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Yu-Gi-Oh!

There are two different first series, only three of the nine shows are one timeline, and the film that looks like part of it is not.

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Where to start with Yu-Gi-Oh!

Start with Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters from 2000, the 224 episode series that the card game and everything else grew out of. Do not start with the 1998 series even though it is older and first, because it is a different studio's version and the 2000 series ignores it.

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    Duel Monsters, all 224 episodes Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

    The whole of the original story, from Duelist Kingdom through Battle City to the ending. Long, but it is the only part of the franchise that everything else refers back to.

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    The Dark Side of Dimensions Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions

    The one film that continues the original story rather than sitting beside it, set six months later and made by the manga's own author. Watch it straight after Duel Monsters and nowhere else.

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    GX, all 180 episodes Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

    Set roughly ten years later at a duelling school founded by Kaiba, with the original lead appearing in it. The English dub stops before the final year, so the last stretch is subtitled only.

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    5D's, all 154 episodes Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

    Later again in the same world, in a city built over the old one. This is where the forward chain ends; nothing after it continues from here.

Then what? After 5D's the franchise stops being a line. Zexal, Arc-V and VRAINS are separate worlds you can watch in any order or skip entirely, and Arc-V is the one that reaches back and reframes GX, 5D's and Zexal as parallel dimensions. Sevens and Go Rush!! are their own pair, in order, with a different card game. The 1998 series is worth trying only once you know the 2000 one well enough to enjoy how much it disagrees with it, and it is subtitled only.

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