In fact, Yu-Gi-Oh was already popular when it first started serializing. This was mainly due to the Legend of the Three Kingdoms TV series.
With the popularity of the "Legend of the Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" animated TV series, as well as the popularity of the Three Kingdoms card and the elven crispy noodle snacks, the discussion of the plot of the "Legend of the Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" among Japanese teenagers became particularly heated.
This was especially true for the main character, Muto Games.
In the Legend of the Three Kingdoms, Muto Games was already an adult when he appeared. He was extremely powerful and had amazing fighting skills. He could defeat four or five gun-wielding bandits on his own.
What was even more mysterious was that Muto Games seemed to know a lot about the Legend of the Three Kingdoms and the Emperor Lu Ban Suo behind it. It seemed that all of these were closely related. At the same time, he was also very familiar with card duels.
The climax of the Legend of the Three Kingdoms was the battle between Muto Games' Shu army and Nara in the city.
In the city, Nara was naturally the big boss of the entire anime. Through various schemes, he won over Lu Bu from the previous owner of Lu Bu. Then, he plotted against Muto Games and took away the monarch general Dong Zhuo from Muto Games.
Since the Monarch Card had a strong effect on the generals of the faction, Nara was invincible in the city after Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu joined forces. He defeated all the opponents in the city and issued a final challenge to Muto Games.
However, Muto Games' battle with Dong Zhuo and his opponent's hidden General Mi Fang's special effect, Betrayal, had caused Guan Yu to be fatally injured. He couldn't be summoned for a month.
At that time, the strongest King of Generals, Lu Bu, and his mastermind, Nara Nara, took the opportunity to attack Muto You. They wanted to kill their strongest opponent.
Lu Bu wasn't the only card in Muto Games' hands. He also had more than 60 Monarch Cards in his hands. He even had Dong Zhuo's Monarch Card.
Muto Games only had slightly more than 20 cards in his hands, and they were all low-level cards. The most powerful one was the four-star Guan Feng. On paper, there was no way he could defeat his opponent.
However, something miraculous happened. After Muto Games organized and edited the cards in his hand, he relied on the various skills and connections between the cards to forcefully hold back the attacks of more than 60 of the Heroes Faction's General Cards. In the end, he even used Pan Feng, a mere two-star general, to rely on countless calculations and arrangements, as well as the combination of skills and traps to forcefully take down Lu Bu.
In the game, if you had a General Card in your hand, you would have an army of 10,000.
Just like that, the enemy's 600,000 strong army was schemed to death by Muto Games' 200,000 strong army. Even the invincible Lu Bu fell into the hands of the protagonist.
In the end, Nara, who had 600,000 strong army in his hands, knelt on the ground and looked at Muto Games, who was standing there arrogantly. His eyes were filled with fear and despair. From then on, he was completely subdued by Muto Games. And then, the plot ended.
This final battle took a total of three episodes to describe. On the whole, it was very successful. It made all the audience deeply feel that the battle between the generals of the three kingdoms was not only about absolute strength, but also various hidden strategies, traps, and disciplines set up by the strategists. There were also some seemingly ordinary generals, but they had hidden killing moves that could kill five-star or even six-star generals.
Only those who could use all of these flexibly could achieve true victory.
As the anime ended, the discovery of Muto Gami's true identity piqued everyone's curiosity. The players began to speculate about Muto Gami's true identity. Many students argued about who was right, and they fought with each other, ruining their relationships.
During this process, some attentive readers suddenly discovered that in a manga serialized in Weekly Youngermen Jump, the protagonist's name seemed to be Muto Games.
At first, the readers thought that it was just the same name, so they didn't pay much attention to it. This was because, based on appearance alone, the two Muto Games were different.
However, when Muto Games in the anime "Legend of the Three Kingdoms" went berserk, his original long hair stood up and became full of strange right-angled triangular hairstyles, the readers were surprised to discover that the hairstyles of the two Muto Games were exactly the same.
This made all the readers begin to suspect the relationship between the two. For a moment, all kinds of discussions began to spread among students and friends. Many curious people deliberately bought a copy of "Weekly Youngermen Jump" and flipped through the "Yu-Gi-Oh" manga.
On the other hand, as the plot of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" manga continued to progress, especially in the final monster card game, and the appearance of the supporting character, Naruto Naruto, everyone was basically certain.
This was because the villain of "Legend of the Three Kingdoms", Naruto Naruto's father was called Naruto Naruto. In the anime, although he only appeared once, it was obvious that he was very familiar with Muto Games. Muto Games even wanted to take the initiative to hug him, but he was rejected.
Everything was obvious. "Yu-Gi-Oh" and "Legend of the Three Kingdoms" were extremely close, and the protagonist of both stories was the same person.
The only difference was that one was a young Muto Games, and the other was an adult Muto Games.
After this point was discovered, the news that "Yu-Gi-Oh" was the prequel of "Legend of the Three Kingdoms" spread at an unimaginable speed. At first, many people wrote to "Weekly Youngermen Jump", asking them about the relationship between the two and whether "Yu-Gi-Oh" was the prequel of "Legend of the Three Kingdoms".
However, the "Weekly Youngermen Jump" editorial department responded in a very vague way, refusing to answer this question no matter what.
And this was how the world worked. The more uncertain you were, the more you tried to cover it up, and the easier it would arouse everyone's curiosity, and then the popularity would increase infinitely.
For a while, "Yu-Gi-Oh" became the topic of discussion among countless young people, especially after "Legend of the Three Kingdoms" ended. The audience who couldn't forget about the anime could only transfer their remaining enthusiasm to "Yu-Gi-Oh". In addition, the "Yu-Gi-Oh" manga itself was extremely outstanding, which led to a drastic change in the "Yu-Gi-Oh" manga that the entire editorial department and Kazuki Takahashi himself couldn't understand.
First of all, in the "Weekly Youngermen Jump" reader survey ranking, "Yu-Gi-Oh", which was originally hovering around ninth or tenth place, began to rise at an unimaginable speed. In the end, it only took three weeks for "Yu-Gi-Oh" to become the most anticipated manga in the "Weekly Youngermen Jump", temporarily suppressing "Dragon Ball" and breaking the "Dragon Ball" record of holding the first place for three years.
Although it didn't take long for "Yu-Gi-Oh" to be voted back to first place by the "Dragon Ball" fanatical fans, "Yu-Gi-Oh" and "Dragon Ball" were still very difficult to compare, but at least "Yu-Gi-Oh" had the ability to reach first place.
And in November, the first volume of "Yu-Gi-Oh" was sold. In just one month, it sold 500,000 copies, setting the record for the best debut manga in the history of "Weekly Youngermen Jump".
Because any well-known manga basically accumulates popularity slowly, and only becomes popular in the middle or later stages of the manga, it was very difficult for the first volume to sell more than 100,000 copies in a month.
But "Yu-Gi-Oh" broke the record of 500,000 copies in the first month, which was very impressive, and made the "Weekly Youngermen Jump" editor feel inexplicably sad.
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