Anime card layout

The layout of anime cards varies between different adaptions.

The first layout is from the Yu-Gi-Oh! first series anime, by Toei Animation, which used a white border and displayed the cards name, Level using red Level Stars, ATK and DEF. All details were in Japanese.

The next layout is used in animes after Nihon Ad Systems got the licence, including Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. It matches Koanmi's early design used for Japanese OCG cards, placing the ATK and DEF in a box next to the card's text. It included all cards details. All of which were done in Japanese. This design is used in the Japanese anime, Singaporean English anime and uncut English anime DVDs.

Later episodes of NAS anime series used Konami's later design, where the text is given more space, by printing the ATK and DEf values below the text. The earlier design was still used on cards which had yet to get the updated design in the Japanese OCG.

The dub of the animes made by 4Kids Entertainment used language neutral cards, possibly due to the anime been shown in many lnguages. These cards excluded any text, so the cards' name, text and Types were omitted. Attribute, ATK, DEF and Level were kept.

The film Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light originally made in English by 4Kids used the exact layout of English OCG/TCG cards, including al card details. All details were in English. The Japanese dub of the film used the Japanese OCG layouts.