Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.32 Part 4/4 (Bakura, The King of Thieves)

The previous post, I wrote faster than I thought, I'm relieved but this one is longer because the amount of panels ensembles is higher than the previous...


Plot Summary:

The mentioned evil shadow approaching the palace arrives and reaches the throne room where is the six priests, vizier and the pharaoh, revealing he had robbed everything from the former king's tomb (which explains why the previous grave robber they judged didn't find anything inside the tomb he was trying rob...), claiming he is Bakura, the king of thieves and came to get the millenium items from the priests and the pharaoh...

In the Museum, Bobasa with the intention to be cautious, he uses the millenium scale to sense any deception and evil from each member of the the gang, if the scale tilts when checking someone, the person won't be permitted to come along, most of the gang pass, the only one who doesn't is Ryou Bakura for obvious reasons..., Ryou starts leaving the museum, sad he can't come along to help...Bobasa prepares them to enter Yugi's soul by forming a circle and joining hands then use the millenium key.

Inside the World of Memory, the priests starts their judgment and measuring Bakura's evil, reveals to be a powerful evil ka, as the priests struggle fighting Thief Bakura, the vizier Siamun explains more about other millenium items abilities to Dark Yugi, there comes a discussion between the thief and Dark Yugi about the millenium items, thief Bakura presents the mummy of the former pharaoh, pharaoh Akhenamkhanem as Dark Yugi deeply realises being the dead corpse of his own father, few memories comes back to Dark Yugi from when his father was alive and being by his side when he was younger...as Dark Yugi walks through the battle between the priests and the thief, Dark Yugi shoves thief Bakura and picks up his father's corpse while coming back to his throne to put the corpse in a safer place from the battle and tells thief Bakura he will be coming to defeat him...


Key Points:

 

Here is the thief, who stole everything from the former king's tomb, from his behaviour as a thief would be considered a bit strange, when a thief rob a tomb, usually goes to hiding...also another unusual something he robbed, the former king's mummified corpse, normally you would think it would be just gold, silver, valuable metallic artefacts only, in other words, he only did this to come to the throne room to challenge the royal court and the pharaoh for the millenium items...I have to say, I do find quite rude to steal someone's corpse and dragging on the way to the throne room...

Siamun, why so shocked...? if the previous grave robber stated when he reached the tomb that where was nothing there, it would mean someone defiled the tomb before him, here is the person himself, Siamun was a bit overconfident about the design, but since was a prototype for Dark Yugi's tomb, then it isn't that surprising, if the previous grave robber did reached...then this one, Thief Bakura who seems to be a specialised thief to find it easy...

We can confirm in this scene, he was challenging them, for a thief to them and challenge the priests, it can be easily assume he is quite bold and confident by not only in skills but also can take on them...so confident that he self-proclaim himself as king of thieves, but he actually brings up interesting points later in discussions with the pharaoh and the priests.


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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.32 Part 3/4 (The Prelude of the World of Memory)

It took so long to write the previous post, 3 weeks to be more precise, which is impressive, with 47 panels ensembles, it kinda is to be expected, also this story arc is heavy plot focused, there is only two duels and it happens in the last two volumes, so yes, it will be a long journey.


Plot Summary:

The moment Dark Yugi present the god cards to the stone slab, a huge light from the symbol of the millenium puzzle engraved in the stone slab shines brightly, as this happens, Dark Yugi as if pushed by an invisible rope to be transported to another dimension, the world of memory...
Yugi felt Dark Yugi being pushed to somewhere else and can't sense his presence inside the millenium puzzle, everyone is quite shocked except Bobasa...

Inside the World of Memory, Dark Yugi successfully enters but is immediately turn asleep in a throne surrounded by six people, himself and these people dressed in tunic and robe...a short old man with his mouth covered calls to Dark Yugi as pharaoh, as he wakes up, Dark Yugi is shocked and questions where he is, the short old man who calls him pharaoh shocked at seeing him asleep in the throne, Dark Yugi confuses the short old man with Yugi's grandfather and calls him granpa, the short old man introduces himself as his vizier (a very important official in Ancient Egypt) called Siamun Muran, as Dark Yugi sinking in and trying to absorb this new situation as Pharaoh and dressed as such, he also notices the six people close to him besides the vizier, they all have millenium items, as Siamun explains who they are as priests and their duties, one of them to punish evil doers, a grave robber happened to be caught, who tried to rob the royal tomb of the former king is judged by the priests who wield the millenium items.

In the museum, as the others are still shocked by Yugi not being able to sense Dark Yugi inside the puzzle and them becoming aware as Bobasa reminds them that he is inside the World of Memory, he explains where, why and what is happening to Dark Yugi and he can help them to take them to him by starting to enter the millenium puzzle...while in the World of Memory, there is a discussion between the priests, Dark Yugi while still sinking in and absorbing all the new information, the priest wielder of millenium tauk warns them of a powerful evil shadow coming closer to the palace for picking up a disturbing future...


Key Points:

 

Okay, this is tough, in this scene it looks like maybe at first when Dark Yugi starts becoming separated from Yugi to up, but is actually the other direction being separated from his partner, it is related to the millenium puzzle, I will go in more detail, as we move to the next key points until what is actually happening explained... (Please don't forget to notice the millenium puzzle symbol in the stone slab shined at the same time as the millenium puzzle itself)

 

When Yugi reveals as shocked and worried that he is gone because he can't sense him:

"He's not in the puzzle...or in my heart...I don't know where he is!"

The shock they received, for each has a different meanings, for two of them is expectation of worst case scenario they might have hold, being Yugi and Anzu, while Honda and Jounouchi probably didn't speculated as much, is more shock as pure shock.

Yugi isn't completely wrong, but he isn't completely right either, it's much more complex than that...


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