Hirutani's gang

From Yu-Gi-Oh!

Hirutani's gang is a group of thugs, led by Hirutani himself. The gang is known for picking on weaker people, incapable of defending themselves. It consisits mainly of people from Rintama High School, but has been around since Hirutani was in middle-school.^[1]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Middle school 1.2 The Wild Gang 1.3 Jonouchi! Soul Battle! 2 Anime version 3 Members 4 References

[edit] History

[edit] Middle school

Back in middle school, Katsuya Jonouchi and Hiroto Honda hung out with Hirutani and would spend time picking fights. During this time, they learned how to fight.^[1] Jonouchi was considered to be partners with Hirutani.^[2] Honda however claims to have never respected Hirutani.^[1]

Unhappy with how the gang targeted weaker individuals, Honda and Jonouchi left.

After Middle school, Hirutani went to Rintama High School, while Jonouchi and Honda went to Domino High School.

[edit] The Wild Gang

Hirutani blackmailed Jonouchi in returning, by threatening to beat-up the rest of Jonouchi's class. Jonouchi complied and joined the gang, which consisited entirely of Rintama High boys, apart from Jonouchi.^[1]

As Hirutani forced Jonouchi to miss days of school, Honda, Yugi and Anzu grew worried and went to Jonouchi's house to check-up on him. His father however scared them away, mistaking them for Jonouchi and yelling at him for disappearing for 2 days.^[1]

The trio later encountered Jonouchi outside and saw he was with Hirutani's gang. After seeing the gang mug someone, Yugi ran over to ask Jonouchi what was going on. Jonouchi denied knowing Yugi, but as Yugi continued to plea with Jonouchi, one of the other members punched him in the face.^[1]

The gang left for the bar J'z. Inside Hirutani decided they should celebrate Jonouchi's return, but Jonouchi picked a fight with the guy who punched Yugi earlier. Hirutani ordered the rest of the gang to seize Jonouchi.^[1] After they managed to pin Jonouchi they took him to the "torture chamber".^[2]

Honda, Yugi and Anzu later had followed the gang to J'z. After seeing one of the members leave, Honda seized him and demanded to know why Jonouchi was with them.^[1] Honda went inside expecting a fight, but only found the boy, who punched Yugi earlier, lying unconcious. Honda was unable to wake him to get answers. Outside, he Yugi and Anzu split-up to look for Jonouchi.^[2]

At a warehouse, the gang tied Jonouchi's hands over his head and proceeded to attack him with stun-guns. Jonouchi managed to kick the thugs away initially, knocking one unconscious. The group still manage to electrocute him, until he can take no more. Hirutani orders one of his minions to shock Jonouchi again. Although the minion is concerned that it may kill him, he reluctantly proceeds the follow through, but Dark Yugi appears.^[2]

Dark Yugi lets the gang, puch him around for a bit, allowing him to set up a trap; He lured them into a puddle, as he stood up, he secretly put a metal bar under the unconscious member's arm. He then hung the Millennium Puzzle off a chain over the unconscious boy's forhead. As the gang advanced to attack Yugi, rainwater trickles down the chain and off the tip of the Puzzle onto the boy, waking him up. As he wakes up, he moves his arm suspended under the metal bar, causing him to let the stun gun he's holding drop into the puddle of water electrocuting the gang.^[2]

Honda and Anzu then rushed in and the three of them took Jonouchi home.^[2]

[edit] Jonouchi! Soul Battle!

At school, Nezumi reported that he'd been mugged by a group of people, who used yo-yos. Jonouchi agreed to help Nezumi get back at these thugs. So Nezumi led Yugi and Jonouchi to where he'd been mugged. Yugi recognized the place as the "torture chamber" Hirutani's gang used. The group were then ambushed by Hirutani's minions.^[3]

Hirutani offers Jonouchi to rejoin the gang as his second in command. Meanwhile, Nezumi revealed that he'd been working for Hirutani, as he helped a member of the gang hang Yugi from a hook, by the rope around his Millennium Puzzle, while the remaining minions, hold Jonouchi back with their yo-yos. Jonouchi refused to rejoin and made his way over to Yugi, while taking hard hits from the yo-yos. Despite taking several hard blows, he managed to hep Yugi down. He then turned to Hirutani and said that the pain of the bruises is nothing compared to the pain of betraying his friend.^[3]

A number of minions close in on Yugi and Jonouchi, swinging their yo-yos. Jonouchi borrows Yugi's Millennium Puzzle and swings it around by the rope. The thugs yo-yos, all get caught in the rope. Easily able to grab theit yo-yos, Jonouchi hung the thugs from the hook, by their fingers, by tying their yo-yos to it.^[4]

Jonouchi returns the Puzzle to Yugi, allowing him to change into Dark Yugi. Yugi and Jonouchi split-up, with Jounouchi facing on Hirutani, while Yugi took care of the rest of the gang.^[4]

Yugi led his faction to a rooftop. He took out his own yo-yo and began running around the group, using the yo-yo to knock holes in the galvanized rooftop. The thugs continued to hit theirs off the rooftop too, causing it to collapse below them.^[4]

On another rooftop, Hirutani and Jonouchi had a fistfight, but Hirutani smashed some glass a threw it in Jonouchi's eyes. Hirutani approached Jonouchi with another shard of glass to stab him. Although unable to see Hirutani, Jonouchi heard him step on glass and delivered a massive punch. Hirutani was eft dangling off the edge of the building by one hand. Jonouchi then took out his own yo-yo and used the walk the dog technique to hit Hirutani's hand, causing him to fall.^[4]

[edit] Anime version

The yo-yo gang appeared once in the first series anime. This was an amalgamation of both their manga appearances.^[5]

Many events were the same as the first manga appearance, up to Yugi, Honda and Anzu searching for Jonouchi after the gang went to J'z. Honda and Yugi confronted Hirutani. However Hirutani's spiked yo-yo, easily tore apart Honda's brush and struck both boys down.^[5]

Yugi's hands were tied over his head onto the crane. Jonouchi freed him and the two boys split-up and defeated the rest of the gang in the same manner as the second manga appearance.^[5]

[edit] Members

Character	Information	Image	The Wild Gang	Jonouchi! Soul Battle!	Anime
Hirutani	Hirutani, known as Diesel Kane in the English version of the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game, is the leader of the gang. He was once a friend of Jonouchi and Honda, who left the gang as it was troublesome.		Present	Present	Present
Minion A	He is a typical bully, who is feared only for knowing Hirutani.[6]		Present	Not Present	Present
Minion B	A member of the gang, who pledges allegiance to Hirutani.[6]		Present	Not present	Present
Minion C	A member of the gang, who pledges allegiance to Hirutani.[6]		Present	Present	Present
Minion D	A member of the gang, who pledges allegiance to Hirutani.[6]		Not present	Present	Not present
Minion E	A member of the gang, who pledges allegiance to Hirutani.[6]		Not present	Present	Not present
Minion F	A member of the gang, who pledges allegiance to Hirutani.[6]		Not present	Present	Not present
Large minion			Present	Not present	Present

[edit] References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Yu-Gi-Oh! - Duel 011
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Yu-Gi-Oh! - Duel 012
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Yu-Gi-Oh! - Duel 048
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Yu-Gi-Oh! - Duel 049
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Yu-Gi-Oh! First Series - Episode 009
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5} Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters (video game)