Yu-Gi-Oh is a Japanese manga created by Kazuki Takahashi, which has spawned a franchise including multiple anime series, a trading card game, and numerous video games. Most of the incarnations of the franchise involve the card game called Duel Monsters (originally known as Magic & Wizards), wherein each player uses cards in order to defeat one another.
Yu-Gi-Oh is a show based on a card game (which is an intentional ripoff of Magic the Gathering shown in the original comic book series) about Japanese people who speak with New York accents and "teh heart of the cards, lol". Okay, so there's this boy with a 58-year old's voice by the name of Yugi Muto. He's got some big Egyptian bling around his neck, and he runs around with several androgynous guys and dresses like a biker.
Despite having a girlfriend, Tea, all he does is play Tokyo No-Limit Hold 'em Poker with other boys who politely take turns hair tossing, and betting their souls on the game. Episode upon episode is spent discussing card strategies and acquisition of the Egyptian God Rings.
Season 0 Plot summary: Little is known about the real 1st season of yugioh because the English-speaking world considered it too violent. The series went for several episodes and showed u how Yugi solved the hardest puzzle in the world that took at least 100 years to solve. This is said by some to be the best series 'cause Yugi actually forced someone to shoot and kill themseves—now that's entertainment!
Season 1 Plot summary: The show introduces Yugi Mutou a 13 year old boy also to be a future an hero living with his Grandpa, who runs a card/drugs shop. Yugi has a girl friend and two boyfriends that hang around him because he's easy. They are known as Tea Gardner, Joey Wheeler, and Tristan Taylor. All of them love Yugi's heart of the cards. Yugi's grandpa is finally caught and taken away to a castle owned by a toon-obsessed weirdo named Pegasus J. Crawford, also known as Maximillion Pegasus. Yugi fights Pegasus for his Grandpa's freedom. Kaiba also joins in to save his brother from the child labor exploiting clutches of Maximillion Pegasus who is about to send him to the Shadow Realm.
Season 2 Plot summary: Seto Kaiba challenges the whole world and Yugi to attend his card game tournament. For instant lulz, Yugi beats him and Kaiba realizes how much of a waste of time and money the card game actually is.
Season 3 Plot summary: Nobody cares.
Characters in Yu-Gi-Oh
Yugi: The main 13 year old boy of the show. Since he cant afford Pokemon cards he plays Duel Monsters instead. He wears around his neck the Millennium Puzzle, one of the seven Millennium Items and an ancient Egyptian artifact that gives him an excuse to be bi-polar. When Yugi is playing a game or under stress, his bi-polar surfaces and he pretends that a 3,000-year-old nameless pharaoh takes partial or complete control of the body. Yugi is the twink of his two personalities as even Pegasus is more masculine than him.
Dark Yugi/ Yami Yugi/Bi Polar Yugi: - The pharaoh Atem who became a An hero in his previous life. His soul is trapped in "Yugi's Millennium Puzzle" along with some "Millenium" crack. Dark Yugi is Yugi's straight side.
Téa Gardner: - Téa is Yugi's girlfriend. She sucks at playing the actual card game, because she's a girl and doesn't have to be good at anything except.
Joseph "Joey" Wheeler: - Yugi's boyfriend who destroys the English language whenever he opens his greasy mouth. Follows Yugi around at the start of the first season asking him for money to feed his little sister's drug addiction. He later finds out the duel monsters are serious business and starts playing it to win money. Of course he is still a complete idiot because everybody knows you could make more just selling the damn cards on ebay.
Tristan Taylor: - Yugi's other boyfriend. Dueled in one episode, but that got edited out for the English version because it was too lame. Is madly in love with every girl on the tv show like Brock from Pokemon. Unlike Brock but, he loves every guy on the show as well.
Ryo Bakura: - Bakura is bi-polar, also like Yugi. By day his is a normal school student, while at night he is a 3,000 year old spirit that lives in his Millennium ring, with the power of the cards. He intends to collect all of the Millennium items FTW.
Seto Kaiba: - The Bill Gates of the world, and sees Yugi is a threat. He is the president of Kaiba Corporation, the biggest game company in the world, that's slowly taking it over like Wal-mart.
Mokuba Kaiba: - Seto Kaiba's younger brother. Besides that, he does a whole load of nothing except for getting kidnapped.
Maximillion Pegasus: - Pegasus is the only straight character in the entire show. He is also the creator of the Magic the Gathering, no I mean Pokemon...err, Digimon... or was it Dragon Ball Z? Oh yeah, it was Duel Monsters. Anyway, he possesses the Millennium Eye that can see whats under your clothes, and tries to take over the Kaiba Corporation so that he could use its technology to see his dead wife, Cyndia.
The demon from "Dogma" is a regular character. Oh and the guy on the right is just a dawg.
Typical scene from a Yu-Gi-Oh GXXX episode.
The original Yu-Gi-Oh! series recently concluded when everybody remembered that the card game was just a fad and laughed at seeing formerly expensive packs of cards at Dollar General.
Recently a spin-off called "Yu-Gi-Oh! GX" launched on Cartoon Network, all about people who somehow make a living playing cards. And people wonder why their children are useless.
In this series, 13 year old boys and some token fan-service girls attend a school that teaches them how to play this extremely simple card game. Various things try to destroy or control the school and the students must protect it, because if there was no school then there would be no plot for the next episode, and everybody knows kids love school.
Actual Card Game,IRL Strategies and Relevance to the Internets
To go with the TV show, you to can spend/waste money on actual cards from the show. People take this game seriously, and regional tournaments are held for 13 year old boys and goatse lovers. Upper Deck Entertainment, the people behind the card game also decide to ban cards or restrict their usage in decks, making pieces of cardboard with Ink on them even more worthless.
Ban Hammer Cards
Every couple of months Upper Deck Entertainment likes to ban cards from being played IRL tournaments. Over the years this has caused major butthurt for nerds that call themselves Duelists, because when the finally get that one rare card they have spent 3 months tracking down on ebay, it often gets banhammered.
Exodia the Butthurt
Other ways to become a winner is if you get all six pieces of "Exodia" in your hand at once. This includes the cards "Exodia the Forbidden One", "Left Arm of the Forbidden One", "Left Leg of the Forbidden One", "Right Leg of the Forbidden One", and the legendary "Right Arm of the Forbidden One" FTW.
Please Save the Children
Besides draining the children's wallets dry, Konami (IRL card producers of Yugioh) also edited a lot of the images in the cards. Editing art often consists of removing guns, [Guro|blood]], halos, nudity or changing the artwork altogether.
I'm in your hobby store, weighing your cards
As of last Thursday, a Nerd who rage quit the game, but before he did he sold his secret to profit. Holographic Cards in Yu-Gi-Oh weigh more then non Holographic Cards!!!1 Who would have thought. Anyway, Holographic cards are worth heaps but there's only 6 of them in a box of 24 packs of this crap. If you use some scales, the same type a drug seller would use, you can weigh the packs of cards before you buy them, in the store so the manager asks "WTF?". Buy the heaviest packs and presto, you now have shiny pieces of cardboard!
