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, its two anime adaptations (the 1998
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and the 2000
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anime, known internationally simply as
Yu-Gi-Oh!), and assorted movies and video games.
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ese names in Western order (surname after the given name) go first, with the
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name, if applicable, second.
For a listing of the major characters across the three media, see: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! main characters
For a listing of secondary characters who appear in multiple media, see: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga characters
Shotaro Akaboshi
is a collector obsessed with watches that steals Miho's watch. Dark Yugi comes to get it back; he punishes Shotaro by making him think he is becoming a human watch. Though not explicitly stated, it appears that he killed himself when he smashed his watch collection in a mad panic.
Ryuichi Fuha
is the second game master, who has good luck with a television game show. Fuha pushes around Yugi and his friends until Yugi challenges him to a shadow game involving a game show. Ryuichi ends up losing. After losing, Ryuichi no longer has good luck on the TV game show and loses his champion title. Later, during the final Death-T episode, Ailean Rao and Ryuichi are paired against Miho and Jonouchi. Jonouchi and Ailean have the battle suits while Miho and Ryuichi are at the controls. Jonouchi and Miho defeat Ailean and Ryuichi.
Dr. Kekeru Goyu
is a doctor who cares more about golf than his patients which has resulted in many of his patients dying. He constantly tries to invite Nurse Miyuki to go with him, but when she refuses, he fires her as revenge for slapping him. Jonouchi (who had feelings for Miyuki) threatens to testify against him, until Goyu explains that he will remove Shizuka Jonouchi (Serenity Wheeler in the English Duel Monsters anime, and Shizuka Kawai in the original Japanese Duel Monsters anime), Jonouchi's sister, from the hospital. Heartbroken at the prospect of his sister losing out on medical care, Jonouchi is forced to stay quiet. Enraged at what is happening, Dark Yugi emerges, challenging Dr. Goyu to a game. Dr Goyu eventually loses in a putt-putt game and goes insane, hallucinating that his deceased patients are attacking him.
Haiyama
is a boy who manipulates Kujirada while pretending that the opposite is going on. His hobby is giving people money and then demanding whatever he wants from them; if they do not he whips them mercilessly. Dark Yugi defeats Haiyama in a digital pet duel, and goes insane, thinking that his pet is eating him. Haiyama does not appear in the English anime.
Three Kageyama Sisters
The are three witches who want to have the three Hecate witch cards. One of the sisters, wants to take one of Yugi's rare cards by pretending to have a crush on him. Yugi, with the Millennium Puzzle taken away from him, is forced into a Duel Monsters game with the Kageyama sisters. Yugi is about to lose when Kaiba appears and takes over. Kaiba defeats the Kageyama sisters in Duel Monsters, explaining that he should be the one to defeat Yugi.
In the Japanese version of
Yu-Gi-Oh! GXis an anime spin-off, and sequel of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. It first premiered in Japan on October 6, 2004. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX follows the exploits of Jaden Yuki and his companions as he attends Duel Academy.- Plot :In the fictional universe of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Duel Monsters, a popular card game...
anime Risa is listed in Austin O'Brien's (Axel Brodie) database of Domino High School students as
Risa Kageyema.
Kaoruko Himekoji
, being supported by the chairman of the student council, tries to win a beauty contest at her school. When she prevents Miho from going onto the final round by ripping her beautiful dress apart and knocking her out with chloroform, Yugi gets angry at her and places a shadow game on her, making her think that she is hideous and old, and publicly humiliating herself.
In the Japanese version of
Yu-Gi-Oh! GXis an anime spin-off, and sequel of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. It first premiered in Japan on October 6, 2004. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX follows the exploits of Jaden Yuki and his companions as he attends Duel Academy.- Plot :In the fictional universe of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Duel Monsters, a popular card game...
anime she is listed in Austin O'Brien's (Axel Brodie) database of Domino High School students as
Kaoruko Himekouji.
Ailean Rao
, a
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n, is the 3rd game master.
Seto Kaibais a fictional character from the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!. As the majority shareholder and CEO of his own multi-national company, KaibaCorp, Kaiba aims to become the world's greatest player of the Duel Monsters card game...
tells Irene, who returns from a
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fashion show, to play a game against Yugi. Ailean first plays a top
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(soccer) player named Hirada (平田) in Rijinhai, a fictional version of
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from
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. Heida states that if he wins, Ailean must submit to his will, but if Ailean wins, Heida will lose the most important thing to him. Ailean wins and Heida is seen with an injured leg in a hospital on a television. Ailean lures Yugi and Anzu, who is a big fan of Ailean, to her condominium. Ailean holds Anzu hostage and forces Yugi to play Rijinhai. Ailean tells Yugi that if he loses, he will lose the most important thing to him. Ailean threatens to kill Anzu with a
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if Yugi loses. Yugi wins and Ailean lets go of Anzu. Ailean acknowledges Yugi as a good player. Later, during the final Death-T episode, Ailean and Ryuichi Fuha are paired against Miho and Jonouchi. Jonouchi and Ailean have the battle suits while Miho and Ryuichi are at the controls. Jonouchi and Miho defeat Ailean and Ryuichi.
Ailean calls Kaiba by his
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, Seto.
Miyuki Sakurai
is a nurse whom Jonouchi falls in love with but is heartbroken when she leaves to be with her boyfriend after she is fired from her job by Dr. Goyu (he could cope with her being fired, but was sad to see her taken).
Ridley Sheldon
, from
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in the
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, is the first game master. Count Sheldon has a collection of
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s that he admires a lot; he even talks to them as if they were real people, suggesting that he may be slightly insane. Sheldon's favorite doll, Fiona, is a blonde doll dressed up in a Victorian outfit. Count Sheldon disguises one of his dolls as the school nurse. Sheldon defeats Yugi in a Duel Monsters game, taking his Neon Knight as a reward. Later, Seto Kaiba kidnaps Yugi, whom is in the arcade looking for a new game called "KIS", so Yugi could face Count Sheldon again. Dark Yugi defeats Sheldon and placing a shadow game on the loser. Fiona's face is cracked after the duel with Yugi is over, and Ridley leaves to get her fixed.
Student Council Chairman
The is a boy who wants Kaoruko Himekoji to win the student beauty contest. He is competing against fellow student council member Honda, who is pushing for Miho to win.
Tetsu Tasaki
, aka , is a criminal who is framed by Jiro (Prisoner 777). Jiro disguises himself as Tetsu and breaks out of prison. While Tetsu also breaks out of prison and commits some robberies, Tetsu is being framed for a variety of crimes that were committed by Jiro. Tetsu has to prove his innocence.
Warashibe
is a student who is infatuated with Miho Nosaka, and is good at Capsule Monster Chess. His infatuation reaches dangerous levels when he poisons Honda, Jonnouch, and Anzu, desiring to be the only center of Miho's affections. After he defeats her in a rigged game of Capsule Monster Chess (Miho received weak monsters, while Warashibe gave himself very strong ones), Yami Yugi defeats him using Miho's monsters, and then traps him in a capsule. Warashibe has a habit of sucking on
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s, and is extremely childish for his age.
Second series anime only characters
This section uses the names from the English anime, when possible.
Rebecca Hawkins
is the granddaughter of a friend of Solomon Mutou, believing Muto stole a card from him. Dueling Muto's grandson Yugi to get it back, Rebecca and Yugi play a duel identical to the one Muto played with Rebecca's grandfather years ago. After Yugi surrenders, Rebecca's grandfather explains he gave Muto his card as a gift. Yugi, then hands Rebecca the "Ties of Friendship" card that he won at Duelist Kingdom as a token of his appreciation. Rebecca later returns in the Waking the Dragons arc of the anime (where she develops a crush on Yugi, much to Anzu's dismay) and remains part of the main cast until the end of the KC Grand Championship arc.
In her first duel, Rebecca uses a Shadow Ghoul deck focusing on sending monsters to the Graveyard to power up Shadow Ghoul. In the KC Grand Championship she uses a Life Gain/Fire Princess deck focusing on raising her Life Points with Marie the fallen One, Cure Mermaid, and Guardian Angel Joan while damaging her opponents with her Fire Princess all while summoning powerful dragon monsters.
Noah Kaiba
is Gozaburo Kaiba's biological son. Noah's role is exclusive to the second series of
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, specifically of the Virtual World story arc.
As the heir to Kaiba Corporation, Noah's father makes him study heavily in the arts and academic subjects, but unlike
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, Noah enjoys it and is eager to please his father. When Noah is approximately ten years old, he is in a car accident and is fatally injured. In the hope of saving his son, Gozaburo Kaiba uploads Noah's mind onto a super computer just before Seto is adopted.
Gozaburo adopts Seto with the intent of using his body as a replacement for Noah, but eventually Gozaburo realizes Noah's intellectual growth has stagnated, and thus decides to make Seto his heir. When Seto took over Kaiba Corporation, Gozaburo, in frustration and defeat, uploads his own mind into Noah's virtual world. Six years later, Noah takes his revenge on Seto. He kidnaps Seto and his passengers on Seto's Kaiba Craft III during the semi-finals of Battle City, hoping to take one of the passenger's bodies, preferably Seto's. With the help of the Big Five and his father, Noah locks Seto and the others in his virtual world and duels with them for their bodies.
However, after the Big Five falter too many times, Noah eliminates them and takes on Seto himself by dueling him. However, this plan backfires when Seto gains the upper hand, and Noah thus uses Mokuba, who he has brainwashed, as a human shield to block Seto's attack. Noah turns both Mokuba and Seto to stone and claims he has won but an outraged
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takes over for Seto and combines their decks to defeat Noah. Also, during Yami Yugi and Noah's duel, for each turn Yami Yugi doesn't wipe out all of Noah's Life Points, one of Yugi's friends get turned to stone although their spirits live on. With Gozaburo's role in the events revealed, Noah scatters the group to the parts of a virtual city and takes Mokuba's body for himself. Noah leaves the virtual world and attempts to blow up the computer mainframe with everyone else's minds connected to it, killing them all. At the very last minute, Noah remembers how Mokuba had called him brother and still loved him even after he tried to kill him and Seto. He redeems himself by reversing the plan, giving Mokuba back his body, getting everyone out of the virtual world to safety, and saving them from being blown up. However, he is unable to stop the explosion from occurring, and Gozaburo's mind is destroyed. As for Noah, it was implied during episode 121 that Noah saved his mind to a backup file, but it is possible that his mind was destroyed along with Gozaburo's.
He is voiced by
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in the Japanese version. He is voiced by
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in the American English dub.
Dartz
is the former King of Atlantis and the head of the organization Paradis. After being forced to kill his wife who had been turned into a monster by the orichalcos, Dartz was himself corrupted, turning his right eye green. Dartz led the forces of the Orichalcos against his father, daughter and the forces of the Dominion of the Beasts, but was defeated. Dartz then spent the next ten thousand years collecting souls to revive the Leviathan, which he felt could be easily revived using the soul of Pharaoh Atem.
After having his henchmen steal the Egyptian God cards, Dartz has them duel the three duelists chosen to wield the powers of the Knights of Atlantis against him. After their initial failures, Dartz summons an army of Orichalcos Soldiers to steal souls from around the world in a final effort to acquire the energy he needs. When finally confronted by Atem and
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at his temple, Dartz duels them, but is defeated by Atem using the powers of all three of the Knights of Atlantis. However, upon having his soul taken, Dartz's own soul is enough to revive the Leviathan. After a battle between the Leviathan and the forces of the Duel Monster realm, it is killed again and Dartz is released from the influence of the orichalcos, going peacefully to the afterlife with his father and daughter.
Dartz uses an
Orichalcos deck, focusing on the Seal of Orichalcos and strengthening it using Orichalcos Deuteros
and Orichalcos Tritos
. His key monster, Orichalcos Kyutora
, absorbs battle damage and transforms into Orichalcos Shunoros
, a monster based on the dogūDogū are small humanoid and animal figurines made during the late Jōmon period of prehistoric Japan. Most of the humanoid figurines have the breasts, small waists, and wide hips of females and are considered by many to be representative of goddesses...
which has ATK equal to the damage that Kyutora absorbs, allowing it to become stronger the longer Kyutora is on the field. Besides this, Dartz's offense is provided by Mirror Knight Calling
and the Mirror Knight Tokens it summons, who have power equal to the power of the monster they battle and are immune to destruction, allowing them to destroy any monster, no matter how powerful.
He is voiced in the English version by
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and in the Japanese original by Yuu Emaou.
Alister
is Dartz's second henchman. Alister lived in a town in the middle of a war as a child, leading a resistance group with his brother after their parents disappear. When his brother is lost during an attack on the town, Alister blames Kaiba Corporation, who financed the weapons in that attack. (In the Japanese version, both his parents and brother were killed.) In reality, the weapons were funded by Dartz. To this end, Alister targets
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, but when Alister learns of his bond with his own brother Mokuba, he becomes more sympathetic and willingly loses the duel to ensure Mokuba will not have to bear losing his brother as he did. Kaiba, also understanding Alister's grudge towards him now, carries his body to safety after the duel, and Alister is restored when Dartz is defeated.
Alister uses a
Toon deck while pretending to be
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, relying on the Toon monsters and exploiting their various powers such as direct attacks. When revealed, Alister changes to a
Pyro deck relying on Gorlag
and its power to revive the monsters it destroys. In his second duel, he uses an Army deck of Machine monsters like KC-1 Krayton
and Spell Canceler
, highlighted by Air Fortress Ziggurat
and the Toy Robot Tokens it spawns, both of which are based on an action figure his brother owned.
Rafael
is the strongest of Dartz's henchmen and is the duelist meant to defeat Atem and
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. Rafael once had a family that was killed while on an ocean cruise, leaving him stranded on an island (in the English version, the family was still alive, but have completely forgotten about him). With only his dueling deck to keep him company, Rafael developed a deep bond with them before he was rescued. Bitter at the world, which he now saw as evil and corrupted, Rafael willingly turned to Dartz and joined the organization with the promise of cleansing the world of darkness. Rafael later discovered that Dartz was the captain of the cruise the night his family was killed, and willingly sailed into the storm that wrecked their ship in order to orchestrate Rafael's turn to evil. Rafael is the only duelist to lose a duel without losing his soul to the orichalcos, being able to purify his heart of its influence during the duel and free himself of its hold on him. After confronting Dartz about what he has learned about the orichalcos' powers, he falls victim to him and loses his soul, but is restored when Dartz is defeated.
Rafael uses a
Guardian deck, relying on monsters that can only be summoned by having an appropriate Equip card on the field. Because of his bond with them, Rafael cannot bear to have his monsters destroyed and thus utilizes several cards to protect them, often at the cost of his own well-being. His main monster, Guardian Eatos
, can be summoned without Tribute with no monsters in his Graveyard, and gains power the more monsters there are in the opponent's Graveyard. Under the dark influence of the orichalcos however, Rafael plays Guardian Dreadscythe, an evil incarnation of Eatos that grows in strength the more monsters Rafael sends to the Graveyard, leading to him sacrificing all of them due to the orichalcos tainting his judgment.
Valon
is Dartz's third henchman. Abandoned at a young age, Valon was cared for by a nun at a church and protected her from a local street gang. However, when the nun was killed in a fire and the church burned down, Valon assaulted the gang and was sent to juvenile prison. While there, the headmaster taught him how to duel and had him take the souls of the other inmates. Afterwards, Dartz recruited Valon into his service. What Valon was not told was that the headmaster worked for Dartz, and Dartz was the one who set the fire that killed the nun. The story of the nun and the street gang is cut from the English anime, and Valon's story of being in prison is mentioned to be caused by his penchant for street fights which Dartz had framed him for.
Valon develops feelings for Mai Valentine (Mai Kujaku in the Japanese version) when she joins the organization, thus making his grudge with Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jounouchi in the Japanese version of the anime) a personal one because he interprets her feelings towards Joey as romantic, the existence of which go unconfirmed. Mai does not return his feelings as he would have liked and tells him that Joey is to be her opponent, not his. After dueling and losing to Joey, Valon has his soul taken, but his body is recovered by Rafael and taken to safety, and he is restored along with Mai's when Dartz is defeated.
Valon uses an
Armor deck, relying on monsters that attach to him as physical pieces of futuristic armor. Although they have limited physical strength, when combined their special abilities gives the appearance of a single, high-powered monster with powers such as immunity to destruction, destroying monsters, and inflicting direct damage. Valon summons his Armor pieces en masse
using various Armor Gravitation cards, making the Seal of Orichalcos pivotal to his strategy by allowing him to summon more pieces than normal.
Aaron
was Alister's best friend growing up. Seto encontered him and two other boys when Alister showed Seto a vision of his past using the power of the Orichalcos. Kaiba decided to go outside his hidding place with the boy and plays chess with him. He is later killed in an explosion by a group Kaiba Corp tanks (captured in the dub).
Kriss
was Dartz' daughter and Ironheart's granddaughter when Dartz ruled Atlantis 10,000 years ago.
Ironheart
was the father of Dartz when he ruled Atlantis 10,000 years ago.
Mikey
is the younger brother of Alister (Amelda in the original Japanese). In the original Japanese, Milko is killed when a tank he boarded was blown up. In the English anime, Mikey was captured. In the original Japanese, this serves as the basis of Amelda's quest to avenge his brother. In the English anime, his capture serves as the basis of Alister's quest to get him back.
Jean-Claude Magnum
is a famous movie star in several action-films. He duels Mai on a cruise and loses, and asks her to marry him afterwards. Disgusted with his loss, Mai rejects him until he can defeat her in a duel. He thus trains and returned in Battle City, but still loses to Mai. After a failed attempt to kidnap her, Mai rejects him once again. Katsuya Jounouchi was originally a fan of his movies, but decides he isn't any more after meeting him in person. His name is a play on action star Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Magnum plays a "Ninja Swarm" deck of low-level Ninja monsters that special summon others to the field, opting to overwhelming opponents with sheer numbers rather than brute strength. Presumably his deck includes "Gravity Bind" since he has so many low level monsters.
Leon von Schroeder
is Zigfried von Schroeder's younger brother. While Zigfried ran Schroeder Corporation, Leon took up Duel Monsters and dueled in several tournaments under the alias of to avoid his family. When Zigfried found out, he entered Leon in the KC Grand Championship alongside himself as a back-up if he should be discovered. After Ziegfried is kicked out of the tournament and Leon duels Yugi Muto, Zigfried tricks him into playing Golden Castle of Stromberg, giving Leon an unfair advantage in the duel and releasing a computer virus into Kaiba Corporation's duel systems. Through the efforts of Kaiba and Yugi however, Leon is defeated and the virus is halted.
Leon uses a Fairy Tale deck of monsters like Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb. His tactics are extremely balanced and diverse, ranging from powering up his monsters to special summoning multiple monsters at once.
Zigfried von Schroeder
is the CEO of Schroeder Corp, a long-time rival to the Kaiba family and Kaiba Corporation. When Zigfried and Seto Kaiba become heads of their respective family companies, both of them attempt to create holographic systems for Duel Monsters. Both succeed, with Zigfried's invention being the Holographic Duel Box Room System (Like the one featured in the manga), but Kaiba markets and patents his first, leaving Zigfried to fall into ruin. In the anime, Zigfried joins the KC Grand Championship to discredit Kaiba and claim revenge. Although Zigfried uses a variety of computer viruses to attempt to destroy Kaiba Corporation's computer systems, Kaiba is able to halt them all and expels Zigfried from the tournament.
Zigfried uses a Valkyrie deck based around Norse mythology. By combining his Goddess cards Urd, Verdande and Skuld with Nibelung's Ring, Zigfried is able to control what cards his opponent draws and destroy any monsters that might be used against him before they are summoned. His signature move is the Ride of the Valkyries card (named after the famous opera by Wagner) to summon his Valkyrie monster en masse for victory in a single unified strike.
Vivian Wong
is a Chinese duelist with crushes on Yugi Mutou and Seto Kaiba. Entering the KC Grand Championship as a way of earning their respect, Wong loses to Rebecca Hawkins. She later kidnaps Yugi's grandfather and uses his back pain as a way to convince Yugi to duel her but is again defeated.
Wong uses a Martial Arts deck of monsters like Master Kyonshee and Kung-fu Nyan Nyan, highlighted by her strongest monster Dragon Lady.
Chopman
The is a
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that is in one of the traps at KaibaLand. Chopman had earlier murdered ten
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s near Domino Park by chopping their bodies into unrecognizable pieces. KaibaCorp later hired the Chopman.
Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda, and Anzu become living chess pieces on a chess board. When Jonouchi is captured, he and Johji are up against the Chopman. Jonouchi is handcuffed on a chain that has Chopman on the end, and he is trapped in the room by a locked door with bars. After Yugi's Millennium Puzzle gives him an idea, Jonouchi frees his hand from the handcuff and attaches it onto the door. Chopman opens the door on accident with his strength and knocks a
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over. He is set on fire when the candle falls into the pit of
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that Chopman is standing in. An actual
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card exists called "The Chopman" but its appearance differs from that of the manga character.
A.D. Fujita
is a boy hired by a director at ZTV to "stage school bullying". Fujita lures Yugi in front of cameras by telling him that he will see a famous movie star. Fujita hits him several times. Jonouchi rushes to the scene to stop him but Fujita stops at the request of the director, who later beats up Jonouchi.
Tomoya Hanasaki
is a friend of Yugi's that is obsessed with
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comics, particularly "Zombire," a
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parody. Hanasaki is beaten up by Sozoji after Hanasaki gives the tickets to Sozoji's ear-defeaning concert to Yugi. Dark Yugi later places a penalty game on Sozoji. In a later issue, Hanasaki dresses up as
American Hero Zombire (The
Greendale Zombire) when he is told that Yugi is in danger, but he finds that the men who told him that lured him into a trap; they want to ransom Hanasaki for his father's money. Dark Yugi rescues Hanasaki. In the card game there is an actual card based on this character called "Zombyra the Dark" with name differences.
Goro Inogashira
of class 3-D steals class 1-B's spot at the school carnival. Inogashira, whose class usually makes
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-style
okonomiyakiis a Japanese savoury pancake containing a variety of ingredients. The name is derived from the word okonomi, meaning "what you like" or "what you want", and yaki meaning "grilled" or "cooked" . Okonomiyaki is mainly associated with Kansai or Hiroshima areas of Japan, but is widely available...
for the festival, then places his giant grill in the center. The grill is used in a shadow game between Inogashira and Dark Yugi.
In the Japanese version of
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anime he is listed in Austin O'Brien's (Axel Brodie) database of Domino High School students as Gorou Inogasira.
Junky Scorpion store owner
The owner of a store called "Junky Scorpion" tries to con Jonouchi out of a pair of shoes he bought. The owner plays a shadow game with Dark Yugi relating to grabbing money out of a shoe, and in an attempt to win, stabs the shoe with his pocket-knife. But his efforts fail when the scorpion whom he thought had perished actually emerges, stinging him in the hand in a possible act of revenge.
Johji
is a baby that Honda takes to Kaiba's amusement park, KaibaLand. The baby, who is Honda's nephew, is an admirer of Seto Kaiba, is lecherous towards Anzu and other females, and spews curse words at times (he has an unusually well-developed vocabulary for someone with the appearance of an infant). Johji unintentionally helps Yugi and his friends while they play Kaiba's Death-T games at least twice. Johji calls Honda by his given name, Hiroto.
Mr. Clown
is the father of
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(Duke Devlin). When Clown was young, he was the appentice to Sugoroku Mutou. Clown challenged his master to a
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over the Millennium Puzzle and lost, aging fifty years in a single night which explains why he wears a mask all the time. 20 years later, Clown wants revenge on Sugoroku by forcing his son Ryuji go after Sugoroku's grandson
Yugi Mutouis the protagonist of the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!, and is featured in almost every chapter and episode of the series.-Character design:...
.
Nezumi
is a boy with buckteeth that uses a sob story about him getting hit by
yo-yoThe yo-yo is a toy consisting of two equally sized but not specifically equally weighted pieces of plastic, wood, or metal, connected with an axle, with a string looped around the axle...
s in a robbery to lure Yugi and Jonouchi to Hirutani.
Nezumi tells Jonouchi that three gang members ambushed him, beat him, and stole his yo-yo. Out of anger, Jonouchi asks Nezumi to lead him to the gangsters. Yugi and Jonouchi travel to Hirutani's abandoned warehouse, where scores of gang members ambush the two boys. Nezumi runs away when Yugi and Jonouchi manage to defeat the gang members.
The Dungeon Dice Monsters name, Nibbles, stems from a gang member character in
West Side StoryWest Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical's plot is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
named "Nibbles."
Old Man Dentures
is a nickname given to a cranky
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-store owner. Mokuba Kaiba bribes "Dentures" to set up Yugi to lose a game of Capsule Monster Chess by having the coin machine rigged. Yugi wins the game anyway.
Sozoji
is a
karaokeis a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol or changing color and/or...
player and student who is knpw at Domino High for his horrible singing. He often charges people to pay to listen to him sing but many refuse to go along. He makes Hanasaki buy his tickets. When Hanasaki sells them to Yugi, Sozoji who oversaw the meeting beats him up for it. Consumed by revenge, Dark Yugi challenges him to a shadow game. When Sozoji loses, Yugi forces Sozoji to hear his own heartbeat at high volume.
Tsuruoka
is the guidance counselor of Domino High School. Tsuruoka reveals the low achievement test grades of Yugi, Jonouchi, and Honda to their peers as punishment for playing achievement test bingo while having low test scores. He then snatches Anzu's gift to Yugi (A pocket game called "Lovely Two"), citing that he cannot bring games to school. Even with Yugi's friends protesting, Tsuruoka comes close to stepping on it. Dark Yugi comes out and challenges him to a game. Tsuruoka decides to hide the pocket game and give Yugi and his friends sixty minutes to find the game in the school. If they found it in time, they get the game back. If they do not, they are expelled and the game is destroyed. With Anzu's game, Dark Yugi heads to the teacher's lounge. He uses it to prove that Tsuruoka was hiding it in his body. Jonouchi and Honda pull off Tsuruoka's wig, revealing the game with five seconds left until time would be up. Tsuruoka begs for Yugi and his friends not to reveal that he wears a wig.
ZTV Director
This stages bullying so he could make money off of a false documentary. After paying Fujita to hit Yugi, the director is confronted by Dark Yugi. The director loses a shadow game involving
diceA die or dice is a small polyhedral object, usually cubic, used for generating random numbers or other symbols...
and is robbed of his sight while seeing nothing but
mosaicMosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral...
s.
ZTV Producer
A corrupt executive of a
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
studio, this plans to rig the final contest of a "Get the Million", a game show, so that Jonouchi has no chance of winning ¥1,000,000 (About $10,000 U.S.) Dark Yugi shows up in the control room and spills red
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over the controls, so that "Mr. Producer" cannot tell which button rigs the wheel. Jonouchi yells for the wheel to stop and he wins one million yen. Dark Yugi placed a penalty game on him that made him beg on camera, upsetting the audience. Jonouchi's check becomes worthless when the television studio goes out of business.
Alex Brisbane
is a mysterious archaeologist who discovers a pyramid that is the gateway to the Capsule Monster world. He discovers Yugi and his friends after their plane crash-lands in a forest.
Alexandra the Great
was an ancient Greek king. He is named after the actual king, Alexander the Great.
Shōgo Aoyama
appears in a
1999 Yu-Gi-Oh! movieis a 30-minute film produced by Toei Animation.It was first shown in theaters on March 6, 1999. Its characters are from the first series Yu-Gi-Oh! anime....
based on Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! series that has only been released in Japan. Shōgo, Yugi's neighbor, is Mokuba's age and has a Red Eyes Black Dragon in his Magic and Wizards (Duel Monsters) deck. He is too timid to pull a winning streak. Anzu, an employee at "Duel Monsters Center," in the film, knows Shōgo as he is a regular of the parlor.
He was voiced by
Eiko Hisamurais a veteran seiyū and theatre actress born on June 13, 1954 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Hisamura worked under her maiden name before her marriage and for a long time afterward, so that name is still often used, even among fans. In many cases, fans aren't even aware of her name change...
.
Anubis
Appearing only in the second film, wants revenge on Yami Yugi and awakens after Yugi Muto solves the Millennium Puzzle. Pharaoh Atem had defeated Anubis a long time ago, yet Anubis re-appears to face Yugi Muto. Anubis possesses the cards Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia, which can be merged into Theinen the Great Sphinx. In the Japanese version of the movie, Anubis wants revenge by using the King of Light (Kaiba) to defeat the King of Darkness (Dark Yugi) in order to revive Anubis, the King of Destruction and use Kaiba to become the new king and rule the world. However his plan is cut short by Yugi and he is finally killed by the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon. He actually says die in the English version. Since he has never shown in the anime or seen in the Dawn Of The Duel arc, he is a non-canon character (Kazuki Takahashi designed Anubis, but never used him in the manga).
Paradox
Appearing only in the third film, is a Turbo Duelist who travels across time and space to face Yugi,
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and
Yusei Fudois the main protagonist of the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.Differently from the previous protagonists in the Yu-Gi-Oh! meta-series, Yusei is older and tends to be calm and cool much of the time, but just like them, he is always prone to make new friends and is determined to fight till the end to...
.
Heishin
is part of an alternate universe plot to what is told in the anime. In the history of the series in the video games, Heishin was High Priest to Atem and led a rebellion with his apprentice Seto, forcing Atem to shatter the Millennium Puzzle and prevent Heishin from gathering the Millennium Items. After Atem's memories are restored in Forbidden Memories
, he returns to the past where Seto is now High Priest and Heishin has become Pharaoh in his absence. Atem defeats Seto and Heishin and is restored to the throne.
Heishin also appears in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the RosesYu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses, a video game for PlayStation 2 in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series, is loosely based on the real-world Wars of the Roses....
as
Richard III of EnglandRichard III was King of England from 1483 until his death. He was the last king of the House of York and the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field was the decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, and is sometimes regarded as the end of the Middle Ages in England...
. However, unlike the other characters who portray historical characters, the dialogue with the final boss of the game for the Yorkists implies that he is Heishin himself in some way, as the final boss resembles Heishin greatly and is angered "over his brother being awakened by the humans".
Shimon Muran
is a high-ranking sage and Atem's adviser in the alternate universe of the series (see above). After Heishin attacks the palace, Shimon helps Atem to safety and later hides the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle from Heishin. He acts as an ally to Atem when he returns. He is also the sage who summons the Rose Duelist in Duelists of the Roses
, and in Reshef of Destruction, he is a high-ranked member of the order that guards the Millennium Items like Shadi and assists the protagonist with strengthening the Winged Dragon of Ra and finding
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's castle.