Maico Kato
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| Occupation | Card Professor | ||||||
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| Manga debut | Yu-Gi-Oh! R Duel Round 8: "Dweller in the Dark!!" | ||||||
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Maico Kato is on of the Card Professors hired by Yako Tenma in Yu-Gi-Oh! R. She is the sixth card professor encountered, Dueling and defeated by Dark Yugi. She is confined to a wheelchair, which contains her fold-out Duel Disk.
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Appearance[edit]
Maico is an eldery woman with round glasses, a thin face, and white hair pulled back behind her head. She wears a long skirt that completely covers her legs, a shawl of a similar color, a bound top, and a small diamond-shaped hat. Her wheelchair has thick sides and slightly raised dome shapes that serve as the wheels; the right side conceals her Duel Disk.
Personality[edit]
True to her appearance, Maico acts like a kindly grandmother when encountered by Yugi. She speaks about her grandchildren a lot, even saying that when she beats Yugi, she'll be sure to buy them lots of toys. Like the other Card Professors, she is fairly confident in her own abilities as a Duelist. Still, she is shown to be very respectful to Yugi, in the end saying she enjoyed their Duel.
Biography[edit]
History[edit]
Maico's grandchildren are huge fans of Duel Monsters, and taught her to play at some point in the past.
At another unknown point, Maico joined the Card Professor mercenary group, and like the others, is hired by Tenma to stop Yugi's ascent of the KaibaCorp main building.
Yu-Gi-Oh! R[edit]
Maico first appears sipping tea, anticipating Yugi's arrival. He then comes across her after being unable to unlock the next door, and mistakes her for a kindly old woman. Yugi is quick asks her if she's seen a man with a Duel Disk on anywhere nearby, but she says she hasn't, and asks Yugi if he's looking for someone to Duel. She quickly reveals that she's a card professor, and says that the only way that Yugi can go on is to Duel her. She reveals her special Duel Disk, one that's implemented into her wheelchair and then Duels Dark Yugi.
Maico's "Deep Forest" strategy quickly pushes Dark Yugi into a corner. He attempts to use this strategy against her with his "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts", but she bypasses "Gazelle" with "Chameleon Colors", allowing her "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest" to attack him directly. Yugi then attempted to destroy her "Deep Forest" with "Flames of the Archfiend", but Maico believed she had seen through his strategy. She countered with "De-Spell", but to her shock, Dark Yugi used his own "De-Spell" to negate hers, allowing his "Flames of the Archfiend" to go through and both destroy her "Forest", damage their Life Points, and weaken "Green Baboon" enough for "Archfiend of Gilfer" to destroy.
After the Duel, Maico congratulated Yugi. She watched silently as Yugi ran off to Duel a possessed Gekko Tenma, thinking that they call him the "Perfect Duelist". After Yugi defeats Yako, she and Reiko Kitamori meet Yugi and his friends outside the KaibaCorp building and bid them goodbye.
Deck[edit]
Maico plays a Forest-themed Beast Deck. She uses the effect of her "Deep Forest" Field Spell Card to hide her Level 4 and lower monsters from enemy attack and, when things don't go her way, she can Summon "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest" as a last resort against an opponent.
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"Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest" (「 |
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"Leprechaun" (「レプラカーン」 Repurakān) |
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"Chameleon Colors" (「カメレオン・カラード」 Kamereon Karādo) |
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"Deep Forest" (「 |
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"De-Spell" (「 |
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"Poison Crossbow" (「ポイズンボーガン」 Poizun Bōgan) |
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Duels[edit]
| Opponent(s) | Chapter(s) | Outcome |
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| Dark Yugi | 8 | Lose |
Trivia[edit]
- Maico's Duel Disk is similar in appearance to the one used by Jack Atlas.
