders if he is already there. Rex Goodwin appears and tells him the truth about the tournament. The real reason for hosting the tournament is not to find the emperor of Turbo Duels but to find Duelists that can wield the power of the Duel Dragons and use them to defeat the Skeleton Knight. Goodwin believes that the Duel Dragons can save the world but Yusei doesn't believe it as he saw one of the Duel Dragons corrupt his friend. Goodwin explains about the Duel Dragons and how they were used long ago, in rituals to seal away darkness. He continues saying that controlling or being controlled by the dragons depends on the strength of the person's heart. Goodwin admits that while he doesn't know if Yusei can control a Duel Dragon, he believes it is better than having the Skeleton Knight steal the power for himself. Yusei responds that he doesn't trust Goodwin but will work with him in order to gain a Duel Dragon of his own and save his best friend.

The contestants finally reach their destination, Saiko Island, Satellite Zone Zero. Lazar appears and explains the rules of the second stage of the tournament. Spread across the island are twelve Duel Zodiacs, each having a Star Ticket ranging from level one to twelve with the tweleth Star Ticket being a ?. According to Lazar, the twelveth Star Ticket can be as many as they want. The goal is to collect at least twelve Star Tickets and reach the Duel Gate to enter the finals. Yusei heads to the fourth Duel Zodiac as Rex Goodwin told him that he left a Duel Dragon card there and believed that Yusei can control it. When Yusei arrives, he finds Crow Hogan waiting for him. Both of them duel each other to decide who will get the Star Ticket.

Yusei and Crow begin their duel as they match each other card for card. As the duel goes on, Crow reveals the reason he enter the D1GP. His younger brother Yoshi was due for a serious operation but he was to afraid to go through with it. Crow decides to make a deal with Yoshi that he enters the D1GP and wins in hopes it will give him the courage to through with the operation. Crow and Yusei continue their duel and despite him putting up a good fight, Crow loses to Yusei and this upsets him. However Yusei assures Crow that although he lost, he isn't kicked out of the tournament and as there are plenty of Star Tickets left, Crow still has a chance to enter the finals.

After the duel is over the Duel Zodiac begins to light up, engulfing both Yusei and Crow. They find themselves in a colosseum while wearing new clothes. A mysterious man riding a horse, approaches them. He introduces himself as a priest that challenges those who wish to gain the power of a Duel Dragon. Yusei challenges the priest as he wants to use the dragons power to save Sect. The duel is a One-Shot Run but using horses instead of Duel Runners and stone tablets instead of cards. Yusei uses "Lightning Warrior" as his monster while the priest uses his Duel Dragon "Stardust Spark Dragon". As they ride Yusei becomes corrupted by Stardust's shadow misama and almost becomes swallowed by darkness. However Yusei breaks free by remembering the duels that he fought before. Then he sees the memories of "Stardust Spark Dragon" and finds out that all the duelists before him simply wanted Stardust for its power. Yusei stops riding much to Crow's shock as he wishes to save his best friend and asks Stardust to lead its strength to him. As he accepts the dragon's blow, Yusei and Crow find themselves back in the present as Yusei notices he now holds the "Stardust Spark Dragon" card.

Meanwhile at the ruins of an abandoned building, Jack Atlas finds Kalin Kessler there. He asks Kalin about what is he doing here as he won't find a Star Ticket in a place like this. Kalin replies that he doesn't care about winning the tournament and that the reason he is here is the same as Jack's, they both began their start as duelists in this area. In the past, Kalin and Jack were once prisoners along with other children in the facility, V.S.S.L.. One day Jack and Kalin were set up to duel each other with the winner being adopted by Rex Goodwin and receiving a Duel Dragon card. During the duel, Kalin decides to let Jack win as he didn't want to leave the friends he made behind. As a reward for winning, Goodwin gives the Duel Dragon card to Jack and as he holds it in his hands, Jack falls to his knees but quickly gets up, taken by the dragon's power. Later that night an explosion occurs at the facility as Kalin runs away while holding Jack's "Jeweled Red Dragon Archfiend" card.

Back in the present, Jack becomes angry at Kalin for stealing his card. Kalin throws back the card to Jack and he asks why. Kalin responses that back then, he wasn't sure about what he wanted. He was confused and because of that he wasn't satisfied. Now that he is facing him again, Kalin challenges Jack to a duel to settle the scores between them to which Jack accepts.

At first Kalin seemed to have the upper hand as he uses his Handless Combo. But Jack quickly turns things around by summoning his Duel Dragon and makes quick work of Kalin. However much to Jack's surprise, "Void Ogre Dragon" appears despite the fact Kalin lost and wonders why. Kalin responds that it is due to the effects of his trap card, Zero Gate of the Void which Special Summons "Void Ogre Dragon" to the field when his life points hit zero and as long as his monster is on the field, he cannot lose. Kalin continues the duel and uses the effect of his monsters in his graveyard to seal away his draw and to attack directly. Kalin orders his Duel Dragon to attack Jack directly and to Jack's horror, he finds that he cannot negate Kalin's sense and that its causing him real damage as well.

Kalin reveals to Jack that he was torn between Jack and his friends at V.S.S.L and so he made a oath to the Skeleton Knight to get his Duel Dragon, "Void Ogre Dragon" and become stronger. Despite the advantage Kalin has over him, Jack refuses to give up and using two spell cards, Champion's Majesty and Rumbling of Heaven and Earth along with "Jeweled Red Dragon Archfiend" allows Jack to win the duel.

Upon winning, the shadow miasma leaves Kalin's body and the destruction of "Void Ogre Dragon" shows Jack the rest of Kalin's memories. After Jack left V.S.S.L, Kalin was walking down a hallway when he overhears a conversation between Zigzix, Lazar and Rex Goodwin. Lazar wants to use the Sense Generation Device at its maximum output but Zigzix is against the idea as the children could be killed. Goodwin remains unconcerned as he says that the facility has all the guinea pigs they need. He continues by saying that none of the children have any family and that no one would care if they were killed. Goodwin orders Zigzix to continue his research on the "Jeweled Red Dragon Archfiend" card and after he is done he will give the card to Jack. Goodwin then says that as long as Jack has the Duel Dragon card he will be their guinea pig forever. Kalin having heard all of this refuse to let Rex Goodwin get away with what he has done and vows to protect his friends. Kalin proceeds to destroy the Sense Generation Device and get the other kids to safety. Afterwards he steals Jack's Red Dragon card in order to protect him.

Back in reality, Jack approachs Kalin and Kalin tries to give his "Void Ogre Dragon" card but Jack refuses to take it. He admits to Kalin that dueling him was the only thing he enjoyed in the V.S.S.L. Jack leaves, telling Kalin to make a better stragey and come face him again. But as he walks away Kalin stops him as he needs to tell him the truth about the D1GP. Meanwhile Yusei is at the eighth Duel Zodiac and he is disappointed that the Star Ticket is gone. Suddenly his "Stardust Spark Dragon" appears above him and he sees the Skeleton Knight appear before him. Yusei notices that Sect's goggles are on the tip of the Knight's lance and demands to know what happened to Sect. The Knight tells Yusei that his friend is nowhere on the island and that he is currently waiting in the Aerial Fortress Seibal. The only way to get into the fortress is to enter the Duel Gate. Skeleton Knight reveals to Yusei that he plans to resurrect a being known as the Ultimate God within the Aerial Fortress Seibal. Yusei tells the Knight that his fight is with Rex Goodwin and that he shouldn't drag Sect into it. While the Skeleton knight mentions that while he doesn't know what Goodwin told him he tells Yusei that all the duelists in the tournament are their pawns and that the ritual has already begun. Afterwards the Knight disappears, leaving behind Sect's goggles.

Back with Jack Atlas and Kalin Kessler, after hearing everything that Kalin had told him, Jack plans to head to the Aerial Fortress Seibal himself. Kalin tries to stop Jack as he and everyone else on the island is being used by Goodwin in a ritual to revive the Ultimate God and that the duels in the tournament are energy used to revive it. Jack points out to Kalin that the duel they just had provided energy to the ritual as well. Jack then says to Kalin that the power of the Ultimate God would be perfect to him. Kalin recalls that Jack said the same thing about getting a Duel Dragon card and replies to Jack that he never changes.

Yusei is currently in a duel with Jean and he defeats him with Catapult Warrior. Yusei collects the second Star Ticket and although Jean offers his one Star Ticket, Yusei lets him keep it. At the twelfth Duel Zodiac Crow heads there in order to get the ? Star Ticket and catch up to Yusei. As he arrives he finds Kodou Kinomiya injured on the ground. Asking him what happened, Kodou replies that he couldn't defeat him before falling unconscious. A voice calls out to Crow and he sees a Duel Dragon card with shadow miasma surrounding it. The shadow miasma morphs into a dark version of Crow and the dark copy challenges him to a duel. Crow realizes that this is his Duel Dragon ritual and he accepts the duel.

At the seventh Duel Zodiac Leo and Luna has just defeated Tetsu Trudge and collected the seventh Star Ticket. Luna reads a book, The Black Magician of the Forest, and believing the book to be real she wishes to find the black magician and defeat him. A hologram of Rex Goodwin appears before the twins and he tells them that the black magician is on the island and Luna realizes that he is talking about Yusei Fudo. Goodwin informs the twins that Yusei is on his way to the sixth Duel Zodiac and they should head there too. Leo notices that Luna has been acting weird ever since their last duel with Yusei and he asks Goodwin if Luna will return to her normal self if they defeat Yusei. Goodwin confirms this and Leo and Luna head to duel Yusei. Unbeknownst to them, Goodwin is using the twins in order to test the power of Yusei's Duel Dragon.

Having arrived at the Duel Zodiac first, Leo and Luna wait for Yusei. When he appears they begin a duel. Luna orders her brother to use her monsters and summon her Duel Dragon. But Leo summons his "Power Tool Mecha Dragon" instead. Luna becomes upset with her brother over this but he assures her that he has a plan. Leo plans to end the duel quickly without summoning Luna's Duel Dragon as he believes that it is dangerous. When Leo attacks Yusei with his "Power Tool Mecha Dragon", Yusei is able to sense his feelings are stronger than before but he also mentions that he has feelings that he can't abandon either. Yusei uses his monsters to synchro summon "Stardust Spark Dragon" for the first time.

Yusei uses his "Stardust Spark Dragon" to attack and destroy Leo's "Power Tool Mecha Dragon". Upon its destruction Leo is freed from its shadow miasma and he asks Yusei to save his sister. Yusei asks what he means by that and Leo reveals that Rex Goodwin was the one who set them up to duel Yusei in the first place. He was convinced that if he defeat Yusei in a duel Luna would return to her normal self. Upon hearing this, Yusei becomes disgusted with Goodwin and the way he used the lives of children for his own selfish reasons. Luna having heard everthing, uses the power of her shadow miasma to brainwash Leo. Now taking over the duel Luna uses her monsters to synchro summon "Ancient Pixie Dragon", her Duel Dragon. For one brief moment Leo breaks free from Luna's control to activate a trap card that protects "Ancient Pixie Dragon" from being destroyed. This surprises both Yusei and Luna. Yusei finds out that Luna hasn't completely have control over Leo and he tries speaking to Leo in order for him to snap out of his trance. However Leo doesn't respond to him. Yusei resolves to save the twins no matter what.

Yusei keeps speaking to Leo, trying to reach out to him and have him break free from Luna's control. Leo finally snaps out of Luna's control but this just enrages her. The shadow miasma within Luna explodes and she becomes completely possessed by it. With the use of two quick-play spell cards, Shifting Mirage and Spirit Battle, Yusei is able to defeat Luna and win the duel.

With the twins defeated Yusei collects the sixth Star Ticket. This along with his two other Star Tickets gives him enough to enter the Duel Gate. Leo warns Yusei not to go to the gate as Goodwin planning a ritual there and it is dangerous. Yusei is aware that it is dangerous but he still must go as he has someone to protect just like how Leo wants to protect his sister. Although Leo is still against it Luna lets Yusei go and tells him to introduce them to his friend. He promises to do so and thanks them both. Then Yusei leaves for the Duel Gate. While Leo is still worried for Yusei Luna assures him that he'll be fine.

Meanwhile back with Crow, he is still having trouble with his dark counterpart. Things become worse for him when Dark Crow summons a monster that Crow doesn't even have in his Deck, the Duel Dragon "Black-Winged Dragon Black Feather". As Yusei heads to the Duel Gate, he thinks back to his duel with the twins and notes by using "Stardust Spark Dragon" he was able to save them both from darkness. Recalling Kalin's words that in order to save Sect he must destroy his Duel Dragon in a duel, Yusei wonders if he can save his friend by having his Duel Dragon fight Sect's dragon. However Yusei is interrupted by Tiger Eyes who came to take his Star Tickets by force. Yusei defeats him in a duel quickly using "Gravity Warrior" and tells Sect that he'll be there soon. At the Duel Gate itself, Goodwin begins the ritual with the Duel Priestess by his side: Akiza Izinski.

Chapter guide
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's chapter listing

The ''Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's'' chapters are called "Rides", so, instead of "Chapter 1", you should look for "Ride 1", for example.