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Michio Mokota (, Mokota Michio) is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime. He is a Student from Cuisine Duel School, who is arranged to Duel Yuya by Nico Smiley. Despite already having qualified for the Junior Youth Championship, Michio agreed to Duel against Yuya for fun as he defeated Strong Ishijima. He is a famous young chef and Duelist who's recipes are popular with housewives.

Appearance
Michio is a young man with orange hair, featuring a red bang that hangs down at the front. He also has pale skin and freckles. His main feature is that his eyes are shown as being shut or squinting, only opening them when being dramatic or in shock.

Personality
On the surface, Michio seems to be a kind person, but is actually arrogant. He looks down on his opponents, possibly due to defeating students from LDS' Top Class. He refers to Yuya as a light meal as a means to belittle him. As the Duel continues, his lack of respect comes from the fact that he sees everything he does as perfection, ranging from his Action Duel performances to his cooking. During the Duel, Yuya's mother threw Yuya a pancake sandwich that was made by altering one of Michio's "perfect" recipes, which he didn't appear to like. His personality seems to come from his mother's coddling, After being defeated by Yuya, Michio realised the errors of his ways after remembering that his father disagreed with his outlook on perfection.

Voice/Mannerisms
Michio has a habit of relating everything to meals and cooking, often saying that his Dueling strategy is a "perfect recipe" or saying that he'll make a "light meal" of Yuya during the Duel.

Deck
Michio uses a "Cookmate" Deck, primarily focused on accumulating cards underneathe his "Food Cemetery" which he then uses in combination with "Wonder Recipe" to continuously Special Summon his "Royal Cookmate" monsters while locking his opponent's Summoning methods down as well as inflicting large amounts of damage. He also uses cards such as "Meal Ticket Abuse" and "Law of Food Conservation" to support his strategy further.