Yu-Gi-Oh! (????? ,Yu?gi?o?, lit. "Game King") is a Japanese manga created by Kazuki Takahashi, which has spawned a franchise including multiple anime series, a trading card game, and numerous video games. Most of the incarnations of the franchise involve the fictional card game called Duel Monsters (originally known as Magic & Wizards), wherein each player uses cards in order to defeat one another, on which the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game is based.