Yu-gi-oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Japanese: 遊☆戯☆王, Hepburn: Yū Gi Ō; lit. 'Game King') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from September 1996 to March 2004, with its chapters collected in 38 tankōbon volumes. The series follows Yugi Mutou, a teenager who solves the ancient Egyptian Millennium Puzzle. This revives an ancient gambling spirit sealed inside the Puzzle, who commonly possesses Yugi to solve conflicts with various games. Yugi gradually learns of the spirit, with whom he eventually forms a friendship as he and his friends aim to discover the spirit's origin. By its later arcs, the manga largely shifts its focus to the collectible card game Duel Monsters (originally known as Magic & Wizards), where opposing players "duel" each other in mock battles of fantasy monsters.
The manga spawned a media franchise, which includes multiple anime series, spin-off manga, video games, and a real-world card game adapted from the fictional Duel Monsters game. The original series was adapted into two anime series: an eponymous series produced by Toei Animation, which aired from April to October 1998; and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, produced by NAS and animated by Gallop, which aired from April 2000 to September 2004. The franchise also includes four films, with an eponymous short film based on the Toei series released March 1999, and the Duel Monsters anime leading to the feature films Pyramid of Light (2004) and Bonds Beyond Time (2010), the latter also crossing over with the spin-off series Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, released in 2016, is set after the original manga series.
By July 2022, the manga had over 40 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series, and the overall franchise has generated over $5 billion in retail sales, making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
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