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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!

Amazingly fun and enjoyable. At first the events do not revolve around a central plot, which is partly negative (since the first episodes, except the first, can be considered "unnecessary"), and partly positive (because those very first episodes end up being independent and very fun).

It's also interesting to see how Yami Yugi is presented, and how the other characters see him, always seeing him as the same Yugi as ever, just with more confidence. It was kind of sad that they did not attach so much importance to his past as Pharaoh the way they later did in Duel Monsters.

... One thing Yugioh Zero sins on, in my opinion, is about character evolution, since almost everyone has no personality change or maturation from start to finish (except for Jonouchi, which shows remarkable evolution at the end of the anime), especially Miho with its uselessness and Honda with its Miho veneration.

Kaiba's bow is average, certain moments get boring, but the final battle against it is incredibly epic (despite being full of convenience and protagonism is very good), forgiving that weak and mediocre duel they had at the beginning. But the bow of Bakura is what made me like this anime so much, because it contains by far the coolest battle in the whole anime, has no protagonism in abundance on the part of Yami Yugi and quite surprising (seriously, there were times when I thought : Everyone will die, fuck!) They managed to create a fucking scary monster (The Zorc) and an epic and scary scenario.

The anime doesn't have a noticeable or above average animation, on the contrary, it's below average and doesn't have such realistic features, becoming even crooked and strange at times. But you can forgive, since the anime is relatively old.

The sound quality is not good either, it is full of squeaks. But what is really annoying is when the sound is muffled (happens regularly throughout the episodes). Probably the audio is so because the anime was not released on Blu-ray or DVD, being fully recorded from TV.

Final Thoughts: The anime is very entertaining and unpretentious, bringing some moments of distress and involvement with the plot. I recommend watching to see what Yugioh looked like when he was animated by Toei, and to see the evolution that anime has undergone to the current bows.