Yu☆Gi☆Oh! (Movie)

The card game "Duel Monsters" has become all the rage in Domino City. The rules are simple: two players, known as "Duelists," fight each other with the monster cards they have collected in their decks and deduct Life Points. Each Duelist starts with a total of two thousand Life Points, and whoever loses all of them first is defeated in the battle.

One day, a timid boy named Shougo Aoyama buys a deck that contains the "Red Eyes Black Dragon," a legendary card said to bring victory to those courageous enough to fight. Soon, word of the card in Shougo's hands begins to spread, eventually reaching the competitive Duelist Seto Kaiba. Desiring to collect the strongest cards in any way possible, Kaiba invites Shougo and his rival Yuugi Mutou to a Duel Monsters tournament—but will Shougo be able to overcome his fear of losing?

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Yami Yuugi Main

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Kaiba, Seto Main

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Jounouchi, Katsuya Main

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Mutou, Yuugi Main

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Aoyama, Shougo Main

Yamada, Eiko Japanese

Mazaki, Anzu Supporting

Kakazu, Yumi Japanese

Honda, Hiroto Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Dinosaur Ryuuzaki Supporting

Nosaka, Miho Supporting

Yukana Japanese

Shimizu, Junji Director

Kobayashi, Yasuko Script

Sakai, Izumi Theme Song Lyrics

Field of View Theme Song Performance

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Jan 19, 2025

HyeChaeyoung

Recommended

⭐️NO SPOILERS BELOW⭐️

I recently stumbled upon a DVD of the 1999 Yu-Gi-Oh! movie at a yard sale and couldn’t resist the chance to revisit a significant part of my childhood. As one of the first anime I watched around the age of four or five, my memories were hazy, but diving back in was a nostalgic delight.

The film’s animation quality remains really good to me, capturing the essence of the era and bringing back the excitement I felt as a child.

The story was good, as someone mentioned below it does feel like an episode and not like a movie, at all. But that adds ... to the magic of it!

I loves the story progression and the characters, especially Kaiba, his lines were the funniest and brattiest I’ve heard from a villain which is making me watch duel masters next.

Revisiting this film was a heartwarming experience, reminding me of the joy and wonder that Yu-Gi-Oh! brought into my early years. The characters, the duels, and the underlying messages of bravery and camaraderie resonated with me just as much now as they did back then. For anyone looking to relive a piece of their childhood or introduce themselves to the origins of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, this 1999 film is a perfect choice. ❤️

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 21, 2015

lawlmartz

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Children's Card Games Saga Part II: One Card, One Duel, One Useless Rulebook

Okay, so why is it that Kaiba wants this Red Eyes card SO BAD? Seriously, Kaiba is so rich, he's able to hire personal security, owns limousines, CREATED A DUEL MONSTERS THEMED THEME PARK, and an entire expo center complete with 3D holographic animated versions of the duel monsters game, and owns his own corporation
...
and the mother f*r still can't go to the game shop and buy booster packs.

No. He has to go to the extreme lengths of setting up a contest in an enormous expo center, inviting thousands of onlookers ... and commentators PAYING THEM TO BE THERE, all just so that he can beat a little kid at a card game and take his rare card.
Kaiba don't care. He's Kaiba, b*tch.


*Enter kid with anime haircut, and Seto Kaiba, now off the drugs and looking normal without green hair.*

Seto Kaiba: Hey kid, I heard you have rare cards.

Dumb Kid: YEAH IT'S THE BESTEST!

Kaiba: Watch me go to extremely convoluted and exorbitantly expensive lengths to set up a duel in which we play for your one rare card!

Dumb Kid: Dude, you have like 50 armed henchmen... couldn't they have just, you know, robbed me for it? Or like, you offer me a hundred bucks for it? I mean, I'd probably take like 75, but you know.

Kaiba: BUT THAT RUINS THE GAME! I derive no enjoyment from purchasing things with this plebeian money! I have ALL the money!

Dumb Kid: But if you just want the card, I'm sure you can like, buy 10 of them on ebay for a hundred bucks...

Kaiba: YOU IDIOT! My only joy in this adult life is beating children at a children's card game that doesn't have any rules! (Not like I'd follow them anyway, buuuut) How could I possibly have any fun beating kids for cards that I already own?

Dumb Kid: But didn't you do exactly that to like... basically everyone else, including Yugi's grandpa for a 4th Blue Eyes?

Kaiba: Shut up Charmander. I mean, shut up, Mokuba. I mean, shut up kid.
SCREW THE RULES I HAVE MONEY!

*Kaiba gets on his computer and purchases an entire deck full of Red Eyes*


See? Now everyone can be happy. Except Kaiba. He's always angry.

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What Actually Happens:

So, this episode is essentially a special episode/epilogue to the 1998 season. It's not a movie, despite what MAL says- it's 5 minutes longer than a normal episode and was released on home video as a stopgap between Season 0 and Duel Monsters.

So basically what happens is that this little kid name Shogo buys a booster pack of Yugioh cards and gets an ultra-rare out of it, then goes around showing it to everyone, claiming he can beat them in a duel, even though he never duels anyone because he suffers a mental breakdown and turns into a blubbering mess anytime even the mere thought of "losing in a duel" flashes through his three neurons.
Anyway, the kid attracts the attention of one greedy corporate assbutt named Seto Kaiba, who, despite owning three of the best card in the game: Blue Eyes, decides he also wants this particular second best card in the game: Red Eyes Black Dragon. So he sends his goons to deliver an invitation to this little kid for the most extravagant duel this side of "On top of a blimp flying over a city Kaiba had built specifically for the purpose of playing a card game tournament".
The kid suffers a lapse in having a brain, and refuses to commit, so Yugi, being the only person who has ever even come close to beating Kaiba takes up the invite, and an epic duel commences.

Seriously, like, this duel takes about 20 minutes of screen time, but it feels like 5. What Yugi and Kaiba took 3 episodes to do in Yugioh 1998, and about 20 episodes in Duel Monsters took them 15 minutes, and oh boy was it ever sweet. The pacing for the duel is very fast, but the flow couldn't be better. Seriously, this episode basically has everything in it that makes Yugioh cool- allowing the gameplay to drive the show, including twists and turns in who holds the upper hand, and some of the classic Yugioh trick plays.

The characters in this episode also show up looking like they do in Duel Monsters- Yugi sporting his signature sleeveless edgemaster vest and cape, and Kaiba with his infinitely long swooshy blue trenchcoat- the art is MILES better than it was in Yugi '98- so much so that it actually upgraded to N64 graphics from Phillips CD-i! (and in the span of only 6 months. Jeez, Toei, you came a long way.)

Anyway- to wrap up, this episode is basically the entirety of Yugioh in a nutshell. Heart of the Cards, friendship, card games, and pulling a win out from way, way up inside one's butt- Egyptian Pharoah style.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 2, 2019

SuperManOfTheGH

Mixed Feelings

It starts with a totally different mood than the conventional Yu Gi Oh Zero, with some relatively evolved and different characters (some even physically like Kaiba). The movie focuses on the card game "Duel Monsters", no longer featuring familiar games, and that's interesting, because that's when they started focusing on what would later become the well-known Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG.

The premise is generic, telling the classic story of the introvert and frightened boy who can stand out with something by luck (in this case, catch a Red-Eyed Black Dragon in a booster). I found it senseless that even after getting such a good card (The second best ... in the game), the boy still had no confidence and still had an absurd fear of losing.

Kaiba organizing a tournament, as usual, calls Yugi and Shougo to participate. I thought Shougo would duel, but again Yugi who will duel with Kaiba. It's a rather interesting battle that makes you slightly distressed and anxious, but the end is already as expected. But it was a good scene, I admit ...

Final Thoughts: I don't even know if it should be considered a movie, it's more like an OVA. It seems more than just an advertisement to sell the cards that Bandai released shortly after the end of Yu Gi Oh Zero. The main mistake of this "movie" is that things happen too fast, it has a crazy pace. They tried to put too much into a short time!

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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