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Yu-Gi-Oh!

“Bullied teen solves cursed puzzle, unleashing dark alter ego who gambles with enemies' lives in deadly games.”

Yu-Gi-Oh!

7.75
1,808 rank · 45,565 readers · 2,362 favorites
Shounen Historical School Strategy Game Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Mystery Supernatural
343 chapters · 38 volumes · 1996 - 2004 · Manga
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Synopsis

Bullied teen solves cursed puzzle, unleashing dark alter ego who gambles with enemies' lives in deadly games.

High school student Yuugi Mutou spends his days being bullied between classes and his nights playing board games and solving puzzles in his bedroom. Yuugi's penchant for gameplay comes from his grandfather, whose game shop also serves as a house for the two. One night, Yuugi manages to solve the Millennium Puzzle, a seemingly impossible challenge that awakens his inner darkness and converts it into an alternate persona: Yami Yuugi. Transforming into the more bold and dangerous persona against his will in moments of great distress, Yuugi begins to moonlight as a vengeful vigilante, challenging bullies and evil-doers to risky games where failure results in fates worse than death. Yuugi and his alter ego befriend some of the very students who once bullied him, forming unbreakable companionships with them. But the group must contend with villains far deadlier than the high school punks they originally rallied against, enemies who use games for nefarious purposes and threaten Yuugi and his friends' very lives.

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Derived from 17 sampled reviews

8.6 /10

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94% recommend
Score distribution
median 9 mode 9 σ 1.29
1510
Agreement

Mostly aligned

σ 1.29 · some divergence

mixed
The polarity gap

3.9 pts

Recommenders 8.9 · others 5.0

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↓ 0.41

Running avg · Dec 2007 → Jan 2026

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A Manga Publication

  • Format 343 × 38 ch × vol
  • Total read 45h 44m approx
  • Published Sep 1996 – Mar 2004
  • Source Manga media type
  • Ref. BS-M0052 catalog

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