Kan Hakubutsu

*Hakubutsu Kan*

**Kan Hakubutsu** (*白はく佛ぶつカン, Hakubutsu Kan*) is a sixth grade student at Goha 2nd Elementary and president of the Dueling and Dinosaur Research Club. He is known as the "**Professor**" by his friends.

## Appearance

Kan appears to be a relatively tall young boy of a tanned complexion. He has a darker shade of blue eyes, and jet-black hair pulled back in a short ponytail. His hair extends out into spike to the low-top, while short bangs extend down to reach to his eyes. He is only seen in one outfit so far consisting of a white-lab coat adorned with green, dinosaur designed bandana tied on his right arm side, inner yellow t-shirt, and brown khaki-like pants tucked in dark blueish boots. He also puts on red goggles on his forehead.

### Personality

Kan has a scholarly air to him. He has an intense attachment passion for dinosaurs, even believing he has an adventurous spirit.

### Etymology

Kan has his full name read as one word instead of two, like "Hakubutsukan" in Japanese, which means "museum."

## History

### Background

During this childhood, Kan found his first dinosaur feces fossil at riverside and shows it to his grandfather, who tells him to hold it near his ear. Kan actually felt that he heard the sound of dinosaur using toilet.

### Birth of Rush Duels Arc

Kan and his Dueling and Dinosaur Research Club got wind on the rumors spreading around about a dinosaur created by Goha Corporation, termed "Gossie." The club searched for it around Goha City and planned to create their own Jurassic Duel World. The club then bumped into Yuga Ohdo and his friends, who were doing the same thing. So, Kan and his club joined them to look for it together. After a failure to find the Gossie, Yuga theorized that it might be located at The Relic — where he installed Rush Duel. Kan and his friends excused themselves to the bathroom, sharing the scheme to get the information on the Relic location so that they can build their own Jurassic Duel World. While they were laughing about their scheme, they were caught off-guard by Luke, who heard all their scheme. Luke told Yuga and others about Kan and the club's scheme, causing their disgust on them.

Much to their expectation of rebuking, Kan was instead challenged by Yuga to Rush Duel to decide on telling or not the Relic location. Kan was defeated with Yuga increasing the ATK of "Sevens Road Magician" high enough. Regardless of Yuga's insistence to keep them away from going to the construction site, Kan and others went to the construction site only to find the cold truth that the Gossie would be one of Yuga's Roads. This cold reality caused Kan and others to be angry at Yuga. Later that night, Yuga took them to The Relic's Chamber to show them where the Relic used to be. Kan insists they can find the Relic whereabout as Kaseki has a unique ability to unearth valuable fossils and other artifacts. Yuga tells them his hypothesis of the Relic appearing only on the day of the full moon. The gang also took pictures of the emblems where the Relic shows out itself for further studies.

## Deck

He plays a **Jurassic** Deck, made of WATER Aqua monsters based on prehistoric sea creatures and EARTH Dinosaurs, referencing the evolution of earth.