Anzu Mazaki
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| Anzu Mazaki | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! character | |
 Anzu in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist manga |
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| First appearance | Yu-Gi-Oh! (original and English manga) Volume 1, Duel 1 |
| Voiced by | 1st series: Yumi Kakazu 2nd series: Maki Saito (Japanese) Amy Birnbaum (U.S. English) Alison Lester (Singapore English) |
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| Age | 15, at debut |
| Date of birth | August 18 |
Anzu Mazaki (真崎 杏子 Mazaki Anzu?), known in the English anime and English video games as Téa Gardner (often written as Tea Gardner), is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!.
Anzu's given name is sometimes written in hiragana (as "あんず" [1]) next to the kanji in order to emphasize the fact that her name is read as "Anzu" instead of "Kyoko."
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[edit] Character design
Anzu's character design was overseen by Kazuki Takahashi.
In the manga, Anzu originally bore a conventional, short hairstyle. Her first color image, seen in Volume 1, Chapter 1, featured dark brown hair and brown eyes. As Takahashi continued drawing the manga, Anzu gained more feminine and "cute" facial features. Her hair style became longer and less conventional. Color images from Volume 3 and onward portray her hair as a lighter brown color. Sometimes her eyes are colored blue, while sometimes her eyes are colored reddish brown. By the final volume of the manga, Anzu's hair touches her shoulders. The standard female Domino High School uniform, Anzu's usual outfit, consists of a pink coat, a white oxford shirt, a blue tie, and a blue pleated skirt.
In the first series anime, her hair and eyes are of a reddish brown color. Her school uniform color differs; her coat is orange and her tie and skirt are green.
In the second series anime, she has dark brown hair and blue eyes. Her usual outfit from the second series anime consists of the school uniform colored in the same manner as in the original manga. Her brown shoulder length hair is sectioned into two layers, consisting of a darker shade of brown inner layer, with the outer layer a lighter shade.
[edit] The character
Anzu, who is in class 1-B at Domino High School, is the childhood friend of Yugi Mutou (romanized as Yugi Muto in the English anime). She becomes a good friend to Katsuya Jonouchi (known as Joey Wheeler in the English anime) and Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor), though she is not fond of them at first. In the first series anime, Miho Nosaka is also one of Anzu's friends. Anzu does not usually play games with Yugi and his friends, though she is once shown beating Jonouchi.
In the manga, especially in the beginning, Anzu has a spunky, tomboyish personality, and in the first chapter, frightens Honda and Jonouchi into leaving the room after they bully Yugi. Anzu possesses a very kind-hearted, strong-willed, and supportive personality. She can also be seen in some parts of the series as a quick-tempered, pushy, mischievous girl who likes doing everything her friends do. In the Duel Monsters anime, she and Honda, while keeping their personalities somewhat the same, are basically cheerleaders for Yugi and Jonouchi. She is known among fans of the Duel Monsters English anime for her "friendship speeches".
Anzu is athletic and holds jobs to save money in order to attend a dance school in New York City (In the American version of the series, she resides in the state of California). In the beginning of the series, she is revealed to be working at "Burger World" (in the English Duel Monsters anime, "Burgerpalooza"). By Volume 4 in the manga, Anzu is fired from that job for punching a customer who had grabbed her butt. She gets a job at KaibaCorp afterwards and encounters her friends at KaibaLand. In the Toei anime, Anzu, Honda, and Miho work at Burger World, with Miho and Honda working to support Anzu. Once Burger World closes, Honda and Miho work for a beef bowl restaurant. In the opening scenes of the 1999 film Yugi and his friends discover that she works at "Duel Monsters Center," (デュエル モンスター センター), a Duel Monsters parlor. She already knows Shōgo Aoyama, a regular of the parlor and Yugi's neighbor.
In the original Japanese versions of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Anzu's speech is not wholly polite. Anzu omits honorific suffixes when talking to many people, including Jonouchi and Honda. In Toei's anime, she uses the "kun" suffix when referring to Honda and Jonouchi.
During Duelist Kingdom, and later Battle City Tournaments, Anzu have several close encounters with the Shadow Games herself, including being turned into one of her favourite card monsters, the Magician of Faith (when she and her friends became pawns of Dark Bakura as he and Dark Yugi dueled against each other in a Duel Monster Shadow Game), and having her mind possessed by Marik, in his quest, or more precisely, plot of revenge against the Nameless Pharaoh (a.k.a. Dark Yugi).
As part of Virtual World Arc Anzu dueled one of the Big 5 and had a dream she was the Dark Magician Girl and later used her as her deck master.
In most cases, Anzu's friends rescue her whenever danger exists. Anzu, in some scenarios, manages to rescue herself from the perils of the series if it means protecting her friends. Her strongest example of this comes in the Japanese version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie, Pyramid of Light. When Anzu's soul is taken into the Millennium Puzzle by Anubis, she manages to resist him temporarily and breaks into the Pyramid of Light to try and convince Yugi and Kaiba to stop their duel.
While responding to a fan mail asking him why Yugi and Anzu are not in a romantic relationship, Takahashi stated that the relationship between Anzu and both Yugis is "pretty much a love triangle." He added that Yugi and Anzu "always" act in a "very careful" manner in front of one another, so they cannot admit their feelings for one another.[1]
[edit] Anzu's romance with the "Yugis"
In the manga and the first series anime, Anzu is held hostage at Burger World by Prisoner Number 777, who demanded cigarettes and vodka. Dark Yugi challenges him to a shadow game, which stipulated that each person can move only one finger. Yugi tricks the prisoner into a situation wherein if he fired the gun he held, he would set himself on fire, allowing Yugi to free Anzu. In the manga, the prisoner sets himself on fire anyway when his cigarette drops from his mouth; in the anime, he drops the gun and removes the lighter from his hand, prompting Yugi to give him a penalty game. The prisoner imagines himself set on fire. The manga has been officially translated into English but the first series of the anime has not been officially translated.
In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime (which was translated for a North American release), after Yugi's friends find out she worked at the restaurant, she receives a note in her locker. In the Japanese version of this anime, the note, written on the back of a photograph showing her working at the restaurant, threatened that the school will be told that she has an after-school job (not allowed except in certain situations) if she does not come to the gym after school. When Anzu appears, she finds the gym teacher with a camera videotaping her body; it is implied that he wrote the note.
In the English version, the note states that a warehouse was a good place to take dancing lessons; Téa encounters a mugger instead of her gym teacher. Yugi appears and jumps the man. Téa then bites the man's arm, and she is knocked unconscious against a wall. Dark Yugi, also known as Yami Yugi, challenges the man to a game wherein whoever draws a better Duel Monsters card wins. Yugi's Dark Magician defeats the man's Curse of Dragon. In both the Japanese and English version, the man is a victim to a Mind Crush.
In a manga chapter (Duel 45: 13 O'clock Terror!), when on a date with Yugi, Anzu is so perturbed at his apparently ignoring her that she goes to extreme measures and plays a joke on Yugi. She makes Yugi fearful for her safety by going onto a ferris wheel when it was known that a bomber was in the park; she then pretends to be in danger so that she could make the Yugi she wants to appear (Dark Yugi), not knowing that she actually placed herself in danger of being killed. Dark Yugi rescues her.
In the manga and the anime for much of the series Anzu believes that Dark Yugi is a more mature personality of regular Yugi. While at Duelist Kingdom (Duel 80: The Man Who Comes With the Night!) Yugi tells Anzu that he knows that she prefers Dark Yugi's company. When he offers to allow Dark Yugi to assume dominance, in order to have Anzu spend time only with the latter, Anzu tells him that this is needless, because Yugi and Dark Yugi are one and the same; therefore she cares for both "personalities". Later on in the series (Duel 146: Stones of Old), when Yugi is in the hospital after trying to save Dark Yugi, she confirms that Yugi and Dark Yugi are two different aspects of the same person.
[edit] Naming
In all of the Japanese versions and in the English-language versions of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga by Kazuki Takahashi, Anzu is known as Anzu Mazaki.
In the English-language second series anime, the English-language video games, the English-language Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, and the English-language "ani-manga" of that movie, she is known as Téa Gardner.
"Anzu" in Japanese is an apricot or apricot tree.
[edit] Voice actor casting
In the Japanese first series anime, Yumi Kakazu portrayed Anzu.
Aki Maeda was originally cast to voice Anzu in the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (second series), but Maki Saito voiced Anzu in all of the episodes. However, Aki Maeda performed "Genki no SHAWAA" (Shower of Energy), a song that describes Anzu's relationship with Yugi, and the first ending to the second series.
In the American English-language versions of the second series anime, Téa is voiced by Amy Birnbaum. In the Singaporean English-language versions of the second series anime, Alison Lester voices Téa.
On the "Yu-Gi-Oh! Music To Duel By" album produced by 4Kids, Téa's singing voice is provided by Lindsey Warner.
[edit] Deck
Anzu's first Deck is a Fairy Deck. It focuses on Light-Attribute Fairy monsters, and spells to enhance them. Her second Deck is a Spellcaster Deck. Almost all the cards are devoted to the Spellcaster theme, like Fire Sorcerer, Maha Vailo and the Dark Magician Girl. She duels once in the manga and three times during the course of the second anime series.
[edit] Anzu in the games
In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories she has an "Ancient Egypt" incarnation known as "Teana"[2] (Anzu in the Japanese version[3])
[edit] References
- ^ Shonen Jump Volume 3, Issue 11. November 2005. VIZ Media. 68.
- ^ "Characters" (English). Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories.
- ^ "Characters" (Japanese). Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories.
- Takahashi, Kazuki (2002). Yu-Gi-Oh! Characters Guide Book - The Gospel of Truth (遊戯王キャラクターズガイドブック―真理の福音―). Shueisha. ISBN 4-08-873363-0
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