
Some content was revised in later printings of earlier volumes. The translators of the English manga are Anita Sengupta (for volumes 1-7, and Duelist 1) and Joe Yamazaki (for Duelist 2-24 and Millennium World). It is published in its original right-to-left format, and the manga is largely unedited. Maximillion Pegasus) and for the Duel Monsters cards. The original Japanese character names are kept for most of the characters (Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, and Honda, for instance), while the English names are used for a minor number of characters (e.g. The English version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga is released in the United States and Canada by Viz Media in both the Shonen Jump magazine and in individual graphic novels. Kazuki Takahashi credits Toshimasa Takahashi in the "Special Thanks" column. The editors were Yoshihisa Heishi and Hisao Shimada. In the eighth volume, the Duelist Kingdom arc starts, making the plot shift to a Duel Monsters-centered universe. The plot starts out fairly episodic and includes only three instances of Magic and Wizards in the first seven volumes. Yugi also gets into misadventures with his friends Katsuya Jonouchi, Anzu Mazaki and Hiroto Honda. The manga initially focuses on Yugi Mutou, as he uses games designed by Pegasus to fight various villains. It was created by Kazuki Takahashi, and was one of the most popular titles featured in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. It began as a manga in Japan in 1996, the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise has since grown to an immensely successful global brand, spawning various manga and anime series, a real-life version of the card game featured in the story, video games, toys, and many other products. See the section " Card game" below for different names of the game) wherein each player purchases and assembles a Deck of Monster, Spell, and Trap Cards in order to defeat one another and gain victory. Yu-Gi-Oh! ( 遊☆戯☆王 ( YU-GI-OH! ) Yūgiō, Japanese for "Game King" or "King of Games") is a popular Japanese anime and manga franchise from Kazuki Takahashi that mainly involves characters who play a card game called Duel Monsters (originally called Magic & Wizards in the manga. Yu-Gi-Oh!Īnime movies: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light

For other uses of Yu-Gi-Oh! or "King of Games", see Yu-Gi-Oh! (disambiguation). For the first NAS anime series, see Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime). For the Toei anime series, see Yu-Gi-Oh! (Toei anime). For the original manga, see Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga).
