Katta Kirifuda

Katta Kirifuda is the main protagonist after Shobu Kirifuda of the Duel Masters Anime and Duel Masters Manga series.

He is the younger brother of Shobu from the earlier anime and manga series.

Appearance
Katta is a young boy with red hair and bears a slight resemblance of his older brother Shobu. He have a "V" scar on his forehead, which later becomes a site where his "Victory Mode" was activated. Like Shobu, he wears his deck box on his waist and wristbands most of the time, only difference is that it is white with a green strap. In the Victory V3 series, he buckles a book case onto his deck belt.

In the Versus series, his "V" scar was covered by a plaster on his forehead. He also looks sightly older and his overall hair volume slightly decreases. His deck box have a different design with a Fire Civilization symbol, which signify his main civilization. From episode 26 onward, he wears a hooded jacket over his uniform and his pet hamster Hamukatsu was often seen with him.

Personality
Katta is a very cocky and care-free boy, thinking that he's the best there is at whatever there is, and even going so far as to call himself a prodigy. However, he has no fondness or skill for Duel Masters, as he initially thinks it is a pyramid-stacking card game. It is implied that he misses his older brother, Shobu.

Katta despises Shobu and the card game Duel Masters, however, once the "V" symbol on his forehead begins to shine he has a complete switch in personality and becomes very much like Shobu in times of crisis. This is known as the "Victory Mode".

In this Victory mode, he act like an aggressive animal with red predatory eyes. He starts to talk to himself and during duels makes cutthroat moves focused on winning. In the first season it was also shown that when Katta's personality was changed to this "Victory Mode" that he did not had much strength in controlling his new power. However, in the second season he learned to better control and was able to communicate with the creatures that he duels with. In the Versus Revolution series, the creatures also answers his calls and spirit, when Dogiragon breaks his chains for Katta's victory. Eventually when the series progress, his hatred towards the Duel Masters game disappears and have exceeded his brother's skill and level.

During his duels, he cares for his human and creature comrades, even as far as protecting and saving them, during the time he tried to protect Oninaguri from being stepped on by Osamurai Van Osamu after being shut down and breaking down when they were rendered unusable due to his enemies actions. Despite losing his power to hear the card's voices in the Versus series, he still was willing to use his previous cards and asking them if they are willing to fight alongside him again.

Despite Katta denying that he was not like his older brother Shobu and displayed an antagonistic relationship towards him every time he was mentioned, he had shown many similarities in terms of personality and when it comes to dueling. He also have a strength to believe in himself and the cards when he was in a tight situation and can become serious in his duels, especially when his opponent is cheating by unfair means. After learning that his brother is alive after many years and their duel, he no longer hated him and shown some appreciation towards him. His bond with his brother becomes stronger and both even kept in touch with each other.

History
Katta Kirifuda's first debut was in the Duel Masters: Star Cross (SX) manga, during Shobu's duel with Adam in a flashback. Since then, he appeared as the main protagonist of the Duel Masters Victory series. His name originates from "Kirifuda" meaning "Ace" and "Katta" meaning "Victory" (past tense). He is dead (actually in a persistent vegetative state) when he was born. When his family saw him not breathing at all, they all came to a sense of grief. His older brother, Shobu Kirifuda was emotionally affected the most.

However, his soul is actually out of his body and is wandering around the streets, in which he watches girls bathing and chases dogs. Then after a few years when his family was visiting him, a light appears. Then Katsuzo Kirifuda removes his ventilator and stuffs a curry bread onto his mouth and the spiciness caused him to breathe flames which burnt Katsuzo's last strand of hair. Since then he has regained consciousness and got a passion for curry bread.

Despite his love of curry bread, for some reason he hates jelly bread.

During his recovery, he befriends Lulu Takigawa and always visited her, giving her joy by playing with her. After leaving the hospital and returning to his family, he plays with his older brother Shobu. He learned from Shobu about hearing the voices of the cards even though he did not believe him at first. However his brother left and disappeared, presumed to have died after his duel against Adam. Before Shobu disappeared, he gave Katta Raging Dragon Lord as a gift, in which he later encases it and wearing it on his neck. Due to his brother's disappearance and 'death', Katta hated him and the Duel Masters game.

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He is a big lover of golden curry bread and have recently been transferred to a new school a few years after Shobu's disappearance. He first met Benchan who shared his curry bread with him. Later Yohdel and Bucyake found out that he is Shobu's brother they got fascinated by him and thought that his brother must be a great duelist as well, but turns out to be completely opposite. When Bucyake said the reason that they wanted him to be in the tournament is because he is Shobu's brother, Katta got ticked off of being called by his brother's name and left the grounds shouting back that he won't want to do anything with it. Then Katta got challenged by Dragon Ryu a famous and strong duelist, Katta wanted to beat him and so he joined the tournament without a deck or having any idea about the game he despises so much. Yohdel and Bucyake gave him a pre-constructed deck and taught him how to duel. They joined the regional "Triple Dash Victory Tournament" as Team Tensai Katta. Katta won his first match against Daba with the help of his "Victory Mode". Then for the rest of the tournament he lost all the duels he had, but his friends won all their duels, and so he got to the finals and went up against his rival Ryu from Team Dragon. Katta even used his "Victory Mode", but he still lost against Dragon Ryu, and so did the rest of his team who also lost against Team Dragon.

Katta then wanted to make his own deck and the only person who could help with it was Benchan. Benchan had quit dueling due to family issues and was avoiding Katta. Then Katta finally found Benchan and he was being cornered by Shachihoko Group members. He tried to protect Benchan by pretending to be the actual Benchan. He lost to Chi in this duel because his deck was not balanced. Then when Shachihoko Group members tried to take Katta's deck and cards, Benchan saved him and dueled the strongest of them, Sha, and defeated him. Then Benchan helped Katta with his deck building. Katta had no idea how to build a deck and had no idea about any cards. Benchan then saw that Katta had Raging Dragon Lord in his deck. When Benchan asked how Katta got that card, he then replied he received it from his brother Shobu before his disappearance.

He told Katta that it was a strong card and Katta can build his deck around it. He told Katta how he could build a great fire deck around this card. Then suddenly when Yohdel and Bucyake saw him helping Katta, he started to leave even though Yohdel and Bucyake tried to stop him, to no avail. Then Yohdel and Bucyake helped Katta to build his deck. Meantime the Shachihoko Group had returned with their leader Onsen and dueled Benchan. Katta had a bad feeling and went after Benchan and saw him getting defeated by Onsen. Katta then challenged Onsen with his new deck. During the duel when Katta finally activated his "Victory Mode" and at that time he had Raging Dragon Lord in his hand, and that card transformed into 3 Psychic Creatures which went into his hyperspatial zone. He then used Hyperspatial Gaial Hole and summoned the new transformed Gaial King Dragon, Raging Dragon Lord and defeated Onsen.

He then saw a famous TV program for fortune telling who duels and tells people's fortune. Mimi who usually looks after him and helps him out have recently had a TV show with the fortune teller and was amazed with her accurate fortune telling abilities. Katta was going to visit Mimi to find out about Dragon Ryu because he thought Mimi is a news reporter on Duel Masters World and she could help her. He went to her studio but somehow ended up meeting Zubako, the famous fortune teller. He dueled her and got his past told accurately by Zubako, and in the end lost to her. He then re-dueled her telling her that she confused him and this time won against her, but once again she told him that he is destined to meet his rival Dragon Ryu. She also told him where he can meet him and that was at the recent Duel Carnival.

Katta went there to join the tournament with his friends, but he tried to keep a low profile because of Katsuzo Kirifuda, his grandfather, bragging about Katta being very strong just like his older brother. Hearing his brother's name, he got ticked off and snapped back that he had nothing to do with his brother. Jimmy, a contestant overheard them and challenged Katta and tried to take fame from Katta's family background. Katta said that he was only aiming to duel his rival, Dragon Ryu but Jimmy brought Katta to a spot light and made people gather and told everyone about Shobu's brother, giving Katta more pressure. He eventually dueled Jimmy after gaining some encouragement from his grandfather and his friends that he must fight to prove the point that he was not dueling under his brother's shadows. During the duel, Katta was really mad about being called after his brother's name but still he kept his cool while dueling and defeated him. This duel was also considered by the tournament hosts Duel Hero Yuu and Duel Hero Atsuto as a qualifiers match. And so once again Team Tensai Katta was selected as the contestants in the tournament.

Katta and his friends then trained in his house after being selected as the contestants in the tournament. Katta uses his "Victory Mode" to defeat Yohdel in a practice duel. However, due to the fact that he was able to communicate to the creature spirits during the duel, it made Benchan wonder about the power Katta possess. At the same time, he received a letter from Dragon Ryu for a rematch at Dash HQ. Thanks to his grandpa, Katsuzo and Katsumaru, he and his friends are able to get past the guards and enter the HQ, only then he felt the same presence, which also happens during the time he first met Ryu and before dueling Onsen. He and his friends got chased by the guards after the alarm sets off and met Mimi in the HQ and dueled Ryu on the roof. He used his "Victory Mode", as a result, Dragon Ryu realized that Katta was able to commune to the cards. Ryu then uses his avatar, Ryusei Kaiser, the Eternal to defeat him, knocking Katta out.

Katta then went on training with his grandpa, Katsuzo and others to meet Ken who is Grandpa's old friend. Katta and the others trained hard and considered the house a little haunted until the next morning Yohdel, Bucyake and Benchan went into a cave after a creature spirit and fainted.

Later Katta went looking for them, and found Kitarou, a creature spirit who challenged Katta. The spirit told everything about itself that it is actually Hako's precious lost card and have been wandering in the forest trying to reunite with its owner. Katta defeated it and took it back to Hako. Then Katta was given DMX-02 Deck Builder DX: Hunter Edition from his grandpa, Katsuzo Kirifuda to help him and his friends to build up their new decks and train with them. Katta started to have interest in darkness cards and wanted build a deck of dual civilization. He and his friends then faced with their new decks against Mimi and lost to her.

Next day Katta was then invited by Hako, who is Ken's granddaughter to go with her for a lunch. Katta was always interested in her since they first met and she was interested in him as well. During their picnic they were attacked by mountain monkeys and Hako tried to protect Katta by dueling against their leader, a mountain gorilla, and defeating him in a duel. She told Katta that these monkeys have learn dueling by mimicking other humans whom they have they see dueling.

On the other hand Benchan was feeling down after his defeat with Mimi and finally challenged Mimi once again, and confessed to her that he is fascinated by her dueling and would like to learn more after he lost to her the second time. He then went on a journey with Mimi to train himself but before leaving he gave Katta some tips and a new darkness card which will boost his deck, Volg Thunder.

"Team Tensai Katta" came back to the Duel Carnival Tournament and only Katta and Yohdel easily made their way to the quarter finals thanks to their hard training and their boosted up decks. During the quarter finals, his opponent who was the past year champion and was defeated by Shobu in the past claims that he will defeat Shobu's brother. The crowd even starts calling Katta as Shobu's brother and gathered to see him fight, much Katta's discomfort, saying silently that they only care of his brother. Fortunately, Bucyake who did not make it to the Quarter-Finals cheered Katta on, saying to the whole crowd that Katta is a prodigy duelist. Using his renewed confidence, he won and advance to the semi finals. When Dragon Ryu have a hard time dueling Rikishi due to Shachihoko's dirty tricks, Katta's telepathic abilities activates again, which causes him to hear the princess voice. Upon hearing that she wants Ryu to continue fighting, he cheers for Ryu and breaks Shachihoko's dirty tricks together with Sakon and Ukon, plus Katsuzo tripping Shachihoko. Ryu then thanks Katta for helping him and talked to him in private warning him it is dangerous to duel Onsen.

Unfortunately Yohdel lost to "Team Shachihoko" in the quarter finals, but Katta, being their team leader, duels Shachihoko. Despite Shachihoko and Rikishi's trap in order to distract and embarrass him, Dragon Ryu cheers for Katta and Mimi's intervention helps him to win and made his way to the finals. In the semi finals Katta was shocked to see his rival Dragon Ryu being defeated by Onsen. Sakon and Ukon told Katta about their group's main objective of joining the tournament and also about who they really are and their past. They also told him about the Shachihoko Group and about the group's main objective of obtaining the Prin Prin, the Eternal prize card, which is the creature that Katta hears her voice beforehand. This shocks Katta and his friends greatly.

At first Katta was hesitant to help them, as his only objective is to duel Dragon Ryu. Despite that, Dragon Ryu approached Katta in his wounded state and pleading him that he need his strength and power to get the princess back. Ryu then used his remaining power to change to his card form, Ryusei the Forever Kaiser, which also damages part of the building. Upon picking up Ryu's card form, he hears the princess voice again, pleading for help. Determined to win this, Katta made it to the tournament field just in time to duel Onsen thanks to Bucyake and Yohdel's distraction.

During the duel, Katta got injured by Onsen's "Super Hot" mode. However, Katta does not give up and summons Dragon Ryu as Ryusei the Forever Kaiser. He successfully blocks off Onsen's direct attack with Ryu's ability and summons Sakon Pippi and Ukon Pippi, linking them into Gaial Ryusei Dragon, Star Dragon King and won the duel. He was declared as Japan's Number 1 duelist, being able to achieve what his brother was able to do, he shed tears of joy and received Prin Prin. However, it got taken by Yohel, who was possessed by Onsen. Katta quickly told Mimi about the situation and learned that Onsen had escaped. Both of them along with Yuu and Atsuto head to the vault, where Shachihoko and Rikishi were locked up. Yuu and Atsuto deals with them and Katta and Mimi splits up to find Yohdel. He then witnessed Bucyake dueling Yohdel.

Yohdel brought the card to Onsen and Onsen was trying to escape with the card back to Pandora space, but Katta caught up to him thanks to Zubako's information and Benchan's help in buying him more time. Katta provoked Onsen by saying that he is a coward trying to run away from his opponent. He even threatened that if they don't release Benchan, he will throw down Prin Prin, the Eternal, in which he managed to obtained from Benchan. Onsen in order to prove that he is still stronger than him, he and Katta went into the final decisive battle and both of them started of straight with their abilities. Both Dragon Ryu and Prin Prin transforms to their Victorious card form to fight alongside Katta.

During a fierce battle Katta got afraid, but Dragon Ryu encourages him, even slapping him in his card form, which surprises Yohdel, Benchan and Bucyake. The creature spirits even gives Katta encouragement to win and lend him their strength, which gives Katta courage to fight. Katta summons Dragon Ryu in his Ryusei Kaiser, the Victorious form and rides on him. Due to the impact of the battle, Katta's friends got swept away, but got saved by their respective Psychic Super Creatures, in which materializes themselves much to Katta's relief and braced himself for the massive attack. The team casts Power of Our Friendship! together to summon Prin Prin and Katta then replied that he is having fun, which surprises Gallows Hellish Dragon, Brink of Despair, stating that he was fighting alongside his creature friends and comrades. Using Prin Prin's ability, he successfully linked Gaial Ore Dragon, the Vainglory and defeated him.

Katta and the team celebrates their victory, however it was cut short when the Aliens that make up Gallows Hellish Dragon still persist to fight in their true forms. Yohdel, Bucyake and Benchan's creatures got destroyed by the Aliens and Prin Prin used her powers to protect them and close the Dimension Gate, banishing Gallows Hellish Dragon back to the creature world. After Prin Prin, Ryu, Sakon and Ukon change to their human forms after everything was over, Katta got a thanks from the princess of the Alien race for saving her and became a hero of the creature world.

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Katta returns to school in his new class where he meets up with all of his old friends and also meets new ones, who are all eager about him since he is now a new champion. Katta was challenged by his class mate Leo but could not accept his challenge because he had to meet with Prin Prin, the Eternal since she is also staying in human world in her human form with Dragon Ryu and his followers.

While Katta was showing the princess around his school by wearing her on his neck in her card form, he was challenged by Jyotaro. Katta had to accept the challenge after being provoked but in this winning duel Katta had to suddenly abandon the duel and run to toilet because he earlier had too much curry bread. Upon his return he saw Leo dueling against Jyotaro and saw Leo using new powerful Unknown and Unnoise creatures by which Leo easily defeated Jyotaro. Katta was impressed by him and also noticed that this new rival was slowly taking away his spotlight. However, they became friends a few episodes later.

Katta re-dueled Jyotaro with his classmates watching and got an upper hand. However Jyotaro gained a comeback and removes Katta's trump card, Oninaguri, Infinite Fist from the battle zone. Fortunately, Katta uses his 'Victory Mode' and was able to return his trump card back together with the creatures he communicated to, who lent him their strength. Katta won against Jyotaro and his classmates cheered for his victory. During the school year, he dueled his classmates to settle affairs and arguments within the class, with him winning most of the time.

Katta entered a lucky draw and received the Onimaru "Explosion", Golden Age card as well a Dragon Ryu giving him a new victory card, Ogre Warrior Kaiser "Win".

The next day, Mimi appeared in his class to tell them that the class was chosen to have a battle between two duelists broadcast live. Katta was confirmed as a participant in the battle as he was already known as the champion of the Duel Carnival Tournament from the previous season. His class later held a small tournament to decide the 2nd duelist. During the finals of the class tournament, Leo uses his trump card, Lionel, Zenith of "Ore", shocking Katta and Benchan, who was Leo's opponent as it was from the Zero Civilization, in which they never seen it before. Leo won that tournament and will now duel against Katta.

On the night before his match, he had began to reconstruct his deck for the duel and was taught on how to use the "Gachinko Judge" ability by Katsuzo.

The next day he had gone to pick up Prin Prin as usual, but she was reported missing by Dragon Ryu. Ryu then transforms to Of Course Kaiser "Dragon" and joins Katta to school. She would later be seen with Leo. Katta then added Ryu to his deck as Ryu insisted that Prin Prin would want to see him fight alongside Katta. Katta then uses Ryu in his duel against Leo and managed to gain a comeback by using Ogre Warrior Kaiser "Win" ability to remove Leo's blockers. However, Mimi got overexcited and accidentally knocked the camera down, damaging it and the duel won't be on TV. Katta wanted to finish the duel, but Leo turned down and returned Prin Prin back to Katta.

During the school play rehearsal, Katta was forced to play as Snow White as Mei Midoriyama fells asleep again. As Katta does not want to do the play and take that role, he made Mei wake up by using cymbals. But this proves to be a bad idea as Mei got angry and he ended up dueling her to calm her down. He succeeded but still ended up playing the role in the school play.

In episode 20, Katta, Benchan, Yohdel and Bycyake uses Saiba's newest inventions, his mobile cameras and his viewing goggles for a test drive. When they return to Saiba's lab, they found one of the camera being damaged, with a last playback before being rendered unusable. Katta ended up dueling Saiba and won, realizing that he was controlled by somebody and the playback in the camera made Katta deduce that something or someone might be targeting him. He asked Saiba to get a better playback and the team realized that the culprit used hypnosis to control Saiba. It was made worse when some of his classmates except his team and Maria Ave got controlled the same way as Saiba and they dueled the group to get them back to normal.

In episode 25, Katta dueled against Leo again when he realized that he was the one responsible for controlling the class beforehand using hypnosis. During the duel his Oninaguri, Infinite Fist transforms to Oninaguri, Last Attack. He won against Leo and YA.RA.SI band arrives, who was after Prin Prin. Katta then let Dragon Ryu appear in his true creature form, who apparently knows about Osamurai Van Osamu. The whole class are surprised with the exception of Benchan, Bucyake and Yohdel about Ryu being a creature from the creature world. Oninaguri also materializes himself with Prin Prin's power to fight against them, but got defeated by YA.RA.SI's creatures and explained what was really going on to Katta, asking him to leave with Prin Prin. Ryu also got captured by Osamu, turning back to his card form. Osamu then turns the whole class and teacher, except for Katta and Maria Ave into cards, which angers Katta even further. Fortunately,Yamamoto Elegance Kumiko, Dan Danda and Gennai Saiba were released due to Raou Kyokumaru's carelessness and they demanded an explanation from Katta. Without a choice, Katta decides to reveal the truth, with Prin Prin reverting from her card form to her human form, explaining about Osamu and his intentions. They split up to fight against the members to get the class back. Katta and Elegance managed to got some of the class back after defeating Minoru Koiwai and reorganized their plans with Prin Prin.

Katta and Elegance arrives to Dan and Saiba's location by Saiba's cameras, revealing that they have got more of their classmates back. Apologizing to them that they have eaten their share of food, it was revealed that Raou have already cooked their share of food. He then realized Leo and Nai Minamimo, who did not turn to cards as they are not present at that time dueling Seiya Kubo by Dan and Saiba, who are using the mobile cameras and the viewing goggles. At the same time, Katta duels Raou Kyokumaru and managed to defeat him with his Human creature spam combination. Leo also defeated Seiya and reunites with him along with Nai and Maria Ave. They got carried by Osamu's Codeking Ludwig to his skyship and he witnessed Leo dueling Osamu and lost.

In episode 37, Katta dueled Osamurai Van Osamu to save his classmates, teacher and Dragon Ryu. However, Osamu took control of Ryu, turning him into Destiny Ryusei of Fate, angering him even further. During the duel, Katta and Prin Prin managed to break Ryu out of Osamu's control by using Ogre Warrior Kaiser "Win". Knowing he have to win this, Katta used his belief in his comrades and friends to turn the tables. His Onimaru "Head", Victory Rush transforms to Onimaru "Ogre", Golden Dragon, using it effects to defeat Osamu. Osamu then released his classmates and teacher and Ryu changes back to his human form by Prin Prin and Leo apologizes the whole class for making them involved in this situation due to his actions in the past.

Osamu takes them to the Triworld as a form of apology so that the whole class can enjoy dueling. Katta and Prin Prin are then tasked to teach Yukiko Kamakura about deck building as her deck is not well balanced. He also teaches her on balancing out her deck and dueling strategies. As Yukiko was unable to absorb so much information, Katta showed her their classmates duels to make it easier for her to learn and also asked a few of their classmates for cards that Yukiko can borrow. He demonstrated to Yukiko on creature effects and combinations for her to use in duels. He cheers for Yukiko in her duel against Ran Ohata and gave her on a few tips on her combinations. Even though Yukiko lost, he got rewarded with points for helping her.

Before engaging himself in his final duel against Leo, Prin Prin took him to a deserted location and asked Katta to add her in his deck. At first Katta was skeptical about it as Prin Prin is a Nature Civilization creature and his deck is a Fire/Darkness build. Prin Prin reveals her Zero form, Prin, Reversal Princess and much to his surprise, Dragon Ryu have slipped himself in Katta's deck in his card form as Destiny Ryusei of Fate. In the middle of the duel, Onimaru reveals his final form to Katta as Kiramaru, Great Miracle and Katta won against Leo. The class got sent back to the Human World after Osamu and their teacher returns to pick them up.

The whole class were sent back afterwards and Katta continues to visit Ryu and fetch Prin Prin to school.

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Katta was watching the news about the damage caused by the Oracles and was building a deck in his home when he had a strange vision about the creatures from the creature world being alive in the human world. He have a duel with his friends in school and realized that they have the same vision. He went on a picnic with his friends and it was then the Book of Outrage appears with a card when an ancient structure submerges from the lake. He took the book to Prin Prin and Dragon Ryu and learned about the situation in the creature world.

One of the cards appears out of nowhere, which later materializes into a small dragon creature, Katsudon appears and starts running around the treehouse. He chased after Katsudon who took the book and got cornered by one of the creatures, Kubrick, Spiral Accelerator who possessed a duelist and was about to get killed. Fortunately Katsudon arrives with the book and uses the book's power to activate a Duel Zone, which saves Katta in a nick of time. Katta partners up with Katsudon, defeating the creature spirit and obtains its card.

Katta eventually have to partner up with Katsudon, even though Katsudon annoys him at first, during the time when Katsudon uses the bathroom for itself and ate all of the curry rice for dinner. Katta then builds his deck, using the cards from the book, working out on suitable strategies and got annoyed by Katsudon's snoring as he can't concentrate. They eventually worked together when several people began to be controlled or become victims of the creature spirits. He dueled Zorro Star in episode 3 and won, learning about the existence of Oracles.

Katta then meets a new student, Puramai Rei. Rei then tries to joins Katta's group, telling about her knowledge about the current situation and showing evidence that Katta was caught on news camera during the outbreak of the creatures. In episode 5, they got another case of the mysterious water beast, close to the spot where they found the book. During their search, they got scared off by a monster, which was none other than Katsudon's comrades working together in order to steal their food. Katta and his friends managed to catch them and learned that the water beast is none other than Bolmeteus Steel Dragon and dueled the spirit. Team Exile partners up with them and teaches them about Exile Creatures.

In episode 7, Katta and his friends have a meal in a restaurant and stopped their partners from fighting each other over the food. They got a case of the buildings being vandalized from the police detective and stopped an artist from wrecking havoc, revealing to have the 5000GT, Riot card. He obtained the card afterwards. In episode 9, during the class trip to a bread factory, Katta and his friends realizes that their partners were not in their card form and had disappeared. When they noticed that they are making havoc in the production room, they chased after them and meets, who treats them with curry buns as a compensation of their troubles. Katta then dueled Izumo and got dragged into another location with Team Exile, realizing that he was a member of the Oracle Cult when the Book of Oracle and Zorro Star appears. He and Team Exile got trapped in the Duel Zone and met Yomi. He dueled Yomi and lost which results in Crossfire, Wicked Millionaire to be unusable. Katta and Team Exile got transported back to the factory and cries out in frustration about his loss.

Katta then got assaulted by the Oracle Cult again and dueled Izumo. Katsudon got destroyed by Izumo and his card was rendered unusable, causing Katta to cry out and he collapses after the duel. He approached to one of the Outrages, Ragnarok, the Clock that wreck havoc in the city and dueled him. Katsudon was revived as Katsudon, Kung Fu Dragon and changes to his other form, Katsuking, Kung Fu Shogun, winning the duel. The team celebrates Katsudon's return. He re-dueled Izumo during the case of the haunted house and won, but lost the book sometime later. He got attacked by another Outrage, Prometheus, Splash Axe. After his victory, Prometheus decided to join them, boosting the team's spirit. Katta decided to build his deck from scratch during a discussion with the team as he did not want to lose Katsudon again like last time, while Team Exile plays soccer in the school fields. He was defeated by Zorro Star when the Oracles creatures appears again but was protected by Rei under her 'Masked Duelist' persona. She revealed the restored piece of Crossfire, Wicked Millionaire, with Katta joining the other piece. Arashi, Cross Boy was revealed first before his other form, Hurricane, Cross Fire reveals.

Katta then fights the Oracle Cult again and dueled Zorro Star with his new card, Hurricane, Cross Fire and won. He re-dueled Yomi and managed to use Doron Go of Katsudon, Kung Fu Dragon to Katsuking, Kung Fu Shogun to defeat Yomi and destroys the organization. Arashi appears from the book and partners up with him. Even though Katsudon and Arashi partners up with him, they caused some troubles in his house, even annoying his grandfather during their games. Even though they won the battle, the team have to search for the cards that were affected by the Oracles, which results in catastrophic effects in the Human World. Katta and the team encountered other Outrages, with the rest of Team Exile achieved Doron Go.

In episode 23, Katta and his friends encountered a strong duelist, Aoto Reiji and his Outrage partner, Jackie, Infinity Beat, who defeated the creature spirit easily in a duel. Katta got amazed by his strong dueling skills and realized that he becomes his rival. Katta's cards got missing, which was the work of Jackie. After learning this, Katta, Katsudon and Arashi found Reiji in an abandoned warehouse and yelled at his comrades for running away. He dueled Reiji to get his cards back. Katta managed to get his comrades back, obtaining Jackie and the cards Reiji collected in his duels from him as a compensation of their troubles.

In episode 25, Katta made cake for everyone but as it was not enough, he organized a game to guess which box have the cake. Only Yohdel and Nike does not have a cake but a frog instead, which scares them. After the meal, they watched the news of creatures being rampant in the human world. Katta splits up with the others to deal with them, but Rei got dragged by Zorro Star into a duel without Bhutan. He and the others witnessed the duel.

In episode 27, Katta and his friends participates in a tournament, but a creature spirit, Jasmine, Mist Faerie caused a mess to the competition. Team Exile tries to catch her, which causes Katta to yell at them not to run around as they might frighten the other participants. Before the finals against Benchan, both of them were unable to find their partners and they are searching for Jasmine's love interest. As a result, Katta and Benchan have to duel without them. Katta won against Benchan in the finals.

In episode 29, Katta got into an argument with Katsudon and Arashi on building his deck that they did not notice that Carol, Gokigen Shout was blown away by the wind. By the time they all agree to add Carol in the deck, they realized that he was gone. Katta watches Rei, Prin Prin and Aya Suidōbashi performing in a talent show and realized that Carol was with Reiji. He dueled Reiji again and won despite Reiji's strong combination, getting Carol back.

In episode 31, Katta and the team learned about the recent computer network damage and Benchan also had the same problem in the library. They were invited to Yohdel's house to investigate the matter with Robby handling the network to find the culprit. They found the culprit but the card was taken away by Detroit Techno. They got shocked to see that Detroit was able to reincarnates Bolmeteus Sapphire Dragon into Progre Sapphire, Divine Blue Brightness. Dragon Ryu duels against Detroit but lost and Katta was upset with this. It was made worse when the escaped criminal whom was possessed by Geega, Thrilling Drill way beforehand asked Katta for help as Detroit had the creatures possess the prisoners and wardens on the prison island and made them all fight each other. The team got the motorboat to the island and defeated all of the creatures, saving the people on the island.

Katta then notices that Katsudon was acting strangely, even during their meal in Yohdel's house. Realizing where Katsudon was going was related to the book, he and his team followed Katsudon to an underground structure. The team holds off the Duel Puzzles and he and Arashi head to the core of the building. He tried to help Katsudon pull the sword but to no avail, Jormungand, Thor Hammer appears as a guardian and explains to Katta about the Rage Crystal and dueled him to test him. Katta won and Katsudon acquires a new form after obtaining the sword and crystal. Katta receives new cards and used them to defeat Detroit Techno.

In episode 44, Katta and his friends enters the destroyed Oracle headquarters with a help of the police detective. Using the Book of Outrage and Book of Oracle, the dimension reactor was powering up and Katta was drawn by it, causing him to enter the reactor with Katsudon following him. In the reactor, he saw flashbacks of the events happening in the creature world years ago. He and Katsudon witnessed the war between the Oracles and Outrages, making him realize the whole truth to the war between the two races. In episode 45 Zorro Star in his other form, Zorro A Star, Mantra's Prison Break attempts to destroy the reactor, Katta and Katsudon managed to activate the barrier in time. Once outside, he explained to Benchan, Bucyake, Yohdel and the rest of Team Exile the whole truth of the Outrages and Oracles. They then got assaulted by Rei, losing the Book of Outrage. Katta enters the reactor again to try to convince Rei to return to them, with Team Exile using their powers to power up the reactor. Katta succeeded in convincing Rei's human side, allowing her to break free and battle her Oracle side. He then duels Zorro Star and won, with Rei winning her Oracle side and returns to Katta and his friends along with Bhutan. Dragon Ryu and Prin Prin later joins them, bringing them food as the team have not eaten for some time.

In episode 47, in order to avenge Rei and Bhutan, Katta duels Izumo in the Duel Zone. Even though Izumo's final form, God Izumo, Lawless Godkind proves to be too much for him to handle, he managed to defeat Izumo with Katsumugen, Climax. Due to Izumo's defeat, everything was back to normal and Rei and Bhutan were revived. Katta catches Rei, falling onto Bhutan in the process. After Katsudon combines the Outrage Crystal and Oracle Jewel together, he explains to Katta that the Outrages may soon return back to their world. The Outrages got shares of curry bread and enjoys them as a farewell party. However, Zorro Star got the sword and Katta's team went back to the dimension reactor to end the war.

In the final battle against Yomi, he uses his comrades cards with most of the members of Team Exile, saying how he and his comrades can defeat him and his belief in them. He used an overwhelming combination of his comrades and defeated Yomi, saving both worlds. He reunites with his friends after the futuristic world was broken down and Team Exile returns back to their own world with some farewells, bringing the book with them. He returns to Prin Prin and Dragon Ryu's house and worked on preparing the night concert together with his friends and Reiji. After the concert, he says his farewells to Prin Prin, who was returning back to her own world and had a duel party together with his friends and others who assisted him in his dueling journey.

Duel Masters Versus
Katta is now a secondary 2 student after 2 years since the events of Episode 3. He can no longer use his "Victory mode" as he has a plaster on his forehead where the "V" scar would be. His hair is also consistently red just like in the package of booster packs.

In episode 1, he decided to return to dueling. His childhood friend, Lulu Takigawa gave him a pre-constructed mono Fire civilization deck and he dueled Justice to help Hokaben to get his curry buns back. During the duel, he used the combination of Batoraio, Victory Blastdragon with his other fire creatures to win the duel. Hokaben was impressed by his dueling skills and decided to learn how to duel, giving one of his curry bun to Katta. Unknown to him, Lucifer and Kojiro was also watching the match. He reunites with his old friend Benchan in Genius Middle School and learned about the Dragon Saga and Draghearts. He lost to Benchan's Q.E.D., Dragon Elemental King and re-modified his deck. He managed to convince Bucyake to return to dueling by using the new cards he added to his deck. He encountered Kojiro Sasaki and his 3 smaller brothers during his running exercise with his friends and dueled him. He lost to Kojiro's Deathshiraz, Demonic Corrupt King.

Even though he have not dueled in a period of two years, he was still remembered by other duelists, shown in episode 5, during the Duel Masters District Tournament. He managed to advance towards the semi-finals without difficulty and realized his next opponent is Benchan.

In episode 6 he received Glenmalt, Dragon Edge and later Gaiheart, Galaxy Sword/Gaiginga, Passionate Star Dragon from Lulu. He used the 2 cards during the semi-finals duel against Benchan, performing dragsolution for the first time and winning the duel. He faces off Lucifer in the finals. However, he was unable to complete the duel due to Lucifer collapsing and became the tournament champion. Lucifer's dueling style had stayed on his mind and he was spaced out for a while. He encountered Dragon Ryu, who sets up the oden shop and have a few helpings of the food he made. He dueled Dragon Ryu in the next day, regaining his confidence when he remembered the time both of them dueled against each other in the past. After witnessing Kojiro and Sasori dueling against each other, he got even fired up on working on his Fire Dragon deck.



He received Gaial, Leader Dragon Sword/Gaiburn, Furious Leader Dragon from Dobin Sensei after testing his rebuilt Dragon deck to familiarize himself to the Dragon Saga and dragsolution. He remembered the cards he used during the Duel Carnival 3 years ago, Gaial Kaiser, Boost, Crimson Lord and Dragonic Pippi needed for him to meet the conditions for Gaial, Leader Dragon Sword to dragsolution and also received an invitation to the Lucifer World Cup. While he was searching for the cards, the things he used in the past were scattered around the room (A necklace case, a Piara Heart stuffed toy and the Duel Masters Detectives signboard).

He found the cards in a time capsule and made a Super Victory Deck for the Lucifer World Cup. He learned about the Elite Four (Sasori-Nature, Benchan-Water, Kojiro-Darkness and Lucifer-Light) from Yohdel and replied that he was the strongest Fire duelist among them in front of the camera during the tournament opening, making a slight embarrassment to himself and others. He won against Helen, and thus proceeding to the next round and worked with Lulu about his next opponent Kojiro.



In episode 14, in the Lucifer World Cup semi-finals, he dueled Kojiro. However, Kojiro's dueling skills are too much for him to handle, so he lost the duel and injured his hand in the process. He was stung by Kojiro's words of not being as strong as what he expected to be in and throws away the wish he had written and hung on the wish tree in the night after the match. He still was unable to cope with his loss against Kojiro, venting out his frustration and apologize to Lulu for being unable to win the duel. In episode 16, he witnessed the battle between Lucifer and Kojiro in the finals. Impressed by both of their dueling skills, his duelist soul was fired up. During the post tournament party, Lucifer gave him Gaial Mobius, Victory Emperor, saying his wish of Katta to become stronger to duel him again.



In episode 17, he was invited by Dragon Ryu to come to his house and modified his deck with the card he received from Lucifer. He ended up dueling Reiko and was almost pushed to a corner by Reiko's mono Darkness deck and her dueling skills. He was willing to continue the duel despite the dangerous conditions as he knew that he needed to become stronger to fight Kojiro and Lucifer again. Fortunately, he managed to draw Gaial Mobius, Victory Emperor, using its effects to win the duel and got a surprise party from both Dragon Ryu and Reiko. He got tickets to the water theme park Dragon Ryu worked in and met Benchan. He joked Benchan about being a bookworm till the lifeguard tells them off not to duel and read on the pool. Along with Lulu and Benchan he then witnessed Hokaben dueling Sasori, her new trump card and her Nature dragon combination. He and his friends watches Bucyake being part of the Haraguro X concert as an exhibition duelist. During the fireworks festival, he dueled Bakudan Yarou and managed to defeat him on time to stop him from ruining the fireworks festival. He then met Lulu and both of them watched the fireworks together.

He later learned about the Duel Masters National Tournament and the tournament structure from Lulu. He decided to participate as he know that the Elite Four will be part of the nationals. He lost to Benchan's Evidegoras, Dragon Sonic Aircraft Carrier / Q.E.D. Plus, Final Dragon Logic, therefore he have to enter another shop tournament to earn a spot in the nationals.

In episode 23, he received a pet hamster named Hamukatsu from Lulu as a companion. He also received a Victory card Gaiglen, Violent Dragon Incident when he completed a challenge to eat up an extremely spicy curry bun in a resturaunt under Lulu's recommendation and became fast friends with the manager of the restaurant, who was also a fan of Duel Masters and a card collector of Fire Civilization cards. Using the card, he won against Justice in the shop tournament and earned a spot in the nationals. He helped Hokaben, together with Benchan, Lulu and Bucyake in episode 24 to build his mono Fire deck for the competition. He even gives him one of his own Batorash Knuckle, Blastdragon to add to his deck, allowing Hokaben to win the shop tournament and earing a spot in the nationals.

During the school field trip to Kyoto in episode 26, he was lured by a trail of curry bread to a secluded area of the city together with Lulu Takigawa. He then encounters a mysterious masked duelist named Gyou who was after Lulu's Javeleon, Beast Lance / Leosaiyu, Beast Cathedral / Leo the World, Zenith Heavenly Saint. He intercepted his attention only to be kidnapped by Gyou and has to watch Lulu fight. He was impressed by Lulu's dueling skills and her ability to conduct 2D and 3D Dragsolution], supporting her during the whole duel. Like Lulu, he was shocked by the hidden power of 2D and 3D Dragsolution Gyou demonstrated and his dueling style.



When Lulu lost and fainted, Hamukatsu bite through the bandages, freeing him and he catches her, enraged by what Gyou had done to her. He carried her back to the hotel, depressed over not being able to protect her. On the second day, he bought some food for himself and Lulu, with Bucyake snapping back at him about not being serious to Lulu's current condition. He then met Yohdel and Justice, and Yohdel gave him Batorai Edge, Blazing Sword / Batorai Kaku, Blazing Castle / Batorai Bushin, Blazing Deluxe. However Gyou returns and kidnaps Justice, Yohdel and Bucyake and Katta got angry of what he had done to Lulu and his friends. To free them, Katta fights him with his card at stake. Despite being affected by parasites that Gyou attached to him that poisoned him, Hamukatsu gave him curry bun as an antidote and Katta won the duel and gets Lulu's card back. Gyou escapes to another building after their duel, giving a warning to Katta that it was not over yet before leaving.



In episode 29, he dueled Lulu Takigawa. Even though Katta got the upper hand, Lulu managed to turn the tables by using her own Leo the World, Zenith Heavenly Saint effects and her Light creatures in her field to delay a direct attack. In return, Katta managed to summon more dragons and uses Batorai Bushin, Blazing Deluxe effects to win the duel. Lulu then gives him a new Super Victory deck for the tough competition to come. Unknown to Katta, his older brother, Shobu Kirifuda was also awaiting him for time to come.

In episode 30, he and Hamukatsu were brought to a deserted island and met Dragon Ryu and Reiko. During the second day, he duels Dragon Ryu. During the duel, Katta was in a tight situation, but Hamukatsu brought him curry bread with the other hamsters from the sunflower field. Thanking Hamukatsu, Katta got back his energy, knowing who he was fighting for and uses the new deck and the Dragheart card he received from Lulu to win the duel. After his win, Dragon Ryu gave him his Gaial Kaiser, the Victorious, Prin Prin, the Victorious and Ryusei Kaiser, the Victorious which is needed to complete his Super Victory Deck then leaves the island via motorboat. However, he fell under another canopy trap again and was transported to a different location together with Hamukatsu.



In episode 31, he and Hamukatsu were transported to a town and met Lulu, who arrived to support him thanks to his brother's message, which pinpoints his location to her. Learning that 'Mr Match', who was actually his brother is the one that told Lulu about his location, he tried to project how he looks like. His next opponent in the second challenge before the nationals is "Lady Clay Pot", who is none other than his own mother, Mai Kirifuda. However, he did not immediately recognize her on first sight. He was made to do some chores under his mother's instructions and dueled her during the second day. Before their duel, Mai passed him Onimaru "Head", Victory Rush for him to add in his deck. Remembering how this card had helped him in the past, he asked to it if he is willing to fight alongside him again, even though he no longer able to hear the voices of the cards. When he was pushed to a tight situation, he replied that this draw will determine the outcome of the duel. This scene reminded his mother about his brother, Shobu in the past. He drew Onimaru "Head", Victory Rush, gaining an extra turn by its "Gachinko Judge" ability and winning the duel. He received Gigaheart, Invincible King Sword/Ohginga, Strongest Passion from Dobin Sensei after his victory and got transported to an apocalypse-like location together with Lulu, where Shobu was waiting for them.

In episode 33, he duels against his older brother Shobu Kirifuda for the final challenge before the nationals. Even though Shobu got the upper hand due to his strong dueling skills and pressuring Katta on his weaknesses in the past, Katta managed to overcome it by using Glenmalt "King", Dual Sword Dragon Edge and conducting double dragsolution with his Ohginga, Strongest Passion and Gairaioh, Victory Head. He calls his older brother an idiot and went an all out attack on him. He summons Gaiginga, Passionate Star Dragon from the hyperspatial zone by using Ohginga's effect, shouting that he was no longer the younger brother he last remembered, declaring a direct attack and won the duel. After the duel, he rekindled his bond with his brother after many years of separation and asking about his plans in the future. Shobu encouraged him to win the nationals and both he and Hokaben managed to clear the regionals, proceeding to the nationals of the Duel Masters National Tournament. After returning back home he observes the statue of his older brother on the park with a smile on his face before having a few helpings of curry bread together with Lulu.

In episode 34, he and Hokaben were guests of the Duel Masters talk show as they are the finalist, which was held in Lulu's card shop. He appears super confident at first before the show was broadcast live, however, Bucyake's words about the show causes him to break down. During the talk show, he was unable to say anything and only appears confident in the last minute of the show. Based by his duel profile about the finalists, he was indicated to be a former champion who returns to the world of Duel Masters after 2 years. The rest of the finalist of the Duel Masters National Tournament watches Katta in the talk show in live broadcast.



He promised Lulu that he will win the tournament. Before the tournament starts, his curry bread was replaced by jelly bread, which he dislikes. During the duel with Komei, he was intimidated by Komei's schemes. Fortunately, his friends supported him and told him about Komei cheating during the duel. He got mad after learning this, but managed to keep his cool and replied back that this draw will help him defeat him. He pays Komei's cheating schemes back by drawing and using the combination of Glenmalt "King", Dual Sword Dragon Edge, Gigaheart, Invincible King Sword / Ohginga, Strongest Passion, Gaiohburn, Head General Sword / Gairaioh, Victory Head. When Komei cheated again by slipping Pythagoras, Geometry Squadron to the shield zone to send both Gairaioh and Ohginga back to the hyperspatial zone, in return, Katta uses Ohginga's other effect to put Gaiginga into the battle zone and won the duel.

During the duel between Benchan and Lucifer, Benchan expressed that his hard work is not a waste is because of Katta. Katta got amazed by Benchan's reason to fight and displayed his confidence when the camera flashed to him. He and Lulu were surprised that Lucifer crushed the blue rose that he had thrown on the clock. Helen then explained that Lucifer lifted his time limit to duel. He was shocked that Lucifer was able to avoid a direct attack and win despite Benchan having an upper hand in the duel.

He received a letter from Yohdel about the upcoming event from the organizers of the Duel Masters National Tournament, addressed by Lucifer. He learned that the organizers were planning for a 3-on-3 exhibition match as their New Year event. He along with Lulu and Hokaben worked together on their decks in the card shop for the tournament. Before returning home, he asked Lulu if she might have her own reasons for him to be in the National Tournament. Guessing that it was related to someone, Lulu showed him the letter and learned from Lulu the reason she wanted him to be in the nationals, in order to find her long lost family. After some turns in the New Year countdown exhibition match, only Katta and Lucifer was left standing. Before Katta could declare an attack after he conducts double dragsolution, a bomb which was hidden under the duel table explodes, destroying it and interrupted the match. Lucifer then replied that they will settle this match in the tournament rounds in the future.

He watched Kojiro dueling Sasori in the third round of the finals, finding Sasori's change in appearance and strategy interesting. He cheered and shouted back to Kojiro that he will get his revenge against him, therefore, he should not lose. Hattori made Katta look like his lord, making his friends laugh over his appearance. During Hokaben's duel against Gyou, he cheered for Hokaben. When Gyou undergoes metamorphosis after consuming a capsule, Katta was surprised and shocked by Gyou's monstrous form. Knowing Gyou's dueling style well because of their last duel, he warns Hokaben to be careful. He tried to stop Gyou from injuring Hokaben even further but was stopped by Benchan not to act recklessly, in which Katta later slapped Benchan. Katta then witnessed Hokaben's strong fighting spirit, with Hokaben regarding Katta as his rival and his fate in meeting him. After Hokaben's loss to Gyou, he attempted to get revenge on Gyou but was stopped by his friends. He was still enraged and depressed by that duel, but managed to keep a positive attitude, saying to Hokaben that he will inherit his feelings and defeat Gyou.

He got information about Lucifer's dire situation and rushed to the greenhouse to help him. After Hamukatsu, Lulu and Bucyake saves Helen, Justice and Yohdel and Benchan lowers the greenhouse temperature, he got mad at Gyou's cowardly tactics and encourages Lucifer to go all out as his comrades are now safe. He was happy that Lucifer gains a comeback and won the duel. When Lucifer faints by exhaustion, Katta held him by his arms and was enraged by Gyou, fueling his resolve. During Lucifer's match against Kojiro, he was surprised that Kojiro's boxing technique was stronger than last time. When Gyou revealed that he poisoned Lucifer, he was enraged, but was calmed down by Lucifer. He cheered for Lucifer till the end.

Katta and his friends visits Lucifer in the hospital and saves Justice from Gyou's attack. He got extremely frustrated that the hospital staff have to calm him down. Justice then gives Katta one of Lucifer's cards, MaltNEXT, Ultra-War Dragon Edge for Katta to add in his deck, asking him to fight for Lucifer. He then worked on his deck seriously, with Lulu giving him curry buns to give him strength to carry on. During his duel against Gyou, he was shocked that Gyou had taken some of Lucifer's cards and used them for this duel. He got mad at Gyou's insults and him mocking about dueling when Lucifer's life is on the line. With his burning spirit, he shouted back that he will win this match, as he had witnessed his fellow friends and rivals fought till the end, never giving up and he was fighting for them. Katta draws and cast Super Explosive Duel Fire, calling Gyou an unworthy duelist who don't deserve to be in the world of Duel Masters, removing most of Gyou's creatures in the battle zone, impressing the whole audience and his friends. Shobu was watching the match at that time. Katta then used MaltNEXT after seeing a future vision of the creature being alive in the battle zone, but his attempt to Dragsolution Gaiheart, Galaxy Sword was blocked by Gyou's The=Deadbrachio, World Evil Dragonkind. He saw Lucifer's soul, realizing MaltNEXT other ability. He uses its Dragon Mana Arms ability to win the duel, defeating Gyou and Shobu's intervention to the situation ended Gyou and Benny Haha's villainous plans once and for all.

In the finals, he and Kojiro have to overcome challenges before heading to the duel location;the submit of Mount Fuji. During their race, both exchanged words on reasons to be in the National Tournament. Katta replied that he participates in place of Lulu and that others have supported him all the way through duels; Benchan, Dobin Sensei, Justice, Dragon Ryu, Reiko and Shobu. Both reached to the submit and Lulu ran along to the location, bringing Hokaben, Bucyake and unknown to her, Kojiro's three brothers in tow for extra support. Both engaged in the fierce final duel, with Katta determining not to lose like last time for the sake of Lulu. Katta gained victory with MaltNEXT and dragsolutions Gaiheart to Gaiginga, removing Kojiro's blockers. Katta's family and his friends celebrates his victory and he hold hands with Lulu when they return home. Despite that, he was still unable to help Lulu find her family, in which they should be part of the National Tournament.

A few days after the tournament, he tried to help Lulu's grandfather on solving his problems. He received a letter from Shobu, showing it to Lulu in the card shop about his brother's well-being. He read the letter, learning that his brother had watched over him since the start of the tournament and Shobu encourages Katta to move forward as others are already waiting for him, noting that they will see each other again in the near future. Katta then asked for a duel with Lulu.

After his photo shoot job, Katta went to the card shop and talked to Lulu. He cheers for Lulu in her duel against Helen and witnessed her teary reunion with her brother Lucifer. He was glad that Lulu was able to see her real family at last, like how he met his brother again after many years. When Lucifer was introduced as a new student in the school, Katta was completely surprised. As Lucifer became popular among the students in the school, Katta became jealous and tried many ways for payback, but all failed miserably. During the party in the card shop, he learned from Lucifer the true reason for him to be with Katta's group and what happened during the time he was poisoned by Gyou and his match against Benchan. Lucifer also revealed about the card Katta have in possession, Genji "Heaven", Passion Dragon will be used at a future set time. Without a choice, Katta have to duel Lucifer to change Lucifer's foreseen future. The last duel was held with Lulu playing the piano. In his final match, Katta and Hamukatsu were surprised that Lucifer's predicted cards are accurate and was pushed to the corner. He was cheered by his friends not to give up and conducts moves and summons that are not part of Lucifer's foreseen future, for example when he equips Gaiheart instead of Gaiohburn to Glenmalt "King". He then continues and expressed that he had went through the same situation as Lucifer, when he only regain consciousness a few years after his birth and he will never give up. With his final draw, Katta successfully summons MaltNEXT, Ultra-War Dragon Edge and dragsolutions Heart Burn, Battle General Galaxy Fortress to Guynext, Super Battle Victory Dragon, activating his "Victory Mode" for the first time after 2 years. With the final blow, Katta wins and saves Lucifer from his foreseen death.

Duel Masters Versus Revolution
Katta and his friends went to the newly opened theme park, Duel Masters Land. While enjoying themselves, they watched a parade and Katta volunteers himself to duel the park's mascot, Duema Mouse in exchange for a prize; curry buns. During his duel in front of Mouse, he got a bit annoyed by Mouse's tactics and was being criticized by the audience for being rough. Katta draws and summons his new trump card, Evol Dogiragon and won. However, he did not notice that Bucyake got missing during the parade duels and a new enemy is within the vicinity of the park.

At school, Lulu informed him that Bucyake was missing. He along with Lulu and Hokaben sneak into the park at night to find him thanks to Benchan's information and was chased by Duema Mouse. Katta dueled Kojiro as he had blocked his way. After his win, he got information from Kojiro about the park's mysteries and the white castle. The next day, Katta was shown about the strange occurrences and sightings within the park by Lulu which had caused a great discussion in the blog. Afterwards, Katta and Hamukatsu were about to enjoy their meal of curry buns on the bridge when a motorbike duelist Basara kidnaps both of them and drove them to a motorbike arena within the park. During the high speed motorbike ride, he got dizzy and yelled at him to stop, which was proved to be futile. He was thrown off to the duel table after Basara reached the location and engaged in a dangerous duel against him after learning that he was involved in Bucyake's disappearance. He lost against Basara and fallen to the underground city within the park. He landed right onto Duema Mouse and got knocked out. Regaining his consciousness with Hamukatsu, he met the leader of the underground duelists, who explains to him about the duelists in the city and about Invasion mechanic. At one time, he got surprised that Gyou was there and ended up in a duel against him. During the duel, when Gyou summons his new trump card, Juranail, Seven Quakes World King and increasing his mana with Faerie Life, Katta got a sudden sense of what will happened next. Gyou encourages him to get back in the game and Katta won. Connecting to Bucyake's disappearance and the underground city, Katta and Gyou was given a warning about the duelist guarding the gate out of the city and the Revolutionary cards, which is the key to defeat the group of Invader race deck users.

After finding some leads, Katta along with Gyou and Waramaki found one of the places in the city where one of the cards is located; the hot springs. After relaxing there, they decide to peek into the girl's side of the hot springs. Hamukatsu went in and Katta got a bit excited over the ruckus caused. Hamukatsu managed to get the card but was caught by the landlord, Ultra Buddara. Katta dueled him to get the card and Hamukatsu back. After attaining victory, the group managed to escape the hot springs when it was about to self-destruct just in time. Waramaki explains that the card that they obtained, Burning Meratchi is the upgraded form of Evol Meratchi. He also explains that they need to find another Revolutionary, Dogiragon, Burning Revolution. He then trains with Gyou on using Burning Meratchi properly, not knowing that Hakase have another plan in store for them.

They traced the leads to Dogiragon and Wakamari told them the legend of Dogiragon and the war of the warring races in the Duel Masters World, which results in numerous casualties in both the human and creature world. After finding the location where Dogiragon was sealed, they have a hard time moving the door until Ultra Buddara equipped with a programmed armor attacked them. Katta dueled him and used Meratchi and Evol Dogiragon combo to defeat him. After the armor self destruct, the path was open and Katta obtained Dogiragon, Burning Revolution, in which the card and the dragon's soul was wrapped in chains. The main Gatcha robot responsible for guarding the way out arrives and delivered a map for Katta and the group to meet it with Katta's friends at stake. During their search for Katta's friends, Katta tries to figure out on releasing the Dogiragon's soul from the seal chains. Encountering the Gatcha robo and his friends being trapped inside, with the exception of Bucyake who was thrown out back to the surface, Katta decided to face him in a duel with Dogiragon's soul still being sealed. He was surprised that the Gatcha robo have the ability to activate a duel zone in which when a duel was played, the creatures comes to life. He have a hard time with Gatcha's swarm tactics, fortunately Dogiragon answered Katta's call and spirit, breaking half of his chains and revealing his Revolution skill to prevent defeat. Katta defeated Gatcha and got shot out of the underground city together with his friends, Gyou and Hamukatsu. Landing onto the safe spot, he and the group was applauded by the staff and Duema Mouse.

Despite being not fooled by the lies of the underground city, he received a Duel Phone as a key equipment for the upcoming Star Cup event. He even got more surprised that Duema Mouse was in Katta's school. He knew about the true objectives of the secret society members of the park and prepares himself for a duel against Duema Mouse. However, it was Kojiro that Duema Mouse will duel against, much to his disappointment.

Visiting the park again, Katta tries to figure out the connection of the underground city, Duema Mouse claims and Dogiragon. He even tries to find out how to break the final seal chains. He visits the new attraction, Duepolis which was a gaming center and casino. After losing many rounds, he got excited when he heard that a duel will be commenced under the Star Cup rules, but later found out the dealer is Hakase in disguise and the one responsible for the mishap in the underground city. He dueled Hakase and compared his creatures to his gambling personality. He got intimidated by Hakase's probability prediction but did not back down. Dogiragon then breaks his final seal chains once more by Katta's call and strength to believe in the dragon's spirit, revealing his Revolution 0 skill and defeats Hakase with its own "7-Hit combo".

During the incident involving Lulu and Duel Masters Land, he learned her reasons of protecting her shop. The following morning, he was surprised that the land around her card shop was converted into an attraction and tried to reach her, only to be distracted by the attractions. He was almost too late to stop Basara before Lucifer intervened to halt the match. In school, Bucyake showed him a newspaper article of Haraguro X being attacked after their live concert and duel, with Katta not bothering that much. He have to go with Lulu due to the increasing number of incidents similar to Haraguro X. He was about to deal Matarou, who was a Darkness Invader deck user before Lucifer steps in to deal with him. He then learned that Lucifer was also investigating the dark secrets of Duel Masters Land and their Invader deck users, while possessing one of the sealed Revolutionary cards similar to Dogiragon. After school, he along with the others went to the underground base where Lucifer was present. Lucifer points out about the dark actions of the top 3 duelists of Duel Masters Land, in which if their opponent loses and lost all of their points, their decks gets destroyed. Katta found it unforgiving and received another sealed Revolutionary card, Iron Fist of Revolution for any battles to come. Benchan arrived to the shop, but was controlled with the Invader symbol on his forehead. Katta decides to deal with him and when he was in a pinch, his determination results in the seal chains of the card being broken and saves himself in a nick of time. After the incident, with Lucifer pointing out that the park had taken tougher measures, Katta decides to do his best in the Star Cup preliminaries event to unveil the truth.

Duel Masters Victory
His first used deck is cards from DMD-01 Start Dash Deck: Fire & Nature, which he received from Bucyake at the last minute. When he first duels with this deck, he has a pretty awkward start and makes greenhorn mistakes. However, when dueling the Baker, Katta was able to bring out the Rush capabilities of this deck.

After being introduced to a new deck by Benchan, he now used a deck based on Hunter creatures with his ace being the Psychic Super Creature, Gaial King Dragon, Raging Dragon Lord and its Psychic Link creatures.

After losing to Dragon Ryu for the 3rd time, he started to add Darkness Civilization cards into his deck as well as cards from DMX-04 Full Foil Pack: Revival Hero - The Hunter.

He replaces his Go On Pippi and Psychen Pippi with their "Super" versions; Super Go On Pippi and Super Psychen Pippi.

He also added a new Victory card, Volg Thunder which together with Thunder Tiger can psychic link into Volg Tiger, Thunder Beast.

In his duel against Onsen he added Gaial Ryusei Dragon, Star Dragon King and its respective cards.

In the 49th and 50th episode, in his duel against Onsen he added a new Victory Psychic Super Creature; Gaial Ore Dragon, the Vainglory to his deck.

Duel Masters Victory V
In this new series, Katta uses cards from DMD-05 Rising Dash Deck: Infinite Attack! with the following additions:

Katta in his final duel against Leo further improved his deck having the new Gachinko Judge and Zero cards.

Duel Masters Victory V3
Katta is now using the new Outrage deck DMD-09 1st Deck Outrage Dash. With this deck he later added:

Later he finds out about the real power of Outrage from "The Book of Outrage" and started using a new deck DMD-11 Forbidden Transform Deck: The Book of Outrage.

He later decides to completely build his deck from scatch around his new best friend Katsudon, Kung Fu Dragon with whom he had previously lost in duel and almost lost his best friend in that duel. In order to protect his best friend he completely builds the deck around him.

Katta further improves his deck in order to bring down the Oracle Gods. He later added Schumacher, New World. During his search for the cards that were affected by the power of the Oracles, he obtained and used more Outrage race cards.

He later uses the cards from DMD-13 Super Deck MAX: Katsuking and Treasures of Legend after obtaining the Rage Crystal.

During the final duel against Yomi, he uses his comrades cards along with the other Outrages.

Duel Masters Versus
He uses a monocolored Fire Civilization Dragon deck. He first used a deck based on DMD-15 Beginning Dragon Deck: Battle Passion Dragon.
 * Batoraio, Victory Blastdragon
 * GENJI Double Cross, Blastdragon

He then added Dragheart Weapons and Draguners in it. He also added cards with the mana arms ability and dragons from '''Katta's Victory! Great Dragon World pack'''. During his duel against Dobin Sensei, he was able to memorize the cards currently present in the deck allowing him to know which card is on the shield zone.

He then uses cards from DMD-18 Super Victory Deck: Blaze Up Dragon Sword Gaial during the Lucifer World Cup and DMR-14 Wild Dragon Gaiglen during the card shop tournaments.

In his battle against Gyou, he used 3D Dragheart cards from Katta's ultra passionate Deluxe Dragon Spam pack to spam massive amounts of Dragons making a direct attack unavoidable.

He then uses a deck based on DMD-20 Super Victory Deck: Victorious Rising Dragon Sword Gaiohburn in his time at the survival match. He even added a new "Dual Wield" Draguner, Glenmalt "King", Dual Sword Dragon Edge and a new Dragheart card Gigaheart, Invincible King Sword/Ohginga, Strongest Passion in his deck during the duel against his older brother Shobu.

After clearing Shobu's intense challenges and the regionals, he received new cards from the duelist that he dueled against and modified his deck for the Duel Masters National Tournament.

After Lucifer's dire condition caused by Gyou and Benny Haha's villainous actions, he reconstructs his deck from scratch. He added more dragons to make use of the Dragon Mana Arms effects of MaltNEXT, Ultra-War Dragon Edge.

In his final duel against Lucifer, he made more modifications to his final deck.

Duel Masters Versus Revolution
He uses a Fire Civilization deck and first uses cards from the DMD-21 Due-ma Start Deck: Invincible Fire Civilization set.

During his time in the underground city of Duel Masters Land and the Star Cup preliminaries event, he obtained and uses cards from the Revolutionary race.

Trivia

 * Katta and Shobu share the same Japanese voice actor,.
 * He has two cards named after him, Game On! Kirifuda Family! / Katta Kirifuda, Curry Bread Master and Katta Kirifuda, Curry Bread Boy.
 * His family name 切札 (Kirifuda) means "Trump Card" while his given name means 勝太 (Katta) means "Great Victory".
 * Before Duel Masters Versus, his hair is brown in the anime while it is red in the packaging of booster packs.
 * Unlike the anime, in the manga his first deck is from his brother Shobu, which was first used a few years after Shobu's false demise.