Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light

Promotional film poster.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light遊戯王デュエルモンスターズ 光のピラミッドYu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: Pyramid of Light

Genre
Adventure, Gaming
Anime films
Produced by

Michael Pecerlello

Studio

Warner Bros.

Runtime
  • Japan 101 mins
  • United Kingdom 86 mins
  • United States 90 mins

Yu-Gi-Oh! the Movie: The Pyramid of Light, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: Pyramid of Light is an anime film based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. The director of this film is Ryosuke Takahashi.

The characters and naming are the same as the English version of the Yu-Gi-Oh!, or Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters television show.

Synopsis

The events of Battle City have just concluded, and Yugi now owns all three Egyptian God Cards. Seto Kaiba longs to finally defeat him, and he has a plan. He suspects that since Maximillion Pegasus created the Egyptian God Cards, he would have also created a way to beat them. Just in case.

Kaiba heads off to Pegasus' retirement castle, and challenges him to a duel. If Pegasus wins, he gets Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragons, but if Kaiba wins, Pegasus hands over the card that can beat the Egyptian Gods. Kaiba wins, and Pegasus fulfills his wager, giving two cards to Kaiba. However, Pegasus only created one card, so where did the other one come from?

Meanwhile, Yugi and Téa, seeking refuge from a mob of duelists wanting to face Yugi for the Egyptian Gods, stumble into Domino Museum, where they discover a new attraction on display. It's called the Pyramid of Light, and it looks a little like the Millennium Puzzle. Once Grandpa, who they also stumble across, reads an inscription on the side of a sarcophagus, also part of the exhibit, Yugi has a strange vision about Kaiba. They wake up to find the pyramid stolen, the sarcophagus empty, and Mokuba standing outside. Mokuba says that Kaiba wants Yugi to bring his duel disk to the KaibaCorp. Duel Dome immediately.

Yugi does so, transforming into the Pharaoh on the way, and finds Kaiba ready to duel. He seals all the exits, forcing Yugi to duel him, but not before Joey and Tristan find their way in to watch.

The duel goes on for what seems like an eternity, and Yugi is starting to suspect that there are dark forces at work - especially when Kaiba activates a trap card called the Pyramid of Light, which not also bares a striking resemblance to the pyramid in the museum, but also prevents Yugi from summoning any Egyptian Gods! Before long, Kaiba has his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the field, but to Yugi's surprise, he sacrifices it to summon a monster known as the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, which is even stronger!

Kaiba could win the duel there and then, but he wants to humiliate Yugi by wiping him out with his own Egyptian Gods! Pyramid of Light removed the gods from play, and he wants to play Return from the Different Dimension to get them under his control. Of course, to do that, he needs to destroy the Pyramid of Light first, otherwise it would just destroy the gods again! Kaiba commands his Shining Dragon to use its "Shining Nova" effect, which allows it to sacrifice itself to destroy anything on the field - and he aims it at the Pyramid of Light. Suddenly, a ghostly voice calls out, "This I cannot allow!", and the Pyramid stays exactly where it is. Then, a man rises up from behind Kaiba, throws him aside, and takes over the duel himself. And he has the Pyramid of Light around his neck.

It's Anubis, the Egyptian Lord of the Dead, whom the Pharaoh destroyed 5000 years ago. But now he's back with his secret weapon - Theinen the Great Sphinx! On top of this, Téa, Joey, Tristan and Yugi are trapped inside the Millennium Puzzle, leaving the Pharaoh to duel all alone. Putting all his faith into the cards, Yugi draws the Double Spell card (This card was accidently made to look like Exchange, but was supposed to be Double Spell), which allows him to discard his Diffusion Wave Motion to activate Monster Reborn from the graveyard. He uses it to revive Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and uses it to destroy the Pyramid of Light, after it was weakened by Yugi inside the Millennium Puzzle. With the Pyramid of Light gone, so was the Great Sphinx, and Anubis is seemingly defeated. But, a giant Jackal arises from the remains of the Pyramid.

Kaiba and Yugi join forces, putting all their strength into the Shining Dragon card, and using Shining Nova to destroy Anubis once and for all. On top of it all, Pegasus was back to help them, and gets them out of the explosion in time.

Relation to Canon

Like Dragon Ball Z movies (except some actual canon movies) there is some problem within the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. In the movie, Anubis was killed by Pharaoh Atem 3000 years ago (5000 in the English anime), and was resurrected when Yugi completed the Millennium Puzzle. In the first series anime, Yugi was beaten up by Ushio who also beaten up Jonouchi and Honda, and he completed the puzzle while beaten up and became Dark Yugi. Plus in Dawn of The Duel arc, Anubis was never shown or killed by Atem (The battle must be off-screen).On an episode, Jonouchi said "This room looks bigger than last time", but was never shown, so the Anubis in the movie would be a non-canon character.

Mistakes in the Movie

In the English version of the movie, the makers made many mistakes, however most of them were fixed when it aired in Japan.

Right after the Opening Title, Many People are watching a Screen Showing Yugi Dueling Kaiba in the first Episode, It shows him draw Exodia's head but the card is in Japanese

After Pegasus used Card of Sanctity, when he drew his 6 cards. He had the original Dark Magician Girl in his hand but when he summoned it, it was Toon Dark Magician Girl.

Pegasus played Ultimate Offering when dueling against Kaiba, so that he could summon more Toon monsters in one turn, at the cost of 500 Life points per monster, however, Toons are special summoned, not normal summoned, so Ultimate Offering was completely unneeded. (This was not changed when it aired in Japan.)

When Joey challenged a group of duelists wanting to have a go at Yugi and his God Cards, the first challenger summoned Injection Fairy Lily on the first turn. The entire card itself was either vertically reversed, or placed upside-down while horizontally reversed and also You normally would not be allowed to attack on the first turn.

When Kaiba's Peten the Dark Clown is destroyed by battle, Kaiba activates Deck Destruction Virus, which can only be activated when a Fiend-Type Monster with 500 ATK or fewer is destroyed by battle and Peten the Dark Clown is a Spellcaster-Type Monster.

Kaibas plan for a 'perfect victory' by summononing all three of Yugis God Cards wouldn't work, as Return from the Different Dimension only effects the players removed from play cards. Since they were Yugis cards, Kaiba would be unable to summon them.

Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon gained attack points from having Dragon cards in his Graveyard: Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon gained attack from having 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragons, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Rare Metal Dragon, however for no reason the Blue-Eyes gained no attack points from having Paladin of White Dragon in the graveyard. (This was not changed when it aired in Japan.)

When Kaiba used 'Shining Nova' to destroy Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon to destroy Pyramid of Light, although the attack failed, we see Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon disappear and later Yugi plays Monster Reborn to re-summon it from the graveyard, however, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon appears next to Anubis for a short time, after it had already died after activating it's effect. Additionally, Yugi couldn't have revived "Blue Eyes Shining Dragon", since its effect states that it can only be summoned by tributing "Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon".

The two copies of "The Winged Dragon of Ra".

When Anubis' Sphinx Teleia destroyed Yugi's Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, Sphinx Teleia's effect was not activated, which would have decreased Yugi's Life points to zero, however when Andro Sphinx destroyed Watapon, Andro Sphinx's effect was activated. (This was not changed when it aired in Japan.) In addition, Obnoxious Celtic Guardian should not have been destroyed because Teleia's attack points were higher than 1900.

In the English version of the movie, during Yugi's final turn after his Draw Phase, we can see Exchange and Diffusion Wave-Motion in his hand. In the Japanese version of the movie it was fixed to show Exchange and Double Spell.

When Anubis used Inferno Tempest and Fallout to make Yugi and Kaiba drop all of their cards, we are shown two Winged Dragon Of Ra's flying out of Yugi's Duel Disk, however the anime only has one of each Egyptian God Card in existence, as well as two King's Knight's, which he also has only one in the anime. Also, the Inferno Tempest in the movie states that one must lose 4000 points in a single attack, whereas the real card requires 3000 points of damage in order to be activated.

Featured Duels

Seto Kaiba vs. Maximillion Pegasus

Pegasus

Kaiba

  • Summons X-Head Cannon (1800/1500) in defense position
  • Sets two cards

Pegasus

Kaiba

Kaiba wins

Yugi Muto vs. Seto Kaiba/Anubis

Yugi

Kaiba

  • Sets a card

Yugi

Kaiba

Yugi

Kaiba

Yugi

Kaiba

Yugi

Kaiba

  • Passes

Yugi

  • Destroys Peten the Dark Clown
  • Seto tries to use the effect of Deck Destruction Virus but SoDM negates and destroys it (Note: Since "Deck Destruction Virus" is a Continuous Trap, this wouldn't work in the real game, as SoDM only negates the activations of traps)

Kaiba

Yugi

Kaiba

Yugi

Kaiba

Anubis

Yugi

  • Sets a card

Anubis

Yugi

Yugi wins

Card Used in the Movie

Monster Cards

Spell Cards

Trap Cards

Trivia

This movie was in theatres in America before the Battle City Finals ended, somewhat spoiling the ending for those who saw the movie.

VIZ Media released an "ani-manga" comic book version of the movie with the Egyptian God Card Slifer the Sky Dragon as part of their Shonen Jump lineup.

This movie is not to be confused with the 30-minute Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie that was released in Japan and produced by Toei Animation.

The movie aired in theaters in North America, Europe, Australia, and later in Japan. After the late Japanese theatrical movie release on Christmas Eve, the movie aired in Japan on TV Tokyo on January 2, 2005. The Japanese version is known to run 11 minutes longer.

In the English version of the movie, it was completely edited when it first appeared in theaters in the US, but the Japanese language version that's been released in Special Screenings and later released in theaters in Japan differs in content, uncut, and complete with cards in Japanese. The Japanese version is in 101 minutes and the English version is originally in 90 minutes. Many scenes in the English version were omitted, switched, and some were altered.

The original Japanese story calls for the Pharaoh's past to take place 3000 years ago, but the English translators misread this as 3000 BC, hence the English date of 5000 years ago. However, some believe this was intentional, since nothing is known about Ancient Egypt as it was 5000 years ago, and therefore the non-existence of Pharaoh Atem cannot be proved. If the date of 3000 years ago was used, then a basic knowledge of Egyptian history is enough to collaborate the fact that Pharaoh Atem did not exist.

The movie was the only part of the animated series adapted for the United States that had text on the cards being played; unlike the Japanese version, the English translation completely edited the text out of the cards due to FCC regulations. The English anime expanded the art on them to fill the gap. The cards in the movie also retained the visual rarity that their real-world card game counterparts have, with the rarer cards having gold lettering on them, to match those of an Ultra Rare card. In addition, the Life Point counters used in this duel are the same used in the original Japanese series.

In the beginning of the movie, it is said that Yugi defeated Seto Kaiba to win the finals of the Battle City Duel Monsters tournament; this is not true, for it was Marik Ishtar / Dark Marik that Yugi defeated to win the finals of the Battle City Duel Monsters tournament.

Much like the early Pokémon theatrical releases, the movie released limited-edition promotional cards alongside the tickets bought for the movie. To further stretch the card game tie-in, an exclusive movie pack was released in card shops to help garner interest in the movie. The DVD versions stated that there were 3 promo cards included in the DVD. This was not true for many versions, as it required a large amount of payment to be sent to 4Kids to be able to receive those cards.

The movie character, Anubis, does not exist within the anime or manga.

"Kill" and "Die" were actually used in this movie. Considering villains saying Yugi or Atem will be sent the Shadow Realm, Anubis is the only villain to say "die". It is possible that it was forgotten to be taken off the line, or was used accidently, or intentionally. As for 'Killed', it was used only on the prophesy read by Yugi's grandfather. There's also where violent comments like Anubis says, "Soon worms will feast your flesh, just they did on mine", and saying "You will be destroyed" is a hint that he will kill Atem. However, this movie is considered an "uncut movie" to some, because there is no obsure towards where mummies is being dismembered. The cards are displayed in their TCG form, but Dark Magician Girl had her pentagram instead of her censored 'ruby'.

Although the musical score (background instrumentals) was released for the Japanese version of the movie, the score for the English version was never released.

The movie was parodied by LittleKuriboh and released online as Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Movie on June 18, 2007.

clean up==Characters in the movie== Anubis (アヌビス Anubisu) - In the English version of the movie, Anubis wants revenge on Yami Yugi (Known in the English manga as Dark Yugi) and awakens after Yugi Muto solves the Millennium Puzzle. Pharaoh Atem had defeated Anubis a long time ago. Anubis possesses the cards Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia, which can be merged into Theinen the Great Sphinx. In the Japanese version of the movie, Anubis wants revenge by using the King of Light (Kaiba) to defeat the King of Darkness (Dark Yugi) in order to revive Anubis, the King of Destruction and use Kaiba to become the new king and rule the world. Since he has never shown in the anime of manga, he is a considered non-canon character (However, Kazuki Takahashi did design Anubis).

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