explaining that Akhenaden created the Pyramid of Light for his son Seto as a failed recreation of the Millennium Puzzle, and extra exposition, such as giving out detailed deck-lists for each character. The novel was never released and translated to English, and is now rare since it has gone out of print. Release Home media The film was released on DVD and VHS on 16 November 2004.<ref name="YU">{{Cite web |date=11 October 2004 |title=Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie Arrives on DVD and VHS November 16; Animated Film Based on the Top-Rated Television Series and Popular Trading Card Game |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20041011005817/en/Yu-Gi-Oh%21-Movie-Arrives-DVD-VHS-November-16 |access-date=28 July 2019 |website=Business Wire |publisher=Berkshire Hathaway}}</ref> The film debuted on the Blu-ray format in the United States for the first time on 8 October 2019. Box officeYu-Gi-Oh! – The Movie: Pyramid of Light opened at 2,411 screens across the U.S. and made a theater screen average of $3,934. By the end of the weekend, it made $9,485,494 and place #4 on the Box Office Top 10 behind Collateral, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, and Alien vs. Predator, which opened up on the same day and took the #1 position. It is currently the #3 Japanese animated film in the US Box Office, after Pokémon: The First Movie and Pokémon: The Movie 2000. The film grossed $19,765,868 in the United States and Canada, with only $29,170,410 worldwide, making it a box-office bomb compared to the success of the first three Pokémon films dubbed by the same company. Critical reception The film was met with poor reception from critics. Criticism likened it to the Pokémon films in that it was only appropriate for fans of the franchise. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 68th in the "100 Worst Reviewed Films of the 2000s", with a rating of 5%, based on 66 reviews while the consensus reads, "Don't watch the TV show or play the card game? Then this movie is not for you." The film was the lowest-rated animated film on Metacritic until it was surpassed by 2017's The Emoji Movie, with an average of 15 out of 100, meaning "overwhelming dislike", based on 18 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it is the second lowest-rated animated film of the 2000s behind Happily N'Ever After. In a retrospective review for the Radio Times Guide to Films, film critic Lucy Barrick awarded the film two stars out of five, describing the narrative as "largely incomprehensible" and the animation