Curator Kanekura

Curator Kanekura

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Occupation	Curator
Kanekura, Curator

Professor Kanekura, known as Adriel Wainwright in the English Dungeon Dice Monsters video game, is the curator of Domino City Museum, who exhibited the Millennium Puzzle after Yugi Mutou agrees to let him exhibit it for one day. Kanekura is a very greedy individual, who cares much for money and his own life, but little for anything else, and was willing to lie to others to get what he wanted.

Biography

Kenekura sponsored an excavation in the Valley of the Kings of a Pharaoh's tomb from the New Kingdom era. Two months later the findings were put on display at Domino City Museum in the Egypt Unearthed exhibition.

Kanekura heard from Professor Yoshimori that Yugi Mutou had solved the Millennium Puzzle. He then made plans to steal the puzzle, sell it and give Yugi a portion of the profit to keep him quiet.

On the day of the Egypt Unearthed exhibition, Kanekura begged Yugi to allow him to put the Millennium Puzzle on display. Yugi was a bit reluctant, but allowed him to borrow it for one day. The puzzle was put on display and Kanekura showed it to potential buyer, who was impressed and said he was willing to pay any price. Kanekura spotted Yugi coming over to look at the puzzle, so he quietened down the buyer, saying to meet him in his office ten minutes before the museum closed to finalize the deal.

While Kanekura was waiting for the buyer, he was instead visited by Shadi, who claimed to be a servant of Anubis who had come to put Kanekura on trial for defiling the tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Shadi proceeded to perform the Weighing of the Heart on Kanekura. He asked Kanekura a series of questions and used the Millennium Scales and Feather of Ma'at to measure his truthfulness. Shaid warned Kanekura that he would suffer a Penalty Game if the side of the scales weighing Kanekura's lies hit the table. Kanekura's claim that he would save a girl over stealing her golden ring was interpreted as a lie. Before his final question, he asked what a Penalty Game was, so Shadi used an illusion to transform Kanekura's chair into Ammit and said that this creature would be set free in his soul room. Kanekura begged Shadi to stop and said that he would pay anything that Shadi wanted. The side of lies then hit the table.

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Kanekura's demise.

In the manga, Kanekura's soul was consumed by Ammit. As Ammit was a mere illusion, Kanekura's physical body was not harmed, and to others, he looked as though he simply died of a heart attack from extreme fright. In the anime, he is driven insane and injured after failing the weighing.

Shadi claimed that Kanekura's soul room stank of greed and money, which is where monsters like Ammit are born and lay their nests and that Kanekura will be eaten by those monsters born of his negative traits.

References

• Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 13: "The Man from Egypt (Part 1)"
• Yu-Gi-Oh! (Toei) episode 0055: "Now Revealed!! Yugi's Secret"