Johan Andersen

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Johan Andersen
Appears in	Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) GX
Debut	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Episode 106
Birthday	Unknown
Deck	Rainbow
Sign	Unknown
Age	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Blood type	Unknown
Favorite food	Unknown
Least favorite food	Unknown
Status at debut	Exchange student from North Academy
Relations	Unknown
Seiyū	Kanako Irie
Voice actor(s)	Not yet applicable

Johan Andersen (ヨハン・アンデルサン, Yohan Anderusan^?) is a fictional character in the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX in Japan). In the Japanese version, Johan is voiced by Kanako Irie.

[edit] Fictional character biography

Johan Andersen is a new student hailing from North Academy (North School) who enters Duel Academy (Duel Academia) in the third year. Invited along with his fellow overseas champions from around the world by Sheppard (Samejima), he was most secretive of his identity, even with those he was supposed to be traveling with. Although he did not board the ship that was to take the champions to their final destination, Amon Garam expected that Johan would appear once they reached Duel Academy. He was known simply as a "ghost" or the "mystery man" until officially introduced during the school's year-opening ceremony.^[1]

Similar to Jaden Yuki (Judai Yuki), Johan has possessed the ability to communicate with Duel Monster spirits since he was a child. His spirit partner is Ruby Carbuncle, whom he affectionately nicknames "Ruby". Although Ruby is seen most frequently by his side, Johan considers all his monsters a part of his "family," for they themselves selected him as their master.

He is chosen by Professor Cobra to duel Jaden in the first exhibition match of the third year, and the two are unknowingly fitted with Dis-Belts. As the battle progresses, Johan reveals the name of the most powerful Gem Beast: Rainbow Dragon. Defeated by Jaden, he confesses that Rainbow Dragon has not yet been made into a card by Industrial Illusions, and that he wishes to find the Roman lithograph from which the concept of his Gem Beasts was derived in order for Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford) to finally create it.

After being drawn into an alternate dimension, Johan and the rest of Duel Academy are contacted by Dr. Eisenstein (Dr. Albert Zweinstein), who tells them that the lithograph has finally been found. Securing the lithograph's excavation site, Pegasus has the Rainbow Dragon card made and sent to the other world via a Duel Energy-powered wormhole, opened in a battle between Johan and Zane Truesdale (Ryo Marufuji).^[2] With the card finally in his possession, Johan joins Jaden in a Duel against a possessed Martin Kanou, and with its power ultimately returns Duel Academy to its proper place.^[3]

[edit] Deck

Johan plays a Rainbow deck, composed of legendary Gem Beast (宝玉獣, Hōgyokujū^?) monsters based on seven precious gemstones collected from around the globe for the construction of a lithograph as evidence of Julius Caesar's reign during the time of the Roman Empire. On its return trip, the ship carrying the stones was battered by a storm, and the treasures disappeared into the depths of the ocean. Employing this concept, Pegasus specially designed and created the Gem Beasts, which have the unique ability to retreat in a crystallized (Continuous Spell) form to their controller's Spell/Trap Zones when destroyed as means of avoiding complete annihilation. Due to the exclusivity of the cards, Chazz Princeton's (Jun Manjoume) family once attempted to purchase them using all its assets, but Pegasus instead awarded them to Johan at the end of a European tournament.

Aside from Counter Cards, Johan's deck does not contain any other specific resources aimed towards directly destroying the cards of his opponents. He feels that a strategy of merely destroying his opponent's cards through effects is far too simple to execute, and thus values battle over cunning.^[1]