If you already have read it, you can go on....
Even though, I will be talking about the story, but the main focus will be the characters (Yami Yugi, Jounouchi and Kaiba specially), it will be divided in 3 or 4 parts.
UPDATE: In case you may not noticed, I have added a few key points and mostly remained unchanged during this polishing phase of the my analysis of the manga.
Plot Summary:
The beginning of Duelist Kingdom Arc, the gang at school with Jounouchi and Anzu playing Duel Monsters/Magic and Wizards as the rest of the gang and classmates watches them playing, Anzu has a very smooth win, Jounouchi is bothered because it isn't the first time he loses at this game, so Jounouchi asks for Yugi's help to improve in the game by hanging out at Yugi's home.
When the gang arrives Yugi's home, his grandfather is closing the shop, so he can go watch the Japan tournament finals of Duel Monsters/Magic and Wizards and he tells Yugi received an anonymous package addressed to Yugi, so they save it for later because they don't want to miss watching the tournament between the two finalists being Insector Haga and Ryuzaki, it ends with Insector Haga victory, as they introduce Pegasus to bring the 1st place trophy to Insector Haga, the creator of the TCG, he invites the two finalists to his own tournament that he is hosting.
They come back to the anonymous package opening it, inside it there is a mini-videotape, a glove, two stars, they put the cassete in the videotape player, Pegasus shows up and challenges Yugi to a duel in form of a shadow game, Dark Yugi immediately takes over to protects his host, the duel doesn't go well for the most part since it seemed Pegasus could read which card he was going to play, when Dark Yugi was starting to figure out a new way that could increase his chances in winning the duel, but it had time limit, Dark Yugi as he was close to win the duel, it reached the time limit, making a Pegasus's win and to force Dark Yugi to participate the tournament he is hosting by taking Yugi's grandfather soul as hostage inside a tv.
The next day, the gang are at school discussing about the recent events regarding the recent events and Yugi had been sensing Dark Yugi have been feeling bad, Jounouchi tries to cheer him up by screaming at the puzzle to not be dwelling on it, Yugi senses he needs a bit of lonesome time of fresh air...so Yugi goes to the rooftop of the school and Dark Yugi taking over looking at the scenery and reflecting on his duel and Sugoroku being held hostage and gaining his determination and motivated to duel against Pegasus again.
Key Points:
The story starts Yugi and co. at school playing Duel Monsters on recess, Jounouchi is trying to get the hang of it but no success, as Yugi check his deck, indicating the problem of Jounouchi dueling, his deck is solely made of monsters cards and tells him is important to have other kind of cards such as magic and trap cards to be able to create combos with other cards and so on which are important strategies in winning the game, Jounouchi begs Yugi to teach him more about Duel Monsters so he can become a better player, it's something to give credit to Jounouchi despite being implied that he usually loses the game with anyone but doesn't feel discouraged so instead he tries to look at ways to improve and asks the game expert, Yugi...
The other thing I want to point out is Anzu playing the TCG, it shows that she plays once in awhile and from the looks of it, she could become a very skilled player if she wanted to, since by this time Jounouchi's deck didn't hold any spell or trap cards back then and Anzu won against him easily and with a spell card combo.
After School, Yugi and his friends hangout at Yugi's home, to watch Duel Monsters Japan national championship final, to decide who is Japan's champion, while start watching it on TV, Jounouchi expresses his opinion that Yugi could easily win (it's true), but Yugi decided he will enter in a tournament to duel Kaiba but this time fair and square, that's the curious partm we don't know if he is speaking for Dark Yugi or himself, but I think is himself but senses Dark Yugi wants it too, and he says is his dream, around Duelist Kingdom might be but as a gamer and someone who could push him to the limits since he usually easily wins against everyone he plays with.
As Jounouchi still hasn't forgiven him for Death-T, it's funny because he will hold up to that grudge for a long time xD.
We get informed Kaiba still hasn't recover from his state, in another words, he was still reassembling his shattered puzzle of his heart, also interesting to note that Yugi did constantly visited him too and in the hospital? Which makes me wonder because later we see that it doesn't look like one...
This is when Pegasus was first introduced, he is presented as celebrity and also referred as genius game designer, I always think "genius" is going a little far in praising him, nonetheless still pretty good game designer, later we find out his inspirations in designing the card game.
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