Hirutani

Hirutani, known as Diesel Kane in the English version of the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game, is the ruthless leader of a gang of teenage delinquents and young criminals from Rintama High School who roam the streets of Domino City. Hirutani is an ex-friend of Katsuya Jonouchi, and is eager to force him into his gang by any means necessary.

The English name, Diesel Kane, stems from a gang member character in West Side Story named "Diesel".

Biography[]

During middle school, Hirutani hung out with Katsuya Jonouchi as part of a gang who would spend their time picking fights with gangs from other schools, even high schools. Though he and Jonouchi initially enjoyed their fights on the streets, his friendship with Jonouchi would sour overtime and become one-sided, as Jonouchi mainly fought as a way to take out his frustrations and growing pains from his poor home life, while Hirutani fought to simply to dominate and aggressively harass others. After middle school, Hirutani went to Rintama High School, while Jonouchi went to Domino High School.^[1]

Hirutani's gang soon filled up with Rintama High School students. He began recruiting older members to try expand his turf and asked Jonouchi to rejoin. Jonouchi refused at first, but was cocered after Hirutani threatened to beat up everyone in Jonouchi's class.^[1]

Yugi Mutou, Anzu Mazaki and Hiroto Honda later wondered why Jonouchi did not hang out with them and appear at school for two days straight, and later spotted Hirutani and his gang ganging up on a bystander who accidentally bumped into them outside the American Club. When Yugi spotted Jonouchi on the outside of the mob, he wanted to know what he was doing and pleaded with Jonouchi to leave the gang. Hirutani told Jonouchi that he was too nice for letting Domino kids like this follow him around, and said he should have come to Rintama. One of the gangsters punched Yugi, and the gang proceeded to J'z. However, Jonouchi decided he had had enough after that, and started a fight with the boy who hit Yugi. Hirutani was glad to see Jonouchi's fighting spirit back, but since it was targeted at them, he ordered the rest of the gang to seize Jonouchi and bring him to their torture chamber.^[1][2]

At the torture chamber, Hirutani had the gang tie Jonouchi arms to a hook above his head and attack him with stun guns. He ordered the gang to continue to attack Jonouchi, despite concerns that it could kill him. However, Dark Yugi interrupted. He let himself be hit by a gangster in order to lure the gang into a puddle, and secretly placed a bar under an unconscious member's arm. Dark Yugi challenged the gang to a game, warning them that there was a time bomb at their feet that would go off if they couldn't find the switch in time. One of the gangsters thought Dark Yugi was bluffing, but Hirutani pointed out that if they used their stun guns in the rain over the puddle, they would get electrocuted themselves. He ordered the gang to attack without using the stun guns. However, they did not find the true switch in time, and the unconscious member woke up as water dripped on his forehead, causing him to drop his stun gun in the puddle, electrifying the gang.^[2]

Later that summer, Hirutani reorganized his gang, and somehow learned that the Yomega Fireball Yo-yo actually was a proficient weapon. Gathering more delinquent yo-yo enthusiasts into his ranks, Hirutani then launched his plan for revenge and to finally coerce Jonouchi to be in his gang. He used Nezumi to lure Yugi and Jonouchi back to the location of the "torture chamber", and then had his thugs try to get Jonouchi to join by pulling a hook upwards to strangle Yugi with his Millennium Puzzle.

After saving Yugi, Jonouchi and Hirutani engaged in a fistfight atop the roof of the warehouse. Jonouchi punched Hirutani in the face, but Hirutani then threw glass in Jonouchi's eyes, temporarily blinding him. Hirutani tried to place a shard of glass in the back of Jonouchi's neck. However, Jonouchi detected Hirutani's location as he stepped on broken glass, and punched him off the roof. Hirutani grabbed onto a ledge, but Jonouchi used his yo-yo to hit Hirutani's fingers, causing him to fall to the ground from several stories high.

Other appearances[]

Hirutani (Toei)

Diesel Kane (Dungeon Dice Monsters)

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