This article is about the film based on the Toei anime series. For the film called "Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie" in English regions, see Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light. For other films, see Movie.
| Yu-Gi-Oh! | |
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遊☆戯☆王Yūgiō | |
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| Produced by |
Tan Takaiwa |
| Director |
Junji Shimizu |
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Toei Animation |
| Release date |
March 6, 1999 |
| Runtime |
30 mins |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王, Yū-Gi-Ō) is a film produced by Toei Animation, based on the anime series also produced by them.
Plot[]
A boy named Shougo Aoyama is too timid to duel, even after obtaining a powerful rare card, "Red-Eyes Black Dragon". Seto Kaiba also learns about Shougo's rare find and organizes a tournament, where attendance is mandatory for those who receive an invitation. Shougo and Yugi Mutou are later chased down and roughed up by Kaiba's henchmen from KaibaCorp, with Kaiba's henchmen overpowering both of them and stealing Yugi's Millennium Puzzle. Now Yugi must enter Kaiba's tournament and show Shougo that one can have both the potential and the power to become a true Duelist.
Featured Duels[]
Jonouchi Katsuya vs. Yugi Muto[]
This duel is an exhibition duel to demonstrate the rules of Duel Monsters for Miho.
- Jonouchi's turn
- Summons "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1".
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summons "Hitotsu-Me Giant", it attacks "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1", and is destroyed. (Yugi: 2000 → 1800 Life Points)
- Jonouchi's turn
- Jonouchi passes.
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summons "Megazowler", and it attacks "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1". "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1 is destroyed.
- Jonouchi's turn
- Normal Summons "Curse of Dragon".
- Yugi's turn
- Switches "Megazowler" to Defense Position.
Yami Yugi/Yugi Muto vs. Seto Kaiba[]
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summons "Curse of Dragon" in Attack Position.
- Kaiba's turn
- Normal Summons "Dark Zorla" in Defense Position.
- Yugi's turn
- Equips "Curse of Dragon" with "Dragon Membrane", increasing its ATK by 300. ("Curse of Dragon": 2000 → 2300 ATK)
- "Curse of Dragon" attacks and destroys "Dark Zorla".
- Kaiba's turn
- Normal Summons "Battle Ox" in Attack Position. (Due to Bandai's Card Game rules, Yugi's "Curse of Dragon" is destroyed, as its ATK was lower than the DEF of Kaiba's "Dark Zorla")
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summons "Gaia the Fierce Knight" in Attack Position.
- "Gaia the Fierce Knight" attacks and destroys "Battle Ox" (Kaiba: 2000 → 1400 LP)
- Kaiba's turn
- Normal Summons "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in Attack Position.
- "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Gaia the Fierce Knight". (Yugi: 2000 → 1300 LP)
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summons "Dark Magician" in Attack Position.
- Activates "Magical Hats" to cover up his monster.
- Sets a card, hiding it inside one of his "Magical Hats".
- Kaiba's turn
- Attacks one of the "Magical Hats with "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", but he has attacked Yugi's Trap Card, "Curse of Dark Cross Star", which decreases the ATK of Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" by 700. ("Blue-Eyes White Dragon's" ATK: 3000 → 2300).
- Yugi's turn
- "Dark Magician" attacks and destroys "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". (Kaiba: 1400 → 1200 LP)
- Kaiba's turn
- Normal Summons another "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in Attack Position
- "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Dark Magician". (Yugi: 1300 → 800 LP)
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summons "Celtic Guardian" in Defense Position.
- Kaiba's turn
- Activates "Monster Reborn" to revive his first "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".
- Activates "Wicked Chain", combining the 2 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" on the field and the 1 in his hand, which summons "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection".
- Attacks "[Celtic Guardian" with his 3 "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection".
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summon "Beaver Warrior" in Defense Position.
- Kaiba's turn
- Attacks "Beaver Warrior" with his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection".
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summon "Summoned Skull" in Defense Position.
- Kaiba's turn
- Attacks "Summoned Skull" with his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection".
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summon "Feral Imp" in Defense Position.
- Kaiba's turn
- Attacks "Feral Imp" with his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection".
- Yugi's turn
- Normal Summon "Meteor Dragon" in Defense Position.
- Kaiba's turn
- Activates "Stop Defense" to force "Meteor Dragon" into Attack Position, but he cannot attack on the same turn he activated "Stop Defense".
- Yugi/Shougo's turn
- Normal Summon "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" in Attack Position (Thanks to Shougo)
- Activates "Polymerization" to fuse "Meteor Dragon" with "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" to form "Meteor B. Dragon".
- "Meteor B. Dragon" attacks and destroys "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection".
- Yugi wins.
Featured cards[]
- Basic Insect
- Mushroom Man
- Skull Servant
Notes[]
- ↑ Shougo's card; put into Yugi's deck by Jonouchi
Trivia[]
- This movie must take place sometime after episode 3, but as Kaiba only recalls his previous draw with Yugi and Jonouchi is already familiar with Yugi’s other self, reconciling it with the Death-T arc (starting in episode 21) is difficult.
- This marks the end of the Toei anime and the last appearance of Miho Nosaka.
- Character appearances appear closer to their manga counterparts than they did during the Toei series. Most notably, Seto Kaiba's general appearance is now very similar to his manga counterpart, his green hair and gold/light brown eyes being replaced with brown hair and light blue eyes; and Yugi Mutou/Dark Yugi's hair appears much stiffer and straighter. Also, Dinosaur Ryuzaki makes an appearance as a contestant dueling against Kaiba, but only for a brief moment while leaving the tournament due to a loss but doesn't speak.
- The card game is now referred to as Duel Monsters (as it is in the NAS series) and the cards' backs take on a similar appearance to their manga counterparts.
- Anzu has a job now despite the school rules against this, as established in episode 2. This might be due to Yami Yugi's Punishment Game to Ms Chono, coercing her to be more lentient with after school activities, including part time jobs.
- The duel system Kaiba and Yugi use during their duel made its debut during the Duelist Kingdom story arc. The duel itself resembles the duel here in both monsters summoned and specific strategies. Blue-Eyes being summoned to destroy Gaia is identical to a turn in the duel of 1 of the NAS series and even has the same appearance from behind Yugi as it's being destroyed. The round with the Magical Hats is the same as in the duel of Episodes 9 and 10 of the NAS series.
- During the final turn of the duel between Yugi and Kaiba, after Yugi fuses "Meteor Dragon" with "Red Eyes B. Dragon" to form "Meteor B. Dragon" (3500/2000), Yugi somehow causes Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection" (4500/3000) to separate (how this happened is not explained) allowing Yugi to focus his attack on one "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" (3000/2500) which is weaker than "Meteor B. Dragon", allowing Yugi to not only destroy Kaiba's monster but cause enough Life Point damage to win him the duel. If Yugi used "Meteor B. Dragon" to attack "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection" directly, it would not have enough attack points to destroy it and instead cause Yugi to lose the duel.
- This is the only Yu-Gi-Oh! anime to use cel animation.
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