Transcription: " Senritsu no Burūaizu Howaito Doragon" ( Japanese: 戦慄のブルーアイズ・ホワイト・ドラゴン) "The Heart of the Cards" / "The Bloodcurdling Blue-Eyes White Dragon"
It is now licensed and distributed by 4K Media. Television Animation through North American TV rights, when it aired on Kids’ WB! and Cartoon Network. on Region 1 home video and formerly distributed by Warner Bros.
The first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters was formerly licensed by 4Kids Entertainment in North America, and other English-speaking territories and countries, and was formerly distributed by FUNimation Entertainment, LTD. The last ten episodes deal with the aftermath of Yugi's duel with Pegasus, including several filler episodes featuring original storylines not seen in the manga.īetween Septemand February 22, 2005, Funimation released twenty DVD sets for the season: twelve sets containing three episodes, three containing four episodes, one with two episodes, one containing all forty-nine episodes and the last three containing uncut versions of the first nine episodes. Crawford (renamed Maximillion Pegasus in the English adaptation). The season follows Yugi Mutou and his friends - Katsuya Jonouchi, Hiroto Honda, and Anzu Mazaki (renamed to Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor and Téa Gardener in the English adaptation) - to Duelist Kingdom, a tournament on the island of the same name, to free the soul of his grandfather, Sugoroku (renamed Solomon Moto in the English adaptation) from imprisonment by Pegasus J. The English version of this season premiered in the United States on Septemon Kids' WB, and concluded on November 9, 2002. The season was directed by Kunihisa Sugishima, and written by Junki Takegami, Masashi Sogo, and Shin Yoshida. The first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, based on the manga by Kazuki Takahashi, premiered in Japan on April 18, 2000, and concluded on April 3, 2001, on TV Tokyo.