So @dontrollthedicesideblog and I finished watching dm today, exactly 1 year after we started. Now I present: the finalized yugioh dm crimes and kill count list!
What is the most common crime in dm?
attempted murder
followed by actual murder, soul-stealing and normal stealing. Cheating at card game is the 6th most common crime.
There were 53 counts of attempted murder, 14 of which are by Yami Bakura. Speaking of the most murderous character,
Yami Bakura leads with 14 murder attempts and 18 successful murders. I am counting Yami Bakura, TKB, and Zorc as one entity.
Yugi has the most attempts on his life, as expected, followed by Kaiba.
Below is a net crime count (crimes committed by character minus crimes committed against them)
Unsurprisingly, Joey is the show's punching bag with 21 crimes committed against him, followed by Yugi with 15 crimes against him. Yami Bakura is crimes georg with 39 total crimes. Marik, hilariously, has committed more crimes as himself than as his dark side.
Overall, there were 176 crimes committed over 224 episodes, giving a crime rate of 0.8 crimes per episode. This is not counting the worst crime of all, which was the ending to the english dub.
This project has been super fun to run over the past year. Obviously it's not a rigorous study, but it does give us a general idea of some trends that many of us in the fandom had already suspected. Please feel free to ask me any questions you might have about the stats, or the methods of collecting them.
Even though we're done watching dm, this project isn't entirely over yet. I plan update again once we watch s0. The Pharaoh has only killed 4 people in dm, with an 80% success rate. I'm sure this number will go up once we add s0 to the mix.
If anyone's curious for more numbers, I've included the other tables I used to make the graphs below the cut:
