Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist, Vol. 16: The Battle City Finals

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist #16

by Kazuki Takahashi

Das Finale von Battle-City beginnt! Dazu hat die Kaiba-Corporation extra einen großen Zeppelin entworfen, der den Duellanten als fliegende Arena dienen soll. Acht Finalisten müssen nun nacheinander gegeneinander antreten. Als erstes heißt es Yugi vs. Bakura...

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Shonen, Young Adult

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2001

About the author

Takahashi (高橋和希) started as a mangaka in 1982. His first work was Tokiō no Tsuma (闘輝王の鷹), published in 1990. One of his earliest works was Tennenshokudanji Buray (天然色男児BURAY), which lasted for two volumes and was published from 1991 to 1992. Takahashi did not find success until 1996 when he created Yu-Gi-Oh!

Reviews

[Burberi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally Bakura uses his deck

[Kassy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Battle City Finals was an amazingly insane volume and is a great piece to this story. Yugi and Joey completed their duel and found a way for neither of them to die; what a weird sentence lol.

The finals of the Battle City Tournament have begun and the first to duel is Yugi and Bakura; who is being possessed by the millennium ring and being mind controlled by the millennium rod, wonder what that could do to someone's brain. Anyway the duel is insane it's anyone's win, Yugi's deck is great but can he beat a death deck?

[Joseph B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Volume 16 lives up to its title as the Battle City finals do indeed get underway. But first they spend a few chapters finishing off the Yugi vs Jonouchi duel; where we see friendship indeed triumphs all. The volume then spends some time introducing all the finalists, expanding on Marik a bit, and then we see the first duel... Yugi vs Bakura. I quite enjoy this volume due to its focusing on friends and finally seeing all the set-up over the past volumes coming to fruition. Takahashi's art also continues to be a delight.

[Leandro Escobar-herrera · Rating 5 out of 5]

The past books horrible set up finally pay-offs in this masterfully crafted volume

Finally an amazing volume! Everything hits the rights notes, even the light genre dipping into horror fits the overall tone so well. The cast is also back with their full charm, and there is some amazing character growth for Kaiba.

Looking back, when I am going to think about why I enjoyed Yu-Gi-Oh! this volume is going to spring into mind.

[Jane Blake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Creo que salvo por la saga de Pegasus, esta serie es bastante consistente, la fortuna es que el manga no mete duelos de relleno que apenas nada aportaron a la trama.

Se viene algo bueno :3

[Adrian Santiago · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bakura regresando con todo.

Aunque me imaginé algo un tanto más darks y sanguinario, los diseños están padres y el duelo tiene una consistencia cañona, pero me hubiera gustado más oscuridad. hahah

Por lo demás, está padre. Lamentablemente es muy parecido al anime, y no hay algo "nuevo" o tan especial a diferencia de leer la historia.

[Roselyn Blonger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me encantó el duelo de Yugi contra Jonouchi, de principio a fin fue intenso y emocionante. Aunque también amé ver algo más de la interacción de Shizuka con nuestra peculiar quinteto, en especial por todas esas escenas graciosas con Mai.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was really good! Though if Yugi responds with “yup” this much ever again I may smack him.

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always loved yugioh, it was my favorite show as a kid and my first manga! Love all the great characters and the Egypt story line it has😻👌😁❤️

[Inge · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm curious what will happen to Bakura now.

[Jaden John · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book

[Ethan · Rating 5 out of 5]

6 ⭐️

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seto going Gambit style to save the day was not on my bingo card.

Sometimes, we all need a friend like Mai to literally slap some sense into you.

[Petra Jayne Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

The conclusion to Yugi vs. Jonouchi (Joey).
Also the Beginning of the Battle City finals. First duel starting with my favourite boys/rivals Yami Yugi vs. Yami Bakura. I love this duel!

[Nightshade · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the best scene of the volume Kaiba decides to free Mokuba by throwing a card into the ghoul’s hand. He has one shot and with the line ‘Goddess of Duelists! Please let this be a common card!’ he draws Blue-eyes White Dragon, says ‘forgive me!!’ and throws it. It works; Kaiba frees Mokuba and beats up the two ghouls. As a payback for staining his Blue-eyes with blood Kaiba throws them into the bay!
It is weird that after Yugi’s life points drop to zero for some reason Red-eyes on Yugi’s side of the field obeys Jonouchi’s command to fire at Jonouchi, reducing his points to zero and releasing his key too. Jonouchi, having broken free of Marik’s mind control, dives in after Yugi with Yugi’s key to save him. In another great scene Kaiba actually saves Jonouchi by dropping his key into the bay after him allowing Jonouchi to unlock himself. Kaiba says ‘The only reason why I saved you was because in your haste to remove the duel disk you forgot to take the key to your handcuff I admire your unbelievable stupidity.’ He then adds to himself that Jonouchi is finally a decent duelist.
Jonouchi is upset that Shizuka will see him for the first time after what he just did. So Mai, after apologising to Shizuka in advance, slaps Jonouchi. Mai had told Shizuka all about Duelist Kingdom, giving her the courage to remove her bandages. This is a great few frames as Jonouchi swims into focus.
Marik is now in control of normal Bakura’s mind as he has teamed up with Yami Bakura. Bakura and Yugi begin the first duel of the finals.

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yu-gi-oh: because playing childrens card games is a great way to fight

[Sarah Maddaford · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reviewed on previous volumes Yu-Gi-Oh! Volumes 1-4 and Duelist Volumes 1-5 as well as the final volume

[Bradley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this manga but there are so many to collect! =) Great volume.

[Дени ★ Проданова · Rating 4 out of 5]

Горкия Бакура, в главата му е като бордей. Всякакви откачалки влизат и излизат от съзнанието все едно са си у тях.

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 3 out of 5]

More fun, though it loses a star for featuring an Ouija board.

[Emma L.B.]

- Will re-read before I put a review -

[Chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

And we begin the Battle City Tournament Finals! The Elite 8 have been chosen and the location revealed; a blimp! Kaiba has upped the ante with the finals, as the duelists are battling against the elements of the skies as they battle IN THE AIR! Of course, Yugi is up first and he has to fight Yami!Bakura. Bakura is still linked up with Marik and is determined to defeat Yugi and steal his Millennium Puzzle. Bakura has got this scary Occult deck that deals with spirits and Ouija boards. It ends with a cliffhanger in the midst of the Bakura/Yugi duel.
It was a decent enough volume but rather light on the excitement as it merely ties up the aftermath of the Jonouchi/Yugi duel and introduces the Elite 8 Duelists for the finals. I did really enjoy the conclusion of the duel with Jonouchi (despite the raging cheese) as it showed his development as a duelist. Bakura's deck is really cool and I'm sure Yugi will find some loophole to defeat it, but it was nice to see different combos being used.