Thats not a good sign.

I bet 4kids is behind the name change. They're always are. -_-

Even if that were the case, it wouldn't really matter. It would still be the same manga, wouldn't it? Slight irritation, but no major big deal.

...actually, if you only collet the Graphic Novels, it's a great thing.
Also, if you look at it from Viz's point of view- they release the manga twice as fast this way, which means they make money twice as fast. Also, fans that only subscribed to Shonen JUMP for Yu Gi Oh! will now have to also go out and buy the novels.
That's capitalism for you.
Yu Gi Oh! Duelist is not a bad name at all- considering the original series is called Yu Gi Oh!: Duel Monsters.

Somehow I doubt this.

Considering that volume 7 has the start of DK they would have to split off the last chapter of v 7 and put it in vol8. This is highly unlikely.

ALso, if you'll note the desciption:

"Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 1: Duelist
FROM THE PUBLISHER
When Yugi beat Kaiba at a card game, little did he know the consequences: a trip through Kaiba's "Death T" — a theme park of death — and a series of evil spells against Yugi's family. It doesn't help that Kaiba's little brother also has a score to settle. "


And if they do split it, yeah, it'll suck, but other manga have had similar treatment when brougth to the US. Card Captor Sakura for one example, was split into two parts. Considering that most people thinkg of Yuugiou as what the anime covers and the tone and pase changes significantly once Pegasus shows up, it is a logical desision. It's not making it a diffrent series compleatly anymore then the dub tried to say 'Enter the Shadow Realm' or 'Wakignthe Dragons' is a diffrent series. It's a diffrent season.


And the anime was not split into to series. There was first series and then later, when the manga started getting really popular, there was 2nd series, which didn't want to repeat what had already been animated when it was the DUel Monsters and on stories that were making Yuugiou popular.

It's not the end of teh world. It's not even a big deal. It's a minor annoyance. Deal.

Mreh - though it is true that Shonen Jump is skipping directly to the Memories arc beginning with issue 25/26, I doubt they'd change the entire GN around just to cater to 4Kids. And like Fran said as well, they'd have to splice #7, which would then push it back from its original release date.

*shrugs*

I look at it this way: I've been buying the GNs anyway, and would rather not have most of the manga spoiled for myself by reading the end before the middle, so as soon as the first Faust battle is finished in Shaman King, I'll stop buying SJ. Saves me five bucks a month, anyway :3

that was old news around in March. I think SJ finally caught up to the scanlators, i think thats why >.>;; SJ's editing is still shitty tho =/

If they would release the graphic novels in the larger format (like the early Magic Knight Rayearth GNs), then I would be thrilled, because it means getting more of the manga that much faster.

But this means the manga will *only* be available in the reduced-size format. And my eyes aren't what they used to be, so a lot of the smaller detail is simply smeary little blurs as far as I'm concerned when it's presented in the smaller format. Grr.

MKRE was orginaly put out in large graphic novel form [gods, they were expencive. @_@ I just read my friends copies. ^^]which is why the translated has the larger size as well.

I got my copies for $1 each. :) I <3 Unclaimed Baggage! (which is where I bought them, as well as the large format Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha GNs)

Of course, it's cheaper to publish in the smaller format, but it is hard on older eyes!

Aaaah! Lucky~! *jelous*

Oh well. *dies*

So they are skipping to the Pharoah's Memories? Or skipping to Duelist Kingdom like the anime making it a seperate series.
That's so weird

............*CRY*

*almost chips off tooth on fork while eating her supper*

Wow, makes me even more thankful that I'm buying them in french. (We be on volume 32...no skippage or name changes) o_o