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“ | Your mentality hits different when you manipulate everything. | „ |
~ Yuuichi Katagiri |
“ | I'm ready to do whatever it takes to win! | „ |
~ Yuuichi Katagiri |
Yuuichi Katagiri is the main protagonist of the suspense manga and anime series Tomodachi Game. He is a teenage high school student that got involved as one of the player of the game that involves in paying debts. Outside, he lives by himself and works in a part time job. He was later on revealed to be the creator of the game that got him and his friend involved in Tomodachi Game.
He is voiced by Chiaki Kobayashi in Japanese and by David Matranga in English.
Appearance[]
Yuuichi is a teenager of above average height coming in at about 5'9" (175 cm) with messy dark hair that mostly arrives at his black eyes. He usually wears his high school uniform being an dark colored untied jacket with white shirt inside and black pants. As his younger self, he had shorter hair before having longer band. He also has very sharp features.
Personality[]
He initially appeared to be a ordinary and hardworking teenager who displayed a friendly and caring nature. Having his mother advised him that “friends are more important than anything” he cared a lot about his classmates. With his promise with his friends that they would go on a field trip together, led him to work hard for it. Furthermore he has shown to do any actions at all cost to protect his friends. Throughout the first round of the game, Yuichi becomes more and more frustrated to think if there was a traitor among his friends as the answers they chose to be continually wrong. However until the fifth and last question of the game, he suddendly switched to his arrogant side, breaking the rule of the game by asking arrogantly what are the color of Sawaragi’s underwear with the simple reason to break the rule in order for the rest of the group to gain the same amount of debt before reverting back to his friendly side jokingly telling them it was a jest. He sometimes easily gets flustered such as when Sawaragi revealed her feelings to him and gets embarrassed when Manabu red that sometime in the past he didn’t take a bath for a week. However as the progression of the story goes on, Yuuichi begins to display a more twisted and dark side of him. Similar to Tenji little by little he becomes selfish and shows no remorse on betraying his friends only thinking for himself and win.
Abilities[]
- Master Manipulator: Yuuichi displayed extremely high intelligences that ranks him as one of the smartest character within the entire story. Although not academically smart and admitting to have lower cognitive intelligence than Tenji and Kei, his actions of manipulation displayed often intentionally makes others believe that he is inferior to them, giving them a superior status than him with him in reality having everything in control without them realizing it.
- Genius Level Intelligence: While Yuuichi claims that Kei is better at cognitive skills than he is it doesn't mean that Yuuichi has a low IQ. Yuuichi lacks book smarts but backs it up with insane levels of practical knowledge and reasoning skills. He often comes of as irrational but he always has an intended purpose behind his actions. As said in the manga a lot of times, Yuuichi is a person who doesn't do things without meaning. His IQ is estimated to be around 145-150 but his real intellectual abilities have been hindered largely due to lack of training.
- Physical Strength and Combat Abilities: Yuuichi is an excellent fighter and has been shown to do really in short scraps. He also is quick, agile and is fast enough to beat out two seasoned athletes who were at the time playing for a nationally recognized team. He also has insane levels of pain tolerance and great endurance. His physical strength is also not to be underestimated.
- Intuition and Predictions: Yuuichi has great social intuition but he also has great intuition in general. His intuitive capabilities is also something that has been highlighted throughout the series. He also has the ability to make scarily accurate predictions to the point where he is even thought of as a psychic.
- Deception and Acting skills: Deceiving people is also one of Yuuichi's strong points. He has made himself look vulnerable many times to get an advantage. He has been able to achieve this also because of his excellent acting skills. Yuuichi excels in making people believe what they want to believe by playing to their insecurities. This ultimately pays to his advantage and he ends up winning in the end.
- Planning: He is a master of intricate planning. During the entirety of the final game, he predicted the outcome from the very beginning all from the plans he set up. His brilliant Foresight from the very start of the Tomodachi games allowed him to find out the Boss and set up the outcome that he desired. He is also very good at making quick adjustments and coming up with strategies and plans very quickly. This quick thinking has helped him a lot of times throughout the series.
External Links[]
- Yuuichi Katagiri on the Heroes Wiki
- Yuuichi Katagiri on the Tomodachi Game Wiki
- Yuuichi Katagiri on the VS Battles Wiki
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Yuuichi Katagiri | Tenji Mikasa | Kuroki |