Mai Kujaku
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Vital Statistics
Birthday: November 20, 19XX (Scorpio/Sagittarius cusp, officially Scorpio, 3rd decan) - In the Duel Monsters series, it is said that Mai is 24 years old during Duelist Kingdom, which would make her 9 years older than Jounouchi, Yuugi, and co. She is easily the oldest duelist that appears regularly in the series.
Height: 175 cm (approximately 5'9")
Weight: 52 kg (approximately 114.6 lbs.)
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Violet/Purple
Blood Type: O
Favorite Food: Penne all'arrabbiata (pointed pipes of pasta covered with a tomato, red chili, and garlic sauce known as "all'arrabiata" or "angry style" because of the heat from the peppers)
Least Favorite Food: Durian (it's a kind of thorny fruit)
Signature Duel Monsters card: Harpie Lady
Deck theme: Harpie (Duelist Kingdom); Amazon (Battle City); Harpie (DOMA)
Voice actresses: Haruhi Terada (Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters), Megan Hollingshead (English dub, seasons 1-3), Bella Hudson (English dub, season 4-5)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki version
n the beginning, Mai is a self-absorbed woman who only likes her prize money. She once worked as a card dealer on a ship-board casino, lost in life, until finding purpose with Yugi Mutou (Yugi Muto in the English anime) and his friends. After she meets them, she seems to start caring more for her friends and the deeper meanings of the game as her wins become empty to her later in the series. Mai first appears in the Duelist Kingdom arc of the manga. She lost the first duel she is seen participating in to Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler in the English anime). In the actual tournament, she loses to Yugi. In Battle City, she loses to Marik Ishtar. In the English anime, she is sent to the Shadow Realm after she loses to Marik, but she is later pulled out by Yugi. She is paired up with her friend, Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler). Kazuki Takahashi, the author of Yu-Gi-Oh! deemed the show as purely 'friendship.' Many Yu-Gi-Oh! fans see this as a sign that they have deeper feelings for one another, although like all other pairings in the show, this one has not been resolved. In the Waking the Dragons series (Doma) Mai finds Valon, one of Dartz's men, who develops romantic feelings for her which she slightly reciprocates. Mai is also a role model to Shizuka Kawai (Serenity Wheeler in the English anime, Shizuka Jonouchi in the first series anime). Mai's deck mainly consists of Harpie Ladies. In the anime, her deck also has Amazons. n the Waking the Dragons (Doma) arc of the second series anime, Mai apparently turns evil and joins Dartz's group (Doma in the Japanese version). Reeling from her defeat from Marik in Battle City (and in the English anime, her torment from the Shadow Realm), Mai is once again in fear of defeat, and now fears that she cannot rely on herself. Even though she enters and wins many tournaments, without her friends to show her the way again, her fear of defeat still persists. The worst of it however has to do with her recurring nightmares of Marik (In the English anime, Mai dreams of Marik trapping her permanently in the Shadow Realm) that persist throughout most of the arc. At the end of her rope and with no one to help her, Valon finds her and convinces her that what she needs is not friendship, and that what she needs can be found with Dartz and the power of the Seal of Orichalcos. Dartz fools her into believing that it was Yugi, Joey, as well as her other friends that abandoned her, and, after being infused with the Seal of Orichalcos and all of its atrocity inducing power, she not only believes it, but she intends to defeat them, starting with Joey. It isn't until she sees Joey ready to pass out from their second duel during the story arc that she finally sees through all of the deception and remembers everything that they went through that she overcomes the power of the Orichalcos. In an attempt to pay back Joey and Valon, both of whom lost their souls to the Orichalcos trying to help her in their own ways, she attempts to take on Dartz but is ambushed and defeated by Rafael and lost her own soul. Following Doma, she spends the rest of the series alone and out of the picture reevaluating her life and trying to rediscover her passion for dueling. She promises to return one day to both Joey and Valon, however, in the US version, Mai and Valon's relationship seems to end, and she doesn't say whether she will go back to Joey. She is on the invitation list to participate in the KC Grand Prix but disappears. She is seen in passing a few times, including the ending credits in the Japanese version, where she is dueling alongside Vivian Wong against the Meikyū Brothers (Paradox Brothers) on top of the Great Wall of China.
Naming
"Kujaku" means "peahen". In the English anime, Mai calls Joey by his given name, while almost everyone in the manga and the original Japanese anime calls Jonouchi by his family name. In the Doma arc she only refers to Joey as "Wheeler" his last name until the very end of their final Duel in the arc and series having finally overcome the lies she was told she refers to him as "Joey" once more. Her name in the English anime is a pun of "My Valentine".
External Links
Elegant Egotist Mai Fan Fiction [1], [2] & [3] (Kujaku Mai Icon Sets) Deadly Beauty - Harpie Lady Fanlisting harpy-lady-chicka & HarpieFansForever - DevianART Clubs To see Mai's full deck Click Here Kujaku Mai Gallery @ Kokoro no Naka
