Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Recommendations

• Vol: 12
• 2010 - 2017

Move over, solitaire! Cardfight Vanguard is the card game that all the kids these days are playing. Using carefully prepared decks, players battle it out for fame and glory – the first to receive six damage points loses. After a bully takes Aichi's special card, the boy learns Vanguard to win it back and finds himself inexplicably drawn into the sport. Now determined to prove his skills to himself, as well as to the legendary player Toshiki Kai, Aichi climbs the ranks of Vanguard, making new friends and challenging fierce competitors along the way.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 1999

Yugi Mutou was a boy who was constantly bullied – until one day he managed to put together an ancient and mysterious puzzle that no one has been able to solve for two hundred years. Now, whenever Yugi's friends are threatened, a strange transformation occurs, and Yugi seems to become an entirely different person. This transformed Yugi is a master of games, and uses these spontaneously-invented games to trap and to punish the bad guys. At the end of each game, his opponent appears to suffer a painful death; but it is soon revealed that this was all in their minds – or was it?

• Vol: 8; Ch: 71
• 2003 - 2004

When Ryouga was a boy, he was the sole survivor of a terrible plane crash; with horror, he watched as the other survivors were eaten by a terrifying monster, healing Ryouga's wounds in the process. As a teenager, Ryouga is haunted by these memories and agrees to go with a stranger to a mysterious school for special people. However, little did Ryouga know that within the school's walls lied a brutal game in which cards are used to summon monsters and obliterate other players. Armed with an exceptionally powerful card known as Death Rex, Ryouga must do everything in his power to win so that he may discover the truth behind his past and accept what fate requires of him to do.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2011 - 2012

Shirou and his sister Koyori reside on the tiny island of Yatsuri, and besides Koyori's confinement to a wheelchair, the two live a fairly typical high school life. That is, until one day the pair finds a strange machine that lets them download Strings Dolls, a mysterious game that allows them to manipulate people around them as if they were puppets. At first, the duo uses it for harmless pranks and to help Koyoro walk again. But soon, they discover that the game isn't as innocent as it seems, as 12 other people have downloaded the game, and one, Miyavi, is determined to use the software to murder the other players...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 2021 - 2022

• Vol: 3+; Ch: 11+
• 2022 - ?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2019

• Vol: 15+; Ch: 59+
• 2018 - ?

July 1999, the month the world ends according to Nostradamus. Middle school boy Hajime always scores second place against his elementary school rival, the beautiful girl Sawatari. He is also an avid "Magic: The Gathering" player. While looking for new cards in the neighboring town he finds out that Sawatari plays MTG too, but in secret. She runs away though after recognizing him during a one-on-one card game. The next day he challenges her to a duel, with a special card deck crafted against hers, promising to keep his mouth shut and do anything she says if he looses. One thing leads to another and they finally become friends...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2004

With the help of the power of the Pharaoh, Yugi Moto has earned the reputation of being the “King of Games.” But Seto Kaiba finally has a plan to bring down his rival, and with his new and powerful cards, he might finally have a chance of succeeding. Meanwhile, a new artifact known as the Pyramid of Light has captured the attention of Yugi and the gang, as it bears a striking resemblance to the Millennium Puzzle. Soon, Seto and Yugi will face each other in an epic battle – but something mysterious is at work. Will Yugi, the Pharaoh’s wistful strategies and the Egyptian God Cards be enough to put a stop to the ultimate foe?

• Vol: 1
• 2012