![]() As a result, a grander story emerges which surprisingly grabs your attention with Egyptian imagery, legends and Gods, and much stronger Duel Monsters battles to come. ![]() Yu-Gi-Oh!'s themes of friendship, honesty, and courage are very prevalent in the series, and over time the series delves deeper into themes of good and evil, also going deeper into Yugi's Millennium Puzzle. Both themes are visible in the show and it feels very wholesome. Yu-Gi-Oh! wasn't conceived as a TCG and that was only a small part of the original manga series, which was written as a story of friendship and co-operation. Speaking of the TCG, throughout the series Yugi and friends also keep explaining the game, which might make you think cynically that it's just an anime made to sell trading cards, but it actually just happened rather organically. The quirky look of the characters of Yugi and friends blends really well with the fantastical style of the Duel Monsters. It certainly is something spectacular watching each monster come to life, especially if you are familiar with them from the trading card game (TCG). Of course, like in Pokémon where any altercation or problem resulted in a Pokémon battle, you'll find the same in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh! Most things are settled with a game of Duel Monsters. Yu-Gi-Oh! features a beautiful style of animation with each episode (mostly) revolving around one game of Duel Monsters. The 49 episodes come split across 7 discs and tells the story of a young boy, Yugi Mutou, who is given his grandfather's deck of Duel Monsters cards and suddenly thrust into a mysterious world of duelling, magic, and adventure. The title is somewhat misleading as there was a previous anime of Yu-Gi-Oh! which has never seen a release outside of Japan, but this is Season 1 of the second anime adaptation and it's the series that most people will be familiar with thanks to its prominence on UK television back in the early 2000s. ![]() ![]() Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 1: The Official First Season compiles 49 episodes of the anime first shown in the UK in 2001. Yu-Gi-Oh! had emerged in Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump years earlier to major success and was quickly serialised, and much like any popular manga, an anime version was quick to follow. Arguably the second most popular of these was Yu-Gi-Oh!, a show in which characters played a fictional card game called Duel Monsters. The most successful of these was the global phenomenon known as Pokémon. DVD REVIEW: YU-GI-OH! SEASON 1: THE OFFICIAL FIRST SEASON / CERT: PG / DIRECTOR: HIROYUKI KAKUDOU / SCREENPLAY: VARIOUS / STARRING: DAN GREEN, AMY BIRNBAUM, WAYNE GRAYSON, ERIC STUART / RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 17THīack in the early 2000s, 4Kids Entertainment was riding a wave of success by taking Japanese anime properties and producing and distributing them in the United States and worldwide. ![]()
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