History Anime / YuGiOh

* BreakoutVillain: Kaiba and the card game were meant to be seen twice... plans changed.

* CaptainErsatz: Zombire, a fairly transparent takeoff on {{Spawn}}, and the favorite superhero of a minor character.

* ChainsawGood: The "Chopman" from Death-T.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Cruelly averted in the Zombire story.

* ColorWash: The first anime has an incredibly supersaturated neon palette.
* ConspicuousCGI: The first series had this a few times (such as in the opening, or in episode 6 with the stairs) and it was quite obvious.

* CovertPervert: Yugi -- he is shown imagining someone's panties after hearing what Tea has to say about boys peeking up girls' skirts while playing basketball. Even in the Millennium World Arc they're still exchanging videos... [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/yu_gi_oh_millennium_world/v01/c003/12.html Manga link]]

* DeathTrap: Kaiba's sadistic "amusement park," "Death-T," is basically a long series of increasingly difficult death traps designed to defeat and kill Yugi.

* TheDitz: Miho in the first anime series.

* DuelsDecideEverything: If you have a conflict, battle with cards!

* FanNickname: 'Series 0' or 'Season 0' for the Toei anime.
** [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} The Forbidden Season]]

* AbandonedWarehouse: The Toei ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series gave a warehouse to the yoyo gang, the [[StalkerWithACrush Capumon guy]] and the [[TheKidWithTheRemoteControl guy who plays with 'digital pets']]. Bandit Kieth also dueled Yugi in an abandoned warehouse that had its own Duel Monsters arena.

** Jounouchi's alcoholic father as well.

* AdaptationDyeJob: GREEN HAIR

* [[AmusementPark Amusement Park Of Doom]]: Death-T.

* AscendedExtra: Miho Nosaka in the Toei anime.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: An early PhonyPsychic enemy of the week.

** Kaiba in the first anime - Kaiba pretends to befriend Yugi and has Yugi's grandfather's Blue Eyes White Dragon switched with a copy. When Yugi figures this out and calls out Kaiba on the switch, Kaiba loses the facade and whacks Yugi in the face with a briefcase.

Following the [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]] made by Kazuki Takahashi, there were actually two YuGiOh anime series: [[YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries The first anime]], which covers the first seven volumes of the manga (though with ''very'' major changes, including making Kaiba a more frequently recurring villain), which was made by Toei; and this one, the second series, ''Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters'', was produced by NAS and is adapted from volume 8 onward, rather loosely in some places (and featuring several {{Filler Arc}}s).

Following the [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]] made by Kazuki Takahashi, there were actually two anime series: The first anime, which covers the first seven volumes of the manga (though with ''very'' major changes, including making Kaiba a more frequently recurring villain), which was made by Toei; and this one, the second series, ''Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters'', was produced by NAS and is adapted from volume 8 onward, rather loosely in some places (and featuring several {{Filler Arc}}s).

Following the Manga made by [[Manga/YuGiOh manga by Kazuki Takahashi]], there were actually two anime series: The first anime, which covers the first seven volumes of the manga (though with ''very'' major changes, including making Kaiba a more frequently recurring villain), which was made by Toei; and this one, the second series, ''Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters'', was produced by NAS and is adapted from volume 8 onward, rather loosely in some places (and featuring several {{Filler Arc}}s).

Started as a [[Manga/YuGiOh manga by Kazuki Takahashi]], ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' tells the story of Yugi Mutou, a put-upon teenager who is pulled into a world of intrigue and high-stakes gaming after solving the mysterious, ancient Millennium Puzzle. The puzzle, an artifact from ancient Egypt, grants Yugi a mysterious alter ego, who spends much of the early anime facing evildoers who threaten his friends in "Shadow Games", where mystic forces punish the wicked if they lose.

Starting with the "Duelist Kingdom" arc, the focus of the story turned towards the trading-card game Duel Monsters, which was revealed to be based on an ancient Egyptian game played by the previous owners of the Millennium Items. From then on, Yugi and his friends, high-school punks Joey Wheeler and Tristan Taylor and love interest Tea Gardner, find themselves facing bad guys seeking to use the power of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle for their own nefarious purposes, and always in games of Duel Monsters.

There were actually two anime series: The first anime, which covers the first seven volumes of the manga (though with ''very'' major changes, including making Kaiba a more frequently recurring villain), was made by Toei; the second series, ''Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters'', was produced by NAS and is adapted from volume 8 onward, rather loosely in some places (and featuring several {{Filler Arc}}s).

Originally based off a [[Manga/YuGiOh manga series]]. Spawned three sequel series in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', and ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL''. There's also a spin-off manga, ''Manga/{{Yu-Gi-Oh R}}'', and a huge amount of video games, the most famous of which is ''Videogame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction''. The Toei anime spawned a 30-minute movie and the NAS anime spawned ''[[Anime/YuGiOhTheMoviePyramidOfLight The Pyramid of Light]]'' movie. Yugi and his alter ego return in the ''Anime/{{Yu Gi Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie}}'' that [[BatFamilyCrossover teams him up with Juudai and Yusei.]]

The show is also responsible for the creation of ''TheAbridgedSeries'' genre of internet videos, with ''[[WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]''.

This series has [[TearJerker/{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Tear Jerker]], [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} High Octane Nightmare Fuel]], [[AwesomeMusic/YuGiOh Crowning Music]], and [[Characters/YuGiOh Character Sheet]] pages, as well as [[{{Recap/Yu-Gi-Oh Manga}} a recap page for the manga]].

The show is also responsible for the creation of ''TheAbridgedSeries'' genre of internet videos, with ''[[WebOrigina/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]''.

This series has [[TearJerker/{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Tear Jerker]], [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} High Octane Nightmare Fuel]], [[AwesomeMusic/YuGiOh Crowning Music]], and [[Characters/{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Character Sheet]] pages, as well as [[{{Recap/Yu-Gi-Oh Manga}} a recap page for the manga]].

Originally based off a [[Manga/YuGiOh manga series]]. Spawned three sequel series in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', and ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL''. There's also a spin-off manga, ''Manga/{{Yu-Gi-Oh R}}'', and a huge amount of video games, the most famous of which is ''Videogame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction''. The Toei anime spawned a 30-minute movie and the NAS anime spawned ''The Pyramid of Light'' movie. Yugi and his alter ego return in the ''Anime/{{Yu Gi Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie}}'' that [[BatFamilyCrossover teams him up with Juudai and Yusei.]]

The show is also responsible for the creation of ''TheAbridgedSeries'' genre of internet videos, with ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: "Card games are serious business."
** Dramatically animated belt clipping-on sequence?

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** Actually, Mokuba might qualify as a MoralityChain, as the Season Zero/manga version of Kaiba shows [[AxCrazy exactly what happens to his personality without Mokuba holding him back.]]
*** Having the evil part of his soul destroyed was probably more responsible for reining in his psychotic malevolence, though the manga at least is pretty explicit in stating that Mokuba is the last and final piece of his rebuilt heart.

* OddlyNamedSequel: ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''; ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''; ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL''[[hottip:*:pronounced "Zeal"]].

** Also presented by Yami Bakura in the original manga (volume ten of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist), when he interrupts the match of DDM between Yugi and Ryuuji Otogi to prevent the former from losing the Millennium Puzzle.

** To be fair, after the point where the PlotTumor hits, the card game is only played during Duelist Kingdom saga, the Battle City saga, and the Ceremonial Battle. In the manga, the Dungeon Dice Monsters saga and the Pharaoh's Memory saga are almost completely devoid of Duel Monsters It's much more prevalent in the second series anime, where even flashbacks to chapters where the card game ''wasn't even introduced yet'' in the manga were altered to involve cards. This also doesn't stop every other related spin-offs from focusing exclusively on the card game after the original manga ended.
* PokemonSpeak: In Volumes 6-7 of the manga, the Monster World characters Pau and Pokii speak using their own names.

* SadistTeacher: Ms. Chono in the manga.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Kaiba has a [[ParentalAbandonment long]] [[PromotionToParent history]] of [[OrphanageOfFear this]] [[AbusiveParents kind]] of [[SelfMadeOrphan tropes]]. Also Marik.

** There's a literal soul jar in the original manga.

* SwallowTheKey: One character in the manga does this as part of his hereditary Human Vault job. It's one of the many AccidentalNightmareFuel moments [[FridgeHorror if you think about how he'd have been prepared for the role...]]

*** Actually, he didn't duel through the tape. The tape was enchanted to pull Yugi into a Shadow Game, where the actual Pegasus was waiting. The recording only made the announcement and activated the spell.
**** Straighter in the manga where Yugi doesn't get pulled anywhere (unless the whole living room with his friends and Grandpa got pulled in too and it wasn't noted in any way).

* UncattyResemblance: Everyone's, but especially Yugi's, virtual pet in the manga.
** Also for their game pieces in Bakura's Monster World. Again, emphasis on Yugi's perfectly matching hair.

* WagerSlave: In the manga, this was basically the entire point.

Started as a manga by Kazuki Takahashi, ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' tells the story of Yugi Mutou, a put-upon teenager who is pulled into a world of intrigue and high-stakes gaming after solving the mysterious, ancient Millennium Puzzle. The puzzle, an artifact from ancient Egypt, grants Yugi a mysterious alter ego, who spends much of the early anime facing evildoers who threaten his friends in "Shadow Games", where mystic forces punish the wicked if they lose.

Spawned three sequel series in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', and ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL''. There's also a spin-off manga, ''Manga/{{Yu-Gi-Oh R}}'', and a huge amount of video games, the most famous of which is ''Videogame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction''. The Toei anime spawned a 30-minute movie and the NAS anime spawned ''The Pyramid of Light'' movie. Yugi and his alter ego return in the ''Anime/{{Yu Gi Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie}}'' that [[BatFamilyCrossover teams him up with Juudai and Yusei.]]

* DeathByChildbirth: In the manga, Mokuba explains that his mother died shortly after his birth. Whether this was by childbirth or not is not specified, but [[PromotionToParent the result stays the same.]] Also, Marik's mother.
* DeathByIrony: Most of Yami Yugi's Penalty Games in the manga, though not ''all'' of the victims necessarily die and they get less extreme as the series goes on. One particularly disturbing example that doesn't involve death is his Penalty Game towards a crooked director. Earlier in the chapter, the director mentions using a mosaic to filter out the beaten Yugi's face. When he suffers his Penalty Game, he is forever blinded with a mosaic over his eyes.

* DisproportionateRetribution: In the early manga. For example, the leader of gang that broke Yugi's class' stand and injured him was blown up by Yami.
** Yami does this all the time in the early manga. He punched through a kid's soul for being a thieving coward, and made a shop owner poison himself for running crooked... there are a ''lot'' of examples.
** Also, the Kaiba brothers. After Yami beats Kaiba in Magic and Wizards and puts him through a (temporary and nonlethal) Penalty Game which was ''supposed'' to make him change his ways, he spends the next year or so putting together a ridiculously elaborate series of {{death trap}}s to kill Yugi and all his friends. Not to mention Mokuba, who challenged Yugi to a game of Capsule Monsters at gunpoint to get revenge for Kaiba's first loss, and then later played a very unorthodox rigged version of Russian Roulette with Yugi and Jonouchi for ''his'' first loss.

* EyeScream: The series seems to love this trope. Pegasus and Aknadin as the owners of the Millennium Eye have pretty gruesome moments. Then there's Jonouchi stabbing Zork in the eye during the Monster World arc in the manga. Tenma Yakou from Yu-Gi-Oh R has his eye melting out from his face in a surreal scene.

** TheSmartGuy - Yugi/Kaiba when he's not being a Jerkass

**** And yet the two finalists in Duelist Kingdom were still in high-school, one of whom had to work just to pay for his own school. Although, he won pretty much of his duels in that arc using either Time Wizard (gift from Yugi) or Red-Eyes B. Dragon (won from Rex using Time Wizard). After that, he always wins using either a rare card he won or just luck.

** From the original manga, despite all the weirdness Yugi & Co. have experienced(magic multiple personalities, shadow games, Kaiba Land, etc.) when Bakura tell them everyone who plays "Monster Land" with him goes into a coma, they presume it's a coincidence and insist he play anyway. Even after the mean gym teacher suddenly goes into one!

** LittleKuriboh has noted that he doesn't [[YugiohTheAbridgedSeries abridge]] "Season 0" because high-quality footage of that series is impossible to find, but of course it has to exist somewhere out there because there's many fansubs of it. (He was right)

** Played to a much creepier effect in the early volumes of the manga and Season Zero, where the games were often improvised based on the environment around them, and nearly always ended in death, insanity, or grievous bodily harm (compared to the later over-reliance on Tournament Arcs).

** If Marik's name were [[SpellMyNameWithAnS transliterated]] correctly when moving into the English dub, it would be the Arabic name [[http://www.behindthename.com/name/malik Malik]] (or "???" in Arabic script), which is based on the words for "king" or "possessor" in the Arabic language. Incidentally, Marik [[BodySnatcher possesses]] several people and [[TakeOverTheWorld wants to be the pharaoh/king of Egypt/the world]] as a BigBad.
** Also Odion's name in the Japanese version is [[http://www.behindthename.com/name/rashid Rashid]], meaning "rightly guided" in Arabic. Odion/Rashid is Marik/Malik's older adopted brother and serves as one of his two [[MoralityPet Morality Pets]] in the series.

** Why has nobody pointed out the most obvious example? "YUGI" MEANS "GAME", FERCRYINOUTLOUD!

* AbandonedWarehouse: The manga has a warehouse in the two [[KillerYoYo yoyo gang]] stories and the Mokuba Kaiba capmon game. The Toei ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series gave a warehouse to the yoyo gang, the [[StalkerWithACrush Capumon guy]] and the [[TheKidWithTheRemoteControl guy who plays with 'digital pets']]. Bandit Kieth also dueled Yugi in an abandoned warehouse that had its own Duel Monsters arena.

* AbusiveParents: Gozaburo Kaiba, Marik and Isis's father. Also, Ryuji Otogi/Duke Devlin's father in the manga.

* ArtEvolution: Check out the changes between Volume 1 and Volume 5. Jonouchi's hairstyle changes from a Leonardo [=DiCaprio=]-esque style to the signature Jonouchi style, and the general appearance of the characters changes. The Other Yugi appears increasingly less evil. Originally Yugi was often drawn without a nose.
** Their bodies also had really odd proportions at the start - so Yugi not only had no nose, but he also had HUGE HANDS and a smile that literally looked like a banana. Mocked relentlessly in LittleKuriboh's review of the first chapter.

* AuthorAppeal: Did you know Kazuki Takahashi likes games? Because it says so in every volume of the manga. Like we couldn't tell...

** Joey as well who's arguably the most normal of the main duelist.

** Kaiba in the first appearance of the manga and the first anime - Kaiba pretends to befriend Yugi and has Yugi's grandfather's Blue Eyes White Dragon switched with a copy. When Yugi figures this out and calls out Kaiba on the switch, Kaiba loses the facade and whacks Yugi in the face with a briefcase.
** Kaiba does it a second time during Death-T in the manga. He pretends that he has forgiven Yugi and simply wants to let him and Jonouchi have a good time; once Yugi discovers that his grandfather is in the battle arena, Kaiba drops the pretense of being nice.
** Nezumi in the manga - Yugi and Jonouchi meet Nezumi at school. Nezumi claims that a gang of bullies attacked him and that he needed help in dealing with them. [[spoiler: In fact Nezumi was ordered by Hirutani, Jonouchi's old middle school friend and now enemy, to have Jonouchi and Yugi lured to the abandoned warehouse so that Jonouchi could be forced to re-join Hirutani's gang]]

* BlackMagicianGirl: TropeNamer due to the "Dark Magician Girl" card, with is actually named "Black Magician Girl" in the original anime.

* BrokenBridge: The only thing that keeps Marik from interfering the events of [[StealthPun Noa's Arc]] is... a locked door.

** In the manga, when Marik uses Lava Golem (summoning it to Jonouchi's side of the field), he tells Jonouchi that its attack is called "Golem Volcano". Jonouchi insists that since it's on his side of the field, he'll name the attacks, and hits Marik with a "JONOUCHI FIRE" instead.

** Also, an assassin hired by Kaiba during the Death-T arc looks remarkably like Duke Togo of ''{{Manga/Golgo13}}''.

* CherryTapping: In the manga version of Joey's duel with Espa Roba, Joey wins by having ''Baby Dragon'' attack Roba directly. It's not the weakest monster by a longshot, but it's still pretty embarrassing.
** Don't forget how Yugi managed to stall off Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with Kuriboh, labeled as the weakest monster in the game.

* TheChessmaster: Kaiba in the Death-T arc. He even has the chessboard.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In the original manga, the price for losing or cheating one of the Pharaoh's Shadow Games was to receive a "Penalty Game" that would deliver PoeticJustice for the rest of your life. This ranged from forever seeing nothing but hallucinations of money, to having ''your vision mosaic censored''.
** Which made perfect sense, considering that these games were not games in the classic sense but rather an occult judgement of the player's soul where they were forced to reveal their true selves. Thus, those found guilty would always have the punishment fit the crime, such as the school bully who decided to just forget the game and murder Yami to keep the stack of money... only to be found the next day rolling in dead leaves, thinking them to be cash.

* CovertPervert: Yugi -- he is shown imagining someone's panties after hearing what Tea has to say about boys peeking up girls' skirts while playing basketball.
** That boy has completely NOT leapfrogged adolescence. In the first manga arc, right after he's made friends with Jonouchi, they're seen talking about some porn videos they've been exchanging. Talking about 'squinting at the pixels' really leaves little else it can be.
** Even in the Millennium World Arc they're still exchanging videos... [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/yu_gi_oh_millennium_world/v01/c003/12.html Manga link]]

* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: Pegasus' favorite cartoon character is Funny Rabbit (Funny Bunny in the dub). For actual cards, there's Dark Rabbit, Blade Rabbit or Mecha Bunny.

* CuteShotaroBoy: Yugi and Mokuba.
** In TheMovie of the first anime, also Shougo.

*** In the original version, Kaiba and Atem even point out that the duel was completely different from what they expected. Atem handwaves it, saying the memory world is probably not an accurate representation of what really took place.

** [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveGreenHair Screw the rules]], then!

Spawned three sequel series in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', and ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal''. There's also a spin-off manga, ''Manga/{{Yu-Gi-Oh R}}'', and a huge amount of video games, the most famous of which is ''Videogame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction''. The Toei anime spawned a 30-minute movie and the NAS anime spawned ''The Pyramid of Light'' movie. Yugi and his alter ego return in the ''Anime/{{Yu Gi Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie}}'' that [[BatFamilyCrossover teams him up with Juudai and Yusei.]]

* OddlyNamedSequel: ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''; ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''; ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal''[[hottip:*:pronounced "Zeal"]].

** Also, an assassin hired by Kaiba during the Death-T arc looks remarkably like Duke Togo of ''Golgo13''.

* ChinesePeople: Vivian Wong.

For the card game based on the manga and anime, see TabletopGame/YuGiOh.

For the card game based on the manga and anime, see Tabletopgame/YuGiOh.

For the card game based on the manga and anime, see {{Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game}}.

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