..he says he's not Egyptian immediately in the Pharoah arc. He says "I live outside Egypt, your laws do not apply to me".

It would explain why he couldn’t summon Ra without the help of Marik in season 2. He’s an outsider to the kingdom and not worthy of the Gods, since Marik and Yugi both have lineage to the Egyptians this would support your theory

This is actually a really good theory and there is something else that can support this. Though Bakura’s name can be traced to a Sanskrit entomology, “Baku” in Japanese refers to the creature that is said to devour dreams and nightmares. It also refers to the Malayan Tapir, which can also be found in India (and other surrounding countries.) Another supporting detail is Diabound, Thief King Bakura’s Ka. It heavily resembles a Naga from Hindu mythology, which are half human/ half serpentine creatures, which are often depicted with wings.

Bakura is my fav yugioh character..

Atem: Look, why don't you just cut the crap and tell us who you really are, Bakura, or should I call you "the spirit of the Millennium Ring who has no official name as of yet"!? Yami Bakura: Actually we're both called Bakura. Atem: What!? But that's just confusing! Not to mention highly unlikely. Yami Bakural: Oh, just wait until season five when there's three of me running around. Even the fans have trouble keeping up with that one.

Wonderful analysis. It hurts we didn't get more of the ancient egyptian backstory, I hear Takahashi was really sick when he wrote was rushed to finish this part :(

I didn't know Takahashi was ill during that last arc, it makes sense now that certain aspects felt cut or rushed. The anime seriously did Thief King Bakura dirty with that half arsed death and I've been bitter about it for years.

The original Yugioh is like a poem. Everything ties back into each other . I wish it lasted longer but like a poem it was short sweet and had you wanting more

Thief King Bakura was Kul Elnan, the last survivor of Kul Elna in fact. That rage towards the Egyptians for destroying his village of origin and using it as sacrifices for the Millenium Items` creation is how Zorc possessed Thief King Bakura by convincing him that because the Millenium Items were made from his fellow Kul Elnans` souls they were his by birthright. Of course, the Thief King didn`t know at the time Zorc was the evil spirit his people were sacrificed to placate in the first place, adding an extra layer of tragedy to his story.

I wanted more backstory with BAKURA and KISARA PLEASE TAKASHI

Very cool theory, Bakura discussions are always awesome! Well done!!!

I'd never considered this, but I love the idea! Diabound, with his wings and serpent tail does bare a very strong resemblance to the Naga from Hindu Mythology. I'd love to see more Yu-Gi-Oh lore and theory videos. They're just aren't enough! 😊

Thank you so much for making this There ain't enough videos out there doing Bakura justice. He is an amazing mysterious character. Great video

I died laughing when you said starfish head

I get what you mean, it makes sense that he'd be culturally or racially distinct. Aknaden says Kul Elna is near the valley of the kings so he was probably born in Egypt. That said, it was a town of "Thieves" which is a word the ruling class will often call foreigners and pooreigners, regardless of how true the statement may be. Bakura hailing from a tribe that settled in the area from somewhere beyond Egypt makes a lot of sense. Aknaden himself would likely see no issue in murdering a whole town if he didn't consider them 'part' of the kingdom. I also wanna note (if you consider capsule monsters relevant at all), specifically in reference to India, Alexander the Great would acquire the Millenium RING before heading off to India where he built a pyramid and would ultimately find the thing the killed him both IRL and in CM. I'm not saying Zorc or Bakura took Alexander to India on purpose but maybe some echo of Bakura's heritage pulled him that way bleh

The King of Thieves is my favourite .

Definitely think he is Hebrew! For sure it's pretty obvious. Either Hebrew or Northern Indian in that sort of area where northern India in ancient times was known to be occupied by Aryan peoples and were highly related to Semetic peoples; Iran/Mesopotamia/etc. So no doubt about all that and regardless we know the overall region he comes from now. Now what I want for yugioh to do is release a movie taking place shortly after this story, Joey around the time of Dark side of Dimensions gets to experience his ancient past that takes place parallel to when Kaiba is Pharoah. an ancient Greek version of Tristan, Mai, Joey and his sister where Mai is connected to Harpies and Amazons, Joey is the average Greek guy who is connected to Red eyes where Red eyes eggs/stones originates from a greek volcano and Joey encounters ancient Mai where the amazons teach him how to connect with Red Eyes. Then Joey faces off with ancient barbarian versions of Weevil, Rex and the ultimate villain being ancient greek version of Bandit Keith where eventually ancient Greek Joey travels to Egypt and his red eyes faces off with now Pharoah Kaiba blue eyes. Maybe even more backstory on where Kisara comes from and how Blue eyes was intwined into her and through her story maybe it can reveal how the red eyes version was born and how it got into the greek volcano etc. Seeing all the priestess and maiden cards of blue eyes etc. That looks nothing like Egypt, id like to see how blue eyes came originally from say Greek gods say zeus with light sky and lightning , explaining how blue eyes was powerful enough to stand against the power of Egyptian God's and even Zorc, and somewhere along the line of blue eyes being formed from greek God's is how red eyes came about through greel god Vulcan in the Volcano.

When he witnessed the massacre of his peoples he would have also recieved knowledge of Zorc since the dark magic used to make the was a risky maneuver to win an early war since Zorc attacked when they were made. When Zorc attacked the Ring fell into the darkness. So it became an Evil bathed ring of dark magic that was perfect for Bakura to use as an anchor to summon Zorc. The Thief King could have been a filler arc if Egypt didn't use dark magic to all solve their problems.

Is anyone else now reimagining Bakura saying his lines with an Indian accent?

When I read the title of this video I was thinking that all if this was just BS, but after watching it you brought up a lot of good points that support Bakura not being Egyptian. But what I like most is that you didn't just talk about you actually showed the anime and manga parts to support or your argument on him not Egyptian

I think the final tragedy of Bakura is that when he was reincarnated as I nice kind innocent guy he still couldn't escape his past decisions/tragedys 3000 years ago. He could have given himself a second chance at life but Chooses not to.

I never thought of him as being Indian specifically. My version of this theory was that he was a descendant of a Jewish slave. In my AU, Kul Elna is comprised of Jews that returned to Egypt after being freed in the Book of Exodus

Title: “Bakura is not Egyptian” Me: “so he’s Hebrew? That make sense?”

Sanskrit is an aryan language, sanskrit, hindi, greek, latin these languages originated from the aryan language. Bakura is a word of aryan origin. Remember how the HYKSOS invaded Egypt in around 1700 BCE? Since in the manga atem's memories are from 1000 BCE (3 thousand years ago) it could mean that Bakura is a descendant of a hyksos which was a tribe descended from the aryans.

He is not not Egyptian He is British of course!

The thought often occured me that he was more darker skinned than most of the Egyptians in the arc. Also the only dark skinned characters I recall seeing before the arc was Mako and the Ishtar family. Never had it crossed my mind that he wasn't Egyptian though. Solid theory with strong evidence there!

The first Yu-Gi-OH series a lot of people grew up watching as children was NOT the original series. What is now called Season 0 was the first Yu-Gi-OH show to ever be produced in Japan, with 13 episodes the show features a much darker more sinister Yami or spirit of the Puzzle that posses Yugi and forces criminals and other devious individuals to games in the Shadow realm where they would be forced to stake their very lives if they lost. Yami straight up tortures or kills his opponents and Kaiba also almost kills Mokuba and Yugi's grandfather when he built a theme park of death called Death-T. Season 0 would eventually be cancelled by the studio that made it which I believe is Tomy or Takura Tomy(or some studio that starts with T, I can't remember.). This was because parents of children who were watching the show complained to the studio that the show was way to dark and had mostly nothing to do with the Dual Monster's card game it was originally supposed to advertise and so the series many grew up watching was made and aired instead. You can actually still find subtitled versions of the 13 episodes of Season 0 online although you will have to look very hard to find good quality versions since most of the footage was most likely video taped from tv although I could be wrong about this. At the end of the day the series of Yu-Gi-OH! many grew up watching on 4Kids was the second iteration of the franchise not the original or first iteration.

Hi I came back to this video because I remembered another piece of evidence for your theory. Zork is clearly Sumerian. Sumerian deities were significantly distinct from Egyptian ones. While still having a lot of anthropoid features Sumerian deities didn't have the same consistency of shape we find in Egyptian art. The antagonistic Sumerian Gods like pazuzu specifically look like gargoyles with snakes where their dingdongs are supposed to be, like zork. Zork is viewed as foreign, being from another place but presumably the people to the far north had different opinions of the dark master.

I like this and the video hasn't started yet. Danny, upload whatever you're comfortable with, as true fans will enjoy it no matter what it is.

very interesting! I admire the effort gone into researching this, great video! another point (this is just from personal speculation), when you spoke about kisara being the good foreigner and bakura being the bad, that could be because of the experience they had in Egypt, while kisara was treated badly, she was shown that there are good people in Egypt when seto rescued her, and so didn't become resentful etc. whereas bakuras life was always horrible from the village massacre to racism and to possible slavery, don't think anything good ever happened and that kind of makes him even more of a favourite since I sympathise with him more. also would have loved a kisara backstory as that could have other incidents that led to her being good and not evil like bakuras "incidents" anyway great video and analysis!

oh damn these are really good points

He was the Best Character. When is Bakura finally gonna Return in another Shape or Form? I want him back, he has so much Potential still left. If written right, he could actually Return! Bakura was constantly Sabotaged by the Creators. Constantly. He could have been much, much stronger.

Such a cool theory! I love how much time and research you put into this. I'm a huge Yami Bakura fanboy. In fact he was my first cartoon crush. I was SO helplessly in love with him when I was in elementary school....kinda still am at 25, actually xD

I thought this was very cool great theory. I have noticed that Bakura was different, but it didn't really hit me until I saw the video. In my opinion I do believe that Bakura is from India if you even take a look at his clothes they don't look Egyptian. It's so cool to see anime's have some Mythology meanings too them. It kinda sucks to see that some people in Mythology have to go through that. One thing got me thinking that girl that can control the Blue Eyes White Dragon she wasn't from Egypt which means she's from a different village that we haven't seen\heard of in Yugioh, or she might be from the same village as Bakura. If this is true then her and Bakura are the only survivers from that village.

Very well made and thought-out!!! I liked the comparison of the tomb-builders village. This adds so much possibility to the lore. Fantastic!! :D

Omg I need more of this! Yu-Gi-Oh is a great show and the manga deserves more spotlight on Also Yami Yugi / Atem is my favorite hands down!

That actually makes sense. Now I need a backstory.

I think that Bakura is of Hurrian origin. Hurrians were Indo-Aryan population that lived in Near East during the Bronze Age. They had several wars with Hittites and Egyptians. I think Bakura is a descendant of the Hittite captives taken to Egypt by Pharaoh Tutmosis III. after his victory at Megiddo.

I had honestly thought the name "Bakura" was translated too literally like "Seto" which I believe was supposed to "Seth", "Ishizu" from "Isis", "Marik" from "Malik" and so on. With this in mind, his name would likely be better translated as "Bakra", which is an actual name In Urdu, the native language of Pakistan and simply means "goat". As Pakistan is a part of the Indian subcontinent, your theory seems spot on!

👻"Baku" means ghost. More specifically a ghost that "eats dreams".👻

This is my favorite arc of Yugioh Duel Monsters. As a semi Competitive duelist the duels in the first series are hard to watch for me I wonder if you like Yubel

This is a really interesting theory; Bakura is my favorite character too. The only issue I have in this video, is that India is not part of the Middle East; rather it is a part of South Asia as well as Pakistan. The Middle East is part of West Asia. People mainly think Pakistan is part of it due to it being a "stan" country, but rather it is just in close proximity. Sorry, I don't mean to be picky on this and it's not really that important, I just know a lot about geography. Great theory, and this video definitely developed some headcanons for me.

he *bakura* said rules laws from egypt didnt apply to him since he's not from there

Nice theory. It's funny how, both Bakura and Seto, share the same name as their ancient Egyptian counterparts. You may as well be right about Bakura being a foreigner. But I am still not sure about Bakura being his actual name. The example you gave with the title of the manga chapter called 'King thief Bakura' is not a really good one, as the story is happening in the memory world of the pharaoh. And it has been established that the events in the memory world, where different in many ways, than the actual events that happened 5000 years ago. So Bakura, may as well have had a different name 5000 years ago, but chose to use the new one in the memory world because he likes it better and is the one that Atem k ow him by. But we will never know for certain, considering Kazuki Takahashi didn't really gave much details about most of his characters. But putting that aside, nice job on the video. You really did your research.

Yo didn't know you did yugioh theories that's dope hope to see more

Rather than Indian which is highly unlikely, also India isn't the middle east its likely bakuras origins were in Asia Minor or Northern Syria as the earliest records of Sanskrit are in these areas ironically. Also, Asiatic usually meant people from Asia minor as the more far Eastern nations wouldn't have had much contact with the Mediterranean world.

I confess, your honor, I stole this theory! All joking aside, watching this video gave me the perfect headcanon as to where Bakura came from, and I even used it in a fanfic I wrote. The fanfic posits that nearly everyone in the village were Indian and they even used proto-Sanskrit to leave coded messages to each other about safe houses to hide treasure, level of guard, and other info.

Yugioh played us so hard...they kept saying he who has all the millennium items will possess the power to rule the world...when really you have to assemble them all and place them together at a specific spot and it just summons Zorc which will destroy and rule the world... There are so many plot holes like 1) All the millennium items were made from the blood sacrifices of innocent people and yet yugi always has the audacity to say his magic is “good” while others are evil 2) the puzzles powers are still made ambiguous...we have some info on it but it’s still inconsistent what abilities the holder has

India is in South East Asia quite far away from Egypt, Which is in North Africa right next to the Middle East. His more likely either Hebrew since they're whole nation were slaves to the Egyptians and were foreigners in that land, not sharing in any Egyptian culture or religion and were activitlly against it as slaves. Maybe Kushite since they did have conflicts with Egypt, but I'm kneeling more Hebrew/Jew since those two nations histories are more intertwined. You could say Greek if you don't want to bring Hebrew/Jews into this ,even though it as stretch, but Greek is more likely than Indian, since the greeks had friendly interaction with Egypt till Alexander The Great. Indian is honestly just too far, i live on the African continent in South Africa and Indian is more close to my country than Egypt.

In my tribe language, bakura or thunderbolt said as "Karebek", I think this maybe fit him

Ah I love thief king bakura ❤️. Got any Ryou bakura theories?

@Lord Danny I wonder how the events originally occurred in Egypt... Without the tampering of the shadow game in season 5

I always thought of him as jewish. I find many paralels with Moises in his conflicts with the pharoeh.

It's a perplexing idea, to be perfectly honest when I first watched and then later read the graphic novels my opinion on Bakura...was not positive. My favourite Yugioh character is always Joey. However this idea does strike me as very possible, it would also make sense in another regard....if Kul Elna did have a mixed population that didn't play well with others....it makes sense it was selected for the purpose it was. I imagine there were many villages that did tomb raiding, that's all that got Kul Elna singled out for being sacrificed?! I doubt it, I suspect it's far more likely that the village may have been guilty of being foreign, so they're foreign tomb raiders who don't play well with their neighbours?! Can you say perfect sacrifice village!? Also a small note of interest I find with Bakura is his monster, Diabound, it may just be me but the thing continuing to evolve and change is interesting...and could be linked with the idea of Reincarnation, maybe Diabound wasn't as unstoppable as it seemed, it could be that it was dying but then it was reviving, thus reincarnating into a stronger being, it may not be evolution as we understand it but it could be that the act of death fuelled him, Diabound did summon those evil spirits if memory serves. Well I'm probably just wrong but I tried.

The middle east usually does not include India. The middle east is usually used for western Asia and North Africa. South Asia or the Indian subcontinent is the geographical area that houses India.

I'd heard a theory which suggested he was Jewish and that made a lot of sense too. I definitely think he was more likely from the middle East than Egypt. I'd like to see more theories on the topic

Will you be releasing any more theories?

Can you do a video on the meaning of the symbols of spellbinding circle and the circle in the dark magician card?

The color white is also the color of evil in Japanese culture. Which could be why the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! gave Bakura white hair, being that Bakura is an evil spirit.

Wow That's was great video

Knowing Thief King Bakura may be Asiatic, then what ethnic group do you think Kisara is from? Ignoring having the Blue Eyes White Dragon as a Ka to influence her physical appearance.

Love Yugioh, my favourite show, he was so cool in the final season

Chould it be that Kisara and evil Bakura is from the same country?

Interesting theory but I wonder two things: 1) what time period is the ancient egyptian parts of the series supposed to be about because egpyt had heavy trade and cultural exchange with other people until it's kingdom fell, not to say there couldn't have been violent racism (even now) but foreigners wouldn't have been horribly uncommon after a point in egyptian history 2) Bakura is Ryou's last name and while it would be an interesting coincidence if Thief king reincarnated into a family that carried his first name as a last name I just am not sure. If so, it would be an interesting hint into Ryou's family history (not that I know anything about how names are passed down in India ) maybe he's supposed to be mixed heritage? But that really all dependent on that big IF his name was Bakura. Wouldn't it just a brilliant plan on the dark essance that is the ring spirit that no one actually remember his true name. Atem is visiting his memories not time traveling, right? If the spirit wanted he could in theory just use Bakura and have this weaved into the fabric of time. He feels like his humanity was taken, at least I suppose, he's given in so much to revenge that it would make thematic sense. Hmm well either way it's given me something to think over so thanks for the vid!

Just a guess but I think you may have answered your own question about the white hair. 🤷‍♂️ with the classic anime style it kinda looks like streaks of lightning/thunderbolt especially the long jagged part at the back 🤷‍♂️ really enjoyed the vid! 👍

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Good arguments! I think what you're saying is correct.

He’s a Hyksos.

Lord Danny do you play yugioh dule links?

Whoa, this makes a lot of sense!

But wouldn't make it more sense that modern day Bakura got a foregian name because his father is an arheologist, I mean Bakura doesn't sound Egyptian at all, so thief king Bakura could be Egyptian but his modern day version Bakura Ryo got an Egyptian name because his father wanted so idk?

This was great.

Atim: i’ve been waiting for you

Can you do a video on 5Ds.

Nice

Good theory ʕ•ٹ•ʔ I wish more people did more yugioh theories (about the first series lol) bit i know there isn't much to say because it's ended

Allsome video can You do a viedo on yami marik history and backstory to please.

So does that name possibly have some connection with the "vajra" which meant the same thing? I always felt so sorry for him too because of what happened in Kul Elna. So sad!

Asiatic is a geographic term east of Egypt. Not an ethnic or racial term. Egyptians were afro-asiatic people (linguistic term) and they faced competition from the Indo-European people such as the Hittites. All Indo-Europeans have Storm gods as their chief god in their pantheons from Germans to Northern Indians (Thor to Indra). Bakura is associated with thunder. I would say Bakura is Indo-European in origin. They fought the Egyptians before. The Blue eyes girl was also indo-european. Priest Seto fell in love with her. The only mystery is Malik. He also has colored hair. Could he also be indo-european?

What puzzles me is back in ancient Egypt “Thief King” Bakura was a tannish skin color but in the present day he’s got white skin....how’s that possible?

Thank you for this video! And also thank you for bringing up the Akefia name issue... That fan-name has been bothering me for a good fifteen years and it never made sense to me why people made it up/the name is just so out there. It makes sense now why people thought of it but I always knew that Takahashi actually did name him "Bakura" and I'm glad you brought that up, as well.

He’s British

Bakura's hair doesn't mean anything, he's just Albino. Albinism affects the hair, skin, and or eyes. In the thief king's case, his hair is albino, and possibly his eyes, due to their violet color. As you know, blue and red mix to create a violet or purple color. Albinism in the eyes occasionally causes an either red or blue eye color, or rarely, both. Same with Kisara

Yes, he isn't Egyptian. He's British. 🙂

at this rate you might as well say bakura and kisara are brother and sister since they both have white hair and are connected to/part of divine like beasts

this is now my headconan

My poor boy has scoliosis.

He's probably a Hebrew and Egyptian half breed

He is the first ever British

I'm real Egyptian and it's sad that we lost our pharaohic thing in the modern day

Why did I watch is video cause now my whole life was a lie.

That's a good theory but we can't say bakura is indeed Indian that's just a theory but I like that maybe bakura parents isn't Egyption but they came in Egypt and they chose bakura name for him that's another theory.. .....

hair debunked off top, exhibit A: Marik

Bakura is my second favourite behind dark marik

Probably a Greek outcast??

6:50 Quick correction but the current nation you know as "India" today is not in the Middleast. It's in South Asia.

Pliz do more theories but only the thief king

I think bakura is from arabic bakr now a days named abu bakr its pure arabic name

Honestly I don’t believe he is Indian at all-I like to believe people Bakura comes from Upper Egypt but is town his directly disconnected from the rest of the empire.

Long live Bakura !!!