Yu-Gi-Oh! - Volume 001

"The Millennium Puzzle"

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Names
English	The Millennium Puzzle
Japanese name Japanese 神（かみ）のパズル Base 神のパズル Furigana かみのパズル Rōmaji Kami no Pazuru Translated The Puzzle of the Gods
Serialization
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh!
Number	1
3-in-1 volume	"Yu-Gi-Oh! (3-in-1 edition) - Volume 001"
Contains chapters	001 – 007
Release dates
Japanese	March 4, 1997
English	May, 2003
French	January 16, 1999
German	June 1, 2003
ISBN
English (na)	978-1569319031
English (uk)	978-0575077379
French	978-2871292234
German	978-3551750617
Japanese	4-08-872311-2
Chronology
Yu-Gi-Oh! volumes
Next	"The Cards with Teeth"

"The Millennium Puzzle", known as "The Puzzle of the Gods" in the Japanese version, is the first Volume of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. This volume contains the original script for the earliest adventures of Yugi Mutou.

For a limited time a free poster was included.

An English collector's edition version of this volume was released on September 16, 2008. It features larger trim, sturdy deluxe hardcover binding, a protective dust cover and different cover art.

Story

The shy high school student Yugi Mutou is a not so popular kid at school. He spends most of his time thinking about various games and is sometimes subject to bullying. Yugi's life changes after solving the Millennium Puzzle. Unaware to himself, his body now often becomes host to an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, who punishes bullies and evil-doers, who cross Yugi and his friends.

Foreword

In the foreword, Kazuki Takahashi thanks people for buying the graphic novel and asks people who are borrowing it, if they could buy one too. He says that he finds Yu-Gi-Oh! to be strange story; at first he had wanted to make a story about "the mysterious" in everyday life, but ended up incorporating that and many different things. He hoped that the reader would become good friends of Yugi, Jonouchi and Anzu.

Puzzles

The volume contains three puzzles that appear between chapters.

• The first is a maze drawn on the Millennium Puzzle.
• The second is a spot the difference between two pictures of Anzu serving Yugi and Jonouchi at Burger World.
• The last puzzle gives the reader a picture of Yugi and nine other pictures. The reader is to find which of the nine is identical to the first.

Covers

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  Collector's edition

Chapters

Image	Number	English title	Japanese title
	#1	"The Puzzle of the Gods"	神（かみ）のパズル
			Kami no Pazuru
	Yugi Mutou is been bullied in school. Protected and comforted by his friend Anzu Mazaki, Yugi shows her his secret puzzle, that he has been unable to solve for eight years. Although offered protection by the hall monitor Ushio, Yugi is not happy with Ushio's methods.
	#2	"Lying Eyes"	偽（いつわ）りの目（め）
			Itsuwari no Me
	Jonouchi is now friends with Yugi. The two of them get excited when they see a ZTV van outside their school. While they hope that means there is a star present, the studio turns out to be doing a documentary about bullying.
	#3	"Hard Beat!"	ハードビート！！
			Hādo Bīto!!
			"Hard Beat!!"
	Yugi is forced to sell tickets for Sozoji's concert or suffer consequences. Not wanting to put his friends through Sozoji's horrible singing or have them pick a fight, Yugi insists that he's fine and won't tell them what he's been made do.
	#4	"Jail Break!"	脱（だつ）獄（ごく）囚（しゅう）
			Datsugokushū
			"Fugitive Prisoner"
	Katsuya Jonouchi and Yugi Mutou notice Anzu Mazaki has been behaving strange lately. Investigation causes them to meet up with an escaped convict.
	#5	"The False Prophet"	妙な予言者
			Myōna Yogensha
	The alleged psychic Kokurano has gained great popularity at Domino High School. However Yugi Mutou is skeptical of his powers and upset by Kokurano's interest in Anzu Mazaki.
	#6	"Into the Fire"	熱い死闘
			Atsui Shitō
			"Hot Life-or-Death Match"
	Goro Inogashira takes over Yugi's class' spot at the school festival, where they were making Carnival Games.
	#7	"The Face of Truth"	真実の顔
			Shinjitsu no Kao
	Jonouchi gets Yugi to help Honda with his crush on Miho Nosaka. However this gets them into trouble with the teacher Ms. Chono.