Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 040

Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 040

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"Aftermath", known as "King of Duelists" in the Japanese version, is the fortieth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime. It is the last episode of the Duelist Kingdom arc. It first aired in Japan on January 30, 2001 and in the United States on October 5, 2002.

There are no Duels in this episode, as it instead centers on the childhood and teenage life of Maximillion Pegasus, and Yugi Muto's meeting of Shadi.

Summary

Yugi and his friends are running through the castle in order to find Pegasus, so that he will release all the souls that he captured like he promised. Téa stops for a brief moment because she notices a nearby tower. She notes to her friends that she recognizes that tower as the one she thought that Tristan and Bakura went up into before in a dream. She then realizes that was Pegasus's sanctuary and what she remembered was real. Tristan agrees too as the memory is coming back to him.

Pegasus is in his private tower and is depressed that he lost against Yugi and the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle. Regardless, he is a man of his word, so he releases the souls of Solomon Muto and the Kaiba brothers. Because of this, Mokuba, Kaiba and Solomon wake up and regain their senses. Just then, Yami Bakura arrives and gives Pegasus an impromptu tarot reading before challenging him to a Shadow Game using their Millennium Items. Bakura easily wins and takes Pegasus's Millennium Eye. Yugi and the gang arrive to see Pegasus being carried away by his guards. They enter the tower and find Pegasus's diary. Téa Gardner reads from it, and it explains that as a teenager, he met a girl named Cecelia. They were true lovers, but just as they were about to be married, Cecelia got sick and died. Pegasus traveled all over the world trying to get her back. He wound up in Egypt, where he met Shadi, who gave him the Millennium Eye.

Pegasus gets the idea that using the holographic technology of KaibaCorp along with the power of the Millennium Items could bring Cecelia back to life, and this was his reason for hosting the Duelist Kingdom tournament. Yugi notices that there are three Soul Prison cards that are blank. That means Pegasus did release the souls of his prisoners like he had promised. As the group leaves, Shadi confronts Yugi and uses his Millennium Key to enter Yugi's mind. To his surprise, he finds two chambers, one for Yugi, and the other for Yami Yugi. The latter is a giant maze filled with trap doors. Shadi enters through several of them before Yugi saves him.

In one of the chambers, Shadi and Yugi encounter the "Dark Magician" who is about to attack them as he thinks they are intruders. Shadi plans to use the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" tablet below them to destroy it, but Yugi talks him out and manages to convince the "Dark Magician" to let him go. Shadi is shocked that Yugi was able to convince the "Dark Magician" that easily. Shadi leaves Yugi's mind, believing he is the one that will save the world from chaos. Before he leaves, Shadi warns Yugi to take great care as the thief that stole the Millennium Eye will go after Yugi's Millennium Puzzle soon.

Differences in adaptations

• In the dub, there is a zoomed shot of Cecelia's portrait. In the original, it is Shadi's portrait seen close-up, and Shadi's eyes briefly glow.

• Cecelia's image on the card is changed in the dub.

• Cut from the dub is a shot of Pegasus at Cyndia/Cecelia's funeral, standing over her in her casket and the casket lid closing over her. It's replaced by a shot of a cemetery and a headstone with "Cecelia Pegasus" engraved on it.

• Cut from the dub is Shadi shoving the Millennium Eye into Pegasus's eye socket.
  • This scene's dialect was changed. In the original, Shadi told Pegasus if he failed the test, death awaits him. In the dub, if he failed then nightmares beyond his imagination awaited him. When Pegasus passed the test, Shadi told him he did not become insane and was the chosen one for the Millennium Eye.

• When Pegasus saw Cecelia in a vision, there was blood dripping down his eye; the blood is erased in the dub.

Errors

• Before Yugi attempts to head downstairs from Pegasus' private tower, the empty Soul Prison cards are facing upside-down to Yugi when throughout the entire episode they were facing right side-up.

Trivia

• This marks the third episode to not feature Dueling.
• In the manga, Pegasus is dead after this point; Yami Bakura stole the Millennium Eye. However, in the episode, he is rendered comatose.

Featured cards

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

Maximillion Pegasus
Other cards Soul Prison x3

Pegasus' diary
Other cards Cecelia Pegasus