YU-GI-OH! - Duelist Kingdom

If there was a show that could give Pokemon a run for its money, it was Yu-Gi-Oh! Based on a popular playing card game and featuring a variety of colorful monsters and combat methods, the anime seemed to border on being geared towards pre-teens and young teens, mostly boys but could be enjoyed by girls as well.

Yu-Gi-Oh! (“Duelist Kingdom” storyarc) – the characters
Yu-Gi-Oh! (“Duelist Kingdom” storyarc) – the storyline

Yu-Gi-Oh! - The Movie (2004)

Dan Green, Eric Stuart (Actors), Hatsuki Tsuji (Director)
Rated: PG | Format: DVD

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Yu-Gi-Oh! (“Duelist Kingdom” storyarc) – the characters:

Yugi Muto - an expert with games and puzzles, especially the card game “Duel Monsters”. He possesses the Millennium Puzzle, which allows him to take on his more cunning “Yami” personality to fight opponents.
Joey Wheeler - a former bully who later becomes one of Yugi’s closest friends. He’s also a skilled Duelist, but is a hothead who gets himself in over his head.
Tea Gardner - Yugi’s childhood friend who dreams of becoming a dancer. Though not as good as her friends, Tea also plays Duel Monsters and joins Yugi and the others.
Tristan Taylor - another friend of Yugi’s who started out as an enemy and took up playing Duel Monsters. He has a crush on Joey’s sister, Serenity.
Seto Kaiba - the teenage president of Kaiba Corporation, one of the world’s biggest gaming companies. He sees himself as the world’s greatest Duelist and will do anything to win.
Maximillion Pegasus - the Chairman of Industrial Illusions and creator of Duel Monsters, Pegasus is the first major villain of the series. He possesses the Millennium Eye, which allows him to read minds, and desires the other Millennium Items.

Yu-Gi-Oh! (“Duelist Kingdom” storyarc) – the storyline:

A fanatic of games and puzzles, young Yugi Muto assembles the Millennium Puzzle, a pyramid-shaped necklace. After putting it on, he soon discovers he can use the Puzzle to take on the personality of “Yami Yugi”, a cunning and ruthless expert in games who uses these skills to battle and punish evil people. He and his friends Tea, Joey and Tristan later get into Duel Monsters, a popular playing card game featuring a variety of monsters and attack abilities, where Yugi, especially in his “Yami” personality, proves to be rather talented at it.

They soon discover, however, that there’s more to the game than it appears. The game’s creator, Maximillion Pegasus, has kidnapped Yugi’s grandfather, and the only way to rescue him is for Yugi to participate in and win Pegasus’ Duel Monsters Tournament. With his friends at his side, Yugi must face off against a variety of other Duelists, each of them rather ruthless and skilled and out to win for their own selfish reasons.

A bit more serious-minded than Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! can be enjoyed by both younger and older anime fans. PLUS, it could be a great way to introduce Grandma and Grandpa to anime in a buzzing kids world. ^.^

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