Battle City (manga)
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| Names | |
| English | Battle City |
| Japanese | バトル・シティ Batoru Shiti |
| Tournament details | |
| Structure |
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| Location | |
| Final positions | |
| Winner | Yugi Mutou |
| Runner-up | Marik Ishtar |
| Statistics | |
| Participation | 48 |
| Appearances | |
| Manga | Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Battle City (バトル・シティ Batoru Shiti) was a Duel Monsters tournament organized by Seto Kaiba, in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. This is the original version of the Battle City tournament.
Contents
Structure
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Participants
| Participant | Position |
|---|---|
| Yugi Mutou/Dark Yugi | Winner |
| Marik Ishtar/Dark Marik | Runner up |
| Seto Kaiba | Top 4 |
| Katsuya Jonouchi | Top 4 |
| Ryo Bakura | Top 8 |
| Rishid | Top 8 |
| Mai Kujaku | Top 8 |
| Ishizu Ishtar | Top 8 |
| Dinosaur Ryuzaki | |
| Insector Haga | |
| Ryota Kajiki | |
| Ghost Kozuka | |
| Esper Roba | |
| Koji Nagumo | |
| Rare Hunter | |
| Pandora | |
| Doll | |
| Rare Hunter Tag | |
| Mask of Light | |
| Mask of Darkness | |
| 27 generic Duelists/minor Ghouls |
Events
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Prior
The Ishtar family lived a secluded life as part of their duty to prepare for the nameless Pharaoh's second coming. Marik Ishtar blamed the Pharaoh for his family's suffering and planned to put an end to the family's curse by not welcoming the Pharaoh and killing him instead. With the only clue to the identity of the king being that he would be identified by his wielding of the three gods, Marik believed that by whoever collected the three God cards could be crowned king. So he set out to fulfill the prophecy and become the new king and claim the king's power and memories for himself.[1] He founded the Ghouls by brainwashing individuals with his Millennium Rod and managed to steal two of the God cards,[2] while his sister, Ishizu Ishtar, was able to keep the third card, "The God of the Obelisk" safe.[3]
The Millennium Tauk granted Ishizu Ishtar the ability to see into the near future,[4] including a dark future where Marik succumbed to the evil of Dark Marik.[5] She hoped to use The Tauk's power of foresight to orchestrate a future where Marik could be saved.[6]
Ishizu invited Seto Kaiba to a private exhibition at Domino City Museum, where she showed him a stone tablet, claiming it depicted the origins of Duel Monsters. And showed that it contained an image of a priest, battling a nameless pharaoh, who resembled Kaiba and Yugi, respectively. She told Kaiba about the God cards and requested he start a tournament to draw out the Ghouls who had stolen them and win the cards back. To incentivize him, she gave him, "The God of the Obelisk".[7] However she had foreseen a future where she Dueled Kaiba, in which his use of "The God of the Obelisk" resulted in his defeat.[6]
Ishizu also met Dark Yugi at the museum, where he had just learned he was the Pharaoh, from observing the tablet. She told him that a battle to regain his memories was to take place in the city.[4]
Kaiba organized the tournament, through his company KaibaCorp. It was to be Japan's largest gathering of Duelists. He advertised it in card magazines and online, by publishing a hint saying "come to the place where ancient Duelists and their cards slumber in the stones", along with a date and time for the announcement of the tournament. People who picked up on the hint met at museum on the Sunday. Kaiba made an appearance there announcing that in two days the city would become the stage for the Battle City tournament and that in order to participate Duelists must have a next generation Duel Disk and be prepared to ante their rarest card.[4] The Duel Disks were made available at card-specialty stores and given out freely to Duelists who ranked level 5 or higher out of a possible 8 in KaibaCorp's Duelist database.[8]
News of the tournament reached Marik, who thought it was convenient to have all his prey gather in one place and dispatched the Rare Hunters to Domino City.[8]
Dark Yugi entered the tournament, hoping to regain his memories. He kept this a secret from Yugi, who entered with the motive to face Kaiba in a fair Duel. His friend, Katsuya Jonouchi wished to enter too, but ranked too low in KaibaCorp's database. However the Card shop manager changed his level from 2 to 5, as part of a ploy for the Rare Hunters to win his "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" from him.[8]
Preliminaries
Battle Ship
Duel Tower
References
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 165 (Duelist Duel 106): "The Tablet of Memories"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 191 (Duelist Duel 132): "The Place of Destiny"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 147 (Duelist Duel 88): "The Lost Cards"
- ↑ a b c Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 150 (Duelist Duel 91): "The Gathering"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 230 (Duelist Duel 171): "Shatter the Future"
- ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 226 (Duelist Duel 167): "The Chosen One"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 147 (Duelist Duel 88): "The Lost Cards"
- ↑ a b c Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 151 (Duelist Duel 92): "Rare Hunters!"
