Main articles: School (arc), Death-T (arc), and Monster World (arc)

A number of minor changes are made, but significantly less than in other English adaptions of Yu-Gi-Oh! media. The English version is subdivided into three series Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist and Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World. In the final arc, Dark Yugi relives his past life as a Pharaoh through a role-playing game, the Shadow RPG. The story later focuses more on the card game Duel Monsters as a plot device in two tournament arcs and stories spanning over many more chapters. It focused on the adventures of Yugi Mutou, who would unknowingly become possessed by Dark Yugi and defeat bullies and evildoers in dangerous Shadow Games. The story was initially episodic, with a few exceptions. These were reprinted in 38 volumes in the tankoban and 22 in the bunkoban. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from Septemto March 8, 2004.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a manga series about games by Kazuki Takahashi, which the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise originated from. For the first subseries of the English manga, see Yu-Gi-Oh! (subseries).

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