A manga promotional card is a card included with a volume of the manga. Promotional cards have been included with volumes from Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist, Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World, Yu-Gi-Oh! R, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, and with the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie Ani-Manga.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is a manga series about games by Kazuki Takahashi, which the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise originated from.
It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 1996 to March 8, 2004. 343 chapters were published. These were reprinted in 38 volumes in the tankoban and 22 in the bunkoban.
The story was initially episodic, with a few exceptions. It focused on the adventures of Yugi Mutou, who would unknowingly become possessed by Dark Yugi and defeat bullies and evildoers, who crossed Yugi and his friends, in dangerous Shadow Games. The story later focuses more on the card game, Duel Monsters, as a plot device in two tournament arcs and stories span over many more chapters. In the final arc, Dark Yugi relives his past life as a Pharaoh through a role-playing game, the Shadow RPG.
The English version is subdivided into three series; Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist and Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World. A number of minor changes are made, but significantly less than in other English adaptions of Yu-Gi-Oh! media.