List of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga characters

Here is a listing of characters (other than those listed in Yu-Gi-Oh! main characters) that appears both in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and Yu-Gi-Oh! first series anime / Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters; known outside of Japan as simply Yu-Gi-Oh!).

All Japanese names are in Western order (surname after the given name). If the character has a different name in the English anime or English version of the Game Boy Advance Dungeon Dice Monsters video game, that name is also listed.

For more characters, see Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, manga or movie only characters

Manga, first and second series anime characters

This section uses the names from the English manga.

Gozaburo Kaiba

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Gozaburo Kaiba (海馬 剛三郎 Kaiba Gōzaburō) was the stepfather of Seto Kaiba. He was also the owner of KaibaCorp, until 51% of the company was invested toward Seto Kaiba. In the manga, after Seto took over the company, Gozaburo committed suicide by jumping out of the board room window on approximately the 70th floor, while in the 1st series anime, he is electrocuted by Seto; and in the English version of the 2nd anime, he gave up on life and eventually withered away and died, though it's later revealed that he had his mind and memories implanted into a computer before his body died.

In the 2nd series anime, he has a biological son, Noah.

Ushio

DDM video game name: Demetrius
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Ushio (牛尾) is a hall monitor at Domino High School who offers a paid bully protection service to Yugi after he was bullied by Jonouchi and Honda - Jonouchi had thrown one piece one piece of the Millennium Puzzle out the window so that Yugi could not solve it. Yugi says that he is not being bullied. Later, Ushio reveals a beaten Jonouchi and Honda, upsetting Yugi. After Yugi refuses his service, Ushio beats him up and asks him to pay the bully protection fee. Jonouchi fishes out the piece from where he threw it and gives it to Yugi. Dark Yugi appears and challenges Ushio to a shadow game. The game involves money and a knife in the manga, and in the anime, it involves scaling the building and trying to draw the playing card with the higher number. Ushio loses after he tries to cheat, and Yugi places a penalty game on him. In the manga, Ushio goes crazy and thinks that a pile of leaves and trash is money. In the anime, Ushio imagines there are monsters coming out of a body of water about to eat him, and he is seen trembling and crying in front of the school, which results in him being taken to the hospital. He is mentioned but not named in flashbacks in the English Duel Monsters series.

Manga and first series anime characters

This section uses the names from the English manga.

Arcade game player

1st series name: Dragon

DDM video game name: Feng Long
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga

The arcade game player plays a fighting arcade game with Yugi, and both of them choose the same character, Bruce Ryu (a take-off on Bruce Lee). After Yugi defeats him several times, the arcade player beat up Yugi in retaliation and took his puzzle. Jonouchi challenged him to a fight. In the manga,the arcade player said that they both would place knives in their mouths. The arcade player was cheating as his knife is a false knife that "retracts" when pushed in. In addition, he had the advantage by fighting in a narrow alley. Jonouchi manages to squirt soda in his face as the player lunged for the kill, and Jonouchi promptly beats him up. Jonouchi returns the puzzle to Yugi. In the anime, they were fighting over a pipe, and "Dragon" had nunchucks. Yet Jonouchi managed to defeat him anyways.

Ms. Chono

DDM video game name: Miss Medusa
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Ms. Chono (蝶野 Chōno) is a teacher at Domino High School who is known as the "Wicked Witch of Expel" ("Lynn, the Expelling Witch" in the English DDM game), since she expelled fifteen students in the last six months. In the manga, After a desk check, Chono asks who a love note in the form of a jigsaw puzzle to Miho Nosaka belonged to. Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto), Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler), and Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor) stood up, indicated that the puzzle came from each of them. Chono decided to finish the puzzle to determine who the gift is from. Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) turned the gift into a shadow game. The more she works the puzzle, the more her face starts to turn into pieces. When she finished the puzzle, the pieces from her face appear - her beautiful face shatters, revealing her true ugly face. The other students laugh at her. The gift was from Honda - When it was given to Miho, she rejected him. In the anime, the gift was supposed to be from a girl named Mayumi to Jonouchi but Anzu Mazaki (Téa Gardner) actually made it as Mayumi didn't know what to give Jonouchi. When Anzu complains about the strictness of the school, Chono asks Anzu to collect signatures from other students in a petition asking for laxer rules. Chono then orders some boys to rip up Anzu's signature paper. Dark Yugi challenges Chono to a game involving two mirrors and being blindfolded. Again, her face cracks when she loses to reveal her ugly face. She later appears in episode 12 with Ryuuichi Fuha and again gets her face cracked.

Her English DDM name originates from the Medusa monster.

Hirutani

DDM video game name: Diesel Kane
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Hirutani (蛭谷) is a leader of a gang of teenage thugs from Rintama High School that wield super-powered yo-yos. Hirutani tries to force Jonouchi into his gang by any means necessary. In the manga, Hirutani uses Nezumi to lure Yugi and Jonouchi to his hideout. He then has his thugs try to get Jonouchi to join by slowly strangling Yugi by placing a hook upwards to strangle him with his puzzle. Jonouchi is battered with yo-yos while running to save Yugi. After freeing him, Jonouchi takes out Hirutani's thugs by catching their yoyos on Yugi's puzzle and hanging the cords on the same hook, causing the thugs to be pulled by their fingers. Jonouchi and Hirutani engage in a fistfight while Yugi tricks the rest of the gangsters into falling through a roof by punching holes in the roof. Jonouchi punches Hirutani in the face, but Hirutani then throws glass in Jonouchi's eyes. Jonouchi detects Hirutani trying to place a shard of glass in the back of his neck and punches him off the roof. Hirutani grabs onto a ledge; Jonouchi uses his yoyo to hit Hirutani's fingers, causing the gangster to fall to the ground. The original Japanese anime uses the plot structure of a previous chapter combined with the yo-yo games of the second set of chapters where Hirutani is found for the sole Hirutani episode.

Imori

DDM video game name: Damien Draco
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Imori (井守) is a student at Domino High School, who decides to try to overthrow Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) from his position of the guardian of darkness by challenging Yugi to a game of Dragon Cards. His grandfather found the Dragon Cards while in Manchuria in World War II. Imori wins the first game against regular Yugi, causing his soul to go into the soul-eating jar. Regular Yugi's last minute grab for the puzzle causes Dark Yugi to come out. The second Dragon Cards duel ends with Imori losing. In the manga, Imori's soul gets sucked into the soul-eating jar, to be eaten by twenty-five dragons. Regular Yugi's soul comes out and is re-absorbed into his body unharmed. In the first series anime, Imori played Dragon Cards at his house instead of at school, and only the dark part of Imori's soul was eaten.

Johnny Gayle, Bob McGuire, "name unknown"

DDM video game name: Charlie Gale, Bickford Gage, "Snipes Crosshair"
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Gayle, McGuire and "name unknown" are three men at KaibaLand who Seto Kaiba tells to play Stardust Shootout against Yugi, Honda, and Jonouchi. Gayle, an American, is a former Green Beret leader. McGuire, another American, is a former SWAT team leader. "Unknown name"'s nationality is also unknown and he is an assassin. Kaiba rigs the game so that the three men on his team have real lasers that cause fatal electric shocks when fired while Yugi and his friends were given toy guns. In the manga, After Anzu and Johji give away the secret about the rigging of the game to her friends, Honda gets a real laser gun from her, tones it down to a non-lethal voltage, and incapacitates McGuire, and the assassin (Jonouchi had previously kicked Gayle in the face). In the anime, the three men were accompanied by another man and a woman, who also had guns. Miho's timidity led to the downfall of the five people.

Professor Kanekura

DDM video game name: Adriel Wainright
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Prof. Kanekura (金倉) is the curator of Domino Museum, who exhibits the Millennium Puzzle after Yugi agrees to let him exhibit it for one day. At the end of the day, Kanekura tries to sell the puzzle to a non-Japanese person. The person is knocked out or killed by Shadi and Shadi goes into Kanekura's room. In the manga, when Kanekura fails Shadi's tests involving the Scales of Truth, he dies when his soul is consumed by Ammit. In the first series anime, he is driven insane and injured after failing the tests.

Mr. Karita

DDM video game name: Mr. Titus
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Mr. Karita (刈田) is a P.E. teacher who harasses Ryo Bakura on his first day at Domino High School; he regrets this after being turned into a miniature by Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura).

Kokurano

DDM video game name: Fortuno
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Kokurano (孤蔵乃; 1st anime name: 孤蔵野) is a self-proclaimed psychic in Class 1-A of Domino High School. He gets upset when Yugi says he doesn't believe in psychics and tells him that he will be struck by falling letters. When Yugi goes to the library, the bookstands start to fall on him, but he transforms into Dark Yugi and saves himself. Meanwhile, Kokurano knocked out Anzu with chloroform. Dark Yugi finds a delirious Kokurano and challenges him to a game. In the manga, Kokurano tries to use his powers to lift the bottle, but winds up knocking himself out with it. In the anime, he loses a game involving many bottles falling down. Yugi flees the scene with Anzu.

Kujirada

DDM video game name: Beluga
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Kujirada (鯨田) is a snobby classmate of Yugi's at Domino High School. Kujirada gets a "Black Star", an aggressive secret "digital pet" (styled after Tamagotchi). In the manga, The Black Star, which had lived for two months while other pets only live for twenty-one days, turns on his master. The monster commands Kujirada to link up with other people's devices so the monster can eat other people's digital pets. Jonouchi's pet, and Anzu's pet, "Peachy" (Sumomo-chan in the original Japanese) are eaten. Yugi's pet, "U2", fights back and destroys Kujirada's monster. In the anime, Kujirada's monster first eats Anzu's pet, and then Jonouchi's pet after Jonouchi's pet battles Kujirada's monster. But Honda's pet sweeps up Kujirada's monster (In the manga, Honda didn't have a digital pet). Kujirada appears to be bullying a student named Haiyama but it is revealed that Haiyama was manipulating Kujirada. In the English Dungeon Dice Monsters, Kujirada was named Beluga after the Beluga whale.

Miho Nosaka

DDM video game name: Melody

Miho Nosaka (野坂 ミホ) is a main character in Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! anime (the first Japanese series), and a minor character in the manga. Honda has a crush on Miho, but Miho rejects him. In Toei's anime, Miho hangs out with Yugi and his friends. Miho doesn't appear in the Duel Monsters anime, which, along with the manga, was released in North America and Europe.

Playing Card Bomber

DDM video game name: Tick-Tock
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

"Playing card bomber" (連続爆弾魔) is a nickname for a man who sets off a string of bombs in Domino. His third attack at the Domino Mall kills eight people. His fourth threatens Anzu's life. In the manga, Dark Yugi saves her life by playing clock solitaire without getting four threes. Afterwards, Dark Yugi reveals where the bomber was to the chief of police, leading to his arrest. In the anime, the bomber has a game involving baloons, Anzu and other passengers are spared. When the game mandates that the bomber is supposed to kill himself, he refuses. Yugi places a penalty game on him, making him go berserk, causing him to fall out of his car; the bomber is therefore arrested by the police.

Prisoner 777

DDM video game name: Jackpot
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Prisoner 777 is a convict prisoner numbered "777", who escaped from the Domino Police station with a stolen handgun after killing a guard. He holds Anzu hostage at the Burger World restaurant. After blindfolding her, he tells Yugi to get him cigarettes and vodka. When Anzu yells help for Yugi, he slams her down. Dark Yugi comes out and challenges him to a game. The man aims his gun at Yugi and tells him that he will die after he lights his cigarette. While he is pouring the vodka, Yugi places the lighter on the man's hand. Yugi explains that the drink is 90% alcohol and that pulling the trigger would cause the lighter to fall into the vodka. In the manga, the man is horrified while he is overfilling his vodka. Yugi leads Anzu away as the cigarette drops from the convict's mouth and lights the vodka ablaze; the convict is set on fire. In the anime, Honda and Miho are working with Anzu, and the prisoner, named Jiro the Yellow Spider (女郎蜘蛛のジロウ), is the manager of the restaurant. He disguises himself as Tetsu Tasaki a.k.a. "Tetsu the Hedgehog", another criminal, while committing several robberies. Eventually Jiro is exposed and he points a gun at Anzu. After Yugi places the lighter on his hand, Jiro disarms and turns off the lighter. Yugi puts a penalty game on him because he moved more than one finger, and the criminal thinks he is set on fire. The story of Anzu's first encounter with Dark Yugi changes in the second Yu-Gi-Oh! series.

Professor Yoshimori

DDM video game name: Professor Jeremy Harrison
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Professor Yoshimori (吉森) is a Domino University professor who is into archaeology. He is friends with Sugoroku Mutou.

Dark Master Zorc

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 1st series anime

Dark Master Zorc (闇の支配者 ゾーク) is a dark spirit that is in the Millennium Ring. Bakura sets him up as the "boss" of the game of "Monster World" he plays with Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda, and Anzu. In the game, Zorc had terrorized the village after killing its king, and it is up to the player characters "Yugi", "Joey", "Hiroto", and "Anzu" to defeat him. In the Japanese anime, Miho Nosaka is also one of the characters, while she isn't one of the characters in the manga.

Manga and second series anime characters

This section uses the names from the English manga.

Akhenaden

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Akhenaden is the brother of Akhenamkhanen and the father of Priest Seto in Ancient Egypt. Akhenaden is the man who originally created the Millennium Items. He massacred the village of Kul Elna to create them. His name comes from the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten.

Akhenamkhanen

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Akhenamkhanen is the father of Pharaoh Atem in Ancient Egypt. Thief Bakura blames the late Akhenamkhanen for killing his village, Kul Elna, to make the Millennium Items; Bakura did not know that it was Akhenaden who was responsible for the massacre, although he did know that he participated in it.

Arthur Hopkins (Arthur Hawkins)

English anime name: Arthur Hawkins
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Arthur Hopkins (アーサー・ホプキンス) is the American best friend of Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Moto in the English anime) and the grandfather of Rebecca Hopkins (Rebecca Hawkins in the English anime). His original Japanese name is kept in the English video games. In the manga, Professor Hopkins only appears in a photograph with Sugoroku Mutou, and his name is never revealed.

Thief King Bakura

Thief King Bakura, a.k.a. "The King of Thieves", has a grudge against Pharaoh Atem because he believes Atem's father, Akhenamkhanen, ordered the massacre of Kul Elna to create the Millennium Items. He controlls the Ka Diabound, which was created by the dead spirits of Kul Elna village. He attempts to steal all the Millennium Items and revive the Great Demon Zorc, but he is eventually defeated by Atem and the priests.

"Bandit" Keith Howard

English anime name: Bandit Keith

Keith Howard (キース・ハワード) is the champion of the American Duel Monsters tournament (known as the Intercontinental tournament in the English anime). He is known as "Bandit Keith" (バンデット・キース) for winning all the prizes in every single tournament. He enters the Duelist Kingdom tournament after Pegasus publicly humiliated him. During that incident, he and Pegasus were dueling in a regional tournament overseen by Seto Kaiba, when Pegasus suddenly wrote down some instructions onto a piece of paper and called down a boy from the audience to take his place (in the English anime translation, the boy's name is given as 'Sam'), claiming that even a child could beat him. Following the instructions given to him by Pegasus, the boy did in fact defeat Keith in the duel, and ever since then, his reputation as a duelist had been tarnished forever.

Bandit Keith is an unscrupulous duelist who doesn't think twice to using underhanded tricks to gain the upper hand. He had formed his own group of lackeys (which included "Ghost" Kotsuzuka (Bonz) in Duelist Kingdom to seek out and defeat weaker opponents for their star chips, without actually dueling them himself. He eventually abandoned them and stole their star chips in order to gain enough to qualify for the semi-finals. He also attempted to disqualify Katsuya Jonouchi from the tournament by stealing his entry card, as well as hiding key cards from his deck in his wristbands to be pulled at the right moments during his semi-finals duel with Jonouchi. Despite this, he eventually lost his duel and his cheating ways found out, but broke free from Pegasus' guards before they could escort him off the premises, running back and confronting Pegasus with a pistol if he didn't give him the prize money (the gun was subsequently edited out in the English anime translation). Once again, he was humiliatedly thwarted by Pegasus via trap door and forcibly expelled from Duelist Kingdom.

This was not the last that was seen of Keith, however. In the anime, he was eventually found drifting in the ocean by Marik, and subsequently brainwashed into becoming one of them, confronting Yugi in an abandoned warehouse after leading him there by posing as a wandering fortune teller and tricking Yugi into giving him the Millennium Puzzle. Forced to duel without the help of the spirit within the Puzzle, Dark Yugi, Yugi almost won his duel against Keith, until Dark Bakura interferred, sensing the dark energies controlling Keith and disrupting their control over him with the Millennium Ring. Disoriented and confused, Keith went haywire, inadvertently damaging the dueling field he and Yugi were using for their duel and sparking a fire that consumed the warehouse. Keith escaped, but disappeared shortly afterwards. His current location and status is unknown.

Keith's deck is centered around powerful Machine-type monsters, with Barrel Dragon and Machine King as his forerunners.

Big 5

The Big 5 are five members of the board of KaibaCorp. In the Duel Monsters anime, they are (Japanese names listed first, followed by English anime names):

• Konosuke Oshita (大下 幸之助 Ōshita Kōnosuke) / Gansley
• Shuzo Otaki (大滝 修三 Ōtaki Shūzō) / Crump
• Chikuzen Oka (大岡 筑前 Ōka Chikuzen) / Johnson
• Soichiro Ota (大田 総一郎 Ōta Sōichirō) / Nezbitt
• Kogoro Daimon (大門 小五郎 Daimon Kogorō) / Leichter

(The names of the Big 5 are not stated in the manga.)

In the Japanese anime, Otaki is the Managing Director and Chief of the Personnel Department (he is an accountant in the English anime); Oka is the legal advisor of KaibaCorp; Ota is the Manager of KaibaCorp's military factory (in the English anime, he is the Vice President of New Technology); and Daimon is the right-hand man of the CEO.

Oshita does not mention his job title in the Japanese anime, but he says that as a subordinate of KaibaCorp, he merged and took over many other companies (in the English anime he mentioned himself as the Vice President of Business Strategy).

In both the anime and manga, the Big Five secretly despise Seto for taking over Kaiba Corporation and transforming it from a military weapons manufacturer into a gaming technology firm and sought to overthrough him and take over the company in order to revert it back to what it was. However, due to a corporate bylaw that states that only a Kaiba heir can legally run the company, the Big 5 were forced to divert their attention to subverting Mokuba Kaiba (Seto's little brother) to their will as a means to accomplish their goals. During the Duelist Kingdom saga in the anime and manga, the Big 5 teamed up with Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the Japanese versions), offering Pegasus KaibaCorp's advanced holographic imaging technology in exchange for his help in taking out Seto and capturing Mokuba. After this failed, Seto fired the Big 5, though in the anime, the Big 5 attempted to save themselves by convincing Seto to try a 'finished' prototype of a Duel Monsters holographic RPG that Seto had been working on prior to Duelist Kingdom. It turned out to be a trap, though, as Seto learned quickly after his mind was trapped inside the virtual system. When Mokuba brought Yugi Mutou to help save his brother, the Big 5 uploaded their minds into the virtual game in an attempt to stop him. They once again failed, and the resulting backlash of psionic energy linking their minds to the virtual system separated their consciousness from their bodies, leaving them trapped without a physical form inside the virtual system, where they wandered until they met up with Noah Kaiba, the biological son of Gozaboro Kaiba, their former boss. Realizing that Noah's goals against Seto were the same as theirs, they teamed up with him, challenging Yugi and his friends for their bodies when the group became trapped in Noah's Virtual Realm. In this endeavor, they failed a third and final time, their unscrupulous methods of dueling irking Noah (who desired to prove himself superior over Seto through a fair fight) to the point that he completely erased their consciousnesses from cyberspace. (Note that this all happens in the anime; the manga has no such stories, and as such, the Big 5 are simply fired from KaibaCorp. after Duelist Kingdom, never to be seen again.)

Bobasa

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

In the anime, Bobasa is used mostly for comic relief. He is a Non-Player Character (NPC) in the Dark RPG that Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) and Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura) play in the Millennium World story arc. He is a key switch that can lead the player to where the Pharaoh's name is if the player gives him enough food to eat.

In the manga, Bobasa (ボバサ) is a member of an Egyptian cult that protects the Millennium Items. He has the Scales and the Key. Bobasa protects the items by placing them on his abnormally-shaped chest and locking his clothes. He then swallows the key, and is able to regurgitate the key at will.

Crocketts (Croquet)

Japanese name: Crocketts
English name: Croquet
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Mr. Croquet, known in the Japanese versions as Mr. Crocketts (Mr.クロケッツ Kurokettsu), is the right-hand man of Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the original Japanese). His duties includes relaying the progress of Pegasus' plans, often unknowingly stating the obvious to his boss (who, with the use of the Millennium Eye and keen intuition, usually predicts the outcome of a situation he's involved with before Croquet can inform him of it).

At one point in the English anime translation, Pegasus punishes Croquet for his multiple failures by threatening to 'lock him away...again', which leaves one to speculate whether or not Croquet had also experienced his soul being trapped in a card by Pegasus, or if he was the victim of another form of confinement altogether.

Cynthia (Cecelia Pegasus)

English anime name: Cecelia Pegasus
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Cynthia (or Cyndia, シンディア) is Pegasus' lost love (She is his wife in the English anime). Cynthia first met Pegasus at a party thrown by his businessman father in Las Vegas 14 years ago.

A possible reason on why Cynthia's name was changed is because "Cynthia" resembles "Cindy Crawford", whose birth name is "Cynthia" ("Crawford" is also Pegasus' surname in the Japanese versions).

"Dinosaur" Ryuzaki (Rex Raptor)

Template:Yu-Gi-Oh! Characters English anime name: Rex Raptor

"Dinosaur" Ryuzaki (ダイナソー竜崎 Dainasō Ryūzaki) is the runner-up in the Japanese Duel Monsters tournament. Ryuzaki is good friends with the champion, Haga (Weevil Underwood). Ryuzaki tends to use cards related to dinosaurs (thus his nickname "Dinosaur"). In the English anime, he is named after the tyrannosaurus rex and the Raptor, two types of dinosaurs.

"Esper" Roba (Espa Roba)

English anime name: Espa Roba

"Esper" Roba (エスパー絽場 Esupā Roba) is a psychic (ESP) duelist who duels with Jonouchi. In reality, however, his 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. His secret was discovered when he was misinformed by his brothers about one card in Jonouchi's hand, thus leaving him unprepared for a massive assault. This revelation would have gotten him disqualified from the tournament, but his brothers convinced Mokuba Kaiba to let him continue the duel, swearing that he was in fact a fairly strong duelist in his own right. The reason for the charade, they said, was so he could build up a reputation as an unstoppable duelist, using that reputation to shield them from whatever bullies might pick on them. "Esper" lost the duel, however, and as a result, also lost his signature card, Jinzo, to Jonouchi.

"Ghost" Kotsuzuka (Bonz)

English anime name: Bonz
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

"Ghost" Kotsuzuka (ゴースト骨塚 Gōsuto Kotsuzuka) is at first a minion of Bandit Keith, but he breaks away and makes his own gang. Later, Dark Bakura defeats him. Shadowy hands grab Kotsuzuka and pull him into the ground (in the English anime, Bakura sends him to the Shadow Realm.) "Bonz", the English anime name, is a misspelling of "bones". In the English manga, his name is misspelled as "Kozuka".

"Insector" Haga (Weevil Underwood)

English anime name: Weevil Underwood

"Insector" Haga (インセクター羽蛾 Insekutā Haga) is an insect-loving duelist (thus his nickname "Insector") and the champion of the Japanese Duel Monsters tournament. Haga pulls dirty tricks and is very smarmy. He throws Yugi's Exodia cards overboard on the boat to the Duelist Kingdom. An enraged Yugi challenges him to a duel and wins. Haga shows up at Battle City to fight Jonouchi but he loses. Haga is good friends with the runner-up in the Japan tournament, Ryuzaki (Rex Raptor). In the English anime, Weevil is named after the weevil insect. His first name also rhymes with "evil". Some people in the English anime insult Weevil by calling him "Weevil Underpants".

Isis

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Isis is a priestess that serves Pharaoh Atem in Ancient Egypt. Ishizu Ishtar is the reincarnation of Isis. She is named, obviously, after the Egyptian god Isis.

Isono (Roland)

English anime name: Roland
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Isono (磯野) is one of the Battle City Tournament officials. He also appears to be Kaiba's right-hand man and business advisor, as he appears later in the anime series to help Kaiba manage Kaiba Corperation.

Johnny Step (Johnny Steps)

English anime name: Johnny Steps
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Johnny Step (ジョニー・ステップ) is Anzu's dance rival.

Meikyū Brothers (Paradox Brothers)

English anime name: Paradox Brothers
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters), Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX)

Mei (迷) and Kyu (宮 Kyū) are Player Eliminators at the Duelist Kingdom. In the original Japanese, they are named after the Japanese word for labyrinth, Meikyū (迷宮). In the English anime, they are named after paradox.

Mask of Light and Mask of Darkness (Lumis and Umbra)

English anime name: Lumis and Umbra
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Mask of Light and Mask of Darkness (光の仮面; 闇の仮面) are members of Marik's GHOULS organization. They pride themselves on being an unbeatable tag team.

Mahado

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Mahado is a servant of Pharaoh Atem that becomes the card Dark Magician. His name comes from the name "Mahad".

Mana

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Mana is a childhood friend of Atem and Mahado and studies magic under Mahado as his apprentice. After Mahado's death, she swears to become a great magician and eventually is able to summon her own Ka, the Dark Magician Girl.

Siamun Muran

Video game name: Shimon Muran
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Siamun is a vizier of Pharaoh Atem. Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Moto) is the reincarnation of Siamun. When Atem goes to the World of Memory, he initially confuses Siamun by calling him "Grandpa". The name "Siamun" is pronounced as "Shimon".

Siamun (as Shimon) also appears in three Yu-Gi-Oh! video games,Forbidden Memories, the Duelist of Destiny & the Falsebound Kingdom.

Pandora (Arkana)

English anime name: Arkana
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Pandora (パンドラ) is a Rare Hunter and member of the GHOULS organization, who frequently uses the Dark Magician (Black Magician in Japan) card in duels. He was once a famous stage magician, with his lovely assistant fiancé, but fell into despair after a dangerous illusion he was performing went awry, scarring his once-beautiful visage to the point where he drove his fiancé away in his anguish. Ruined and depressed for causing his love to leave him, he stumbled from day to day until he met Marik Ishtar, who promised to help him regain the love of his fiancé if he bacame a Rare Hunter. However, after he was defeated and saved by Yugi Mutou in a duel in which the loser gets his legs chopped off by a buzzsaw (in the Engilsh anime, the buzzsaws were changed to Dark Energy Disks that sent the loser's mind to the Shadow Realm upon contact), he realized that the promise was a lie and that, had Yugi not had saved him, Marik would have left him to die. He does not appear after his initial duel with Yugi.

Pandora's name was changed to Arkana in the English anime because "Pandora" is a feminine name in English. "Arcana" is the plural form of the Latin word "arcanus". The English word "Arcane" is derived from that word.

The Pantomimer (Strings)

English anime name: Strings, the Quiet One
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

The Pantomimer (パントマイマー Pantomaimā) a.k.a. Strings is a rare hunter as well as Marik's "mind slave" (i.e. puppet).

Player Killer of Darkness (Panik)

English anime name: Panik
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Player Killer of Darkness (「闇」のプレイヤーキラー) is a player eliminator hired by the Duelist Kingdom.

Rishid Ishtar (Odion)

English anime name: Odion Ishtar
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Rishid (リシド) is the adopted brother and servant of Marik Ishtar. Rishid follows him to suppress Marik's dark side; he also pretends to be Marik.

Ryota Kajiki (Mako Tsunami)

English anime name: Mako Tsunami

Ryota Kajiki (梶木 漁太 Kajiki Ryōta) is a 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. Kajikimagurō means "swordfish". His English anime name, Mako, originates from the mako shark, and a tsunami is a type of large wave formed by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.

Saruwatari (Kemo)

English anime name: Kemo
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Saruwatari (猿渡) is one of Pegasus' suits. He worked for Kaiba Corperation as one of Seto and Mokuba's private bodyguards, but he was actually working for Industrial Illusions the whole time, gathering information from within Kaiba Corperation and giving it to Pegasus.

Satake and Takaido (Zygore and Sid)

English anime name: Zygore and Sid
Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Satake (佐竹) and Takaido (高井戸) are lackeys of Bandit Keith. (Takaido (Sid) is the one with glasses.) They later forms a gang with Ghost Kotsuzuka (Bonz). Their names are never stated in the manga.

Seto

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Seto is a priest who is a cousin of Pharaoh Atem. Seto Kaiba is the reincarnation of Priest Seto. His name comes from the Egyptian god Set.

The Great Demon Zorc Necrophadis

Appears in: Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 2nd series anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)

Zorc Necrophadis is a demon that was created when the Millennium Items were originally created. He can be summoned when all 7 Millennium Items are brought together in an underground crypt in Kul Elna village. 3,000 years ago, he was summoned and attempted to destroy the world, but was stopped by Pharaoh Atem. Atem sacrificed his life by sealing both himself and Zorc within the Millennium Puzzle, but not before Zorc pulled off one final trick by sealing a small portion of his soul within the Millennium Ring.