The strange dark spirit that lies inside the Millennium Ring. He searches for all the other Millennium items. Although the purpose is unknown, it&#039;s obvious that the intent is pure evil. When in full possession of Bakura&#039;s body, he is capable of invoking many magical powers of the Shadow Realm into this world. The spirit has linked itself through the Millennium Ring to Bakura and is able to return itself to Bakura even if discarded or lost.    He&#039;s the main arch enemy of Yami Yugi. He holds a 5,000 year old grudge with Yami Yugi which he never reveals.    Yami Bakura uses an occult deck focused around Fiends &amp; Zombies to unleash powerful dark magics.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters centers around the journey of the spirit of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who is trying to re-discover who he was many years ago, since he has lost his memories. With the help of a boy, Yugi Mutou, the one who awakened the spirit, and his friends, he battles many villains and adversaries. Many of the villains have been linked to the Nameless Pharaoh's past, due to the Millennium Puzzle he holds and many try to take the puzzle and his power away from him. 
The series focuses on the card game aspect of it and the main theme represented throughout the series is friendship.

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Rika Matsumoto is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer, as well as one of the founders of [JAM Project](https://anilist.co/staff/102041/).

After early stage work, she began both voice acting and singing careers. The most popular role by Rika is [Satoshi](https://anilist.co/character/2473/) (Ash Ketchum in English translations), the main character of the anime series [Pokémon](https://anilist.co/anime/527/). She also had a role in the [Yu-Gi-Oh](https://anilist.co/anime/550/) series as [Ryou Bakura](https://anilist.co/character/1488/) and [Yami Bakura](https://anilist.co/character/1489/). As such, Matsumoto has taken on roles for young boys. Matsumoto also performs the songs for many of the openings for the Japanese Pokémon anime.

Matsumoto has had lead or supporting roles in dozens of series. She has also had a radio show in Japan and does some dubbing work for translations of American films and TV series into Japanese. She announced in April 2008 she was taking time off from the group and her solo work.

Her name is also sometimes romanized as Rica Matsumoto.

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José Gilberto Vilchis is a Mexican voice actor, son of voice actress Banny Barrero and nephew of the late voice actor Jesús Barrero. He is known for being the Latin American Spanish voice of Loki in the *Marvel Cinematic Universe*, and Merry in *The Lord of the Rings*.

He is the recurring dub voice of Mark Wahlberg, Bradley Cooper and Tom Hiddleston.

He is the co-founder of Creative Fuzion, with Taaz Gill. Has worked on many English dubs of anime that aired in Singapore.

10th grader Yugi spent most of his time alone playing games--until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, a mysterious Egyptian artifact! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evil-doers to the Shadow Games--weird games with high stakes and high risks! These graphic novels contain new stories not seen in the anime, including the origin of Yugi and his friends!
 
(Source: Viz Media)
 
Notes: 
- The Viz Media release split the series into three parts with separate chapter/volume counts. "Yu-Gi-Oh!" includes volumes 1-7, "Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist" includes volumes 8-31, and "Yu-Gi-Oh!: Millennium World" includes volumes 32-38. 
- The final chapter of Viz Media's "Yu-Gi-Oh!" was moved from its final volume to the first volume of "Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist."

Yuugi is a somewhat frail young boy who happens to be a big fan of gaming of any kind. But when he solves an ancient egyptian puzzle he is granted all the powers of darkness. Now when confronted with danger and injustice, he transforms into a much darker and dangerous form, and proceeds to dish out the justice and punishment for those who so richly deserve it. 
(Source: AnimeNfo)