Yu-Gi-Oh! the Movie: Pyramid of Light

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Yu-Gi-Oh!
The English Yu-Gi-Oh! logo
遊☆戯☆王
(Yūgiō)
Genre Action, Adventure, Shōnen
Movie: Pyramid of Light
Directed by Ryosuke Takahashi
Studio Studio Gallop
Released August 13, 2004
Runtime 90 min. (101 min. in the Japanese version)
Yu-Gi-Oh! the Movie:Pyramid of Light
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Directed by Hatsuki Tsuji
Written by Michael Pecerlello
Starring Dan Green
Eric Stuart
Scottie Ray
(all in English version)
Distributed by Warner Bros
Running time 101 mins (Japan)
86 mins (UK)
90 mins (US)
Country Japan
Language Japanese (original)
(Dubbed into English)
IMDb profile

Yu-Gi-Oh! the Movie: The Pyramid of Light, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: Pyramid of Light (遊戯王デュエルモンスターズ 光のピラミッド Yūgiō Dyueru Monsutāzu Hikari no Piramiddo?) is an anime film based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. The director of this film is Ryosuke Takahashi.

The characters and naming are the same as the English version of the Yu-Gi-Oh!, or Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters television show.

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[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The events of Battle City have just concluded, and Yugi now owns all three Egyptian God Cards. Seto Kaiba longs to finally defeat him, and he has a plan. He suspects that since Maximillian Pegasus created the Egyptian God Cards, he would have also created a way to beat them. Just in case.

Kaiba heads off to Pegasus' retirement castle, and challenges him to a duel. If Pegasus wins, he gets Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragons, but if Kaiba wins, Pegasus hands over the card that can beat the Egyptian Gods. Kaiba wins, and Pegasus fulfills his wager, giving two cards to Kaiba. However, Pegasus only created one card, so where did the other one come from?

Meanwhile, Yugi, Téa and Grandpa, seeking refuge from a mob of duelists wanting to face Yugi for the Egyptian Gods, stumble into Domino Museum, where they discover a new attraction on display. It's called the Pyramid of Light, and it looks a little like the Millennium Puzzle. Once Grandpa reads an inscription on the side of a sarcophagus, also part of the exhibit, Yugi has a strange vision about Kaiba. They wake up to find the pyramid stolen, the sarcophagus empty, and Mokuba standing outside. Mokuba says that Kaiba wants Yugi to bring his duel disk to the KaibaCorp. Duel Dome immediately.

Yugi does so, transforming into the Pharaoh on the way, and finds Kaiba ready to duel. He seals all the exits, forcing Yugi to duel him, but not before Joey and Tristan find their way in to watch.

The duel goes on for what seems like an eternity, and Yugi is starting to suspect that there are dark forces at work - especially when Kaiba activates a trap card called the Pyramid of Light, which not also bares a striking resemblance to the pyramid in the museum, but also prevents Yugi from summoning any Egyptian Gods! Before long, Kaiba has his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the field, but to Yugi's surprise, he sacrifices it to summon a monster known as the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, which is even stronger!

Kaiba could win the duel there and then, but he wants to humiliate Yugi by wiping him out with his own Egyptian Gods! Pyramid of Light removed the gods from play, and he wants to play Return from the Different Dimension to get them under his control. Of course, to do that, he needs to destroy the Pyramid of Light first, otherwise it would just destroy the gods again! Kaiba commands his Shining Dragon to use its "Shining Nova" effect, which allows it to sacrifice itself to destroy anything on the field - and he aims it at the Pyramid of Light. Suddenly, a ghostly voice calls out, "This I cannot allow!", and the Pyramid stays exactly where it is. Then, a man rises up from behind Kaiba, throws him aside, and takes over the duel himself. And he has the Pyramid of Light around his neck.

It's Anubis, the Egyptian Lord of the Dead, whom the Pharaoh destroyed 5000 years ago. But now he's back with his secret weapon - Theinen the Great Sphinx! On top of this, Téa, Joey, Tristan and Yugi are trapped inside the Millennium Puzzle, leaving the Pharaoh to duel all alone. Putting all his faith into the cards, Yugi draws the Double Spell card, which allows him to discard his Diffusion Wave Motion to activate Monster Reborn from the graveyard. He uses it to revive Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and uses it to destroy the Pyramid of Light, after it was weakened by Yugi inside the Millennium Puzzle. With the Pyramid of Light gone, so was the Great Sphinx, and Anubis is seemingly defeated. But, a giant Jackal arises from the remains of the Pyramid.

Kaiba and Yugi join forces, putting all their strength into the Shining Dragon card, and using Shining Nova to destroy Anubis once and for all. On top of it all, Pegasus was back to help them, and gets them out of the explosion in time.

[edit] Relation to canon

Like Dragon Ball Z movies (except some actual canon movies) there is some problem within the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. In the movie, Anubis was killed by Pharaoh Atem 3000 years ago (5000 in the English anime), and was resurrected when Yugi completed the Millennium Puzzle. In the first series anime, Yugi was beaten up by Ushio who also beaten up Jonouchi and Honda, and he completed the puzzle while beaten up and became Atem. Plus in Dawn of The Duel arc, Anubis was never shown or killed by Atem, but his father must have killed him, but Anubis states "5000 years ago, I never had a chance to summon Theinen in to our battle", and on an episode, Jonouchi said "This room looks bigger than last time", but was never shown, so the Anubis in the movie would be a non-canon character.

[edit] Mistakes in the Movie

In the English version of the movie, the makers made many mistakes, however most of them were fixed when it aired in Japan.

In the English version, "die" was actually used (intentionally or otherwise) instead of stating to go to the Shadow Realm.

Pegasus played Ultimate Offering when duelling against Kaiba, so that he could summon more Toon monsters in one turn, at the cost of 500 life points per monster, however, Toons are special summoned, not normal summoned, so Ultimate Offering was completely unneeded. (This was not changed when it aired in Japan.)

Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon gained attack points from having dragon cards in the graveyard, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon gained attack from having three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and a Rare Metal Dragon. However, for no reason the Blue-Eyes gained no attack points from having Paladin of White Dragon in the graveyard. (This was not changed when it aired in Japan.)

When Kaiba used 'Shining Nova' to destroy Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon to destroy Pyramid of Light, although the attack failed, we see Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon disappear and later Yugi plays Monster Reborn to re-summon it from the graveyard, however, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon appears next to Anubis for a short time, after it had already been sent to the graveyard after activating it's effect.

When Anubis' Sphinx Teleia killed Yugi's Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, Sphinx Telia's effect was not activated, which would have decreased Yugi's life points to zero, however when Andro Sphinx destroyed Watapon, Andro Sphinx's effect was activated. (This was not changed when it aired in Japan.) In addition, Obnoxious Celtic Guardian should not have been destroyed because Teleia's attack points were higher than 1900.

When Yugi activates Double Spell to take a card from Kaiba's garveyard, the English version shows Yugi holding Diffusion Wave Motion on several occasions, including Yugi informing Anubis that he was activating Double Spell while holding up Diffusion Wave Motion.

When Anubis used Inferno Tempest and Fallout to make Yugi and Kaiba drop all of their cards, we are shown two Winged Dragon of Ra's flying out of Yugi's Duel Disk, however it is a very important part of Yu-Gi-Oh! that there are only one of each God card in existence.

Yugi's Sorcerer of Dark Magic may be able to destroy Kaiba's Deck Destruction Virus but it cannot decrease the attack and defence of a monster by 500 points for every spellcaster in the graveyard.

[edit] Duel cards used

This is a list of the Duel Monsters cards used during the course of the film by the characters.

[edit] Monsters

[edit] Spells

[edit] Traps

[edit] Trivia

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  • This movie was in theatres in America before the Battle City Finals ended, somewhat spoiling the ending for those who saw the movie.
  • Two scenes of the Waking The Dragons arc were shown. This would also spoil the upcoming part of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Story arc.
  • This movie is not to be confused with the 30-minute Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie that was released in Japan and produced by Toei Animation.
  • In the English version of the movie, it was completely edited when it first appeared in theaters in the US, but the Japanese language version that's been released in Special Screenings and later released in theaters in Japan differs in content, uncut, and complete with cards in Japanese. The Japanese version is in 101 minutes and the English version is originally in 90 minutes. Many scenes in the English version were omitted, switched, and some were altered.
  • The original Japanese story calls for the Pharaoh's past to take place 3000 years ago, but the English translators misread this as 3000 BC, hence the English date of 5000 years ago. However, some believe this was intentional, since nothing is known about Ancient Egypt as it was 5000 years ago, and therefore the non-existence of Pharaoh Atemu cannot be proved. If the date of 3000 years ago was used, history shows that Pharaoh Atem did not exist.
  • The movie was the only part of the animated series adapted for the United States that had text on the cards being played; unlike the Japanese version, the English translation completely edited the text out of the cards due to FCC regulations. The English anime expanded the art on them to fill the gap. The cards in the movie also retained the visual rarity that their real-world card game counterparts have, with the rarer cards having gold lettering on them, to match those of an Ultra Rare card.
  • Much like the early Pokémon theatrical releases, the movie released limited-edition promotional cards alongside the tickets bought for the movie. To further stretch the card game tie-in, an exclusive movie pack was released in card shops to help garner interest in the movie.
  • The film is currently #29 in the IMDb Bottom 100
  • This movie is like Dragon Ball Z (on the non-canon character) because the movie character, Anubis, does not exist within the anime or manga.
  • "Kill" and "Die" were actually used in this movie. Considering villains saying Yugi or Atem will be sent the Shadow Realm, Anubis is the only villain to say "die". It is possible that it was forgotten to be taken off the line, or was used accidentally, or intentionally. As for 'Killed', it was used only on the prophesy read by Yugi's grandfather. There's also where violent comments like Anubis says, "Soon worms will feast your flesh, just they did on mine", and saying "You will be destroyed" is a hint that he will kill Atemu. However, this movie is considered an "uncut movie" to some, because there is no obscure towards where mummies is being dismembered.

[edit] Characters in the movie

  • Anubis (アヌビス Anubisu) - In the English version of the movie, Anubis wants revenge on Yami Yugi (Known in the English manga as Dark Yugi) and awakens after Yugi Muto solves the Millennium Puzzle. Pharaoh Atem had defeated Anubis a long time ago, yet Anubis re-appears to face Yugi Muto. Anubis possesses the cards Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia, which can be merged into Theinen the Great Sphinx. In the Japanese version of the movie, Anubis wants revenge by using the King of Light (Kaiba) to defeat the King of Darkness (Dark Yugi) in order to revive Anubis, the King of Destruction and use Kaiba to become the new king and rule the world. Since he has never shown in the anime or seen in the Dawn Of The Duel arc, he is a non-canon character (However, Kazuki Takahashi DID design Anubis, but he did not put him in the manga).

[edit] Voice actors

[edit] Japanese version

[edit] English version

[edit] External links

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Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor) | Ryo Bakura | Miho Nosaka (Melody)

Antagonists: Dark (Yami) Bakura | Pegasus J. Crawford (Maximillion Pegasus) | "Bandit" Keith Howard | Meikyū Brothers (Paradox Brothers) | Big Five | Marik Ishtar | Dark (Yami) Marik | Noah Kaiba | Gozaburo Kaiba | Dartz | Rafael | Valon | Amelda (Alister) | Siegfried von Schroider (Zigfried von Schroeder) | Akhenaden (Aknadin)

Other characters: Seto Kaiba | Mokuba Kaiba | Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Muto) | Shadi | Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine) | Shizuka Kawai (Shizuka Jonouchi, Serenity Wheeler) | Insector Haga (Weevil Underwood) | Dinosaur Ryuzaki (Rex Raptor) | Rebecca Hopkins (Rebecca Hawkins) | Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin) | Ishizu Ishtar | Rishid Ishtar (Odion Ishtar) | Leonhart von Schroider (Leon von Schroeder)

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