Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 040
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| Series | Yu-Gi-Oh! |
| Number | 40 |
| Season | 1 |
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| Previous | "Yugi vs. Pegasus: Match of the Millennium, Part 5" |
| Next | "The Wrath of Rebecca" |
Aftermath, known as King of Duelists in the Japanese version, is the fortieth episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime. 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
Pegasus is in his private tower releasing the souls of Solomon Muto and the Kaiba brothers. 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' Millennium Eye. Yugi and the gang arrive to see Pegasus being carried away by his guards. They enter the tower and finds Pegasus' 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 travels all over the world trying to get her back. He winds up in Egypt, where he meets Shadi, who gives 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 his reason for hosting the Duelist Kingdom tournament. As the group leaves, Shadi confronts Yugi. He uses his Millennium Key to enter Yugi's mind. To his surprise, he finds two chambers, one for Yugi, and the other for Yami. The latter is giant maze filled with trap doors. Shadi enters through several of them before Yugi saves him. In one of them, they encounter the "Dark Magician". Shadi plans to use the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" to destroy it, but Yugi talks him out and manages to convince the "Dark Magician" to let him go. Shadi leaves Yugi's mind, believing he is the one that will save the world from chaos.
Differences in adaptations
- In the US version, we zoom in on Cecelia's portrait. But in the Japanese version, it's Shadi's portrait we see in close-up, and Shadi's blue eyes briefly glow.
- Cecelia's image on the card is changed in the dub.
- Cut from the US version 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 US version is Shadi shoving the Millennium Eye into Pegasus' eye socket.
- When Pegasus saw Cecelia in a vision there was blood dripping down his eye, the blood is erased in the dub.
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