Sugoroku Mutou

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Sugoroku Mutou
Yu-Gi-Oh! character

Sugoroku Mutou in Vol. 1 of the manga
First appearance Yu-Gi-Oh! (original and English manga) Volume 1, Duel 1
Voiced by 1st series: Takeshi Aono
2nd series: Tadashi Miyazawa (Japanese)
Maddie Blaustein (English)
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Age 71 at debut; 72 at series' end
Date of birth October 4
Known relatives Grandson: Yugi Mutou (Yugi Muto in the English anime)

Sugoroku Mutou (武藤 双六 Mutō Sugoroku?), known as Solomon Muto in the English anime, is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!.

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[edit] About

Sugoroku Mutou is the grandfather of Yugi Mutou (Yugi Muto), who calls him "Grandpa" (Jii-chan). Sugoroku gave Yugi the Millennium Puzzle as a present. He owns the Kame (Turtle) Game shop, where Yugi and his friends get several of the games they play. Kazuki Takahashi, creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!, said that the Kame Game Shop is not based on an actual game shop; the store sells "more of the classic games" and does not carry board games and video games.[1]

Sugoroku is the reincarnation of Siamun Muran (シモン・ムーラン Shimon Mūran, spelled "Shimon Muran" in the video games, and spelled "Siamun" in the English manga), Pharaoh Atem's right hand man.

Early in the manga, Yugi and his best friend Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) bring games from Sugoroku's shop to school. Sugoroku uses this to boost business at his store, as he knows that children will come into his shop wanting to play the games that he sells there. Sugoroku Mutou possesses the rare Blue Eyes White Dragon card. Seto Kaiba uses trickery to steal the card from him, which leads to the first Duel Monsters battle. Kaiba loses to Yugi and as a punishment is forced to experience death. Kaiba later builds a theme park, KaibaLand, with a budget of 10 billion yen (about 85 million United States dollars). He forces Grandpa to the dueling stage and defeats him. After tearing up his precious Blue Eyes White Dragon card, Kaiba forces Sugoroku into virtual reality torture. Kaiba forces Yugi to go through Death-T, a series of games and amusement park rides intended to kill Yugi, in exchange for Sugoroku's life. Yugi defeats Kaiba in the end and Sugoroku is saved by an emergency surgery.

The Toei anime's story is similar to the manga story except Kaiba holds Sugoroku hostage instead of trying to drive him insane. Yugi and his friends defeat Kaiba and free Yugi's grandfather.

In the second series anime, Kaiba wants the Blue Eyes White Dragon and decides to challenge the old man to a duel. The old man loses and his card is torn simply because Kaiba cannot have more than three of the same card per deck (he tears the card because it betrayed him in volume 5). The old man is sent to the hospital as Yugi duels Kaiba.

In the second series anime, "Grandpa" competes in Kaiba's KaibaCorp Grand Prix tournament under the alias "Apdnarg Otum" ("Mask of Rock" in the Japanese version), yet Joey manages to defeat him. The English name is "Grandpa Muto" backwards. The Japanese name is a pun of "Mask the Roku". Roku is six in Japanese, and "Sugoroku" means "double-six". The deck used is an ancient themed deck with a lot of rock monsters.

"Sugoroku" is a Japanese game similar to Backgammon.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX in Japan) he appears in episode 75. In that episode, Duel Academy (Duel Academia in Japan) students went on a field trip to Domino. The old man is kidnapped by Thunder (Ikazuchimaru) and Frost (Kourimaru).

[edit] Naming

In the English manga, Sugoroku's family name is usually spelled Mutou but is sometimes rendered as Mutoh. In addition, his family name is rendered Mutou in the uncut anime DVDs.

In the English anime his name is Solomon Muto. All of the versions of the dubbed anime of Indo-European languages use Solomon Muto. However, on the Uncut DVDs briefly released, the dub refers to him as 'Suguroku Muto'.

The Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, and Italian versions of the manga use Sugoroku Muto.

The German version of the manga uses Sugoroku Mutô.

The Brazilian Portuguese version of the manga uses Solomon Muto.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Eternal Duelist's Soul and its two successors, Sugoroku is known as Trusdale. In other video games and by most people in the anime and manga he is simply called "Grandpa". In the ani-manga version of the movie he is Sugoroku Muto. In the English Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses video game, he is Jasper Dice Tudor.

[edit] Deck

Sugoroku uses an Ancient deck, with cards that focuses on his Ancient Dragon. Although a grand total of seven cards, including Ancient Giant and Ancient Tome are needed to summon the beast, it is invincible and can be revived every turn as long as Ancient City remains in play. Also, his original Deck was passed on to Yugi.

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