Mokuba Kaiba and Fudou Yusei, Happy Birthday! (July 7th)

I couldn't do last year a profile like post on the characters birthday of Mokuba last year because is when I got the news that the creator of this character passed away, I did two more (Atem and Anzu, stopped all of a sudden...I was still feeling quite down about it...this time around I'll do it.

Mokuba is one of the few from the supporting cast that good character development and over the course of the series, he started as a ruthless brat trying to get his big brother attention and following his bad example to become a very emotionally mature character.

Mokuba is also one of my favourite characters in the series due to his wonderful character development, I like him more than Seto Kaiba...

I'll go by stages of his Character Development, from his introduction and the Highlights moments that shows his growth as character...

  

  

Mokuba's character first introduction, he had his "little gangsta kids" with stun guns and knives, you can tell Kaiba was quite the role model for him...at this time, Kaiba was a ruthless teenager, will to cheat and violence...ruthless...even being a sore loser, Dark Yugi also went quite soft on him with his penalty game because it only lasted a few hours since he was a child when you compare to other that lasted for few days or a whole night, or to their death in legitimate defense with the criminal fugitive...also Mokuba took after Seto with being a sore loser.

A little focus on Death-T...

 

Just so you don't forget, this kid was willing to commit murder with poison that kills you in 30 minutes, he created penalty game himself, not Dark Yugi, since Mokuba is kinda of cheater he probably he had an extra antidote for himself just in case, you can tell he didn't really learnt his lesson, he still doesn't understand that what he doing was quite severe.

  

In this scene of Death-T where we see the motives behind it of Mokuba's actions who is trying to prove himself to his big brother to get his brother's love and attention, his sole guardian as well and only family he has, the kid is desperate, bit by bit, you start feeling a little sympathy for Mokuba...he was following a very bad example...however on a slightly defense of Seto Kaiba, Seto did not approve of Mokuba being part of Death-T and only let it be by Mokuba's insistence, a part of Seto Kaiba at this time was concerned subsconsciously for him not wanting him involved in anything dangerous...

  

  

Seto Kaiba was quite cruel, cold and ruthless in this scene, he was willing to give the penalty game that could drive someone mad permanently by "experience Kaiba's penalty game from Dark Yugi" - "the sensation of death" on his little brother, a child, that Dark Yugi thought Seto was going way too far to do this to his own little brother, Dark Yugi went ahead to save Mokuba from this "penalty game" (it shows even character development on Dark Yugi, he learns to become more compassionate for saving a child that was going through a "penalty" based on the one he gave to Seto)...

But when you think about it, before Seto Kaiba got his "mind crush" and in come, this was the last time he saw and heard Mokuba, which explains Seto moment of trance in Duelist Kingdom against Dark Yugi when Blue-Eyes was melting and hallucination of Mokuba stuck in there and asking him to save him, Seto did and probably still does feel a lot of guilt, I think this was the main reason Seto was willing to commit suicide...probably for "atonement" for what he almost did to his little brother Mokuba.

  

In this scene we see so much character development from these two characters, you see how Dark Yugi treats Mokuba much more kindly and compassionate, his influence is Yugi's friends and Yugi into accepting him, expressing what he learnt to Mokuba, it's moving when you think about it this way...Mokuba looking at Dark Yugi as mix of gratitude with trust.

  

 

Looking at this way, we see character development on 3 characters (Mokuba, Dark Yugi and Kaiba), mainly Mokuba, Mokuba after being saved he wanted to owe to him by saving his friend Honda, it's from Dark Yugi trying to reassure him what is going on with Seto Kaiba now, it's from as he cares for his big brother that Mokuba starts to mature emotionally and fast.

Thinking back again is the same in Duelist Kingdom.

  

  

Look at how much this kid has grown 😢, I love his character development so much, in every re-read I came to like his character more and more, I like his character more than Seto Kaiba (his case was less and less, I don't dislike him though, his overtop and obsession just doesn't help), Mokuba was the one who had to call him out (Mokuba did agree with Dark Yugi), I would dare say...Mokuba is more emotionally mature than Seto, I've wrote it.

 

Mokuba has it rough for having such a reckless highly obsessive competitive big brother, that sometimes is his little brother taking care of his big brother recklessness.

For Fudo Yusei, it's also his birthday today!

⭐Thank you and Rest in Peace, Kazuki Takahashi!⭐