Yu Fua (also known as Yumama in the English version) is a character who first appeared in the Duel Masters Charge season of the Duel Masters anime and manga.
Details[]
Fua Yu has light-blue hair that is tied by a ribbon. Regardless of the adaptation, she is first encountered brainwashed by Zakira and hides her face behind a book, and is seemingly pretty cruel. In actuality, unlike her brother, she is a kind-hearted young woman, but she can be also pretty intelligent and deceptive in the correct situation and is able to trick even Zakira himself, as shown when she was sent to an operation trying to hunt down and abduct Pixie for him, but instead went with Extreme Bucketman and escorted him to Japan directly under his radar.
She uses a variable series of decks, but in the Game Boy Advance game Duel Masters 2, she used a near-carbon copy of the metagame type Astral Reef rush.
Duel Masters Anime[]
Duel Masters Charge[]
She first appeared as a mysterious girl who can duel and read a book at the same time. She has the ability to stand on the ceiling and is commonly seen reading her teen heartthrob book, filled with 400 pages of pictures of "sassy" cute boys (while in the original Japanese dub, it's a book that's said to already predict and wrote the future including the outcome of her duels). Although towards the end of the Battle Arena tournament, she discovers that the pages are really blank.
She managed to defeat George, Yuki, and Kokujo right before they were supposed to duel making her win instantly. She was a childhood friend of Extreme Bucketman. While she appears to be the cause of all the disruption in the tournament, she was actually brainwashed by her malicious older brother, Zakira.
After she is released from Zakira's control, she becomes an ally of Shobu, along with Bucketman.
She does not have a deck preference and changes very frequently within the season.
Manga[]
Yu is mostly similar to her anime counterpart, aside that she can use her hair as a weapon, and she does use Gyuujirou as a front to take Bolmeteus Steel Dragon for Zakira. She was also a childhood friend of Extreme Bucketman. During an unknown time period, she was brainwashed by Zakira and tasked to steal the Awakening Card Bolmeteus Steel Dragon.
She defeats Boy George, Yuki and Kokujo in a row before showing up to disrupt the tournament. However, she also cooperated with Gyujirou, and Extreme Bucketman had a crush on her. She gave Gyujirou her Survivor deck to participate in the tournament and cooperated with him to get Bucketman's Bolmeteus Steel Dragon for Zakira, but is actually using Gyujirou to her own plans and quickly betrays him later on. This resulted in Gyujirou distrusting women, causing the choice of his Duel Masters Land executives 10 years later to be completely consisted of men.
When she disrupted the tournament, she first dueled Extreme Bucketman, only for him to use his Bolmeteus Steel Dragon and win the duel and lend Bolmeteus to Shobu. Afterwards, she tries to go after Shobu, since Shobu was holding the card she was going after, only for Gyujirou and George Kamamoto to show up and exact their revenge against her, trapping her in a cage. This fails, and she uses her own hair to break the cage and goes in front of Shobu. She fakes crocodile tears to ask him to give her the Bolmeteus card only for Kokujo to show up, restrain her and yell at Shobu, telling him not to give her the card. She then attacks Kokujo using her hair and tells Shobu to duel her in the world tournament. Gyuujiro, Boy Goerge and Kokujo end up heavily injured by Yu and were all hospitalized.
During the tournament, she dons a duelist hunter armor and used a deck based on Super Necrodragon Abzo Dolba that also has Bolshack Dragon and gained the upper hand against Shobu, only for Gyujirou to come across Bucketman in the hospital and show him Yu's dress and her childhood picture with Bucketman. In the middle of the duel, Bucketman hijacks the duel tournament broadcast to show everyone Yu's true identity, allowing Shobu to reverse the situation and win. Despite going for a last-ditch attempt on Bolmeteus Steel Dragon, the card glows and snaps Yu out from her brainwashing. It was during this time where Zakira shows up alongside Perfect and Quattro and pretended to forgive her and let her have the Bolmeteus Steel Dragon, but he actually had Ash deployed to take the card for her and never intended to forgive her, declaring her a traitor before running away with the card. Since then, Yu lives alongside Bucketman and Dr. Root and is company with Shobu and co.
Later on, during his quest to steal the awakened cards, Zakira ordered Pastor Jason and Miss Kirumi to take the awakening cards Alphadios, Lord of Spirits and Doublesword Red Dragon from Hakuoh and take Yu back to execution. They fail to take Yu, but manages to take Hakuoh (with the assistance of Gedo) and the Awakening Cards.
In Duel Masters: Fighting Edge, while not directly stated, it's is implied that she returned to her brother and joined the GARDE as one of its "After R" duelists, labeled as "Yuu (U)" and was dispatched on a mission to America in order to hunt down the Duel Master Pixie. In actuality, she was infiltrating her brother's ranks to save the duelists there and went to America with Extreme Bucketman, and Pixie was kept away from Zakira's hands and escorted to Japan. Zakira does not know anything about this.
Deck[]
Duel Masters Manga: Series 1[]
While she was under Zakira's control, she used a deck based on Super Necrodragon Abzo Dolba.
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Lu Gila, Silver Rift Guardian was stolen from Yuu, while the Mirror Force Dragon was originally stolen from Fua castle, and given to Shobu.
Duel Masters Charge[]
While she was under Zakira's control, she used a deck based on Super Necrodragon Abzo Dolba.
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She then used a Water and Darkness deck based on Cruel Naga, Avatar of Fate.
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Duel Masters Cross[]
During the Duel Masters Cross season her deck contained all 5 of the civilizations and is focused on Madness creatures who have the following effect:
| If this card is discarded during your opponent's turn, you may put this card into the battle zone instead of the graveyard |
as well as cards such as Hundred Eyes, Secret Spirit Treasure.
Later in the season she changes her deck to a Light, Water and Darkness deck based around the Knight race using Brunhilde, Ghost Knight and Nero Gryphis, Mystic Light Emperor as her trump cards.
Gallery[]
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Video Game Appearances[]
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Trivia[]
- Her full name is a pun on the phrase "Who are you?".
- Yu is depicted as much shorter in the manga than she is in the anime.
- In the manga, Miss Kirumi taught her how to duel.
- The kanji of her first name (幽, Yuu) is referenced in some of her cards' names, such as Brunhilde, Ghost Knight, and Oracion, Mysterious Samurai.