It began as a manga in Japan in 1996, the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise has since grown to an immensely successful global brand, spawning various manga and anime series, a real-life version of the card game featured in the story, video games, toys, and many other products. See the section ' Card game' below for different names of the game) wherein each player purchases and assembles a Deck of Monster, Spell, and Trap Cards in order to defeat one another and gain victory. Yu-Gi-Oh! ( 遊☆戯☆王 ( ＹＵ－ＧＩ－ＯＨ！ ) Yūgiō, Japanese for 'Game King' or 'King of Games') is a popular Japanese anime and manga franchise from Kazuki Takahashi that mainly involves characters who play a card game called Duel Monsters (originally called Magic & Wizards in the manga. Yu-Gi-Oh!Īnime movies: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light For other uses of Yu-Gi-Oh! or 'King of Games', see Yu-Gi-Oh! (disambiguation). For the first NAS anime series, see Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime).

For the Toei anime series, see Yu-Gi-Oh! (Toei anime). For the original manga, see Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga).