Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Vol. 1

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T Yusei Fudo, Turbo Duelist!! A high-speed Turbo Duel through the streets of Satellite brings Yusei Fudo and his friend Sect face-to-face with an urban legend incarnate! Will Yusei lose Sect to the Skeleton Knight? And what sinister plans does Jack Atlas, master of New Domino City, have in store for Yusei?

Masahiro Hikokubo is a writer with extensive experience on the Yu-Gi-Oh! animation series. He worked on the original Yu-Gi-Oh! animation as a duel designer and went on to write scripts for Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, and now Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s. He has also worked on the Naruto animation, creating ninjutsu techniques. Hikokubo is a fan of Fist of the North Star and Yasuo Otagaki’s Moonlight Mile.

Masashi Sato debuted as a mangaka in Akamaru Jump in the summer of 2004 with the short story Mikakushi Tsumuji. He was also a semi-finalist in the 64th Tezuka Award for his work Guhou Daichi. After working as an assistant to the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga creative team, Masashi Sato is now the lead artist on Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s. He is a fan of Nobuhiro Watuski’s Rurouni Kenshin, and of course, Kazuki Takahashi’s Yu-Gi-Oh!