Jaden Yuki

Jaden Yuki, known in the Japanese verison as Judai Yuki (遊城十代 Yūki Jūdai), Jaden is a fictional character in the anime series ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'' In the English version, Jaden is voiced by Matthew Charles, while KENN in the Japanese version.

Character design


Jaden's character design was overseen by Kenichi Hara.His usual outfit consists of the standard Slifer Red uniform, unbuttoned. A deck box is strapped above his waistline, largely hidden beneath the lower rim of his jacket. His brown hair is sectioned in two layers, the layer closest to his face a darker shade of brown than the one behind it. His brown eyes are positioned directly beneath the bangs of the layer closest to his face. He carries an Academy-issued Duel Disk on his left hand.

Character biography
Intending to attend Duel Academy (Duel Academia), Jaden bumps into Yugi Mutou on his way to the school's entrance examinations at the beginning of the series. He is given a Winged Kuriboh card by the legendary duelist, but receives a low score on the exam's written component, and is therefore placed in Slifer Red (Osiris Red), the lowest-ranked dormitory, alongside Syrus Truesdale (Sho Marufuji) and Chumley Huffington (Hayato Maeda), who become his new friends. He was once granted entrance into Ra Yellow, but declined the offer as he preferred the "burning fiery spirit and hot passion of red."

Jaden has made several enemies at his school, including Vellian Crowler (Cronos de Medici), whom Jaden defeated in his examination duel. Out of spite, Crowler tried to kick Jaden out of school on many different occasions before finally beginning to respect him. Jaden is an accomplished duelist, having defeated the aforementioned Crowler during his examination duel, Chazz Princeton (Jun Manjoume) in a school-wide duel, and Bastion Misawa (Daichi Misawa) for the representative position. He is also responsible for the defeat of most of the Shadow Riders (Seven Stars), and goes on to pummel a slew of other opponents.

During the second year, Jaden ventured into Neo Space after being defeated in his second duel with Aster Phoenix. There, he learned of the ongoing battle between the forces of darkness and light. With the help of the Neo-Spacians, Jaden adopted the role of the universe's defender wielding the "darkness of justice" against Sartorious (Takuma Saiou) and the Society of Light.The task of rescuing most of his converted friends from the organization's clutches also fell on him.

To prevent his evil side from activating the mind control satellite of Misgarth, Sartorius entrusted Jaden with one of the keys to its control switch. The diviner's evil personality sent numerous duelists after the boy to win it back, but to no avail. He ultimately confronted Jaden himself, demanding the key in exchange for Aster, from whom he had already regained the other key in battle. Jaden agreed, and although Aster was rescued shortly thereafter, both keys were put into the possession of Prince Ojin, who went on to fire the satellite. It was, however, destroyed during the course of their Duel. Sartorius was then defeated, the Light of Destruction purged from his body.

During the third year, Jaden is pursued by the spirit of his favorite card in childhood, Yubel, which was given to him by his father. With his parents always working and away from home, Jaden turned to dueling friends to pass the time, but the sadness associated with his inability to play Yubel properly led the Duel Monster to hospitalize a young duelist named Osamu and scare away the rest of his companions with other misfortunes. When Duel Academy is returned to the real world, Jaden cannot find Jesse and realizes that Jesse must stil be in the other world. He blames himself for Jesse being stuck in the other dimension and goes back to the different dimension looking for him. However, the dimension is different, known as dark world. While looking for Jesse in the dark world, Jaden loses all of his friends except Syrus to Bronn, Mad King Of Dark World. The anger in Jaden released by the loss of his friends causes an unexpected change. When Jaden finally wins, Syrus turns on Jaden. This is because the symbol of doubt embedded in him maxes out the emotion of doubt that Syrus feels toward Jaden, after seeing Jaden sacrafice his friends just for himself. Syrus attacks Jaden by shouting and saying he wants nothing more to do with Jaden, running off somewhere, leaving Jaden with nothing. Afterwards, Jaden is in the darkness within his mind, and a strange figure shows up. He then gets told that he can find his friends using a strange power the figure posseses. Jaden asks for the figures name and once it is told to be Haou, The Supreme King, Haou posesses Jaden. Jaden will begin to use new E-Heroes, called Evil Heroes. In episode 138, at the end Jim yells he will avenge Burgady from the Supreme King. When Haou removes the mask, there was Jaden's face and voice.



(Top Left: Jaden first goes evil, Top Middle: Haou Figure, Top Right: Jaden Becoming Posessed, Bottom Left: Jaden Is Evil)

It isn't known yet if Jaden has a big brother. This idea came from the episode "For the Sake of Syrus". Jaden said, "If my big bro told me I wasn't good enough to play some promo card, I'd be insecure too." It is possible that he may have a big brother but there is no other evidence to prove it.

Voice/Mannerisms
Jaden is for his catchphrases, most notably "I'll throw down a face-down" when setting cards, "Get your game on" when beginning a Duel, and "That's game" when winning one. In the Japanese version, he uses the phrase "Gotcha".

4th Deck
Note: This was a special deck Jaden used in his duel with Chazz Princeton to free him from Sartorious' influence.

5th Deck
This deck was first used by Jaden in his first duel as Supreme King Haou against Jim Crocodile Cook.