Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Chapter 001

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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Chapter 001
Kanji	新ＨＥＲＯ(ヒーロー)登場！！
Japanese translation	A New Hero Appears!!
English	The Next King of Games
Number	001
Release date(s)	17 December 2005
Card Gallery	Japanese English
Chapter listing	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX chapter listing
Previous	N/A
Next	Princeton

The Next King of Games is the first chapter of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga. It was first printed in Japanese in the V Jump magazine and in English in the Shonen Jump magazine. Both of which were printed in volume 1 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX graphic novels afterwards.

[edit] Summary

The first chapter of the manga takes place some time after Jaden Yuki's entrance into Duel Academy as a result of defeating Vellian Crowler. He has already met and befriended Alexis Rhodes and Syrus Truesdale.

Teacher candidate Mr. Ryuga must defeat 50 students to qualify as a teacher next year at Duel Academy. Jaden hears about this from Alexis and also that the teacher has been taking cards from students that he defeats. Jaden finds Syrus, who has lost to Ryuga, and and Ryuga took one of his cards.

Ryuga speaks with Crowler, who seems to hold him in high regard, and reveals that he intends to take control of the Academy and use his influence to control the dueling world. Jaden confronts Ryuga about his taking the losers' cards, and Ryuga claims that Syrus willingly gave him the card, and suggests that Jaden give him his cards. Jaden harshly criticizes Ryuga as someone who is not worthy to be called a duelist, and Ryuga declares that he will have him expelled if he is hired. Crowler then comes in and proposes that Jaden duel Ryuga.

Jaden initially struggles against Ryuga, unable to bring out his strongest monsters due to being unable to use his spell cards. Crowler suggests that the disk broke down, but Syrus says that he experienced the same problem against Ryuga, but he realized that no damage had been done to the disk. Secretly Ryuga used a ring that emitted a special signal that disabled Jaden's disk's ability to use Spell Cards, while his own disk was shielded. Jaden is undaunted, though, and refuses to give up, using a Trap card to Fusion Summon Terra Firma without a Spell Card, and uses Shield Strike to pierce through Cyber Dinosaur's defenses and defeat Ryuga, who presumably loses his chance to become a teacher.

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Jaden Yuki vs Ryuga

First four turns are skipped

It's Jaden's turn. He has "Elemental Hero Wildheart" and "Sparkman". 1 face-down card ("Hero Barrier") in his Spell & Trap Card Zone. Ryuga had 1 monster. "Elemental Hero Wildheart" attacks and destroys Ryuga's monster. (Ryuga: 3250 Life Points)

Ryuga Summons "Don Turtle" and activates "Ultra Evolution Pill", Tributing "Don Turtle" to Special Summon "Cyber Dinosaur". "Cyber Dinosaur" attacks and destroys "Elemental Hero Wildheart". (Jaden: 3000 Life Points) Ryuga Sets 1 card ("Smashing Ground") in the Spell & Trap Card Zone.

Some of Jaden's hand is shown ("Polymerization", "Elemental Hero Woodsman" and "Elemental Hero Ocean") Jaden attempts to activate "Polymerization", but cannot as his the Spell Card system in his Duel Disk is paralyzed, due to the elecromagnetic wave emitted from Ryuga's ring. Jaden switches "Elemental Hero Sparkman" to Defense Position and Summons "Elemental Hero Ocean" in Defense Position.

Ryuga Summons "Hyper Hammerhead" in Attack Position". Next he activates his face-down "Smashing Ground" and destroys "Sparkman". "Hyper Hammerhead" attacks "Ocean", but Jaden plays "Hero Barrier" negating the attack. "Cyber Dinosaur's" effect lets it attack Jaden directly. (Jaden: 500 Life Points)

Jaden draws "Alternate Fusion". He Summons "Elemental Hero Woodsman" in Attack Position and Sets 3 cards. ("Alternate Fusion", "Swamp of the Fallen" and "Shield Strike")

Ryuga attacks "Woodsman" with "Cyber Dinosaur". Jaden activates "Swamp of the Fallen" halving "Cyber Dinosaur's" ATK. Jaden then activates "Alternate Fusion", fusing "Ocean" and "Woodsman" into "Elemental Hero Terra Firma". "Cyber Dinosaur" attacks and is destroyed by "Terra Firma". (Ryuga: 2000 Life Points) Jaden activates "Shield Strike". (Ryuga: 0 Life Points)