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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters : Season 3
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Air date: 01 Nov '03 - 47 episodesYu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters is a television anime series produced by Nihon Ad Systems and Studio Gallop, based on chapters 60-343 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga written by Kazuki Takahashi. It is the second anime adaptation of the manga following the anime produced by Toei Animation, adapting the manga from where that series finished. The series revolves around a card duelist named Yugi Mutou, who faces various opponents in a game known as Duel Monsters. The series originally aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 2000 and September 2004, running for 224 episodes. An English-language adaptation by 4Kids Entertainment aired in North America between September 2001 and June 2006 on Kids' WB under the name Yu-Gi-Oh!, also releasing the series in various countries outside of Japan. Based on the success of the series, 4Kids also commissioned an animated film, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, and a mini-series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters. The series has spawned three main spin-off anime series; Yu-Gi-Oh!...
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List of Episodes (47)
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1. A Virtual Nightmare
01 Nov '03The KaibaCorp blimp is en route to KaibaCorp Island (Alcatraz in the Japanese Version) when the autopilot is hacked and it suddenly changes course. A mysterious boy calling himself Noah communicates through a video message, claiming to be in control and appearing to know a lot about Kaiba despite Kaiba never having met him. The blimp docks in a fortress emerging from the ocean and is locked down by magnetic anchors. Noah forces the gang (Kaiba, Mokuba, Yugi, Joey, Téa, Tristan, Duke and Serenit
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2. Isolated in Cyber Space (Part 1 of 3)
08 Nov '03Everyone is dropped through tunnels and wakes up in a virtual world. Kaiba is with Mokuba and Tristan is with Duke, but everyone else is isolated. Noah sends Gansley to challenge Yugi. Because Gansley has no body of his own, he has taken the form of "Deepsea Warrior", which serves as his Deck Master. Yugi must construct his Deck from scratch by choosing from a supply of virtual cards, and Egyptian God Cards are not in the available database. (This is true for all Duels in this arc.) He also m
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3. Isolated in Cyber Space (Part 2 of 3)
08 Nov '03Yami Yugi continues his Duel with Gansley. Gansley appears to have a strong advantage. Noah shows Kaiba and Mokuba a projection of their lives at the orphanage in an attempt to emotionally weaken them. After an angry outburst by Mokuba, Kaiba realizes that Noah is trying to turn them against each other. They watch the day that Kaiba challenged Gozaburo to a chess match and won. Gozaburo had agreed to adopt the brothers if he lost. Present day Mokuba complains about Kaiba's change in attitude a
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4. Isolated in Cyber Space (Part 3 of 3)
15 Nov '03Yami Yugi continues to struggle in his Duel against Gansley; however, he eventually wins with the help of "Kuriboh's" Deck Master Ability. Téa wakes up in a cave, having been kidnapped by a group of "Hitotsu-Me Giants". She discovers they plan on cooking her, but she is rescued when a penguin drops a vine down a hole in the cave ceiling for her. After escaping, the "Hitotsu-Me Giants" chase her over a wooden bridge, which collapses under their weight. The giants fall to their deaths while Téa
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5. Freeze Play (Part 1 of 2)
15 Nov '03Téa climbs up the destroyed bridge to the other side of the canyon and, exhausted, falls asleep. She is woken by a penguin. It leads her to a raft, which takes her to a beach filled with more penguins. The penguins lead her to a building where Crump, in the form of "Nightmare Penguin", introduces himself and challenges her to a Duel. Téa runs away but becomes trapped in an icy arena where Crump forces her to Duel him. She chooses "Dark Magician Girl" as her Deck Master. When a player loses Li
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6. Freeze Play (Part 2 of 2)
22 Nov '03Kaiba and Mokuba find another projection of their past through a virtual door, this time showing their life with Gozaburo. Kaiba was forced to overwork in his studies. When his toys were taken away, Mokuba saved his Duel Monsters cards and tried to cheer him up by sneaking them to him along with a drawing of a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card. In the present day, Noah mocks the brothers. Yugi and Yami Yugi work out how to progress in the maze. They can hear that Téa is in trouble in her Duel. Yug
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7. Courtroom Chaos (Part 1 of 2)
22 Nov '03Joey is stuck in a large manor and accidentally destroys a wall when he kicks it. A hidden door takes him to the KaibaCorp blimp. Inside the blimp he finds Mai's unconscious body, but it is actually Johnson in disguise. Johnson turns the room into a courthouse and transforms into his Deck Master, "Judge Man". Joey chooses "Flame Swordsman" as his Deck Master. Téa and Yugi wander through the Antarctic environment until they find a door. It leads to the room where Joey is Dueling Johnson. Kaib
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8. Courtroom Chaos (Part 2 of 2)
29 Nov '03In his Duel, Joey plays luck-based cards. Johnson cheats by manipulating the die rolls and coin flips. After a while, Noah appears and tries to stop the Duel because of Johnson's cheating, but Joey convinces him to let the Duel continue as long as Johnson plays fairly. Kaiba and Mokuba, who have been transported to a beach, watch the confrontation on a television set lying in the sand. They hear Noah talk about proving himself to Gozaburo, which confuses them, since they never met Noah while l
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9. Mechanical Mayhem (Part 1 of 2)
29 Nov '03Tristan, Duke and Serenity enter a virtual door in a field which leads them to what appears to be the room where the blimp is held, although the room is empty. Nezbitt appears and plans to Duel Serenity. Knowing her inexperience at Dueling, Duke and Tristan negotiate and get Nezbitt to agree to a 3 vs 1 Duel. The sequence of turns is: Serenity, Tristan, Duke, Nezbitt, repeat. Duke, Tristan, and Serenity are forbidden from discussing strategies with each other. Nezbitt opens the floor of the
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10. Mechanical Mayhem (Part 2 of 2)
06 Dec '03Serenity finds herself unable to continue dueling due to overwhelming shock and guilt over losing Tristan. Her turns are skipped. Duke temporarily transforms the playing field into a Dungeon Dice Monsters game, allowing him to take the lead in the Duel. After a series of turns, Nezbitt threatens to disqualify Serenity if she does not continue dueling. Duke tries to remind her of Joey to boost her confidence. Joey, Yugi and Téa find their way out of the tunnel and appear through a door above D
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11. Settling the Score (Part 1 of 2)
13 Dec '03Tristan wakes up and finds himself in the body of a one-foot-tall robotic monkey. Nezbitt, in Tristan's body, appears before Kaiba and Mokuba. He assaults Kaiba, but as they are reunited with Yugi and the others, he is attacked by the robot-monkey Tristan and Joey. Nezbitt escapes on a motorbike and kidnaps Mokuba along the way. Kaiba chases him on another motorbike. Tristan cannot speak in his robot-monkey body, but Serenity convinces the others to bring him with them since he tried to save
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12. Settling the Score (Part 2 of 2)
20 Dec '03Robot-monkey Tristan accidentally flicks a switch on the back of his head which allows him to speak normally. Joey and Duke don't trust him and believe he may have been sent by The Big Five. Yugi and the others catch up to Kaiba and Leichter's Duel. Leichter accuses Kaiba of betraying The Big Five and his brother and stepfather. He reveals how Kaiba gained leadership of KaibaCorp. When Seto passed his test set by Gozaburo, he and Mokuba won membership in KaibaCorp, including 2% each of KaibaC
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13. Noah's Secret
10 Jan '04Noah brainwashes Mokuba by using a projection of Kaiba to verbally abuse him. In the original Japanese version, the projection strikes Mokuba across the face before storming away. Mokuba is brainwashed by Noah and starts to believe Noah is the only one he can trust. After Kaiba defeats Leichter, he runs off in search of Mokuba. Yugi and Téa run after him while Joey and the rest of the gang are stuck behind with the pickup truck. A tunnel created by Noah leads Kaiba to Mokuba, who refuses to go
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14. Merger of the Big Five (Part 1 of 3)
17 Jan '04Kaiba breaks away from the group so he can search for Noah and Mokuba. He is surprised to discover an exact virtual copy of Kaiba Land, his new theme park, when he hasn't shared the plans with anyone yet. Noah speaks with The Big Five. Nezbitt is ready to leave the Virtual World in Tristan's body, but the rest are in danger of dismissal for their failures. They beg Noah for one more chance. Noah gives them their opportunity, and as their final chance for escape, the Big Five challenge Yugi, ea
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15. Merger of the Big Five (Part 2 of 3)
24 Jan '04Yami Yugi and Joey continue to duel The Big Five, who are taking turns using Tristan's body and bringing out their respective Deck Masters. Yami Yugi lures Nezbitt into a trap to save Joey from losing all his life points. Joey also fell for the trick, but everyone thought he was acting. In the virtual Kaiba Land, Kaiba finds an old projector containing videos of Noah as a young child and of what appears to be Noah's funeral. Kaiba wonders if Noah was in an accident shortly before he and Mokuba
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16. Merger of the Big Five (Part 3 of 3)
31 Jan '04In the Duel, Leichter summons "Five-Headed Dragon", but Yami Yugi and Joey win with the help of their Deck Masters. After losing, The Big Five again try to steal everyone's bodies by force. Noah interrupts and takes the Five to his headquarters. Due to their repeated failures and rule-breaking, Noah imprisons each of them in an isolated part of his Virtual World (in the Japanese version he deletes them). The Five are never seen again. Tristan is devastated because he thinks he will never get h
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17. Brothers in Arms (Part 1 of 3)
07 Feb '04Joey and Duke inspect robot-monkey Tristan, hoping to find clues on how to escape. They find secret buttons on his back, one of which creates a virtual door leading them to Kaiba Land. In Kaiba Land, Kaiba boards a Blue-Eyes White Dragon train. It takes him to a volcanic battle field where Noah is waiting for him. Noah shows a sphere in the sky to Kaiba, revealing that it contains a digitized version of his brain and has kept him alive in virtual reality after he died in a car accident six yea
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18. Brothers in Arms (Part 2 of 3)
14 Feb '04With Shinato's Ark, Noah has a strong advantage in his duel against Kaiba. Noah has the ability to change the virtual environment and does so depending on what card he chooses to play. From a volcanic field, he changes their surroundings to a sunny forest clearing around which dinosaurs roam. He wipes out the dinosaurs with meteors, ushering in an ice age. He finally reverts it back to a sunny clearing with the skycrapers of Domino City visible in the distance above the treeline. Noah reveals
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19. Brothers in Arms (Part 3 of 3)
21 Feb '04Kaiba calls off his attack so Mokuba, whom Noah is using as a shield, will not be harmed. Noah can easily regain large chunks of Life Points using "Shinato's Ark", giving him a huge advantage over Kaiba. Kaiba starts to realise how badly he had treated Mokuba in the past. Using advice from Yugi, Kaiba reminds Mokuba of the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card he made for Kaiba when they were younger. Kaiba claims that Mokuba saved him by giving him something to strive for - a real "Blue-Eyes White Dr
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20. Noah's Final Threat (Part 1 of 2)
28 Feb '04Yami Yugi and Noah continue from Noah's Duel with Kaiba. Kaiba's Graveyard and all the cards it contains are still considered to be part of the duel. The players' Life Points are the same scores as when Seto activated "Last Turn," but his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" was destroyed by Noah's "Shinato, King of a Higher Plane." Yami Yugi starts with 400 LP, Noah starts with 7400 LP. At one point in the duel, "Shinato, King of a Higher Plane" separates from Noah when it leaves the field. Joey and the
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21. Noah's Final Threat (Part 2 of 2)
06 Mar '04Noah continues to turn Yugi's friends to stone at the end of every turn. Yami Yugi fails to defeat Noah with Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl and Magician of Black Chaos. Yami Yugi comes close to defeat but Yugi and the others convince him to keep trying by speaking to him in his mind and giving him the cards he will need to win. Yami Yugi wins with the help of Kaiba's three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons".
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22. So Close Yet So Far
20 Mar '04With the three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" having launched their triple Direct Attack, Yugi wins the Duel against Noah and wins the freedom of Kaiba, Mokuba, and the rest of the gang from stone. Noah realizes that he'd lost because Yugi has what Seto has: the courage to never give up, even when the situation seemed hopeless. Left alone in the Virtual World for six years after his accident, Noah felt that his father, Gozaburo, forgot him upon Seto's arrival into the Kaiba family. Because of this,
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23. Burying the Past (Part 1 of 2)
03 Apr '04Seeing right through Noah's mind games, Kaiba heads through the streets of Gozaburo's virtual Domino City for KaibaCorp and finds his stepfather in the President's office. Gozaburo unleashes a Duel Monster army (consisting of Cosmo Queen, an army of Skull Knights, an army of Command Knights, an army of Lizard Soldiers, and an army of Rock Ogre Grotto #1s) on Yugi and his friends, but they fight back with their own cards. Kaiba orders Gozaburo to shut down his Virtual World and release all the
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24. Burying the Past (Part 2 of 2)
17 Apr '04Noah directs everyone to the real exits in the virtual Domino City arcade. With the virtual world about to be destroyed, Gozaburo turns into a red monster and tries to escape in Kaiba's body. However, Kaiba persuades him to continue Dueling, promising his body if Gozaburo wins. Joey, Duke, Tristan, Téa, and Serenity escape to the real world. Tristan wakes up in his real body. At Noah's request, Yugi stays behind to find Kaiba. Noah gives him a shortcut to Kaiba and Gozaburo's Duel. Kaiba wins
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25. Back to Battle City (Part 1 of 3)
01 May '04A four-way free-for-all Duel to determine the Battle City tournament Semi-Final pairings. The first two duelists to lose will face each other in the first Semi-Final. The two winners will face each other in the second Semi-Final. This allows each duelist to influence who he will face next by deciding to attack who at what time. Kaiba wants to duel Yugi so that, when he wins, he will have two Egyptian God Cards, as he knows he will need all the power he can get to stand up against The Winged Dra
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