Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 056

Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 056

Names
Series
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh!
Number	56
Season	2
Chronology
Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes (season 2)
Previous	"Stalked by the Rare Hunters"
Next	"Yugi vs. The Rare Hunter, Part 2"

"Yugi vs. The Rare Hunter, Part 1", known as "Clash! Battle City Begins" in the Japanese version, is the fifty-sixth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime. It first aired in Japan on May 22, 2001, and in the US on January 11, 2003.

Summary

• As Seto Kaiba announces the start of the Battle City, Yugi and Joey start moving around as everybody else does. Joey then spots the Rare Hunter who then identifies himself as 'Seeker'. Joey then challenges Seeker to an ánte duel so that he will be able to win back his Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Seeker refuses to duel him, but wants to duel Yugi to get his Dark Magician.

• Yugi agrees to duel him on the condition that should he win, Seeker should hand over Joey's Red-Eyes. Seeker agrees. As the duel Starts, Joey tries to tell Yugi about Seeker's strategy, but Yugi says him not to say so, as it would be unfair. (In the dub, Seeker threatens Joey that if he does so, he would tear up his Red-Eyes Black Dragon.) The Duel then continues.

• At Kaiba's Control Center, he watches the duel taking place. He is informed that Yugi's opponent is one of the Rare Hunters and had hacked into Kaiba Corp Mainframe to enlist himself as participants. Hearing this, Mokuba tries to go and stop the duel and disqualify him, but Kaiba refrains him from doing so (as he wants the other Egyptian God Cards from the Rare Hunters).

Yugi meets with Duelists from Duelist Kingdom.

Featured Duel: Yami Yugi vs. Seeker, Part 1

Turn 1: Yami
Yami draws. He then Sets 2 cards and Yami Normal Summons "Beta The Magnet Warrior" (1700/1600) in Attack Position.

Turn 2: Seeker
Seeker's hand contains "Right Arm of the Forbidden One", "Left Leg of the Forbidden One", "Gear Golem the Moving Fortress", "Graceful Charity", and "Stone Statue of the Aztecs". Seeker draws "Graceful Charity" and subsequently activates it to draw 3 cards and discard 2 cards from his hand. Seeker's hand contains (from left to right) "Right Arm of the Forbidden One", "Right Leg of the Forbidden One", "Left Leg of the Forbidden One", "Gear Golem the Moving Fortress", "Stone Statue of the Aztecs", and another "Graceful Charity". Yami Yugi activates "Light of Intervention". Now both players can't set monsters and any monsters that would be set must be Normal Summoned in face-up Defense Position. Seeker Normal Summons "Stone Statue of the Aztecs" (300/2000) in Defense Position.

Turn 3: Yami
Yami draws. He then Tributes "Beta The Magnet Warrior" in order to Tribute Summon "Berfomet" (1400/1800) in Attack Position. Since "Berfomet" was Normal Summoned, Yami Yugi activates its effect to add "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" from his Deck to his hand. Yami Yugi then activates "Polymerization" to fuse the "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" in his hand with "Berfomet" and Fusion Summon "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast" (2100/1800) in Attack Position. Under Battle City Rules, Fusion Monsters may not attack in the same turn that they are Fusion Summoned. Yami Sets 1 card.

Turn 4: Seeker
Seeker draws. He then activates another "Graceful Charity" to draw 3 cards and discard 2 cards from his hand. Seeker's hand contains "Right Arm of the Forbidden One", "Right Leg of the Forbidden One", "Left Leg of the Forbidden One", "Exodia the Forbidden One", "Gear Golem the Moving Fortress", and "Swords of Revealing Light". Seeker intends to complete "Exodia" by drawing the final piece of Exodia ("Left Arm of the Forbidden One") on his next Draw Phase. Seeker Normal Summons "Gear Golem the Moving Fortress" (800/2200) in Defense Position.

Duel concludes next episode.

Featured cards

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Beta The Magnet Warrior Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts Effect Monsters Berfomet Magic Cards Polymerization (Alternate version in the dubs) Trap Cards Light of Intervention Fusion Deck Fusion Monsters Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast

Seto Kaiba
Monster Cards Normal Monsters Blue-Eyes White Dragon

Seeker's laptop
Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Dark Magician Firewing Pegasus Serpent Night Dragon Effect Monsters Great Moth Ritual Monsters Fortress Whale Magic Cards Call of the Haunted Harpie's Feather Duster Fusion Deck Fusion Monsters Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon

Kaiba's monitor
Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Beta The Magnet Warrior Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts Stone Statue of the Aztecs Effect Monsters Berfomet Magic Cards Graceful Charity x2 Polymerization (Alternate version in the dubs) Trap Cards Light of Intervention Fusion Deck Fusion Monsters Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast

Differences in adaptations

• The word "Close" on Grandpa's door is replaced with a red circle and a line through it.
• The word "Almondo" is removed from the coffee shop.
• A sign behind Rex that says "Domino Station" is removed. Also DR is removed from his hat.
• The words "Duel Disk" on Kaiba's blimp is removed from the dub.
• The stars of the duelists' rankings in the dub are changed, like in the previous episode, to actual numbers.
• The info of the Rare Hunter (in Japanese) is removed from the dub.
• In the dub, prior to Yugi figuring out Seeker's strategy and revealing it, Seeker threatened Joey that if he reveals the strategy he used to beat him in their duel, then he will tear up his "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" card. This is not present in the original, with Yami Yugi saying he has no right to know his strategy.
• The dub cuts out the part of Marik making Seeker twist and turn, moving his body very oddly, to prove that he is controlling Seeker.

Errors

• Yami's head appears larger than normal when he is first shown looking at his/Yugi's deck.
• When the Rare Hunter is looking through his computer at which duelist to fight next, it first shows Yugi and Mai and as the Rare Hunter continues looking, he stops at a picture of two unknown male duelists (3 stars in the dub and level 5 in the original). However, when Joey comes up and confronts the man, the next scene that shows enough of the computer reveals it has Yugi and Mai on it again instead of the two unknown men.