Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: The Pyramid of Light, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: Pyramid of Light (遊戯王デュエルモンスターズ 光のピラミッド) is a film based off on the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. The director of this film is Ryosuke Takahashi.
The characters and naming are straight out of the English version of the Yu-Gi-Oh!, or Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters television show.
In the movie, Seto Kaiba is pursuing his goal to defeat Yugi Moto (Yugi Mutou in the English manga and Japanese adaptations) once and for all to obtain his Egyptian God Cards. He obtains two cards, Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, and the Pyramid of Light, after defeating Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the Japanese adaptations) in a Duel Monsters duel. Meanwhile, an entity called Anubis, which Yami Yugi (Dark Yugi in the manga) defeated 5,000 years ago, came back after Yugi solved the Millennium Puzzle. Anubis is using Seto Kaiba to get revenge on the pharaoh who defeated him many years ago.
Viz released an "ani-manga" comic book version of the movie 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, 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.
Characters in the movie
- Anubis (アヌビス) - Anubis wants revenge on Yami Yugi (Known in the English manga as Dark Yugi) and awakens after Yugi Moto solves the Millenium Puzzle. Pharaoh Atem had defeated Anubis a long time ago, yet Anubis re-appeared to face Yugi Moto. Anubis posesses the cards Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia, which can be merged into a Great Sphinx.
Voice actors
Japanese version
- Yugi Mutou / Dark Yugi - Shunsuke Kazama
- Katsuya Jonouchi - Hiroki Takahashi
- Anzu Mazaki - Maki Sato
- Hiroto Honda - Takeyuki Kondo
- Pegasus J. Crawford - Jiro J. Takasugi
- Mokuba Kaiba - Junko Takeuchi
- Seto Kaiba - Kenjiro Tsuda
- Anubis - Koushi Ishii
English version
- Yugi Moto / Yami Yugi - Dan Green
- Joey Wheeler - Wayne Grayson
- Téa Gardner - Amy Birnbaum
- Tristan Taylor - Frank Frankson
- Maximillion Pegasus - Darren Dunstan
- Mokuba Kaiba - Tara Jayne
- Seto Kaiba - Eric Stuart