Thoughts&Observations | Mangá: Yu-Gi-Oh! Vol. 1-3 Part 5 - Shadi's Arc Part 1

Hellos!!

So that last post was pretty long, huh?

Despite some of the difficulties around this year with the Covid, so stay strong and stay safe.

As for the post, originally I was thinking the Shadi's arc to be divided in 2 posts for later to realize, it's too many panels for one post, so Shadi's arc will be divided in 3 posts, which will make it a lot smaller and faster to write too, I might have to do the same with Episodic Arcs post after it like divided in 2 posts instead of all in 1 of each volume...it means more posts, but more well divided and distributed.

Plot Summary:

In Domino Museum will be hosting a Ancient Egypt exhibit, a friend of Sugoroku (Yugi's grandpa) invites Sugoroku and his grandson&co to visit and see the exhibit on Sunday.
Sunday comes, everyone is at the meeting place (front of the museum), the ones present to welcome them, introducing themselves Sugoroku's friend, Professor Yoshimori and Director or Owner of the Domino Museum, Mr. Kanekura, Mr. Kanekura reminds prof. Yoshimori to talk about the boy who solved the millennium puzzle, Mr. Kanekura requests Yugi if he could borrow his millennium puzzle for the Egyptian Exhibit for one day, Yugi reluctantly accepts the request since being for one day.

The exhibit goes smoothly without a hitch, however Mr.Kanekura is talking with a collector while showing to this collector the millennium puzzle, who is very interested in buying the artefact, Mr.Kanekura wants to sell it after the exhibit for the day in hiding it from Yugi then later give him money to "shut him up" (that wouldn't work anyway), while the Exhibit goes on, Yugi meets a mysterious man wearing a white robe and turban who was crying in front a mummy of a pharaoh...pats Yugi in the head mistaking him for a child.

After Yugi watched the Day 1 of the Egyptian Exhibit , Yugi waits for 10 minutes before it closes so he could go to Mr.Kanekura to get back his millennium puzzle, as he waits, the mysterious man comes to Mr.Kanekura's office, with the collector already dead...the mysterious man uses a magical artefact shaped like a balance scale, uses a feather from his turban and put in one of the levers in his balance scale and challenges Mr.Kanekura to a shadow game with morality-truth based questions...taking to Mr.Kanekura's death... notices the millinuium puzzle and he is shocked someone solved it and curious who did it and takes the millennium puzzle, the mysterious man leaves the room and meets Yugi again, Yugi asks about his millennium puzzle, the mysterious man is shocked the boy he met before was the one who solved it, so he uses another magical artefact shaped like a key and Ankh symbol named Millennium Key to see the boy's room of soul...
To the mysterious man shock, all he sees a corridor with two rooms of soul, he takes a peek to one of the rooms of soul with a door open, this door has toys and games which reflects and reveals to be Yugi's room of soul, then looks at the other room of soul, it's door is closed, the mysterious man gets closer, the door of the "other room of soul" starts to slowly open and sees another individual inside...Dark Yugi, the mysterious man enters Dark Yugi's room of soul, analyses the room, Dark Yugi then inquires who he is and his motives, the mysterious man says he is a wielder of two millennium items (Millennium Key and Millennium Scales-the balance scale shaped magical artefact) and explains it's powers, intent to investigate Dark Yugi's room of soul which is still dark and can't see almost nothing, so Dark Yugi challenges the mysterious man (he didn't give his name yet) to a game in finding the "true room" of his soul, his room of soul lights up to be revealed to be in form of a maze to hide Dark Yugi's "true room of soul", the mysterious man accepts the challenge.
The mysterious man has no success in finding the "true room" that he falls to one of the "maze" room's traps, Dark Yugi helps him get out of the trap, he asks the mysterious man that would be best for him to leave, the mysterious man questions if he lost the game, Dark Yugi responds that might be a beginning then the mysterious man exists Dark Yugi's room of soul to the corridor of rooms of souls to leave their mind and rooms of souls.

Key Points:

This is one of the moments I have been waiting for, this is after Yugi told them about the Ancient Egypt Exhibit and that  they were invited to visit the museum, the Opening Day they start the exhibit...Anzu brings up the Egypt as being an mystical place and also where Yugi's pendant (Millennium Puzzle was/Pendant in the past), however she reminds us the readers and Yugi about it's rumour according to his grandpa that the archaeologists who found it all died mysterious deaths...(reference to chapter 1), Jounouchi gets worried about Yugi if he is cursed, Jounouchi seems very scared of supernatural stuff, Yugi says he isn't and asks Anzu to not scare him, getting to the point at hand now brought up by Anzu and Jounouchi...Yugi inner monologue:

"But still...Ever since I completed this puzzle, there's been times when I lose my memory...I'd better not tell everyone...They'd think it was creepy..."

This shows that Yugi has been aware for quite sometime and noticing these "blackouts" as a strange occurrence for him not remembering certain timings, when Dark Yugi took over...he is starting to get some suspicions besides it's power helping to find someone (like we seen in previous post to find Jounouchi in "Hirutani's Torture Chamber" (😑), also he is worried that they would distance themselves from him if they knew, so he doesn't say anything, I can see his side on this and would probably do the same, but not for the same reasons, it can cause worry or not believing in you and joke about it...or don't take it seriously...however if Yugi told them, they would be worried though.

 

Before we get to introduction of these new characters, I want to point out some funny details about Yugi in this moment , so when they arrived, Anzu, Jounouchi, Honda all dress up and Yugi's grandpa wearing his usual overall that we see him wearing for most of the series, Yugi on the other hand is wearing his high school uniform, that Jounouchi brings up:

Jounouchi: "Yugi...don't wear school uniform on the weekends..."

Yugi: "... Why not?"

Apparently Yugi wears his "high school uniform" on weekends when goes out and this day is Sunday no less, I wonder what is the reason 😂, Yugi ponders a little then responds with a question, honestly is not difficult to guess the reason, Yugi maybe kinda good at hiding them but is clear he has complex about his height and "child-like" appearance, acts as an airhead "why not wear it on weekends?".

Now getting into introduction of Professor Yoshimori and Mr.Kanekura, as we see here, Yugi's grandpa is someone with a lots of connections, more specifically with archaeologists (his american friend, Arthur the one who gave him the Blue Eyes White Dragon who was also a gamer, in the filler anime he is archaeologist and gamer), however he didn't knew Mr.Kanekura, he funded the excavation in Egypt and is sponsoring the exhibit, he is the owner or Director of Domino Museum currently...I will bring him later close to the end... (Bakura's father).

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