Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Transcend Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! Transcend Game

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Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Transcend Game is a prologue to the Dark Side of Dimensions movie. However, it is barely connected to the movie. As someone who had seen the movie before reading this manga, I had a hard time seeing any links except the characters present. For instance, the VR system that this manga is focused on is absent from the movie.

If you try viewing it as it's own entry while ignoring the movie, it is also a disappointing manga.

Story 5/10
As it's only two chapters long, you cannot expect much in the way of story. However, the story is still rather uninteresting and vague. A lot is ... left unexplained at the end.

Art : 8/10
The art is pretty decent.

Characters : 5/10
Considering how short the manga is, all the characters are paper thin. There are basically only two characters that have some presence : Kaiba and Sera. Kaiba has his usual personality and Sera is made overly cryptic, probably to keep the suspense for the movie.

Enjoyment 4/10 :
As the characters and the story are mediocre, the manga isn't especially interesting to read. Furthermore, the duels, the main point of Yu-Gi-Oh, are trivialized in two-three pages each with monsters having arbitrarily high attacks numbers. All the interesting story points seem to have been reserved for the movie.

Overall 5/10 :
This manga fails both as a prologue to the movie and as an independant entry.
It cannot stand on it's own, as it's just a setup to the movie, but it's also mostly irrelevant to the movie and doesn't enhance it's experience.
As it's pretty short and the manga is more mediocre and pointless than straight up bad, I do not rate it lower.
However, I would only recommand it for the fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh serie who wants to see all the content on this serie.

As this manga was made to commemorate the Dark Side of Dimensions movie, this work didn't expanded the lore or gave a good prologue for the movie. Heck, it didn't even presented itself as informative and satisfying, though it was a bit interesting for a potential reader to check it out. Sure, it gave out a sneak peek of the main antagonist and their motive (well, not really their primary motive), but honestly it felt lacking. Yes, this manga is lacking in plot and character development, though the art improved a bit.

After reading the 343-chapter manga (or watching the 224-episode anime), might as well go ... straight to the Dark Side of Dimensions movie. As this manga is only 2 chapters it can be skipped, as the main plot continuation is in the movie. This can also be given a try because why not? It's only 2 chapters and a very short time is only wasted.