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Konami's card game is the best-selling TCG on earth, a Guinness record-holder that turned a manga plot device into a physical-goods empire outselling every rival deck — anime as a pipeline straight into collectible cardboard.

By the numbers

25.1B+ cardsYu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards sold worldwideGuinness-recognized best-selling trading card game, figure as of March 31, 2011.↗

In the news

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The company behind Yu-Gi-Oh!

Konami GroupTYO:9766 · Konami sits on a vault of iconic IP — Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Metal Gear, Silent Hill — plus a huge trading-card and mobile business.

How attention becomes money

1 — Discover the surface

2 — Use the platform repeatedly

3 — Follow the community or creator loop

4 — Spend, subscribe, or transact

5 — Keep coming back

Label-mates · 5

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