#his dad studied in ENGLAND he has seen TOO MUCH fae shit to feel comfortable with giving out his name

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I just made this up after seeing your post on dub and sub names

*ahem*

Joey Wheeler is Katsuya Jonouchi's Americansona

Tristan Taylor is the same for Hiroto Honda

They decided to do the same for Anzu, and that's why they keep calling her Tea

They even got Grandpa Muto in on it

Yugi declined, and they also couldn't figure out a good name for him that didn't feel weird, so he stayed Yugi

PERFECTION.

I'm not the biggest dm fan in the world, it just kinda didn't give me brainworms like the other shows did, but I still love the cast and want to include them in fics/headcanons. They're all WEIRDOS. Friendgroup consisting of a goth/punk gnome of a highschooler, dancer with kindness in her heart and muscle in her thighs, ex-gang member who listens to radiohead and wears secondhand denim jackets, his bff, and occasionally their ttrpg guy who keeps accidentally trapping them in death games and collects haunted dolls.

Katsuya "Call me Joey" Jonouchi the america kabure and Honda joins in because it's funny and he likes doing stuff with his friend, Anzu sometimes complains and pretends she doesn't like The Bit but in that friend way where everyone knows she is absolutely in on The Bit.

I love the headcanon that Bakura re-learned japanese out of a textbook and that's why he uses stilted almost-archaic high formality for everyone, because he's out of touch with the Social Rules of the language and just sticks to the guaranteed least offensive option. He does not remember When It Is Acceptable To Go To First Name Basis and doesn't share his first name with any of them until they've been friends for years. This is based solely on the joke in the abridged dub where Bakura says his first name is Ryou and no one knows who that is.

As such, he escapes the American-ization ray because it is inconceivable to any of them that Bakura could be called by any name other than Bakura.