Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.18-19 Part 1 (Battle City Begins - Dark Yugi VS Rare Hunter Exodia Deck)

We are finally on volumes 18-19 and licensed version in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist vol.11-12, starting Battle City story arc, this is gonna be a long ride, because this story arc is huge, the posts will be smaller for a awhile until comes the most important duels.

Plot Summary:

We left off on Jounouchi have his Red Eyes Black Dragon stolen by rare hunters before the day of the tournament, the next day comes starting off with Dark Yugi and Yugi have been building their deck all night, they talk a little before going to the center of Domino City for the the rules to be explained, even Sugoroku Mutou closes his Kame Game Shop to watch the tournament.
Dark Yugi is waiting at meeting place for the rules of the tournament to be revealed and wondering where is Jounouchi since he doesn't seem to be in sight and encounters Mai, she was wondering the same thing about Jounouchi.
Kaiba suddenly appears in all TVs of the city, including an airship flying around with a plasma tv (this guy sure loves to go big), explains the rules of the tournament and informs Kaiba himself will play in the same conditions as them, once finished the tournament begins.
 Jounouchi suddenly appears approaching a man in a coffee shop reading in his portable pc, challenging him and revealing he is a rare hunter as will get back his Red-Eyes, the man refuses, Dark Yugi is shocked by this and intervenes being himself to challenge him and duel against the rare hunter.
The duel starts, Jounouchi tries to warn of his exodia deck to Dark Yugi, but he reveals some of his principles, I'll talk about in the key points, during the first two turns, Dark Yugi finds strange the rare hunter playing style by putting only defensive monsters, not attacking and making it draw more cards, in 3 turns Dark Yugi figure out his strategy of the rare hunter exodia deck, in 2 turns, Dark Yugi defeats the rare hunter and his deck technically, this duel was very small, Dark Yugi finished him very quickly, the main villain named Marik introduces himself through mind control of this rare hunter he just defeated.
Dark Yugi is about to give it back and Jounouchi refuses and tells him his reasons (it will approached in the key points), so to a point when gets Red-Eyes back by dueling against Dark Yugi.



Key Points:

I really like these two panels, specially when he mentions the "those two boys", remember he saw Jounouchi leaving, so he isn't referring to Jounouchi and Yugi but it was Yugi and Dark Yugi, making it more obvious that he is more aware than he is letting on, the way mentions them, he sees Dark Yugi as his grandson as well, to him it's like having two grandsons, it's very cute.

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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.16-17 Part 3 (Prologue of Battle City)

This one might be just as long as the previous one, it's when the plot starts to move at full charge, there is important events regarding characters and their relationships and development.

Plot Summary:

In the last post I left when Jounouchi just saved Yugi from the fire, after this event Yugi stays in the hospital to be treated and healed while Jounouchi had minor injuries so he doesn't need to sleep in the hospital, Yugi is playing Duel Monsters/Magic&Wizards with Jounouchi, Anzu feels relieved Yugi survived the fire and feels grateful for Jounouchi being able to save him, Yugi and friends share their thoughts for Yugi finishing the puzzle so quick, leaving Anzu in deep reflection about the situation regarding Yugi and Dark Yugi and the recent info revealed by Pegasus, an old man who is Yugi's hospital room-mate calls him out about an article on the newspaper getting the attention from Yugi, an egyptian woman who's from the Egypt government with an millenium item quickly realized by Yugi and Ryou Bakura, millenium tauk, who is holding an Egypt antiquities exhibit in Domino Museum by name of Ishizu Ishtarl.
 By night time, changes into Kaiba arriving at Domino Museum to meet up with Ishizu, Ishizu  introduces herself and summarizes her job, Kaiba tells her he is only interested in creating gaming technology and not in history, Ishizu reveals the origin of Duel Monsters in a ancient egyptian palette and same kind of palette showing figures of what looks like Yugi wearing the puzzle with Dark/Black Magician and Kaiba with Blue Eyes White Dragon, Kaiba is shocked and in denial for a while, also reveals Pegasus created 3 Egyptian God cards, one of a kind each, the most powerful cards in Duel Monsters/Magic&Wizards were sealed in the valley of the kings for being too powerful, Ishizu informs him 2 cards were stolen by Rare Hunters Ghouls, a group that collect rare cards and sell in the black market, she gives to Kaiba the only one she was able to save from this group, "Obelisk, The Tormentor" and claims she trusts Kaiba, slightly suggests him to host a tournament to attract this group in getting the missing 2 cards...
The next day at the rooftop of Domino Hospital, watching the view while waiting for his friends to pick him up and talking to Dark Yugi, Yugi talks about what Yami Bakura and asks him if Dark Yugi knows anything about it and wonders to him if he is a king, Dark Yugi replies he doesn't know, he just knows exists in Yugi through the puzzle, they have an emotional moment and Yugi tries to dodge the subject saying he wants to leave the hospital early, Dark Yugi makes notice to Yugi their friends arrived early as well as they arrive at the hospital.
The scene transitions to Kaiba testing the new version of the duel disk and the Egyptian God card and challenges the deck used in Duelist Kingdom...
The week passes with Dark Yugi questioning his existence to Sunday, Yugi dressing himself for Anzu, trying to follow Dark Yugi's goth-punk fashion sense so  he could make Dark Yugi take over, setting a "date" with Anzu because Yugi has been sensing Dark Yugi brooding...Anzu is feeling quite nervous for this "date", Dark Yugi arrives, Anzu jolts and blushes, they start the "date", Anzu and Dark Yugi share thoughts at some parts during the time spent and Dark Yugi confesses what is truly going on with him and says he knows where he wants and needs to go, the Domino Museum to see their exhibit, there they discover Dark Yugi is actually a soul of a pharaoh sealed in the millenium puzzle and they meet Ishizu Ishtarl, revealing some bits what is needed for him to restore his memories and future that soon she will meet an enemy with the last millenium item, they exit the museum, Dark Yugi asks Anzu to not talk about what they discover at the museum with Yugi.
Dark Yugi and Anzu still in front of the museum, Dark Yugi realizes they're surrounded by duelists, they find Mai, greet each other, both sharing some info, Kaiba appears to announce that he is hosting a Duel Monsters/Magic&Wizards tournament and informs the rules and conditions of the tournament.
Next day, Yugi and Anzu reveals about the tournament to Jounouchi and the others, after school they go to a card game store, Yugi has the highest level in skill so he gets a duel disk for free, while Jounouchi is level 2, you can only be over level 5 to enter, revealing Kaiba is selecting his contestants, the store owner notices Jounouchi has an ultra rare card (Red Eyes Black Dragon), the store owner suspiciously hacked and put Jounouchi on Level 5, after they leave the store to Yugi's house to discuss about Jounouchi's deck, the store owner calls the rare hunters.
When Jounouchi leaves Yugi's house is already at night, as Jounouchi walks by an alley to go home, he meets rare hunters and one of them challenges him to a duel and he loses and his Red Eyes Black Dragon by a rare hunter who owned an "Exodia, The Forbiden One" completed, the tournament still hadn't started, so it was an unofficial duel for the act of putting the rule of ante...

Key Points:

 

In this scene Anzu is feeling relieved, I think it was more towards Yugi, after all Yugi is her childhood friend, like I said, childhood friends usually gets special treatment, also there is her romantic feelings developing slowly for Yugi, she expresses gratitude to Jounouchi in her own way but her comment Jounouchi being really thick-skinned rings true figuratively and physically (pffft), physically is obvious due to his delinquent and harsh background and being very athletic, on a metaphorical side of it, even though when others (specially Kaiba) taunts (except Yugi) Jounouchi, he may be easily provoked by Kaiba but isn't easy to get him feeling down, even though his fake confidence was crushed by Kaiba before but he gradually got up on his own, now he is not as easily and strongly affected by Kaiba, he may get angered but don't act on it, holds back as well.

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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.16-17 Part 2 (Dungeon Dice Monsters Part 2)

I'm warning you already, this post is gonna be huge according to the amount of pictures I selected, it may become comparable to the duel Dark Yugi and Yugi VS Pegasus post...

Plot Summary:

In the previous post we left off Yugi being thrown to a dark room by a security guard in Black Clown store, Yugi finds Otogi Ryuji waiting for him to play the game he designed himself, D.D.M. - Dungeon Dice Monsters- , Ryuji doesn't explain all the rules to Yugi before they even start (tch, figures), Yugi learns all the rules and necessary information by Ryuji and insight through the progress of the game, when Yugi grows more determined, he is starting to catch up, Ryuji reveals he is after his millenium puzzle to become the king of games and his father (Mr.Otogi, the clown) plus Sugoroku backstory between master and pupil.
Yugi starts taking the lead, Mr Otogi irritated by this, he suddenly shows up and breaks the millenium puzzle to break Yugi's will to fight, with this turn of events, the millenium ring in Bakura's necklace senses something wrong with the puzzle and the spirit of the ring comes back again, Honda is walking with his dog and sees Bakura entering the Black Clown store, security guards blocking Yami Bakura and he knocks them out through the power of the millenium ring, as Yugi picks up, Ryuji helps pick them up, Otogi challenges to them solve the puzzle by whoever wins, Yugi starts losing the lead, then Yami Bakura showing his support to Yugi for his own reasons and confirming Yugi is the true host of the millenium puzzle, Sugoroku and Yugi's friends starts getting worried and Honda warned them about Yami Bakura coming back.
Thanks to Yami Bakura giving some encouragement and making sure Yugi's will to fight for his millenium puzzle was back on track, Yugi wins splendidly, Yami Bakura did something to one of the pieces of the puzzle to put a bit of his soul in it to spy on it once the puzzle would be completed and give it to Yugi, Ryuji calling out his father about his revenge and see the error of his ways, mr.Otogi pretended to regret it, he puts the necklace of the millenium puzzle and at this same moment stifles Yugi and drags him to a secret door that can only open from the inside, forcing him to play a forbidden game he played years ago against Sugoroku, allows you to age quicker as you advance the game (Sugoroku won) but as way in trying to kill Yugi and get the puzzle for himself, but before so he nailed the chains of the puzzle to a table where was a board game on top, Mr. Otogi tries to solve the puzzle but as he tries, the millenium puzzle drags him to some sort of labyrinth, panicking for sensing danger and loses balance, because the only light were candle, some of the candles falls and a fire starts...
Yugi and mr.Otogi can't open the secret door, they're stuck, fire starting on mr.Otogi, Yugi advises him to roll on the floor to help the fire disappear, he was surprised by Yugi's kindness after what he has done to him, they start screaming for help, Yugi's friends arrive and Bakura back to normal plus Ryuji, Honda and Jounouchi are able to break the door and save mr.Otogi, but Yugi insists on saving the puzzle, Jounouchi stays with Yugi to make sure they get out alive, Yugi begins solving the puzzle and in a few minutes he completed and lost consciousness, the fire was starting to surround them, Yugi strongly holding the puzzle, Jounouchi desperate, he heard Dark Yugi's voice and seem to have given idea how to unnail the chains and it works, Jounouchi get out of the fire while holding Yugi to bring themselves back to safety.

(what a big summary...)

Key Points:

I find Yugi choices of dices of type of monsters interesting, the black dice has unknown special kind of monsters and unknown, but the known colors monsters types dices gets me thinking, according to the info about types of monsters each color represent, Yugi choses between Warriors and Spellcasters, if we think about it, that's Yugi's deck tendency as well and few others types, to be honest, I would chose the same ones as Yugi.

 

It's very telling how well Yugi's friends know Yugi, they're very sure he is around, another detail about Jounouchi I like, Jounouchi has a pretty good intuition and they aren't easy to fool when comes to Yugi, Jounouchi and Ryou obviously suspect something is wrong and to the readers about some info on Yugi's habits when comes to his hobbies, from how Jounouchi's claims:

"He'd go without food for a day before he'd give up on a game!"

It got me thinking, it's possible Yugi may have sacrificed his allowances to buy games (I do it often to save money so I can buy video games), he may have done a few times from Jounouchi claim...

I take priority on my lunch if I'm at school or work and save money, it seems Yugi may have a bit of impulsive shopping when comes to games.

Ryou Bakura also has good intuition, he starts getting suspicious of the store and worried, in the panel, he isn't wearing the millenium ring at the same time foreshadowing future events.

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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.16-17 Part 1 (Dungeon Dice Monsters Part 1)

Duelist Kingdom ended, starts a small arc serving the purpose to introduce a new character, character development for Yugi will keep going, good challenges to test and explore his strength and potential, the same can be said as person as well...
anyway, we're on volume 16 and 17 already, in western prints is Duelist Volume 9 and 10.
There will be three posts about these 2 volumes, just these 2 volumes, there is a lot to write about, Part 1 will be the prologue of Dungeon Dice Monsters, Part 2 will be the game itself and Part 3 will be the Prologue of Battle City, look forward to it, I will keep doing summaries first so I can touch on the details.

Plot Summary:

After Duelist Kingdom, a few weeks has passed, the volume 16/9 starts with Sugoroku sighing, who seems to look distressed about something, Anzu arrives to pick Yugi up, Sugoroku calls Yugi out for Anzu had come to walk him to school, transitioning to Yugi and Dark Yugi, with these weeks and now the spirit and host being able to talk to each other, it happens often Dark Yugi teases Yugi and give him fashion tips, Yugi's mother even has been noticing something, Yugi's reveals to Anzu his new necklace chain representing the bond between Yugi and spirit of the millenium puzzle.
Before Yugi and Anzu go to school, Sugoroku confesses a new game store just opened, close to put Sugoroku game store out of business, the Black Clown, when they're leaving Yugi curious trying to take a look at the display of the new game store, suddenly a clown appears giving children balloons and trying to give one to Anzu and politely refuses, when they leave, the clown and a young boy appears to his side watching Yugi and Anzu leaving, revealing being father and son, who seem to hold a grudge against Yugi and Sugoroku and wants to revenge Sugoroku through Yugi.
The school is about to start and they are possibly on break of a class, there is a new student(the young boy and son of the clown) and is revealed by Honda they moved to 2nd year of High School, the new student seems to be drawing attention to the girls in their class named Ryuji Otogi, Jounouchi gets jealous of him being popular and then Jounouchi starts boasting about his performance in Duelist Kingdom, catching Otogi attention, he challenges Jounouchi to a game, without Jounouchi knowing being a shell game (a rigged game, basically).
Since it were a rigged games, the four aces plus dice and cup, Jounouchi lost all of them, once the deal of the bet was going too far, Dark Yugi interferes, who challenges Otogi to a bit different game from Four Aces, adding the card Joker, in order to make a fair game becoming it a game of sheer luck, Dark Yugi obviously wins, clearing Jounouchi from the deal of the bet.
The Black Clown grand opening day event, there is a lot of crowd, Yugi gets mixed in the crowd being small and pushed and indirectly kidnapped in being unjustly accused of theft, purposely taking away his millenium puzzle and put him in a dark room, technically this was kidnapping, a very planned one, I must say.


Key Points:

 

I love this scene, it doesn't fail me to make me laugh, Dark Yugi teasing Yugi like a sibling usually does, now they're more conscious of one another as an entity of their own, specially Yugi, Dark Yugi is already fully aware he is an entity of his own, the others not fully (Honda, Jounouchi and Bakura will take longer, much longer), Yugi and Anzu are closest to it.

For Yugi talking to Dark Yugi became part of his daily life, as if Dark Yugi being a new member of the family to Yugi (same applies to Sugoroku), this scene reveals Dark Yugi is quite the peachshipper, he knows Yugi has a crush on Anzu to the point of him giving advices, fashion advices (so funny), Dark Yugi also got used to this rather quickly to tease Yugi and calls Yugi not other self but partner, after all all it is 2 entities sharing the same body.

What I find interesting about this bond of host and spirit of the millenium puzzle, what would you see in other mangas, you would see the main character is the host and evil spirit is an antagonist - it's very common, in this series case, Dark Yugi is to protect his host and friends and has good intentions, he is a spirit of someone who is already deceased, they get along very well, they behave like siblings even in appearance they look like siblings (it's so cute and very funny).

About Yugi's family, I don't usually mention it, but since it's the last time we'll see his mother, and didn't wrote before, this is my chance, from the times we have seen his mother in the manga and Sugoroku, give us the assumption Yugi lives only with his mother and grampa, but where is his father?, in this excerpt of an interview Kazuki Takahashi reveals he is working overseas on business, which make us realize, from this information, Yugi's father is almost always absent but in some other info about it that his father sends him gifts sometimes, besides being an only child with an absent father, mother and grandfather (likely on his father side, from the looks of it, because his mother doesn't have tricolered hair, Sugoroku as we know a bit more about him, he shares the same hairstyle and tricolored hair, we can assume is just the spiky tricolored hair is genetic, we can assume Yugi's father has the same hairstyle...), mostly raised by his mother and grandfather, Yugi grows up not having much who he can look up to and see as a role model he can relate to, Dark Yugi takes this role for Yugi.

Dark Yugi only thing he isn't currently aware of is how much Yugi influences him, there is a reason why Dark Yugi penalty games becomes softer, it's not just Dark Yugi, Jounouchi as well (a very big influence on him), Honda, Mai, Mokuba and very very very slowly Kaiba, the ones who are most aware are Jounouchi and Honda as revealed in Death-T and this post.

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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.12-15 Part 11 (End of Duelist Kingdom)

This is about the aftermath of the duel between Dark Yugi&Yugi VS Pegasus, the ending of this story arc...I'll still go for summary first even without a duel and the details later, I can organize my thoughts on the details better...(I think the previous post was a little sloppy).


Update (25/09/2018): I have finished all Duelist Kingdom Arc updates now, 😌, it kinda took me one day...the early volumes gonna take awhile to update because there will be more changes, but not too much since the main story is on it's early stages...



Plot Summary

The last duel of Duelist Kingdom ended, Pegasus releases Kaiba brothers and Yugi's grampa souls, they start to get Yugi's prize ready, Dark Yugi starts asking how much he knows about the millenium items, Pegasus gives a reveals and begins to tell his backstory...
 It all started when he met his lover when they were young blossomed into romantic love, Cyndia died at 17 years, Pegasus haven't gotten through her death, he tried to search to overcame it in Egypt, entering a village of grave robbers where he meets a thief trying to steal the Millenium Ring, it was caught by some other men, Pegasus meets Shadi for the first time, Shadi guessed right about Pegasus's loss, Pegasus shocked by his knowledge, he follows him in secret, inside a normal home of the village, and there was an underground temple, they tested the millenium ring on the thief, he died...the men and Shadi were discussing mysterious matters about millenium items chosen bearers, then they caught Pegasus watching them, so they tested the Millenium Eye on him, he saw the spirit of Cyndia, but couldn't reach her since she was dead and he was still a mortal, end of Pegasus's backstory.
Dark Yugi reflects on the new information, his friends discuss about Pegasus, Mokuba awakes and they reveal to him Kaiba is on the island, Mr.Crocket arrives to give the prize money and Kaiba's duel disk while revealing the reason why Pegasus wanted Kaiba Corp, after they search for Kaiba in the castle and when they're about to try out outside, Kaiba appears, the Kaiba brothers have their brotherly moment, no boats for the gang to leave, Kaiba brothers let the gang and Mai in the helicopter to be even on debt for saving them and the Kaiba Corp, the story arc of Duelist Kingdom ends.



Key Points:

  

Pegasus as a villain can keep his promise, what we usually see most of the time in villains, they don't keep their promise or honour their promise, Pegasus has enough character to do this much, let's picture if was Bandit Keith, he wouldn't keep it, there is characters who wouldn't, Insector Haga, Player killers, despite Pegasus was a coward and cheater (sorry, no mercy), yet he followed his promise to Yugi, he has some calibre to a degree, I'll give him that, but comes from a bit of a cliché source, it will be discussed later in this post.



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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.12-15 Part 10 (Dark Yugi&Yugi VS Pegasus)

This summary will be long...I'll try to make it short as possible...
(but the thoughts, observations and opinions makes it a long post with more pictures, let's say this duel is so important, there is a lot of details to take in)

Update (24/09/2018): I remember when I did write this analysis, it took me 3 days, making the panels ensembles were a pain too, since then I decided big duels like these should be divided in two parts, which is why the last duels of Battle City are divided in two, but the panels ensembles I had to re-do them because I lost most of them and re-upload them, it was tough, I redid 75 panels ensembles for this update, now is only missing the epilogue to finish off updating this Arc.


Plot Summary:

The previous post left off Jounouchi victory against Bandit Keith, Jounouchi confesses to Dark Yugi and Anzu, the duel felt to be his last and is aware he has no chance in beating Pegasus, so he asks if he can leave this kind of weight to Yugi, Dark Yugi immediately accepts it, now Dark Yugi has both honor cards to save his grampa, Kaiba brothers and Jounouchi's sister (that's a lot of weight), they don't feel the need to duel each other, Pegasus accepts to go to the final duel of Duelist Kingdom.
While Dark Yugi gets ready, Pegasus get out of his seat and go to the duel arena, on the way there, he meets Bandit Keith with knife threatening to give him the prize, Pegasus tells him he was aware of Bandit Keith cheating and will receive a penalty game, leaving Keith unconscious or likely dead.
Dark Yugi and Pegasus before sitting the table, their fighting spirits clashing seems noticeable to the viewers (Jounouchi and Anzu), they discuss the deal a little then they sit, shuffle each others decks and the duel starts...
Pegasus starts dominating the duel from the beginning, when Dark Yugi is at his lowest point mentally, he hears Yugi's voice, Yugi speaks up some revelations, even for Dark Yugi and us readers (I'll approach in detail), Yugi comes up with an idea to beat Pegasus, because he have been noticing Pegasus maybe can only read one mind at a time (it's quite true, when he was reading Keith and Jounouchi, if you look at the panel with the balloons saying "One of them"Keith and "The other one" Jounouchi), so he asks Dark Yugi to fight as well, Dark Yugi accepts it, Yugi makes the moves and Dark Yugi not knowing the cards Yugi put facedown, in other words, Yugi is the sword and Dark Yugi is the shield, Dark Yugi calls it Mind Shuffle as to beat Mind Scan, Dark Yugi comments about Yugi's skills and comparing to Pegasus.
After Pegasus's toons cards being defeated, Pegasus warns he'll start a shadow game, before starting, he informs a little how he came to create Duel Monsters/Magic and Wizards, where the inspiration came from, Shadow Game begins, Yugi being a human living being and young, his consciousness can't stand for long since his willpower/energy is giving the form to the monsters he summons, Dark Yugi rushes to take over, Yugi insisting to continue fighting, it goes like this until Yugi lose consciousness, his friends starts feeling scared their best friend could be almost dying, so Dark Yugi takes over, Pegasus planning this on purpose so he could read freely Dark Yugi's mind, again Pegasus starts cornering him, then his friends spirits starts blocking Pegasus's Mind Scan, from here on out Dark Yugi takes the lead of the duel to victory as Yugi slowly regaining his consciousness.




Key Points:

 

I really liked this scene because Dark Yugi and Anzu are speaking up for Jounouchi he was able to win on his own, he should be proud of, Jounouchi slowly recognizing his growth as duelist, I do understand why, it was the final test of how much he learned in this tournament for him, he felt by winning this duel he passed test, to me his stage as a beginner has ended, he will start being intermediate level.
I think is interesting for them to think not be necessary, since both have a common goal, to not show more of their tactics to Pegasus would be the wise thing to do and...

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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.12-15 Part 9 ( Jounouchi VS Bandit Keith)

From here on out will be more around summaries first so I can get into details after, it's more organized like this....

Update (22/09/2018): I have been a lot faster because there is less key points to add and less to expand, the other reason for being motivated and determined that I finish the updates on Duelist Kingdom Arc before moving to another place, at least that's my intent, we have been in my sister's home temporarily so far, so when I move, I will be without internet for awhile, so there, but even without internet I can advance by writing drafts in a wordpad, so that then is ready to be updated when the internet is back... :).



Plot Summary:

It is time for the 2nd duel, Jounouchi didn't knew his card was stolen by Keith, once it came the time to show the card, Keith showed his (truly belonging to Jounouchi borrowed by Yugi), Jounouchi searching in his pockets, realizing the honor card isn't in his pockets, Crocket says he only has 5 minutes to find it, while going searching, Honda with Bakura and Mokuba on his piggyback.
Jounouchi frantically searched and nothing, Mai passes by and gives her honor right card wrapped in her handkerchief, Jounouchi feels grateful to her goes to the duel arena.
The duel starts, in the beginning is Keith taking the lead, then Jounouchi turned the game to his favor, then became a duel of back and forth, Pegasus paid close attention being 2 opposites against each other, he makes an interesting observation, Keith is cheating desperately to win while Jounouchi plays fair, the duel ends with Jounouchi's victory.


Key Points:

I like this scene about how the gang and Dark Yugi admit it was very difficult duel for Dark Yugi between each other, which shows not just humility from Dark Yugi side but also from the gang who tend to be quite self-righteous, but the gang were faster in becoming more down to earth than Dark Yugi, who still has some ways to go and in his inner monologue feeling very grateful for the duel with Mai which taught a very important lesson.

Besides the exchange between Jounouchi and Keith which is about Keith being disrespectful in putting his feet or boots on the table, Dark Yugi agrees for different reasons related to his passionate and intense ethic and honour as a duelist, Jounouchi's reasons comes from somewhere else, looking back in Volume 2 of the early volumes, the environment of his home, his alcoholic father does exactly the same thing Keith is doing here, if you look at Jounouchi's eyes and the way he says about he dislikes seeing the bottom of anybody's boots...:

"I don't like seeing the bottom of anybody'boots...but you're about as good as dog crap on the bottom of my shoe!"

Jounouchi is mostly referring indirectly to his own father and finds it as extremely rude and disrespectful independently the individual being a duelist or not, to be honest, I wholeheartedly agree with him, at minimum decency not put feet on the table, specially in someone's else house/location as basic good manners at the very least, Jounouchi is seeing behaviour and attitude in Keith is a strong resemblance to his father.

So subtle of Takahashi-sensei showing Bakura and Honda have successfully saved Mokuba, I do still wonder why Yami Bakura saved Honda to help saving Mokuba, it's plain strange or to help trigger some future events regarding Pegasus...Yami Bakura is certainly a mysterious villain character, we don't know what kind scheme he is playing by keeping a low profile...

This scene may be quite serious, but Bandit Keith thought about 5 minutes of waiting being the most useless five minutes of his life, it's hilarious and quite relatable, I know I have been waiting for an hour in a hairdresser, 30 mins at the hospital/clinic and social assistance, when you finish your test in a class and you have to wait until the bell rings, anyone had this kind of feeling before, pffft, so funny.

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