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Characters at Domino High School from the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh.

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Students and Gamers

Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin)

Ryuji Otogi (御伽 龍児; Otogi Ryuuji) (Duke Devlin)

Voiced by: Ryo Naitou (JP), Marc Thompson (EN), Luis Daniel Ramírez (Latin American Spanish), David Robles (European Spanish)

"When determining victory or failure in a game, don't you use your opponent's weaknesses to win it?"

The son of the owner to Kame Game's rival game shop, the Black Crown, and an expert at Bar Bet games. His dad lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, which disfigured his face horribly. He was raised to take revenge upon Yugi's grandpa by defeating Yugi in a game and taking his Millennium Puzzle, declaring himself the King of Games. Unfortunately for his dad, he eventually becomes good friends with Yugi instead. He's a talented gamer as well as a creator, and is responsible for the creation of Dungeon Dice Monsters (Dragons, Dice & Dungeons in the manga), a Strategy RPG originally created for the sole purpose of avenging his father and stripping Yugi of the title "King of Games" (among other games like Four Aces).

That's how it went in the original manga. In the anime, Otogi was one of Pegasus' business partners and fans. Instead of being raised as a tool of vengeance by his father, he has a real grudge against Yugi over Pegasus' loss causing their business deals to stagnate, but he gets over it after the game hits it big. His personality in the anime is also different from his personality in the original manga. Unlike the manga where DDD was a completely separate game, in the anime he seemed to have based Dungeon Dice Monsters as a spin-off to Duel Monsters, incorporating many Duel Monsters creatures in the game as a tribute.

In the manga, aside from a one-off mention of liking Duel Monsters, he is never seen playing the Duel Monsters card game - we only see him playing "bar bet" games and Dragons, Dice & Dungeons, though he shows knowledge and interest in all games regardless. In the anime however, he is a big fan of Pegasus and is shown to play the game a few times. The first time he duels in the anime, he used a deck of cards randomly drawn from several booster packs. His true deck uses many dice effects, and many of the monsters emulate the ones that were originally from the manga's DDM. His strongest creature in DDD/DDM is God Orgoth in both versions, which in the anime also has a Duel Monsters counterpart.

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• Abusive Parents: In the manga. His dad raised him as a tool of vengeance and was seen whipping him after he found out he lost to Yugi in a game of Four Aces.
• Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The Black Clown's clown theme and Otogi's partial clown are from the manga, where it comes from his father. No such explanation is in the anime; Otogi apparently just likes clowns.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the anime, he's a bit of a narcissist and a braggart, and tends to flip his hair and twirls his bangs. In the manga, he's more serious and quiet, and lacks the crush on Jonouchi's sister that his anime counterpart has later on.
• Alliterative Name: In the dub.
• Aloof Ally: He is this to the group as a whole after his intro arc. Moreso in the manga than in the anime, which made him a proper Ascended Extra who joined up at numerous points in filler arcs.
• Arc Villain: In the anime's adaptation of the Dungeon Dice Monsters mini-arc. His father doesn't exist in the anime, whom he serves as The Dragon for in the manga.
• Arrogant Gamer Guy: Initially appears as this in the manga, but ultimately subverted. Played straight in the anime.
• Ascended Extra: The filler arcs were kind to him in the anime, giving him more screentime and allowing him to duel a couple times, while in the manga he never got any such action after his introductory arc (essentially his gaming skills go to waste due to the return to Duel Monsters as a focus, and he's Put on a Bus during the Millennium World arc until the Ceremonial Battle).
• Badass Boast: Quite often when he challenges Yugi or Dark Yugi (depending on the medium) to Dragons, Dice & Dungeons or Dungeon Dice Monsters (which is basically the same game), though it gets exaggerated in the anime's English dub.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Quite literally, he challenges Yugi to a game of his own creation which Yugi barely had any understanding of at first. But Yugi eventually managed to grasp the rules and turned the tables on him.
• Boring, but Practical: Overlaps with Weak, but Skilled; his strategy while playing Dungeon Dice Monsters is to build up his dungeon as much as possible, which is best achieved by focusing on his lower-level monsters first before rolling for higher-level ones. This enables him to control almost the entire board and nearly strangle Yugi out of making any more rolls.
• The Casanova:
  • In the anime he makes it a point to be accompanied by his fangirl cheerleaders and also pursues Jonouchi's little sister.
  • In the manga, the Bakura fangirls from the Monster World arc swoon over Otogi during his first appearance at school, but he ignores them, and has no interest in Jonouchi's sister.
• Composite Character: In the manga, his father Mr. Clown owns the Black Crown game shop and holds a grudge against the Mutous, eventually deciding to use Otogi as his instrument of revenge. The anime depicts Otogi as the sole owner of Black Crown who blames Yugi for Pegasus' disappearance and duels him of his own accord.
• Defeat Means Friendship:
  • Even after all the crap he puts Jonouchi and Yugi through in the anime^note which included humiliating Jonouchi in front of the whole world, publicly accusing Yugi of cheating against Pegasus without evidence, and attempting to take the King of Duels title away from him in an unfair duel, Yugi and the gang forgives him, and it's helped when Dungeon Dice Monsters gets commissioned.
  • In the manga, he grows to view Yugi as a Worthy Opponent during their battle, and is more than willing to become his friend after he realizes that his father's revenge is going too far and that he doesn't hate the Mutou family as much as his dad does. He even lends a helping hand to Yugi's friends when his father kidnaps Yugi to play the Devil's Board Game.
• Demoted to Comic Relief: Despite starting out as a rather prominent antagonist in the anime, upon making his Heel–Face Turn, Otogi doesn't really do anything beyond provide comic relief, with his more serious traits only appearing when it's handy for the heroes. That being said, compared to the manga...
• Demoted to Extra: In the manga, Otogi was only really prominent in his debut arc, and played only a very small role at the mid-beginning of Battle City to help Honda pick up Shizuka, but is just a bystander afterwards. He doesn't participate in the Shadow RPG either and only appears again in the Ceremonial Battle. Might be justified given that Dark Side of Dimensions shows him and his father running a new business together, and he's established as a freelance game designer in his debut, so he might just be busy with work.
• Depending on the Writer: In the manga, he's a serious character with emotional problems stemming from daddy issues, comparable to Kaiba. In the anime, he's a narcissistic guy who somewhat revels in the attention he gets from girls and after he joins the gang, he forms a comedic duo with Honda for Shizuka's affections. He and Honda even almost get each other killed on Kaiba's blimp, over a girl.
• The Dragon: To his father, Mr. Clown, in the Dragons, Dice & Dungeons arc of the manga. The name Ryuuji literally means "dragon child."
• Drives Like Crazy: During the Doma Arc, as Haga, Ryuzaki, Jonouchi and Honda can attest.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Sports these when Yugi first encounters him in Black Clown's dark game room◊.
• Easily Forgiven: Yugi's gang is all too eager to forgive him and accept him into their group as soon as he decides to stop being a jerk to them, even turning a blind eye to the humiliation he put Jonouchi through. It's a bit downplayed in the manga, wherein he grows to respect Yugi during their game of Dungeon Dice Monsters, and the villain focus is on his father, who suffers from Laser-Guided Karma before attempting any form of atonement.
• Foil: Especially in the manga. Like Yugi, he's the youngest relative of a game shop owner and is an expert at games. Unlike Yugi, he is tall, handsome, but has a horrible relationship with his father and starts off with no friends other than his legion of fangirls, most of which also belonged to Bakura at one point. He is also a successful game designer at a young age, while Yugi only becomes a game designer some time after graduating high school.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic (in the manga).
• The Gambler:
  • In the manga, Otogi specializes in games that rely on percentages, for example, dice and card flips. He challenges Jonouchi and Yugi to Bar Bet games in the manga, games with fixed probability that are meant to trick his opponent in a gamble. He also created the luck-based board game of Dungeon Dice Monsters/Dragons, Dice & Dungeons.
  • In the anime, he uses dice as weapons and runs a gambling deck focused on powering up his God Orgoth, which gets a Duel Monsters equivalent in the anime.
• Graceful Loser: In the manga, after he loses to the regular Yugi in Dragons, Dice & Dungeons, he realizes he doesn't hate nor mind losing to Yugi at all. He was willing to hand the Millennium Puzzle over until his father intervenes.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • In the manga, he ultimately betrays his father's rampage of revenge towards the Mutou family and becomes Yugi's friend instead.
  • In the anime, he decides to stop being a jerk to the main group after losing to Dark Yugi and fully befriends the group after his DDM game gets commissioned by Pegasus's company.
• Improbable Weapon User: In the anime, he regularly tosses dice at people who try to catch them. In the manga, he flicked a dice at Jonouchi's face to provoke Dark Yugi into appearing◊.
• Insane Troll Logic: In the manga version of the DDM arc, Otogi wanted to beat Yugi so his father can get revenge-by-proxy on Sugoroku, and ends up challenging him to a private game of Dragons, Dice & Dungeons. Makes a sad amount of sense. In the anime, however, it makes no sense. Otogi wants to publicly humiliate Yugi and prove he's a cheater who never could have beaten Pegasus fairly. And he decides to do this by... challenging Yugi to a game that Otogi himself invented. A game that's rather obscure and unheard of, and that Yugi has no idea how to play (and Otogi doesn't explain it to him, either). If anything, Otogi's victory would have just proven he was a cheater that couldn't win fairly. Not to mention that he wants his game to get more exposure, but it doesn't seem to occur to him that being an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy about how good he is at it to the King of Games will probably turn off potential customers.
• I Was Just Passing Through: In the manga, this is how he tags along with Honda when picking up Shizuka. His actual motive is to learn more about how Yugi's group gains their inner strength.
• Jerkass: In the anime, he starts off almost as bad as Kaiba was pre-Mind Crush. He gets over it when Yugi wins.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He's no longer as much of a Jerkass at this point, but in the manga, he questions how Shizuka is supposed to get over her fears of remaining blind despite her surgery by relying on others. If she's supposed to gain confidence, she has to be the one to take initiative. Honda rebukes this, but Shizuka admits that Otogi is correct. This is a more nuanced example than at first glance, as the main reason Otogi is tagging along with Honda in the manga is specifically to see if the point of gaining strength from others does have merit. In the end, Both Sides Have a Point. Shizuka was inspired by her brother's actions, giving her the courage to, indeed, remove the bandages herself.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Shown heavily during his arc in the manga. Despite making an ass out of himself when he first tries to humiliate Jonouchi with his fixed games and is seemingly determined to fulfill his father's dream of revenge and ruining Yugi's life, he's not that bad of a guy deep down and really only wants a worthy opponent in games. After slowly getting to like Yugi more and more throughout their game of DDD, when his father smashes the Millennium Puzzle, Otogi looks at him with disgust and helps Yugi pick up the pieces before continuing their battle. His father, needless to say, was astonished by his kindness.
• King of Games: In the manga he was raised for the sole purpose of rivaling the Mutou family at gaming, and he's really good and knowledgeable about them. In-universe, he wants to gain the title "King of Games."
• Last-Name Basis: Except for his dad, everyone calls him "Otogi".
• Love Triangle: With Honda over Shizuka in the anime.
• Oh, Crap!: Repeatedly in his DDM game with Yugi.
• Perpetual Frowner: In the manga, when he's not being a Smug Smiler during his initial games. It gets better when he joins the group, but not by much.
• Put on a Bus: In the manga, his character is suddenly dropped for unknown reasons during the Millennium World arc, only to reappear again to accompany his friends for the Ceremonial Battle.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Very judgmental variations of this trope were used at Yugi throughout their Dungeon Dice Monsters match.
• Revisiting the Roots: The bar bet games he plays with Dark Yugi and Jonouchi at the beginning of the DDD arc in the manga is the first time in a while, and also the last, games to be played on the premises of Domino City High School like the earlier chapters.
• Ship Tease: With Honda and Shizuka. He gets some interaction with the former in the manga after his initial arc (Those Two Guys in the anime), and has a crush on the latter within the anime version.
• Sins of Our Fathers: His father lost a Shadow Game to Yugi's grandpa, and he wanted Otogi to beat Yugi in a game and take his Puzzle.
• Sixth Ranger: After the DDM arc, he joins with the main group somewhat.
• Smug Snake: In the 4Kids version of the anime during his Dungeon Dice Monsters game with Yugi, he's completely confident that Yugi is just a glorified cheater who doesn't stand a chance against him since he made the game and Yugi is an amateur who doesn't have any idea of proper strategy. Yugi's repeated use of Didn't See That Coming against him shakes him, but he brushes such instances off as luck. He mellows out once he loses.
• The Stoic: In the original manga. He puts on a mask of being a flirt in his debut, but his true personality is very calm and collected.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Gender-inverted, Otogi is the very good-looking son of his rather nightmarish-looking dad. However, it's shown that his father's face only became what it is today after losing to Sugoroku, so it could possibly be that his father used to be just as handsome as he is.
• Those Two Guys: With Honda/Tristan. Again, only in the anime, which likely based this off of how Otogi and Honda went together to pick up Shizuka in the manga.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After losing his Dragons, Dice & Dungeons/Dungeon Dice Monsters match against Yugi, he considerably chills out.
• Tsundere: In the manga. It's not like I'm helping you because we're friends now or anything, d-don't get me wrong. I'm just tagging along to see where Yugi's strength comes from...that's all/I just owe you guys a favor, that's all!
• Weak, but Skilled: Ironically, while playing Dungeon Dice Monsters. Otogi's strategy is basically to Zerg Rush Yugi, quickly expanding his territory with low-level monsters to box Yugi in and give him no room to summon his own monsters. Then he summons God Orgoth and pours all his resources into powering it up into a One-Man Army that can steamroll all of Yugi's monsters on its own. Little wonder Yugi was able to repeatedly outsmart him and eventually win.
• You're Nothing Without Your Phlebotinum: In the manga, he initially believes Yugi is nothing without the Millennium Puzzle giving him the expert gaming personality after his connection to Dark Yugi is cut off, and that he didn't deserved to be the King of Games because of it.

Tomoya Hanasaki

Tomoya Hanasaki (花咲 友也; Hanasaki Tomoya)

A friend of Yugi's who appeared in early manga chapters. He has an obsession with an American superhero called Zombire. He once dressed up as the superhero fought thugs that were hired by Hanasaki's dad so that his son could really think he was a hero. When the thugs turned on Hanasaki and his dad, Dark Yugi trapped the thugs in a maze of fire. After that he disappeared aside from a cameo in Death-T.

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• Adapted Out: He doesn't appear in the Toei anime or the Duel Monsters anime.
• The Bus Came Back: He appears in a few video games, including Monster Capsule GB, Dungeon Dice Monsters, and Reshef of Destruction.
• The Cameo: Makes an appearance in Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction, where he dresses up as Zombire to take out one of the Neo Ghouls by himself.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Appears for a few chapters early on in the manga before disappearing completely, with his last appearance at Death-T as he watches over Yugi's hospitalized grandpa.
• Clothes Make the Superman: Averted as Hanasaki thinks this trope is in play when the thugs were just acting.
• Dub Name Change: He's called "Lint Greendale" in the English version of the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game. Reshef also uses this name.
• Shrinking Violet: During his first appearances he's shy and quiet, like Yugi in the early chapters.
• Took a Level in Badass: Adaptational. In his brief appearance in Reshef of Destruction, he manages to take out one of the Neo Ghouls by himself, dressed as Zombire. Although he collapses afterwards and it's up to you to defeat the rest.

Miho Nosaka

Miho Nosaka (野坂ミホ; Nosaka Miho)

Voiced by: Yukana (JP)

A classmate of Yugi's who only shows up in the manga and the Toei anime. She is a one-chapter love interest for Honda in the manga and one of the main characters in the Toei anime. While she's a meek librarian in the manga, the anime has Miho as an outgoing girly girl with frequent crushes on boys who speaks in the third-person frequently.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: In the manga, she is a shy girl who runs the school library. In the anime, she's a ditzy, girly social butterfly.
• Ascended Extra: Only appears as a girl Honda has a crush on in one chapter of the manga, but is a main character in the Toei anime. She doesn't show up at all in the second anime, though her name shows up on a list of disappearing Domino residents in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.
• Berserk Button: Hurting or insulting her friends is usually enough to get Miho quite pissed.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Subverted in Toei's episode 11. She gets absolutely enraged when she learns Warashibe poisoned her friends with tainted water and brings Yugi along with her to challenge Warashibe to a Capsule Monsters game. Unfortunately, Miho has no idea how to play, and Yugi has to step in when she tries to leave after discovering Warashibe rigged the machine to give her weak monsters. Could also possibly be Double Subverted as she noticeably leaves the monster Yugi uses to win off to the side from the others which she groups together, and Yugi comments on continuing her strategy. But it's left vague as to whether she had it planned all along or Yugi was just having faith in her.
  • In episode 19 of the Toei anime, Miho and Anzu find themselves in a popularity contest with an Alpha Bitch named Kaoruko. After Kaoruko insults Miho and Anzu, Miho comments that the contest is pretty much over how tight their skin is. This enrages Kaoruko because she's two years older than them, and the look on Miho's face says she knew exactly how much it would sting.
• Bus Crash / Killed Offscreen: After being absent from the first NAS anime series, it's revealed in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX that she was pulled by Trueman into the World of Darkness.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: In the manga, she appears for one chapter as Honda's would-be love interest and never shows up again.
• Composite Character: In the Death-T arc, she largely takes the place of Johji (Tristan's nephew) and fills many of his roles.
• Damsel in Distress: Gets kidnapped by Haiyama in the first anime series, and later has to be rescued from Warashibe when she's forced into playing Capsule Monster Chess with him.
• Dub Name Change: In the English Dungeon Dice Monsters game, her name is Melody.
• Fangirl: Towards Bakura in the Toei anime, as well as Kaiba and Ryuichi, until their true colors are shown.
• Girly Girl: In the Toei anime she's obsessed with jewelry, fashion, and boys.
• Kawaiiko: In the first anime she loves girly things.
• Mr. Vice Guy: She's gleefully shallow and airheaded and is fine with letting Honda do things for her, but she does care deeply for her friends and gets enraged at the thought of people trying to hurt them.
• Nightmare Fetishist: In the Toei anime she thinks mummies are cute, much to Anzu's confusion.
• Satellite Character: Despite being a main character in the Toei anime, Miho doesn't do much on her own or in manga-adapted arcs.
• Shrinking Violet: Manga-only, where she's a meek and kind librarian.
• Third-Person Person: Occasionally refers to herself in the third person in the first series anime.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Anzu's tomboy in the Toei anime.
• Two Girls to a Team: With Anzu in the first anime.

Tetsu Ushio

Tetsu Ushio (牛尾哲; Ushio Tetsu)

Voiced by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (Toei anime), Yuji Kishi (Duel Monsters), Dan Green (EN)

Ushio was the first villain of the manga and thus the first victim of Dark Yugi's Shadow Games. Ushio was a hall monitor of Domino High School and enforced its many rules, being feared even by its teachers. He offers a paid bully protection service to Yugi after he learns that he is being bullied by Jonouchi and Honda. Although Yugi refuses and denies that he has been bullied, Ushio beats up Jonouchi and Honda anyway and then demands that Yugi pay him a fee of 20,000 yen (about $200). After Yugi solves the Millennium Puzzle and becomes possessed by Dark Yugi for the first time, Dark Yugi called Ushio to meet him at the school during the night. Dark Yugi doubled the amount of money that Ushio had demanded, but insisted that they play a Shadow Game called "Money and Knife" for it. The game involved using Ushio's knife to stab more than one banknote each turn while they are on the player's hand, keeping whichever amount they manage to get and forfeiting the winnings if they stab their hands in the process. After a few turns, Ushio got greedy, and rather than risk not winning all the money in the game, he tried to attack Dark Yugi with the knife. In response to his cheating, Dark Yugi evaded the attack and inflicted the "Greed, Illusion of Avarice" Penalty Game on Ushio, making him believe he is being showered in money, which in actuality were just garbage and leaves.

In the Toei anime adaptation, he instead plays a game that involves reaching the top of a tower with playing cards, and Dark Yugi inflicts a Penalty Game in which Ushio is trapped in an illusion of water monsters eating him. He appears in the second anime as well, but only in a flashback. His ultimate fate is never shown, though the dub has him getting expelled from school.

For information on the 5D's version of the character, see the character sheet for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds.

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• Adaptational Karma: Inverted in the second anime. Unlike the manga and first anime, there's no mention of Dark Yugi inflicting a Penalty Game on him.
• Asshole Victim: Although he poses as a person who stands for "justice" and can't stand bullying, he's actually a greedy jerk who is an even bigger bully. He beats up Jonouchi and Honda (in the first series anime, the latter is beaten up for no reason), extorts money from Yugi, and then tries to kill him for it. No sympathy is given when Dark Yugi gives him a Penalty Game and causes him to make a fool of himself.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: His eyebrows are one of his most defining features.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He poses as a righteous hall monitor committed to protecting his fellow students and Yugi, but all he really wants is to extort them for their money.
• The Bully: He claims to be fighting bullies, but is actually a much worse bully himself.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: He would have been better off if he didn't try to cheat during Dark Yugi's Shadow Game.
• Curbstomp Battle: He doesn't do that well in Dark Yugi's Shadow Game, so he tries to kill Yugi instead. It doesn't end well for him.
• Dirty Cop: Well, more like "dirty hall monitor". Funnily enough, the 5D's version of Ushio is a cop, but is a much better human being.
• Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: He would have gotten away with some money had he not been a greedy bastard.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • When he shows Yugi how he's beaten up Jounuchi and Honda for their bullying, Yugi immediately suspects something's off because their antics definitely didn't warrant such a brutal punishment. Tetsu proves him right an instant later when he demands Yugi pay up for his "services".
  • While his Penalty Game in the manga had him see everything as money and was a fitting Ironic Hell, the one he received in the Toei anime was to be devoured by monsters in an illusion, shattering his mind.
• Dub Name Change: In the English version of the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game, he's renamed to Demitrius the Bully. His 5D's incarnation is called Tetsu Trudge in the 4Kids dub.
• Greed: His "bodyguard service" takes advantage of Yugi's meekness in order to extort money from him, and Ushio's greed is what causes him to lose Dark Yugi's Knife and Money game.
• High Collar of Doom: The trench coat he wears in the manga when he meets Dark Yugi at night has a really high collar.
• Jerkass: One of the first in many of Dark Yugi's jerkass victims.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Even though he's an utter hypocrite, he's not exactly wrong when he says that Jonouchi and Honda were bullying Yugi, and point out how odd it is how Yugi is standing up for his so-called "friends" that were picking on him.
• Karma Houdini: In the second series anime, his Penalty Game is never shown so it's implied he gets off scot-free. The dub fixes this by adding a line where he got expelled.
• Kick the Dog: Not only does he beat up Jonouchi and Honda half-dead for merely teasing Yugi, he then proceeds to beat up Yugi as well.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: At first, he comes off as a guy going too far in pursuit of enforcing the school rules and defending his fellow students from bullying. Once he starts demanding that Yugi pay him for his unwanted services like he's running a protection racket, though, it becomes clear that he's actually a self-serving thug inappropriately taking advantage of his position.
• Recurring Character: Ushio appears or is mentioned in every Yu-Gi-Oh series so far.
• Red Armband of Leadership: As leader of the Morals Group, he sports one of these.
• Starter Villain: Seto Kaiba may have been Dark Yugi's first big villainous opponent and Yugi's greatest rival, but Ushio may have had an even bigger impact. He may have been little more than a thug (at least then), but after Yugi stood up to him after he was bullying Jonouchi and Honda, their opinion towards Yugi changed towards the better, leading to them becoming lifelong companions, and more importantly, Yugi completing the Millennium Puzzle and starting the chain of events that started the whole franchise.
• Villainous Breakdown: He has one during his battle with Dark Yugi, which ultimately causes him to lose the Shadow Game.

Sozoji

Sozoji (騒象寺, Sozoji)

Sozoji was a karaoke player who tried to get people to listen to his horrid singing. He forced Yugi Mutou and Tomoya Hanasaki to sell tickets to his "All Night Solo Live Show". When Yugi discovered that Hanasaki was also asked to sell tickets, out of kindness he offered to take charge of selling all the tickets, so only one of them would have to suffer. When Sozoji discovered the exchange, he beat up Hanasaki and forced Yugi to listen to his music at deafening volumes.

In reaction to this, Dark Yugi emerged and challenged him to a Shadow Game called the Silence Game. The game involved two Sound Pierrot toys from Yugi's grandfather's game shop, which reacted to sound - the first to make their toy react was the loser. Dark Yugi's headphone jack was balancing on a glass of water, and he excitedly anticipated its eventual fall into the water. However, the sound of his heartbeat caused him to lose the Shadow Game, and he was inflicted with a Penalty Game in which was forced to listen to his heartbeat at deafening volumes.

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• Adapted Out: He doesn't appear in the Duel Monsters anime, but he doesn't appear in the Toei anime either.
• Asshole Victim: Might have been more sympathetic had he not beaten up Hanasaki and disturbed public peace.
• Believing Their Own Lies: It's hard to tell if he's deluded himself into thinking he's a good singer or if he knows he's bad and just doesn't care.
• Dreadful Musician: His singing's so bad it causes physical pain.
• Dub Name Change: In the English version of the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game, he's renamed to Fender Shrill.
• Giftedly Bad: He believes he's a singing masterpiece. No one agrees.
• Glass-Shattering Sound: Unlike a lot of the minor villains of the manga, he wasn't a murderer (attempted or actual), but his terrible singing might have killed Yugi anyway.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The sole reason he lost the Silence game was because he took his own microphone that he set on maximum volume to blast out Yugi's eardrums with him and he didn't even notice he was holding it near his chest.
• Jerkass: The third jerkass of the series that Dark Yugi gets rid of.
• Mind Rape: Dark Yugi's "Heart Beat" Penalty Game probably drove him insane eventually if he didn't die from a heart attack.
• No Indoor Voice: His singing is loud, off-key, and has no volume control.
• Punny Name: His name in the English DDM video game, "Fender Shrill", refers to his terrible singing voice.

Kokurano

Kokurano (孤蔵乃; Kokurano)

Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (Toei anime)

Kokurano is the self-proclaimed psychic of Domino High School's Class 1-A. He became famous at school when he predicted a fellow student's house would catch fire, which came true 3 weeks later. In actuality, he had set the student's house on fire. After he tries to assault Anzu, Dark Yugi challenges him to a Shadow Game called Paper Crash where they had to pull papers from under a chloroform bottle without knocking it over.

In the Toei anime, the Shadow Game was changed to a more randomized game of catching chloroform bottles before they hit the floor. Kokurano tried to cheat, but failed anyway, and was knocked out for all the school to see.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: For Anzu.
• Adapted Out: Because Duel Monsters anime adaptation skips over this chapter, he never appears there. Instead, the villain of the anime-only Burger World flashback was a perverted gym teacher with a camera, a Composite Character of Kokurano and Prisoner Number 777.
• Asshole Victim: The bad predictions he makes for his fellow students come true because he sees to it that it comes true, including burning down one of their houses. Next thing he does he tried to have his way with Anzu. (Thsnkfully Dark arrives on time to save her.) Also, he nearly killed Yugi by knocking bookshelves over him.
• Attempted Rape: He tried to have his way with Anzu after drugging her with chloroform. Thankfully, Dark Yugi shows up on time and challenges him to a Shadow Game.
• Believing Their Own Lies: His predictions are phony, but he's so loony that he actually believes he has psychic powers. This proves to be his downfall when he plays Paper Crash with Yugi. In that game, both players had to pull sheets of paper out from under a chloroform bottle, without letting it fall. Kokurano closed his eyes and tried to use his powers to "levitate" the bottle, but wound up knocking off the bottle of chloroform and faints.
• Chuunibyou: Kokurano's "powers" are delusional highs of egotism and grandeur that are said to be born of teenage hormones. He makes his prophecies come true by instigating crimes and spouting pretentious nonsense just so he can have some leeway.
• Dub Name Change: He's renamed to Fortuno in the English Dungeon Dice Monsters video game.
• Faux Affably Evil: Generally polite and well-spoken, but always haughty and vain.
• Girl Posse: Tons of schoolgirls in the manga and Toei anime are his fans, particularly in the anime.
• Jerkass: He's completely obnoxious and full of himself.
• Karma Houdini: He's guilty of attempted murder, arson, and attempted rape. However, is only punishment is to get knocked out and exposed as a fraud, while others got much worse punishments for lesser crimes.
• Phony Psychic: Has plenty of fortunes prepared in his cape to make it seem as if he made a prophecy beforehand, and makes sure the bad prophecies come true himself, such as burning down a person's house after predicting his house would catch on fire. He especially has no problems doing the latter if the person pisses him off. And in Anzu's case, he predicted she'd meet a wonderful man soon, intending to become said man.
• Stalker with a Crush: He tries to win Anzu despite her disinterest, later attempting to have his way with her.
• Younger Than They Look: He has long gray hair in spite of his being a high school student.

Goro Inogashira

Goro Inogashira (猪頭吾郎, Inogashira Gorou)

Goro was part of a class that served Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki for the Domino High School festival and was the Senior Class D festival committee president. When Anzu Mazaki's class won his class's favored spot at the festival in a raffle drawing, he ordered his classmate's to tear down the Anzu's class' booth and seized the spot. However, Dark Yugi won it back by defeating Goro in a Shadow Game called "Griddle Ice Hockey".

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• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Due to his influence and senority, the school staff didn't do a thing about him stealing a festival spot, leading our then Sociopathic Hero Dark Yugi to solve the problem by committing possible murder.
• Adapted Out: He neither appears in the first series anime nor the second series anime.
• Asshole Victim: Didn't give an absolute flinging care to whether if Yugi and the group were in the way, let alone in the booth they were ramming into pieces with. Yugi even got a stay in the school infirmary being trampled near to death trying to stop them. Given that he was a senior too, Dark Yugi gives him a little taste of what it's like to be on the grill and to let him know that he can't push around to get what he wants.
• The Bully: Considering Domino High's penchant for being a hive of bullies at this point and probably only second to Rintama, Goro takes on the role of a bancho gone bad and uses both his seniority and bulk to throw his weight around probably like Ushio.
• Continuity Cameo: His name makes a cameo appearance in GX as one of Trueman's victims.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The receiver of this. While he was a huge jerk and a bully, it was still pretty harsh for Dark Yugi to blow him up and probably kill him.
• Dub Name Change: Named "Kreiger" in the DDM game.
• Expy: He existed way before then, but he resembles the cheerleader dudes in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan.
• Honor-Related Abuse: As indicated of his very Japanese bancho looking appearance and name and as a bully, he essentially demands any underclassmen to yield their position when he demands so, or else.
• Jerkass: What else do you call a person who cruelly robs another class of their stall, destroys all of their hard work, and orders his fellows to trample over another student? A Nice Guy? No, no you would not. Goro is just a brutal jerk.
• Knight of Cerebus: Ushio was Dark Yugi's first opponent, sure, but Goro was the first one that actually briefly broke Dark Yugi's poker face with his strong arm during the game and forced him to think outside the box rather than breeze through.
• Sore Loser: You could have just found another stand, or just deal with what you got like a real man would do there, Goro.
• Student Council President: The festival committee's president for his class.
• Supreme Chef: Apparently his okonomiyaki is that good.
• Uncertain Doom: Having an air-hockey puck full of explosives blow up in your face can't be good for your health, but it's unclear if he survived.

Kujirada

Kujirada (鯨田, Kujirada)

Voiced by: Shōzō Iizuka (Toei anime)

Kujirada was one of Yugi's more snobbish classmates. When Digital Pets became a fad at Domino High School, Kujirada starts causing trouble with his.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In the Toei anime, he first appears as he does in the manga, but it turns out he was being bullied by Haiyama, who is the real antagonist of the Digital Pet story there.
• Demonic Dummy: His Hidden Pet is basically this.
• Dub Name Change: Named "Beluga" in the DDM game.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Kujirada's Digital Pet is one of the stranger aspects of the first dozen chapters, it's not even related to the Shadow Game magic from Ancient Egypt... it's just a demonic modern-day toy.
• Fat Bastard: Both Kujirada and his Digital Pet.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Prides himself over having the "Ultimate Pet"...except it constantly requires food, keeping Kujirada awake at night, and eventually brainwashes him into his slave. In the end, he's somewhat glad it dies at the end, because he can at least catch up on his sleep.
• Karmic Protection: Because he's only a pawn of a bigger villain, he avoids suffering a Penalty Game like many of Yugi's other opponents.
• Mind Control: Experiences this one night where, after being tired of regular pet food, his Digital Pet basically commands him to feed it other pets. He's only freed from the pet's mind control after Yugi's U-2 beats the snot out of it.
• My Little Panzer: The Digital Pets sure seems like a fun thing for children. Kujirada's pet and the other pets seem to have a mind of their own. Possible Digimon reference?
• Serious Business: Digital Pets are a matter of life or death to him.
• Smug Snake: He's so confident his Digital pet is unbeatable he doesn't register Yugi's as a threat at all, until it evolves.
• Troublemaking New Pet: Having an ultra rare Digital Pet isn't as cool as it seems. You might lose sleep over it. In the end, while saddened over losing his pet, he's at least glad he can sleep again.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Comments in the Toei anime state Kujirada used to be nicer in the past, with it being deeply implied Haiyama's "training" is what turned him mean.
• Villainy-Free Villain: Played with. He's not exactly a nice guy, but the manga and the Toei anime make it clear that his nastier actions are the result of being controlled by someone else (his Digital Pet in the manga, Haiyama in the anime). Once he's free of his Digital Pet, he leaves the main cast alone.

Koji "the Spider" Nagumo

Koji "the Spider" Nagumo (名蜘蛛 コージ; Nagumo Kouji)

Voiced by: Shin Tomita (Japanese), Matthew Charles (English)

Nagumo is a gamer with interest in a variety of games, ranging from Monster Fighter to Duel Monsters/Magic & Wizards. However, he has no real respect for games. Nagumo engages in gaming to make money and often focuses on the potential resale value of desirable collectibles, including Monster Fighter figures and rare cards such as Seto Kaiba's Obelisk.

Nagumo, at heart, is merely a bully who relies on his physical strength to win games when he is in danger of losing, rather than accepting defeat gracefully, and uses his hobbies to lure in potential victims to extort with his strength.

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• Adapted Out: He doesn't appear in the Toei anime.
• Aesop Amnesia: He apparently didn't learn a thing from his Monster Fighter Shadow Game with Dark Yugi, and harasses a duelist for his rare cards during Battle City a dozen volumes later. It doesn't end well for him when he runs into Kaiba and his God Card.
• Arachnid Appearance and Attire: He's not called Koji "the Spider" Nagumo for nothing. He even lures in weak gamers to extort, like a spider does its prey.
• Asshole Victim: He's a jerk of the highest caliber, so both of his punishments are well-deserved.
• The Bus Came Back: He's an early villain that suffered a Penalty Game that returns with his sanity intact during the Battle City arc, only to get even more traumatized by Seto Kaiba and his Obelisk.
• The Cameo: He makes appearance as an NPC in Reshef of Destruction. He also appears in the Pyramid of Light movie, and his name appears in GX as one of Trueman's victims.
• The Collector: He collects Monster Fighter figurines and rare Duel Monsters cards for profit.
• Dub Name Change: The English DDM video game changes his name to Stringer.
• Jerkass: He was enough of a dick that Yugi lost his cool and willingly sicced his alter-ego on the guy.
• Mind Rape: Dark Yugi raised the level of his Shadow Game against Nagumo, making the players feel the pain of their monsters. Towards the end of the game, Nagumo's Wild Spider horrifyingly turned into a little Nagumo/spider hybrid, and received a final blow to his face.
• Oh, Crap!: When he reappears in the Battle City arc, he has this reaction when Kaiba sics Obelisk on him. His face is stuck with a horrific expression afterwards, obviously traumatized.
• Sore Loser: He resorts to violence when games don't go his way.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: He does this to the normal Yugi.

Imori

Imori (井守 ; Imori)

Voiced by: Megumi Urawa (Toei anime)

Imori was one of Yugi's classmates at Domino High School. At first seemingly withdrawn and somewhat shy, Imori is then revealed to be an anti-social and selfishly vindictive human being. In the Toei anime he is nicer, being a victim of bullying and the corrupting power of the Dragon Block game.

Imori discovered the secret of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle and decided to usurp Yugi's position as the guardian of darkness by challenging Yugi to a game of Dragon Cards, a Chinese Shadow Game that his grandfather found in Manchuria during World War II. The loser of the game would have their soul stolen by its soul-eating jar and devoured by 25 dragons.

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• Adapted Out: In the second anime he doesn't appear.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the Toei anime, he's a genuinely decent human being who is under the evil influence of the Dragon Blocks.
• Appeal to Force: Imori immediately unties and in turn unseals the game when he confronts Yugi. Doing this demands that a game must be played, or the land which the game was unsealed will forever suffer disaster and misfortune.
• Asshole Victim: In the manga, he's killed. His Toei anime counterpart survives through the good half of his soul.
• The Cameo: His name makes a cameo in GX as one of Trueman's victims.
• Dub Name Change: The English version of the Dungeon Dice Monsters game calls him Damien Draco.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The Dragon Cards are a Chinese Shadow Game that bring disaster to the land without even playing a game, and instead require a game to be played to calm the dragons' wrath, and are never brought up again despite the danger they pose, though Yami Yugi makes a point that they have to be sealed away again, and presumably did so off-screen. Also falls into Outside-Context Problem as a result.
• Outside-Context Problem: While the first seven volumes used a variety of games, the series was primarily rooted in Egyptian Mythology concerning the Myth Arc (even the later Devil's Board Game was said to be from Egypt). The Dragon Cards however, are said to be Chinese in origin as a test for their Feng-Shui masters, and on their own threaten to cause immense destruction; about the only relation they have to the story is that evoking them is still a Shadow Game, and they fade away after their sole appearance.
• Soul Jar: Lose at Dragon Cards and your soul goes into the soul-eating jar, which will devour your soul within three months. Imori's Penalty Game is being trapped in the jar.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the manga, Imori's soul is devoured by the soul-eating jar. In the Toei anime, the good half of his soul lives on while his evil half is eaten.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Dragon Card is never brought up after its sole appearance, and Yami Yugi can only hope no one else finds it and unseals the dragons. Likely downplayed, as considering how Yugi has it in his hands by this point, gaming runs in the family, and Suguroku likely stashed it away somewhere far deep in Kame Game Shop. The Toei anime makes this worse when they hide it in Imori's house.

Nezumi

Nezumi (ネズミ; Nezumi)

Nezumi is a buck-toothed boy who uses a sob story about getting hit by yo-yos in a robbery to lure Yugi Mutou and Katsuya Jonouchi to one of their previous foes, Hirutani, who is out for payback.

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• Adapted Out: Neither anime features him.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Yugi and Jonouchi meet Nezumi at school. Nezumi claims that a gang of bullies attacked him and that he needed help in dealing with them. In fact Nezumi was ordered by Hirutani, to have Jonouchi and Yugi lured to the abandoned warehouse so that Jonouchi could be forced to re-join Hirutani's gang.
• Dirty Coward: He cuts and runs when the ruse is revealed.
• Dub Name Change: The English version of the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game called him "Nibbles."
• Meaningful Name: Both his name and his English video game name references his face looking like a mouse (nezumi means mouse in Japanese and "nibbles" is self-explanatory), and to street slang: he essentially is an untrustworthy double crossing skeeze who betrays to whomever he follows or are ordered to follow.

Bakura's and Otogi's Fangirls

Bakura's and Otogi's Fangirls

Three female fans of Ryo Bakura and/or Ryuji Otogi, depending on the medium. In the manga and Toei anime they are Bakura's fangirls and offer him a tour of the school, to which he declines, and later fawn over Otogi and his dice tricks. In the anime they are exclusively Otogi's fangirls and dress up as cheerleaders, cheering him on in his duels against Jonouchi and Yugi. A similar group of girls appears in Yu Gi Oh The Darkside Of Dimensions, fawning over Bakura once more.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: In the anime, besides cheering Otogi on they boo and harass Jonouchi and Yugi. This is due to some slight Adaptation Expansion where they got a bit more screentime however, as it's not hard to imagine their manga counterparts doing this; they just didn't get the chance since Otogi's first scheme was thwarted before it could get off the ground.
• Cruel Cheerleader: In the anime, they bully and harrass Jonouchi and physically attack him. In the manga, they have no problems with Otogi shooting a die right into Jounouchi's face.
• The Ditz: One fangirl asked Kokurano how to avoid dying, to which he replied as long as she kept living she wouldn't die. The Toei anime made this worse by having her ask how long she'd stay beautiful, oblivious to her appearance.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Their interactions with Jonouchi in the anime, where they repeatedly pummel and demean him, are played as comic relief.
• Early-Bird Cameo: In the manga, one of the fangirls was first seen very early on, fawning over Kokurano's predictions.
• Fangirl: They're huge fans of Bakura and Otogi.
• Gonk: One of them has a rather cringe-worthy design, being obese with puffy lips, dots for eyes, and a bowl cut. She's slightly less gonkish in the second-series anime, but not by much.
• Karma Houdini: In the anime. They get no comeuppance for their mistreatment of Jonouchi.
• No Name Given: None of them are named.
• Small Name, Big Ego: The ugly one thinks she's beautiful.

School Staff

Ms. Chono

Ms. Chono ((蝶野先生; Chouno-sensei)

Voiced by: Masako Katsuki (Toei anime)

A teacher at Domino High who wears so much makeup it's like a mask. She's known for being beautiful and very cruel, expelling students on technicalities and purposely dating men to break up with them.

She ran afoul of Dark Yugi when she tormented Yugi, Jounouchi, and Honda by reading a love letter Honda had written to Miho Nosaka out loud, and threatened to expel whoever had written it. As punishment, her makeup turned into puzzle pieces and cracked off of her face, revealing her true, hideous face. She is one of the few female opponents Dark Yugi faces. In the Toei anime, her role is expanded, with her Penalty Game being altered to turn her into an old hag and causing her makeup to crack whenever she tries to bend the rules.

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• Adapted Out: She doesn't feature in the second anime.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Has blonde hair in the manga, but has red hair in the first anime adaptation and brown hair in the Dungeon Dice Monsters game. The digital coloring of the manga retained her blonde hair.
• Adaptational Villainy: Her manga counterpart is by no means a good person, and the Toei anime managed to make her worse. Manga!Chono was only interested in humiliation, but in the Toei series she's a sadistic control freak willing to go to extreme lengths to break Anzu's spirit just for questioning her authority.
• A God Am I: She refers to herself as the goddess of the classroom at one point.
• Ascended Extra: An odd example in the Toei anime. Her role as an antagonist is expanded to fill out an entire episode whereas her appearance in the manga was limited to only one chapter that took place almost entirely in a classroom. While she disappears altogether in the manga, she remains as a minor character in the anime where she's still teaching at Domino High and still somewhat strict, but she no longer antagonizes Yugi or his friends.
• Dub Name Change: In the DDM video game her name is Miss Lynn Madusa.
• Hope Crusher: Ms. Chono lives to crush the hearts of men, and delights in expelling students on technicalities.
• Hot Teacher: The students note she's beautiful, but she wears too much makeup.
• Hypocrite: The Toei anime makes it clear that, unless she's the one who stands to gain from enforcing them, the rules mean squat to her.
• Identical Stranger: She looks nearly identical to Mai, which is likely why the Toei anime and video games changed her hair color to differentiate them more.
• Lazy Bum: She talks about how school rules need to be very strict, and those who break them should be punished extremely harshly, but she never gives a credible reason why. When she senses the vice principal doesn't immediately agree with her, she flirts with him in order to get him flustered enough to change his mind but still without giving a decent explanation. Her laziness comes from her inability to properly justify her actions, or even make the barest effort to justify them, relying on her looks to get people to agree with her.
• Makeup Is Evil: She wears so much of it it's like a mask. In the Toei anime, after her Penalty Game with Yugi, any time she acts cruel or strict her makeup will loudly and noticeably crack like an eggshell.
• Not Good with Rejection: She'll eagerly go on matchmaking dates for the joy of stringing men along and then breaking their hearts, but God help you if you dump her first. In the manga and Toei anime, when reminded about being dumped on her last date, she vents by trashing one of the school bathrooms.
• Rage Against the Reflection: She breaks a mirror out of rage at being stood up.
• Sadist Teacher: She delights in expelling students on technicalities and tormenting them by revealing their secrets.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: She's all about enforcing strict rules, but she's more than willing to use delinquent students to do her dirty work by offering to expunge their records. Although she does threaten them with expulsion if they misbehave again.
• The Smurfette Principle: In the manga, she's Dark Yugi's only female opponent to receive a Penalty Game.
• Stepford Smiler: No matter how angry or vindictive she is on the inside, on the outside she's all smiles.
• Troll: In the Toei anime, she gives Anzu the idea of collecting signatures to petition the school's strict policies. Chono then discreetly does everything she can to make sure Anzu won't get any help from her classmates, spreading rumors that those who sign get targeted by the rest of the teachers, manipulating the male teachers into believing Anzu's a delinquent and shaming her in their classes, and getting delinquents to harass Anzu in exchange for expunging her records. Chono also takes the time to patronize Anzu's failing efforts, and when Jonouchi gets in trouble for defending Anzu, Chono says "Well, the cause of all this was you, wasn't it?"
• Uncanny Valley Makeup: She slathers on so much makeup it's like a mask.
• The Vamp: In the Toei anime, she flirts with the vice principal in order to sway him into making the rules stricter, and later gets some of the male teachers on her side by feigning innocence, claiming Anzu was acting completely unreasonable.
• We Will Meet Again: After her Penalty Game, Ms. Chono swears revenge. She never gets it.
• Your Makeup Is Running: When she drops her cheery facade it makes her makeup run, and in the Toei anime she has trouble keeping it on after her Penalty Game.

Tsuruoka

Guidance Counselor Tsuruoka

"Worthless, back-talking failures like you three will never have rights! We educators can do anything to you dropouts, and be forgiven later!"

Another one-chapter-only villain in the manga, and the first one after Death-T (meaning also that he's one of the last).

A teacher who humiliates Yugi, Jounouchi, and Honda for their bad grades in front of the rest of their class and confiscates a key chain game from Yugi (said key chain being a gift from Anzu). Just as he's about to crush it, the Other Yugi appears and challenges him to a game. If Yugi and co. can find the keychain somewhere in the school, they can get it back; otherwise, the three will get suspended and the key chain will be smashed.

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• Adapted Out: Neither anime features him.
• Bald of Evil: Revealed after he tried to cheat by hiding the keychain under his wig, which completely backfired on him when the key chain started to ring.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: He hides the key chain on his person and stays in a teachers-only place, knowing that students aren't allowed in there.
• Dub Name Change: The DDM game named him Anton Periwig.
• Sadist Teacher: Not to the extent of Ms. Chono, but after seeing Yugi and co. were playing a completely harmless game of bingo out of the test rankings, he publicly states their abysmal test results, mocks them about it, and confiscates Yugi's key chain to crush it. And then there's the quote above. He's also quite eager to get three students suspended.

Mr. Karita

Mr. Karita (刈田先生; Karita-sensei)
Villager D (村人D; Murabito D)

Mr. Karita is Domino High School's physical education teacher, who is widely hated by the students for his brutal and oppressive ways. He harassed Ryo Bakura on his first day at Domino High School. When Dark Bakura, Ryo's evil alter-ego within the Millennium Ring, emerged to avenge his host, he challenged Karita to a Shadow Game in which Karita lost. After suffering a Penalty Game called "Mind Doll", Karita's soul was trapped in a lead figurine and became Villager D within the Monster World tabletop role-playing game. Afterward he was restored to normal, with no memory of the incident.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: In the Toei anime, rather than threaten to cut Bakura's hair, he teased him about his friends from other schools going into comas and warned Yugi and his friends away from him.
• Asshole Victim: He's a bully of a teacher who gets trapped in a tabletop role-playing game. Though he's saved in the end.
• The Cameo: He appears in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions closing the school gates.
• Dub Name Change: The DDM game named him Mr. Titus.
• Generic Name: As Villager D.
• Jerkass: Even though a villain gives him a Penalty Game, he deserved it for mocking Ryou.
• Jerk Jock: He's a rude, nasty phys-ed teacher.
• Non-Player Character: Of Dark Bakura's Monster World role-playing game
• Sadistic Choice: Was forced by Dark Bakura into a choice between the role of Villager D in his games for all eternity or death. Karita chose the former, but he's eventually saved.
• Welcome to Corneria: Trying to avert his generic dialogue gets him into trouble with Bakura.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Dark Bakura traps his soul in a lead miniature RPG figurine.

Vice-Principal

Vice-Principal

Domino High's Vice-Principal. He asks Ms. Chono about her failed arranged marriages, enraging her. In the Toei anime, Chono flirts with him to make him do her bidding.

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• No Name Given: Unlike the other teachers, he isn't named.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His mentioning Chono's failed arranged marriage drives her to strike out at her class.

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