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Whether you’re a fan of the card game itself or you’re in it for the story of restoring an ancient pharaoh’s long-lost memories, there are plenty of little details from Yu-Gi-Oh! that casual fans could have easily missed.
Like many popular anime, Yu-Gi-Oh! started life as a manga, serialized in the popular manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. In this original manga, creator Kazuki Takahashi had a somewhat different vision for the series than what appears on screen. Protagonist Yugi Muto, whose name was changed to Yugi Moto in the English dub, is a bullied high school student. His grandfather, who owns a game shop, allows him to attempt to put together an ancient relic known as the Millennium Puzzle which Yugi, of course, solves.
This should all sound familiar to fans so far. Where the manga series takes a turn is that the alter ego that possesses Yugi after the Puzzle’s completion isn’t an unwaveringly just game master. Instead, this dark entity doles out vigilante justice against bullies and criminals, going so far as to permanently disfigure, brainwash, or dispatch them. These early chapters of the manga don’t focus just on the card game “Magic & Wizards,” as it was originally known, but instead rotate between various diverse games of chance and skill. When an opponent challenges this dark Yugi, it’s a bit like challenging Death to a game of chess, with impossible stakes and unsavory outcomes.
This early Yu-Gi-Oh! is much more of a horror series than what it would become later in its serialization.
The anime series that is most popular in the Western world is not the only Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. Before NAS and Studio Gallop had their go at making one of the most popular shonen anime of the 2000s, Toei Animation produced what has come to be known by some fans as “Season Zero.” This late-’90s attempt has never had an official English-language release, unfortunately, but even Western fans are aware of how it differs from what the majority of us know as Yu-Gi-Oh!
Season Zero hews more closely to the manga’s original story, exploring those dark themes of vigilante justice meted out by a cruel and savvy games master. It also sticks more closely to Takahashi’s original art style, which in the early days was distinguished by his characters’ cuter, more rounded features. Since licensors have gone this long without attempting to bring this anime stateside, we don’t think it’s likely to ever find its way into the North American market. Still, it’s a nifty piece of the history of the series and its many iterations.
In the early manga and the original 1998 anime adaptation, there is a brief story about a character with a penchant for American superheroes. Hanasaki, a classmate of Yugi’s is obsessed with the American superhero comic “Zombire.” Keep watching the video to see the untold truth of Yu-Gi-Oh!
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Dark manga origins | 0:12
Season Zero | 1:41
Kazuki Takahashi and Western comics | 2:41
Lost in translation | 3:30
Spirits of the Puzzle and the Ring | 5:06
Spinoffs extraordinaire | 6:27
Roll to save the universe | 7:46
It doesn’t pay to double-deal | 8:49
Banned cards | 9:50
Dueling in the tech era | 10:53
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Tea XD
this is yu gi oh tv show season 0 in 1998 😒
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Oh nah you didnt just say "tea" as in Green tea 😂 gtfo
Found season zero online, still my favourite version after over watching the later adaptation
…the script writer needs to check their use of "originally"
Anyone else thought at 1:27 it was an ad? No? Just me then🤦🏽♂️😂
I’d love to see them make 2 shows. One like the current shows and another like season zero. That would be freaking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sad cause I wanna know what happens after the last episode
The real untold truth is EDOPro and Dueling Book.
"untold truth" but we already knew this…
She butchered the hell out the names
you forgot yugioh sevens
The way she pronounce Bakura, im speechless 🤣
What kind of Untold Truth is this when most people here know more about what this entire video's saying.
I use to LIKE yu gi oh..😪 i use to have a crush on yugi & inuashaya i think spell his name right 😂😂.
Clearly she was reading a script and never watched it. She pronounced Tea', tea. Anyone who watched the show should know how to pronounce their names correctly.
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There was more story session left of Yugioh GX season 4 which never got English dubbed and Yugioh 5DS didn't complete the full story on how things happened though..
Lol well the only thing I prefer about the dub is that song😀
Okay. You can get away with pronouncing Tea's name wrong. I only watch the Japanese anyway, so I call her Anzu. And thank you for mentioning that Yuugi's last name is pronounced Muto, not Moto. Ticks me off! Good job on the Japanese pronounciation of the names.
Yugioh 5Ds killed 4Kids and in revenge they seeped into Konami
the next anime is called Yu-Gi-Oh 7, Konami already announced the name and how it will be played
The video is sort of late 90% of us already knew all this information is nothing new
Who is tea? Its said Te A.
Ah man, the nostalgia
I just hated that they tried to make this series “kid friendly” anime is not for kids damn it it never was it’s censored so much that they make it like season 0 never existed that’s why the original Japanese will always be the best
This video should be called lets read Wikipedia on yugioh literally nothing spicy in this whole video
Yu-Gi-Oh is the OG anime that most we fans grew up watching! 🤩🤩😍😍
The anime that made me love math until high school
So many little problems with this video they can't even pronounced Tea and Bakura name right. They said Seto Kiaba was the Antagonist, saying he was the Villian, which ain't really true. 4kids really screwed up Kiaba personality to be honest, his Japanese counterpart is way more dynamic and better then the his English counterpart. Its like 4kids made there Yugioh rivals sound like douchebags. This is one of the reasons why they would Re-dub the first 3 series without all reworks. Like 4kids couldn't even finish GX and 5Ds and 5Ds got the worse end of it because not only was it not finish but they kept skipping through episodes. Its just weird too because when you see the Bonds Beyond Time film some people would get confused on the way how Jaden looks because for people that only seen the dubbed version of Gx wouldn't know that Jaden came back to duel academy after the dark dimension arc, and that's when his appearance changed, with longer hair and longer jacket, and his eyes changing colors. That why i say 4Kids made a major mess with the first 3 series and they need a re-dub them without all the re-editing BS.
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"Untold truth"? You literally explained the entire story 🤦♂️
I just wish they hired someone to do this that actually knew the proper pronunciation of the characters names -_- other than that great video!
I didn’t know Mokuba did Youtube voiceovers.
Omfg untold story of 20 ads for 8 min video. Gross. Unfollowing