Yu-Gi-Oh! Kill Count Part 9 - Murder in Ancient Egypt!
Yu-Gi-Oh! Kill Count Part 9 - Murder in Ancient Egypt!
Yugi and friends travel to the world of memory for the manga's final arc!
On Wednesdays, we’re reading Yu-Gi-Oh! here on JonathanLack.Com – specifically, as explained in Part I of this series, we’re looking at how many people are killed in the surprisingly violent original manga, and which characters rack up the biggest kill counts. And today, we’re continuing with Volumes 32 and 33 of the manga.
Volume 32 sees the beginning of the final arc (split off as “Millennium World” by Viz, which is also what I’ll be calling the arc for the sake of simplicity). And hoo boy, this first volume is a doozy. We start with a flashback to Grandpa Mutou getting the Millennium Puzzle, and learn he was quite the dapper badass.
In that flashback, Grandpa’s two companions are killed by traps in the tomb, which we later learn were created by Grandpa’s spiritual ancestor in Egypt, Siamun. So although it took thousands of years for his work to pay off, Siamun has earned 2 kills. Go ancient Gramps!
In the present day, Yami Bakura arranges for the theft of the God cards so he can steal them back and get in Yugi’s good graces – and I’m pretty sure he kills the thief, since that’s how this guy rolls. 1 Kill for Yami Bakura.
In the past, we meet Thief King Bakura, who we will be counting as a separate character from Yami Bakura for reasons that shall become apparent as we go through the story (tl;dr, Thief King Bakura is a human, Yami Bakura is the spirit of Zorc Necrophades living in the Millennium Ring). In any case, this ancient Bakura storms the palace and kills by my count at least four guys on his way in. That “Ker-snap!” sound effect is not ambiguous. 4 Kills for Thief King Bakura.
Here we meet Priest Seto, the ancient version of Kaiba (though despite looking similar he turns out to be a very different character as we get to know him). He doesn’t kill anyone here, but is very bloodthirsty and I think you all deserve to see it.
And last but not least from this volume, I thought you all deserved to see this very sexy splash page spread.
Volume 33 begins with an anti-Iraq War message from Takahashi, reminding us that the rest of the world thought, for perfectly good reason, that we had all lost our goddamn minds here in the United States.
Thief King Bakura gets down to business immediately by seemingly killing these five guards. Ouch. 5 Kills for Thief King Bakura.
The main action of this volume tells the origin story of the Dark Magician card, via the efforts of the Priest Mahado, who gives his life to stop Bakura – and becomes the stone slab version of the Dark Magician as a result. So 1 kill for Thief King Bakura, though Mahado certainly did not die in vain.
On this page, we learn Thief King Bakura has killed over 100 guards. Now, this is not an exact number, and we do not see any of those kills on-screen, but we have awarded characters – including the Creepy Mime and The Sea – kills for off-screen events described by others later, so I think we have to give these to him. The exact line is “killed over 100 soldiers,” so conservatively, we have to give 101 Kills to Thief King Bakura. The man is a mass murderer, and our very stupid game just got a lot more competitive.
OFFICIAL YU-GI-OH! KILL COUNT AS OF VOLUME 33
Thief King Bakura: 111 kills
Yami Yugi: 11 kills
Seto Kaiba: 6 kills
Yami Bakura: 5 kills
Yami Marik: 3 kills
Creepy Mime: 2 kills
Katsuya Jonouchi: 2 kills
Marik Ishtar: 2 kills
Siamun: 2 kills
Shadi: 2 kills
Baby Joji: 1 kill
Pegasus J. Crawford: 1 kill
The Sea: 1 kill
NEXT WEEK: Things get truly crazy with the biggest body count we’ve ever seen in volumes 34 and 35!
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