Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V/Characters

== The Main Characters

Yuya Sakaki
"Voiced by: Kensho Ono (JP), Michael Lisco Jr(EN)"

The main protagonist of the series Yuya aims to become an Entertainment Duelist to make people smile. As the series goes on he is forced to abound his entertainment style and focuses on dealing interdenominational war in order to save his childhood friend Yuzu but he will try his base to make people happy and smile.As the show goes on Yuya learns that he has doppelgangers who share his face: Yuto (Xyz), Yugo (Synchro) and Yuri (Fusion).


 * The Ace: He's the best duelist of the You Show Duel School, though there are only six students there.
 * All-Loving Hero: Yuya deeply cares about making people happy and smile through duels even his enemies.
 * Always Save the Girl: While he gladly helps the Lancers and wants to save the dimensions, he makes Yuzu's safety his top priority. He spends the Friendship Cup dueling so he can broadcast his message of peace to the Tops and Commons, but wanted to forgo his duel so people could help Yuzu after she crashed into a building. Reiji even points out how Yuya keeps putting Yuzu before everybody. It also doesn't stop at just Yuzu bu the also intends to save Ruri and Rin as well who are the xyz and synchro counterpart of yuzu
 * Anime Hair: Like his predecessors in other Yu-Gi-Oh! installments, his hair is pretty out there. However, it's more subdued in comparison, and the "out there" part comes more from the hair colors; half red and half green.
 * Badass: He nearly took down Strong Ishijima, the world champion, and that was before he got his Pendulum Cards, with which he did win. His badassery has only increased since then as he continually brings out ever stronger Extra Deck monsters and evolves his dueling to new heights, trouncing many powerful opponents and holding his own against Reiji Akaba, a world-famous dueling genius. In the finale of Season 2 he beats Jack Atlas, the King of Riding Duels who was previously invincible for years and is the strongest duelist in the Synchro Dimension.
 * Badass Adorable:He gets somany cute movemnets
 * Badass Biker:He becomes a riding duelist during the synchro saga and he is shown to pull some amazing stunts while riding a big
 * Badass Boast:Gave a pretty nice one during his second duel with Jack where he declares that he will save the city and make everyone smile
 * Badass in Distress:He was capture by roger who intend to mind control him
 * Berserk Button: Using duelings as war is a major button for him
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Yuya is the one of the most nicest character you would have interact in the show so far but when he gets angry he is more scarier than any other characters
 * Big Brother Instinct: He has grown protective towards Reira while in the Synchro Dimension and uses his duels to both protect him from Security and in attempts to make him smile. In episode 59, he's more worried over Reira's disappearance than he and the others being captured by Security. In episode 67, he questions Reiji's decision to allow Reira to join a dangerous battle and declares to him that if Reiji would not protect Reira, he will.
 * Big Brother Mentor: Yuya acts this to the students of Youshow as well as Reira
 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * In Episode 4, when Yuzu and the kids finally fall, Yuya has his newly returned Pendulum Monsters rescue them.
 * In episode 89, he arrives just in time as Reira starts to suffer from PTSD and exhaustion.
 * In episode 99, when Jack and Crow's Big Damn Heroes moment nearly kills Yuzu in the progress, Yuya saves her from her fall with the help of Whip Viper and Discover Hippo.
 * Book Dumb: Yuya mentions in Episode 19 that he is bad at science and math.
 * Butt Monkey: He has his movements
 * Character Development He gets somany development in the series so far
 * Childhood Friends: With Yuzu and Gongenzaka. He met Gongenzaka 3 years ago and has been friends with Yuzu at least since the opening of the You Show Duel school.
 * Chess Motif: Roget sees him as the White Knight.
 * Dark is not Evil
 * Defeating the Undefeatable: How does Yuya beat Jack in Episode 98? By using Niranva High Paladin's Pendulum Effect to weaken Red Dragon Archfiend Tyrant, allowing Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon to finish it off with a rainbow-colored Spiral Strike Burst.
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Jack becomes a lot friendlier towards Yuya at the end of their second Duel, even though he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
 * Determinator
 * Disappeared Dad: Yuya's father Yusho was a popular Duelist, but three years ago, he no-showed an event and hasn't been seen since. Mentioning anything about his father is one of the only times Yuya won't be smiling.
 * Expy: Mostly of Judai with his surface personality and somehow of his appearance, and Yuma with his backstory, with a dose of Yusei's dueling style, and his inner depression about what he thinks may be his fault. Also of Yugi and Kaito Kuroba. His Superpowered Evil Side gives him another parallel with Judai, and his dragon resonating like the Signer Dragons is another parallel with Yusei. His belief that every card has a use is also like Yusei. That being said, see Contrasting Sequel Main Character.