List of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga characters
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Here is a listing of characters (other than those listed in List of Yu-Gi-Oh! main characters) that appears both in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and Yu-Gi-Oh! first series anime / Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters; known outside of Japan as simply Yu-Gi-Oh!).
All Japanese names are in Western order (surname after the given name). If the character has a different name in the English anime or English version of the Game Boy Advance Dungeon Dice Monsters video game, that name is also listed.
For more characters, see List of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, manga or movie only characters
[edit] Manga, first and second series anime characters
This section uses the names from the English manga.
[edit] Kaiba's Butler
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime
1st series name: Daimon (大門) DDM Video Game name: Kaiba's Butler English dub name: Hobson
Kaiba's butler is a sadistic man who engages in a shadow game with Yugi and his friends.
In the manga, he manages a trap at Death-T. Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda, Anzu, and the butler have to sit in electric chairs while watching a scary projection. Anyone who screams is electrocuted. The butler knows how to not scream while Yugi and his friends are close to screaming. Johji wriggles free from Anzu's lap and defecates on the butler's lap. The butler screams and is electrocuted, freeing Yugi and his friends from the chairs. The butler dies after the electrocution.
In the 1st series anime Daimon is the fourth game master. He holds Anzu as a hostage in order to force Yugi to play Duel Monsters with him. Yugi defeats Daimon.
He appears in the first episode of the second series anime to kidnap Sugoroku Mutou. He also appears during various flashbacks of Kaiba's past.
In both the manga and 2nd series anime, he is the reincarnation of Gebelk.
[edit] Ushio
DDM video game name: Demetrius
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime
Ushio (牛尾) is a hall monitor at Domino High School who offers a paid bully protection service to Yugi after he was bullied by Jonouchi and Honda - Jonouchi had thrown one piece of the Millennium Puzzle out the window so that Yugi could not solve it. Yugi says that he is not being bullied. Later, Ushio reveals a beaten Jonouchi and Honda, upsetting Yugi. After Yugi refuses his service, Ushio beats him up and asks him to pay the bully protection fee of 200,000 yen (about $1600 United States dollars). Jonouchi fishes out the piece from where he threw it and gives it to Yugi. Dark Yugi appears and challenges Ushio to a shadow game. In the manga, Dark Yugi also brings twice the amount of money that Ushio asked for.
The game involves 400,000 yen (about $3200 U.S.) and a knife in the manga. The bills are all 10,000 yen notes with the image of Fukuzawa Yukichi.
In the anime, the game involves scaling the building and trying to draw the playing card with the higher number. Ushio loses after he tries to cheat, and Yugi places a penalty game on him. In the manga, Ushio goes crazy and thinks that a pile of leaves and trash is money. In the anime, Ushio imagines there are monsters coming out of a body of water about to eat him, and he is seen trembling and crying in front of the school, which results in him being taken to the hospital. He is mentioned but not named in flashbacks in the English second series (Duel Monsters) anime.
[edit] Manga and first series anime characters
This section uses the names from the English manga.
[edit] Arcade game player
1st series name: Dragon
DDM video game name: Feng Long
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga
The arcade game player plays a fighting arcade game with Yugi, and both of them choose the same character, Bruce Ryu (a take-off on Bruce Lee - In the Toei Anime series Yugi's character is called "Dragon"). After Yugi defeats him several times, the arcade player beats up Yugi in retaliation and takes his puzzle. Jonouchi challenges the arcade player to a fight. In the manga, the arcade player says that they both would place knives in their mouths. The arcade player is cheating as his knife is a false knife that "retracts" when pushed in; Jonouchi tells him to take out the knife, and the player gladly takes it out. In addition, the player had the advantage by fighting in a narrow alley. Jonouchi manages to squirt soda in his face as the player lunged for the kill, and Jonouchi promptly beats him up. Jonouchi returns the puzzle to Yugi. In the anime, they were fighting over a pipe, and "Dragon" had nunchucks. Yet Jonouchi managed to defeat him anyway.
[edit] Ms. Chono
DDM video game name: Miss Lynn Medusa
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Ms. Chono (蝶野 Chōno) is a teacher at Domino High School who is known as the "Wicked Witch of Expulsion" ("Lynn, the Expelling Witch" in the English DDM game), since she expelled fifteen students in the last six months. In the manga, After a desk check, Chono asks who a love note in the form of a jigsaw puzzle to Miho Nosaka belonged to. Yugi Mutou (Yugi Muto), Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler), and Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor) stood up, indicated that the puzzle came from each of them. Chono decided to finish the puzzle to determine who the gift is from. Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) turned the gift into a shadow game. The more she works the puzzle, the more her face starts to turn into pieces. When she finished the puzzle, the pieces from her face appear - her beautiful face shatters, revealing her true ugly face. The other students laugh at her. The gift was from Honda - When it was given to Miho, she rejected him. In the anime, the gift was supposed to be from a girl named Mayumi to Jonouchi but Anzu Mazaki (Téa Gardner) actually made it as Mayumi didn't know what to give Jonouchi. When Anzu complains about the strictness of the school, Chono asks Anzu to collect signatures from other students in a petition asking for laxer rules. Chono then orders some boys to rip up Anzu's signature paper. Dark Yugi challenges Chono to a game involving two mirrors and being blindfolded. Again, her face cracks when she loses to reveal her ugly face. She later appears in episode 12 with Ryuuichi Fuha and again gets her face cracked.
Her English DDM name originates from the Medusa monster.
[edit] Hirutani
DDM video game name: Diesel Kane
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Hirutani (蛭谷) is a leader of a gang of teenage thugs from Rintama High School (Gammon High School in DDM) that wield super-powered yo-yos. Hirutani tries to force Jonouchi into his gang by any means necessary.
In the manga, Hirutani forces Jonouchi to join his gang by threatening to beat up his entire class. Jonouchi doesn't show up to school the next day, and Yugi and his friends find Jonouchi. A thug who is friends with Hirutani hits Yugi, and Jonouchi doesn't say anything, causing Anzu and Honda to insult Jonouchi. When Jonouchi goes to a bar, called "J'Z", with the thugs, Jonouchi hits the thug in retaliation for what he did, causing Hirutani and his thugs to beat up Jonouchi. Jonouchi is taken to a torture chamber where he is beaten. After he kicks a thug in the face while tied up, he is shocked with a stun gun. Yugi finds Jonouchi and tricks Hirutani and his thugs into standing in a puddle of water while a stun gun is lowered into it from the knocked-out thug. Yugi was standing on a tire while the thugs were electrocuted. Yugi managed to rescue Jonouchi.
In a later chapter, Hirutani uses Nezumi to lure Yugi and Jonouchi to his hideout. He then has his thugs try to get Jonouchi to join by slowly strangling Yugi by placing a hook upwards to strangle him with his puzzle. Jonouchi is battered with yo-yos while running to save Yugi. After freeing him, Jonouchi takes out Hirutani's thugs by catching their yoyos on Yugi's puzzle and hanging the cords on the same hook, causing the thugs to be pulled by their fingers. Jonouchi and Hirutani engage in a fistfight while Yugi tricks the rest of the gangsters into falling through a roof by punching holes in the roof. Jonouchi punches Hirutani in the face, but Hirutani then throws glass in Jonouchi's eyes. Jonouchi detects Hirutani trying to place a shard of glass in the back of his neck and punches him off the roof. Hirutani grabs onto a ledge; Jonouchi uses his yoyo to hit Hirutani's fingers, causing the gangster to fall to the ground. The Toei anime uses the plot structure of a previous chapter combined with the yo-yo games of the second set of chapters where Hirutani is found for the sole Hirutani episode.
The Dungeon Dice Monsters name, Diesel Kane, stems from a gang member character in West Side Story named "Diesel."
[edit] Imori
DDM video game name: Damien Draco
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Imori (井守) is a student at Domino High School, who decides to try to overthrow Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) from his position of the guardian of darkness by challenging Yugi to a game of Dragon Cards. His grandfather found the Dragon Cards while in Manchuria in World War II. Imori wins the first game against regular Yugi, causing his soul to go into the soul-eating jar. Regular Yugi's last minute grab for the puzzle causes Dark Yugi to come out. The second Dragon Cards duel ends with Imori losing. In the manga, Imori's soul gets sucked into the soul-eating jar, to be eaten by twenty-five dragons. Regular Yugi's soul comes out and is re-absorbed into his body unharmed. In the first series anime, Imori played Dragon Cards at his house instead of at school, and only the dark part of Imori's soul was eaten.
[edit] Johnny Gayle, Bob McGuire, "name unknown"
DDM video game name: Charlie Gale, Bickford Gage, "Snipes Crosshair"
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Gayle, McGuire and "name unknown" are three men at KaibaLand who Seto Kaiba tells to play Stardust Shootout against Yugi, Honda, and Jonouchi. Gayle, an American, is a former Green Beret leader. McGuire, another American, is a former SWAT team leader. "Unknown name"'s nationality is also unknown and he is an assassin. Kaiba rigs the game so that the three men on his team have real lasers that cause fatal electric shocks when fired while Yugi and his friends were given toy guns. In the manga, After Anzu and Johji give away the secret about the rigging of the game to her friends, Honda gets a real laser gun from her, tones it down to a non-lethal voltage, and incapacitates McGuire, and the assassin (Jonouchi had previously kicked Gayle in the face). In the anime, a woman is in place of the assassin, and all five members of Yugi's group (Yugi, Honda, Jonouchi, Anzu, and Miho) participate in the game. Miho's timidity led to the downfall of the three Kaiba Corp employees.
[edit] Professor Kanekura
DDM video game name: Adriel Wainright
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Prof. Kanekura (金倉) is the curator of Domino Museum, who exhibits the Millennium Puzzle after Yugi agrees to let him exhibit it for one day. At the end of the day, Kanekura tries to sell the puzzle to a non-Japanese person. The person is knocked out or killed by Shadi and Shadi goes into Kanekura's room. In the manga, when Kanekura fails Shadi's tests involving the Scales of Truth, he dies when his soul is consumed by Ammit. In the first series anime, he is driven insane and injured after failing the tests.
[edit] Mr. Karita
DDM video game name: Mr. Titus
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Mr. Karita (刈田) is a P.E. teacher who harasses Ryo Bakura on his first day at Domino High School; he regrets this after being turned into a miniature by Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura).
[edit] Kokurano
DDM video game name: Fortuno
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Kokurano (孤蔵乃; 1st anime name: 孤蔵野) is a self-proclaimed psychic in Class 1-A of Domino High School. He gets upset when Yugi says he doesn't believe in psychics and tells him that he will be struck by falling letters. When Yugi goes to the library, the bookstands start to fall on him, but he transforms into Dark Yugi and saves himself. Meanwhile, Kokurano knocked out Anzu with chloroform. Dark Yugi finds a delirious Kokurano and challenges him to a game. In the manga, Kokurano tries to use his powers to lift the bottle, but winds up knocking himself out with it. In the anime, he loses a game involving many bottles falling down. Yugi flees the scene with Anzu.
[edit] Kujirada
DDM video game name: Beluga
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Kujirada (鯨田) is a snobby classmate of Yugi's at Domino High School. Kujirada gets a "Black Star", an aggressive secret "digital pet" (styled after Tamagotchi). In the manga, The Black Star, which had lived for two months while other pets only live for twenty-one days, turns on his master. The monster commands Kujirada to link up with other people's devices so the monster can eat other people's digital pets. Jonouchi's pet, and Anzu's pet, "Peachy" (Sumomo-chan in the original Japanese) are eaten. Yugi's pet, "Yu2", fights back and destroys Kujirada's monster. In the anime, Kujirada's monster first eats Anzu's pet, and then Jonouchi's pet after Jonouchi's pet battles Kujirada's monster. But Honda's pet sweeps up Kujirada's monster (In the manga, Honda didn't have a digital pet). Kujirada appears to be bullying a student named Haiyama but it is revealed that Haiyama was manipulating Kujirada. In the English Dungeon Dice Monsters, Kujirada was named Beluga after the Beluga whale.
[edit] Playing Card Bomber
DDM video game name: Tick-Tock
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
"Playing card bomber" (連続爆弾魔) is a nickname for a man who sets off a string of bombs in Domino. His third attack at the Domino Mall kills eight people. His fourth threatens Anzu's life. In the manga, Dark Yugi saves her life by playing clock solitaire without getting four threes. Afterwards, Dark Yugi reveals where the bomber was to the chief of police, leading to his arrest. In the anime, the bomber has a game involving balloons, Anzu and other passengers are spared. When the game mandates that the bomber is supposed to kill himself, he refuses. Yugi places a penalty game on him, making him go berserk, causing him to fall out of his car; the bomber is therefore arrested by the police.
[edit] Prisoner 777
DDM video game name: Jackpot
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Prisoner 777 is a convict prisoner numbered "777", who escaped from the Domino Police station with a stolen handgun after killing a guard. He holds Anzu hostage at the Burger World restaurant. After blindfolding her, he tells Yugi to get him Lucky Stripes cigarettes and booze. When Anzu yells help for Yugi, he slams her down. Dark Yugi comes out and challenges him to a game. The man aims his gun at Yugi and tells him that he will die after he lights his cigarette. While he is pouring the vodka, Yugi places the lighter on the man's hand. Yugi explains that the Russian vodka is 90% alcohol and that pulling the trigger would cause the lighter to fall into the vodka. In the manga, the man is horrified while he is overfilling his vodka. Yugi leads Anzu away as the cigarette drops from the convict's mouth and lights the vodka ablaze; the convict is set on fire. In the anime, Honda and Miho are working with Anzu, and the prisoner, named Jiro the Yellow Spider (女郎蜘蛛のジロウ), is the manager of the restaurant. He disguises himself as Tetsu Tasaki a.k.a. "Tetsu the Hedgehog", another criminal, while committing several robberies. Eventually Jiro is exposed and he points a gun at Anzu. After Yugi places the lighter on his hand, Jiro disarms and turns off the lighter. Yugi puts a penalty game on him because he moved more than one finger, and the criminal thinks he is set on fire. The story of Anzu's first encounter with Dark Yugi changes in the second Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
[edit] Professor Yoshimori
DDM video game name: Professor Jeremy Harrison
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Professor Yoshimori (吉森) is a Domino University professor who is into archaeology. He is friends with Sugoroku Mutou.
[edit] Dark Master Zorc
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime
Dark Master Zorc (闇の支配者 ゾーク Zōku) is a dark spirit that is in the Millennium Ring. Bakura sets him up as the "boss" of the game of "Monster World" he plays with Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda, and Anzu. In the game, Zorc had terrorized the village after killing its king, and it is up to the player characters "Yugi", "Joey", "Hiroto", and "Anzu" to defeat him. In the Japanese anime, Miho Nosaka is also one of the characters, while she isn't one of the characters in the manga. There is a ritual monster card made after him called 'Dark Master - Zorc'. This character may have been based on Zorc Necrophades.
[edit] Manga and second series anime characters
This section uses the names from the English manga.
[edit] Akhenamkhanen (Aknamkanon)
English anime name: Aknamkanon
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Akhenamkhanen (アクナムカノン Akunamukanon) is the father of Pharaoh Atem in Ancient Egypt. Thief Bakura blames the late Akhenamkhanen for killing his village, Kul Elna, to make the Millennium Items; Bakura did not know that it was Akhenaden who was responsible for the massacre, although he did know that he participated in it. When Akhenamkhanen finds out about the massacre, he sacrifices himself to the gods of Egypt as a penance, asking only for his son's safety from their wrath in return. Akhenamkhanen speaks with Atem through his sacrophagus during his first battle with Bakura, and his instructions made Atem summon the Egyptian God Obelisk the Tormentor. His next appearance is in the village of Kul Elna, where his spirit protects Atem from the vengeful spirits of those who were slain in Kul Elna village. During the Ceremonial Battle, Akhenamkhanen is seen waiting for his son as he passes into the door between life and death along with the other guardians.
[edit] Aknadin
Aknadin was the guardian of the Millennium Eye and the brother of King Aknamkanon. As they grew up, he was secretly jealous of his brother's position as pharaoh and felt like he gained nothing from him. He ordered the massacure at Kul Elna so he could create the Millennium Items to defend his brother's kingdom. But in case this didn't work, he gave up his wife and son, Seto, so they would be safe. Years later, Seto entered the Pharaoh's royal court and Aknadin taught him everything he knew about compassion and reason, for he built his reputation on giving mercy to criminals.
When Bakura attacked the kingdom and revealed he had escaped the massacure at Kul Elna, Aknadin was hunted down and eventually cornered in his sanctuary. Bakura used his newly acquired Millennium Ring to bring Aknadin's dark side out as punishment for the massacure of his home. When Aknadin woke up, he began to force prisoners to fight to increase their Ka's strength. When Kisara, the girl Seto fell in love with as a child, revealed she harbored the White Dragon in her, Aknadin became determined to take it from her so Seto could use it to become pharaoh. Seto refused to betray the pharaoh, especially when it involved killing someone he loved.
Aknadin later returned the Millennium Items to the Millennium Stone and began Zorc's resurrection. Zorc than used his power to transform Aknadin into the Great Shadow Magus. Aknadin continued to try to persuade Seto to take the White Dragon and become pharaoh, going as far as to seal Kisara's spirit in stone with her dragon and enter Seto's body to take control of him. But Kisara, in the form of the White Dragon, also entered Seto's mind and destroyed Aknadin.
[edit] Arthur Hopkins (Arthur Hawkins)
English anime name: Arthur Hawkins
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Arthur Hopkins (アーサー・ホプキンス Āsā Hopukinsu) is the American best friend of Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Muto in the English anime) and the grandfather of Rebecca Hopkins (Rebecca Hawkins in the English anime). His original Japanese name is kept in the English video games. In the manga, Professor Hopkins only appears in a photograph with Sugoroku Mutou, and his name is never revealed.
Although he is briefly seen after Rebecca finishes her duel with Yugi, his major appearance is in the Waking the Dragons arc, where he investigated the history of Atlantis and of the Orichalcos. He gives information to Yugi concerning both of them and is instrumental in discovering the location of the lair of Dartz. He also appears during the Grand Championship arc.
[edit] Bobasa
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
In the anime, Bobasa (ボバサ) is used mostly for comic relief. He is a Non-Player Character (NPC) in the Dark RPG that Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) and Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura) play in the Millennium World story arc. He is a key switch that can lead the player to where the Pharaoh's name is if the player gives him enough food to eat.
In the manga, Bobasa is a member of an Egyptian cult that protects the Millennium Items. He has the Scales and the Key. Bobasa protects the items by placing them on his abnormally-shaped chest and locking his clothes. He then swallows the key, and is able to regurgitate the key at will. Also in the manga, he is actually Hassan, while they are separate people in the anime.
[edit] Croquet
Japanese name: Crocketts
English name: Croquet
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Mr. Croquet, known in the Japanese version as Mr. Crocketts (Mr.クロケッツ Kurokettsu), is the right-hand man of Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the original Japanese). His duties includes relaying the progress of Pegasus' plans, often unknowingly stating the obvious to his boss (who, with the use of the Millennium Eye and keen intuition, usually predicts the outcome of a situation he's involved with before Croquet can inform him of it).
At one point in the English anime translation, Pegasus punishes Croquet for his multiple failures by threatening to 'lock him away...again', which leaves one to speculate whether or not Croquet had also experienced his soul being trapped in a card by Pegasus, or if he was the victim of another form of confinement altogether.
[edit] Cyndia (Cecilia Pegasus)
English anime name: Cecelia Pegasus
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Cyndia (シンディア Shindia) is Pegasus's lost love. Cyndia first met Maximillion Pegasus at a party thrown by his businessman father in Las Vegas fourteen years ago. Cyndia and Pegasus were married and Pegasus, an artist at the time, constantly drew pictures of his love. However, Cyndia died of a disease (This is the first time someone actually dies in the English version), and this prompted Pegasus to search for a way to bring her back, ultimately culminating in his acquiring of the Millennium Eye from Shadi. Pegasus' feelings towards his beloved were eventually revealed to Yugi Mutou and his friends after they found Pegasus' diary, which displayed his emotions.
A possible reason on why Cyndia's name was changed in the English anime is because "Cyndia Crawford" resembles "Cindy Crawford". ("Crawford" is also Pegasus' surname in the Japanese versions).
[edit] The Death Imitator (Mimic of Doom)
English anime name (revealed in "Reshef of Destruction"): The Mimic of Doom
The Death Imitator was one of Pegasus's hired Player Killers (Eliminators in the English anime dub version). He was either an extremely talented master of disguise or, more likely, a shapeshifter. He even seemed capable of altering his own body weight. His true form was that of an ugly, obese clown who dressed up as Kaiba to duel Yugi. He claimed that Kaiba was dead and that he was Kaiba's ghost back for revenge (in the dub, he said he was Kaiba's evil half that Yugi sent to the Shadow Realm). The Imitator had taken Kaiba's deck and used it in the duel. Yugi defeated him and used the Millennium Puzzle's power to send the Death Imitator into a coma (in the dub, he drove all evil from the Imitator). In the manga, the Imitator controlled a dummy version of Seto Kaiba that was channeling the real Kaiba. When Yugi won, he made the dummy come to life and beat up the Imitator.
[edit] "Esper" Roba (Espa Roba)
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| Appears in | manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Original manga) anime: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) (2nd series anime) |
| Debut | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Volume 10, Duel 91 Original Japanese manga Volume 17, Duel 150 |
| Birthday | April 1 |
| Deck | {{{Deck}}} |
| Sign | Aries |
| Age | 17 |
| Height | 172 cm (about 5 feet and 7 inches) |
| Weight | 48 kg (105.6 pounds) |
| Blood type | A |
| Favorite food | Pizza |
| Least favorite food | Umeboshi |
| Status at debut | N/A |
| Relations | Four unnamed younger brothers |
| Seiyū | Maiko Itou |
| Voice actor(s) | Sebastian Arcelus (US) Chuck Powers (Singapore) |
English anime name: Espa Roba
"Esper" Roba (エスパー絽場 Esupā Roba) is a psychic (ESP) duelist who duels with Katsuya Jonouchi. In reality he is a fraud who uses his younger brothers to spy on and relay back to him the cards in his opponent's hand, thus allowing him to 'predict' the opponent's strategies almost before they perform them.
His only appearance is in the Battle City arc, where he is first seen crushing "Dinosaur" Ryuzaki's Serpent Night Dragon with his Jinzo and winning the duel. Ryuzaki advises Jonouchi not to duel Roba on the grounds that his psychic abilities allow him to read all the cards in his hand. With an air of self-confidence, Jonouchi accepts the duel and begins. Although Roba initially gains an advantage due to the fact he knows what cards are in Jonouchi's hand and on his field, Jonouchi infers what is happening and attempts to confuse his watchers from above by putting the cards Skull Dice and Graceful Dice close to each other in order to confuse Roba (although this situation is unlikely as Skull Dice is a Trap Card and Graceful Dice is a Spell Card, so the difference would have been obviously apparent). Mokuba Kaiba eventually discovers the source of Esper's "psychic" abilities in that his brothers spied upon Jonouchi's hand from upon a high rise building. However, the brothers plead with Mokuba to let Roba continue with the duel, stating that he is a strong duelist despite his cheating ways. The psychic front was to build an impression of an undefeatable duelist and thus deflect any abuse that was usually heaped upon Roba and his brothers. To Mokuba, this situation paralleled his brotherly relationship with his older brother, Seto and he let Roba continue the duel. Due to this, Roba's psychic reputation is tarnished but he continues his duel with Jonouchi nevertheless.
Roba eventually called upon Jinzo, whose ability to negate all Trap Cards severely crippled Jonouchi's overall strategy. Furthermore, with the addition of another Spell Card, Jinzo grew in strength each turn and Roba also summoned Reflect Bounder to ward off any assaults on Jonouchi's part. Finally, Jonouchi played Roulette Beetle which forced Jinzo to attack a random target on the field, whether it be Jonouchi or Roba directly, Jonouchi's monster, or Roba's Reflect Bounder. Roba was responsible for choosing when it would stop and when he called it, Jinzo assaulted his Reflect Bounder, who then reflected the assault back on Jinzo, destroying them both and losing Roba the duel. Due to the Battle City regulations, Roba forfeited his rarest card, Jinzo, to Jounchi upon his defeat and commented that he was ready to stand up to his brothers without cheating.
The Jinzo card that Roba gave Jonouchi would prove one of his key cards throughout his duels, crippling Rishid Ishtar (Odion Ishtar in the English anime) Trap Deck and gaining a momentary advantage for Jonouchi against Zigfried von Schroeder.
In the Singaporean English dub of the anime, Roba has a Spanish or Hispanic accent.
[edit] Gebelk
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Gebelk (ゲベルク) is the keeper of the pharaoh's dungeons. Kaiba's butler is the reincarnation of Gebelk.
[edit] "Ghost" Kotsuzuka (Bonz)
English anime name: Bonz
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
"Ghost" Kotsuzuka (ゴースト骨塚 Gōsuto Kotsuzuka) is at first a minion of Bandit Keith during the Duelist Kingdom arc and he attempts to defeat Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey) using Call of the Haunted, which continuously revives as his monsters with greater attack strength. He is ultimately defeated when Jonouchi uses Sword and Shield to switch his monsters' attack and defense points. He was then able to win since his Zombie Sub-Type monsters all had 0 defense points, ensuring their destruction.
He leaves Bandit Keith after this and forms his own gang, which haunts the graveyard during the Battle City arc. However, they need one more locator card, when they are accosted by Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura). Kotsuzuka' meager dueling skills (he gains locator cards by scaring other duelists) pale in comparison to that of Dark Bakura's, who uses a powerful Occult Deck. Dark Bakura is eventually victorious when he sacrifices his Earl of Demise with Ectoplasmer to directly damage Kotsuzuka' Life Points, and Kotsuzuka and his friends are doomed. In the manga, Dark Bakura tells Kotsuzuka that he is dead, and then inflicts a Game Punishment, making Kotsuzuka think he is dead. In the Japanese second series anime, Kotsuzuka and his friends are pulled down into the soil. In the English anime Bonz and his friends are banished to the Shadow Realm.
"Bonz", the English anime name, is a misspelling of "bones". In the English manga, his name is misspelled as "Kozuka".
[edit] Hassan
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Hassan (ハサン Hasan) is a mysterious ancient being and is the messenger of the Egyptian Pharaohs. He made a vow with Atem's father, Akhenamkhanen, to protect his son no matter what. His role in the Dark RPG is that of Dark Yugi's Master Item. It is also possible that Hassan is the past self of Shadi.
[edit] Isis
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Isis (アイシス Aishisu) is a priestess that serves Pharaoh Atem in Ancient Egypt. Ishizu Ishtar is the reincarnation of Isis. She is named, obviously, after the Egyptian god Isis. "Isis" is actually a Greek corruption of "Aset".
[edit] Isono (Roland)
English anime name: Roland
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Isono (磯野) is one of the Battle City Tournament officials. He also appears to be Kaiba's right-hand man and business advisor, as he appears later in the anime series to help Kaiba manage Kaiba Corporation.
[edit] Ryota Kajiki (Mako Tsunami)
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| Appears in | manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Original manga) anime: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) (2nd series anime) |
| Debut | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Volume 2, Duel 12 Original Japanese manga Volume 9, Duel 71 |
| Birthday | March 1 |
| Deck | Water |
| Sign | Pisces |
| Age | 19 at debut; 20 at series' end |
| Height | 178 cm (about 5 feet and 9 inches) |
| Weight | 68 kg (149.6 pounds) |
| Blood type | B |
| Favorite food | Fish dish |
| Least favorite food | Shiitake mushroom |
| Status at debut | Fisherman |
| Relations | Father: lost in a shipwreck |
| Seiyū | Daisuke Namikawa Yuki Nakao (childhood) |
| Voice actor(s) | Andrew Rannells (U.S.) Dwayne Tan (Season 1, Singapore) Patrick Fernando (Season 2, Singapore) |
English anime name: Mako Tsunami
Ryota Kajiki (梶木 漁太 Kajiki Ryōta) is a fisherman who wants to become the greatest fisherman ever in honor of his father, who died on a shipwreck. (In the English anime, Mako is searching for his long-lost father, who survived the shipwreck, indicated by a missing lifeboat.) He uses mostly water-based cards in his Duel Monsters deck. Kajiki was the third place winner of the Japanese national Duel Monsters tournament.
His first appearance is in the Duelist Kingdom arc, where he duels Yugi Mutou in a battleground near the sea. Due to the fact that his side of the field was water, all of his monsters gained power bonuses and they were able to hide themselves from attack. Therefore, Kajiki's monsters were able to devastate Yugi's monsters until Yugi played Full Moon to increase the attack points of his Silver Fang. From here, he shattered the moon with Giant Soldier of Stone, draining the sea and exposing Kajiki's monsters. From here, he played Curse of Dragon which in combination with the Burning Land card, incinerated Kajiki's monsters and won Yugi the duel.
His next and final duel in the series is during the Battle City arc, where he duels Katsuya Jonouchi to determine which one of them will go to the playoffs. Using the Field Spell Card Umi, Kajiki gains offensive and defensive bonuses for his monsters as well as hiding them. Eventually, Kajiki calls forth his Legendary Fisherman, who is immune from Spell Cards and monster assaults as long as Umi is on the field. To Kajiki, the Legendary Fisherman is the embodiment of his father and also what he aspires to be in life. Kajiki then summons Fortress Whale, whose power allows him to dominate the field. Jonouchi eventually uses Panther Warrior in conjunction with the Equip Spell Card Lightning Blade in order to weaken the Fortress Whale as well as increase the power of the Panther Warrior. Kajiki then used his Legendary Fisherman as a shield to protect his Life Points but with the removal of Umi via Jonouchi's Giant Trunade, it was easily destroyed, winning Jonouchi the duel.
He is shortly seen along with the rest of the duelists during the semifinal match between Seto Kaiba and Yugi Mutou, in which he marvels at the power of the Egpytian Gods Obelisk the Tormentor and Slifer the Sky Dragon. He also makes another cameo, preceding the Ceremonial Battle, in a non-speaking role as Pegasus talks about how everyone Yugi and the pharaoh have met in their adventure played a key role in what was coming up (calling him a "weird fisherman duelist").
In the final episode of the Japanese version of the second series anime, Kajiki is seen on a boat that has a sail that reads "Tairyō" (大漁), which means a large catch of fish. When Kajiki arrives on shore, he encounters the Roba brothers, with "Esper" Roba ready to duel.
Kajikimagurō means "swordfish". His English anime name, Mako, originates from the mako shark, and a tsunami is a type of large wave formed by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
Mako's Singaporean English voice has a Jamaican accent.
[edit] Kalim (Karim)
English anime name: Karim
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Kalim (カリム Karimu) is one of the six priests that guarded Pharaoh Atem 3,000 years ago. He wields the Millennium Scales. His Ka is the Curse of Dragon, a monster which appears in Yugi's deck at several points in the series. It is a common theory that the first holder of the Millennium Scales was his father, as they look extremely similar. Kalim, unlike most of the Ancient Egyptian cast, does not have an evident modern form; his Scales are held by Shadi throughout the series.
[edit] Kisara
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Kisara (キサラ Kisara) is a mysterious woman with pale skin, white hair, and blue eyes. She carries the spirit of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon (referred to simply as the White Dragon) within her. She and Priest Seto share a deep bond. Aknadin, after he pledged his loyalty to Zorc the Dark One, sealed the Blue-Eyes in a stone tablet, along with Kisara's spirit. But she later used her dragon to destroy Aknadin and free Seto from his control. She then gave her power to him, making him the new keeper of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
[edit] Mahado (Mahad)
English anime name: Mahad
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Mahado (マハード Mahādo) is one of the priests who serves Pharaoh Atem. He wields the Millennium Ring. In order to defeat Thief King Bakura, he sacrificed his life and fused his Ba and his Ka together to create the Dark magician. He also was the best friend of the Pharaoh Atem since they were children. Before and and after his death, Mahado always keep loyalty to his king.
[edit] Mana
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Mana (マナ Mana) is a childhood friend of Atem and Mahado and studies magic under Mahado as his apprentice. After Mahado's death, she swears to become a great magician and eventually is able to summon her own Ka, the Dark Magician Girl.
[edit] Koji "the Spider" Nagumo
DDM video game name: Stringer
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters), and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light
Koji Nagumo (名蜘蛛 コージ Nagumo Kōji) is a student in Domino High School.
In the manga, Nagumo asks Yugi to play "Monster Fighter" with him while at Domino High School. While playing, Nagumo hits Yugi and takes his gun and monster, Alti. It is revealed that Nagumo is stealing monsters and selling them for ¥30,000 (About $300 US) each. Dark Yugi comes into his store and fights Nagumo and his "Wild Spider" with Jonouchi's monster, "Killer Emaada". As the game was a shadow game, Nagumo's face was cracked in the first set, which went to Yugi; the shadow game dictated that the players, instead of the monsters, get damaged in the game. In the second set, Nagumo cheated by kicking Yugi in the side. An enraged Dark Yugi raises the shadow mode to level three. When Nagumo tries to cheat again, his legs are held down by all of the monsters, including his own. Nagumo's soul is purged of the Darkness.
Nagumo makes a brief appearance during the Battle City of the manga and the second series anime as a particpant trying to steal cards from the loser of a duel he is in. Seto Kaiba appears and says that Nagumo is able to stay if he is able to defeat him. The duel is not seen; Kaiba unleashes Obelisk the Tormentor and defeats him. Another brief appperance was in Yu-Gi-Oh! the Movie, where he was a bystander during Joey's duels at the beginning of the movie.
Nagumo is not given a name in the second anime series.
[edit] Player Killer of Darkness (Panik)
English anime name: Panik
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Player Killer of Darkness (「闇」のプレイヤーキラー Yami no Pureiā Kirā) is a player eliminator hired by the Duelist Kingdom. He appears to be a rather brutal man and as Yugi Mutou and his group arrive, Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine) has just been defeated by him. In order to salvage the situation and return Mai's Star Chips, Dark Yugi challenges the Player Killer to a duel. Using the power of Castle of Dark Illusions, Player Killer clouds the field in darkness and hides his monsters. Yugi eventually reveals his monsters with Swords of Revealing Light. He then uses Catapult Turtle in conjunction with Gaia the Dragon Champion to damage Player Killer's castle. Although the castle remains after the assault, its flotation ring is destroyed, and as Yugi puts it, the Swords of Revealing Light are the only thing sustaining the castle's flight. After the Swords of Revealing Light expire, the castle falls to the ground, destroying of all of Player Killer's monsters and depleting the remainder of his Life Points. Player Killer then activates the flame ejectors that are in the ring, attempting to incinerate Dark Yugi. However, Dark Yugi is safe due to the power of the Millennium Puzzle and he inflicts a Mind Crush on Player Killer. In the English anime, Panik's soul is sent to the Shadow Realm.
Titan, from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX!, is his counterpart. He uses a tactic based not on preventing the opponent from attacking but from targeting his card, he also claims to play the Shadow Game, like Player Killer, a "duel in shadows."
[edit] Saruwatari (Kemo)
English anime name: Kemo
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Saruwatari (猿渡) is one of Pegasus' suits. He worked for Kaiba Corporation as one of Seto and Mokuba's private bodyguards, but he was actually working for Industrial Illusions the whole time, gathering information from within Kaiba Corporation and giving it to Pegasus.
His first appearance is where he apprehends Mokuba Kaiba after his duel with Yugi and takes him to Pegasus despite the fact Yugi defeated the Mimic of Doom in a duel. He later confronted Kaiba as he entered the island with a gun to his head (which was edited out in the English anime) but Kaiba disarmed him with a card. He then forces Saruwatari to take him to where Mokuba's cell is and Saruwatari does so. He later acts as the guard at the entrance to Pegasus' castle and attempts to stop the group from entering since half of them aren't duelists but Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine) stops him.
His last appearance is during the group's first stay in the Virtual World, where he attempts to break into the room where their bodies are and Anzu Mazaki and Hiroto Honda put up a desperate defense to stop them using furniture to block the door. After everyone awoke after Yugi and Kaiba's Master of Dragon Soldier defeated the Big Five's Five-Headed Dragon, Saruwatari fled in order to warn the Big Five members. It is likely that he was fired at that point as he is not seen in the series again.
[edit] Satake and Takaido (Zygore and Sid)
English anime name: Zygore and Sid
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Satake (佐竹) and Takaido (高井戸) are lackeys of Bandit Keith. (Takaido is the one with glasses.) They later forms a gang with Ghost Kotsuzuka (Bonz). In Duelist Kingdom, they dragged Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) to duel in a hidden arena. Jonouchi later finds out that they were part of Bandit Keith's gang. After Kotsuzuka is defeated by Jonouchi, Keith attacks them and takes their star chips so he can go to the Duelist Kingdom playoffs.
They are later seen with Kotsuzuka in the Battle City arc when Kotsuzuka attempt to gain enough locator cards to enter the finals by scaring people and taking their locator cards. However, the arrival of Dark Bakura, someone who isn't easily intimidated, spells their doom. When Dark Bakura announced that they were playing a Shadow Game, Satake and Takaido attempted to flee, only to arrive back in the same spot. When Dark Bakura crushes Kotsuzuka due to his inferior dueling skills, Satake and Takaido are pulled into the soil (in the English anime they are sent to the Shadow Realm).
Their names are never stated in the manga.
[edit] Seto
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Seto (セト Seto) is a priest who is a cousin of Pharaoh Atem. Seto Kaiba is the reincarnation of Priest Seto. His name comes from the Egyptian god Set.
Back 3000 years ago (5000 in the English anime) Priest Seto and Pharaoh Atem were friends and rivals who helped each other by testing their skills (just like Yugi and Kaiba did); as children their relationship was Atem as a prince and Seto as a priest on training. Bakura, the King of Thieves (Tōzoku Ō in Japanese) showed the royal court his Ka, Diabound's great power before running away. Seto decided that Bakura should be stopped and looked for a Ka that was stronger than Diabound. People could be tortured into revealing their Kas, so he decided to try rounding up and torturing criminals. This plan, he felt, would accomplish two things: finding a Ka that could destroy Diabound and reduce the number of criminals that ravage his pharaoh's kingdom. During his quest to find a Ka greater than Diabound, he found Kisara. Kisara was a foreigner who was being attacked by the people of her village because she was different. Seto rescued her twice (once when they were children from a raiders' camp, and when the townspeople were throwing rocks at her and calling her a demon) and found out that Kisara had the Ka of a White Dragon. Priest Akhenaden, another priest (and Seto's father), wanted to use Kisara's Ka to fight Diabound and put his son on the throne (this occurred after his dark side was brought out by Bakura). Seto disagreed with him, because if a person's Ka was extracted, that person would die. Akhenaden was the brother of Atem's father, Akhenamkhanen, which meant Seto was Atem's cousin. Seto believed his father died in battle so he didn't know Akhenaden was his father. Seto knew that if Atem died, Seto would be Pharaoh. Akhenaden extracted the Blue Eyes anyway for Priest Seto to use against Atem, resulting in the death of Kisara. Later, Seto became possessed by the corrupted spirit of Akhenaden, whom Seto had stabbed after he killed Kisara, and dueled Atem. He used the White Dragon in this duel. Though he defeated Atem, Kisara freed Seto's mind from Akhenaden's spirit. Seto fought bravely by Atem's side in the battle against Zorc the Dark One. When Zorc was defeated, Atem said his reign was over, and made Seto the new pharaoh.
[edit] Shada
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Shada (シャダ Shada) is one of the six priests that guarded Pharaoh Atem 3,000 years ago. He wields the Millennium Key.
[edit] Siamun Muran (Shimon Muran)
English anime name: Shimon
Video game name: Shimon Muran ('Siman Muran in Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories)
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Siamun Muran (シモン・ムーラン Shimon Mūran) is a vizier of Pharaoh Atem. Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Moto) is the reincarnation of Siamun. When Atem goes to the World of Memory, he initially confuses Siamun by calling him "Grandpa". The name "Siamun" is pronounced the same as "Shimon".
He was originally one of the Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen's original guardians, and he was granted the Millennium Key to hold. His Ka (or his monster spirit) that he summoned was Exodia the Forbidden One and he swore to seal it and never use it again after he destroyed the force that was attacking the Egyptian capital. He apparently gave up his position of guardian to Shada, and to him he relinquished the Millennium Key.
He plays a largely minor role in the Millennium World (Dawn of the Duel in the English anime) arc as first, as he introduces much of the ancient ways and terminology to the Pharaoh Atem.
When Zorc Necrophades rises and begins to march on the city, Siamun takes up the Millennium Key that Isis brought back and he summons Exodia to combat Zorc. Although Exodia experiences some success, especially after Siamun demonstrates its ability to regenerate after its arm was torn off by Zorc, Zorc overpowers Exodia since its power is based on Siamun's, while Zorc can draw power from the darkness. Therefore, Exodia is destroyed and Siamun is killed. After Zorc was defeated by the Pharaoh Atem, it is likely that he still retained his position of vizier for the new Pharaoh: Seto.
[edit] Step Johnny (Johnny Steps)
English anime name: Johnny Steps
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Step Johnny (ステップ・ジョニー Suteppu Jonī) is Anzu's dance rival. the "date" that After cheating in an attempt to beat Anzu at a dance game, he attempts to get her on a date. Dark Yugi, who is present with Anzu, challenges Johnny to a duel to determine if he can take her on a date and Johnny agrees.
At first, Johnny's deck seems to have no overall strategy as he summons monsters to the field randomly and forgets basic things such as switching his monsters' modes. This allows Yugi to acquire a lead until Johnny plays Musician King, which combined with the Metalmorph card, allows Johnny to overpower Yugi's monsters. Yugi then summons Dark Magician who destroys the Musician King. Johnny, revealing his ineptness with the game, is confused why Metalmorph did not add half of Dark Magician's attack points to Musician King as it is supposed to when Yugi answers that it only does so when his monster attacks. Johnny then recognizes Yugi as the King of Games and the one who defeated Maximillion Pegasus and flees when being faced with such a powerful opponent. Anzu confronts him about running away and it is shown here than Johnny, despite his air of being popular, has no real friends. Anzu consoles him and sends him off with more self-confidence than he had before.
[edit] The Great Evil God Zorc Necrophades
English anime name: Zorc the Dark One
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Zorc Necrophades (大邪神 ゾーク・ネクロファデス Daijashin Zōku Nekurofadesu) is a demon that was born when the Millennium Items were originally created (in the English anime, he is the creator of the Shadow Realm, and therefore likely predates the items, though they were made using his power). He can be summoned when all 7 Millennium Items are brought together in an underground crypt in Kul Elna village. 3,000 years ago (5,000 years ago in the Dub), he was summoned by Akhenaden and attempted to destroy the world, but was stopped by Pharaoh Atem. Atem sacrificed his life by sealing both himself and Zorc within the Millennium Puzzle, but not before Zorc pulled off one final trick by sealing a small portion of his soul within the Millennium Ring. Zorc later resurfaces when he possesses Ryo Bakura, though he has no memory of who he really is, except that he wants to gain all seven Millennium Items in order to gain a great power. The second time Atem faced off with Zorc, he was able to kill Zorc by fusing the Egyptian Gods to form the Creator of Light Horakhti. A common fan spelling of his name is Zork also referred to the devil. Zorc has a large dragon/snake appendage between his legs, also to fans known as the second head. The dub changes this appendage to protrude from his chest instead of between his legs, due to its likeness to the phallus.
