#manga sugoroku is a sweet old man who did many things wrong in the past

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Look listen Yugi has always been goth even as a child and he grew up with an egyptologist grandfather that had quiiiiiite a few sleazy connections [seriously Sugoroku has such a "two steps away from becoming the villain" backstory it's incredibly funny] who probably joked a lot about cursed objects and the like there's No Fucking Way he didn't consider the possibility that the Ancient Egyptian Puzzle he was solving might be cursed - if anything I think that just fueled him more. You think this kid hasn't read dark gothic romances that end in tragedy and/or deal with romancing ghosts? As if

The only reason YGO is a shounen adventure and not a shoujo romance is because of all the outside forces blocking him from achieving his final goth form: Guy Who Is Dating A Ghost