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If you like Pokemon you will LOVE Yuugioh. And even if you HATE Pokemon or have lost interests in the show and the game, you will LOVE Yuugioh. Yuugioh is the smash hit shonen (boys) series that has taken Japan by storm.
What makes this 30 minute animated commercial-er cartoon or anime so great 
is that it is unlike the series from which it was derived (i.e. Pokemon and Digimon), the main character Yuugi (whose name is the Japanese word for play or game) is the possessor of a dark power that allows him to dispense justice by manipulating reality through a myriad of mind numbing, life threatening games, that cause people to go insane. How this will play out by 4 Kids Entertainment version airing this fall on the Kids WB will surely be a disappointment. So make sure you read all the way to the end of this article to find out how you can help get an unedited subtitled Japanese version released here in the States and Canada.
Yuugioh was created by mangaka (manga creator/writer) Kazuki Takahashi in 1996 and is currently running in the famous Shonen Jump, home to some of the most famous manga-to-anime series like Dragonball, Ranma 1/2, and Rurouni Kenshin.
Yuugioh the anime series is actually made up of two different series that began in 1998 and are still running. Yuugioh is based on the first six tankoubon (collection of comics) and Yuugioh Duel Monsters begins from tankoubon seven, and focuses on the card game Duel Monsters, which is known in the manga as Magic and Wizards. Duel Monsters is a combination of Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering.
Yuugioh is an average looking animated series. In my opinion the Yuugi's battles are what totally make the show worth watching. Minus these scenes and the show is nothing more than a regular anime show geared for kids.
The characters start off being you're a typical type anime high school students; nerds, bully's, saucy girls, and strange old people. There is also your deep underlying moral message of love and friendship and need for justice. But what made me like Yuugioh better than Pokemon and Digimon, is that Yuugioh's scenes with his opponent are intense, violent, and thought provoking, and this is the seducing part of the series that will make you kick yourself. Too bad many of these scenes will not be in the Americanized/Canadianized version of the series.
Yuugioh is about a high school freshman named Yuugi who is a nerd. Yuugi is short, shy, and LOVES games. His grandfather Sugoroku, the owner of a cool game shop that sells every kind of game from card games to video games, is the one who gives him the Thousand Year Puzzle. The story behind the Thousand Year Puzzle is that it was used in ancient Egypt to predict people's futures and decide their fates. It is known as the Game of Darkness, because whoever posses it gains this knowledge of Darkness and is able to dispense justice by vigilante means, which might include making the perpetrator insane or even, die.