Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0 (Anime)

Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王) is the first anime series of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. The 27 episode series was produced by Toei Animation, and aired on TV Asahi from April 4 to October 10, 1998. While this series is not directly connected to Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, both anime series are based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga.

Manga plots were re-written so that they could take up an entire episode's worth of time. Also, the level of violence was reduced between the manga and the anime. Finally, Miho Nosaka, became a main character in the first series along with Yugi Muto, Joey Wheeler, Tea Gardner, and Tristan Taylor. The characters' personalities was slightly modified, for example, Miho is a "ditz" in the anime while in the manga she is a shy student librarian. Also, Tristan is Joey's verbal sparring partner in the manga instead of his crony in the anime. Unlike the second series, the Duel Monsters card game is not the sole focus of the show. However, the Duel Monsters rules have been updated, becoming more like those used in the Duelist Kingdom, even though this anime never gets to that point. The last episodes of the series focus on the battle between Yugi and Dark Bakura. The series has not been licensed for an English-language release.

Darkness Game
In this series, Yami Yugi doesn't challenge people to a duel of Duel Monsters. Instead, he would challenge them to a Shadow Game, or Yami no Game, where he would then explain the rules. However, the person in question would cheat and the Doors of Darkness will open, thus Yami Yugi would do a Penalty Game upon the person, and whatever they obsess over the most would be their nightmare, such as their makeup falling off and showing their true face or watches fusing to their being. Duel Monsters was not the main point of the show but was played a few times.

Films

 * Yu-Gi-Oh! The movie

Voice Cast

 * Japanese


 * Megumi Ogata as Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
 * Toshiyuki Morikawa as Joey Wheeler
 * Yumi Kakazu as Tea Gardner
 * Ryotaro Okiayu as Tristan Taylor
 * Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Ryo Bakura/Yark Bakura
 * Hikaru Midorikawa as Seto Kaiba
 * Yukana Nogami as Miho Nosaka
 * Katsue Miwa as Mokuba Kaiba
 * Takeshi Aono as Sugoroku Mutou
 * Kaneto Shiozawa as Shadi
 * Michiko Neya as Serenity Wheeler
 * Unshou Ishizuka as Gozaburo Kaiba
 * Ryuzaburo Otomo as Ushio
 * Yuri Amano as Miyuki Sakurai
 * Ryo Horikawa as Ryuichi Fuha
 * Miina Tominaga as Aileen Rao
 * Atsushi Kisaichi as Heida
 * Chikao Ohtsuka as Ridley Sheldon
 * Masako Katsuki as Ms. Chono
 * Nobuo Tobita as Kiwami Warashibe
 * Shigeru Chiba as Kokurano
 * Ryusei Nakano as Playing Card Bomber
 * Wakana Yamazaki as Risa Kageyama A
 * Emi Uwagara as Risa Kageyama B
 * Konomi Maeda as Risa Kageyama C
 * Nobuyuki Hiyama as Tetsu
 * Ryuji Saikachi as Daimon
 * Megumi Urawa as Imori
 * Nobuyuki Hiyama as Dragon
 * Yumi Touma as Kaoruko Himekouji
 * Konomi Maeda as Pokii
 * Masaya Takatsuka as Pao
 * Hiroshi Ito as Detective
 * Michie Tomizawa as School nurse

Trivia
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 * Despite being his trump card in the next series, Yugi never played "Dark Magician" in this show. However, Yugi is seen using it in the opening theme.
 * Yugi finally Summons "Dark Magician" in Yu-Gi-Oh! the movie.
 * "Unguard Magic" is the only card in English.
 * Characters are more accurate to their manga equivalents. Kaiba is seen with green hair and wears a white outfit like Noah Kaiba in the third season of the next series.
 * Some manga chapters are packed together in one episode (eg. the 3 chapters with Hirutani occur in only one episode).
 * The Millennium Items are not gold-colored only. In fact, they are colored gold and brown (except for Yugi's Puzzle).
 * Most of the dark games are changed, except for the Dragon Card against Himori and Shadi's tests.
 * Most of the monsters are colored differently, except for "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".
 * The card backings show stylised "MW" letters for "Magic and Wizards", even though the characters refer to the game as Duel Monsters.
 * Cards are played on a duel mat with different areas depicted. All these areas give a 30% bonus to monsters placed in the right area. This is similar to the "field power bonus" in the Duelist Kingdom arc in the next series.
 * Only a few duels use Kaiba's virtual reality system to show monsters.