Gender

Throughout the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, the gender of Monster Cards has occasionally seen relevance as an element of gameplay. This page does not discuss gender as it relates to non-card characters.

Manga and anime

"Shadow of Eyes"

In the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, the card "Shadow of Eyes" enabled the selected monster to use pheromones to tempt their enemies, forcing them into Attack Position. Character dialogue and usage clarifies that the card only affects monsters of the opposite sex to the selected monster. The card was only demonstrated to be used on female monsters to force male monsters into Attack Position.

• The only female monster it was shown to affect was "Harpy Lady".
• Male monsters it was shown to affect include "Dark Magician", "Kuriboh", "Gaia the Fierce Knight", "Griffor", and "Celtic Guardian".
• "Mystical Elf" was shown to be unaffected when the card was used on "Harpy Lady", as it is also a female monster.

In the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, "Shadow of Eyes" worked the same way.

"No. 22: Zombiestein"

In the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL manga, "No. 22: Zombiestein" has an effect which prevents it from attacking female monsters, which made it stop its attack against "Gagaga Girl".

Video games

"Cyber Shield", "Electro-whip", and "Malevolent Nuzzler"

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 1 to 4, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses, "Cyber Shield" can only be equipped to female monsters. As each game adds new cards, the number of cards "Cyber Shield" works with increases. No game updates existing cards to change whether or not they can be used with "Cyber Shield".

"Electro-whip" and "Malevolent Nuzzler" can be used with female and certain other monsters. Both of these cards' viable targets include all of the targets for "Cyber Shield", plus more.

Viable targets for "Cyber Shield" across the six games include:

• Mystical Elf
• Harpie Lady
• Harpie Lady Sister
• Gyakutenno Megami
• Spirit of the Wind
• All-seeing Goddess
• LaMoon
• Nemuriko
• Spirit of the Harp
• Arlownay
• Key Mace
• Dryad
• Beautiful Headhunt
• Vishwar Randi
• Water Element
• Water Omotics
• Enchanting Mermaid
• Angelwitch
• Lunar Queen Elzaim
• Princess of Tsurug
• Protector of the T
• Sonic Maid
• Dancing Elf
• Magician of Faith
• Goddess of Whim
• Water Magician
• Ice Water
• Waterdragon Fairy
• Ancient Elf
• Beautiful Beast Tr
• Water Girl
• Rainbow Marine Mer
• Eldeen
• Mystical Sand
• Gemini Elf
• Dark Elf
• Empress Judge
• Witch of the Black
• Dark Witch
• Muse-A
• Key Mace #2
• Lady of Faith
• Warrior of Traditi
• Succubus Knight
• Ill Witch
• Fairy of the Fount
• Amazon of the Seas
• Nekogal #2
• Witch's Apprentice
• Maiden of the Moon
• Queen's Double
• Queen of Autumn Le
• Invader of the Thr
• Hibikime
• Performance of Swo
• Cosmo Queen
• Red Archery Girl
• Toon Mermaid
• D. Magician Girl
• The Unhappy Maiden
• Leopard Girl
• Dunames Dark Witch
• Robolady
• Nuvia the Wicked
• Spherus Lady
• Light Law Medium

Fusions

See also: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories fusion groups § Female

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 1 to 4, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses, there are multiple ways of fusing the same card. Each combination consists of two pools, where any card from the first pool can be fused with any card from the second.

The following have at least one pool of entirely female cards, with a lower ATK than the Fusion Monster:

• Ice Water
• Mystical Sand
• Dark Witch
• Amazon of the Seas
• Nekogal #2
• Queen of Autumn Leaves

The female monster fusion group consists of all the targets for "Cyber Shield", with a few modifications:

• "Mystical Sand", "Empress Judge", and "Cosmo Queen" are excluded because their ATK is equal or higher than all female Fusion Monsters.
• "Spirit of the Winds", "Spirit of the Harp", and "Performance of Sword" are excluded
• "Nekogal #1", "Kanan the Swordmistress", "Fairy's Gift", and "Rose Spectre of Dunn" are included. All of these can be equipped with "Malevolent Nuzzler". All of them, bar "Rose Spectre of Dunn" can be equipped with "Electro-whip".

TCG

Although gender has no direct effect on gameplay, the gender of monsters can influence how archetype support is written in most printed TCG languages that feature grammatical gender (i.e. all of them other than English).

To account for gender and other grammatical inflections (such as grammatical number) causing cards in the same archetype to not use the exact same letters in the name of the archetype in their card name, occasionally archetype support cards specify multiple inflections at once (e.g. "Mágico(a)" in Portuguese or "Mágico/a" in Spanish) to clarify that all of those inflections are supported.

The exception to this is the Italian print, for which archetype support does not include multiple inflections. Name strings like these are usually written in singular masculine (unless the majority of the members are female, e.g. "Charmer", or the name is always plural), without specifically mentioning other inflections of the same words. Cards using other inflections of the written archetype name are implicitly supported, without the need for the different inflections to be explicitly specified.