IIf you wanted a celebration of the Yugioh franchise, the Yugioh Arc V manga is your manga. And unlike the previous spinoff manga of past animes, this is a completely different story than the anime, not even trying to do parallels. Just Yugioh Back to the Future. Except our "Yugi" is a man who inhabits THREE additional personalities and it's every much as entertaining as you'd expect. It's kind of wild to think no one has done the "alternate personality" thing since the original Yugioh. And Phantom Yuya is the best character for it. Yuzu being the audience surrogate and a side character being amuch better role than her "heroine" role in the anime is crazy.

I really liked the action duels in the manga vs the anime, it seems to actually utilize the fact it's a game of chance and not just ways to make anime original cards to save the MC on top of making cards that will never be real. It's a real show in the manga. And truly culminates in the best Ceremonial Duel in the series prior to Yugioh Sevens.

The Yugioh Arc V manga is heartwarming story about family and about making smiles. Genuinely wild it exists among manga that came before it, and even the ones that came after.