Post by ~Tinkerbinker~ on Apr 22, 2008 21:39:31 GMT -5
Here are the availible characters and a quick description of each of them.
~Note, the ones that are colored the same are ones that go together.~
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Yugi Mutou / Yugi Muto - The protagonist of the show who always has his nose in some game ("Yûgi" means "game" in Japanese), Yugi is especially adept at playing Duel Monsters, a.k.a. Magic and Wizards. He wears the Millennium Puzzle, one of the seven Millennium Items and an ancient Egyptian artifact holding the spirit of the pharaoh around his neck. When Yugi is playing a game or under stress, the spirit inside the Millennium Puzzle surfaces and the 3,000-year-old nameless pharaoh (5,000 in the English anime) takes partial or complete control of the body.
Dark Yugi or Yu-Gi-Oh / Yami Yugi - The pharaoh Atem who sacrificed himself, thus saving the world from destruction. His soul is trapped in Yugi's Millennium Puzzle. After eight long years of effort, Yugi puts together the puzzle pieces and releases Atem, who then possesses Yugi's body. Atem calls himself "Dark" ("Yami") because he lost the memory of his previous life. His favourite card is the Dark Magician but he also holds the three Egyptian God Cards. Note: Atem is a variant of Atum.
Anzu Mazaki / Téa Gardner - Anzu is Yugi's childhood friend. Although her dueling ability is decent and she regularly defeats Jonouchi, Anzu is not a game-player and her ability is well below that of Yugi. She is sweet and supportive to everyone. In the Duel Monsters anime, she and Honda are basically cheerleaders for Yugi and Jonouchi. In the manga, especially in the beginning, Anzu is somewhat of a "tomboy". She is athletic and secretly works at a fast food restaurant to save money; her dream is to attend dancing school overseas in New York City, New York, United States.
Katsuya Jonouchi / Joseph "Joey" Wheeler - Jonouchi is Yugi's best friend. Initially nothing more than a street thug and bully, Jonouchi is touched by Yugi's behavior towards him and they become loyal friends. He likes playing games but usually loses to Yugi. Jonouchi is rash and gets himself into trouble quite often.
Hiroto Honda / Tristan Taylor - Honda is Jonouchi's friend, and another thug who changes his mind about Yugi. He does not play much Duel Monsters (he dueled in one episode in the Virtual World story arc against Big 4, Soichiro Ota) and rarely plays any other games with Yugi. In the first anime series, Honda is obsessed about being a janitor at his school, and in love with Miho Nosaka.
[i]Ryo Bakura [/i]- Bakura is a transfer student who becomes friends with Yugi, though he is the holder of the Millennium Ring. Bakura also has a dark half who intends to collect all of the Millennium items. (see below)
Dark Bakura / Yami Bakura - A 3,000-year-old psychotic spirit that lives within the Millennium Ring and possesses Ryo Bakura with its power. He wants to gather the seven Millennium Items to take control of their dark power. He also has a bitter grudge against Dark Yugi. [/color]
Seto Kaiba - Kaiba originally appears as a villain, but later on becomes an ally. He believes that he is the best gamer in the world, and that Yugi is a threat. Despite his age, he is the president of Kaiba Corporation, the biggest game company in the world and the most influential in Japan. He is unafraid to flaunt his wealth.
Mokuba Kaiba - Seto Kaiba's younger brother. In the manga, he is at first a spoiled brat who tries repeatedly to get back at Yugi for defeating Seto Kaiba. After Kaiba realizes how important Mokuba is to him (as a result of Yugi's actions), their relationship is strengthened and Mokuba becomes a friendlier character. Mokuba is a good game player who specializes in Capsule Monster Chess.
Sugoroku Mutou / Solomon Muto - Sugoroku is Yugi's grandfather. He owns the Kame (Turtle) Game Shop. "Sugoroku" is a Japanese game similar to Backgammon. He is the reincarnation of Siamun Muran, Pharaoh Atem's right hand man.
Shizuka Kawai or Shizuka Jonouchi / Serenity Wheeler - Shizuka is Katsuya Jonouchi's little sister. In the manga and the Duel Monsters anime, Katsuya enters a Duel Monsters tournament hoping to win and use the prize money for Shizuka's eye surgery. Shizuka sees Mai Kujaku as a role model.
Ryuji Otogi / Duke Devlin - Otogi is the creator of Dungeon Dice Monsters. He opens a rival game shop across the street from the Kame Game Shop. Yugi and Otogi become friends when Yugi bested Otogi at his own game, despite not knowing the rules beforehand.
Pegasus J. Crawford / Maximillion Pegasus - Pegasus is the American creator of the Magic and Wizards game and an early antagonist. He possesses the Millennium Eye, and tries to take over the Kaiba Corporation so that he could use its Solid Vision technology to see his departed lover, Cyndia
Marik Ishtar - The holder of the Millennium Rod. Marik's family has guarded the tomb of the pharaoh for generations. He attempts to obtain the three God Cards through his secret organization, GHOULS, and become Pharaoh himself. Marik seeks to send the Pharaoh's soul into the darkness in which he had to spend his childhood. Another romanization of his name is Malik Ishtar.
Dark Marik / Yami Marik - Marik's alternate personality and a psychopath who loves killing his opponents, he was created by his host's hatred of the tombkeeper's life,Dark Marik first appears after Marik is forced to undergo the painful initiation ritual passed down through his family. The dark half fed on his misery until one day, when Marik was about to punished for going above ground, he took over both Marik's body and the Millennium Rod and brutally stabbed Marik's father to death.
Ishizu Ishtar - Marik's sister, she lures Yugi and Kaiba into Duel Monster battles, using the Pharaoh's memories and the God Cards as bait. In an attempt to save Marik, she enters the semi-finals of the Battle City, diguising herself as the mysterious eighth duelist. Her Millennium Tauk enables her to foresee the future, granting her an advantage over her enemies.
Mai Kujaku / Mai Valentine - Mai is a confident woman who relies on her own strength in battle. She once worked on a casino ship as a duelist. After meeting Yugi and his friends, she begins to realize the rewards of supporting and being supported by others.
Shadi - Shadi is the guardian of the tomb, the original resting place of the seven Millennium Items. He is the reincarnation of one of the Pharaoh's six priests 3,000 years ago. Because he was killed by Bakura at least five years ago, he is actually a ghost whenever he appears in the anime series. Shadi also guards the Millennium Scales and the Millennium Key.
Bandit Keith - Is the former U.S. Duel Monsters Champion. During the final round of the Inter-continental Championship tournament in New York City, Keith was up against Maximillion Pegasus, who uses his Millennium Eye to read Keith's mind and predict his moves. Afterwards he wrote something down on a piece of paper and calls over a kid from the audience. He tells the kid to duel against Keith using the instructions on his note. Using it, the kid defeats Keith in one turn. Keith, shocked and humiliated at being defeated by a child, fell into depression. He sneaks into Duelist Kingdom to defeat Pegasus and reclaim his glory.
Johnny Steps - known as Step Johnny in the manga and Japanes anime, challenged Téa to a game of Dance, Dance Revolution. After cheating in an attempt to beat Téa, he attempts to get her on a date.
Bonz, Sid, and Zygor - (known as '"Ghost" Kotsuzuka, Satake, and Takaido, in the Japanese version) are Bandit Keith's former henchman.
"Esper" Roba - known in the English anime as Espa Roba, is a duelist who claims to have ESP. In reality he is a fraud who uses his younger brothers to spy on and relay back to him the cards in his opponent's hand, thus allowing him to 'predict' the opponent's strategies almost before they perform them.
Insector Haga - known as Weevil Underwood develops into a rival and becomes jealous of Yugi Mutou. He displays an adoration for insects and such has his deck based on insect-type monsters.
Rex Raptor - known as Dinosaur Ryuzaki, in the manga and Japanese anime, is a dinosaur duelist. Despite his introduction as a powerful duelist who becomes a source of humiliation along with his companion Weevil Underwood after suffering defeat to Joey Wheeler and Yugi Muto. Rex develops into a rival of Joey. Rex is vengeful, arrogant, and tyrannical. Yet, he is confident and plays fairly.
Zigfried von Schroeder - known in Japan as Siegfried von Schroider , Jīkufurīdo fon Shureidā is the main antagonist of the KC Grand Championship story arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters in Japan). He does not exist in the manga. In both incarnations, his name is derived from the name of Siegfried, a character in the opera, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of Nibelung). In the English version, Zigfried is voiced by Pete Zarustica, while Eisuke Tsuda takes the role in the Japanese version. Not to mention funny.
Mako Tsunami/Ryota Kajiki - fisherman who wants to become the greatest fisherman ever in honor of his father, who died on a shipwreck. (In the English anime, Mako is searching for his long-lost father, who survived the shipwreck, indicated by a missing lifeboat.) He uses mostly water-based cards in his Duel Monsters deck. Kajiki was the third place winner of the Japanese national Duel Monsters tournament.
Mei and Kyū - The Meikyū Brothers (Paradox Brothers in the English anime) are antagonists in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. They are named Mei and Kyū in the Japanese version, and the kanji of their names form the word for labyrinth. Their English names are Para and Dox, and join to form paradox.
The Big Five - initially known at the "Board of Directors for Kaiba Corporation" are a group of five businessmen that used to work for Gozaburo Kaiba, producing weapons of mass destruction for KaibaCorp, and then later for Seto Kaiba making video game-related software.
Rishid Ishtar - (Odion Ishtar in the English anime) is a fictional character in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh! and the second Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series.
Ryuji Otogi - known in the English anime as Duke Devlin, invented the Dungeon Dice Monsters game. Otogi also owns a game shop called "Black Crown" that rivals the Kame Game Shop. (In the manga, the game shop is owned by Otogi's father, "Mr. Crown".)
Anubis - the main antagonist in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light.
In the English version of the movie, Pharaoh Atem had defeated Anubis a long time ago, only for him to eventually resurface as a after effect of Yugi Muto solving the Millennium Puzzle. To that end, Anubis posseses the King of Light (Kaiba) to defeat the King of Darkness (Dark Yugi) and become ruler of the world.
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~Note, the ones that are colored the same are ones that go together.~
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Yugi Mutou / Yugi Muto - The protagonist of the show who always has his nose in some game ("Yûgi" means "game" in Japanese), Yugi is especially adept at playing Duel Monsters, a.k.a. Magic and Wizards. He wears the Millennium Puzzle, one of the seven Millennium Items and an ancient Egyptian artifact holding the spirit of the pharaoh around his neck. When Yugi is playing a game or under stress, the spirit inside the Millennium Puzzle surfaces and the 3,000-year-old nameless pharaoh (5,000 in the English anime) takes partial or complete control of the body.
Dark Yugi or Yu-Gi-Oh / Yami Yugi - The pharaoh Atem who sacrificed himself, thus saving the world from destruction. His soul is trapped in Yugi's Millennium Puzzle. After eight long years of effort, Yugi puts together the puzzle pieces and releases Atem, who then possesses Yugi's body. Atem calls himself "Dark" ("Yami") because he lost the memory of his previous life. His favourite card is the Dark Magician but he also holds the three Egyptian God Cards. Note: Atem is a variant of Atum.
Anzu Mazaki / Téa Gardner - Anzu is Yugi's childhood friend. Although her dueling ability is decent and she regularly defeats Jonouchi, Anzu is not a game-player and her ability is well below that of Yugi. She is sweet and supportive to everyone. In the Duel Monsters anime, she and Honda are basically cheerleaders for Yugi and Jonouchi. In the manga, especially in the beginning, Anzu is somewhat of a "tomboy". She is athletic and secretly works at a fast food restaurant to save money; her dream is to attend dancing school overseas in New York City, New York, United States.
Katsuya Jonouchi / Joseph "Joey" Wheeler - Jonouchi is Yugi's best friend. Initially nothing more than a street thug and bully, Jonouchi is touched by Yugi's behavior towards him and they become loyal friends. He likes playing games but usually loses to Yugi. Jonouchi is rash and gets himself into trouble quite often.
Hiroto Honda / Tristan Taylor - Honda is Jonouchi's friend, and another thug who changes his mind about Yugi. He does not play much Duel Monsters (he dueled in one episode in the Virtual World story arc against Big 4, Soichiro Ota) and rarely plays any other games with Yugi. In the first anime series, Honda is obsessed about being a janitor at his school, and in love with Miho Nosaka.
[i]Ryo Bakura [/i]- Bakura is a transfer student who becomes friends with Yugi, though he is the holder of the Millennium Ring. Bakura also has a dark half who intends to collect all of the Millennium items. (see below)
Dark Bakura / Yami Bakura - A 3,000-year-old psychotic spirit that lives within the Millennium Ring and possesses Ryo Bakura with its power. He wants to gather the seven Millennium Items to take control of their dark power. He also has a bitter grudge against Dark Yugi. [/color]
Seto Kaiba - Kaiba originally appears as a villain, but later on becomes an ally. He believes that he is the best gamer in the world, and that Yugi is a threat. Despite his age, he is the president of Kaiba Corporation, the biggest game company in the world and the most influential in Japan. He is unafraid to flaunt his wealth.
Mokuba Kaiba - Seto Kaiba's younger brother. In the manga, he is at first a spoiled brat who tries repeatedly to get back at Yugi for defeating Seto Kaiba. After Kaiba realizes how important Mokuba is to him (as a result of Yugi's actions), their relationship is strengthened and Mokuba becomes a friendlier character. Mokuba is a good game player who specializes in Capsule Monster Chess.
Sugoroku Mutou / Solomon Muto - Sugoroku is Yugi's grandfather. He owns the Kame (Turtle) Game Shop. "Sugoroku" is a Japanese game similar to Backgammon. He is the reincarnation of Siamun Muran, Pharaoh Atem's right hand man.
Shizuka Kawai or Shizuka Jonouchi / Serenity Wheeler - Shizuka is Katsuya Jonouchi's little sister. In the manga and the Duel Monsters anime, Katsuya enters a Duel Monsters tournament hoping to win and use the prize money for Shizuka's eye surgery. Shizuka sees Mai Kujaku as a role model.
Ryuji Otogi / Duke Devlin - Otogi is the creator of Dungeon Dice Monsters. He opens a rival game shop across the street from the Kame Game Shop. Yugi and Otogi become friends when Yugi bested Otogi at his own game, despite not knowing the rules beforehand.
Pegasus J. Crawford / Maximillion Pegasus - Pegasus is the American creator of the Magic and Wizards game and an early antagonist. He possesses the Millennium Eye, and tries to take over the Kaiba Corporation so that he could use its Solid Vision technology to see his departed lover, Cyndia
Marik Ishtar - The holder of the Millennium Rod. Marik's family has guarded the tomb of the pharaoh for generations. He attempts to obtain the three God Cards through his secret organization, GHOULS, and become Pharaoh himself. Marik seeks to send the Pharaoh's soul into the darkness in which he had to spend his childhood. Another romanization of his name is Malik Ishtar.
Dark Marik / Yami Marik - Marik's alternate personality and a psychopath who loves killing his opponents, he was created by his host's hatred of the tombkeeper's life,Dark Marik first appears after Marik is forced to undergo the painful initiation ritual passed down through his family. The dark half fed on his misery until one day, when Marik was about to punished for going above ground, he took over both Marik's body and the Millennium Rod and brutally stabbed Marik's father to death.
Ishizu Ishtar - Marik's sister, she lures Yugi and Kaiba into Duel Monster battles, using the Pharaoh's memories and the God Cards as bait. In an attempt to save Marik, she enters the semi-finals of the Battle City, diguising herself as the mysterious eighth duelist. Her Millennium Tauk enables her to foresee the future, granting her an advantage over her enemies.
Mai Kujaku / Mai Valentine - Mai is a confident woman who relies on her own strength in battle. She once worked on a casino ship as a duelist. After meeting Yugi and his friends, she begins to realize the rewards of supporting and being supported by others.
Shadi - Shadi is the guardian of the tomb, the original resting place of the seven Millennium Items. He is the reincarnation of one of the Pharaoh's six priests 3,000 years ago. Because he was killed by Bakura at least five years ago, he is actually a ghost whenever he appears in the anime series. Shadi also guards the Millennium Scales and the Millennium Key.
Bandit Keith - Is the former U.S. Duel Monsters Champion. During the final round of the Inter-continental Championship tournament in New York City, Keith was up against Maximillion Pegasus, who uses his Millennium Eye to read Keith's mind and predict his moves. Afterwards he wrote something down on a piece of paper and calls over a kid from the audience. He tells the kid to duel against Keith using the instructions on his note. Using it, the kid defeats Keith in one turn. Keith, shocked and humiliated at being defeated by a child, fell into depression. He sneaks into Duelist Kingdom to defeat Pegasus and reclaim his glory.
Johnny Steps - known as Step Johnny in the manga and Japanes anime, challenged Téa to a game of Dance, Dance Revolution. After cheating in an attempt to beat Téa, he attempts to get her on a date.
Bonz, Sid, and Zygor - (known as '"Ghost" Kotsuzuka, Satake, and Takaido, in the Japanese version) are Bandit Keith's former henchman.
"Esper" Roba - known in the English anime as Espa Roba, is a duelist who claims to have ESP. In reality he is a fraud who uses his younger brothers to spy on and relay back to him the cards in his opponent's hand, thus allowing him to 'predict' the opponent's strategies almost before they perform them.
Insector Haga - known as Weevil Underwood develops into a rival and becomes jealous of Yugi Mutou. He displays an adoration for insects and such has his deck based on insect-type monsters.
Rex Raptor - known as Dinosaur Ryuzaki, in the manga and Japanese anime, is a dinosaur duelist. Despite his introduction as a powerful duelist who becomes a source of humiliation along with his companion Weevil Underwood after suffering defeat to Joey Wheeler and Yugi Muto. Rex develops into a rival of Joey. Rex is vengeful, arrogant, and tyrannical. Yet, he is confident and plays fairly.
Zigfried von Schroeder - known in Japan as Siegfried von Schroider , Jīkufurīdo fon Shureidā is the main antagonist of the KC Grand Championship story arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters in Japan). He does not exist in the manga. In both incarnations, his name is derived from the name of Siegfried, a character in the opera, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of Nibelung). In the English version, Zigfried is voiced by Pete Zarustica, while Eisuke Tsuda takes the role in the Japanese version. Not to mention funny.
Mako Tsunami/Ryota Kajiki - fisherman who wants to become the greatest fisherman ever in honor of his father, who died on a shipwreck. (In the English anime, Mako is searching for his long-lost father, who survived the shipwreck, indicated by a missing lifeboat.) He uses mostly water-based cards in his Duel Monsters deck. Kajiki was the third place winner of the Japanese national Duel Monsters tournament.
Mei and Kyū - The Meikyū Brothers (Paradox Brothers in the English anime) are antagonists in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. They are named Mei and Kyū in the Japanese version, and the kanji of their names form the word for labyrinth. Their English names are Para and Dox, and join to form paradox.
The Big Five - initially known at the "Board of Directors for Kaiba Corporation" are a group of five businessmen that used to work for Gozaburo Kaiba, producing weapons of mass destruction for KaibaCorp, and then later for Seto Kaiba making video game-related software.
Rishid Ishtar - (Odion Ishtar in the English anime) is a fictional character in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh! and the second Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series.
Ryuji Otogi - known in the English anime as Duke Devlin, invented the Dungeon Dice Monsters game. Otogi also owns a game shop called "Black Crown" that rivals the Kame Game Shop. (In the manga, the game shop is owned by Otogi's father, "Mr. Crown".)
Anubis - the main antagonist in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light.
In the English version of the movie, Pharaoh Atem had defeated Anubis a long time ago, only for him to eventually resurface as a after effect of Yugi Muto solving the Millennium Puzzle. To that end, Anubis posseses the King of Light (Kaiba) to defeat the King of Darkness (Dark Yugi) and become ruler of the world.
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