Yu☆Gi☆Oh!

Hikaru no Go addpermalink

Replace the game of Go with a Card Game and it's almost the same. Both Characters have someone else within them helping them play a certain game, both of which found these spirits within an old relic of some type. The Stories are different but the set up is very similar. 

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Juunikyuu de Tsukamaete addpermalink

Dual identity themes,dealing justice to bad guys as well as lot of supernatural shit in it as well too and nice to look at art and interesting character designs. 

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Fairy Cube addpermalink

Both focus on magical objects as well as a young mc getting involved with that object and also having inspirations from mythology as well too. 

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The ComiQ addpermalink

Both being from the same manga,has its share of mystery in it and also lots eyecatching art and character designs and characters getting caught up into strange shit beyond their current understanding. 

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Futatsu no Spica addpermalink

Both have a focus on friendship, a young mc that has been through a lot in the story and also elements of supernatural as well too from someone older than they are.

 

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Cardcaptor Sakura addpermalink

Both are card theme related series that has action,pleaseant to look at art and character designs as well as a focus on the friendships between characters too and dual identity focus. 

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Lost+Brain addpermalink

- Both protagonist are intelligent and have incredible strategies
- Both settings takes place in a "game" atmosphere
- Many twist and turns 

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Card no Ousama addpermalink

Both of these manga series are about a trading card game, but with the game's fluid rules the focus of each match isn't strategy as much as creativity. But ultimately, the focus isn't the game itself, but enjoying it and discovering oneself through it -- Yu-gi-oh! in a standard shounen way; King of Cards in a standard shoujo way. 

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Othello. addpermalink

Both are about a weak person in High School, who happen to have split Personalities, that take up the role of "Punishing" those who bully the alter ego.

Though Othello is also a romance, and a bit more serious. 

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Red Raven addpermalink

Both focus on a young blonde lead who can be pretty ruthless and both focus around punishing bad types of people particularly criminals.  

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Manga: Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children

Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children addpermalink

both are  action themed anime with a supernatural twist with them nice art and character designs as well as suspense too also double identity stuff as well included. 

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Hoshizora no Karasu addpermalink

So, both are based around stratgey games and focus on a young mc taking on some pretty tough challengers too. 

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Manga: Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou Tai Kodoku no Marebito

Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou Tai Kodoku no Marebito addpermalink

Both are supernatural stories with spooky atmospheres to them as well as an otherworldy like setting and also lots of nice art and character designs too. And also monster summoning as well too and mythos based storytelling. 

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Arisa addpermalink

Both stories deal in combating against the bad guys as well as nice art and character designs and a dash of suspense  to them. 

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Hanako to Guuwa no Teller addpermalink

Both are suspense psychological themed stories with a ya cast as well as lots of nice art and character designs to look at as well as finding out the truth of what really happened circumstances as well. 

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Baraou no Souretsu addpermalink

Both being based around suspense and dark storytelling as well as characters with different sides to them specially darker ones like the mc being troubled due his nature as well too and also nice art and character designs too. 

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Bleach addpermalink

both having something of a punkish mc and also lots of supernatural shit going on as well too and also lots of nice art and character designs too. 

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Metroid addpermalink

Kind of a stretch, but both have that broody dark feel to them as well as quite a bit of suspense and a mc that has their edge to them as well too and lots of messed up looking creatures as well. 

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Xenogears 4-koma Comic addpermalink

both have dark storytelling as well as mythos and religous symbolism in it as well too. 

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Juujika no Rokunin addpermalink

Both are vigilante theme stories where the characters take down the bad guys on their own hands ruthlessley. 

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Secret Reverse addpermalink

Both are duel card based storylines and both were also worked on by the same creator of the yu gi oh franchise as well. 

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Meitantei Conan addpermalink

Yu-Gi-Oh and Detective Conan are two iconic shounen manga where the main character is a boy with some kind of alter ego who demonstrates his smarts and problem-solving as he punishes the criminals who comes in his way (for YGO this is mainly in first 7 vols). The girl he likes is trying to find out who this alter ego is and the series has some elements of mystery, though these apply more to Conan than to YGO. Both series are really funny and engaging to read, but also really long (Conan is STILL serializing as of 2021!) so keep that in mind. 

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Manga: Pokémon DP: Pocket Monsters Diamond Pearl Monogatari

Pokémon DP: Pocket Monsters Diamond Pearl Monogatari addpermalink

Pokémon DP Adventure and Yu-Gi-Oh are two action-adventure manga about a friendly and faithful young male protagonist who battles others with fantasy-themed creatures. The kind of humor and sense of battle/combat progression are very similar, especially when the fun cast of characters turn things around with surprise strategies. A very firm and heartfelt belief in the power of friendship and believing in one's companions are also major themes the two series have in common. 

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Dr. Stone addpermalink

Dr. Stone and Yu-Gi-Oh are two fairly popular Shonen Jump series with an intriguing story and a surprisingly lovable cast of characters that hopefully don't scare you away from the relatively large volume count. Character designs often feature crazy hair and facial features, which surprisingly work with its own charm and the rest of the amazing art within the series. There is also a rivalry between the main character and an antihero/antagonist who fight not necessarily with violence, but with their intelligence—which makes for an interesting change of pace for those fatigued with battle shounen (even though both still have violence lol). 

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Funouhan addpermalink

Yami Yugi's penalty games are similar to the illusions inflicted by Funouhan's assassin protagonist. 

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Lookism addpermalink

Both are focused  around outcast something of a loner mc and their dual identity livestyles as well too one being more confident and cool and the other being meek and shy.  

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Persona 5 addpermalink

Both feature an outcast mc,friendship,summoning monsters and stopping the bad guys and the bad guys facing harsh punishments. 

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One Piece addpermalink

Both are very influential shonen anime that help create big franchises to this day.  

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Persona: Tsumi to Batsu addpermalink

Both have a strange artifact as the focus of the story and both focus on a group of teenagers and both have that dark and edgy feel to the story and some messed up looking monsters included too. 

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Tantei no Tantei addpermalink

Both plots deal with punishing evil doers and also dark atmosphere. 

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Sugoi Smartphone addpermalink

Super Smartphone and Yu-Gi-Oh are two Weekly Shounen Jump series where the main character is a high school student who has a female childhood friend who worries about and hopes the best for him. The story starts with MC getting a mysterious item with near/amazing supernatural qualities that can help him and the rest of his friends in dangerous situations. However, no one else other than those who own items like his really know about them and a main antagonist seems to have a similar item that he'll use for his own nefarious agendas. Read either if you want some pretty smart characters. 

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Valkyrie Profile addpermalink

both are mythos based stories with lots of action as well as nice art and character designs. 

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Bleach addpermalink

Yu-Gi-Oh! and Bleach feature a protagonist who gains a supernatural power and a spiritual partner who saves the day before involving a major series of conflicts that would put them on an edge from one antagonist to the next as they grow stronger.

I can't help but compare the cast of the following:

Yugi-Ichigo

Rukia-Anzu

Renji-Jonouchi

Orihime-Shizuka

Ishida-Bakura

Sado-Honda

Grimmjow-Kaiba

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Rave addpermalink

both deal with the power of friendship and believing in yourself more powerfully that in the other fighting shonens. Also both series like to make their villains know repentance and redempttion after they are beaten. 

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Alice 19th addpermalink

Both have combat that is used with a certain type of magical object to fight against the dueling oponenent.  

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Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon addpermalink

Both have dual identitiy characters as well as plots focused on stopping bad guys,friendships also mythology based as well too and nice art and character designs too that are now considered to be iconic af. 

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Im addpermalink

Like Im, Yu-Gi-Oh! focuses on a character from Ancient Egypt (known throughout the series as Yami Yugi or Pharaoh) who comes back to life and must prevent his past enemies from destroying the world. 
Both protagonists are high-ranking Ancient Egyptians (Im being a High Priest and Yami Yugi being a Pharaoh) and they live in modern day society after being brought back to life. Magicians and magic are also common themes in both mangas, dark magic especially linking to the protagonists. 
Both main characters are also misunderstood, being feared and viewed as evil by many when really they are both thoughtful heroes. 
In both mangas there are Ancient Egyptian items which are possessed by spirits, a golden box covered with hieroglyphics being the item used in both Im and Yu-Gi-Oh!. The spirits in both mangas are able to possess other people and change how they behave. #
Finally there is the presence of the Egyptian Gods. While the main Gods are different in Im compared to Yu-Gi-Oh! (Anubis and Thoth in Im, Ra and Osiris in Yu-Gi-Oh!), there is still a notable presence in both series (for example, Anubis is a term used throughout Yu-Gi-Oh! for the names of villains or playable cards).  read more 

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Manga: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders addpermalink

I'm pretty sure Yugioh is inspired by Jojo, specially by Stardust Crusaders:
- Egypt culture.
- Incorporeal creatures that follows the orders of its users.
- The most obvious comparision are the bizarre and amazing character desing and strambotic poses.
- Both are very violent for a shonen.
- In both, fights are based in inteligence and sometimes the fights are a game of bets (not only duel monsters).
- Both have sequels and prequels with diferents characters, space and time.
- Both happen in "the real world", with supernatural elements that normal people doesn't know about.
- Both series has one part of human body as symbol: Jojo the hand; and yugioh the eye. read more 

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Mashounen B.T. addpermalink

Both series contain anti-heroes who utilize their intelligence in deceiving their enemies while maintaining a sadistic demeanor and a slight touch of horror. (I'm specifically referring to the beginning of Yu-Gi-Oh! which had a darker tone about puzzle games.) 

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Satoshi to Pikachu addpermalink

They both Fight with monsters one Uses Yu-Gi-Oh!  Cards the other uses Pokemon.
Ash Ketchum is a great Pokemon Trainer Who is Funny And along side Pikachu Is unstoppable.

and Yugi Mouto Is More of the serious protagonist Who hardly ever looses and makes great friends.    

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Hunter x Hunter addpermalink

These series both have a strong, and passionate focus on gaming and its many different aspects, both Togashi and Takahashi clearly have a deep love for it. This is shown in so many different plots throughout both, from Dice Games, Card Games, Roleplaying Games and more in Yu-Gi-Oh, to the complex Greed Island RPG, the national game of East Gortheu Gungi, and the many mind games that fill the pages of Hunter X Hunter. Both manga are great, although Hunter X Hunter much better in the end, they both are great shounen reads.  

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Manga: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 4: Diamond wa Kudakenai

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 4: Diamond wa Kudakenai addpermalink

Both manga are about teenagers who encounter crazy enemies and fight them by summoning monsters. Also both series are somewhat episodic/monster of the week (only the beginning in YGO is episodic though). Both manga have silly character designs and crazy haircuts. 

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D.N.Angel addpermalink

both focused on mcs having a dual personality nature as well as having thriller elements in it as well too and also ancient artifacts as well too.  

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Kingdom Hearts addpermalink

Both focus on friendship,supeernatural shit,lots of action a young mc characters with dual sides to them and also stopping the bad guys at the end of the day. 

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Hells Angels addpermalink

Both stories feature normie characters getting caught up in strange events one day as well as also friendships with people they would not expect and also unusual artstyles that are very eyepleaseing to look at.   

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0 no Soukoushi addpermalink

Both feature a ya cast, as well as elements of suspense in it and also quite a bit of nice art and character designs too and trying to stop the bad guys as well too. 

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Persona 3 addpermalink

Both are based around occultic supernatural storytelling as well as lots of suspense and psychological shit happening as the story goes on as well as the characters getting caught up in some strange events as well too.  

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Pandora Hearts addpermalink

Both focus on supernatural storytelling, a spooky atmosphere, a young adult cast and also lots of action in it as well too and also supernatural creature summoning included. And a ya cast and their dark sides too.
 

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Manga: Narutaru: Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko

Narutaru: Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko addpermalink

Both are suspense themed stories with lots of dark shit in it as well as lots of nice art and character designs too. And some creepy looking creature designs included. 

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Pocket Monsters Special addpermalink

both focus on monster on monster dueling,friendship,stopping bad guys,occasional dark shit as well as lots of nice art and character designs to look at. 

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Tenshi Kinryouku addpermalink

Both are based around occultic supernatural storytelling as well as lots of suspense and psychological shit happening as the story goes on as well as the characters getting caught up in some strange events as well too. 
 

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Yorozuya Toukaidou Honpo addpermalink

Both share nice artstlyes and character designs,have duel dark side identity themes with the mcs and also cases of the characters stopping the bad guys as well too. 

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God Child addpermalink

Both have dual sided mcs with a dark side,suspense,action as well as quite a bit of dark shit happening from time to time and also really nice art and character designs too. 

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Jigoku Shoujo addpermalink

Both stories have some pretty twisted poetic mindgames to the “victims” as they are facing karma so to speak as well as having an outcast in the leading role taking on dual identities though in this case the dark side identity is all the character has left of themselves due to certain cirmcstances. The shadow realm in this case would be hell itself lol  

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