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{{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Episodeepisode | series = Yu-Gi-Oh! | season image = 2 | image name = Yugioh081.jpgpng | image size = | image caption = | english en_name = Let the Finals Begin! | kanji ja_name = バトルシップ発進! | romaji romaji_name = Batoru Shippu Hasshin! | japanese translated ja_trans_name = (Battle Ship Takes Off!) | episode series = Yu-Gi-Oh!| number = 81| season = 0812 | japanese air date ja_air_date = November 13, 2001 | english air date en_air_date = August 30, 2003 | japanese opening ja_opening = [[WILD DRIVE]] | japanese ending ja_ending = [[Paradise]]<br /> 楽園 | english opening en_theme = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 2 Theme (English)|Season Two theme]] | english ending screenwriter = Junki Takegami

After obtaining 6 Locator Cards, '''"Let the semi-finalists arrive at KaibaFinals Begin!"'''s secret tournament location.The qualifiers are [[Seto Kaiba]], [[Yami Yugi]]known as '''"Battle Ship Takes Off!"''' in the Japanese version, is the eighty-first episode of the [[Joey WheelerYu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|Joey''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' anime]]. It first aired in Japan on November 13, [[Mai Valentine|Mai]]2001, [[Yami Bakura]]and in the United States on August 30, 2003. {{episode summary|After obtaining 6 [[Marik Ishtar|MarikLocator Card]]s, the semi-finalists arrive at the [[Odion Ishtar|Odion]] and [[Ishizu Ishtar|IshizuBattle City]]finals secret location.=Summary=}}

==Summary==[[Seto Kaiba]] is the already waiting at the scene with his brother [[Mokuba Kaiba|Mokuba]]for the [[Battle City]] finalists to arrive. The first three finalists, [[Yugi Muto|Yugi]], [[Joey Wheeler]] and his group [[Mai Valentine]] arrivewith their friends, the members are [[Tristan Taylor]], [[Serenity Wheeler]], [[Téa Gardner]], and [[Duke Devlin]], [[Joey Wheeler]] and [[Mai Valentine]]. Yugi, Joey and Mai qualify for finals. [[Marik Ishtar]] arrives and qualifies for , the finalsnext finalist, and arrives but is still using his disguise of Namu. Joey is suspicious about his true identity motives, but Marik quickly hypnotizes Tea to convince both Yugi and Joey of his false alias (He later remarks that he can take control of Tea anytime)eventually dismisses it. At this time, [[Ryo Bakura Ryou|Bakura]] arrives and also qualifies for the finals. Yugi even though he is suspicious that [[Yami Bakura]] might have re-surfaced still injured and Marik announces he is surprised that he qualified despite only joining also a day agofinalist, baffling everyone. [[Odion Ishtar]] comes in at this point, creating a commotion as Yugi, Kaiba and Joey recognize him as Marik, and Odion even identifies continues to identify himself as Marik. All three swear to defeat him. However, in order to keep this illusion, Marik has given Odion the [[Millennium Rod]], but he seems to still hold some hypnosis powersanother finalist.

At this time, Mokuba introduces the Battle Ship, a huge airship where the finals will take place. The airship lands and all the contestants enter the ship, the rest of Yugi's group with ID cards (handed to all the final contestants) are initially not allowed, but Mokuba allows them[[File:RyoBakurawithLocatorCards. Kaiba orders the airship to leave, but at the last minute jpg|thumb|left|Bakura reveals his 6 [[Ishizu IshtarLocator Card]] arrives with a mask over her face to conceal her identity. The Battle Ship takes off at this points.]]

Mokuba introduces [[Seto Kaiba|Kaiba]] says to [[Yami Yugi]] that he never played his [[Slifer the Sky Dragon]] since he won it from the [[Rare Hunters|Rare Hunter]] [[StringsCraft 3]], he also says that when they face each other [[Yami Yugi]] better put his [[Slifer a huge airship where the Sky Dragon]] in his [[Main Deck|Deck]] so that when he wins it he can win the [[Battle City]] Tournamentfinals will take place. The semi-finalists prepare their [[Main Deck|Deck]]s in preparation for airship lands and all the Tournament. During contestants enter, although Yugi's talk with Yami Yugi, friends are initially not allowed as they confirm that Bakura is once again under are not finalists but Mokuba persuades Kaiba to let them on. Kaiba orders the influence of the [[Millennium Ring]]. During airship to leave, even though the previewremaining finalist has not arrived, but at the first match-up is shown as last minute [[Yami Yugi]] vs. [[Yami BakuraIshizu Ishtar]]enters with a mask over her face to conceal her identity.

The finalists spend time alone in their designated rooms, except for Joey who is with Serenity and later Tristan, Téa and Duke, who do not have their own rooms. Yugi plans his deck while talking to Yami Yugi and they agree that Bakura is once again under the influence of the [[Millennium Ring]]. The finalists are called to the main hall to decide who will duel first.{{Stub-|left}}==Featured cards==The following cards appeared in this episode. {{Decklist|Other|effect monsters =* [[Dark Magician Girl (anime)|Dark Magician Girl]]* [[Obelisk the Tormentor (anime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]* [[Slifer the Sky Dragon (anime)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]}} ==Cast=={| class="wikitable"|-! scope="col" | Japanese character name! scope="col" | Japanese voice actor|-| [[Yugi Muto]]u| [[Shunsuke Kazama]]|-| [[Téa Gardner|Anzu Mazaki]]| [[Maki Saito]]|-| [[Joey Wheeler|Katsuya Jonouchi]]| [[Hiroki Takahashi]]|-| [[Tristan Taylor|Hiroto Honda]]| [[Hidehiro Kikuchi]]<!-- Page break -->|-| [[Seto Kaiba]]| [[Kenjiro Tsuda]]|-| [[Mokuba Kaiba]]| [[Junko Takeuchi]]|-| [[Bakura Ryou|Ryo Bakura]]| [[Rica Matsumoto]]|-| [[Mai Valentine|Mai Kujaku]]| [[Haruhi Terada]]|-| [[Duke Devlin|Ryuji Otogi]]| [[Ryo Naito]]<!-- Page break -->|-| [[Marik Ishtar|Marik]]<!-- surname not shown in the credits -->| [[Tetsuya Iwanaga]]|-| [[Odion|Rishid]]| [[KONTA]]|-| [[Serenity Wheeler|Shizuka]]<!-- surname not shown in the credits -->| [[Mika Sakenobe]]|-| [[Roland|Isono]]| [[Masami Iwasaki]]|-| [[Fuguta]]| [[Eiji Takemoto]]|} ==Differences in adaptations==A scene of [[Yami Bakura]] aggressively eating steak and saying "Not enough blood" is removed from the dub. ==Errors==* When Yugi, Joey, and Mai are asked to show their six locator cards, all three show seven cards instead of six.* After Bakura reveals he is a finalist, the scene of Marik (still in the guise of Namu) shows him without a Duel Disk.* When [[Roland]] and [[Fuguta]] announce that the actual location is on a blimp, Marik is still seen without a Duel Disk, and Kaiba mistakenly has his on his right arm, but then it switches back to his left arm, like everyone else's shown.* Mokuba calls Fuguta "Roland".