Yo-kai Girl
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Yo-kai Girl[1] (
Design
Appearance
As suggested by the name, they are spirit-like little girls, wearing robes that look like typically far-east traditional clothing.
Etymology
In the OCG, each card has a name with a double meaning. For example, the Japanese name of "Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit" (幽鬼うさぎ Yuki Usagi) literally means "Ghost Ogre Rabbit" but is pronounced the same way as "Snow Rabbit" (雪兎 Yuki Usagi). The English names consist of both meanings.
Yo-kai Girl | First Meaning | Second Meaning | Booster Pack | |
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English | Japanese | |||
Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit | Yuki Usagi | Ghost Ogre | Snow Rabbit | CROS |
Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries | Fuyu Sakura | Drifting Ghost | Winter Cherry Blossom | SHVI |
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring | Haru Urara | Ash Current | Spring Splendor | MACR |
Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion | Yashiki Warashi | Mansion Girl | Zashiki-warashi | FLOD |
Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood | Hanamizuki | Hanami | Dogwood shrub | DANE |
Evening Crescent & Autumn Shower | Sayo Shigure | New moon | "Shigure" means "drizzle" and can also refer to the frequent showers in late autumn or early winter | ETCO |
Playing style
The members of this series are hand traps. Each member was designed to counter a specific kind of action, ranging from the mere activation of a face-up card's effect to preventing an OTK; also, they can be effective countermeasures against decisive actions to many strategies, like searching a card or Special Summoning from the Graveyard. Each of them interacts with a different place/feature of the game mechanic, as highlighted below:
Monster | Attribute | Effect |
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Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit | LIGHT |
Destroys a face-up card on the field whose effect has been activated. |
Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries | DARK |
Banishes all copies of a monster from the opponent's Extra Deck, after a copy of that monster has been revealed from its owner's Extra Deck. |
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring | FIRE |
Negates an effect that would either add a card from the Main Deck to the hand, Special Summon a monster from the Main Deck and/or send a card from the Main Deck to the Graveyard. |
Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion | EARTH |
Negates the activation of an effect that would move a card out of the Graveyard (except effects that place Spell/Trap Cards onto the field). |
Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood | WATER |
Each time the opponent Special Summons an Effect Monster during the Main Phase or Battle Phase, the player gains LP equal to that monster's ATK. |
Ghost Mourner & Moonlit Chill | WIND |
If the opponent Special Summons a monster(s) face up, one of those monster's effects is negated, and if that monster leaves the field, its controller takes damage equal to its original ATK. |