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| - The protagonist of the series, Yuma is a fourteen year-old middle-schooler living in the city of Heartland. Despite, or because of, his energetic, peppy personality he's known amongst his peers as a screw-up who can't do anything right, whether it be at school or at Duel Monsters. He possesses a pendant called the Emperor's Key, which turns out to be the key to unlocking a gate to another dimension, releasing the spirit Astral and the ninety-nine Numbers cards. With his own Numbers ace, No. 39: Utopia (a.k.a. Aspiring Emperor Hope), Yuma and Astral must track down and collect the remaining Numbers cards.
* Butt Monkey
* Catch Phrase: Kattobingu!
* Dub catchphrase: "Feeling the flow!", used less often.
* Chained by Fashion: His Gagaga monsters.
* Cooldown Hug: Delivers one to Haruto.
* The Determinator
* Dumb Is Good
* Forgetful Jones: Yuma. He forgot his invitation to the WDC Finals party and forgot the Heart Pieces he spent a whole arc collecting when he went to the Finals.
* Fusion Dance: Can do so with Astral under extreme circumstances.
* Heart Is an Awesome Power
* The Hero
* Heroic BSOD: After his first encounter and near-loss to Kaito, Yuma utterly breaks down in the rain in front of Kotori, realizing he isn't good enough even doing a Skyward Scream.
* Skyward Scream
* Also in his duel with III, where it's revealed that without the word "kattobingu," Yuma is terribly depressed and afraid of dueling and taking on challenges in general.
* Honor Before Reason: Averted in his second Duel with Shark, where despite promising not to use the Numbers, summons Hope anyway, after Shark urges him to. Though given the reaction of his friends, it would seem that usually Yuma does play the trope straight.
* Hot-Blooded
* The Hunter: Despite his denial of such a title, Yuma is very much a Numbers Hunter.
* Hypocrite: Rare protagonist example, at in the dubbed version. Freely claims that teamwork is the point of xyz monsters; even though he himself doesn't accept external help.
* Idiot Hero: To the point where Astral often Lampshades his dueling misplays.
* He's actually closer to Jounouchi than he is to Yugi, both as a beginner and in his general personality.
* Japanese Delinquents: His Gagaga monsters have this as their theme.
* Kid Hero
* Leeroy Jenkins: What his dueling style, at least to start out with, tends to lean towards without Astral's help.
* The McCoy
* Multicolored Hair: Red and black.
* Oblivious to Love
* Power Copying: Yuma can use any Numbers which he has defeated and Astral has absorbed, making his Deck expand with each victory. However, he uses very few of them, and his defaulted back to only using Hope.
* Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Astral's blue.
* The Rival: To several people. Will definitely gain several more rivals before this series is over.
* Shonen Upgrade: He manages to set a new record among the protagonists for the fastest gained canon upgrade to an ace monster with Chaos Numbers 39: Aspiring Emperor Hope Ray. He got one three times faster than Yusei.
* Stepford Smiler: Take into account the gravity of the word "kattobingu" to him and he slips right into type A.
* The Unintelligible: Kattobingu! There is no real translation for it. It is merely just a phrase Kazuki Takahashi came up with for Yuma when he created the character. "Katto" literally means "to flare up" ("bingu" is merely the Japanese spelling of the English word "bing").
* Weak but Skilled: So far, only his xyz monsters are truly powerful in terms of ATK, so he compensates by having various powerful card effects, if he uses them correctly.
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