Yu-Gi-Oh! Sets New Guinness Record

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Sets New Guinness Record

With a new set of of cards getting released, game developer Konami announced on Tuesday that Guinness World Records has recognized Yu-Gi-Oh! as the best-selling trading card game. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game had sold over 25,175,567,833 cards to date. The card franchise beat its own record of 22,587,728,173 cards, set in 2009.

Kazuki Takahashi drew the original manga from 1996 to 2004, and it spawned an ongoing anime franchise with new additional cards getting released each season. The card game first shipped in 1999 and eventually spread to over 45 countries in North America, Europe, and other countries. Konami had first applied for the record back in 2006, when "only" 15.8 billion cards had been sold.

Source: Sankei News via Anime News Network

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