Kazuki Takahashi

Anita Sengupta

Manga comes to the UK mainstream for the first time. Sales for the Yu-Gi-Oh! series are over 34 million copies worldwide.

Duelist Kingdom. Vol. 1

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist

Kaiba plans revenge when Yugi beats him at a collectible card game, and Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda, and Anzu must survive the "Death T," a theme park that has among its features electric chairs and guillotines.

Kaiba's Revenge

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 4

Jelke Lenaerts

I liked how this switched up the format of the series again. I really, really like where this volume went and that cliffhanger tough.

Yugi, Jonouchi, and Anzu have survived Kaiba's deadly theme park, but now they're faced with the two Kaiba brothers, heirs of the biggest game empire in Japan.

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 5

This definetly is my favourite volume out of the series so far. This volume caries a very strong message of friendship and the importance of it. This volume also switches up the format again as it follows up on the last volume and well, I really loved it, especially because of the callbacks to earlier volumes.

10th grader Yugi spent most of his time alone playing games...until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, a mysterious Egyptian artifact! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games...weird games with high stakes and high risks! These graphic novels contain new stories not seen in the anime, including the origin of Yugi and his friends! Out of the sands of Egypt, the mystic Shadi has come to test Yugi's powers... because there can be only one King of Games. With the Millennium Scales and the Millennium Key, Shadi summons deadly illusions which will give Yugi his greatest challenge yet--and if he loses, his best friends will die! Then, Yugi's classmate Hanasaki takes his infatuation with superheroes too far; Yugi and his friends discover the hidden characters in digital keychain pets; and Yugi meets Mokuba, Kaiba's brother, for a high-stakes game of "Capsule Monster Chess!"

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 3

7th read for the Summer Biannual Bibliothon ( no challenge)
6th read for the Booktubeathon (challenge: read 7 books {7th one is a work in progress})

I really liked how this changed up the format of the story a bit but eventually went back to its roots. This volume took an intresting spin on the story and I can't wait to see what's coming next.

10th grader Yugi spent most of his time alone playing games...until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, a mysterious Egyptian artifact! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games...weird games with high stakes and high risks! These graphic novels contain new stories not seen in the anime, including the origin of Yugi and his friends! Meet Seto Kaiba, master of the world's most dangerous collectible card game. When Kaiba discovers that Yugi's grandfather owns the incredibly rare "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card, he will stop at nothing to get it...even if he has to duel with Yugi's dark alter-ego Yu-Gi-Oh! Then, an Egyptian museum exhibit brings with it an unwelcome visitor: Shadi, the mystical Keeper of the Millennium Items, whose bloodline has guarded the tombs of Egypt for 3,000 years. Recognizing Yu-Gi-Oh as his only rival, he puts him to the test to see who is the true King of Games...

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 2

Summer Biannual Bibliothon read 6 (no challenge)
Booktubeathon read 5 (no challenge)

Really enjoyed the inclusion of Egyptian mythology in this one. Can't wait to see what for influence that is going to have on the rest of the series. Also loved how the oversexualizing of women was cut out of this. Now only get rid of the unnececary violence and this series would be perfect.

When tenth-grader Yugi solves the ancient Egyptian Millenium Puzzle, he is possessed by the King of Games, causing him to challenge bullies and evildoers to the Shadow Games, in which the fates of the players is decided.

The Millennium Puzzle

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 1

Summer Biannual Bibliothon read 5 (challenge: book you heard about on a place other than YouTube)
Booktubeathon read 4 (challenge: person on the cover)

I was very surprised by this. I didn't have any expectations at all. I really enjoyed the concept and the storylines. Why I docked two starts? One star is docked for the oversexualizing of women, and teenage girls and one star for the very big part of unnececary violence.

Kate A.

4 stars bc of kaibas murder theme park that he spent millions on just to get revenge on yugi and also murder him

In the second saga of the Yu-Gi-Oh! epic, Duel Monsters is the world's most popular collectible card game-but to Yugi, it's the most dangerous game of all! Entering the Duel Monsters world championship, Yugi fights ruthless opponents like game designer Maximillion Pegasus and teenage multimillionaire Kaiba Seto, hoping to discover the origin of the game...and his own powers! Contains the original storyline of the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh!, including scenes too startling for TV! Can Yugi and Jonouchi escape the subterranean maze of the Labyrinth Brothers, or will they be buried with their cards? Maybe they'd be safer underground, because Kaiba, the world's former greatest gamer, is back! On the towers of Pegasus Castle, Yugi and Kaiba fight their third Duel Monsters battle, with everything at stake. But this time, Kaiba is fighting for more than his own pride; he's fighting to save his brother. And there's nothing more dangerous than a gamer with nothing left to lose…

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist, Vol. 5

Lorien O'Brien

I wasn't sure what to make of the manga that's pretty much the show in manga form. But there are changes that the anime took out probably due to time, and there's things that weren't in the manga that the anime added in. A must read for old school fans. :)

Hadeer Ihab

10th grader Yugi spent most of his time alone playing games...until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, a mysterious Egyptian artifact! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games...weird games with high stakes and high risks! These graphic novels contain new stories not seen in the anime, including the origin of Yugi and his friends! When Yugi and his friends joined a "Monster World" role-playing game campaign, they didn't realize just how much time the game would take--like maybe the rest of their lives! Ryo Bakura, their game master, wants to use the power of his Millennium Ring to seal the souls of Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu and Honda inside his "Monster World" miniatures forever. Now, with 10-sided dice in hand, Yugi and Dark Yugi must hack and slash their way through Bakura's adventure and defeat the Dark Master Zorc...or die trying!

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 7

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist

Yugi enters the Duel Monsters, the world's most popular collectible card game, where he must face ruthless opponents like game designer Maximillion Pegasus in the hopes of discovering the origin of the game and his own powers.

Yugi may have finally met his match when his new classmate Bakura, a game master with a secret, invites him to join a role-playing game campaign; includes Monster World Battle Game board and directions.

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 6

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist, Vol. 6

In the second saga of the Yu-Gi-Oh! epic, Duel Monsters is the world's most popular collectible card game-but to Yugi, it's the most dangerous game of all! Entering the Duel Monsters world championship, Yugi fights ruthless opponents like game designer Maximillion Pegasus and teenage multimillionaire Kaiba Seto, hoping to discover the origin of the game...and his own powers! Contains the original storyline of the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh!, including scenes too startling for TV! It's the final rounds before the fight with Pegasus, and only one of four will survive! Mai Shiranui has always wanted to fight Yugi, and now she's got her chance! Can Yugi beat her harpies' pet dragon? Then, Jonouchi fights "Bandit" Keith Howard, America's most unscrupulous gamer. Jonouchi's deck is loaded with warrior monsters, but Keith's machine deck deals death with six-guns and slot machines...American style!

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Duelist Kingdom. Vol. 1

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