is a franchise based on a manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

, anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 and a trading card game. There is also a video game

Duel Masters (video game)

Duel Masters is a strategy video game released on December 18, 2003 by Takara. The game was only released in Japan for GameCube. It was later release for PlayStation 2 for North America, the PAL region, and Japan. The game is based on the Duel Masters trading card game franchise...

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The card game

Duel Masters Trading Card Game

The Duel Masters Trading Card Game is a two-player or 2 vs. 2 team collectible card game jointly developed by Wizards of the Coast, Shogakukan, and Mitsui & Co.. The card game is part of the Duel Masters franchise....

 originated in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, marketed by Takara Tomy

Takara Tomy

is a Japanese toy, children's merchandise and entertainment company created from the March 2006 merger of two companies:  Tomy and long-time rival, Takara...

. It was produced in English by Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...

, who purchased the rights to the name Duel Masters from Reality Simulations, Inc., which ran a play-by-mail gladiator game called Duelmasters, now known as Duel2

Duel2

DUEL2, formerly DuelMasters, is a turn-based, play-by-mail game game run by Reality simulations, Inc. out of Tempe, Arizona, where players, called managers, design and run up to five warriors per team against other managers. The game is one of the longest-running play-by-mail games still operating...

. Thrash of the Hybrid Megacreatures, released in December 2006, was the twelfth and final expansion released by Wizards of the Coast for the English-language game; the Japanese game is still being produced.

These are the twelve sets as published by Wizards of the Coast:

• DM-01 Base Set
• DM-02 Evo-Crushinators of Doom
• DM-03 Rampage of the Super Warriors
• DM-04 Shadowclash of Blinding Night
• DM-05 Survivors of the Megapocalypse
• DM-06 Stomp-A-Trons of Invincible Wrath
• DM-07 Thundercharge of Ultra Destruction
• DM-08 Epic Dragons of Hyperchaos
• DM-09 Fatal Brood of Infinite Ruin
• DM-10 Shockwaves of The Shattered Rainbow
• DM-11 Blast-O-Splosion of Gigantic Rage
• DM-12 Thrash of the Hybrid Megacreatures

The game was discontinued in 2006 by stoney; despite petitioning and other indications of interest from the fanbase, there has been no official word on its revival.