Yugi and Jonouchi fight to escape the subterranean maze of the Meikyu Brothers, and then Yugi must face Kaiba, the vengeful former game master, in their third Duel Monsters battle atop Pegasus Castle.
On the Duelist Kingdom island, Jonouchi faces Mai Kujaku and "Dinosaur" Ryuzaki while Yugi squares off against Ryota Kajiki, as the battle to find the greatest Duel Monsters player in the world gets underway.
Yugi's skills are tested when he is forced to duel Pandora, who is using one of Yugi's own favorite cards, while being chained in the path of a buzzsaw.
As the game's greatest duelists gather for the Battle City tournament, the Rare Hunters, pawns of the mysterious Marik, stalk the tournament, stealing valuable cards and forcing Yugi to find a way to beat an unbeatable combo in order to win.
When a strange tomb is discovered, Anubis, the Egyptian lord of death awakens from his sleep of 5,000 years. Yugi duels his rival Kaiba, who has a powerful new card, and battles Anubis to save the world from a new age of darkness.
Yugi, finally in possession of all the Egyptian God Cards which hold the keys to unlocking his memories of his past life as an Egyptian pharaoh, uses the Millennium Eye to travel with his friends to ancient Egypt to explore his past and to fight an enemy who has been waiting for them for three thousand years.
Yugi and his friends are sent to the Duelist Kingdom, where they must compete with the world's greatest Duel Monsters players for the honor of fighting the man who made the game.