Characters / Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS - Rush Duel Club

Rush Duel Club

In General

A school club at Goha 7th Elementary formed by Luke to promote Rush Duels.

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• Cast Calculus: On occasion, the group will temporarily be joined by another character for the duration of a story arc as the ensemble's Sixth Ranger, with the most constants being Mimi, Roa, Asana, and Nail, the latter three comprising the seven main characters of the series alongside Yuga, Luke, Romin, and Gakuto.
• True Companions:
  • They develop into this near the end of the Maximum Arc, where Luke, Romin, and Gakuto search for a way to help Yuga combat Nail’ Maximum Monster, leading them to handing their duel ID’s over to Yuga so he could create his own Maximum Monster, followed by Yuga, Romin, and Gakuto joining Luke’s Rush Duel Club despite their other commitments or lack of interest in joining after seeing how much the club meant to him.
  • This is later shown again with Yuga’s rivals during the Team Battle Royal Arc, where Roa and Nail gave Yuga a Maximum card they had from a fan and for investigation into Maximum Monsters respectively, figuring Yuga could get more use out of them, while Asana gifted him an ID card she had found in Maximum Mountain, allowing Yuga to form a new Maximum Monster. They even join him in his new chant when summoning it.

Yuga Ohdo

Yuga Ohdo (王道 遊我, Ōdō Yūga)

Voiced by: Hiiro Ishibashi (Japanese), Bryson Baugus (English)

The Hero Protagonist, a fifth-grader of Goha Seventh Elementary with a knack for coming up with innovative ways of Dueling, dubbing his own creations "Roads". He's the inventor of "Rush Duels", a new, simplified format of Duel Monsters.

Yuga uses a Spellcaster deck, containing monsters of multiple Attributes to power-up his Seven Roads Magician, though he also includes a variety of monsters of other types to give his deck more versatility and unpredictability.

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• Anime Hair: He has spiky, flame-shaped hair that sticks upwards, though out of the protagonists his is the most subdued next to Jaden/Judai.
• Awesome, but Impractical:
  • His Seven Roads Magician can nearly double its ATK if Yuga can mill enough different-Attribute monsters into the graveyard, and Yuga runs other booster cards to further power it up, but all this is highly dependent on Yuga drawing the right cards. If he can't pull off an OTK, Seven Roads loses the ATK boost and is vulnerable to monsters that have higher base stats. This problem costs him his Duel with Luke, as two lackluster turns and a bad draw caused him to fall one card short of winning, allowing Luke to mount a comeback. This is downplayed in later duels, where Yuga has a number of support cards to recycle Sevens Road Magician if it doesn't work the first time, in addition to other 7-star monsters as alternative win options.
  • Yuga runs many powerful cards that work only if he can get large amounts of level 7 monsters in his graveyard, which limits their use to later in the duel and requires a lot of discarding effects to work.
  • Long story short, Yuga intentionally invokes this trope in order to help pitch Rush Dueling. It may not be as devastatingly straight forward as Luke and some of his other rivals, but Yuga is flexible enough to be able to fight with almost anything from his hand.
• Badass Normal: He's the only Yu-Gi-Oh! protagonist who's a Muggle, and the only one aside from Yugi to not base his entire strategy on a type of Special Summon.
• Child Prodigy: He is able to modify machines and install programs, as well as creating his own Duel format at age 11. Not to mention he's actually quite cunning, see the Xanatos Gambit below.
• The Chosen One: He was chosen by Otes to break up the world's rigidity and become the duel king. However, Yuga himself states that anyone could still become duel king.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • He's very much the near-opposite of Yusaku Fujiki. He's outwardly depicted as being more upbeat and positive, compared to The Stoic and Perpetual Frowner that Yusaku was, and is younger than his predecessors^note eleven compared to Yusaku at sixteen and Yuya at fourteen. Yuga's attitude to Duel Monsters is also different compared to Yusaku's, as Yuga enjoys the game, to the point of creating new ways to play it, and his ideology for Dueling is purely for fun in contrast to how Yusaku treated the game as a tool for Revenge and never treated it as anything other than a way to fight even by the end of his series. Yuga is also much more of a traditional protagonist, being a Nice Guy who is quite willing to help his friends versus how Yusaku was an Anti-Hero and was not a people person. While Yusaku ultimately remained a loner at the end of his series, no more than twenty episodes into SEVENS, and Yuga has gained an extensive network of allies. Ironically, they do have two things in common: both are good with technology,^note Yusaku's focus was in programming and hacking (software concerning the inner workings of Link VRAINS) and could easily be seen as a computer scientist, though Yuga is also knowledgeable in the area of software as well, while Yuga seems more inclined to hardware-based applications (as he specifically modded Duel Disks for "Rush Duels") and overall seems more akin to an engineer. and both are skilled Duelists. That being said, while Yusaku was an Invincible Hero, never once losing and at worst, drawing, Yuga takes a legitimate loss in the second episode (even if he still got what he wanted out of the Duel), and keeps having more losses afterward. Also, despite Yusaku's skills, he relied more on his allies to deal with everything that wasn't dueling and mostly followed the plot, while Yuga is more proactive and usually pulls strings himself.
  • He is also one to Yuya Sakaki. Both enjoy Dueling and wanted others to enjoy it as well and bring smiles to people's faces. In addition, both were responsible for introducing new rules to Dueling, but while Yuya simply introduced a new summoning method; Pendulum Summoning, Yuga has created a different format of the game itself. In addition, Yuya was plagued with self-doubt, while Yuga is more relaxed and mellow and takes things in stride. How they implemented their respective changes is also different: Yuya received in-universe criticism for how Pendulum Summoning came to be after losing a demonstration match to Yuzu, with many being disgusted at the idea that he cheated and how Pendulum seemed to be exclusive to him, while Yuga was able to generate positive hype for "Rush Duels" despite his loss, likely owing to how the format was available to everyone at the start, thus giving it a better showing as a whole.
  • Despite both being the youngest protagonists, this applies to him and Yuma Tsukumo. While Yuma was hyperactive, Yuga is calm and mellow. Yuma was a textbook case of Book Dumb, and was a major Butt-Monkey throughout. Yuga, however, is a Gadgeteer Genius, and while he does take pratfalls here and there, they're nowhere near as exaggerated with Yuma. Their Dueling skills differ as well. Yuma essentially required Astral to guide him through most of his plays until his skills improved where Astral would only intervene if necessary, while Yuga is decently skilled at the game, only being dealt bad hands at times. And while Yuma tended to be ignorant of the motivations of his enemies, Yuga is much more perceptive of his foes and their personalities.
  • On a non-personality related note, Yuga seems to be the only main protagonist who doesn't have any powers whatsoever, just a keen and creative mind. Not only that but the innovation he brings to Duel Monsters, instead of heralding a new summoning technique, is instead a new way of Dueling, with the cards for "Rush Duels" is made specifically for that kind of Dueling. In that sense, he's similar to Yusei Fudo, who's an intelligent mechanic known for tinkering with devices.
  • Also in his Dueling, Yuga is the first protagonist since Yugi to not make excessive use of additional summoning methods such as Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, Link, etc, since "Rush Dueling" doesn't have those types of monsters, though he is the first Duelist to use more than one different Maximum Monster.
  • He is one to Shoma Yusa:
    • They are both cheerful young boys who enjoy dueling and are skilled in their respective dueling formats, however, while Yuga is shown to be insightful, clever and easily able to make connections with other people, Shoma has No Social Skills as he is shown to be rather dense outside dueling and struggles with talking with strangers.
    • Yuga lived in Goha City all his life, but dislikes how the duels there are in his own words "strict and rigid", which caused him to create a new format called Rush Duels so that he and others can enjoy it, Shoma on the other hand recently moved from the countryside to the city where he can fully enjoy Master Duels with the only restriction being age limits that prevent him from entering certain tournaments.
    • Yuga uses a Spellcaster deck that while mainly focussing on the Sevens Road archetype also utilizes many different kind of other types that don't fit the mold, Shoma builds and uses different kinds of decks, which while focussing on a particular archetype also mixes all sorts of cards, other archetypes, and additional summoning methods that are usually seen in decks used in the real-life competitive format. In a way you can say that while Yuga uses one continuously changing Starter Deck, Shoma creates various Structure Decks.
  • Reflective of the more Lighter and Softer nature of the show, Yuga doesn't have any sort of Dark and Troubled Past, nor any present day trauma compared to the previous protagonists, making him relatively normal.
  • And finally to really drill it home, he doesn't have a supernatural guide/indirect partner; Yugi had Atem, Jaden had Yubel, Yusei and his friends had the Crimson Dragon, Yuma had Astral, Yuya had his counterparts, Yusaku had Ai, and even Shoma had the spirits of the Struct World. Everything he does he does on his own. One might count Otes as this, but he's is more of a Stealth Mentor and he is an actual person that helps Yuga when he is lost. Kaizo would actually fill that role, but it's still a subversion since it's created by Yuga and doesn't really guide him, but follows his orders.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Unintentional or not, he's managed to gain the respect or approval of many of his opponents from the various schools at Goha (along with Mimi and Roa) after defeating them, to the extent that Neiru's penalty rules in the Maximum arc extend to them. This would soon extend to Neiru himself and later Asana and her Heavy Cavalry Duel Club, and further down the line, four of the six Goha Presidents.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Played for Laughs, although he suspected that Mimi was the Goha spy, that she was 37, and is Yoshio's mom took him by surprise as much as everyone else.
  • This also tends to be the most reliable way to defeat him. He was utterly blindsided by Neiru and Asana's Maximums during his first Duels with them, and by Yuo's Fusion.
• Dismotivation: He has no desire to become the "King of Duels" like Luke wants to be, nor does he care if he loses the property rights of "Rush Duels"—something HE himself invented and even admitted to being his best Road—to Roa. However, this is downplayed because his motivation lies in making everyone happy, not being the best. As of episode 13, Yuga gains the desire to become the King of Duels but NOT because he wants to follow the path Otes set out for him, but to continue on his own road. This proves to not be a good trait when going up against Neiru, and Otes later shows up in Arc 4 to specifically hammer this trait out of Yuga now that he has responsibilities concerning "Rush Duels".
• Elemental Powers: His monsters have all been multi-Attribute, and Sevens Road Magician powers up for each different Attribute in the Graveyard.
• Face: In his duel with The☆Lukeman, Yuga invokes this as the Yuga-Devil, however later swaps to Yugaman.
• Fatal Flaw: As seen above with Dismotivation, this is Yuga's biggest flaw. He's easygoing, yes, but sometimes too easy-going for his own good, an attitude that results in him not having enough drive to really consider the ramifications of his defeat at Neiru's hands, where his Heroic BSoD makes it seem like he doesn't have enough drive to actually try to properly have a rematch with Neiru. Roa calls him out on this. It also makes him very passive, with him deciding not to enter Goha's Rush Duel tournament since he sees no need for himself to do so. Otes makes a surprise return to hammer in the point that Yuga's status as creator of "Rush Duels" means that he cannot keep this atitude up.
• For Happiness: His goal, in a nutshell, is simply to make Dueling enjoyable.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He has the technical skill to modify Goha Duel Disks, their drones, and his bike to his liking, and has full knowledge of many engineering components. Episode 3 also reveals he creates non-Dueling inventions as well, like a truth detecting microphone which he uses on Romin or a hair styling machine that Luke ends up being subjected to (regrettably, the effects only last a couple of minutes).
• Genius Ditz: He's earnest and capable, but his lack of foresight results in half-baked inventions such as the increasingly insane ways he tried to "save" a failing ramen restaurant.
• Graceful Loser: He takes his first loss to Luke pretty well. Of course, he'd already set things up in advance so that his actual goal of revealing "Rush Duels" would be achieved no matter what.
• Guile Hero: Despite his fun-loving and Playful Hacker behavior, he is quite crafty when he needs to be. During his Duel with Luke for the fate of revealing "Rush Dueling" to the world, he opts to livestream it via drone so it gets revealed even if he loses. He also manages to spook the newspaper club about Goha Corporation possibly erasing the club for mentioning "Rush Duels" (which isn't that much of a stretch, given how thorough they've been in stamping out its online presence).
• Heroic BSoD: Suffers one after his loss to Neiru, but snaps out of it soon with help from his friends.
  • It seems like he has another one after losing to Yuo, but he was actually so curious about the Fusion card that he drove himself delirious from sleep deprivation thinking about it.
• Heroic RRoD: During his attempt to find a way to break Gurugru out of his zombie-trance, Yuga takes a brutal defeat to Tiger. The next day, having witnessed the advent of Yuga Goha, he attempts to create a program to stop the maniac's format-pitting, but has to be up all night to finish it, and then has to duel said maniac almost immediately after the program is finished. Suffice to say, the strain finally gets to Yuga, and he collapses mid-duel, forcing Luke to take over.
• Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of the series, Yuga duels Otes for the future of the dueling world. During the duel the Rush Duel Robot, which Yuga and his six closest companions are piloting, takes heavy damage from the duel. With some time in between due to a disruption, Yuga ejects everyone else so that he can finish the duel against Otes on his own. He even defeats Luke for the first time to earn the right to fight against him alone. In the end, Yuga defeats Otes but is lost in space due to the strain on the Rush Duel Robot. It takes him two years to come back to Goha City.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He quickly develops this dynamic with Luke; they have significantly different personalities, but they get along quite well.
• Hyper-Awareness: Yuga knew that Romin was a spy all along and figured out that Roa was manipulating her. He also correctly guessed Romin’s “dark” secret, that she is tone-deaf.
• Insistent Terminology: He calls all his inventions "roads", which creates confusion sometimes due to him also referring to his personal philosophies as "roads".
• Ironic Name: He completely restructured Dueling because he thought the old formula was tired and stiff, but his family name Oudou is a Japanese media criticism lingo meaning tried and true genre pieces that play all the tropes straight.
• Kid Hero: He's the youngest "Yu" character in the franchise (not counting Yuya's counterparts, whose "Yu" are written in katakana instead of the kanji "遊") at the age of 11.
• Kryptonite Factor: His deck in all phases of the series has one major flaw, because of the requirements of his strategies requires a bit of setup, if he doesn't get set up in time, Yuga will take lethal amounts of damage if he fails to set his defences up. In fact Luke's deck is almost designed to punish his deck as his multi-attack aspect of his deck forces Yuga to frequently set up counterplay every turn.
• Limit Break: Sevens Road Magician starts out with 2100 ATK, but gains an additional 300 ATK each monster attribute in the graveyard, up to 1800 ATK if all six types are present.
• Logic Bomb: In episode 3, he creates a functioning listening device that can tell whether a person is telling the truth or not. It cannot, however, handle questions, and it explodes when Romin accidentally asks it one.
• Mad Dreamer: He dreams about creating and piloting a giant, Dueling Super Robot.
• Magic Knight: Sevens Road Magician is a Spellcaster, but it wields a sword.
• Magic Poker Equation: While Neiru's deck is focussed on filtering his deck to get all three pieces of Yggdrago the Heavenly Emperor Dragon Tree, Yuga managed to get all three pieces of Super Magitek Deity Magnum Over Road on his second turn through just his normal Draw Phase.
• Master of None: His deck pointedly focuses on multiple Attributes, rapidly discarding them through tributes and card effects to power up Sevens Road Magician. The fast-paced nature of "Rush Duels" increases the likelihood of them synergising compared to a standard Duel, where it would be more difficult for Yuga to mill enough of his deck to get a decent power boost out of them.
• Meaningful Name: His first name means "My game", referring to his creation of the "Rush Duel" format. His last name means "Royal Road", referring to his habit of calling his creations "roads" and his aspiration to become the "King of Duels".
• Mellow Fellow: He's quite capable of taking things in strides, like say, losing a Duel, or listening to Luke's monologuing. Of the four main protagonists, he is the least prone to anger and frustration. Between Luke and Gakuto's dramatic antics and Romin's comedic reactions, Yuga is more level headed, despite being a dreamer.
• Nice Guy: He's a very benign individual, and after seeing Gakuto being legitimately stressed from handling so much paperwork, reprograms Kaizo into handling it to lessen the burden.
• Not So Above It All: Despite being the Only Sane Man of the group at times, he still showcases a more energetic and playful nature that can cause his friends some grief. Justified since he's 11 years old.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Yuga is definitely smarter than he tends to let on to his friends. A good example would be that he's well aware that Romin was sent to spy on them, but decided to not say anything about it. He was even able to pinpoint her motives within seconds of the reveal.
• Oh, Crap!: Whenever he is back into a corner he typically puts on a nervous face which he combines with nervous laughter.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares his first name with the sixth Goha Sibling.
• Only Sane Man: Despite his occasional goofs, Yuga is much more mellow and realistic compared to the his friends who have their own major personality quirks.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Played for laughs after he loses to Luke in the finals for the Battle Royal finals, and throws a small tantrum saying he really wanted to win. He still takes Luke's victory in stride, and his friends are just amused to see Yuga like that for the first time.
  • Hardly anything fazes Yuga, but when it comes to ladybugs, he freaks out over them, to the point he’s willing to blow up Goha HQ after seeing Nanaho’s ladybug hat or even run away from a Rush Duel when he couldn’t take dealing with Nanaho’s ladybug monsters anymore.
• Playful Hacker: Very much so. His installing "Rush Duels" into the system is essentially him hacking the system to include his customized rules, but his motivations are not malicious; rather, he just wants to break out of the strict Dueling system that Goha Corp. has enforced on the world.
• The Power of Friendship: Yuga's first Maximum Monster comprises his three friend's duel ID cards that he rewrote into Super Magitek Deity Magnum Over Road to defeat Neiru. His second Maximum Monster comprises of three cards given to him by his former rivals, Roa and Neiru each had a piece and Asana gave him an empty ID card to finish the combo which became Hyper Engine Vast Vulcan.
  • Taken to its logical extreme during Yuga and Otes's final duel in which Yuga's deck now contains all six of his friends' ace monsters. This also includes a Fusion between Sevens Road Magician and Multistrike Dragon Dragias forming Sevensgias the Magical Dragon Knight.
• Red Herring: A meeting between him and the other Goha Siblings that Mimi passes by leads her to speculate that he may be the sixth of the siblings, because his given name contains "Yu" like the rest of them do. While a Yuga Goha exists, he and Yuga Ohdo are completely separate characters who share the same given name by coincidence, and share no familial relationships with each other.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the Blue to Luke's Red, being far more mellow and less dramatic than Luke is, ironic considering he has red hair while Luke has blue.
• Rule of Cool: Duels with this in mind, believing that ace monsters should fight ace monsters even if easier targets are available.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He is the shortest of the main characters, but is the most tech-savvy of them all, as well as the one who keeps their plans running.
• Social Circle Filler: Before the plot gets started, he has two friends, Riku Endo and Katsu Kobayakawa that he hung out with, only for them to be jettisoned for Luke, Romin, and Gakuto, and they remain as background characters.
• Sore Loser: Subverted. When he loses to Luke at the end of the Team Battle Royale, he displays a rare sight of frustration upon his loss, but nevertheless concedes defeat and congratulates Luke for winning. He displays it again when the two have another match due to the group's suspicions of Yuga being the sixth Goha President and loses once more. Yuga outright calls Luke to be too strong to fight.
• Taking You with Me: Knowing that he won't be able to finish off Otes once they reestablish global communications with Earth and without a valid ID card, Yuga, piloting the Rush Duel Robot, restrains his opponent as he finishes off the duel with Sevensgias, at the cost of losing himself in space for two years.
• Techno Wizard: Thematically due to his skill with programming and machines. Fittingly, he runs a Spellcaster Deck.
• To Be a Master: Zigzagged with a dash of Ambiguous Situation. On the one hand, Yuga has stated that his ultimate goal is simply to use "Rush Duels" to make Dueling enjoyable for everyone, not to become 'Duel King' as he believes that it does not suit him. On the other hand, his fantasy in Episode 1 might indicate otherwise, considering the praise "Rush Duels" are given in said fantasy sequence, when they could've received the exact opposite reaction in real-life. After his duel with Roa and reunion with Otes, he gains more of a desire to follow the king's path, and reconciles the two ideas understanding that they are not mutually exclusive.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ladybugs scare him to the point that he freezes on the spot if one makes contact with him.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Kid Hero he may be, but he's a very skilled hacker and is quite tech-savvy, not to mention being very cunning when it comes to his goals. He can also be quite insightful and wise.
• Xanatos Gambit: Luke wants to keep "Rush Duels" secret so he can become the Duel King and take over Goha Corp, and thus, Yuga Duels him (at Romin's suggestion) to determine if they will keep it secret. Yuga loses, but it's then revealed that he was using Kaizo to livestream the Duel, thus advertising "Rush Duels". This means that it didn't matter if Luke won or lost; Yuga's ultimate goal of spreading the word about "Rush Duels" succeeds regardless.

Tatsuhisa "Luke" Kamijo (Lucidien "Luke" Kallister)

Tatsuhisa "Luke" Kamijo (上城 龍久, Kamijō Tatsuhisa/ルーク, Rūku)

Voiced by: Taku Yashiro (Japanese), Matthew Gumley (English)

Yuga's next-door classmate and self-proclaimed #1 Duelist of Goha Seventh Elementary.

Luke uses an aggressive Dragon deck focused around summoning high-level monsters and using effects that allow them to attack multiple times per turn.

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• The Ace: While he is the self-porclaimed best duelest in the school, he does actually put his money where his mouth is. He has a near perfect dueling record in the series and his deck and dueling style is incredibly fluid, allowing him to counter every strategy despite being a simple beatdown deck. Not counting a flashback loss againt Tiger and his loss as The☆Lukeman, Luke only actually loses in the series once and only at the end of the series against Yuga. Probably the best example of this is where he faces off against Yuga Goha using Yuga Ohdo's deck when Yuga Ohdo passed out. He not only has to pick up the duel where Yuga Ohdo passed out, but also, from his field and hand, figure out his strategy (Luke at this point knows Yuga's deck inside and out), and counter play against Yuga Goha and manages to win.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Following Season 1, his ego goes even more out of control due to his new title as King of Duels. Thankfully, Tiger leaks an old embarassing comic Luke drew to knock him down a peg. Downplayed, since he always had the tendency to think too higly of himself and go off the deep end when he acquired (or believed to have acquired) some title, the only difference was that the title now is actually official.
• Aesop Amnesia: Due to being a source of comedy relief, Luke never really learns from his bigger mistakes in the series.
• Affectionate Parody: Of previous self-serious Yu-Gi-Oh! protagonists. His ambitions and personality wouldn't be out of place in the preceding show, but the rest of the cast either A) Doesn't take him that seriously, or B) Are equally as bombastic as him and establish rapport with the guy as a result. Romin even points out the logical fallacies in his goals, in particular what he would do when his ambitions had reached their end-result. And also for Rivals Turned Evil like Shark, where all he needed to be convinced to go bad is for Yuo to tell him he is the Sixth President.
• Ambition Is Evil: Played for Laughs with his fantasies towards gaining the power to promote "Rush Duels"—such as somehow becoming the CEO of Goha and then the Student Council President. No one takes him seriously when he does this.
• And Then What?: Romin asks him this in Episode 15, for once he becomes "Duel King", what will he do then? It's enough to shock him out of his dreams as he had never considered that. It pops up again during the fifth arc, as now that he is "Duel King", he has nothing else to wish for or aspire to, much to his horror
• Anime Hair: Blue and spiky in the shape of a gear.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Treated like one by his older sister, Haruka, for his failure to call her Tiger, though most of the time he is simply too scared of her to actually do anything annoying. He also becomes this as the Sixth Goha Sibling, with Yuo finding it both weird and creepy.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: The main strategy of his deck is to rush opponents with monsters that can attack multiple times per turn. Twin-Edge Dragon, for example, can attack twice at the cost of discarding a card, while the effect of Multistrike Dragon, Luke's ace monster allows it to attack an additional time for the price of milling the top card of the deck.
• Big Eater: The kid packs away a lot of food. He pops up at the end of Episode 6 without warning to eat an entire bowl of ramen in seconds before Yuga or Menzaburo could take a bite, spends a good chunk of Episode 9 eating everything he's offered, nearly even eating a dog bone before Romin throws it away, and chows down barbecue-mix sushi rolls in Episode 11. To sum it up, he eats a lot. In Episode 14 he eats many helpings of Romin's curry after having three bowls of ramen and eats far too many dishes to count in Episode 16 when the gang return to the A.I. Restaurant trying to regain Kaizo's regular body.
• Boring, but Practical:
  • Not that he'd ever admit it (well, he actually did admit it, he just tried to pass it as a more dramatic backstory rather than this trope), but the reason he's a skilled Duelist comes down to simple practice from constantly Dueling more experienced opponents.
  • In comparison to Yuga, Luke generally runs cards that have much simpler requirements for activation, allowing him to counter Yuga's combos that require 10 level 7 monsters in his graveyard with a card that is triggered at a special summon in general. Compared to Yuga's OTK strategy, which requires milling several different attributes into the graveyard, the milling effect of Multistrike Dragon Dragias works regardless of what the effect mills and doesn't leave Luke a sitting duck if he gets a bad draw.
  • Dragias itself is this in comparison to his other multi-attacking aces like Miragias and Metagias. While both have more powerful effects, they require the cost of discarding a Level 7 Dragon and can't attack directly with their effects, but Dragias has the straightforward cost of sending a card from the top of the Deck to the Graveyard and can attack directly.
• Butt-Monkey: Despite being an Invincible Hero, he is treated rather comically, beaten down by his sister and ignored in his serious moments. And then there is his inability to find a Maximum when Yuga, Neiru, Asana, and even Hunt have one.
• Character Focus:
  • Episode 27 revolves around him and his vain attempts to recruit members for the self-named Luke Club, with the intent to turn Goha 7th Elementary into a mecca for Rush Duels.
  • In addition, he is the protagonist of the spinoff manga, Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS Luke! Explosive Supremacy Legend, which consists of him dueling and beating everyone. He even has a Maximum Monster there.
• Chuunibyou: He's a Large Ham that constantly talks about how he is possessed by a demon - the Hand of the Devil - though no one treats it seriously. On a broader scope, he takes everything seriously and dramatically when others are calm and takes the events for what they are. Roa ultimately uses this against him. By having Romin whisper to a sleeping Luke about the Holographic Duelist, Luke latched onto it, thus kicking off the entire story.
• Cool Helmet: The☆Lukeman helmet that is dragon-faced, however it is a drone helmet that controls him, shown to be another presidential helmet like the President Drone. Or rather formerly one, as The☆Lukeman progam that gained sentience converted it.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • He's immediately one for Takeru/Soulburner, his direct predecessor. Both of them are significantly more emotional and action-oriented than their companion, but the difference is less significant in Luke's case thanks to Yuga being more emotional and open than Yusaku was in comparison to Takeru. He himself is closer to The Rival in temperament and behavior, and uses dragons, an ironic case considering Soulburner's grudge against Ryoken/Revolver, who used a Dragon deck. And while Soulburner was very loyal to the good guys, on top of gaining power as part of his determination to fight after the Hanoi Incident, Luke's ambitions are such that he will turn on his allies in hopes of gaining more power and recognition for the sake of such, a very shallow and selfish goal in comparison, especially as he lacks Takeru's Dark and Troubled Past.
  • For Ryouga/Shark as well. Unlike Shark, Luke isn't a very bright person, and was shown having to get stronger through consistent practice, whereas Ryouga was closer to The Ace. Ryouga was introduced as a bully who became friends with Yuma, becoming more humble and having his nature a bully originate from his own Dark and Troubled Past concerning Rio's injuries and IV's manipulations of him. Luke was introduced as being far more amiable to Yuga, but his ego is so huge, no matter how many times he has been brought back down to earth, it can only be said to have increased as SEVENS has gone on. Both also became hostile to their respective main character, but while Ryouga was either brainwashed or bitterly accepting of his past as Nasch, Luke only needed a stroking of his ego to turn against the protagonists fully and willingly. This also plays into their motivations, Ryouga has quite the protective instinct, whether it be for his people or his friends, versus how Luke is unquestionably selfish and self-absorbed.
• Cosmic Motifs: His aces have various astronomical motifs, Multistrike Dragon Dragias is associated with stars, and Dragonic Slayer is associated with a supernova.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Not in a Duel, but in trying to run against Gakuto as Student Council President due to the aftermath of The Bet in Episode 4. Gakuto easily reclaims his position after resignation, with Luke looking completely defeated.
• Didn't Think This Through: Basically any time he does something not related to duels. An example is when he engineers a situation for Gakuto to step down from his council president role and take his place, not considering that Gakuto could just re-enter the following election, or why would anyone vote for him. The above entry shows the result.
• Dub Name Change: His nickname is retained, but his full name in the dub is Lucidien Kallister.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Despite wanting to be King, he hates that Yuga is sitting out of the Goha Tournament, and pushes him to join the Duel Cavalry team, because Yuga sacrificed his spot on his team so Gakuto and Romin wouldn't be left out.
  • Played for Laughs with Romin's curry where after the massive curry explosion, he initially isn't willing to try her curry again, instead treating it like a dangerous explosive alongside Gakuto. Later he's so hungry that he tries to eat both her Dragias Curry and her Prima Guitarna Curry at the same time despite witnessing how a droplet of them mixing produced an explosion powerful enough to shatter reinforced glass.
• Extreme Omnivore: Somehow he manages to eat Romin's Dragias Curry and her Prima Guitarna Curry at the same time and suffer no ill-effects, despite them being powerful enough to destroy reinforced glass when mixed in small quantities.
• The Extremist Was Right: Downplayed, Luke is very over the top in his theories but they are often shown to be partially correct, such as fearing what Goha Corp would do about "Rush Duels" to which they deleted the videos of it and again in episode 3, he spent the whole episode assuming Romin was a spy for the Goha Corp, even attempting to search her guitar case, by the end of the episode he decides to leave it for the time being, however not too soon after, it is revealed that the pictures Romin took of Yuga throughout the episodes have been sent to Roa, so the spying part was correct.
• Face–Heel Turn: After Yuo convinces him he is the Sixth President, he quickly turns against Yugo and Co.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Seems to be a running theme with him.
  • He attempts to market his Walking Techbane status/technique as the 'Hand of the Devil'... but Yuga's completion of the rudimentary "Rush Duel" program puts a stop to it. A second attempt to market it just has Yuga bring up the Pauli Effect in order to dismiss it.
  • He goes on and on about the 'Demon Within Him', and how his Walking Techbane status made him capable of entering age-restricted Dueling events, thus becoming incredibly powerful... which everyone points it is just him getting good with practice.
  • His fantasy sequences fall into this. First, he thinks about how he and Yuga will take over Goha Corp, which is shot down quickly, then he starts thinking about Romin being a spy which Yuga just uses as a way to introduce Romin to "Rush Duels", while Gakuto considers the theory to be bullshit, and in a third case, envisioning taking over Gakuto's position as Student Council President, which neither Yuga nor Romin care to stick around to hear about.
  • He jumps out of a flying vehicle to take over Yuga's duel with the revived Yuga Goha after the former is too exhausted to continue, and ends up crying from the force of the impact on his legs.
• Fatal Flaw: He has two, both of which feed into the other:
  • Arrogance. To say that Luke is full of himself is like saying that the sky is blue. His ego and desire to be the best either blind him to the real problems the characters are facing, or directly contribute to them. When he finally defeats Yuga and becomes "Duel King", he immediately takes over the school until Tiger knocks him down a peg. Part of his Face–Heel Turn stems from his ego, as the idea of becoming president appeals to him. Roa attempts to call Luke out on this when the two duel in Episode 63, but it falls on deaf ears as Luke is more concerned about his abilities measuring up to his status as president than the idea that he's become arrogant and resting on a laurel.
  • Stupidity/Gullibility. Luke is quite frankly an idiot in anything that is not dueling. He's easily manipulated and doesn't read social cues very well. Both Roa and Yuo take advantage of this, as he immediately believes their claims. As said above, this feeds into his ego, as it means that he doesn't think things through on a scenario, especially so when the prospect of power is involved.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: When no one joined his "Luke Club", he plays a Rush Duel by himself and out of loneliness imagines that he truly is dueling his own doppelganger for the right of being the true "Luke".
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He quickly becomes this with Yuga, proudly declaring several times when Yuga does something impressive that it's as expected of the one he put his trust in.
• Hidden Depths:
  • One of the versions for the first ending reveals he has a talent for sewing, showing him to be the one who made those plushies based off of his monsters in the Rush Duel Club’s room.
  • In addition, part of his Face–Heel Turn is worry about being stuck as a gear in a machine of society, and working at his family's company.
• Hot-Blooded: Luke has his moments, often they show how serious he is. Later on they take on a bit of a sillier bent, since he's also trying to be serious and 'manly'.
• Hypocrite: He gave Romin a very hard time for being a spy, calling her a traitor and refusing to speak to her until she made him curry rice in apology, despite already trying to apologise and feeling very torn about betraying her friends. Luke himself shows no qualms in trying to gain favor with Asana and the Goha Siblings and practically jumps at the chance to join Yuo after being told he's the sixth Goha Sibling.
• I Can't Dance: Luke suggests dancing when they "Rush Duel" for a promo video after Romin refuses to sing, but then shoots down his own idea immediately when he remembers this trope.
• Idiot Hero: Contrasting Yuga, Luke tends to be much more gullible and out of the loop.
• Idiot Houdini: Other than a loss as Lukeman, Luke suffers no distrust or issues for his betrayal, despite the distrust he showed towards Romin.
• Innocently Insensitive: Eats the last ramen at the Tahayasty Restaurant, unaware it would have been the last ramen the store made had the owner not decided to remain open after seeing Yuga and Menzaburo's "Rush Duel".
• Invincible Hero: While he lost plenty of times in flashbacks, in the series proper after training in adult Duel centers he's never lost a duel. Yuo uses this fact to his advantage to trick Luke into turning against Yuga's group by making him think he is the Sixth President due to being undefeated in Rush Duels. This streak is finally broken during Yuga and The☆Lukeman’s climatic duel during the last part of the Goah Siblings' arc, even though Luke technically wasn’t in control at the time. This becomes subverted for the finale when he finally loses to Yuga. He takes the loss so hard that it humbles him into a two year depression where he can only think about Yuga and the first Rush Duel that he ever lost.
• Irony: He doesn't know it, but there's a great number of ironies concerning Luke's actions and motivations:
  • As seen above in Boring, but Practical, for all of his bombastic behavior in dueling, Luke's strategy is remarkably straightforward and sturdy in the climate of "Rush Duels" as a format, having effects with immediate benefits and relatively low costs.
  • He desperately wants Maximums and Fusions added to his deck, but not only does he not gain the former, he defeats one with his own monsters, and the latter is only granted to him through The☆Lukeman, an A.I. from a manga that Luke drew when he was little that takes control of him and thus is the one who truly uses Fusion Monsters.
    • He finally defeats Tiger, but only after The☆Lukeman takes over for the remainder of their duel.
  • He becomes "Duel King", the most vaulted-title in the entire franchise... and then falls victim to And Then What?.
  • He wants nothing more than to break from his family position and become his own man, but not only is it clear that he's nowhere near ready for that (he still needs his mother to tell him where his spare underwear is), the "Gias" naming theme of his ace monsters and overall strategies fall right into the Boring, but Practical nature of Kamijou Gear Company, a sentiment that becomes very clear when The Lukeman's usage of Fusion is compared to the rotating of two connected gears, further cementing his status as heir to the company instead of his desired position as Goha President.
• It's All About Me: In several ways:
  • He claims to have created the self-named Luke Club with the intention of turning Goha 7th Elementary into a mecca for Rush Dueling, but his method of recruitment is motivated by selfishness, turning off prospective club members.
  • The base motive for his Face–Heel Turn if his gullibility isn't taken as a factor. The idea of gaining power as a Goha President is very enticing to Luke, and he immediately joins Yuo despite the fact that Yuo is attempting to destroy Rush Duels and gain complete control over Goha in the process. This is notably bad enough that Roa calls him out on it when they duel... but all Luke cares about is the fact that he's losing the duel at this point, not the fact that he has allowed his selfishness to dictate his actions.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's selfish and narcissistic and at times his ego can get completely out of control, but he usually does mean well at the end of the day... And then he gets Acquired Situational Narcissism and does a Face–Heel Turn.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • While his treatment of Romin after her status as a spy is revealed is a bit harsh, he is completely correct that the group treated her as a friend and she stabbed them in the back, which nearly gave Roa control over "Rush Duels".
  • He's silently furious about Tiger brutally defeating Yuga. While some of that anger may stem from his perceptions of how Tiger has set him straight in the past, he's not wrong that Tiger actually hurt Yuga, and later on, it turns out that said duel drained a lot of Yuga's energy, causing him to faint mid-duel against the revived Yuga Goha.
• Large Ham: He's not as openly spastic as Gakuto, but he is very dramatic. His summoning chants and attack names are considerably lengthy even for Yu-Gi-Oh!.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: His "Luke Devil" technique continuously raises the question of what exactly it is. Initially Yuga and the rest of the group dismiss it as the Pauli Effect, but then it's revealed that it actually is connected to a watch given to him by his grandfather, which seems to point towards the "Mundane" side of things either way... However, no one other then Luke himself can use it, and things get even more muddled after he somehow acquires a card mid-duel with no idea how it happened. Twice.
  • The first duel which itself fits this trope, since it's unclear if Luke fighting an alternative version of himself is just his own visualization/delusion or something else.
• Meaningful Name: Tatsuhisa Kamijo can be read as Upper Castle Dragon Eternity, fitting for his Chuuni behavior and desire to be king. In addition, Luke's alternate reading of Rook, a promoted Rook in Shogi is a Dragon King.
• My Greatest Failure: His final duel against Yuga ends in Yuga's victory for the first time. However the stakes for the final duel were that Yuga would finish his duel against Otes alone, and due to the damage the Rush Duel Robot took, it would be suicide for Yuga. Thus Yuga would disappear into space and Luke would spend two years brooding over his loss with only Yuga's ID card, which he transformed into Sevens Road Magician, to remember him by.
• Narcissist: Played for Laughs. A lot of his fantasies depict him as a person in charge or with power. He also extends this to reality such as calling his friends, "Team Luke". During the Goha Rush Duel Tournament he even names their team "Team Luke King, Luke Kings".
• Never My Fault: Whenever Tiger calls out Luke for his mistakes, he shifts the blame on Yuga which pisses her off. And despite being the one who ate all of the food in their cabin, Luke remained oblivious to the issue until the group had to spell it out for him over what he did. He never really owns up or apologizes for his mistakes and even had to be bribed with food by Romin to get him to finally make up with her.
• No-Respect Guy: It should be telling that despite being possibly the strongest Duelist in the entire cast and the King of Duels after Season 1, pretty much every Arc Villain largely ignores or dismisses him and are always focused on Yuga. After Yuo lost against him and was in need of a new ally, he acknowledges his strength to sway him to his side, although he still shows little overall respect for him. This even applies to his position as a Goha Employee, as his job as head of the "Luke Division" has no bearing on the company at all.
• Obliviously Evil: It's unclear whether this trope, Ambition Is Evil or a combination of the two is the reason for joining Yuo's ranks after being told he is the sixth Goha sibling.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls him Luke in the present, though he lacked the nickname as a child considering Asana failed to recognize him as Tiger's little brother, Tatsuhisa.
• Old Shame: In-Universe example; he once wrote a manga in his childhood that he's pretty embarrassed by, and after his sister publishes it in the school newspaper it gives his newfound ego a much-needed check.
• Preppy Name: Lucidien Kallister in the dub screams Oxford like the Obelisk Blue students in the GX dub, which is why he goes by Luke
• Recurring Element: Luke is one to Joey characters, despite having the Dragon Decks usually associated with the Rival Character, he is the Hot-Blooded Red Oni to Yuga. Though unlike Soulburner, he is a deliberate Walking Techbane and is more openly Hot-Blooded than Soulburner's Keet personality. His Large Ham Rival persona also brings Jack Atlas to mind, along with his dragons and offensive-based strategy. He does avert one aspect in that while he has a sister, he is the younger sibling.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. He may have a rather aggressive personality, but his over-the-top attempts to be dramatic don't intimidate anyone.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ironically, despite his hair color, he is the Red Oni to Yuga's Blue, being very dramatic and over-the-top compared to Yuga's being a Mellow Fellow.
• Say It with Hearts: His Lukeman persona and cards all have stars added to them.
• Secretly Wealthy: The Kamijo family is quite wealthy, able to live in a large mansion with grounds and staff, though Luke never makes much mention of his family's wealth.
• Shrinking Violet: As a child, he was a meek wimp, which Gakuto points out is probably Tiger's fault.
• Signature Mon: His main monster is Multistrike Dragon Dragias, and his deck is made up of dragons in contrast to Yuga's more diverse assemblage. However he has an extreme tendency to have many of his monsters labelled "aces" or "trump cards".
• Sore Loser: He refuses to concede that his Rush Duel with Yuga in the final episode ends with the latter's victory, though this is more out of the prospect of not being able to enjoy Rush Duels together with him anymore when Yuga sets off to confront Otes in space alone.
• Spell My Name With An S: His nickname (ルーク) can be transliterated as either "Rook" or "Luke". According to merchandise, it's "Luke".
• Super Gullible: Noted to be so by Roa, which is why he had Romin constantly whisper ghost stories to him to make him go after the Hologram Man. He's not wrong: Luke is always latching onto urban legends, even if evidence for them existing in real-life is tenuous.
  • Made even more apparent when all it took for Yuo to convince Luke that he is the Sixth President is that he remained undefeated in Rush Duels, which supposedly proved his worthiness. Although Luke also might have latched onto any reason that justified him being the Sixth President.
• Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him: He refuses to speak with Romin after her status as a spy is revealed, putting his hand up to shut her up. He ultimately relents after eating her blue curry.
• The Dragon: He becomes this to Yuo, or rather The☆Lukeman does. Bonus points for him donning a literal dragon helmet and costume.
• Through His Stomach: Non-romantic, but Romin makes him curry so he would forgive her for being a 'traitorous spy'. It works.
• Tiger Versus Dragon: The Dragon to his sister, Haruka's Tiger. Luke is bombastic and Hot-Blooded too, but is calmer by comparison to his sister. At the same time however, he is also significantly less mature than her.
• To Be a Master: His goal is to be this. It goes so far as to him fantasizing about using "Rush Duels" to take over freaking Goha Corp. Deconstructed in Episode 15, where Yuga's reignited interest in being King of Duels leaves him at a loss, especially as he admits he doesn't know what he would actually do with the title or why he wants it. Later he seeks his own Daor to be Duel King, like Yuga's own roads. He finally gets this wish when he defeats Yuga during their final battle in the Team Battle Royal alongside Gakuto and Romin.
• Too Dumb to Fool: He was the only person to immediately realize that Gibumi was Princess G, recognizing how she held the badminton racket was how she held the fish.
  • Inverted when he believes Yuo’s claim that he is the sixth Goha sibling. Yuo didn't even provide any evidence or explanation, Luke just accepted it as a fact.
• The Unfettered: Played for Laughs. His desire to be the "King of Duels" makes him the most enthusiastic about making "Rush Duels" a popular format, though he goes into tangents that have his friends either question the plausibility of his plans or simply ignore him entirely.
• Unwitting Pawn:
  • Episode 10 reveals that he was one to Roa, who ordered Romin to whisper to Luke about the urban legend, and due to his tendency to accept such things as facts, he essentially helped kick Roa's plans to fruition.
  • Luke might also be one to Yuo since Yuo needs someone to defeat members of Yuga's group to reach 6 wins, Yuo imprisoned Yuran, the other siblings have already been deposed of, and Yuo couldn't risk losing again and therefore truly losing his presidency.
• Walking Techbane: All he has to do is touch a piece of machinery and it short-circuits. As one can imagine, he's weaponized this, oftentimes going into fighting stances to utilize it. However, he needs to wear the wristwatch he received from his great-grandfather to invoke it and claims he can only do it twice a day. Yuga initially attributes this to the Pauli Effect, however when everyone else tries it while wearing the watch, none of them can replicate it.
• Would Hit a Girl: He didn't hit Romin, per se in Episode 2, but he initially believed her to have leaked "Rush Duels" and made very threatening stances, coming very close to physically attacking her.

Gakuto Sogetsu (Gavin Sogetsu)

Gakuto Sogetsu (蒼月 学人, Sōgetsu Gakuto)

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese), Barrett Leddy (English)

The Student Council President of Goha Seventh Elementary, and the heir apparent to the Sogetsu Dueling Style.

Gakuto uses a defensive Control deck revolving around effects meant to impede or restrict his opponents' actions. Thematically, his monsters mainly consist of Warriors, Winged Beasts and Fairies based on samurai and Japanese folklore.

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• The Ace: He is the very reliable president, smart and athletic, and puts his utmost energy into everything. The only thing he can't do is sing.
• Achilles' Heel: Fiendish Commander Yameruler prevents either player from summoning Level 7 or higher monsters through Tributing, but not through Special summoning.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Much to his dismay, he realizes that the Sougetsu style that utilizes Ranze and Rinnosuke to draw cards and hold his hands is far too slow, and so creates the New Sougetsu style... that basically has him draw cards the normal way.
• Bait-and-Switch: During the first episode, when Yuga's Duel Disk ran low on power, Gakuto ran away because he didn't want to receive a penalty, only to come back with Yuya's bike so that he can charge up his Duel Disk.
• Boring, but Practical: Ultimately finds that just drawing cards the usual way is faster and more efficient. Before that, learning to simply delegate his paperwork helps lessen the strains of his job immensely.
• Character Rerailment: Played for Laughs during the Goha Employee Arc, where he tries to return to enforcing the rules like he did at the start of the series. It’s later Played for Drama in the following arc, where after losing his memories and having his Character Development undone, he returns to his previous characterization.
• Conflicting Loyalty: Between his secret enjoyment of "Rush Duels" and his job as the Student Council President at first. His Duel with Yuga in Episode 4 ultimately enables him to find a compromise and keep an eye on Yuga and his friends.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • To Noboru Gongenzaka from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. Both are associated with traditional Japanese culture and a Stone Wall strategy including samurai monsters and a unique Duel style that they try to evolve and are a good friend to the main protagonist with a flair for the dramatic. However, Gakuto is more of The Smart Guy and comes across as more cultured that Gongenzaka, his monsters are more traditional in appearance than Gongenzaka's mechanical monsters and attack normally, and while Gong successfully evolves his associated Duel style, Gakuto utterly fails at doing so.
  • He also serves as one for Reiji, an older Princely Young Man, as he is a Large Ham instead of The Stoic Big Good, and though his deck are warlords, they are solely Japanese Samurai instead of Fiends from across cultures. Contrasting Reiji's professional relationship with Tsukikage and Hikage, Gakuto is a lot closer to the Nanahoshi twins.
• Dark Is Not Evil: His ace monster, Fiendish Commander Yameruler, is DARK attribute.
• Defrosting Ice King: He started off as the serious and rules-minded Student Council President, but slowly becomes a close friend, which is shown when Gakuto loses his memory with others thanks to Yuga Goha and he becomes cold and impersonal towards Yuga and Luke once again.
• A Dog Named "Dog": A Student Council President whose surname literally means "Student".
• Dub Name Change: Gakuto is named Gavin in the English version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel Dawn of the Battle Royal. Official merchandise has shown the name of "Fiendish Commander Yameruler" to be "Yamiruler the Dark Delayer" in English media.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Gakuto has an unfortunate tendency for this:
  • During his Duel with Romin, he believes she's worried about having to fight her friends and torn over what Roa is holding over her. He's not necessarily wrong, but in reality she's just distracted because she happens to be starving.
  • His Totally Radical Gakuting persona stems from an utterly horrible misinterpretation of Ranze leaving his services. He believes it was due to Neo Sogetsu Style being boring and Gakuto himself not being a distinguished Duelist when in reality it's due to Ranze's delusions, especially considering that moments of drama aside, Gakuto is generally pretty distinguished in a Duel. He also chooses to do this for the first time in the finals of the Goha Rush Duel Team Battle Royal, in a Duel against Nail Saionji of all people. Needless to say it backfired so badly that he realised he'd messed up badly almost immediately and Rinnosuke outright told him this would be his final Rush Duel until he resumed Dueling normally.
  • During his Duel with Yuran he believes Yuran will use his Traps to damage him and destroy his monsters as he has been and assembles protection against both of these. As it turned out, Yuran was instead waiting to switch the ATK and DEF of their monsters to counterattack.
• Face–Heel Turn: He suffers the worst from his Character Development being undone from the loss of his memories, as seeing the chaos from the duel formats causes him to become even worse, an Evil Reactionary obsessed with Goha Duels. He even dresses in fascistic clothing.
• Hidden Depths: During the “Goha Employees” arc, he reveals that he’s a fan of zombie movies, even pointing out several common tropes associated with them.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: He sings horribly off-key. Ironically, his Japanese voice actor, Natsuki Hanae, is in reality a really good singer. In addition, during the first ED, Natsuki Hanae sang in-tune with Gakuto’s voice.
• I Resemble That Remark!: He's labelled a chronic complainer by a Drone, and immediately starts yelling at it and shaking it as he asks what it means by that.
• Large Ham: He's... very spastic and dramatic, to say the least, whether he's enforcing the rules or going along with the events around him.
• Meaningful Name: His name means "Blue Moon", combined with "Student"; in addition to being the Student Council President, he has inspiration in his Duel with Neiru when he looks at the full moon.
• Mr. Exposition: He provides explanations for the series' background and various plot elements, including the penalty system for attempting to open and meddle with Duel Disks, and the rules of "Rush Duels".
• Not So Above It All: He initially plans to punish Yuga for breaking the rules and presents himself as a rules stickler... but he's also shown several times to be interested in what he's making.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He's so worried about Romin possibly blowing up the Goha HQ by mixing her curries that he actively runs through the corridors to get to the explosive-proof lab where she's Dueling, pointing this out when Luke calls him out on it.
• Pen-Pushing President: Shown in Episode 4 to be one of his many duties, though the other students constantly asking him for him makes it difficult for him to get it done. Yuga helps him by giving Kaizo a stamping function so he can do the busy work for him.
• Princely Young Man: A mix of Gentlemanly and Ice King, and his family appears to be a well-off traditional Japanese family. His casual outfit emphasizes this, as he wears a kimono and carries an elegant fan.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He's the student council president and the heir to the Sougetsu style, as well as a skilled duelist, capable of ending his duel with Nail in a DRAW.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He wears a lilac kimono when he Duels and looks absolutely fabulous.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: An ardent perfectionist, his post-game commentary to duels he watches often have him comment on how the loser could have avoided defeat if they had acted a certain way. However, he's not aggressive about it, and some of the potential decisions the duelist in question could've taken violate common sense. For instance, he points out that Bakuro could've made a comeback if he had chosen not to summon a monster to protect his life points.
• The Reliable One: Episode 4 reveals that many students rely on him for a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, while he has the energy to handle them, it doesn't mean he's not exhausted afterward.
• Samurai: Although they lack samurai in their card names, his warrior monsters are modeled after samurai.
• Serious Business: He takes lecturing Yuga so seriously, he once spent a full night looking for him just because Yuga blew him off. He also takes penalties seriously, freaking out at the idea of receiving one. Finally, he takes his position as Student Council President very seriously, helping out as many students as he can.
• Stone Wall: His deck is centered around defensive and control strategies, relying on stalling opponents with set monsters as well as his ace's summon-denial effect, and using card effects to change battle positions or swap attack and defense around to launch attacks.
• Street Samurai: Attempted in his duel with Neiru with his Gakuting persona to try to evolve the Sogetsu style into modernity. However, the Totally Radical nature of it embarrassed everyone including Gakuto, with only Luke taking it in stride.
• Student Council President: And he considers it very important, and losing it due to the group being forced into Goha 6th, causes him to go a little crazy, having convulsions like Jango's.
• Super-Speed: A comedic example that he also puts to good use. He can walk extremely quickly, which comes in handy when they need to retrieve Yuga's Duel Bicycle as fast as possible. It also proves to be an issue for him, since it leads to him running in the halls by accident despite it being against the rules and leading to him having a minor crisis.
• Taking You with Me: He forces his duel against Nail during the finals of the Team Battle Royal into a DRAW.
• 10-Minute Retirement: Played for Laughs in Episode 4, as he steps down from the position of Student Council President after losing to Yuga, only to be immediately re-elected the next day—to Luke's chagrin, who had added the condition to the Duel.
• Too Important to Walk: He has his assistants draw and set his cards for him during Duels, at least until he decides to have fun and starts doing so himself. In episode 11, he drops it entirely because he realizes how impractical it is.

Romin Kirishima (Romin Kassidy)

Romin Kirishima (霧島 ロミン, Kirishima Romin)

Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki (Japanese), Abby Espiritu (English)

Yuga's classmate and lead guitarist of RoaRomin. Supposedly indifferent towards Duel Monsters, she often crosses paths with Yuga.

Romin uses a Psychic deck based around lowering her own Lifepoints to unlock her card's powerful effects, while using effects that regain Lifepoints to mitigate their costs. Her monsters are themed around music, particularly rock-n-roll.

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• The Ace: She's stated to have top class grades, proficiency at sports, and is a lead guitarist at the age of eleven. However, she makes it clear that she is a guitarist and not a singer. Her singing voice is actually terrible. She also turns out to be a skilled duelist after some lessons and using her own cards and is able to defeat Yuga in Episode 40 without even utilizing her berserk state.
• Ace Custom: Was gifted a hybrid guitar/duel disk by Yuga which was first shown being prototyped in an earlier episode. Uniquely, though it showcases the practical ability to switch between both, and it also has a snack dispenser for when she gets hungry. It comes in handy when calming Romin down after she snaps due to hunger.
• Action Girl: Romin has shown herself to be quite a capable duelist, having won a majority of the duels she has participated in thus far.
• Affectionate Parody: Of all things, the Mysterious Waif and Brainwashed and Crazy attributes that many characters in the franchise tend to get plagued with. The former nature is downplayed as she integrates with the group, while the latter is more akin to a Superpowered Evil Side. Both are ultimately Played for Laughs thanks to Yuga.
• Age-Inappropriate Dress: She's a fifth-grader, yet dresses like she's a teen female rock star, with multiple belts, full tights, and high heels. She does, however, wear clothing more appropriate for her age from time to time.
• Alternate Identity Amnesia: When she is hungry she snaps and becomes an intense rock star and duelist... but once she gets a candy bar, she snaps out of it in confusion that she won.
• Berserk Button: Luke’s general tendency to screw things up usually earns him an earful from her.
• Big Eater: Downplayed during her duel against Gakuto, as she was deliberately starved by Roa to go berserk.
  • Played Straight when she and Luke's group encountered a Stonehenge made of cake, and she matched Luke in terms of appetite in devouring the entire thing whole.
• Big "SHUT UP!": She delivers one of these to Roa when he's explaining Gakuto's puns to Yuga, given that Gakuto acting up at such a critical time has her very stressed.
• Brother–Sister Team: She forms the band RoaRomin with her cousin Roa.
• Cast from Hit Points: Her main dueling strategy relies on the management of LP, with certain cards such as her first ace Prima Guitarna focusing on depleting her hit points to empower monsters on her side, and Esperaid destroying two enemy monsters only if she possesses 1000 LP or less. This extends to her entire deck with cards specifically healing her or depleting her current LP in favor of powerful effects.
• Character Focus: Episode 14 revolves around her, with her taking a hand in cooking curry under Gakuto, Ranze, and Rinnosuke's supervision, as a way to make up with Luke after he distrusts and dismisses her as a traitorous spy.
• Character Development: She was originally introduced as a non-Dueling character, having no interest in it. Later, Roa revealed he trained her, but her true power awakened only when she was frustrated (usually coming from hunger). This kept being her style, until she lost to Sushiko, who kept having her regain life points (and throwing sushi at her) preventing her frustration and anger from building up. She eventually learns to duel without relying on her Superpowered Evil Side, improving her own skills and managing to defeat both Yuga Ohdo and Roa Kirishima.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • She is quite different from Aoi, the previous female lead. While Aoi was a top-ranked Duelist, Romin initially lacked any interest in Dueling. In addition, Aoi was quite distant from Yusaku and was Locked Out of the Loop for a huge duration of the story, while Romin immediately becomes a member of Yuga's circle and is involved in the story despite not being a Duelist. In terms of personality traits, Aoi was The Stoic when not acting as Blue Angel, whereas Romin is much more expressive, with no acting or dissonance to be found in her music career.
  • Besides her monsters being Rock Stars - unlike Aoi's Magic Idol Singer Trickstars - she is the first protagonist to use Psychic-types, and the first main female since Aki to not use Fairies. Fittingly her Psychic deck relies on lifepoint manipulation like Divine's.
• Cuteness Proximity: Romin is very easily taken by cute things, often squeeing in adoration at cute monsters she sees summoned during a Duel, taking a liking to Luke's Palm-Sized Drago plushie and taking it for herself, and being absolutely overjoyed at the chance to dress up in costume as part of Yuga's plan to convince The☆Lukeman they aren't enemies.
• Dark Secret: One that Roa blackmails her with. Subverted in that it is just that she's tone deaf.
• Dub Name Change: Her surname in the dub is "Kassidy".
• Easily Forgiven: Yuga and Gakuto quickly forgive her for spying on the group since she never wanted to be a spy. Averted with Luke, however, who refuses to talk to her at all after the incident; it takes Romin making him curry after working on it for an entire episode to get him to forgive her, and even then he's made it clear that he has not forgotten.
• Good Luck Charm: Her ace, Prima Guitarna is one for her—as it was a gift from a singer she is a fan of—and is the only card she owns.
• Heal Thyself: As her deck relies on LP manipulation, she has cards to heal and reduce LP to activate a variety of effects.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Episode 16 confirms that she's legitimately guilty about being a spy for Roa and starts believing that she deserves to lose to Arai while he uses his Bleach Motor loop until Luke disables it. The resulting bout of anger from Luke's general attitude snaps her out of it.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her indifference to it, she knows about Real-Time Duel programming, which enabled Yuga to successfully install "Rush Duels". Luke even points out how odd it is for someone who doesn't care about Dueling to know that. In addition, her interest in Yuga is curious as she is seen constantly taking pictures of him without his knowledge and appears to be sending them to an unknown boy. Her interest in Yuga itself is quite the brainteaser since she was spying on him before even hearing of his "Rush Duels". At the very least, we know she was ordered to spy on him on orders of Roa.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Judging by her reaction to hearing this term from Kaizo and being questioned by Yuga directly, as well as her outright refusal to sing whenever Luke suggests it, she is heavily implied to be this, despite being the lead guitarist in a popular band. When Yuga brings it up again following his duel against Roa, Romin screams in embarrassment. However, just like Gakuto, for her appearance in ED1 starting from Episode 27, she is shown to have a completely normal singing voice. Albeit, many fans noticed her singing was actually off-key from the others.
  • Subverted as of Episode 86, where she sings perfectly in-tune. Everyone comments that her singing has gotten a lot better.
• Improbable Weapon User: Uses a guitar-duel disk hybrid which was gifted to her by Yuga. See Ace Custom above.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Befitting her naivety when it comes to Dueling, she has dull blue eyes. When she gets hungry and in rebel rock star mode, they become red.
• Lethal Chef: Zigzagged. Romin's dishes thus far involve Lethally Stupid while actually cooking them (she once put gunpowder into curry thinking it was spice) and come out in strange colors, but taste quite nice. However they're also prone to spontaneously overflowing when being set off; her Dragias Curry overflows Roa's apartment complex, and her Prima Guitarna Curry is treated as a WMD by Gakuto and Luke to the point they suggest detonating it when trying to flee from Yuo, but decide against doing so out of fear they could destroy Goha City. Considering Kaizo crashing into it overflowed and crashed Super Mobile Fortress Sixross, they weren't far off. Also, when the Prima Guitarna Curry and Dragias Curry mix, they explode. The Goha employee arc implies that she is actually capable to cook normal dishes following directions or recipees, as the other dishes she made while working in the kitchen do not raise awareness or criticism, and the ending of episode 71 shows her flipping a normal omelette (also showing that she does cook something beyond her curry there), it's only her personal curry recipe that has those issues.
• Limited Wardrobe: Averted in contrast to her friends, who generally wear the same clothes. Her main outfit is her most prominent, but she has half a dozen other outfits she switches between.
• Magic Poker Equation: She's the first Duelist in SEVENS to actually play this trope straight as she manages to draw the sole unique card that she slipped into the test deck Yuga lent her on her very first turn (but she couldn't summon it until her next turn).
• Meaningful Name: Her surname literally translates to "Island of Mist".
• Meat-O-Vision: She's so hungry during her duel with Gakuto that she starts seeing random objects as food. She even briefly thinks she's hallucinating people holding sushi rolls before she realizes that they actually are.
• The Mole: Romin spies on Yuga and co. on Roa's orders who is blackmailing her for unknown reasons. Despite this, she prefers and has genuinely become fond of Yuga and others, but has to continue anyway. However, eventually the secret that Roa blackmailed her with is spilled and Romin gets to be friends with Yuga and others for real.
• Mysterious Waif: Described as a girl wrapped in mystery who often crosses paths with Yuga and his buddies. By Episode 4 though, she's hanging out with them on a daily basis. It starts coming back in Episode 10, when it's revealed that she's been ordered to spy on Yuga and Luke before the first episode and essentially kicked off the plot. It's also somewhat parodied, as Yuga doesn't really buy her vague acts and quickly pokes holes in the façade.
• Naïve Newcomer: It's very clear from her observations during the first "Rush Duel" that she has no idea what a normal Duel is like. She doesn't realize that the "Rush Duel" exclusive abilities to Normal Summon an unlimited amount of times per turn and draw until you have five cards are anything unusual until Gakuto starts freaking out about it. Nor does she know about Blue-Eyes' iconic status. Roa later reveals he taught her to duel properly to make her an excellent duelist, but it is vague as to when that happened.
• Not Me This Time: Is quick to exclaim that she had no plans to strand the group on a mobile fishing boat school.
• Not So Above It All:
  • She is quite capable of her childish moments herself, such as when she smirked and mockingly asked the Newspaper Club how it felt to be defeated.
  • Despite her generally serious demeanor in comparison to the rest, she is shown to be easily sidetracked by food when hungry to ludicrous degrees.
  • She is also very incompetent at cooking, managing to cause a dust explosion, mistaking a dishwasher for a rice cooker, putting gunpowder in the pot and an inability to tell ingredients apart.
  • When determining who would duel Mimi/Number Six, she was just as eager about dueling next as the others were.
  • She finds the Goha mascot plushies adorable and quickly buys them after disparaging Luke for his appetite.
  • She was just as enthusiastic as Luke was upon realizing there was a monument of cake in the woods, and joined him in feasting upon it.
  • She's positively ecstatic at the notion of dressing up to help Yuga convince The☆Lukeman they aren't enemies and to help Yuo out.
• Not So Stoic: Despite her aloof and quiet personality, Romin gets rather animated when she gets flustered or embarrassed, and gets really into her summon chant for Prima Guitarna of Colorful Light. She is also sensitive about the concept of being tone-deaf as she is implied to be this herself.
• Obsessed with Food: She is shown to act normal when she has her fill, but upon going hungry her mind quickly shifts gears in a hurry. And when she snaps, well...
• One-Track-Minded Hunger: If she gets hungry enough, she snaps and becomes an excellent duelist and guitarist solely focused on the task at hand.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: She generally wears teal tights under a red skirt, and her other outfits tend to have this trope as well.
• Psychic Powers: The first Psychic-Type user to be a protagonist.
• Rage Breaking Point: Episode 16 reveals that her berserk state can also be triggered if her patience reaches her limit, as she enters it after Luke doesn't let her get a word in edgewise patting himself in the back and expecting her to be grateful. Notably, unlike when its triggered by hunger, she remembers afterward.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Literally so. It's a sign that her hunger-crazed berserk state is active and that she will play to destroy you.
• The Rock Star: A guitarist, and when she is hungry, she shreds the guitar and duels with her rebellious spirit.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female for both the Rush Duel Club and RoaRomin, though not in the core cast of seven after Asana's introduction.
• Stalker without a Crush: She seems to be interested in whatever Yuga is doing and takes several photos of him without his knowledge, and she may very well have deliberately followed Yuga and Luke to the back-door Dueling area. At the end of episode 3, the pictures she took of Yuga are viewed by a mysterious boy (her cousin, Roa).
• Superpowered Evil Side: Parodied. When pushed to a state of hunger or lack of patience, Romin's eyes turn red and she becomes a crazed, yet focused, maniac who duels to crush her opponent's completely. Said state can be undone by shoving food into her mouth or if she loses her focus.
• The Watson: Being the newcomer to Dueling and "Rush Duels" as a whole, Romin acts like this.

Guruguru (Swirls)

Guruguru

Voiced By: Yuri Ise

A shy boy in a chameleon costume that is drafted into the Rush Duel Club. In reality, he was actually the 6th Goha Sibling, Yuga Goha who was freed from his Guruguru body when he was exposed to the Forbidden Card, Monster Reborn and had his memories restored.

In his first duel, Yuga lends him his Spellcaster deck, while in his second duel, he uses a Rental Deck at the library based around Dark Magician. In his third duel, he played a Reptile deck which was his real deck when he was Yuga Goha.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: After the Zombie Party, he is left by Nanahoshi in a feral zombie-like state, in contrast to a brainwashed Tiger who is instead calm and cruel.
• Badass Adorable: Despite not having a deck of his own, he does surprisingly well in his first two duels, defeating both Otes and Mimi with a loaned deck.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest of the Rush Duel Club, and possibly the youngest character depending on his age compared to Yoshio. Averted with his true age which is older.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: By Nanaho in the Goha Employee arc, where he behaves like a rabid dog after being manipulated by her. This was because Nanaho wanted to revive Yuga Goha.
• Goofy Suit: For reasons unknown, he dresses in a chameleon costume.
• Hollywood Chameleon: His suit changes color with his emotions.
• Line-of-Sight Name: His alias comes from Luke noting the swirls in his eyes.
• Lovable Coward: Afraid of everything, but he is willing to stand up for his friends.
• Lovable Lizard: Or rather he wears the costume so he is thematically one.
• Nice Guy: Although easily scared, he is nothing but kind, taking care of Yuga when scared by a ladybug, helping Luke after his sister humiliated him, and even offering to read the Sevens Book with Mimi.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Guruguru, meaning Swirly, the sound he makes when nervous.
• Perverse Sexual Lust: He has a crush on Dark Magician Girl, like Sho before him.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Turns out he's actually the 6th Goha Sibling, Yuga Goha, who was revived when he came across Monster Reborn during his duel with Yuo.
• Shrinking Violet: Painfully shy and hides away in a costume, and barely raises his voice above a whisper unless panicked.
• Sixth Ranger: Of the Rush Duel Club.
• Undying Loyalty: To Yuga and Co, dueling Mimi to ensure that the SEVENS book gets to them.
• Vague Age: He's younger than Yuga and Co, but exactly where he falls age-wise is left unknown.