The following is a list of chapters in Kazuki Takahashi's Yu-Gi-Oh! manga series, which ran from 1996 to March 8, 2004, and was one of the most popular titles featured in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. The manga initially focuses on Yugi Mutou as he uses games designed by Pegasus, to fight various villains. Yugi also gets into misadventures with his friends Katsuya Jonouchi, Anzu Mazaki, and Hiroto Honda. The plot starts out as fairly episodic and there are only three instances of Magic and Wizards in the first seven volumes. Starting around the eighth volume, the Duelist Kingdom arc starts and the plot shifts to a Duel Monsters-centered universe.
The editors were Yoshihisa Heishi and Hisao Shimada. Kazuki Takahashi credits Toshimasa Takahashi in the "Special Thanks" column.[1]
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. 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 few characters (e.g. Maximillion Pegasus) and for the Duel Monsters cards. Published in its original right-to-left format, the manga is largely unedited, especially compared to the English anime. The translators of the English manga are (for Volumes 1-7, Duelist 1, and Millennium World) Anita Sengupta and (for Duelist! 2 and beyond) Joe Yamazaki. Some content was revised in later printings of earlier volumes (e.g. swear words were removed, a reference to Lucky Strikes was removed, an enjo kōsai reference was replaced with a "nightclub" reference in the reprinting of Volume 1, and Ms. Chono's line remarking "cigarettes, lipstick, condoms?" was revised to remove "condoms").
Viz released volumes 1 through 7 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga under its original title. The Duelist Kingdom and Battle City arcs are released as Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist, while the Egypt arc is released as Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World. As of the January 2007 issue, the Egypt arc can still be found in Shonen Jump. As of the December 2007 issue, the series has come to a close, after a long five year run in the pages of Shonen Jump, America.
Volume list
editYu-Gi-Oh!
edit| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | |
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| 1 | Mar. 04, 1997 | 4-08-872311-2 | May 2003 | 1-56931-903-0 | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist
editYu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World
editYu-Gi-Oh! R
editYu-Gi-Oh! Pyramid of Light (Ani-Manga)
editSee also
editReferences
editExternal links
editJapanese
edit- Yu-Gi-Oh! Dotcom (Japanese website) (遊☆戯☆王ドットコム Yūgiō Dottokomu)
- Official website of Yu-Gi-Oh! first series anime
- Official website of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
- Official website of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX (requires Flash)
English
edit- Official website of English Yu-Gi-Oh! at 4Kids TV
- Various versions of the standalone English Yu-Gi-Oh! websites at Internet Archive
- Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! page
- TV.com's Yu-Gi-Oh! page Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series guide.
- Precis-chan/Sandbox (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki at Wikia