>>1901382>Contrary to that Mana herself has THE Darrk Magician Girl with the looks we know, but has not fused with it to create the looks.Literally directly controls her, its made even more clear in the manga where Mana is outright shown to be directly controlling her and speaking through DMG, whereas every other Ka was commanded. Everyone calls DMG Mana in the final arc at every single point she's referred to. DMG's lore in the cardgame itself is that she's Dark Magician's apprentice, he'll thats how she's debuted as:The Dark Magician's apprentice. Its made abundantly clear its Mana in Bonds Beyond Time where they basically talk like teacher and student, and summoned with a card called Bond Between Teacher and Student.
No one ever said Yu-gi-oh was consistent. Mana being DMG is one of the few consistencies it actually held on to all these years.