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The Yu-Gi-Oh! series, created by Kazuki Takahashi, features an extensive cast of characters, many of whom are from Domino City, a fictional city in Japan where the series takes place. As many plot elements are influenced by Egypt and its mythology, Egyptian characters appear in the story.
Yu-Gi-Oh! stars Yugi Mutou, a shy boy who loves games and is often bullied. After solving an ancient artifact known as the Millennium Puzzle, his body becomes the host of a mysterious spirit known as Dark Yugi, who has the personality of a gambler. When Yugi or his friends are threatened by those with darkness in their hearts, Dark Yugi reveals himself and challenges them to a "Shadow Game" (闇のゲーム, Yami no Gēmu, "Dark Games") that reveals the true nature of someone's heart, with their losers being subjected to a dark punishment called a "Penalty Game". Throughout the series, Yugi and his friends Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler), Anzu Mazaki (Téa Gardner), Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor), and later Ryo Bakura learn that this other Yugi is the spirit of a nameless pharaoh from Ancient Egypt times who has lost his memories. As they attempt to help the Pharaoh regain his memories, they are put to the test, wagering their lives facing off against others who wield the mysterious Millennium Items and the dark power of the Shadow Games.
Most human characters in the English version of the original manga, published by VIZ Media, use their original Japanese names, while in other English Yu-Gi-Oh! media their names are changed. The Japanese names in Western order (given name before family name) and English manga names are listed first and the English anime names are listed second, when applicable. As well, the 4Kids English dub censors or edits instances of violence and sexual content, with characters being sent to the Shadow Realm rather than dying and some designs being changed.
Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (1998–1999), Shunsuke Kazama (2000–present) (Japanese); Dan Green (English)
Yugi Mutou (武藤 遊戯, Mutō Yūgi, spelled "Muto" in the English anime) is one of the main protagonists of the story along with Dark Yugi. He wears the Millennium Puzzle (千年パズル, Sennen Pazuru), an ancient Egyptian artifact that is one of the seven Millennium Items and contains the spirit of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. He initially fears this other personality, but over time comes to consider him a close friend. He also develops as a character and is able to defeat antagonists without Dark Yugi's help, proving that he is worthy of being chosen by the Millennium Puzzle.
His ace card is the "Dark Magician".
Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (1998–1999), Shunsuke Kazama (2000–present) (Japanese); Dan Green (English)
Dark Yugi (闇遊戯, Yami Yūgi), true name Atem (アテム, Atemu), is one of the main protagonists of the story along with Yug, who holds the title of Yūgiō (遊戯王, lit. Game King). After Yugi solves the Millennium Puzzle, he comes to dwell in Yugi's body; when Yugi or his friends are in danger, he emerges from the Puzzle and takes over Yugi's body to protect them, challenging his opponents to Shadow Games and giving them a Penalty Game as punishment after defeating them or if they cheat. Throughout the series, he meets his eventual rival, Seto Kaiba, who he defeats in their first battle at school and during Death-T, and meets other wielders of the Millennium Items, including Shadi and Dark Bakura.
In the Duelist Kingdom arc, after Dark Yugi loses to Pegasus in a video tape duel when the timer runs out, Pegasus steals Sugoroku's soul to get him to come to the Duelist Kingdom, which he does in order to face him and save the stolen souls. There, he faces several opponents and then Kaiba in a duel utilizing his prototype Duel Disk, in which they each wager five star chips. After his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is defeated, Kaiba resorts to a suicide attack in order to win and Dark Yugi loses after Yugi intervenes to stop him from attacking Kaiba. Kaiba enters the castle, where Mai, who received extra star chips to repay Dark Yugi for saving her, helps him enter the castle. After defeating Mai, Dark Yugi faces Jonouchi, who defeated Keith. During the battle with Pegasus, Yugi and Dark Yugi come up with the "Mind Shuffle" tactic to prevent Pegasus from reading their minds, forcing Pegasus to start a Shadow Game that only those chosen by the Millennium Items can endure.
After Yugi collapses due to the Shadow Game's effects, Dark Yugi takes over and wins with help from Yugi and his friends, who block the Eye's powers. Afterwards, Pegasus complies with Dark Yugi's demand that he release the stolen souls while telling him that the Items contain an evil intelligence. As they leave the island, Yugi reassures Dark Yugi that, regardless of his origins, he is a valuable friend to them, and he begins his search to learn of his true identity and origins.
It is eventually revealed that he was originally Atem (アテム, Atemu), a pharaoh of Ancient Egypt who was the owner of the Millennium Puzzle, originally known as the Pendant, which he sealed himself and Zorc in following the destruction of Kul Elna. Though he moves on to the afterlife following his final duel with Yugi, in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, he returns to help him fight Diva.
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (1998–1999), Hiroki Takahashi (2000–present) (Japanese); Wayne Grayson (English)
Katsuya Jonouchi / Joseph "Joey" Wheeler (城之内 克也, Jōnouchi Katsuya) is Yugi's close friend. After Yugi stands up for him and Honda when Ushio beats them up, he realizes that he was jealous of Yugi's "treasure." That night, he retrieves the last piece of the Millennium Puzzle and returns it to Yugi's house, where Yugi completes it and challenges Ushio to the first Shadow Game of the series. Jonouchi is touched by Yugi's behavior and they become close friends, forming his own "treasure."
Though skilled at fistfighting and usually able to take on those bigger than himself, such as Bandit Keith, a fight which he loses in the Duel Monsters anime, he handicaps himself against opponents such as Bruce Ryu. Throughout the series, he becomes better at Domino and Duel Monsters with Yugi's help and learns to channel his anger into games instead of violence. He later participates in the Duelist Kingdom tournament for his sister and the Battle City tournament after suspecting that Kaiba is plotting something. Though kind and selfless, he can be immodest and rash and has a fear of the supernatural.
His ace card is the "Red-Eyes Black Dragon."
Voiced by: Yumi Kakazu (1998–1999), Maki Saitō (2000–present) (Japanese); Amy Birnbaum (English)
Anzu Mazaki / Téa Gardner (真崎 杏子, Mazaki Anzu) is Yugi's childhood best friend. She is athletic, supportive, has a strong school spirit, and has a crush on Dark Yugi. Though not as skilled at games as Yugi, she is knowledgeable of video game RPGs and used to defeat Jonouchi in school before he became a seasoned duelist. She secretly works at the fast food restaurant Burger World while dreaming of becoming a professional dancer in the United States. When Yugi and Jonouchi learn of these secrets when they follow her, thinking she is participating in Enjo kōsai, she comes to respect them for their willingness to support her and keep her secrets.
Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (1998–1999), Takayuki Kondō (2000–2001, 2016), Hidehiro Kikuchi (2001–2004) (Japanese); Sam Riegel (eps. 1–10), Greg Abbey (eps. 11-224/other media; eps. 1–9 uncut dub) (English)
Hiroto Honda / Tristan Taylor (本田 ヒロト, Honda Hiroto) is a student of class 1-B at Domino High School who befriends Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, and Bakura. In the manga, he starts out as Jonouchi's street thug buddy and has a crush on Miho Nosaka. In the Toei anime, he is the head of the school's beautician department, who dislikes Yugi despite him rescuing him and Jonouchi from Ushio. After confessing his love for Miho Nosaka to Jonouchi, he convinces him to ask Yugi for help in writing a love letter to her in the form of a puzzle. When Ms. Chono confiscates the puzzle and threatens to punish Miho if the secret admirer does not come clean, Yugi and Jonouchi stand up for him by claiming that they wrote it. Ms. Chono decides to put the puzzle together to find out who the sender is, but Dark Yugi secretly turns it into a Shadow Game, shattering er pretty face as the Penalty Game. Afterwards, Honda befriends Yugi, despite Miho later turning him down when he asks her out directly.
In the Duel Monsters anime, he has a crush on Jonouchi's sister Shizuka and a rivalry with Ryuji, often competing with him for Serenity's affections.
Voiced by: Tsutomu Kashiwakura (1998), Yusuke Numata (game), Yō Inoue (2000–2001), Rica Matsumoto (2001–present) (Japanese); Ted Lewis (English)
Ryo Bakura (獏良 了, Bakura Ryō) is a transfer student who befriends the group and is interested in games, particularly tabletop role-playing games like Monster World (モンスター・ワールド, Monsutā Wārudo). He is the holder of the Millennium Ring (千年輪, Sennen Ringu) and has a dark spirit dwelling within him, much like with Yugi and Dark Yugi. Prior to his introduction to the story, Bakura's mother and sister, Amane, died in a car accident and he often transferred schools and isolated himself because Dark Bakura's Penalty Games trapped his friends' souls in RPG miniature figures, causing them to fall into comas. With help from Yugi and his friends, they defeat Dark Bakura in a Shadow Game of Monster World, after which he joins them. Despite the danger it poses, Bakura continues to hold onto the Millennium Ring due to being curious about its history. This, along with his trusting and innocent nature, sometimes cause conflict and allows Dark Bakura to continually possess him without his knowledge.
In the Toei anime, Miho has a crush on him. In the Duel Monsters anime, his role in the group is reduced compared to the manga, as he is mostly being controlled by Dark Bakura and does not accompany them as often. He is introduced during the Duelist Kingdom arc as someone they knew from school and his love for tabletop role-playing games and making occult decks is downplayed.
He is British in the 4Kids version.[citation needed]
Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (1998–1999), Kenjirō Tsuda (2000–present, teenager), Kiyomi Yazaki (2000–2004, child) (Japanese); Eric Stuart (English)
Seto Kaiba (海馬 瀬人, Kaiba Seto) is the current president and CEO of the Kaiba Corporation, introduced as a prodigious, cold-hearted gamer willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, but had a troubled childhood because of his adoptive father Gozaboro. After learning that Sugoroku possesses the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card, he steals the card from Yugi and duels Dark Yugi, who defeats him and gives him the "Experience of Death" Penalty Game. Following his defeat, Kaiba, unable to forget the Penalty Game that he experienced, plans to use Death-T to enact revenge and kill him. He duels Dark Yugi again and loses, receiving the "Mind Crush" Penalty Game to temporarily shatter his heart and purge it of evil, leaving him in a coma for almost a year. Despite being reformed, Kaiba retains his arrogance and rivalry with Dark Yugi. While he leaves the story following the Battle City arc, he is a major character in the anime and, in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, is the founder of Duel Academy.
In the manga, he created Solid Vision during the events of Death-T, which is expanded on in the manga Transcend Game and film The Dark Side of Dimensions; in the latter, he attempts to bring back Atem in order to settle the score between them. Kaiba uses a "Blue-Eyes" deck and his ace monster is "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".
Voiced by: Katsue Miwa (1998), Junko Noda (game), Junko Takeuchi (2000–present) (Japanese); Tara Sands[1] (4Kids, 2001–2005, 2017), Carrie Keranen[1][2] (4Kids, 2005–2006) (English)
Mokuba Kaiba (海馬 モクバ, Kaiba Mokuba) is Seto Kaiba's younger brother, who is an expert at Capsule Monster Chess (カプセルモンスターチェス, Kapuseru Monsutā Chesu). In the manga, Mokuba is characterized as a spoiled brat who often tries to trick Yugi to get back at him for defeating Kaiba. He tries to defeat Yugi before Kaiba can, threatening to cut off Yugi's fingers if he wins, and poisons Jonouchi before challenging him and Yugi to a Russian Roulette Dinner of Death (死の料理・ロシアンルーレット, Shi no Ryōri Roshian Rūretto). In the Duel Monsters anime, Mokuba is devoted to Kaiba and less violent, as he is not committed to avenging Seto's defeat and befriends Yugi's group after they rescue him.
Voiced by: Yukana
Miho Nosaka (anime) / Melody (video game) (野坂 ミホ, Nosaka Miho) is a one-shot minor character in the manga who appears as a major character in the Toei anime.[3] She is Yugi and Anzu's friend and is cheerful, kind, and loves her friends and all things cute; though she has crushes on many male cast members throughout the series, despite his love for her, she is not interested in Honda except as a friend. Though stubborn and manipulative, she will not hesitate to protect her friends, like when Warashibe poisons Anzu, Honda, and Jonouchi and when she resolves to fight for Honda's sake after believing him to have died. After learning that he is alive, she teams up with Jonouchi to fight against Ryuichi and Aileen, who were keeping Honda and Sugoroku captive.
Voiced by: Tsutomu Kashiwakura (1998), Yō Inoue (2000–2001), Rica Matsumoto (2001–2004, 2016) (Japanese); Ted Lewis (English) (English)
Dark Bakura / Yami Bakura (闇獏良, Yami Bakura) is the main antagonist of the series. He is a dark spirit dwelling in the Millennium Ring who seeks the Millennium items to open the Door of Darkness and gain evil power, possessing Bakura's body due to lacking one himself. His Penalty Games trapping his friends' souls in figures caused him to constantly transfer schools until, with help from Yugi and the group in the Toei anime, they temporarily purge Dark Bakura's influence on Bakura by defeating the final boss of Monster World, Dark Master Zorc (闇の支配者ダーク・マスターゾーク, Dāku Masutā Zōku). However, when they are trapped in the labyrinth beneath Duelist Kingdom, Dark Bakura convinces him to put the Millennium Ring on again by claiming that he has undergone a change of heart. With Bakura's friends unaware of this, Dark Bakura helps Dark Yugi in his game, which is designed to outwit the Meikyuu Brothers' trickery, and they return to the surface.
Though he aids the group while trying to gain their trust and seemingly allowing Bakura more control over his body, unbeknownst to them, he killed Pegasus by tearing the Millennium Eye out of his eye socket and took it for himself. His true nature is revealed during the Dungeon Dice Monsters arc; after supporting Yugi during the game against Ryuji and helping him retrieve the pieces of the shattered Millennium Puzzle, he secretly puts part of his soul into one of the pieces to uncover the True Door from within. He intends to manipulate events until the Millennium Items have been gathered in preparation for the Dark Role-Playing Game / Dark RPG (闇・Ｒ・Ｐ・Ｇロール・プレイング・ゲーム, Yami Ā Pī Jī (Yami Rōru Pureingu Gēmu)), with the goal of opening the Door of Darkness and unleashing the darkness sealed in the Puzzle. Unbeknownst to Bakura, later in the manga he takes over his body when he has the opportunity to further his goals.
During the final arc, Dark Bakura is revealed to have been created when the soul of Thief King Bakura (盗賊王バクラ, Tōzoku Ō Bakura), the sole survivor of the Kul Elna massacre who sought revenge against Egypt by attempting to steal the Millennium Items, merged with a fragment of Zorc Necrophades when they were sealed in the Millennium Ring. He is killed when Dark Yugi summons Horakthy, the Creator of Light, to destroy Zorc. In the anime, he dies due to being a part of Zorc, while in the manga, he dies due to his life being linked to Akhenaden and Zorc.
Voiced by: Jiro Takasugi (Japanese); Darren Dunstan (English)
Pegasus J. Crawford / Maximillion Pegasus (ペガサス・Ｊ・クロフォード, Pegasasu Jei Kurofōdo) is the eccentric American chairman of Industrial Illusions and creator of the game Duel Monsters (デュエル モンスターズ, Dyueru Monsutāzu) (originally Magic & Wizards (Ｍ＆Ｗ (マジック＆ウィザーズ), Majikku ando Wizāzu)). He is the wielder of the Millennium Eye (千年眼, ミレニアムアイ, Sennen Gan, Mireniamu Ai).
In the manga, his story about meeting Shadi and the supposed "evil intelligence" of the Millennium Items prompts Dark Yugi's search for his origins. During his final Shadow Game with Yugi, he tells him of his discovery of an ancient Egyptian Shadow Game during his travels in the Valley of the Kings, which inspired his creation of Duel Monsters and of card games in general. He plays a key role in the Duel Monsters anime, where, as the creator of Duel Monsters and the discoverer of their ancient Egyptian roots, he possesses knowledge of the game and its origins.
Pegasus serves as the fourth main antagonist of the manga and the first main antagonist of the Duel Monsters anime. In the anime, he challenges Yugi to a Shadow Game to force him to come to his tournament Duelist Kingdom (決闘者の王国 (デュエリストキングダム), Dyuerisuto Kingudamu) and face him, taking Sugoroku's soul and trapping it in a Soul Prison Duel Monsters card as a Penalty Game for losing the timed match to ensure this. He also kidnaps Mokuba to convince Kaiba to come to the Kingdom, later capturing their souls. In flashbacks, Pegasus is revealed to have had a lover, Cecelia / Cyndia (シンディア, Shindia), who died after her seventeenth birthday or after their marriage in the anime, and sought to resurrect her. At the end of the arc, Yugi and Dark Yugi defeat him in a final game of Duel Monsters and he releases the stolen souls. Soon after, Dark Bakura murders him and takes the Millennium Eye for himself. In the manga, he is reunited with Cecelia in the afterlife, while in the Duel Monsters anime he instead fell ill.
He uses a "Toon" deck, which uses Toon World to make Toon versions of his monsters.
Mr. Clown (MRクラウン / 御伽父, Misutā Kuraun / Otogi-chichi), known as Sindin the Clown in the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game, is an antagonist who appears in the manga. He is the owner of the Black Clown (ブラック・クラウン, Burakku Kuraun) game shop, located across the street from Sugoroku's Kame Game shop. In the past, Sugoroku took him in as a disciple and they eventually challenged each other for ownership of the Millennium Puzzle in a Shadow Game called the Devil's Board Game. After losing the game, the Penalty Game caused him to age fifty years in a single night and he sought revenge through his son Ryuji. He appears in The Dark Side of Dimensions, a film set in the manga continuity, where he opens a cafe with Ryuji after Black Clown burns down.
Voiced by: Tetsuya Iwanaga (teenager), Akiko Kimura (child) (Japanese); Jonathan Todd Ross (English)
Marik Ishtar (マリク・イシュタール, Mariku Ishutāru) is the heir to a clan of tombkeepers and Ishizu Ishtar's younger brother, who disregarded his duties and turned to crime because of his hatred for the Pharaoh. When he was a child, he developed a split personality as a result of trauma after undergoing the tombkeeper's initiation ritual, which involved carving into his body with a hot dagger, and his isolated upbringing. After breaking one of the clan's laws, his dark personality emerged and murdered his father. However, his adoptive older brother Rishid sealed his dark side away, leaving him with no memory of his actions and believing the Pharaoh to be responsible for his father's death. He became obsessed with killing the Pharaoh to avenge his father and end his clan's suffering. To this end, he founded the Rare Hunters, a gang of thieves who steal and collect rare Duel Monsters cards, and uses his Millennium Rod to control people's minds. Though innocent and kind as a child, he became cruel and uncaring, killing his servants when they fail him and deriving pleasure from hurting others.
Voiced by: Tetsuya Iwanaga (Japanese); Jonathan Todd Ross (English)
Dark Marik / Yami Marik (闇マリク, Yami Mariku) is a dark personality within Marik, who was created through his pain and suffering and serves as the main antagonist of the Battle City Tournament saga. To prevent him from emerging, Rishid carved marks into his own face. However, when Marik's father whipped Rishid as punishment for allowing Marik and his sister Ishizu to break one of the clan's laws, Dark Marik emerged and murdered him, beginning Marik's quest for vengeance against the Pharaoh.
Dark Marik enjoys violence and the suffering of others and only cares for his own survival, attempting to kill Marik to have sole possession of their body. While he is connected to the Millennium Rod, he differs from Dark Yugi and Dark Bakura in that he exists independently from Marik. During the Battle City Tournament Semi-Finals, Dark Marik reemerges and takes control of Marik after Rishid falls unconscious as a result of being unworthy to control Ra's power during his duel with Jonouchi. He is destroyed after Marik surrenders to Yugi.
Yako Tenma (天馬 夜行, Tenma Yakō) appears in Yu-Gi-Oh! R. He is Maximillion Pegasus's protégé and adopted son, who seeks revenge for his death.
Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu (#201–212), Kōji Ishii (#213–214) (Japanese); Oliver Wyman (English)
Priest Akhenaden (神官アクナディン, Shinkan Akunadin) is the guardian of the Millennium Eye and King Ahknemkhanen's brother. As they grew up, he was secretly jealous of his brother's position as pharaoh. Using the Shadow Alchemy inscribed in the Millennium Spellbook / Millennium Tome (千年魔術書, Sennen Majutsu Sho), he secretly ordered the massacre at the village of Kul Elna, using their blood and corpses, which he melted into gold, to create the Millennium Items to defend his brother's kingdom. To protect his family from those seeking revenge, he abandoned his wife and his son, Seto, who became a priest of Pharaoh Atem's court, but Akhenaden kept their relationship a secret. After seeing that Seto flourished after he abandoned him, he aimed to see him achieve power. Through Zorc's influence within the Millennium Eye, which is awoken after Thief King Bakura puts part of his soul in it, he becomes convinced that he must kill the Pharaoh and makes a contract with Zorc to become the High Priest of Darkness (闇の大神官, Yami no Daishinkan).
In the manga, Akhenaden's soul merged with Zorc after they were sealed in the Millennium Puzzle along with Atem before being released during the final arc. His mummy is used as a second player on Dark Bakura's side of the Shadow RPG, influencing his own playing piece as part of the game's recreation of the events before his soul is vanquished after Atem wins the game. In the Duel Monsters anime, his mind is corrupted after Dark Bakura puts part of his soul in the Millennium Eye and he is granted power from Zorc after gathering the Millennium Items, transforming into the High Priest of Darkness. Seto later kills him, with Kisara in her White Dragon form killing him for good when he enters Seto's mind to kill the Pharaoh. His purified soul is later seen alongside his brother on the other side of the door to the afterlife as Atem walks through it.
Voiced by: Yoshitaka Kaidu (Japanese); Mike Pollock (English)
Zorc Necrophades (大邪神 ゾーク・ネクロファデス, Dai Jashin Zōku Nekurofadesu) is a destroyer of worlds born from the darkness in humans' hearts and, in the English dub, the creator of the Shadow Realm. He was summoned by Akhenaden through the power of the Millennium Items to attack the kingdom and killed Atem's advisers. He is the final boss of Memory World, where, with help from Yugi and his friends, Atem defeats him and prevents his resurrection, freeing Bakura from the Millennium Ring in the process. Dark Bakura was born from the merging of Zorc and Thief King Bakura's souls, and, in the manga, an entity made of their souls who calls himself Zorc Necrophades, High Priest of Darkness, appears.
The Laser Tag Assassins are three professional mercenaries who Kaiba hires to kill Yugi and his friends in the Shooting Stardust (シューティング・スターダスト, Shūtingu Sutādasuto) game.
The Player Killers / Eliminators (プレイヤーキラー, Pureiyā Kirā) are duelists who Pegasus hires during the Duelist Kingdom tournament to challenge contestants to duels and take their Star Chips, ensuring that they do not reach the finals and that he will become the world's number one duelist and fit to be KaibaCorp's new CEO.
Ghouls / Rare Hunters (グールズ, Gūruzu) are a group of card thieves that serve Marik, whom Dark Yugi and Kaiba refer to as the "Ghouls of the Gaming Underworld". They provide Marik with a supply of minions, rare cards, and money by stealing and selling rare cards from duelists.
The Big Five were originally the executives for Kaiba Corporation, who were swayed to Kaiba's side. After Kaiba was victorious, he shut down their factories and re-established Kaiba Corporation as a gaming company. This caused the Big Five to resent him, and they allied with Pegasus in a plan to allow Pegasus to claim control over KaibaCorp. In the manga, they are fired following Pegasus' defeat.
In the anime, Kaiba fires them as they offer a peace offering in the form of a virtual reality game. After he becomes trapped in the game, Mokuba enlists Yugi and the group for help. The Big Five program Witty Phantom to oversee Kaiba's sacrifice for a ritual that would summon Five-Headed Dragon. After Kaiba is saved and Saruwatari is sent to deactivate the virtual reality pods, the Big Five reprogram the game so that Five-Headed Dragon can appear and activate the Dragon Seal so that only dragon monsters can fight. After Jonouchi, Mai, and Mokuba are defeated, Yugi and Kaiba combine Black Luster Soldier and Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon to form Dragon Master Knight, which destroys the Five-Headed Dragon. After Yugi, Jonouchi, and Mokuba exit the game, Saruawatari and his men leave to beat Kaiba to the Big Five.
In the "Virtual World" arc, the Big Five's minds are separated from their bodies and they are trapped in Kaiba Corporation's cyberspace until they are found by Noah Kaiba, who offered them a chance to gain new bodies. They challenge Yugi and the group, but are defeated and deleted. In the English dub, they are imprisoned in the different corners of the virtual world, which are later destroyed.
An organization who attempted to take over the world using the Orichalcos.
During the Millennium World story arc, Dark Yugi journeys into his lost memories and meets old acquaintances from Ancient Egypt as NPCs within Dark Bakura's tabletop role-playing game, the Shadow RPG (闇のＲ・Ｐ・Ｇ, Yami no Ā Pī Jī), a campaign based on the past.
The Six High Priests (六神官, Roku Shinkan) protect the seven Millennium Items with their lives and swear eternal loyalty to the Pharaoh, Atem, who serves as the player character of Dark Yugi, Atem's spirit in modern times. They served Atem during his reign in Ancient Egypt 3,000 years ago, or 5,000 years ago in the English anime. In the age where Shadow Games were used to determine a person's fate, the Priests used the Millennium Items and sorcery to pull out and seal the souls (Ka) of criminals, which take the form of Monsters Spirits, into stone slabs to do battle. Within the RPG, characters' health and magic were represented by their Ba Gauge.
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