Anzu Mazaki (manga)

Anzu Mazaki is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. This is the original depiction of Anzu Mazaki, known as Téa Gardner in most English media, as created by Kazuki Takahashi.

Anzu is a childhood friend of Yugi Mutou and often accompanies him on his adventures. She is interested in dancing and wants to study abroad after leaving school. At the beginning of the series she develops a crush on Dark Yugi and becomes obsessed with finding out his identity, having been saved by him while she was blindfolded.

Elementary school
Anzu first met Yugi in elementary school. He gave her a handheld game, which she got engrossed in. However after spending a lot of time playing it, she did not get any better and smashed the game out of frustration. Yugi laughed at the ordeal and brought her an easier game the next day.

High school
One lunchtime, after becoming fed-up playing basketball with the boys, who were trying to look up the girls' skirts, Anzu returned to her classroom. Here she caught Yugi's Millennium Puzzle box that Jonouchi and Honda were throwing around and told them off for bullying him. After they left, Yugi told Anzu that he had been working on the Millennium Puzzle for eight years and that it was a memento of his grandfather. Anzu went to Yugi's house after school. She was surprised to find his grandfather was actually alive and put off when he commented on her bust size.

After Yugi became friends with Jonouchi, Anzu started to spend time with Jonouchi too. When a ZTV van arrived at their school, she argued with Jonouchi for spreading rumors of there being a star at their school and his choice to make money selling pictures of them. When Honda and Jonouchi lifted her skirt with a t-square, she punched Jonouchi in the face.

Going against school rules, Anzu secretly got a part time job at Burger World to earn money to attend a dance school in New York. Yugi and Jonouchi noted suspicious behavior on her behalf, which Jonouchi suspected was a result of her dating older men for pay. They followed her to Burger World after school one day. There Anzu served them burgers, but squirted a message onto the burgers, in ketchup, warning them not to tell.

An escaped convict entered the restaurant and took Anzu hostage. While she was blindfolded, Yugi was forced to serve the convict a drink and Lucky Stripe cigarettes. Dark Yugi took control and played one finger BATTLE! with the convict. To Anzu, his voice sounded like Yugi's, but he was much too confident and dangerous to be Yugi. Dark Yugi defeated the convict and saved Anzu. Not knowing who her rescuer was, Anzu developed a crush on him and wanted to find out his identity.

The alleged psychic Kokurano tried to seduce Anzu, by reading her future telling her how she would meet a wonderful man, who would reveal himself to her and she would swoon before him in love. Anzu hoped that this would be the man who saved her at Burger World. However, Kokurano tried to make himself the man from the prediction and caused Anzu to swoon, by knocking her out with a bottle of chloroform. Dark Yugi learned how Kokurano was in the habit of making his predictions come true and rushed to Anzu's rescue. Using the bottle, Dark Yugi defeated him in Paper Crash!.

Anzu was class representative as her class prepared for the school festival. She took suggestions from other students as to what they should do and decided to go with Yugi's Carnival Games idea. She managed to win the most popular spot at the festival in a lottery. As they built the booth, she assigned Jonouchi the role of playing Bluebeard in their life size Pop-up Pirate, despite his wishes. Goro Inogashira tried to steal the spot for his class and tore down the Carnival Games booth. When Yugi saw Anzu cry over this, he changed to Dark Yugi and won the spot back in a Shadow Game, Griddle Ice Hockey, against Goro.

Yugi and Sugoroku introduced Anzu to Duel Monsters at the Kame Game shop.

When Jonouchi mysteriously missed a day of school, Anzu admitted that it was lonely without him and helped Honda and Yugi look for him later. They later spotted him with Hirutani's gang attacking someone outside the American Club. After Jonouchi denied knowing Yugi and didn't react when one of the gangsters punched Yugi, Anzu told Jonouchi that he was the worst. Anzu tended to Yugi's injury later, while Honda told them about Jonouchi's past with Hirutani. The three agreed that Jonouchi wasn't back with Hirutani by choice and went after the gang. They spotted a member and Honda interrogated him into telling them that Hirutani forced Jonouchi to rejoin the gang by threatening to beat-up everyone in his class. The trio split-up to search for Jonouchi after finding out there had been a fight among the gang. Anzu and Honda later caught with Jonouchi after he had been rescued from the gang by Dark Yugi.

Yugi invited Anzu, Jonouchi and Honda to The Art of Egypt exhibition in Domino City Museum. Anzu worried Jonouchi, who was fearful of curses, by pointing out that Yugi's Millennium Puzzle, which was also from Egypt was said to be cursed as the archaeologists who uncovered it died mysterious deaths, according to Yugi's grandfather. At the exhibition, Anzu and her friends were shown around by Professor Yoshimori, who told them about the Weighing of the Heart after Anzu took interest in papyrus depicting it.

Yoshimori's friend Professor Kanekura died a sudden suspicious death on the day of the exhibition, leading Anzu and Jonouchi to accompany Yugi and his grandfather as they visited Yoshimori to cheer him up. Shadi, the man responsible for Kanekura's death was also looking to punish Yoshimori for taking treasures from the pharaoh's tomb. However seeking to challenge Dark Yugi, he "redecorated" Yoshimori's soul room and had him attack Yugi's friends. Anzu stopped Yoshimori from choking Jonouchi by walloping him in the head with a globe. Shadi entered Anzu's soul room in an attempt to coax Dark Yugi into taking control of Yugi. Inside he saw items that represented Anzu's dream of becoming a dancer in New York and a photo of a hero, whose face was blank. Shadi redecorated her soul to use her in a Shadow Game against Dark Yugi.

Anzu was suspended on a bridge of life supported by three ushebti, which break when a weakness is detected in Yugi's heart. A fourth ushebti, which breaks when a weakness is detected in Shadi's heart, held the Millennium Key. Yugi's ushetbi breaking would result in Anzu being sent to her death, while breaking Shadi's would slide the Millennium Key to Anzu and return her to normal.

Dark Yugi passed a series of tests Shadi threw at him, although he let three ushebti break in the process. The rope from the fourth began to break, but Jonouchi appeared under the bridge and held it up. From Jonouchi's action and how Dark Yugi passed the last test, Shadi was surprised by how the friends help and support each other, causing his ushetbi to break and return Anzu to normal. Yugi and Jonouchi helped Anzu back onto the building, after which Anzu and Jonouchi noticed Yugi had been acting different, but Dark Yugi relinquished control to Yugi when they approached him about this.

When Digital Pets became popular, Anzu got one which she called Peachy. She also lectured Kujirada on how he shouldn't disrespect other people's Digital Pets, because they aren't a hidden character, like his. Peachy later fells victim to Kujirada's pet after Kujirada swiped it from Anzu to feed it to his.

Death-T
Anzu was fired from Burger World, after she punched a customer, who touched her rear. She then got a job at Kaiba Land, where she had to work at the Stardust Shootout. While working here, she met Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda and Honda's baby nephew Johji, during Death-T and learned how Seto Kaiba was trying to kill Yugi in his theme park.

Honda got Anzu to mind Johji, who disliked the boys, but admired Anzu, in a perverted sense. Since Kaiba rigged the game, Yugi and his friends laser guns were duds. The staff were unaware that Anzu was their friend, so she had been given a functional gun. Using her gun and hiding Johji on his back, Honda was able to take out the remaining opposition. In exchange for Johji's help, Honda had promised him a bath with Anzu, which she outright refused.

Anzu and her friends enter the Horror Zone for Death T-2. Here they were greeted by Kaiba's butler, who took them to the Electric Chair Ride, which was to take them to the Murderer's Mansion. Anzu, Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda and the butler were strapped into electric chairs on the ride, while Johji sat on Anzu's lap. The butler controlled a series of terrors along the ride aimed at making the riders scream and if anyone screamed they would be electrocuted to death. At one part of the ride, mechanical hands came out of Anzu's chair and groped her body, bringing her close to screaming. Seeing the danger Anzu was in, Johji got off her lap, crawled back to the butler and defecated his lap, causing him to scream and get electrocuted. With the butler unable to control more terrors, the group arrived at the mansion safely.

Inside the Murderer's Mansion, as the group searched for an exit, they were greeted by a projection of Kaiba. He warned them that the serial killer, the Chopman, was in the mansion and pointed them to four holes in a wall. He explained that each hole had a button at the opposite side and in order to escape they would have to put their hands in the holes and press the right switch. Anzu, Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda did so, but then had their hands strapped in place and were shown that they were now strapped to a guillotine, whose blade would drop after five minutes or if the wrong button was pressed. Yugi managed to solve the bllood puzzle just in time and told Anzu to press her button, freeing their hands.

Before the group exited the mansion, Johji was taken captive by the Chopman, but Jonouchi saved him and the group moved on to Death T-3.

The gang entered an empty room. As nothing happened for a while, Anzu, Yugi, Honda and Jonouchi reflected on how their lives had changed by meeting each other. Anzu asked them to hold out their hands as she drew a smiley face on them. If they ended up taking separate paths in life, Anzu told them to remember the symbol and they would remember being friends.

When the stage's game, Rhythm Rock, started a number of blocks began to fall from the ceiling. Having studied dance patterns, Anzu noticed a rhythm to how the blocks were falling. With this, she was able to predict where the next blocks were about to fall and warn the others. As the room filled up with blocks, the gang climbed up on top of them and passed Johji, who had fallen asleep around. Anzu, Yugi, Jonouchi and Johji made it out through a hole in the wall high above the ground, but Honda got trapped in and was left behind.

Upset over what happened to Honda, Yugi admitted to Anzu and Jonouchi that he thought there was another Yugi inside him; Ever since he solved the Millennium Puzzle, there had been times when he blacked out and the other him took over. He had been afraid to tell his friends, as he feared they might leave him if they knew. However Anzu and Jonouchi promised that they would always be friends with Yugi.

Anzu knowingly saw Dark Yugi for the first time, as he prepared to face Mokuba in a game of Capsule Monster Chess in Death T-4. Jonouchi and Anzu were held there at gun point, during this stage. After Dark Yugi won, they were taken to the Dome Duel Arena to watch him face Kaiba in a game of Duel Monsters in Death T-5. During the Duel, Dark Yugi grew afraid that was going to lose, but then remembered the smiley face that Anzu had drawn. He imagined his friends being with him and was able to overcome his fear. As Anzu celebrated Dark Yugi's win, she wondered which Yugi she should be thinking won, but decided it did not matter and that Yugi is no longer the scared little boy he once was. Anzu, Jonouchi and Johji were still held at gunpoint, until Honda showed up and saved them with the help of Mokuba.

Before Mokuba left, Anzu asked him why Kaiba had planned this elaborate revenge and he told her how Kaiba had changed since they were adopted by Gozaburo Kaiba.

Post Death-T
After Anzu became aware of Dark Yugi's existence, she gave a Lovely Two love compatibility tester, to Yugi. Initially it got no reading, suggesting that they were not romantically compatible. That day, the teacher Tsuruoka confiscated Yugi's Lovely Two and called Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda unskilled slackers. Dark Yugi emerged and disagreed that they have skills, arguing that he had never lost a game. Tsuruoka then imposed a game, Find the Keyring!, where he hid the Lovely Two somewhere in the school and gave Yugi and his friends one hour to find it or face expulsion. Anzu became bashful, seeing the Dark Yugi out, but handed him her love tester, thinking it might be of some use. Dark Yugi brought her tester into close proximity of where he thought Yugi's was hidden and switched it on. Anzu closed her eyes and begged the Lovely Two to react. This time it worked, suggesting Anzu and Dark Yugi were compatible. The noise it made, exposed the location of Yugi's tester; under Tsuruoka's wig.

Anzu, Yugi and Honda sat in the studio audience when Jonouchi took part in the TV game show, The Get the Million Game.

During the summer vacation, Anzu invited Yugi to come to Domino Park. On the way, she was frustrated by Yugi being more interested in a newspaper than her. As they entered the park, Yugi tried asking Anzu if they were on a date, but was interrupted by the ticket attendant, who mistook him as being grade school age. Anzu suggested that they first go to pool. They went down a water slide together and Yugi blushed at the sight of her in a bikini. While sunbathing, Anzu looked at Yugi and thought he had changed into Dark Yugi. However as he chased after a boy who squirted him with a water gun, she realized that it was just her imagination, as the regular Yugi behaved like a child. As she wondered what she could do to make Dark Yugi appear, a boy tried hitting on her. Anzu then decided that Dark Yugi might appear if she made it look like she was in danger. So screamed for help, accusing the boy who was hitting on her of being a pervert. However a bunch of boys came over and started punching him before Yugi arrived. Anzu then grabbed Yugi's wrist and fled the scene.

Yugi and Anzu rode the roller coaster together and as they thought about what to ride next, they noticed the police were present. An evacuation of the park was ordered after a bomb scare. Anzu saw this as a chance to make Dark Yugi appear. She got separated from him in the crowd on got the ferris wheel, not knowing that the bomber had planted bombs in each car on it. Dark Yugi emerged and aided the police by playing a game of clock solitaire that the bomber had set up to determine which bombs would go off. Dark Yugi managed to end the game before any of the bombs in cars containing people were detonated. When Anzu got off the ride, she took Dark Yugi's arm and suggested that they get back to their date.

Sugoroku was showing the ancient Egyptian game, dogs and jackals to Anzu, Yugi and Jonouchi when Imori arrived at the store to inquire about a jar and box he had found sealed-up. Sugoroku explained that the Chinese game Dragon Cards was inside and warned not to break the seal, as it would cause yin and yang to clash, creating a warped power. Anzu confessed that hearing that made her want to break the seal.

Monster World
Anzu, along with Yugi, Honda and Jonouchi befriended Ryo Bakura the day he transferred to Domino High School. She learned about the tabletop role-playing game Monster World from Bakura and Yugi. Jonouchi then suggested that they all play Monster World the next day. However after school, Bakura warned them that people who have played games with him have mysteriously wound up in comas, so he advised against them playing with him. Bakura did not attend school the next day, so suspecting he was upset, Anzu, Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda went to his apartment to cheer him up. They hoped to play Monster World to prove that the coma incidents were just a coincidence. Unbeknownst to them, Bakura became possessed by Dark Bakura, who was happy to play with them and secretly turned the game into a Shadow Game.

Dark Bakura explained more of the rules to Monster World and helped the others create their character miniatures. Anzu's avatar was an elf magician, similar in appearance to her. She, Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda played the adventurers in the game, while Dark Bakura played the Dark Master.

The adventurers quickly discovered that he had little idea what to do in the game, so Anzu suggested that they go to the village to get information. Anzu was curious about how it sounded like the villagers were really talking and asked if there was a speaker in the diorama, but Yugi theorized that Bakura was throwing his voice. She became even more curious when Karita's miniature seemed to speak. The adventurers learned from the village that the area had been taken over and terrorized by the Dark Lord, Zorc. Deciding to try and defeat Zorc, they were given directions to his castle and advised to stay out of the forest.

Outside the village, the adventurers encountered Zorc disguised as a man, lying motionless on the ground. Not knowing who he was, Anzu felt sorry for him and suggested that they help him. Zorc acted afraid and claimed to have been attacked in the forest by monsters, who stole the holy sword, capable of defeating Zorc, that he had been delivering to the village hero. As the group contemplated helping him retrieve the sword, Anzu reminded them that they had been told to stay out of the village. The group finally decided to help him, but on entering the forest discovered that the rate of random enemy encounters had went up to 80%.

Dark Bakura needed to roll below 20 for the group to encounter monsters. With lower rolls resulting in stronger monsters, the 05 caused five strong monsters to appear before them. Honda defeated Beega, Yugi tamed Pokii and Anzu rolled a 00, which was a super critical hit, allowing her to use top level magic and destroy the three remaining monsters at once.

Zorc transformed into his true form and revealed that he had deceived the adventurers. Dark Bakura rolled a super critical for Zorc, allowing him to use his "Mind Doll" ability to seal Anzu's soul in her miniature. In the next round of turns, Jonouchi, Honda and Yugi each became sealed in their miniatures too, leaving Dark Yugi to roll for the four of them.

Dark Yugi got Honda to shoot off Zorc's left hand, which mutated into monsters. Zorc retreated to his castle, while his offspring battled the adventurers. After the battle, the adventurers followed Zorc to his castle, where they quickly got trapped inside a tower, with the ceiling dropped on their heads. In order to escape the needed to complete a support pillar before their bodies shattered under the pressure. Zorc also attacked the adventurers while they were defenseless. Dark Yugi managed to complete the pillar in time for the adventurers to dodge a second attack from Zorc.

Having caught Zorc off guard, the adventurers won initiative. By channeling their anger into the dice, Dark Yugi rolled low numbers, allowing the adventurers to use powerful attacks. However due to Zorc's high level, this had little effect on him. Dark Bakura rolled a super critical using brainwashed dice. Zorc then attacked the adventurers with an attack that should reduce their HP to 0. However Ryo Bakura, who had taken control of Dark Bakura's left hand after Zorc's amputation, recalculated the damage, so that the adventurers each had 1 HP.

On Anzu's next turn, she healed the party. Dark Bakura claimed it did not matter, as Zorc's next attack would still destroy them. However Bakura took his next roll, causing him to roll a fumble, making Zorc's attack backfire. Dark Bakura's reaction led Anzu and her friends to believe he was not the Bakura they had befriended earlier. Yugi then extracted that Bakura's avatar, the White Wizard Bakura from Zorc's wounded wrist.

Wizard Bakura aided the party in battling Zorc. When the party were on low HP, he advised Anzu against healing them again, insisting it would not be enough and they needed to defeat Zorc quickly. Anzu and Last Zorc tied for initiative on the final turn. Dark Yugi and Dark Bakura both rolled super criticals, but Bakura managed to destroy Dark Bakura's dice, letting Anzu attack and defeat Zorc.

After the game, Anzu and her friends were returned to normal.

Duelist Kingdom
Anzu took up playing Duel Monsters and defeated Jonouchi in a Duel at school. Later that day, the two of them went to Yugi's house to watch the final of the Japanese National Duel Monsters Championship. Afterwards they watched a videotape, Maximillion J. Pegasus sent Yugi.

Pegasus was able to Duel Dark Yugi from the tape, despite claiming to be a prerecording. Dark Yugi suspected Pegasus was using subliminal messaging to tell him what cards to play, so he checked to see if Anzu, Jonouchi and Sugoroku were affected too, by asking them to guess what card he played. Anzu and Suguroku both guessed something skeleton-like, which was what Dark Yugi's instinct had told him. When Dark Yugi lost the Duel, Anzu witnessed Suguroku's soul being sucked from his body into the videotape.

At school the next day, Anzu, Yugi and Jonouchi told Honda and Bakura what Pegasus had done. From their conversation, she was alarmed to learn that Bakura still carried the Millennium Ring around in his bag. After school, the group went to Yugi's house to watch a videotape, Jonouchi had been mailed. Before watching it, Yugi showed them the invitation to the Duelist Kingdom tournament, he had received in the mail from Pegasus. They feared Jonouchi's tape was sent by Pegasus, but it turned out to be self-recording of Jonouchi's sister, Shizuka Kawai. Anzu was previously unaware that Jonouchi had a sister, and sympathized on learning that she was going blind.

Yugi and Jonouchi both entered the Duelist Kingdom tournament, to save Sugoroku and use the prize money to fund an eye operation for Shizuka. They were accompanied by Anzu, Honda and Bakura. At Domino Pier, Anzu was disgusted by Mai Kujaku, who patronized Yugi, yet easily won the approval of Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda, who were charmed by her femininity. On the boat ride, Anzu spent the night on the common room floor, with her companions.

When the ship arrived at the Duelist Kingdom island, Anzu, Honda and Bakura stuck with Yugi and Jonouchi, despite not being contestants in the tournament. The group watched Dark Yugi Duel and defeat Insector Haga. During the Duel, Mai's analysis greatly annoyed Anzu. Mai also mocked Yugi's friends cheering, saying it made no difference, despite Anzu's claims that Dark Yugi would hear their feelings and win.

Jonouchi was later challenged to a Duel by Mai. Knowing that Mai was a more skilled player, Anzu tried to talk Jonouchi out of accepting and pleaded with Dark Yugi to do the same. However Jonouchi and Dark Yugi both thought he should accept. Mai dominated the first few turns of the Duel and challenged Anzu to prove what she said earlier about helping a Duelist win by letting them hear their friends feelings. She said that that kind of thing was useless and Duelists could only trust themselves. Anzu began to sob in frustration. However Dark Yugi reminding Jonouchi of the "something you can show, but can't see" riddle, led to Jonouchi discovering Mai's Aroma Tactics, which was shortly followed by his victory.

As Anzu and her friends got hungry, Jonouchi blamed Anzu, saying she should have prepared food, since she's the girl. Anzu warned him about being sexist and called Pegasus cheap for not supplying food. Jonouchi found fish left unattended by a fire and proceeded to take it, despite Anzu's objection that he was stealing. Regardless, Anzu and the others sat with him to eat the fish. They were told off by the owner of the fish, Ryota Kajiki, who unbeknown to them had left the fish as bait for Duelists. Kajiki shared the food with them and told them how he had entered the tournament to buy a new boat. He Dueled and lost to Dark Yugi afterwards. The group held no hard feelings towards Kajiki and Anzu guessed that all the participants came to the island with hopes and dreams.

Anzu and her friends stumbled upon a participant being forced to leave the island by Saruwatari for losing all his Star Chips, despite his claim that they were stolen. The group searched for the thief in a futile attempt to help the victim. After the victim had been evicted, they met the thief, Mokuba Kaiba, who then tried to steal Yugi's Star Chips. In contrast to Jonouchi, Anzu spoke politely to Mokuba and got him to explain how Pegasus needed to defeat Yugi in an official Duel as part of a plan to take over KaibaCorp. He thought that stealing Yugi's Star Chips would get him disqualified, before Pegasus could defeat him. Mokuba explained that Seto Kaiba had good intentions, despite what he did during Death-T. Anzu told Mokuba that she believed him and asked him to believe in Yugi, when he said he could defeat Pegasus. Mokuba reluctantly agreed and was about to return the two Star Chips he managed to take before Saruwatari appeared and forbid the transaction.

During the Duel between Dark Yugi and the Ventriloquist of the Dead, Anzu correctly noted how Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" seemed to refuse to attack, but Jonouchi told her she was being unintelligent. Before the Duel ended, Saruwatari kidnapped Mokuba without Anzu or her friends noticing.

Anzu liked how it felt to have the other competitors afraid of Dark Yugi's presence, as Jonouchi struggled to find an opponent. Eventually, they were approached by Mai, who had arranged for Dinosaur Ryuzaki to Duel Jonouchi. Anzu was annoyed by Mai constantly targeting Jonouchi and was surprised by Jonouchi's decision to Duel without help from Dark Yugi. Jonouchi was easily overpowered by Ryuzaki initially, prompting Anzu to plead with Yugi to help him, as Shizuka would go blind if he lost. However Dark Yugi convinced Yugi that they should not interfere. As Mai belittled Jonouchi, Anzu reminded her that he had beaten her, but Mai said that he cheated, as anyone could win if Yugi helped them. The two girls then exchanged intense glares. When Jonouchi won, Mai accidentally cheered for him and let out an "oops" as Anzu spotted her.

During the night, Anzu and her friends found a spot in the forest to sleep, without anything to eat, contrary to Anzu's expectations of the island being a resort. They were soon approached by Mai, who proposed a ceasefire for the night and shared her supplies. As Mai ordered the boys to prepare the food, she noticed how Yugi was a completely different person than earlier, when he had been controlled by Dark Yugi. Anzu pointed out that this was similar to Mai's behavior shift and asked why she was suddenly being nice. Although Mai was unsure what changed her, she lied that it was because she was a woman and her Duelist makeup does not last 24 hours. As Mai allowed Anzu to use her portable shower, Anzu thought about how she had misjudged Mai and wondered if all Duelists had two sides to them. While the group ate their food, Mai explained that despite their current friendship, they would be enemies in the next day.

Mai suggested that Anzu stay with her in the tent that night, as she had heard rumors about a strange man lurking in the area. Mai told Anzu about her past as a casino dealer and accused Anzu of having a crush on Yugi. Anzu blushed and tried to deny it, but Mai was unconvinced. Mai had previously told Yugi that Anzu wanted to meet him at the cliff to tell him something. She told Anzu and sent her to the cliff, advising her that in any game, girls always have the advantage at night. Anzu spoke with Yugi about when they first met. Yugi got the impression that Anzu wanted to be with Dark Yugi and prepared to switch control. However Anzu stopped him and and said it was okay; he was still Yugi regardless of which "side" is showing and was find the way he is. The two held hands for a brief moment, before being interrupted by the sound of Mai screaming.

Anzu and Yugi rushed to a Battle Box, where Mai had just been defeated by the Player Killer of Darkness. Yugi switched to Dark Yugi and Anzu and Mai watched him defeat the Player Killer, winning back Mai's Star Chips. When Mai initially refused to take back the Star Chips and prepared to accept disqualification, Anzu reminded her that she would lose her chance to fulfill her dream of Dueling Yugi.

Anzu and her friends were woken during the night by the sound of Kaiba's helicopter landing on the island. Anzu was surprised to see Kaiba out of his coma and watched him Duel Jonouchi, who was mad about what Kaiba had done during Death-T. When Kaiba defeated and mocked Jonouchi, Anzu told him off, saying that he was in no position to judge, as he did not know what Jonouchi had been through or what he was fighting for. She comforted Yugi, who felt betrayed, having believed Kaiba had changed.

At some point, Anzu told Mai about Jonouchi participating to save Shizuka's eyesight.

When Anzu woke up the next morning, Mai had already left and left behind supplies for Anzu and her friends.

Jonouchi got separated from the group and was forced into a Duel with Ghost Kozuka. Anzu and Yugi searched the forest for Jonouchi, while Bakura and Honda searched the Battle Boxes,, until Dark Yugi saw a vision of Jonouchi underground. The group found Jonouchi in a cave and congratulated him on winning the Duel. Before they managed to leave, Bandit Keith got Kozuka, Takaido and Satake. to block the exit with a boulder.

Anzu and her friends found their way to the Meikyû Brothers' dungeon, where Dark Yugi and Jonouchi had to Team Duel against the brothers in order to leave the underground. Dark Yugi and Jonouchi won, earning each of them enough Star Chips to enter the finals. However they still needed to answer the brothers' riddle in order to exit or be trapped. Anzu, Jonouchi, Honda and Bakura searched the area for clues. Dark Yugi, with help from Dark Bakura, whom everyone believed to be Bakura, managed to correctly answer the riddle, allowing the group to return to the surface.

The exit from the dungeon took them to the front of Pegasus Castle, where Kaiba stood waiting for Yugi at the entrance. Anzu unsuccessfully tried talking Dark Yugi out of accepting a Duel from Kaiba, as he could risk losing his spot in the finals. On the verge of defeat, Kaiba threatened to step over the edge of the tower if he lost. Dark Yugi tried to attack, but was stopped by Yugi, who threw the Duel. Yugi wept afterwards, but Anzu tried to comfort him, saying he had done the right thing. When Kaiba accused Yugi of showing weakness, Anzu told him off and said that he had been the one who showed weakness by betting his life as if it had little meaning and being afraid to continue living if he lost.

Anzu and her friends prepared to find an opponent for Yugi to requalify for the finals. Saruwatari warned them that it was too late, but Mai arrived with six excessive Star Chips, which she offered Yugi to repay him for winning back her Star Chips earlier. Anzu and the others encouraged Yugi to take them, although he was reluctant at first. Mai, Yugi and Jonouchi entered the castle, but Saruwatari refused to let Anzu, Honda and Bakura enter as they were not participants. However Jonouchi knocked him unconscious and they all entered.

Inside the castle, Anzu, her friends and Keith watched a Duel between Kaiba and Pegasus, resulting in Kaiba's soul being sealed in a "Soul Prison" card.

During a dinner party, arranged for the finalists, Dark Yugi directed Anzu and their friends attention to a portrait of Shadi. Anzu told Bakura that she nearly died when they met Shadi before and told him about the Millennium Key's power. Anzu noticed the portrait of Cyndia next Shadi's and wondered who she was.

During the night, Anzu came out of her room after she heard noise from Keith intruding on Jonouchi. She used a first aid kit to treat Yugi, who had been punched by Keith. Yugi admitted to her that he was embarrassed by always being helped by people, including her, Jonouchi and Dark Yugi. He disagreed with what she had said earlier about him being fine the way he is, as he was unable to protect people that way and vowed to become stronger.

In the morning, Anzu and Jonouchi watched Dark Yugi and Mai's Duel. Anzu noticed how Dark Yugi seemed impatient during the Duel and noticed that Mai was not trying to provoke him, but get him to perform at his proper ability. As Mai overwhelmed Dark Yugi, Anzu thought that she seemed much stronger than when she Dueled Jonouchi, but Mai disagreed saying Jonouchi had won by accepting and overcoming his weakness. As Dark Yugi struggled with Mai's "Harpy Lady" and "Shadow of Eyes" pheromone combo, Anzu's comment on the harpies being sleazy caused him to reminded him that monsters of the same sex would be unaffected by the pheromones. She congratulated Dark Yugi when he won.

Before Jonouchi and Keith's Duel, Jonouchi was faced with disqualification unless he could find his "The Honor of the King's Right" in five minutes, not knowing Keith had stolen it. Anzu protested that he would not be able to make it to his room and back in that time. She also got mad at Keith for accusing Jonouchi of being afraid to Duel him. However Jonouchi returned after Mai gave him her card. After he won, Jonouchi thanked Anzu and Dark Yugi saying that he could not have done it without them.

Anzu asked Dark Yugi and Jonouchi if they would have to Duel each other in the finals now, but Dark Yugi deemed it unnecessary as they would only expose more of their tactics to Pegasus. Honda and Bakura then showed up, having spent the night searching for Mokuba's soulless body. Anzu, Jonouchi, Bakura and Honda then watched the Duel between the Yugis and Pegasus.

The nature of the Shadow Game caused Yugi to collapse and Pegasus to state his soul had died. However Dark Yugi took over and Anzu explained to the others that Yugi had not died, which she figured because Yugi had told her before that as long as one of his souls lived the other would live too. No longer able to perform his Mind Shuffle, Dark Yugi became vulnerable to Pegasus' Mind Scannig power. However an apparition of Anzu, Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda and Bakura soon appeared, blocking Pegasus' view of Dark Yugi's mind. Yugi regained his consciousness at the end of the Duel and credited their success to Anzu and the others lending their hearts.

When Pegasus released the souls of he had trapped, Anzu noticed Sugoroku disappear from the camcorder. As Pegasus told Dark Yugi and his friends how he came into possession of the Millennium Eye, he mentioned that the Millennium Items possess an evil intelligence. Anzu realized that that was difficult for Dark Yugi, who came from a Millennium Item, to hear. She theorized that he refrained from giving Pegasus a Penalty Game as he did not want to succumb to that claim. She and her friends visited Mokuba as he regained his soul. Anzu assured him that KaibaCorp was safe and as they searched for his brother, Kaiba, she told Jonouchi off for joking that his soul might have went to Heaven. Once the brothers were reunited, Anzu realized that Mokuba was the final piece Kaiba needed to complete the puzzle of his heart. She also wondered where Bakura had went, no knowing Dark Bakura had taken control for the murder of Pegasus. After Bakura returned, Mokuba talked Kaiba into giving everyone a lift home on their helicopter.

Dungeon Dice Monsters
Anzu stopped by Yugi's house one morning and Yugi made sure that they went by the soon-to-be-opened Black Clown store on their way to school. Anzu became creeped out by Mr. Clown, who tried giving her a balloon there and had to drag Yugi away so they would not be late.

At school Yugi and Anzu told Jonouchi, Honda and Bakura about the Black Clown. Jonouchi had already heard about it from a newspaper flier, which Anzu mistook as implying his family managing to afford a newspaper subscription, when he had in fact delivered the paper. On the subject of his finances, Jonouchi told the others that Shizuka's vision was going to be fully restored thanks to the money won in Duelist Kingdom.

The group became distracted by their new classmate Ryugi Otogi, who was impressing girls with dice tricks. Anzu noted Jonouchi's jealously and sighed as he bragged to Ryuji about his success in Duel Monsters, shortly after saying he was not one to show off his talents. She watched Jonouchi become swindled into obeying Ryuji for two weeks only to have Dark Yugi win back his freedom, all through dice in cup and four aces bets.

The next day, Yugi, Anzu and Bakura queued up for the grand opening of the Black Clown. When Jonouchi arrived late, she told him to go to the back of the line, but to no avail. Yugi asked his friends not to mention that he was shopping in a rival store and belittled Sugoroku's taste in gaming. The three of them however looked at him speechless as they could see Sugoroku behind him. Yugi got separated from the others inside the shop. After they failed to get help in finding him from a security guard, Sugoroku suggested that they go back to Kame Game and wait for Yugi.

Honda later met Anzu, Jonouchi and Sugoroku at Kame Game and told them that he had seen Dark Bakura enter the Black Clown, which had closed for the day. Worried that something bad was happening, they went back to the store to look for Yugi again. Inside they found two security guards rendered unconscious. By the time they found Bakura, he was not possessed by Dark Bakura. He was with Ryuji outside a room that had caught fire after Mr. Clown dragged Yugi inside. The group forced open the door, but were unable to convince Yugi to leave. The disassembled Millennium Puzzle had been chained to a table and he wanted to recomplete, so he could speak to Dark Yugi before the puzzle got destroyed. Jonouchi got everyone else to leave, while Yugi finished the puzzle and he carried him out afterwards.

Memory World
Anzu and her friends prepare for Dark Yugi, the Pharaoh, to finally regain his memories. Anzu worries that if the Pharaoh regains his memory, he might lose his memory of them, but Yami assures her he could never forget them.

Anzu, Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda and Bakura meet Bobasa at the museum, who will take them to the world of the Pharaoh's memory. Before they leave, Anzu goes to the gift shop to find something to give to the Pharaoh. She bought him a cartouche pendant, which he can use to put his real name on, once he learns it.

At the Millennium Tablet, the Pharaoh is sucked into the world of his memories. Anzu gets a shock and is greatly upset when Yugi reports that the Pharaoh is no longer inside him and scared after she hears its possible he could be returning to a death. The friends agree that they want to accompany the Pharaoh in the Memory World, so Bobasa transports them inside Yugi's heart using the Millennium Key. Inside is the same labyrinth of stairways and doors, that Shadi found when he entered. Here they must find the Pharaoh's true soul room, in order to venture to his Memory World.

Games
Anzu participated in the following games.