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Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 1 Episode 1

The Heart of the Cards

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AIRED: 9/29/01

Seto Kaiba, owner of Kaiba Corporation, is looking for the legendary Blue Eyes White Dragon card. He finds out that the card is in the hands of Yugi Moto’s Grandfather. Kaiba has his henchman kidnap him and he duels and beats him. When Yugi finds out, he rushes to Kaiba Corp. When he gets there, Grandpa has been beaten and Kaiba steals and rips the Blue Eyes Card. Yugi then faces down Kaiba in his holographic duel arena. When Kaiba summons all three of the remaining Blue Eyes White Dragons Yugi realizes that there is only one way for him to clench victory...moreless

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Crap

1.5

By dragonwarhero, Jul 22, 2010

Seto Kaiba, owner of Kaiba Corporation, is looking for the legendary Blue Eyes White Dragon card. He finds out that the card is in the hands of Yugi Moto’s Grandfather. Kaiba has his henchman kidnap him and he duels and beats him. When Yugi finds out, he rushes to Kaiba Corp. When he gets there, Grandpa has been beaten and Kaiba steals and rips the Blue Eyes Card. Yugi then faces down Kaiba in his holographic duel arena. When Kaiba summons all three of the remaining Blue Eyes White Dragons Yugi realizes that there is only one way for him to clench victory...moreless
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Pretty Good

6.5

By Izanami-no-kami, Nov 03, 2007

Most pilots for shows aren't that great but this one was okay. We get to meet and see the characters for the first time. The dialogue was okay and the duel was great. Who is the mysterious tall yugi who seems to be more confident and determined to win than normal yugi. Joey and Tristan didn't really do a lot and the duel was kind of short. I thought it was really awesome how Kabia was taunting Yugi and when he drew his final card he summoned Exodia and completely blew Kabia away. I also like this episode because Kabia is really evil in this episode and he makes a good rival.moreless
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Yugioh episode first. They couldn't make it more interesting. Starting with a battle between Kaiba and Yugi they prepared us for more exciting abttles between them. And so Yugioh began. Yeah for Yugioh!!moreless

10

By XxKaiserxX, Apr 04, 2007

I think that Yugioh is one of the best anime we can find. Even since the narrators' words in the beggining they drew your interest. Having different characters inside and amasing plot it's difficult for someone not to watch it.In the first episode we have the represence of the main characters.I think that Seto Kaiba shows that it's much more better than Yugi since the first episode, but that's my opinion. There is also the gang.But...they should have wait for Tea's friendly speeches a few more episodes. Prepare for more funny dialogues between Joey and Tristan in the future!!!moreless
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First of many duels.

8.5

By GeorgeJobson, Oct 24, 2006

I saw the very first episode of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" and it sat the standards of the series, the episode takes place before dualist Kingdon as Yugi Moto engage in the first of duels with Seto Kaiba. Setting the stage for the battle that will come in future episodes. We introduced Joey Wheeler, one of the vocal of the Yugi's friends. the card that decided the duel is Exodia, a powerful monster in Yugi's deck forcing the defeat of Seto Kaiba. Exodia is one of my early favorite cards in the deck, although the monster won't be around for much longer. You know why later.moreless
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A GREAT EPISODE!!!!!!!!

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By animenhp, Oct 16, 2006

This is a very great first episode. It starts off with Yugi Moto and joey Wheeler dueling. Ok. This is a wonderful episode. In it we get intto duel monsters, a great card game.

Seto Kaiba is overhears Yugi telling his friends about the blue eyes white dragon so he decides to take it.

He kidnaps Yugi's grandpa after he refuses to give it to him so then Yui has to duel Kaiba just to get it back.

In the beginning yugi is losing. Kaiba puts his 3 blue eyes white dragons on the field butin the end Yugi draws all five pieces of Exodia and wins.

yugi is the first person to ever summon Exodia.

anwayz this epsiode and all other spisodes after this were all absolutely woderful!!!!moreless
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Amy Birnbaum	Téa Gardner
Tara Sands	Mokuba Kaiba
Eric Stuart	Seto Kaiba
Maddie Blaustein	Solomon Muto
Sam Riegel	Tristan Taylor
Wayne Grayson	Joey Wheeler

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TRIVIA (6)
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- The card "Swords of Revealing Light" shown in this episode is working much differently from its real life counterpart: the "true" one stops every attack from any enemy monster for 3 turns, including the ones summoned after the card has been played. Instead, in this episode Seto starts attacking Yugi right away with freshly summoned monsters, and only the 2 dragons already in play are affected by the card.
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- This is the only time in the series that Yugi summons Exodia
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- When Yugi draws the Left Arm Of The Forbidden One, he already had it in his hand a few turns ago. In the Japanese version he already had the Right Arm Of The Forbidden One already then a couple of draws later Yugi will draw the Left Arm Of The Forbidden One later on.
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- When Yugi summons Exodia, its five pointed star is given more points in the dub. The card in the original version also does not have the colorful background to hide the five-star points.
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- When Yami takes place of Yugi before the duel, Kaiba is stunned for a few seconds, but NEVER questions why they're 2 Yugi's through the whole series. Wouldnt he ever wonder why one is taller than the other and only appears in duels/competitions?
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- Featured Duel: Yugi vs. Kaiba
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QUOTES (6)
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- (Narration at the beginning of episode)
  Narrator: Long ago, when the pyramids were still young, Egyptian kings played a game of great and terrible power. But these shadow games erupted into a war that threatened to destroy the entire world, until a brave and powerful pharaoh locked the magic away, imprisoning it within the mystical Millennium Items. Now, five thousand years later, a boy named Yugi unlocks the secret of the Millennium Puzzle. He is infused with ancient magical energies, for destiny has chosen him to defend the world from the return of the shadow games, just as the brave pharaoh did, five thousand years ago.
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- (Tristan steps in the middle of a duel.)
  Joey: Hey, Tristan. Yugi's teaching me how to play Duel Monsters.
  Tristan: Drooling monsters?
  Joey: (pushes Tristan away from his view) Duel Monsters, you nimrod!
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- Kaiba: But...but how? How could I have lost to him!?
  Yugi: Kaiba, if you truly want to know, open your mind!
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- Kaiba: Exodia!? It... it's not possible! No one's ever been able to call him!
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- Joey: Hey, are you into Duel Monsters, too? This is perfect! Maybe we could all duel together sometime!
  Kaiba: Me? Duel you? I would have more of a challenge playing solitaire.
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- Kaiba: Draw your last pathetic card so I can end this, Yugi!
  Yugi: My grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards, Kaiba. But it does contain the unstoppable Exodia!
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NOTES (4)
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- In Japan, this was actually the beginning of the second animé to involve Yugi and the gang. The original 'Yuugiou' series, adapting manga volumes 1 to 7, proved less popular with fans so when the manga changed direction the animé restarted. Consequently, some key points such as Yugi and Kaiba's duel and the first encounter with Yami Bakura had to be rewritten for the sake of continuity.
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- In the manga, after losing to Yugi Kaiba is in a coma for 6 months.
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- In the manga, this duel between Yugi and Kaiba never happened as it would have been a repeat of the final Death-T duel. However because the animé adaptation of Death-T was part of the cancelled Yu-Gi-Oh! series produced by TOEI Animation it was necessary to reanimate the duel for the start of TV Tokyo's Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters series.
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- This episode was originally scheduled to air on September 15, 2001, but due to the tragic events of 9/11 the episode was rescheduled to its later date.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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- Duel Monsters was originally called Magic and Wizards in the manga, and was based off the idea of the card game Magic: the Gathering.
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