Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions
DVD, Blu-ray/digital HD: June 27, 2017
Director: Satoshi Kuwabara
Genres: Animation, Adventure
Writer: Kazuki Takahashi (creator)
Stars: Shunsuke Kazama, Kenjirô Tsuda, Dan Green, Eric Stuart
Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Side of Dimension is the movie that was needed to truly bring Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters to an end, allowing Yugi, his friends, and also ourselves to finally come to terms with Atem’s passing. This movie, while quite different to the series and manga that spawned it, plays well to the nostalgia crowd; the English dub, the versuion we watched, especially excels at this. Watching this movie for the first time is like bumping into an old friend you’ve all but forgotten and if you have fond memories of watching Yu-Gi-Oh! as a child you’re in for an emotional ride.
The blu-ray I got came with a digital download code for the movie and the Obelisk The Tormentor card which is just awesome!
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions is a sequel to the original story from Kazuki Takahashi, taking place a year after Atem departed to the afterlife.
The excavation is interrupted by Diva, who faces Kaiba in a game of Duel Monsters and steals two pieces of the recovered Puzzle. He keeps one fragment and gives the other to his sister Sera who passes it on to Yugi Muto, aware that he was the host of the Pharaoh.
Yugi defeats Aigami, resulting in Bakura’s return to reality, and while dueling Kaiba, Yugi re-completes the Millennium Puzzle to demonstrate that the spirit of Atem is no longer inside it.
Aigami becomes corrupted by the incredible evil powers of the Millennium Ring and duels both Yugi and Kaiba. Kaiba sacrifices himself during the Duel and makes a final plea for Yugi to call forth Atem.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions, provided to us by 4K Entertainment, Inc., is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Starz / Anchor Bay Entertainment and Lionsgate Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. The upgrade in design aesthetic from the original series is quite notable, and arguably even improves on some of the other feature films (Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Bonds Beyond Time), with often quite bold primaries filling the frame, and with a number of “sparkly” special effects that seek to indicate dimensional portals being opened and closed. Some of the backgrounds are quite beautiful, and many of them tend to be more detailed than is typically seen in at least some anime. Line detail is strong and precise throughout, and there wasn’t any issues with anomalies like banding or macroblocking.
The release features DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 tracks in Japanese and English (with members of the original voice cast, Eric Stuart and Dan Greene most notable). The disc is authored with both the Japanese track and the English dub track and offers optional English SDH subtitles. I was really excited to see this movie with the original Japanese audio with English subtitles. However the subtitles they used for the Japanese version are the same as the English version meaning that if you want to watch it in Japanese you’re not going to be able to tell what the characters are actually saying in Japanese. Bummer. The basic audio mixes are virtually identical, and both provide a ample ampunt of surround activity courtesy of the recurrent duels that happen all throughout the film. Even with an array of sound effects and score ping ponging through the surround channels, dialogue is typically very well prioritized. Occasional sound effects like the huffing and puffing can sound a little hokey at times, but sounds like that have always been part of the fun of Yu-Gi-Oh!. Fidelity is fine and dynamic range extremely wide on both of these problem free tracks.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions is available now on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD from Lionsgate. Keep an eye out for these Special Features that come with it:
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