Welcome to my review of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. I will make this review as spoiler free as I can, If you think this Is a good review, please leave a like.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is in total 343 chapters and 38 volumes, however the english releases of the manga split the manga into 3 different parts. The first part being called just ''Yu-Gi-Oh!''. Many fans might recognize the adaptation of it as ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0''. The second part of the manga is called ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist''. This adaptation is the one most fans recognise as it is the first english dubbed Yu-Gi-Oh season to ever be broadcasted over TV. The third part is called ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Millenium World''. Millenium World is very different to the adaptation and I will go in to details with every part in this review, but I want to clear up that I will be going to use the three different parts because that's how most Yu-Gi-Oh fans experienced the manga. Now then, all being said, onto the review!

Yu-Gi-Oh! is 7 volumes long containing 59 chapters. This part of Yu-Gi-Oh is in my opinion the best introduction to this series. When you think of Yu-Gi-Oh! you think of child friendly, cards and fun. However, the manga is much more dark and gory than you might have expected. The story follows our main protagonist Yugi, a tenth grader who owns a puzzle from his grandpa, who owns a game shop. Yugi has been trying to complete this triangle formed puzzle for 8 years with no success, until one day, he actually completes this. When Yugi completed the puzzle, the triangle was in shape, and in the middle was an eye. As soon as he completed the puzzle, the eye shines light into Yugi's forehead, showing a big eye glowing. Yugi had gained the soul of a great Pharoh.

When Yu-Gi-Oh gained the soul of this Pharaoh, he instantly became a gaming master, beating any kind of game, from normal board game to russian roulette type of games. The thing is, It's the Pharoh's soul who is the gaming master, and not Yugi's original soul. Yugi's soul only switches when his dearest friends are in trouble, that's when he comes up with a game and tries to beat them in a shadow game. The games most often becomes very extreme, including electric shocks, fire and much more. Overall this part is pretty good, its a good introduction to the series and It shows Kazuki Takahashi's great art and story telling. Overall 9.5/10.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Is the part after Yu-Gi-Oh! and is 24 volumes long, 219 chapters. This part focuses muh more on duel monsters (the card game) and has much more lore. We get to know stuff like the creation behind the card game, more about the 7 millenium items (one of them yugi owns) and a lot more. We also get to see the improvement in Kazuki Takahashi's art.

We also get introduced to a lot of new characters, and we get introduced to a lot of stratagies. We also get to see Yugi finally being able to switch between the pharaoh's soul and his own.

There isn't anything more to say really about this part. It has much more going on and i think it is the most ambitious part. This was also most likely the start of many peoples childhood and getting introduced to the series, 9.5/10.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Millenium World is arguably the best part compared to the other parts. It is 7 volumes and 65 chapters and concludes the ending of the original run. This part takes place in a shadow game (for the most part) and the protagonist of this part is the Pharoh's soul. We learn much more things about the Pharoh. When Yugi first got the Pharoh's soul, he had forgotten his memories and name, in this part we slowly get to know his memories and slowly we get to know his name (which is the mission in this part). We also get to see how duel monsters was used to play. As expected the art is fabulous, even though sometimes it can be hard to understand, you have to take into concideration that this was a weekly series.

(The manga is very different to the anime because the anime included Kaiba, and was directed by 4Kids, and we all know 4Kids suck)

My final words for this review:
Oh boy. This manga sure was a ride! It had a lot of twists, emotional scenes, scenes that made me get up from my seat, just a whole roller coaster ride. For someone to have never watched or read the series, It was fun to see what the series was about. The world building in this series was just awesome, the character development was superb.
My most final words for this review is you should most definetally give this series a shot, It has amazing art, amazing character and amazing story telling.