That means popular series including My Hero Academia and Tokyo Ghoul are now available on the platform dubbed into English, and many in other languages as well.

That’s a gross oversimplification of it, but the point is the show and the manga are very different.Sony Pictures completed its acquisition of Crunchyroll in August, and anime viewers are starting to see some changes as a result.įunimation will no longer exist as a separate streaming platform, and all anime from Funimation and its subsidiary Wakanim will now stream on Crunchyroll.

Beforehand, it was more of a gambling/horror/shonen series about the spirits of ancient Pharaohs possessing children with “Millennium Items” and playing games for life and death stakes. It was merely introduced in one story, but quickly became the franchise’s focus due to how much readers latched onto it. Ironically, the original manga series wasn’t supposed to center around the card game.

The Dual Monsters card game is a huge part of that, due to the continued popularity of Konami’s real-life adaptation. The show is based on the manga from creator Kazuki Takahashi, which started running in Shonen Jump in 1996 and grew into a massive media franchise. The original season of Yu-Gi-Oh!, subtitled Duel Monsters, comprises 49 episodes that originally aired in North America from Septemto November 9, 2002. Looks like your July's going to be filled with action, adventure, and… lots of spooky ghosts. In this case, the original Yu-Gi-Oh! season one is scheduled to arrive on July 8, 2020. Netflix has been a staunch supporter of anime in recent years, and that includes older, classic series. It’s almost the end of the June 2020 and that means all the infographics from every variant branch of Netflix’s social media presence are coming out. It’s time to… actually you know what? Never mind.

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