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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
It's time to duel!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kenjiro Tsuda
Seto Kaiba (voice)
224 eps
Hiroki Takahashi
Katsuya Jonouchi / Joey Wheeler (voice)
224 eps
Shunsuke Kazama
Yugi Muto / Yami Yugi (voice)
224 eps
Maki Saito
Anzu Mazaki / Téa Gardner (voice)
224 eps
Takayuki Kondo
Hiroto Honda / Tristan Taylor (voice)
224 eps
Rica Matsumoto
Ryo Bakura / Yami Bakura (voice)
224 eps
Junko Takeuchi
Mokuba Kaiba (voice)
224 eps
Tetsuya Iwanaga
Marik Ishtar (voice)
224 eps
Ryou Naitou
Ryuuji Otogi / Duke Devlin (voice)
224 eps
Haruhi Nanao
Mai Kujaku / Mai Valentine (voice)
224 eps
Jirou Jay Takasugi
Pegasus J. Crawford / Maximillion Pegasus (voice)
224 eps
Nozomu Sasaki
Shadi (voice)
224 eps
Tadashi Miyazawa
Sugoroku Muto / Solomon Muto
224 eps
Mika Sakenobe
Shizuka Kawai / Serenity Wheeler (voice)
224 eps
Sumi Shimamoto
Ishizu Ishtar (voice)
224 eps
Hitoshi Bifu
Aknadin / Akhenaden (voice)
224 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and Character Depth.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
Bullies often target someone frail and weak—someone exactly like Yûgi Muto. He treasures his Millennium Puzzle, an ancient Egyptian artifact that was brought into his grandfather's game shop. Believing that solving the puzzle will grant him his wish, he completes the puzzle, unleashing a new personality within him, the soul of the "King of Games." The new personality named Yami Yûgi is the exact opposite of Yûgi. Upon any injustice toward him, Yami Yûgi takes over Yûgi's body and forces the opponent into a "Shadow Game".
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E39
Yugi vs. Pegasus: Match of the Millennium (5)
Pegasus summons Relinquished, a fearsome monster that can consume Yugi’s Duel Monsters! Yugi counters with… Kuriboh? The smallest, weakest creature in the game? Has Yugi given up, or does he have one last strategy to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? The Shadow Game comes to a close!
- Directed by Naoki Hishikawa
- Written by Junki Takegami
S01E34
Best of Friends, Best of Duelists (2)
Yugi is shocked as Jonouchi uses the Time Wizard card on him, the very card he gave Jonouchi as a sign of friendship! However, as the two battle each other valiantly and one comes out the victor, they find confirmation of the strength of their friendship that surpasses any duel.
- Written by Masashi Sogo
S01E37
Yugi vs. Pegasus: Match of the Millennium (3)
Yugi has found a counter to Pegasus’s mind-reading ability: Yugi switches back and forth between his two souls! Yugi is able to destroy Pegasus’s Toon World, but the duel has just only begun. The next level of the deadly Shadow Game is about to start!
- Directed by Kenichi Kasai
- Written by Junki Takegami
S01E36
Yugi vs. Pegasus: Match of the Millennium (2)
Pegasus punishes Yugi using the same Toon Deck and mind-reading abilities he used on Kaiba. As Pegasus turns Yugi’s monsters against him, Yugi loses the will to battle. Will Pegasus capture Yugi’s soul into a card, just like Kaiba?
- Written by Junki Takegami
S01E33
Best of Friends, Best of Duelists (1)
With his pride in his strength as a duelist on the line, Jonouchi challenges Yugi for the right to face Pegasus. In a battle between friends, a fierce match ensues between the two people who know each other’s strategies and cards as they struggle to keep their thoughts of past loyalties at the back of their minds.
- Written by Masashi Sogo
S01E26
Champion vs. Creator (1)
Yugi and friends enter the castle to discover Kaiba ready to duel Pegasus with Mokuba’s soul hanging in the balance! The power of the Millennium Eye gives Pegasus the ability to read other people’s minds. Can Kaiba defeat an opponent who knows his moves even before he does?
- Written by Shin Yoshida
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E04
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions Commemoration Special: Eternal Rivals - Yuugi and Kaiba
S00E03
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions Just Before Release Special: Eternal Rivals - Yuugi and Kaiba
S00E02
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Battle City Edition: Special Edition Road to Battle City
S01E224
The Final Duel (4)
- Directed by Masahiko Watanabe
- Written by Shin Yoshida
S01E222
The Final Duel (2)
- Directed by Kimiharu Muto
- Written by Shin Yoshida
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Akihiko Inari
Writer
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Shin Yoshida
Writer
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Masashi Sogo
Writer
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Junki Takegami
Writer
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Akemi Omode
Writer
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Atsushi Maekawa
Writer
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Yasuyuki Suzuki
Writer
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Tadashi Hayakawa
Writer
Taiki Sakurai
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Akihiko InariWriter
- Shin YoshidaWriter
- Masashi SogoWriter
- Junki TakegamiWriter
- Akemi OmodeWriter
- Atsushi MaekawaWriter
Direction
- Hiroaki ShimuraDirector
- Yukihiro ShinoDirector
- Hiroshi TsurutaDirector
- Masaki KitamuraDirector
- Sumito MachidaDirector
- Aki TsunakiDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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