Bakura Ryou

Ryou Bakura is a heroic side character in the manga and anime Yu-Gi-Oh. He is a school friend of Yugi Moto though he is far less seen then his other friends like Joey, Tristan and Téa. For the bulk of the series Bakura possessed by an evil spirit and indeed seen less as his normal self than his evil atler ego. Bakura is considerably skilled in the Duel Monsters game but no where close to the level of the spirit that takes him over or Yugi and his friends and plays Duel Monsters as little more than an amusing hobby. Bakura's link to the spirit world is a Millennium Puzzle similar to Yugi's but while Yugi's Puzzle alters chance, Baukra's is a divining tool used to located other Millennium items. The spirit haunting the puzzle first persuaded Bakura to invoke him by offering him power to undo death, Bakura had lost family in a car crash and agreed to the terms at first not knowing the true nature of the spirit he was allowing to possess him and soon came to regret his decision but his later objections were of no consequence after the spirit was first invoked. While traveling to the past it is hinted at that Bakura himself is the reincarnation of the spirit's first host and thus tied to it. Bakura himself is often well spoken, intelligent and trepidations but only on afew rare occasions has he actually helped the main cast of heroes. Towards the very end of the series Bakura is freed completely from the spirit's possession.