It’s been a long time since I watched the show, and I never read the manga so this is secondhand knowledge so take it for what it’s worth
But IIRC the show actually picks up partway into the manga, and I think in the first chapter (volume? Issue? Not sure how it was organized) of the manga he is solving the puzzle.
I think the first part of the manga featured other games besides the card game so I suspect for the show they just skipped to the part where they could sell cards as a tie-in to get that merchandising going.
I think there was also an earlier TV show before the more popular one, but I have no idea where that picked up or ended.
Yea so there is a “season” before what was eventually dubbed and released to the wider world. In the earlier season they are still in school, we get introduced to characters like Joey and Tristan (I think his name is Tristan) and they start out as bullies of Yugi. The card game also doesn’t exist in the form we see later and there is a lot of dice involved I think. I randomly came across that season and watched it without knowing it even existed years ago so I could be wrong about some things. It was weird…but it did give context to certain things that as a kid watching the original dubbed season I either didn’t understand or just didn’t pay attention to.
It’s been a long time since I watched the show, and I never read the manga so this is secondhand knowledge so take it for what it’s worth
But IIRC the show actually picks up partway into the manga, and I think in the first chapter (volume? Issue? Not sure how it was organized) of the manga he is solving the puzzle.
I think the first part of the manga featured other games besides the card game so I suspect for the show they just skipped to the part where they could sell cards as a tie-in to get that merchandising going.
I think there was also an earlier TV show before the more popular one, but I have no idea where that picked up or ended.
Yea so there is a “season” before what was eventually dubbed and released to the wider world. In the earlier season they are still in school, we get introduced to characters like Joey and Tristan (I think his name is Tristan) and they start out as bullies of Yugi. The card game also doesn’t exist in the form we see later and there is a lot of dice involved I think. I randomly came across that season and watched it without knowing it even existed years ago so I could be wrong about some things. It was weird…but it did give context to certain things that as a kid watching the original dubbed season I either didn’t understand or just didn’t pay attention to.