Katsuya Jonouchi ( manga ) Katsuya Jonouchi ( " Jōnouchi Katsuya " ) , known as Joey Wheeler in the English version of " Yu - Gi - Oh ! The Dark Side of Dimensions " , is a character in the " Yu - Gi - Oh ! " manga . This is the original depiction of Katsuya Jonouchi , known as Joey Wheeler in most English media , as created by Kazuki Takahashi . Jonouchi is the best friend of Yugi Mutou and Hiroto Honda . He suffered a poor upbringing with his parents divorcing and him living with his alcoholic father , while his sister Shizuka lived with their mother . Jonouchi used to be a thug and even hung out with Hirutani ' s gang for a while . After becoming friends with Yugi he became more righteous and would do anything to protect his friends or innocent people being taken advantage of . Jonouchi starts out as a weak player after taking - up " Duel Monsters " , but becomes more powerful as he learns from Yugi and Dark Yugi and fights to protect people he loves . Biography . Early life . Jonouchi used to live with his sister , Shizuka and would walk all around town with her . They were separated when Jonouchi was 10 , at the time of their parents divorce . Shizuka was brought by their mother while Jonouchi lived with their father . Jonouchi became a street thug and hung out in Hirutani ' s gang for periods of time while he was in middle school . He often got into fights and developed great fighting skills . He also hung out with Hiroto Honda . Jonouchi lived in poverty , due to his father ' s gambling addictions and alcoholism . Jonouchi went to great lengths to repay his father ' s debts , such as working at multiple jobs . He was the " lone paperboy " in middle school , meaning that he was one of the few students that were permitted to work while going to school . School arc . Ushio . Jonouchi along with Honda used to bully Yugi at school . Jonouchi was annoyed at how Yugi would let himself get pushed around and claimed his bullying was teaching Yugi how to be a man and even offered Yugi to punch him back , although Yugi hates violence . After he and Honda swiped the box containing the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle , Jonouchi was told off by Anzu and left the room , but managed to secretly take a piece of the puzzle beforehand . In the hallway , Jonouchi said he was sickened by how Yugi was obsessing over a puzzle and how Anzu had called them bullies . They then bumped into Ushio , who asked what they were saying about bullying . Jonouchi tried telling Ushio to stay out of it , but was restrained by Honda and insisted it was nothing . After explained how influential and powerful Ushio was , Jonouchi vowed to get back at Ushio . He then showed Honda the piece of the puzzle he had taken and threw it into the school pool . The next day , Ushio beat - up Honda and Jonouchi under the suspicion that they were bullying Yugi . Yugi tried to stop Ushio , saying they were teaching him how to be a man , not bullying him . That resulted in Yugi also being beaten - up . Jonouchi was inspired by how Yugi had tried to help him and came to care for Yugi . Later that day , he retrieved the piece of the puzzle from the pool and gave it to Yugi ' s grandfather , to give to Yugi . The next day at school , Jonouchi answered Yugi ' s riddle , " something you can show , but can ' t see " , saying that it ' s friendship and he is Yugi ' s friend . ZTV . When Jonouchi saw a ZTV van outside their school , he began to spread rumors about there being a star at their school . He suspected that they were disguised as a student and planned on unmasking them to make a fortune . However Yugi was skeptical of there being a star , so Jonouchi left him to find that star by himself . Later he spotted Yugi being beaten by Fujita . He quickly broke up the fight and found out that it was a staged bullying scene for a documentary , " " . When he confronted the director , the director reminded him that he was being filmed , so Jonouchi was reluctant to attack . However the director attacked Jonouchi when he told the cameramen to stop filming . Later having looked into it , Jonouchi admitted that there was no star at the school , which Yugi was surprised he hadn ' t given up on until now . Jonouchi instead vowed to become the star of the school himself . He noticed something was bothering Yugi , who hadn ' t told him he was being forced to sell tickets to Sozoji ' s concert . Yugi insisted that he was fine . Jonouchi and Honda then proceeded to lift up Anzu ' s skirt using a t - square , earning him a punch in the face . Prisoner 777 . Jonouchi noticed how Anzu was acting odd , after avoiding walking home with them a few days and discouraging them from going to from Burger World . He initially assumed that she was dating older men for pay . He and Yugi secretly following her home after school to find out what she was really doing . They were surprised to see her enter Burger World and greet them at the door , in a waitress uniform . Anzu was intimidated , as after school jobs were against the school rules , and worried that Jonouchi , being a loud mouth would tell everyone . Anzu told the boys that she was saving money to go to New York to study dancing and Jonouchi promised not to tell anyone . Anzu got held hostage by an escaped prisoner . Jonouchi was unable to assist as the customers had to lie on the floor and couldn ' t see that Dark Yugi was rescuing her , as he was positioned by behind an obese man . Kokurano . Jonouchi told Yugi that he was down on his luck , claiming to have gotten hit once in a fight against four punks . He attended a service hosted by the alleged psychic Kokurano in the hopes of curing his bad luck . Seeing that it was mostly girls at the service , he pretended Anzu dragged him there , when he was the one who insisted on her and Yugi coming . Kokurano simply told Jonouchi that he was having bad luck and didn ' t offer him any advice . Goro . When coming up with ideas for their classes fundraiser in the school festival , Jonouchi suggested that they put on a cabaret , staring the girls from their class , which was immediately rejected . The class decided on a Carnival Games booth . Jonouchi worked on making the barrel for the life size version of " Bluebeard ' s Attack " and planned on teasing whoever was to play the role of Bluebeard . However since Jonouchi was the right size for the barrel and Yugi had specifically made the head to fit Jonouchi , Anzu gave Jonouchi the role . When Goro Inogashira attempted to steal the class ' spot , Jonouchi tried to fight him , but got stuck in the barrel and was easily knocked back by Goro . On the day of the festival , Jonouchi played Bluebeard and Anzu thought he had fun . Ms . Chono . Honda fell for their fellow classmate , Miho Nosaka and despite Honda ' s objections , Jonouchi enlisted Yugi to help them find a gift for Miho . Yugi took them to his family ' s game shop where they get a love jigsaw puzzle . Together they hid the gift in Miho ' s desk . However Miho didn ' t find it until Ms . Chono performed a desk check . Chono started to assemble the puzzle and read its message out to the class . She intended to punish the sender , but Yugi , Jonouchi and Honda all claimed responsibility . Dark Yugi turned the jigsaw into a Shadow Game , Dark Puzzle , so that Ms . Chono felt the pain she inflicted on others by working on the puzzle . This caused her ugly make up free face to be exposed , causing her to flee the classroom , without punishing Honda and his friends . Afterwards Honda asked Miho out directly , but she declined . Jonouchi then offered to buy him a hamburger to cheer him up . Junky Scorpion owner . Having had his eyes on a pair of Air Muscle shoes for a long time , Jonouchi took Honda and Yugi to the Junky Scorpion shop , to buy a pair . The owner refused to sell Jonouchi the shoes unless he puts his foot inside one of the shoes , while there was a scorpion inside . Jonouchi did it and found out that there really was no scorpion inside ; it had just been a test and the owner sold him the shoes for half price . Shortly after leaving the shop , Jonouchi , Yugi and Honda were ambushed by a group of thugs , who stole the shoes . The three boys tracked down the thugs afterwards . Jonouchi and Honda beat them up and learned that the store owner paid them to get back the shoes . By the time Jonouchi and Honda returned to the shop , Yugi already had gotten the shoes back and the owner was being rushed to the hospital for scorpion stings . Unaware that he changed to Dark Yugi and defeated the owner in coin in sneaker , Yugi returned the shoes to Jonouchi , with a hole in one , which Jonouchi considered a battle scar . Kaiba . Jonouchi took up " Duel Monsters " , having been introduced by Sugoroku and Yugi at their shop , where Sugoroku showed them his rare card , the " Blue - Eyes White Dragon " . Jonouchi made plans to play " Duel Monsters " at school the next day with Yugi , just before Seto Kaiba arrived . Learning that Kaiba plays " Duel Monsters " , Jonouchi invited him to join them , but Kaiba ridiculed his cards and told him to come back after collecting at least 10 , 000 . The next day at school Jonouchi was defeated by Yugi and asked him for a rematch , unintentionally distracting Yugi from approaching Kaiba , who just stole the " Blue - Eyes White Dragon " card . Hirutani ' s gang . Hirutani blackmailed Jonouchi into rejoining his gang by threatening to beat - up Jonouchi ' s classmates if he didn ' t . This caused Jonouchi to be away from home for two days without leave and consequently missed a day of school . Honda became suspicious when he noticed Jonouchi was absent , as he couldn ' t recall Jonouchi ever missing school beforehand . Jonouchi and the gang were spotted mugging someone outside the American Club , prompting Yugi to rush over and plea with Jonouchi to leave the gang . Jonouchi denied knowing Yugi and didn ' t react when one of the gangsters punched Yugi . Later at J ' z , Jonouchi attacked the gangster for hitting Yugi earlier . Hirutani then orders the rest of the gang to seize Jonouchi and take him to the torture chamber . At the chamber , Jonouchi had his hands tied above his head and was beaten by the gang . They electrocuted him with stun guns to the point where he couldn ' t speak . Hirutani orders the gang to continue to shock him , despite concerns that it could kill him . Dark Yugi arrived , stopped the gang and defeated them in Landmine Search Network , saving Jonouchi . Shadi . Yugi invited Jonouchi , Anzu and Honda to the Egypt Unearthed exhibition at the Domino City Museum . Jonouchi was worried about getting cursed , since they found a mummy . He also became worried that Yugi might be cursed when Anzu asked didn ' t Yugi ' s grandfather say that the archaeologists who uncovered the Millennium Puzzle died mysterious deaths . One the day of the exhibition Jonouchi told Yugi off for wearing his school uniform on the weekend and was shown around by Professor Yoshimori . When news broke of Curator Kanekura ' s death , Jonouchi , Anzu , Yugi and Sugoroku visited Professor Yoshimori at the university to comfort him . However Shadi , seeking to test Yugi , had possessed Yoshimori by redecorating his soul room . Yoshimori acted strange and began choking Jonouchi , while Jonouchi ' s friends tried pulling him off . Anzu freed Jonouchi by walloping Yoshimori in the head with a globe . Jonouchi distracted the zombie Yoshimori from the others , by having him chase him around the building . Among Jonouchi ' s efforts to snap the professor back to normal , he punched him the face , knocking out more of his teeth and sprayed him with a fire extinguisher . Eventually , Yoshimori pushed him out a third floor window . Jonouchi managed to get onto a ledge and spotted Anzu , who was being used in the Trial of the Mind Shadow Game , standing motionless on a board hanging over the edge up above him . He climbed up to rescue her , but was followed by the professor . Still hassled by the professor , Jonouchi held onto Anzu ' s board as its supporting rope began to break . Seeing Yugi ' s friends work together and trusting each other , caused Shadi ' s ushebti to break , letting his Millennium Key , slide down a rope to Anzu , returning her to normal . Jonouchi and Dark Yugi helped Anzu to safety and Dark Yugi told Jonouchi to touch the key off the professor to return him to normal . He complied , but also noticed Yugi was acting different . After seeing everyone was okay , Jonouchi told Shadi he was unwelcome here . After Shadi left , Anzu asked Jonouchi if Yugi seemed different to him , but after they approach Yugi , he had turned back his normal self . When Yoshimori noticed some of his teeth were missing , Jonouchi tried blaming Anzu . During the previous Shadow Game , Dark Yugi faced an illusion of Jonouchi created by Shadi . They were to play the Game of Death , where each player was to try and force their opponent to walk over the edge and fall to their death . The illusion displayed the traits Jonouchi had when he was bully . Dark Yugi refused to take his turns , as it was possible he was facing the real Jonouchi , possessed by Shadi . Dark Yugi ' s trust in Jonouchi , caused the illusion to disappear , rather than force him off the edge . Digital Pets . When Digital Pets became popular , Jonouchi purchased | one , which his friends mocked how ugly it had become . When he connected it with Yugi ' s pet , U2 , to exchange data , Jonouchi ' s pet proved to be a bully as a kicked U2 , but they became friends shortly afterwards . Their classmate , Kujirada had a hidden character pet , which Jonouchi tittered at for being uglier than his . The next day at school , Jonouchi left his pet unattended , during which Kujirada fed it to his own pet . As Kujirirada tried feeding more pets to his own , it was defeated by U2 , who had become stronger due to its data transfer with Jonouchi ' s pet . Hanasaki . Jonouchi was introduced to the American comic " Zombire " by Tomoya Hanasaki . He , Yugi , Anzu and Honda were all invited to Hanasaki ' s house to see his " Zombire " collection afterwards . Among their antics , Jonouchi got a fright when Hanasaki ' s father entered wearing a Zombire mask and assembled a figure not knowing Hanasaki had wanted to keep in its box unopened . As they left Hanasaki forgave Jonouchi for assembling the figure , which he now thought was better assembled , and Hanasaki ' s father begged them to stay friends with Hanasaki . After assuring him that they would , Jonouchi told him that Hanasaki wasn ' t as fragile as his father thought . Street Fighter . Jonouchi went with Yugi to the arcade hoping to beat " KAI " in at least one of the national high scores . He heard from other kids at the arcade , that the " KAI " high scores belonged to Seto Kaiba and that there was a rumor Kaiba was working on building the ultimate game . Jonouchi failed to beat Kaiba ' s score on a racing game and after watching Yugi play " Virtual VS " for a while went to buy a coffee and a cola for himself and Yugi . However when he returned , he found Yugi had been beaten - up and his Millennium Puzzle was stolen . Jonouchi tracked down the thief , Street Fighter who offered to give back the puzzle , if Jonouchi could beat him in a fighting game , Game of Death . The rules involved each player holding a knife in their mouth that would stick into their throat if punched in the face . Jonouchi asked that his opponent not use a knife , as he didn ' t want to hold back punching him in the face . Jonouchi fought with his hands in his pockets and found it difficult to dodge his opponent ' s punches in the alley . He told his opponent that he had promises in each of his pockets . He revealed one of the promises was Yugi ' s cola , which he sprayed in his opponent ' s eyes after it had been shaken , and that the other was the promise to " clobber " him and punched his opponent in the jaw . Jonouchi then took back the Puzzle to give to Yugi . Death - T . Prior events . Shortly afterward their encounter with Street Fighter , a limousine pulled up beside Yugi and Jonouchi and chauffeur explained that Seto Kaiba requested to see Yugi at his mansion . Yugi and Jonouchi both got inside the limousine and Jonouchi was surprised to hear that Kaiba was president of KaibaCorp . When it was discovered that Kaiba was unable to see them , Mokuba Kaiba asked the butler to prepare the " special course " meal for them . Yugi and Jonouchi were disappointed to find that it consisted of childish meals and Mokuba suggested that they make a game out of it by spinning the turntable and eating the meal that stopped before them . Mokuba lied when Jonouchi asked if the food was poisoned . Mokuba cheated by using a hidden switch in a syrup bottle , to make Jonouchi eat a poisoned meal . Yugi turned into Dark Yugi and defeated Mokuba winning the antidote to save Jonouchi . Jonouchi and Yugi stayed the night at Kaiba ' s mansion and were greeted by Kaiba the next morning . Jonouchi initially got mad over what Mokuba did , but Kaiba brought them to the grand opening of his Kaiba Land theme park as special guests . They and many other children were given free access to all the attractions , leading Jonouchi to believe he had misjudged Kaiba . However Kaiba showed them a special show , where he Dueled and defeated Sugoroku Mutou . After which , he forced Yugi to take part in Death - T , the theme park of death , before releasing Sugoroku from the simulation capable of driving humans insane . Jonouchi insisted on accompanying Yugi in Death - T , as did Honda who was babysitting his nephew , Johji , in the audience . Death T - 1 . In the first stage , Death T - 1 , they bumped into Anzu , who to their surprise was working there . She told them the rules of the stage ; how they were to face three others in a shootout game . Unbeknownst to them , Kaiba had hired professional hitmen , Johnny Gayle , Bob McGuire and " name unknown " , as their opponents . Jonouchi couldn ' t bear Honda ' s plan of staying put , waiting for the other team , so he leapt up on the walls of the arena and took out Gayle by kicking him in the face . Honda called the team to retreat after finding their guns had no effect on their opponents , while their opponents were armed with lethal guns . Jonouchi suggested another one of his sneak attacks , but Honda and Johji dealt with the situation after finding Anzu ' s gun hadn ' t been rigged . Death T - 2 . Jonouchi ' s bravery vanished as they entered the Horror Zone for Death T - 2 . The first part of the stage consisted of the Electric Chair Ride , during which , Jonouchi , Yugi , Honda , Anzu and Kaiba ' s butler , who was orchestrating the ride , were strapped to electric chairs that shock their sitter if they screamed . Jonouchi advised his friends not to make a sound , but they yelled back that he was most likely to scream . The participants were subjected to various terrors during the ride . These caused Jonouchi to faint , preventing him from screaming . The gang were saved as Johji caused the butler to scream and consequently electrocute himself . After the ride , the gang entered the Murderer ' s Mansion and the doors locked behind them . Jonouchi ' s attempt to pick the lock was mocked by Johji , as there was no use going back the way they came . The gang were had to put their hands through holes , where they got locked below a large guillotine . Yugi managed to solve the necessary riddle to save them . After the guillotine substage , Johji got kidnapped by the Chopman . Since Johji had saved them in the Electric Chair Ride , Jonouchi faced the Chopman to make it up to him . Under Kaiba ' s death threat , Johji handcuffed Jonouchi to the Chopman . The two had to fight to the death inside a small chamber with weapons hanging from the ceiling . Jonouchi was no match for the Chopman ' s strength , but after the Chopman ' s chainsaw got stuck in a pillar . While the Chopman tried to free his chainsaw , Jonouchi looked for something to pick the lock on the handcuff . Yugi pointed him to a candlestick and then briefed him in on a plan to defeat the Chopman . Jonouchi picked open his end of the handcuffs with the candlestick holder . By the time the Chopman freed his chainsaw , Jonouchi had attached his end of the handcuffs the door and left the candle hang loosely off it . Before noticing this , the Chopman gave the chain a tug ripping out the door , allowing Jonouchi escape . The candle hit the oil covered floor , setting the Chopman on fire . Death T - 3 . For Death T - 3 , Jonouchi and his friends were locked in an empty room . While waiting for something to happen , Jonouchi talked about how his life had changed a lot lately . Anzu drew a symbol of friendship on her , Jonouchi , Yugi and Honda ' s hands and explained that if they wound up taking separate paths in life , they should remember this symbol and they ' ll remember being friends . Yugi broke down and cried that if it wasn ' t for him , they wouldn ' t be in the mess they were in . Outraged , Jonouchi grabbed Yugi by the collar , demanding that he never say that again , as they were a team . The stage began and large blocks started falling from the ceiling . Having studied dance , Anzu could follow the rhythms the blocks were falling at and guided the group away the blocks about to fall . After the room filled up , the gang were able to escape through a hole high up on one of the walls . While the everyone else made it through , Honda got stuck and told the others to go on . A block sealed the gap they escaped through preventing them going back to Honda . Death T - 4 . Upset over what happened to Honda , Yugi admitted to Anzu and Jonouchi that he thought there was another Yugi inside him . He ' d been afraid to tell them , as he feared they might leave him if they knew . Jonouchi promised that even if that ' s true , he ' d always be friends with Yugi . Jonouchi and Anzu , knowingly saw Dark Yugi for the first time as , Yugi switched to him , before facing Mokuba in " Capsule Monster Chess " in Death T - 4 . Death T - 5 . Jonouchi and Anzu were held at gunpoint by Saruwatari and another KaibaCorp guard during Death T - 4 . After Dark Yugi won , they were escorted to watch him in Death T - 5 , where he faced Kaiba in " Duel Monsters " . Before Yugi and Kaiba ' s Duel began , Jonouchi swiped Saruwatari ' s phone and called Tomoya Hanasaki , who was at the hospital , to check up on Sugoroku . During the Duel , Dark Yugi imagined Jonouchi , Anzu and Honda were with him before drawing his last card . When he won , the guards still had Jonouchi and Anzu at gunpoint , but Honda , who had been saved by Mokuba , appeared and helped Jonouchi fight the guards off . One of the guards managed to get back on his feet and hold his gun to Jonouchi ' s head . However Mokuba told him to stop down and explained that he saved them because he owed Yugi a favor . As they left Kaiba Land , Jonouchi got word from Hanasaki who said Sugoroku ' s surgery was a success . After realizing that Dark Yugi had switched back to Yugi , Jonouchi was about to ask him a question , but then decided not to . Post Death - T . Tsuruoka . Jonouchi , Honda and Yugi played the Achievement Test Bingo Game when the results of their achievement tests were posted . Jonouchi lost having not got any lines on his card and had to buy three hamburgers for Yugi and two for Honda . The guidance councilor , Tsuruoka , spotted them making a game of the test results and pointed out how they scored among the lowest of the four hundred who took the test . He confiscated Yugi ' s Lovely Two love compatibility tester and threatened to break it while calling the three of them " unskilled slackers " . However Dark Yugi emerged and claimed they had skills Tsuruoka could never match . This resulted in Tsuruoka imposing a game , Find the Keyring ! where he hid the Lovely Two and gave them one hour to find it or be expelled . Jonouchi and Honda fetched some digging equipment in case Tsuruoka had buried the device , but Dark Yugi deduced he had hidden it inside . Eventually Dark Yugi discovered the device was somewhere on Tsuruoka ' s body and used Anzu ' s Lovely Two to get Yugi ' s to make a reaction noise proving it was there . Jonouchi and Honda pounced on Tsuruoka and discovered he was wearing a wig and his device inside it . The Get the Million Game . Jonouchi sent in an entry form to participate in ZTV ' s The Get the Million Game . He decorated his form with rainbow colors to make it stand out . The studio did a background check on him and found that his father was an unemployed alcoholic , whose gambling debts Jonouchi was working to pay off . The producer thought Jonouchi ' s sob story and struggle would be perfect to boost ratings and he was selected to appear on the show . Jonouchi succeeded in the first two stages of the game , Darts of Fortune and The Electric Helmet . The final stage The Wheel of Fate had been rigged to lose , but Dark Yugi had discovered this and played Red Paint Lottery , which prevented the game from being fixed . Jonouchi succeeded and won the million yen . However the studio went bankrupt before Jonouchi cashed the check . Monster Fighter . Jonouchi purchased a " Monster Fighter " figure ; " Killer Emaada " at Kame Game and used it in a a game against Yugi , which he lost . The two of them brought their fighters to school the next day , where Jonouchi lost another game to Yugi and got plenty of other students interested in the game . After Yugi ' s fighter got stolen by Koji Nagumo , he borrowed Jonouchi ' s " Killer Emaada " , which Dark Yugi used to defeat Nagumo in a rematch . Dragon Cards . Imori brought the Dragon Cards , while they were sealed , to Kame Game to ask Sugoroku for information about them . He allowed Jonouchi to open the seal , but Jonouchi was stopped by Sugoroku , who explained that breaking the seal would cause to clash and create a warped power . This freaked Jonouchi out . A few days later he realized something was wrong with Yugi , who had received a ransom note from Imori , but Yugi insisted everything was okay . Hirutani ' s gang . Jonouchi purchased a Yovega Fireboy yo - yo brought it to school school . The other students mocked him for trying to show off by giving walk the dog a new name . Determined to impress them , he tried his " loop the loop " trick , causing everyone to run for cover . Nezumi was unimpressed and told him he never wanted to see a yo - yo again after he had been mugged by a yo - yo - wielding gang . Disgusted by the misuse of yo - yos , Jonouchi agreed to help get revenge on the gang . Nezumi led Jonouchi and Yugi to the location he said he got mugged , which they recognized as Hirutani ' s torture chamber " . After entering they were surrounded by Hirutani ' s gang , who tried getting Jonouchi to rejoin them , as Hirutani ' s number 2 . Jonouchi refused , but Nezumi who had set them up , helped the gangsters capture Yugi and hang him from a hook by his Millennium Puzzle rope . Jonouchi pushed his way through the gang taking numerous blows from their yo - yos and helped Yugi down . Hirutani gave Jonouchi a last chance to join him , before ordering the gang to kill him and Yugi . While the gangsters swung their yo - yos at them , Jonouchi borrowed Yugi ' s Millennium Puzzle and swung it around , catching the yo - yos on its rope . He then took all the yo - yos and attached them to the hook , causing the gangsters to be hung by their fingers . Yugi switched to Dark Yugi to help fight off the rest of the gang . Dark Yugi led the remaining gangsters onto a rooftop and Jonouchi separated Hirutani from them . The two engaged in a fight , where Jonouchi punched out two of Hirutani ' s teeth . Hirutani broke some glass and threw at Jonouchi , causing some to go in his eyes . Hirutani punched Jonouchi around while he was temporarily unable to see and prepared to stab him with a shard of glass . However Jonouchi heard Hirutani step on some broken glass and determined his location . He swung a punch at Hirutani , knocking him off the roof and leaving him hang on by one hand . Jonouchi then took out his yo - yo and used walk the dog to hit Hirutani ' s hand , causing him to fall . Jonouchi met up with Dark Yugi who had disposed of the other gangsters and apologized for getting him dragged into his problems , but Dark Yugi insisted that Jonouchi ' s problems were his problems too . Monster World . When Ryo Bakura transferred to Domino High School , he sat next to Jonouchi and the two quickly got along . During the lunch break , Jonouchi introduced Bakura to Yugi , Anzu and Honda and the four of them agreed to play the tabletop role - playing game " Monster World " the next day . A group of girls then came over and told Jonouchi not to be hogging Bakura and pulled Bakura away for a guide of the school . After school , Jonouchi , Yugi , Anzu and Honda caught up with Bakura to ask where they ' d play " Monster World " , but Bakura said that it was better they don ' t play at all , since the last few people who played games with him all wound up in comas . Bakura didn ' t come to school the next day , so Jonouchi , Yugi , Anzu and Honda went to his apartment to cheer him up and prove that his old friends ending up in comas was just a coincidence , by playing " Monster World " . They met Dark Bakura at the door and mistook him for Ryo Bakura . Dark Bakura went over the rules of " Monster World " and created their character miniatures after giving them forms to fill out . Jonouchi ' s character , " Joey " was a human warrior . He , Yugi , Anzu and Honda played the adventurers , while Dark Bakura played the Dark Master . Not knowing anything about their enemy or the world the game was set in , the adventurers went to the village for information . Jonouchi got enthusiastically involved in the game as he pushed the barman into telling them how Zorc had taken over the land and infested it with his monsters . Honda noted how the game brought out the worst in Jonouchi , as he demanded the barman give them gold so they could help him . The barman directed them to another villager , who could tell them the safest path to Zorc Castle . Jonouchi and Honda roared out laughing at how the villager looked like Mr . Karita , the gym teacher , not knowing it was really him , trapped in a miniature . Karita gave them directions and advised them to stay out of the forest . Outside the village there was a 30 % chance of an enemy monster encounter . Dark Bakura rolled a 02 on a pair of ten - sided dice . Since this was less then 30 , an enemy Level 3 Goblin appeared . Jonouchi rolled the dice to determine the strength of his attack . Dark Bakura calculated he would need 40 or lower to slay the goblin and Jonouchi rolled a 13 , easily killing it . The adventurers encountered a stranger lying unconscious in their path . Unbeknownst to them it was Zorc in disguise . Jonouchi got his character to poke the stranger with his sword , waking them up . The stranger told them that he had a holy sword , capable of defeating Zorc , stolen from him after he was attacked in the forest and begged for their help . Jonouchi thought it was worth going against Karita ' s safety advise for the sword and after some discussion the adventurers agreed to help the stranger . Inside the forest there was a 80 % encounter rate and the adventurers were quickly faced with five monsters . Jonouchi rolled an 82 , causing his character to fall on his face when he tried attacking . Honda , Yugi and Anzu defeated the monsters and tamed Pokii into joining their party . The stranger revealed that he was Zorc and changed form . Dark Bakura rolled a 00 , causing Zorc to trap Anzu in her miniature . Angry over this , Jonouchi rolled to attack Zorc , not realizing it wasn ' t his turn . He rolled a fumble , 99 , causing his soul to also be sealed in his miniature . Honda and Yugi were sealed in their miniatures too shortly afterwards , leaving Dark Yugi to roll for all four of them . Dark Yugi caused Honda to blow off Zorc ' s hand . Zorc retreated afterwards , while his hand mutated into two more monsters . Using the double hit technique , Dark Yugi rolled a super critical 00 for Jonouchi , allowing him to slash the eyeball monster in two . The double hit was banned for both players after Dark Yugi used it again to get Yugi to tame Pao . At Zorc Castle , the adventurers inspected a strange pedestal inside a tower , causing them to get caught in a trap . The spiked ceiling dropped onto their heads and it was estimated that they would have three turns before the miniatures broke under its pressure . While trying to figure the required dice roll to complete the roof ' s supporting tower , Yugi and Jonouchi were attacked by Zorc lowering their HP . Dark Yugi managed to make the right roll and due to the adventurers ' high speed scores , they escaped just before Zorc attacked again . Jonouchi ' s figure was left with two holes in his head due to the spikes . Having caught Zorc off guard , the adventurers won initiative and began attacking Zorc . Channeling their anger into the dice , Dark Yugi made powerful rolls as they attacked Zorc , but due to the difference in levels , Zorc wasn ' t injured too badly . Using brainwashed dice , Dark Bakura rolled a 00 for Zorc ' s attack . However Ryo Bakura had been able to take control of Dark Bakura ' s left hand , since his avatar ' s hand had been blown off , and used it to recalculate the damage so the adventurers each survived with 1 HP remaining . Dark Yugi rolled a 05 for Jonouchi , allowing him to stab and gouge out Zorc ' s left eye . Dark Yugi got Anzu to heal the party afterwards . With his control of the left hand , Bakura rolled a 99 with the brainwashed dice , causing Zorc ' s next attack to backfire . Dark Bakura then impaled the left hand on one of the castle towers , causing the adventures to suspect Dark Bakura was not the same Bakura they knew . Yugi used his beast tamer training hand to pull the White Wizard Bakura , the avatar of Ryo Bakura , out of Zorc ' s wounded left arm . Bakura joined the adventurers and helped them fight Zorc . After taking significant damage , Zorc transformed into Last Zorc and attacked the party , but they were shielded by Bakura ' s magic , leaving them with some HP . Pokii and Yugi were able to take advantage of Last Zorc ' s weak point being exposed to inflict serious damage and Jonouchi cut Last Zorc in two afterwards . Last Zorc was still alive and Dark Bakura threatened to have it self - destruct and kill the adventurers . He and Dark Yugi rolled for initiative , tying at 00 each . However with part of his soul sealed in the brainwashed dice , Bakura was able to shatter Dark Bakura ' s dice , allowing the adventurers to move and kill Zorc . With Dark Bakura defeated Jonouchi , his friends and everyone else Dark Bakura sealed in miniatures returned to their bodies . Bakura made a diorama of the adventurers as a symbol of their friendship when they fought together . Kemo Duelist Kingdom . Prior events . Jonouchi built - up his " Duel Monsters " Deck to contain nothing but the strongest Monster Card s he could get . However this caused him to lose several Duels , including one to Anzu . Frustrated , he asked Yugi to help him become better . Yugi pointed out the problem with using just Monster Cards and invited him and Anzu to come to his house to watch the finals of the " Duel Monsters " tournament . After the finals , Yugi put on a videotape he received in the mail . The tape contained what appeared to be a pre - recording of Maximillion J . Pegasus , who challenged Yugi to a Duel . Dark Yugi got help from Jonouchi , Anzu and Sugoroku in testing his theory that Pegasus was using subliminal messaging . He witnessed Dark Yugi losing and Sugoroku getting sucked into the videotape by the power of Pegasus ' Millennium Eye . The next day at school , Jonouchi explained to Bakura what happened to Sugoroku . he also tried cheering - up Dark Yugi . After school , he received a videotape , which he feared could also have been from Pegasus . He , Anzu and Honda went to Yugi ' s house to watch it , as Jonouchi didn ' t have an 8 mm player of his own . Before playing the tape , Yugi showed Jonouchi the invitation package for Pegasus ' Duelist Kingdom tournament he ' d received . However the tape contained a greeting from Shizuka . Afterwards Jonouchi told his friends how he and Shizuka had lived apart since their parents split up and that Shizuka was close to losing her eyesight . Jonouchi wept about how he couldn ' t help her , but Dark Yugi split his Star Chip s for the Duelist Kingdom with Jonouchi . He said that Jonouchi could enter to win the prize money to pay for the surgery to save Shizuka , while the Yugis entered to save Sugoroku . Dark Yugi and Jonouchi spent the next week training for the tournament . During this time Yugi gave Jonouchi the cards " Baby Dragon " and " Time Wizard " . According to Jonouchi they dueled 187 times over this period , with Yugi winning every time . Yugi and Jonouchi , accompanied by Anzu , Honda and Bakura went to Domino Pier to get on the boat to the kingdom . Here Jonouchi met Mai Kujaku and unsuccessfully tried to impress her by saying he was friends with " the famous Yugi " . He was unimpressed to find that he had to sleep in the common room on the ship , but took the chance to try and trade with the other participants . When Haga threw Yugi ' s " Exodia " cards overboard , Jonouchi dived into the water , but only managed to retrieve two of them . Dark Yugi and Haga . When they arrived Duelist Kingdom the next day , Jonouchi briefly had a cold . Once the tournament began , he and his friends followed Haga into a forest , and supported Dark Yugi as he dueled Haga to get revenge . Jonouchi ' s advice to burn down the forest if necessary to defeat " Cocoon of Evolution " gave Dark Yugi the idea to use " Burning Land " to rid it of its Field Power Bonus . After Haga was defeated , Jonouchi took his Duel Glove . Mai . Jonouchi went out into the grass plains and promised to show Shizuka scenery like it some day . He was advised by Dark Yugi to be careful when choosing the location of his Duel . Jonouchi thought he would be safe in the plains , which should strengthen his Warrior and Beast - Warrior - Type monsters . Mai then came over to their group . Expecting her to challenge Dark Yugi , they were surprised to hear she wanted to Duel Jonouchi . She explained that it was a better strategy to crush weak Duelists and earn Star Chips before dueling Dark Yugi . Anzu tried talking Jonouchi out of accepting , but Dark Yugi told him to do his best and Jonouchi did not want to be remembered as a coward , so he accepted the Duel and they bet 1 Star Chip each . Jonouchi asked Mai why she entered the tournament and thought her desire to have the prize money for excessive self interests was a weak reason . When asked himself , he said he was fighting to save a life . Mai began using her Aroma Tactics to catch Jonouchi off guard and strengthened her " Harpy Lady " with accessory Spell Card s . When Mai mocked Anzu ' s talk of how hearing friends ' feelings could make a Duelist stronger , Dark Yugi reminded Jonouchi of the " something you can show , but can ' t see " riddle . Thinking the answer " friendship " was not going to save him this time , Jonouchi thought he was not smart enough to figure out what Dark Yugi was trying to tell him . Thinking he would let Shizuka down , he closed his eyes to imagine what blindness was like . Without concentrating on what he could see , Jonouchi noticed the smell of various perfumes and realized Mai had marked her cards with perfume to see what they were without looking ; one could " show the cards " , but could not " see the smell " . No longer put off by Mai ' s trick , Jonouchi was able to concentrate . Although Mai said he still could not beta her in a hundred years . Jonouchi used " Time Wizard " to weaken Mai ' s " Harpy Lady " monsters and age " Baby Dragon " into " Thousand Dragon " , who destroyed the Harpies and defeated Mai . After the Duel Jonouchi told Mai that there was one thing that does not change after a thousand ears and its " something you can show , but can ' t see " . Dark Yugi and Kajiki . Jonouchi and his friends soon realized they did not have any food for the rest of the day . Jonouchi annoyed Anzu , remarking that as a girl , she should have thought ahead and made lunch . He was not keen about eating mushrooms Honda ' s Survival Book deemed safe , but quickly smelled Ryota Kajiki ' s unattended fish being cooked . Jonouchi compared stealing the food to taking Star Chips and deemed it all part of the game of life . Kajiki spotted them and seemed angry at first , but eventually shared his fish with them . However he challenged Dark Yugi to a Duel afterwards and revealed the food has been bait to lure Duelists to the ocean terrain , which suited his Deck . Jonouchi and the others supported Dark Yugi during the Duel . Dark Yugi and Mokuba . Jonouchi spotted Saruwatari forcefully restraining a boy , who was to be eliminated for running out of Star Chips . The boy claimed the Star Chips were stolen and Jonouchi offered to catch the thief to save him from being eliminated . He added last second that he ' d take half the Star Chips as payment . Shortly after Jonouchi and his friends began searching , they saw that the boy had been put on a boat leaving the kingdom and they were confronted by the thief , who turned out to be Mokuba . Mokuba unsuccessfully tried to steal Dark Yugi ' s Star Chips and told the group about Pegasus plan to take over KaibaCorp , where it was necessary for Pegasus to defeat Yugi in a Duel . Dark Yugi and the ventriloquist . Jonouchi watched Dark Yugi Duel and defeat the Ventriloquist of the Dead , during which time Saruwatari secretly took Mokuba back to Pegasus Castle without any of them noticing . Ryuzaki . Jonouchi had trouble finding opponents as they were afraid to be near Dark Yugi in fear of being challenged by him . Mai was annoyed that she lost to Jonouchi . Thinking it would be shallow to challenge him to a rematch , she arranged for Dinosaur Ryuzaki to Duel him , and planned to defeat Ryuzaki afterwards effectively outranking both Duelists . Jonouchi accepted the Duel and requested that Dark Yugi didn ' t help him . Each played wagered 2 Star Chips . Jonouchi planned on using the same combo he beat Mai with , but Ryuzaki destroyed " Baby Dragon " before Jonouchi got to age it with " Time Wizard " . Jonouchi got overpowered by Ryuzaki ' s Dinosaur s at first and didn ' t know how to use " Time Wizard " without " Baby Dragon " . He took advantage of Dinosaurs weakness to fire - based attacks with the " Flame Swordsman " to defeat a number of Ryuzaki ' s monsters before being overpowered by the " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " . Ryuzaki imposed an ante , where he bet " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " and Jonouchi bet " Time Wizard " . Jonouchi took the gamble and played " Time Wizard " , whose effect was a random chance " Self - Destruct " or " Time Magic " . The " Time Magic " effect activated and fossilized Ryuzaki ' s monsters . Mai inadvertently cheered when Jonouchi won . Campout . As it got dark , Jonouchi and his friends found a space in the woods to spend the night and grew hungry once again . Jonouchi was about to eat a mushroom , despite Yugi , Honda and Bakura ' a attempt to restrain him . He stopped when Mai arrived with food . Having overheard Jonouchi cry that he wanted food not Star Chips , she joked about trading him a small piece of food for a Star Chip . Mai suggested a ceasefire . She shared her food with the others and got the boys to do the cooking . While they ate , she made it clear that they could be friends that night , but would be enemies the next day . Jonouchi and the other boys slept outside , while Anzu and Mai used the tent . Jonouchi , Honda and Bakura were woken up during the night . Jonouchi learned Mai had lost all her Star Chips to the Player Killer of Darkness and refused to take them back after Dark Yugi won them back . Jonouchi proposed that he take the Star Chips instead , causing Mai to angrily demand them back , which he happily did . He said she could still throw them away , but suggested not letting her pride throw them and her dream of dueling Yugi away . Kaiba . Jonouchi ' s next three attempts to fall asleep were disturbed by Honda thinking a vine was a snake , Bakura finding the Millennium Ring reacting to the Millennium Eye and Kaiba landing his helicopter on the island . Still angry over Death - T , Jonouchi tried picking a fight with Kaiba . Kaiba offered to have a Duel using his new Duel Disk technology , which used an altered set of rules . Jonouchi Summoned an array of monsters all of which got destroyed by Kaiba ' s " Battle Ox " or its upgrade , " Rabid Horseman " . Eventually Jonouchi Summoned " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " , which defeated the horseman , only for Kaiba to defeat it with " Blue - Eyes White Dragon " and win the Duel . Kaiba continued to mock Jonouchi after winning . Anzu tried telling Kaiba off and Bakura was about to tell him about Jonouchi fighting for Shizuka , but Jonouchi told him not to tell Kaiba . Before leaving Kaiba told them about a Duel Pegasus had with Bandit Keith , in which Pegasus demonstrated his Mind Scan ability . That night , Jonouchi was tormented in his dreams by his loss to Kaiba . Kozuka . The next morning , Jonouchi got a bit worried by Yugi ' s deduction that today ' s opponents would be even stronger , but insisted he would take down whoever stood in his way . Jonouchi left the group while he urinated . He was ambushed afterwards by Bandit Keith ' s lackeys who dragged him into the hidden Crypt part of the island , where he was to Duel Ghost Kozuka . Jonouchi fainted at first , but was woken up as one of others punched him . Jonouchi instinctively seized him and prepared to fight back , but stopped on seeing skulls everywhere . He got creeped out as Kozuka told him he was in the crypt and surrounded by ghosts . Terrified , Jonouchi accepted the Duel and the wager of his four Star Chips . Not wanting Kaiba to be right about him being afraid to ever Duel again , he outruled running . Kozuka reluctantly Summoned non - Zombie - Type monsters under Keith ' s orders , which Jonouchi easily defeated . However Kozuka then used " Call of the Haunted " to revive his three monsters as Zombies , which were powered up by the Graveyard terrain . Whenever he defeated these Zombies , they came back even stronger . His attempt to get rid of them with " Time Wizard " backfired as it self - destructed when the " Time Roulette " stopped on a skull . Kozuka further powered up the Zombies with " Pumpking the King of Ghosts " , but Jonouchi defeated it with " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " . Kozuka ' s remaining Zombies were stronger than " Red - Eyes " and " Stop Defense " prevented him shielding his Life Points by putting monsters in Defense Mode . Jonouchi Summoned " Kung Fu Fighter Ultimator " and used " Shield and Sword " to swap all monsters ' ATK and DEF . Since the Zombies were only able to instinctively attack , they had 0 DEF , which became their ATK , allowing " Kung Fu Fighter Ultimator " to easily defeat one and drop Kozuka ' s Life Points to 0 . Dark Yugi , Anzu , Honda and Bakura found Jonouchi just after the Duel and congratulated him on his win . Jonouchi called back Keith as he was leaving and asked him to play fair next time if he ' s a true Duelist . Keith laughed and said that card games are about outwitting your opponent . He suggested that Jonouchi stop pretending to be a nice guy and then prizes would come his way , like the various Decks filled with rare cards under his jacket . Before Jonouchi and his friends got to leave the underground , Keith had his companions push a boulder in front of the exit , trapping them inside . Before the gap was fully closed , Jonouchi yelled at Keith that he was going to beat him . Meikyû Brothers . Searching for a way out of the underground , Jonouchi and his friends passed through a maze , which led them to the Labyrinth Duel Arena . Here they met the Player Killers , the Meikyû Brothers , who told them they needed to pass through one of the doors behind them to exit . To find the right door , they needed to defeat them in a Duel so Jonouchi and Dark Yugi joined - up for a Team Labyrinth Duel against the brothers . Jonouchi bet 2 Star Chips and Dark Yugi bet 4 . The Meikyû Brothers used " Labyrinth Wall " to turn the field into a maze . Each turn , monsters could move through the maze by a number of squares equal to their Level . After the Duel Dark Yugi and Jonouchi had to choose one of the two doors . One of which led to the exit , while the other led to doom . To give them a hint , the brothers said that one of them would only tell the truth and the other would only lie . Each claimed that the door they guarded was correct and offered to answer one question from each of Dark Yugi and Jonouchi . Jonouchi remembered a similar riddle , in which a man met a villager at a crossroad between Honest Town and Liar Town . The man wanted to go to Honest Town and was allowed to ask one question . The solution was for him to ask to the villager to take him to his town . In either case , he would be taken to Honest Town . Jonouchi asked the Meikyû Brothers which door they were guarding and both of them pointed to Meikyû the Younger ' s door , implying Meikyû the Elder was the liar . However Dark Yugi was cautious since both had said " one of us always tells the truth and one of us always lies " , whereas as a pure liar and pure truthful man could not both say that . Learning that " Wall Shadow " could attack monsters anywhere in the maze , Jonouchi played " Axe Raider " at a distance from the entrance and comboed it with " Kunai with Chain " on Dark Yugi ' s turn to ensnare " Wall Shadow " when it tried attacking " Celtic Guardian " . Dark Yugi and Jonouchi tried keeping their monsters together , but the brothers used " Magical Labyrinth " to rearrange the walls , splitting up the group . Jonouchi inadvertently got " Axe Raider " to step on a " Jirai Gumo " trap , killing " Axe Raider " and leaving " Flame Swordsman " faced with " Jirai Gumo " and " Labyrinth Tank " , but Dark Yugi used " Dark Magician " and " Mystic Box " to destroy those two monsters . The brothers tried using " Dungeon Worm " to dispose of Dark Yugi and Jonouchi ' s monsters . However Jonouchi equipped " Flame Swordsman " with " Salamandra " , allowing it to send an attack into the wormhole and destroy " Dungeon Worm " . Eventually the brothers managed to bring out " Gate Guardian " , whose components " Suijin " , " Kazejin " and " Sanga of the Thunder " could attack monsters anywhere in the labyrinth and block attacks directed at each other . When Jonouchi tried attacking " Kazejin " with " Flame Swordsman " , " Suijin " blocked and created a flood , which destroyed " Flame Swordsman " . Dark Yugi used the water it left to carry the lightning attack from " Summoned Skull " to " Suijin " and used " Spellbinding Circle " to stop " Kazejin " defending . Jonouchi Summoned " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " , which Dark Yugi fused with " Summoned Skull " into " Black Skull Dragon " . The labyrinth could not be only be crossed by flight , nor could " Black Skull Dragon " fit into the narrow corridors , leaving it immobile . Jonouchi used " Copycat " to mimic the brothers ' " Ryoku " , halving their Life Points to strengthen " Black Skull Dragon " and Dark Yugi used " Shift " to switch its location with " Dark Magician " . " Black Skull Dragon " then attacked and destroyed " Gate Guardian " , defeating the brothers and earning Jonouchi and Dark Yugi enough Star Chips to enter Pegasus Castle . With the correct door still left to choose , Jonouchi ' s head hurt trying to figure it out . He helped the others search the chamber for clues . Dark Yugi was confident that the brothers would say whichever door they choose was wrong , so he tricked them into thinking he had chosen one door for long enough for them to say it was the wrong door , before revealing he had actually chosen the other . This allowed the group the leave the underground and emerge just outside Pegasus Castle . Dark Yugi and Kaiba . Kaiba blocked Jonouchi , Dark Yugi and their friends from entering the castle . Jonouchi threatened to beat - up Kaiba if he didn ' t move , but was restrained by Honda and Bakura . Noticing that Jonouchi had earned 10 Star Chips , Kaiba said that he promoted him from a loser to a horse bone ( from a loser to a deadbeat in the English version ) . Dark Yugi wound - up accepting a Duel with Kaiba using Duel Disks , with five Star Chips on the line , while Jonouchi and the others watched . Jonouchi accused Kaiba of fighting dirty when he threatened to kill himself if he lost , though became very shocked when Bakura suggested it was not a bluff , and was a tactic which led to Kaiba ' s victory . After Anzu told Kaiba that he had been the weak one in the Duel , Jonouchi told him not to forget it was Yugi who saved him . However , Kaiba stormed out of their ideologies , Jonouchi expresses his utter disgust at Kaiba and angrily chucked the Duel Disk back to him . With no time to lose , Dark Yugi and Jonouchi set out to find more Duelists to earn Star Chips . However Saruwatari pointed out that a boat containing the remaining Duelists had left and claimed that there were already four qualified finalists ; Keith , Jonouchi and a third who had left to collect the fourth . Jonouchi tried giving Yugi five of his Star Chips , but Yugi was unwilling to take them . They were then interrupted by Mai , who had collected sixteen Star Chips and offered to give Yugi six in return for him winning back hers earlier . Yugi refused to accept and explained that Dark Yugi would do the same . Jonouchi told Yugi not to feel inferior to Dark Yugi and to think about he wanted himself . Jonouchi said that if a real Duelist only cares about their pride , he does not want to be like that . Duelists like that were show - offs , whereas he would crawl through the mud if it meant protecting someone precious to him , he claimed and professed that he is Katsuya Jonouchi before he is a Duelist . Eventually , Yugi took Mai ' s Star Chips and Jonouchi said that if Dark Yugi had a problem with it , Yugi was to bring him out , so he could kick his butt . With 10 Star Chips each , Yugi , Jonouchi and Mai entered the castle . Saruwatari tried stopping Anzu , Honda and Bakura entering , but Jonouchi got fed up with him and punched him in the head , knocking him out . Prior to the finals . Inside the castle , Jonouchi saw Bandit Keith and began to threaten him for trapping them in the cave . However Keith quietened him as he pointed to a Duel between Kaiba and Pegasus about to start . Although Jonouchi wanted both of them to lose , Pegasus losing would ruin the tournament , so he hoped to see Kaiba lose . He was surprised to hear Yugi shouting advice to Kaiba before the Duel . Jonouchi and the others watched Pegasus defeat Kaiba and seal his soul in a " Soul Prison " card as a Penalty Game . The finalists were told that they would need the cards " The Honor of the King ' s Right " and " Left " to advance any further . Having not been invited , Jonouchi had neither of those cards , but Dark Yugi gave him the " Right Hand " card , which was required for the prize money . The finalists and friends were then taken to the dining room for a dinner party . Here they were surprised to see a portrait of Shadi , after which Jonouchi helped explain his and his friends last encounter with Shadi to Bakura . As they ate their soup , Jonouchi was unenthusiastic about Honda ' s desire for Dark Yugi to save the Kaiba ' s and stated that they got what they deserved , but Honda compared Kaiba fighting for Mokuba to Jonouchi fighting for Shizuka . Jonouchi was disgusted to find a Millennium Eye replica in his soup . Each finalist received an eye containing a letter which determined their opponents for the finals ; In Jonouchi ' s case , Keith . That night Keith who had neither of the " Honor " cards snuck into Jonouchi ' s room to steal his . Yugi who heard Jonouchi talking in his sleep also came into the room and spotted Keith . Jonouchi was woken up as he heard Keith attacking Yugi and managed to fight him off . Keith left without the others noticing he had taken the card and Jonouchi assumed he had just stumbled into the wrong room . Dark Yugi and Mai . Jonouchi and Anzu supported Dark Yugi during his Duel with Mai . During the Duel , Mai put the " something you can show , but can ' t see " riddle before Dark Yugi . Jonouchi pointed out that he had asked Mai when they Dueled and asked if she even knew the answer herself . Mai replied that she came up with her own answer and Jonouchi offered to answer on Dark Yugi ' s behalf , saying that the answer is " friendship " . However Mai said he was incorrect and her answer wasn ' t such a cliché . She thought to herself that Jonouchi was the one who taught her the answer , so he should know . As Mai proceeded to overpower Dark Yugi , Jonouchi started to thing that he had been lucky when he beat Mai before . Mai disagreed and asked Jonouchi if he knew why he had gotten so for in the tournament . Jonouchi credited it to his friends , saying there was no other way a bad player like himself could have gotten that far . Mai said he was right ; he knew and accepted his weakness and worked to overcome it . As she elaborated , Dark Yugi realized how he had been fighting wrong and was able to defeat Mai . Keith . Keith annoyed Jonouchi by putting his feet on the table before their Duel and asked if Jonouchi would lick the bottom of his boot in exchange for him forfeiting . Jonouchi was unable to find his " The Honor of the King ' s Right " and was given five minutes to produce it before he would be disqualified . Jonouchi ran around to look for the card and dropped to his knees in defeat after four minutes . Mai spotted him weeping and told him to save his tears for if he loses . She handed him her qualification card , which she no longer needed and said that Jonouchi shouldn ' t give up on his wishes . Jonouchi tried asking why she did this for him , but she reminded him he had no time . As he ran back to the Duel room , Mai thought to herself " You idiot . . it ' s because we ' re friends ! " . Keith ' s Machine - Type monsters immunity to magical attacks was an obstacle for Jonouchi . He thought he had an opening when Keith played " Zoa " , but Keith transformed it into a Machine with " Metalmorph " when Jonouchi attacked it . Jonouchi still overcame Keith ' s " Metalzoa " and " Stop Defense " combo with " Chasm of Spikes " . He took out Keith ' s remaining Machines with " Garoozis " and " Kunai with Chain " . Keith then took out Jonouchi ' s monsters with the " Russian Roulette " effect of " Barrel Dragon " . Jonouchi tried fighting a gamble with a gamble and used the " Time Roulette " effect of " Time Wizard " . He succeeded in ageing both monsters , but Keith used " Time Machine " to revert " Barrel Dragon " to its earlier state , causing it to defeat " Thousand Dragon " . Jonouchi eventually beat " Barrel Dragon " by using " Copycat " to duplicate " Metalmorph " transforming " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " into " Red - Eyes Black Metal Dragon " . Keith powered - up his " Slot Machine " with " 7 Completed " cards he had hidden in his sleeve and attempted to destroy " Red - Eyes Black Metal Dragon " with " Blast Sphere " , but Jonouchi used " Dragon Nails " to make it too strong to be affected . " Red - Eyes Black Metal Dragon " and " Slot Machine " each stood at 3400 ATK , but Keith used " Pillager " to take Jonouchi ' s " Shield and Sword " , swapping the monsters ' ATK and DEF , making " Slot Machine " stronger . However Jonouchi used " Graverobber " on " Time Machine " , reverting " Red - Eyes Black Metal Dragon " to its unswapped ATK and DEF , causing it to defeat " Slot Machine " and Jonouchi to win . Dark Yugi and Pegasus . Anzu thought that Jonouchi and Dark Yugi would have to Duel in the final . However Dark Yugi said it was unnecessary and they would only end up exposing more of their tactics to Pegasus . Jonouchi was alright with skipping the Duel and letting Dark Yugi face Pegasus as Dark Yugi was the only person he knew capable of defeating Pegasus . Although he was still unsure if it was okay for him to weigh Dark Yugi down with his baggage , by leaving Dark Yugi Duel for him . On the contrary , Dark Yugi claimed that he would win because he was fighting for Jonouchi , like how Jonouchi won because he was fighting for Shizuka . Jonouchi handed " The Honor of the King ' s Right " to Dark Yugi so he could claim both prizes when he defeats Pegasus . Pegasus also deemed a Duel between the two of them pointless . Jonouchi , Anzu , Honda and Bakura watched and supported Dark Yugi in his Duel against Pegasus . They were surprised to hear that Yugi would have his soul sealed in a card if he lost and that he accepted the Duel knowing that . During the Duel Jonouchi got annoyed by Pegasus ' use of the Millennium Eye to read Yugi ' s mind , but was confident the Millennium Puzzle would overpower it . This was confirmed when the Yugis used the Mind Shuffle strategy . When Pegasus changed the nature of the Duel to a Shadow Game , Yugi quickly became over exhausted leaving Dark Yugi fight by himself . Anzu explained to Jonouchi that Yugi ' s soul hadn ' t died as Yugi had told her before that one Yugi cannot live without the other . Jonouchi feared that this could mean Dark Yugi is on the verge of dying . When Pegasus tried reading Dark Yugi ' s mind again , an apparition of Bakura , Jonouchi , Yugi , Anzu and Honda blocked his view . With this Dark Yugi was able to defeat Pegasus . Jonouchi tried describing how he felt during the Duel , but his friends spoke before he got the chance and said everything he was about to say . Dark Yugi then got Pegasus to tell them the story of how he received the Millennium Eye . Afterwards , Jonouchi wondered why Dark Yugi didn ' t give Pegasus a Penalty Game . Anzu suspected it was because he would only be proving what Pegasus said about the Millennium Items possessing an evil intelligence was true if he did so . Aftermath . Mokuba woke up shortly after Pegasus returned his soul to his body . He , Jonouchi and Jonouchi ' s friends went outside the castle , to find Kaiba . While they waited , Jonouchi suggested that Kaiba ' s soul might have been summoned to Heaven , causing Anzu to snap at him . Jonouchi got a bit teary - eyed when he saw the Kaiba ' s reunited and thought he just couldn ' t hate them . Jonouchi received the prize money from Dark Yugi and asked if it was really okay if he took it . Dark Yugi replied that it was as he thought Jonouchi was the real champion of the kingdom . Jonouchi still insisted that he owed Dark Yugi big time . Dark Yugi said that he can owe him until the day he beats him , prompting Anzu to ask what Jonouchi ' s record against the Yugis ' was , to which he replied that he had 0 wins and 187 loses starting from the one week earlier . With no boats leaving the island , Kaiba gave Jonouchi and his friends a lift back to Japan in his helicopter as payment for saving him and Mokuba . Dungeon Dice Monsters . With the money from Duelist Kingdom , Jonouchi was able to pay for Shizuka ' s operation and the doctors predicted that her vision would be fully restored . At school , Jonouchi got jealous of the new student , Ryuji Otogi , as he impressing some girls with dice tricks . He boasted to Ryuji about his success in Duelist Kingdom . Ryuji acted impressed and offered to play a game with Jonouchi . Ryuji placed a die under a cup and bet Jonouchi that he could move the dice without touching the cup . The loser of the bet was to do whatever the winner told them to do for the next week . Ryuji claimed that the die had moved , causing Jonouchi to lift the cup to check , allowing Ryuji to grab the die from under it . Feeling he ' d been cheated , Jonouchi challenged Ryuji to another game . Ryuji imposed a game of four aces . Disillusioned that he had a 1 / 2 chance of winning , rather than a 1 / 3 , Jonouchi accepted and lost twice , increasing the length of time he would have to do as Ryuji said . Ryuji ordered Jonouchi to be his dog and fired dice at his face when he was disobedient . Angered , Yugi switched to Dark Yugi and challenged Ryuji to four aces , with the rules modified to give each player a 1 / 2 chance of winning . Dark Yugi won both games , granting Jonouchi his freedom . The next day , Jonouchi met up with his friends at the grand opening of the Black Clown . He purchased some " Dungeon Dice Monsters " Booster Packs and unbeknownst to him , Yugi got forced into a game of " Dungeon Dice Monsters " with Ryuji . Jonouchi , Anzu and Sugoroku didn ' t find Yugi back at Kame Game and when Honda reported that Dark Bakura went to the Black Clown , they suspected something was up . When they got back to the Black Crown , they found the security guards unconscious and saw Bakura and Ryuji outside a room that had just caught fire while Yugi and Mr . Clown were inside . Jonouchi and Honda kicked down the door and found Yugi trying to re - solve the Millennium Puzzle , while its chain was pinned to a table . Yugi refused to leave Dark Yugi behind . Unable to get Yugi to let go of the puzzle , Jonouchi used the Devil ' s Board Game as a lever to remove the pin and then carried Yugi out . Battle City . Prior events . Jonouchi heard of the Battle City tournament from Yugi and was annoyed that Kaiba had not invited him . He worried about losing his " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " when Yugi told him about the ante rule , but also saw it as an opportunity to get more rare cards . Shizuka ' s operation had been a success , but she was reluctant to remove the bandage from here eyes . One of the reasons Jonouchi decided to enter the tournament was to show his courage in order to give Shizuka the courage to remove her bandages . Exodia Rare Hunter . Jonouchi went with Yugi , Honda and Anzu to the RPG Hobby Trading Cards shop to pick up a Duel Disk afterwards . Kaiba assigned Jonouchi a weak Duelist rating of two out of eight stars , making him ineligible for a free Duel Disk . However the salesman noticed Jonouchi had a " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " and said there was a mistake and Jonouchi actually had 5 Stars , entitling him to a Duel Disk . After Jonouchi left , the salesman phoned the Rare Hunters to notify them of Jonouchi ' s rare card . Jonouchi went over to Kame Game for a while to get Yugi ' s opinion on his new Deck . As he went home , he was approached by three Rare Hunter Ghouls . Disliking the organization he accepted a Duel with one of them hoping to take them down . Jonouchi seemed to be winning for the first few turns . However his opponent had three copies of each " Exodia " component in his Deck , which were marked with invisible ink and managed to gather the five pieces , granting him automatic victory . The Rare Hunters proceeded to attack Jonouchi and take his " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " . The tournament began the next day and Jonouchi quickly found the " Exodia " Rare Hunter outside Coffee Prart . Dark Yugi spotted Jonouchi confronting him and challenged the Rare Hunter to a Duel when he heard about what happened . Jonouchi tried warning him about the Rare Hunter ' s Deck strategy , but Dark Yugi refused to let himself have an unfair advantage . Jonouchi watched Dark Yugi defeat the Hunter and afterwards saw the Hunter being controlled by the leader of the Ghouls , Marik Ishtar , who told them that he had entered the tournament to collect the Egyptian God cards . Dark Yugi won back " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " through the ante rule , but Jonouchi refused to take it back without earning it first . With a Puzzle Card , a 40 card Deck and " Time Wizard " as his rare card , he was still able to participate in the tournament . He vowed to become a true Duelist and asked Dark Yugi if he would Duel him if he did well in the tournament . Roba . Jonouchi spotted Dinosaur Ryuzaki being defeated by Esper Roba . As Roba looked his next opponent , Ryuzaki warned Jonouchi that he would not be able to defeat Roba as he was said to have and was capable of predicting opponents ' strategies . However Jonouchi refused to pass up on any opponent and challenged Roba to a Duel . They waged a Puzzle Card each and Jonouchi ' s " Time Wizard " for Roba ' s " Jinzo " . Ryuzaki demanded to know what happened to the " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " . Jonouchi replied that someone stole it because he screwed - up and although he got it back , his " rival " was holding onto it for him . Jonouchi thought that Roba used ESP to destroy his " Giltia the D . Knight " before realizing he had forgotten about the Super Expert Rules and a sacrifice had been required to play that card . Roba could tell what cards Jonouchi had , because he had his brothers spying on his hand . Jonouchi realized something was up when Roba incorrectly predicted Jonouchi ' s " Skull Dice " was " Graceful Dice " . Jonouchi was able to use this error to his advantage in the Duel . He also figured that Roba had someone spying on him , because to an onlooker the portion of " Skull Dice " that was visible made it look like " Graceful Dice " . Roba stopped relying on his brothers from that point and Summoned " Jinzo " . Jonouchi used " Roulette Spider " on " Jinzo " and challenged Roba to use his alleged ESP tell the roulette when to stop such that it would attack make " Jinzo " attack Jonouchi . However he made it attack his own " Reflect Bounder " , causing both monsters to be destroyed . This left Roba open for a direct attack , allowing Jonouchi to defeat him with " Baby Dragon " . Roba broke down after the Duel and asked if everyone else enjoyed looking down on him . Jonouchi told him that nobody there thought he was a loser and that he shouldn ' t be so hard on himself . After his brothers appeared , Roba admitted Jonouchi was right and handed him " Jinzo " and a Puzzle Card . Haga . Jonouchi went to the Beef Buster for lunch , where his Duel Disk kept hitting off the customer next to him as he ate . He refused to take it off when the customer complained , but the staff who had given him complimentary pickles told him not to bother the other customers . When he took it off , a boy working for Insector Haga swiped it and inserted the card " Parasite Paracide " into his Deck as he ran away with it . Jonouchi managed to catch the boy and met up with Anzu , Bakura and Sugoroku as he did so . The boy lied that he had only tried to steal the Duel Disk temporarily so he could win his own Duel Disk back from someone who had stolen it . Jonouchi offered to help the boy , who left to get the person who stole his Duel Disk . While the others asked Jonouchi if he could trust this boy , he said to have faith and told them about how he was fighting to give Shizuka courage . Haga , who wanted to beat Jonouchi to coax Yugi into a Duel appeared as Jonouchi ' s opponent . They wagered two Puzzle Cards and their rare card . Jonouchi drew the " Parasite Paracide " during the Duel , which infected his monsters making them Insect - Type and ineligible as Sacrifice s . As other consequences , he couldn ' t attack when Haga had " Insect Barrier " in play and his monsters strengthened Haga ' s " Insect Queen " . Jonouchi was able to get at Haga ' s Life Points by using " Magic Arm Shield " to make " Insect Queen " attack her own egg and attacking another egg with " Gearfried the Iron Knight " who was immune to the parasite . Finally Jonouchi used " Graverobber " on Haga ' s " Insecticide " to kill " Insect Queen " and attacked him directly with " Gearfried " . The rare card that Jonouchi took was " Insect Queen " . Afterwards Bakura pointed out that both cards Jonouchi won through the ante rule , " Jinzo " and " Insect Queen " , were weird and scary . Jonouchi thought he was being insulted at first , but Bakura said he loved grotesque cards and wished he had them in his Deck . Jonouchi was surprised Bakura had a Deck and was afraid on hearing it was an Occult Deck . Kajiki . Jonouchi used the Duelist Search Sensor in his Duel Disk to locate a Duelist at Domino City Aquarium . Bakura got separated from the group as Jonouchi , Anzu and Sugoroku ran there . Unbeknownst to the others Marik Ishtar had a Rare Hunter watching them . Ryota Kajiki turned out to be the Duelist . He laughed at Jonouchi thinking he stood a chance against his Sea Deck , but accepted the challenge . Jonouchi bet two Puzzle Cards , along with " Jinzo " and " Insect Queen " and Kajiki bet two Puzzle Cards , along with " Leviathan " and " Fortress Whale " . The others at the aquarium were waiting to see a killer whale show and thought the Duel must be an opening act . Jonouchi forget to take the " Parasite Paracide " out of his Deck and it infected his monsters again , until Kajiki destroyed it with " Torrential Tribute " . Kajiki was initially disappointed by Jonouchi ' s poor moves and said he found it disrespectful to the opponent if a player does not give their all . Jonouchi began to put up a better fight from then on . Kajiki ' s " Umi " prevented monsters incapable of swimming from attacking . However Jonouchi fused " Alligator Sword " into " Alligator Sword Dragon " allowing it to fly across the water and attack Kajiki . Kajiki used " Tornado Wall " to block further attacks . Kajiki used his Sea Stealth strategy to hide his monsters in the water and also Summoned " Fortress Whale " . He used his hidden monster , " Legendary Fisherman " to beat Jonouchi ' s monsters , allowing " Fortress Whale " to attack directly . Jonouchi used " Magic Arm Shield " to expose " Legendary Fisherman " and make " Fortress Whale " attack it . Jonouchi used " Kunai with Chain " to allow " Panther Warrior " to swing across the water onto " Fortress Whale " . He equipped " Panther Warrior " with " Lightning Blade " , striking his sword embedded in " Fortress Whale " with lightning , killing it and causing it to fall into the water , electrocuting Kajiki ' s other monsters . Kajiki used " Return of the Doomed " to bring back a monster which hid in the water . Jonouchi used " Giant Trunade " to remove " Umi " and was surprised to see that he brought back " Legendary Fisherman " rather than " Fortress Whale " . " Panther Warrior " attacked and destroyed " Legendary Fisherman " , winning the Duel for Jonouchi . Jonouchi questioned Kajiki ' s decision to revive " Legendary Fisherman " rather than the stronger " Fortress Whale " . Kajiki insisted it didn ' t matter , but Jonouchi refused to accept a victory when his opponent threw the game . Kajiki explained that " Legendary Fisherman " was his trump card , which he always fights alongside because of its resemblance to his father and he couldn ' t leave it in his Graveyard . Kajiki thought he was being silly , but Jonouchi said he would have done the same thing . Kajiki tried giving Jonouchi " Legendary Fisherman " instead of " Leviathan " as it was his most valuable card . At first Jonouchi couldn ' t accept because of its sentimental value , but Kajiki assured him that if his father would think he was putting too much faith in a card and that his father will always fight by his side even without the card . Possessed by Marik . Jonouchi was about to use his Puzzle Cards to find the location of the finals , but he , Anzu and Sugoroku were interrupted by the sight of Bakura wounded and being helped walk by Marik . Marik lied that his name was " Namu " and he had found Bakura lying on the street . Two guys tried picking a fight with Bakura over him stealing a Duel Disk and hit Marik as he tried defending Bakura , but Jonouchi proceeded to beat up the two attackers . Sugoroku took Bakura to the hospital afterwards and Jonouchi thanked Marik for his help . Marik was also a contestant in Battle City . Pretending to not be very good , he said he hoped he wouldn ' t Duel Jonouchi and asked him for Dueling advice . Using the Millennium Rod , Marik possessed Jonouchi and Anzu and brought them Domino Pier . He gave Jonouchi the incentive to kill Yugi and had Ghouls fill Jonouchi ' s Deck with direct damage Spell Card s , which were Forbidden in the tournament . After Dark Yugi and Kaiba arrived , Jonouchi led Dark Yugi to the Arena of Death for a Duel with Marik threatening to have Anzu commit suicide if Dark Yugi didn ' t comply . Dark Yugi and Jonouchi each had a hand chained onto an anchor set to drop 15 seconds after one of them lost the Duel or forty minutes after the beginning of the Duel . When a player won , they were given access to a key and could use the fifteen seconds to uncuff themselves from the anchor . Jonouchi quickly gained the upperhand with his new Spell Cards . Yugi took over from Dark Yugi , believing he could get through to Jonouchi . Yugi used " Exchange " to show Jonouchi " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " . Although Marik told Jonouchi to take " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " , the will of Jonouchi ' s regular self who had promised not to take that card back until he proved himself a duelist , caused him take " Card Destruction " instead . Yugi then Summoned and attacked with " Red - Eyes " . Jonouchi managed to weaken " Red - Eyes " with " Rocket Warrior " but began to feel its pain too . Yugi admitted that he couldn ' t bring himself to win the Duel , so he gave Jonouchi the Millennium Puzzle to stop it being dragged into the ocean . Marik then tried telling Jonouchi to throw the pieces of the Puzzle into the water , but this reminded Jonouchi of when he had done that before and how Yugi had protected him that day , so he disobeyed Marik again . In the last eight minutes of the Duel , Marik ordered Jonouchi to do nothing and wait for both players to be dragged into the water . However Yugi reminded Jonouchi of his promises to owe the Yugis one and Duel them after proving himself . Jonouchi continued the Duel and eventually drew " Meteor of Destruction " He resisted Marik ' s command to use it to kill Yugi for a while , but was eventually forced to use it . Fearing to see Yugi die , he managed to break Marik ' s hold over him . Yugi used " Mystical Rift Panel " to allow him to choose the meteor ' s target . He used this time to explain to what had happened and how Jonouchi overcame Marik ' s mind control before choosing himself as the meteor ' s target . Yugi told Jonouchi to take his key and save himself . However Jonouchi got " Red - Eyes " to attack himself , making the Duel a Draw and releasing Yugi ' s key . Jonouchi took off his Duel Disk and the Millennium Puzzle and then used his chain to swing over and grab Yugi ' s key . Both of them were dragged into the water as the anchor fell , but Jonouchi was able to uncuff Yugi . He was unable to free himself with Yugi ' s key , but Kaiba dropped the other key into the water to let Jonouchi save himself . Kaiba claimed that he only helped because he admired Jonouchi ' s stupidity in taking time to remove his Duel Disk rather than grab his own key , but secretly thought to himself that Jonouchi was finally a decent Duelist . Annoyed Jonouchi said he owed Kaiba one . Jonouchi returned the Millennium Puzzle to Yugi and was glad to see Anzu return to normal . Just then Mai , Honda and Ryuji arrived with Shizuka . Thinking he had failed as a Duelist and was unfit to be a role model , Jonouchi didn ' t want Shizuka to see him . However Mai slapped him , telling him to stop being a baby . His friends reminded him of how he had fought for Shizuka . Shizuka said Jonouchi had given her more than enough courage and removed the bandages from her eyes . Prior to the finals . Jonouchi , Yugi , Anzu , Honda , Ryuji , Shizuka and Mai all squeezed into Mai ' s car to go to Domino Stadium for the finals . Kaiba was already at the stadium as a finalist . Jonouchi , Yugi and Mai were accepted too and were surprised to see Bakura who was meant to be at the hospital arrive as another finalist . They were worried about him dueling in his condition , but Bakura insisted he was fine and grossed them out by offering to let Jonouchi touch his wound . Jonouchi asked how he had managed to get a Duel Disk , but Bakura said it was a secret . Marik , still claiming to be Namu , arrived as another finalist . Jonouchi grew suspicious of him , remembering that he was possessed by Marik not too long after meeting Namu . However Bakura thanked Marik for saving him earlier and Anzu insisted that he was their friend . Not knowing Marik had controlled them as they said that , Jonouchi thought he must have been over thinking things . Rishid arrived as another finalist pretending to be Marik . The Millennium Ring pointing to him . led Jonouchi and the others to believe he was Marik . The group was notified that the finals were going to take place in the sky as the Battle Ship blimp arrived . When they boarded the blimp , much to Jonouchi ' s dismay , Anzu , Honda , Shizuka and Ryuji all went into his room . He unsuccessfully tried to tell all of them bar Shizuka to leave . He got mad at Honda for respecting that Yugi needed time to prepare , but not him and saying that Yugi was the favorite to win rather than him . However he thanked Honda for bringing Shizuka to him . Dark Yugi and Dark Bakura . Jonouchi watched Yugi and Bakura ' s Duel . After learning that Bakura had been possessed by Dark Bakura again , Jonouchi gave a brief explanation of what the Millennium Items are and how they sometimes possess evil minds to Marik , who was still in the guise of Namu . Jonouchi saw " Slifer the Sky Dragon " for the first time during the Duel and witnessed Marik ' s plan to have Dark Yugi lose by endangering Bakura ' s life . However Dark Bakura intervened and Dark Yugi won . This further fueled Jonouchi ' s hatred of Marik , whom he still believed Rishid to be . Rishid . In the second quarter final , Jonouchi was matched up against Rishid , who claimed to be Marik . Jonouchi declared that he would defeat his opponent on the eleventh turn , with Shizuka being the only one to believe this prediction . As the Duel took place on top of the blimp , Jonouchi ' s cards almost blew away , but he managed to catch them . Rishid began with " Royal Temple " and Set ing a number Trap Card s . Jonouchi held off from attacking for a few turns and used " Giant Trunade " , hoping to clear the Traps and attack and defeat Rishid with the monsters he ' d gathered . However Rishid countered with " Judgment of Anubis " , destroying the monsters and damaging Jonouchi ' s Life Points . Jonouchi baited out one of Rishid ' s Trap Cards and determined that his Deck had little reliance on Monster Card s . However Rishid played his " Embodiment of Apophis " cards , which doubled up as monsters and attacked , leaving Jonouchi with 50 Life Points . Jonouchi contemplated surrendering and Rishid asked why he entered the tournament . Jonouchi replied that there is someone he had to beat and that surrendering now would be disrespectful to his earlier opponents , who all fought him till the end . Jonouchi Summoned " Jinzo " through a combo of " Foolish Burial " and " Graverobber " , destroying all of Rishid ' s Trap Cards . Rishid used " Swords of Revealing Light " to hold off attacks for three turns and later Summoned " Mystical Beast Selket " , which guarded " The Sun Dragon Ra " , which he placed inside the temple ' s ark . " Selket " proceeded to eat Jonouchi ' s monsters , increasing its ATK . Shizuka became afraid to look , but Jonouchi insisted she be courageous to watch until the end . When Jonouchi said he would fight on despite seeming to have no chance , Rishid said he admired his fighting spirit . Jonouchi left himself open for defeat when he passed a turn . Before Rishid could use this chance , Jonouchi accused him of not being Marik , as he wasn ' t feeling his hatred towards Marik against Rishid , who had fought fairly . Rishid followed Marik ' s order to Summon " The Sun Dragon Ra " to convince everyone he was Marik . However , Rishid ' s " Ra " being a counterfeit angered Ra , who then stroke down both players . Isono ruled that the first to stand up would be the winner and if neither stood up within the time limit , both would be disqualified . While unconscious , Jonouchi dreamt he was in a classroom with his friends . There , Yugi reminded him of a " Duel Monsters " tournament at Domino Toysaurus . After gesturing at Kaiba for insulting him , Jonouchi dropped his cards and his friends helped him pick them up . As he left the room in the dream , he regained consciousness and awoke standing up , making him the winner . Jonouchi rushed over to check on Rishid , who said he was proud to have fought Jonouchi . When asked who he was , Rishid said he was Marik ' s shadow and pleaded with Dark Yugi to stop Marik ' s other self . With Rishid unable to fight , Dark Marik took control of Marik and revealed himself to everyone . Mai and Dark Marik . Jonouchi theorized that the reason he could stand up in the last Duel while Rishid couldn ' t , was because he had the dream where his friends supported him , while Rishid was alone . Afterwards Mai asked Jonouchi if she was in the dream . He replied that the dream took place in the classroom , whereas Mai was too old for school and joked that she could be the teacher next time . Anzu pulled Jonouchi aside after this and told him that he was " the worst " . Feeling excluded , Mai reverted to her self - reliant persona . She told Jonouchi that she wasn ' t a soft Duelist like him and didn ' t need anyone cheering for her in her quarter - final against Dark Marik . Regardless Jonouchi and the others showed up to support her , insisting that she was their friend . Dark Marik turned the Duel into a Shadow Game . Jonouchi realized he couldn ' t talk Mai out of accepting and encouraged her to win . He witnessed the Sphere Mode of " The Sun Dragon Ra " as Mai attempted to Summon it without knowledge of the hieratic text . When Dark Marik took back control of " Ra " and declared an attack on Mai , whom he held in place by his other cards , Jonouchi ran onto the field and tried to free her . He was about to be hit by the blast from by " Ra " , but Dark Yugi stood between them and took the attack on his back . The Dark Side of Dimensions . In the advent of their high school graduation , Jonouchi and his friends , Yugi , Anzu , Honda and Bakura discussed their plans for the future . Jonouchi wished to become a professional Duelist , but needed to repair his Duel Disk first . The friends then noticed the new student , Aigami , but failed to struggled to remember who he was at first . After school , Jonouchi noticed Yugi was thinking of Atem and said that it was impossible to forget him . Jonouchi intervened when he spotted Aigami , being harassed by Scud and his gang . Knowing of Jonouchi ' s past in Hirutani ' s gang , Scud dropped the matter for the time being . Aigami thanked Joey and left , insisting he was okay . Jonouchi had a job at Otogi ' s cafe , where he had to wear a dog costume and hand balloons out to customers . During his shift , Seto Kaiba appeared on the TV , introducing his new Duel Disk . Jonouchi groaned that he would not be able to afford it , prompting Honda to suggest he get another part - time job . This provoked a fight between the two . Anzu tried to break them up , but Jonouchi ate her ice cream , while continuing to fight . Jonouchi ' s boss , Mr . Clown , then appeared and fired him on the spot . Jonouchi fell asleep , during a graduation rehearsal and had a dream , where Kaiba taunted him about not being able to afford the new Duel Disk . In the dream , Jonouchi fell off a KaibaCorp blimp , causing him to fall off his chair , in reality . Following the rehearsal , Jonouchi and his friends were approached by Aigami , who expressed an interest in getting to know them better . The group went to Burger World , where they told Aigami about past adventures . Jonouchi showed Aigami his Deck and two of them , Yugi and Bakura arranged to play " Duel Monsters " at Yugi ' s house later . As Jonouchi , Aigami and Bakura made their way to Yugi ' s house , Aigami showed them his Quantum Cube and aggressively questioned Bakura , on learning that he once possessed the Millennium Ring . Jonouchi tried to intervene , but was stopped by a group of children , who told him he was being an inconvenience . Jonouchi was then transported to another dimension . In this world , the streets dissolved around him and Aigami appeared in the sky , taunting him and saying he could not escape . In Jonouchi ' s native world , his absence was noted when Honda found his bike and Duel disk abandoned , prompting his friends to start searching for him . In the dissolving dimension , Jonouchi tried running away from the areas that were dissolving , but fell and his body began to fade away too . However Atem appeared to him , following a flash of light and Jonouchi then found himself back in his own world . Reunited with Yugi , Anzu and Honda , Jonouchi considered telling them about seeing Atem , but decided to focus on finding Bakura first . Jonouchi , Anzu and Honda witnessed Yugi defeat Aigami in a Duel at Kaiba Land and Bakura ensuing return . Shortly afterwards , they watched Yugi and Kaiba Dueling Aigami , who had since become corrupted by the Millennium Ring . Following the Duel , Yugi informed them that he had seen Atem and Jonouchi mentioned seeing him too . This stirred the interest of Kaiba , who had been attempting to communicate with Atem . During Yugi ' s graduation speech , Jonouchi and Honda both cried uncontrollably . Some time after graduation , Jonouchi and his friends went to airport to say goodbye to Anzu as she left to go to the United States . Yu - Gi - Oh ! GX . At Duel Academy , Jonouchi was considered to be a legendary Duelist . Jaden Yuki thought of him , Dark Yugi , Mai and Kaiba when he said that he was not going to back down in his Duel against Ryuga , like how the legendary Duelists never gave up . Gaming items . Deck . Initially , his Deck contained only Monster Card s , allowing his opponents to easily defeat him . For Duelist Kingdom , his monsters were mainly tough Warrior and Beast - Warrior - Type ones . Yugi gave him the cards " Time Wizard " and " Baby Dragon " , and he won " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " from Dinosaur Ryuzaki , all of which became valuable assets . Having done well with his Duelist Kingdom Deck , Jonouchi planned on sticking with it . However Yugi told him that was not a good idea and that he had already come up with a strategy to combat it , so Jonouchi constructed a new Deck before Battle City . The number of tough Warrior and Beast - Warrior monsters decreased and he added more cartoon - like Warriors and a number of luck - based cards . Throughout Battle City , he added rare cards that he won through the ante rule . He did not use his " Red - Eyes Black Dragon " after losing it to a Rare Hunter . Although Dark Yugi won it back , Jonouchi opted not to take it back until he proved himself as a Duelist . While possessed by Marik Ishtar , Jonouchi ' s Deck was strengthened with a number of tournament banned Spell Card s which directly damage the opponent and destroy monsters . Duelist Kingdom . This Deck also contains two unnamed cards .