<Tr> <Th> Country </Th> <Td> Japan </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> Japanese </Td> </Tr> <P> Yu - Gi - Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions (遊 ☆ 戯 ☆ 王 THE DARK SIDE OF DIMENSIONS) is a 2016 Japanese animated supernatural adventure film, part of the Yu - Gi - Oh! franchise . The film is an original story and features Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba as its main characters . The film is set after the events of the original Yu - Gi - Oh! storyline; specifically, it follows on from the original manga version of the story, meaning that it features significant contradictions to the continuity of the anime . In celebration of the film and twenty years of the franchise in general, TV Tokyo began airing a remastered digital edition of the 2000--2004 Yu - Gi - Oh! Duel Monsters anime in Japan . The film was released in Japan on April 23, 2016 and was released on January 27, 2017 in the United States and Canada and was released on February 2, 2017 in Australia . This was the fourth theatrical release of a Yu - Gi - Oh! film after Yu - Gi - Oh! (1999), Yu - Gi - Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, and Yu - Gi - Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time . </P> <P> Creator Kazuki Takahashi published a new one - shot manga called TRANSCEND GAME in Weekly Shōnen Jump . The two - part prologue story is set between the end of the Yu - Gi - Oh! manga and the beginning of The Dark Side of Dimensions . Part 1 was released in the 19th issue on April 11, 2016 and Part 2 was released in the 20th issue on April 18, 2016 . VIZ Media's digital Weekly Shōnen Jump announced that it will publish Yu - Gi - Oh!: Transcend Game . Part 1 was released in the December 19, 2016 issue . Part 2 was released in the January 2, 2017 issue . </P>

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