Synopses & Reviews
Tenth-grade loner Yugi always had his head in some game - until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing the spirit of a master gambler from the age of the pharoahs! Now, Yugi has become Yu-Gi-Oh - and the Shadow Games has begun!
Synopsis
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
The place: the top of a 13-story skyscraper. The duel: Yugi and Kaiba vs. the Rare Hunters in a tag-team match But even if Yugi escapes a deadly drop to his death, the worst is yet to come. His best friends, Mai and Jonouchi, have been possessed by Marik Now, Yugi must fight Marik's mind inside Jonouchi's body. But the rules of this duel are...only the winner comes out alive
About the Author
Artist/author Kazuki Takahashi first tried to break into the manga business in 1982, but success eluded hiim until Yu-Gi-Oh! debuted in the Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1996. Yu-Gi-Oh!'s themes of friendship and fighting, together with Takahashi's weird and imaginative monsters, soon became enormously successful, spawning a real-world card game, video games, and three anime series (two Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! series and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX). A lifelong gamer, Takahashi enjoys Shogi (Japanese chess), Mahjong, card games, and tabletop RPGs, among other games.