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Recap / Yu Gi Oh First Anime Series Ep 10 The Beautiful Teachers Secret Mask

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Ms. Chono is the most beautiful and the strictest teacher at Domino High. She refuses to let students carry any personal items on campus and she's constantly trying to get more rules set up. When a friend of Anzu and Miho's brings in a puzzle for Jounouchi, she threatens to humiliate and punish her for such a minor incident.

Tropes associated with this episode:

  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Ms. Chono had blonde hair in the manga but red hair in the anime.
  • Adaptation Expansion: The original story in the manga took place almost exclusively in Chono's classroom. The episode fleshes out the story by showing Chono on her arranged marriage date and exactly how it ended badly. The conflict gets extended from Chono uncovering the puzzle to Anzu challenging the strictness of the school rules, which enrages Chono to emotionally torment the girl over a period of several days. The final conflict between Chono and Yami Yugi even has them directly playing against one another and ends with her face being newly transformed into a hideous one, instead of revealing her already ugly appearance.
  • Adaptational Villainy: Manga!Chono was nowhere near as awful as her counterpart here. Anime!Chono goes beyond simply dumping men on dates and enforcing strict rules because she's a Control Freak and an emotional sadist willing to put Anzu through an extreme game of manipulation and humiliation, just because Anzu questioned her authority and wanted the rules to be more lenient.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's technically not clear if Chono's punishment really did make her face as ugly as her personality, or if she only thinks she's now ugly. The only time her face is shown wrinkled and scowling is when she's in the presence of Yami Yugi. While her make-up's shown cracking whenever she acts rude or nasty, we're never shown what's underneath the cracks, implying this might be a psychological punishment.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Chono. She may act polite and sweet towards the other teachers (and it helps that she has a pretty face to match her facade). In reality, when it comes to students, she's strict with them at best. At worst, she expels them for petty reasons.
  • Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Chono's punishment leaves her unable to act nasty; the slightest expression of her being mean or angry causes her make-up to crack, which may potentially expose how ugly she really is.
  • Cheaters Never Prosper: Chono is punished because she removed her blindfold during the game.
  • Child Hater: Chono. Her tendency for this is what causes her to snap at a child who bumps into her.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Despite Ms. Chono's best efforts to keep Anzu from making the school rules more lenient, the other teachers finally catch wind of the girl's good intentions, hinting that Anzu will make a difference in her school after all.
    • Better still, the school is in for some peaceful times, now that Ms. Chono's shadow game "penalty" makes her unable to act mean or angry towards them.
  • Evil Redhead: Chono.
  • Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Ms. Chono may look look beautiful on the outside, but she is twisted and manipulative on the inside.
  • Facial Horror: The moment Chono finishes her mirror puzzle, Yami Yugi delivers her penalty by calling her out on being a liar and a hypocrite. As soon it starts, Chono's face slowly turns into a jigsaw puzzle before it completely falls apart to reveal her true ugliness.
  • Gaslighting: Being the wicked witch of expulsion she is, Ms. Chono pulls no punches manipulating poor Anzu into thinking she was causing more trouble than she really was. First, she personally sends some bullies to sabotage Anzu's efforts, who go the extra mile to voice they don't want the rules changed. Then, during a heart-to-heart, she frames it as though this was all Anzu's fault because the students apparently don't want the rules changed. And to top it off, she puts the fear of God into the poor girl by implying she could be expelled.
  • I Am Spartacus: Anzu and the other girls do this to protect Mayumi from public humiliation by Ms. Chono.
  • Karma Houdini: Played with. On one hand, the students who harassed Anzu and tore her petition flyers aren't even punished by Ms. Chono. In fact, she congratulates them for helping her sabotage Anzu's efforts to make the rules lenient and has all previous rule-breaking incidents erased from their records. Compared to Anzu and the group who were threatened with suspension, a slap on the wrist doesn't even begin to describe how unfair the situation is. However, Ms. Chono only lets them go on the threat that she'd expel them the next time they got into actual trouble. And it's clear she used her wiles to manipulate them to do her bidding. As unfair as the situation is, it does establish that these students are just as much pawns in her game as Anzu.
  • Kick the Dog: The purpose of Ms. Chono confiscating and solving the "love puzzle" in front of the class. Not only will the mystery sender be ousted and expelled, but no doubt it will publicly humiliate them in front of their crush as well.
  • Light Is Not Good: Ms. Chono has got bright red hair and wears a bright green suit and skirt, but there's nothing good about her.
  • Love Confession: What Mayumi was trying to do with the jigsaw puzzle. According to Yugi's grandfather, that's how he and his wife got together.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Ms. Chono. She sets Anzu up to gather up signatures to change the rules and then she tricks other teachers and students into sabotaging her efforts. Seeing her congratulate the boys who destroyed the signature sheets is what summons Yami Yugi.
  • The Mirror Shows Your True Self: When Yami Yugi looks at the completed mirror puzzle, he sees Yugi looking back at him.
  • Moving the Goalposts: Ms. Chono promises that if Anzu can get enough petition signatures to get the rules changed, then it shall be done. However, that doesn't mean she won't convince the other teachers that Anzu is a trouble-maker, or coerce other students to work against her, in order to make the task more difficult than it should be.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Ms. Chono hadn't snapped at that little boy during her date, it wouldn't have alerted the guy she was dating that she wouldn't make a good wife. Better still, she saved him the trouble of being rejected by her, by giving him reason to reject her for her shrewish behavior.
  • Not Good with Rejection: Ms. Chono was upset because she was rejected during a marriage interview. She apparently goes to marriage interviews so that she could reject every man she talks to.
  • True Beauty Is on the Inside: Or in Ms. Chono's case, True Ugliness is on the Inside. When Dark Yugi's shadow game punishes her for cheating by making her make-up fall away, it reveals a wrinkled, oily-skinned, perpetually frowning face, to match her angry, ugly personality. Although she's able to reapply her make-up, it can no longer hide her shrewish personality.
  • Uncanny Valley Makeup: Ms. Chono wears such a thick layer of makeup that it's become a mask. After the Shadow Game, she has difficulty keeping it on.
  • What Does She See in Him?: Anzu is shocked to hear that Mayumi has a crush on Jounouchi.

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