{"id":3381,"date":"2001-04-20T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-20T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/04\/20\/4-kids-acquires-yu-gi-oh\/"},"modified":"2001-04-20T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-20T21:51:00","slug":"4-kids-acquires-yu-gi-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/4-kids-acquires-yu-gi-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Kids Acquires Yu-Gi-Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 Kids Entertainment, the company that brought Pokemon to the US is now bringing over the fad that killed Pokemon in Japan, Yu-Gi-Oh Dual Monsters.<\/p>\n<p>4 Kids has licensed the translation, distribution and merchandising rights to the franchise for marketing outside of Asia. The Yu-Gi-Oh license includes a 27 episode TV series, manga, a best selling franchise of Nintendo and Playstation games, and a collectable card game with such a following that some rare cards have actually sold for over a thousand dollars each in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The official 4 Kids press release summarized the series this way: &#8220;Yu Gi Oh is the story of a boy named Yuugi Mutou who must defeat the Game King from the Millenium Puzzle by defeat[ing] him in a series of games. A reoccurring game played by Yuugi and his rival Kaiba is &#8220;Magic and Wizards,&#8221; a cross between Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/article.php?id=460\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Kids Entertainment, the company that brought Pokemon to the US is now bringing over the fad that killed Pokemon in Japan, Yu-Gi-Oh Dual Monsters. 4 Kids has licensed the translation, distribution and merchandising rights to the franchise for marketing outside of Asia. The Yu-Gi-Oh license includes a 27 episode TV series, manga, a best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}