The show&#039;s protagonist. He aspires to become a great duelist like his father. Shobu keeps a positive attitude throughout the series, insisting on dueling for fun as opposed to simply winning. He&#039;s brave, strong, and true. He uses a Fire Civilization deck which later becomes a Dragon Deck.

The 1st Duel Masters series. 
 
A mysterious organization is interested in fledging duellist Shobu Kirifuda's ability to bring Duel Master creatures to life. With the support of his friends, Shobu duels with passion, discipline, and heart as he strives to be like his father and become the next Kaijudo master.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Currently hosts a podcast titled "All Work, No Play" with fellow voice actor, Sam Riegel.  

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Yumiko Kobayashi is a Japanese voice actress. Previously affiliated with Arts Vision until August 2007, she now works as a freelance. She announced her marriage on April 7, 2006 and has 2 children.

Part of the seiyuu unit __Prits__ for the anime [Sister Princess](https://anilist.co/anime/836/Sister-Princess/) with other members [Natsuko Kuwatani](https://anilist.co/staff/95136), [Hisayo Mochizuki](https://anilist.co/staff/95393), and [Nana Mizuki](https://anilist.co/staff/95081/Nana-Mizuki). The group has been inactive since 2002, although various reunions have occurred.

Took over the voice role of [Shinnosuke Nohara](https://anilist.co/character/2951) on long-running series [Crayon Shin-chan](https://anilist.co/anime/966) from [Akiko Yajima](https://anilist.co/staff/95148) starting July 6, 2018.

**Jon Arne Bjørnstad** is a Norwegian artist and voice actor.

The 2nd Duel Masters series. 
 A mysterious organization is interested in fledging duelist Shobu Kirifuda's ability to bring Duel Master creatures to life. With the support of his friends, Shobu duels with passion, discipline, and heart as he strives to be like his father and become the next Kaijudo master.

A mysterious organization is interested in fledging duelist Shobu Kirifuda's ability to bring Duel Master creatures to life. With the support of his friends, Shobu duels with passion, discipline, and heart as he strives to be like his father and become the next Kaijudo master. 
The story centers around the card game Duel Masters, which revolves around five civilizations (Fire, Water, Light, Darkness, Nature).

A next fierce fight is about to begin after Katta Kirifuda finally become the Duel Masters National Tournament champion.
 
Japan's largest theme park, Duel Masters Land has appeared. With numerous fun attractions and events, Katta was also having fun.
 
However, after meeting the mascot of the park, "Duemouse", Katta got involved in a ridiculous conspiracy of the park.
 
A shadow that invades the Duel Masters World, which is the mysterious team of duelists! The mysterious identity of the legendary card is to be revealed. A new stage and revolution of Duel Masters befalls Katta!
 
(Source: Duel Masters Wiki)

__Height:__ 177 cm 
__Agency:__ Gekidan Himawari  
__Awards:__  Best New Actor at the 5th Annual Seiyuu Awards (2011)  
__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Lean (Final Fantasy Type 0)
- Ventus, Roxas (Kingdom Hearts series)
- Neku Sakuraba (The World Ends With You)
- Banagher Links (Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next)
- Rinne Rokudo (Kyoukai no Rinne trailer)
- Enma Kozato (Katekyo Hitman REBORN! Vomic)
- Razor (Genshin Impact)
- Rean Schwarzer (The Legend of Heroes Series)
- Protagonist (Persona 5: The Phantom X)
!~

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Koki Uchiyama is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Saitama Prefecture affiliated with Himawari Theatre Group.

The 10th Duel Masters series. 
 
The most anticipated card game, Duel Masters had returned after 2 years since the battle in the past season. However, Katta Kirifuda once the strongest duelist, is now a year 2 middle school student and had lost his passion of dueling throughout the 2 years, and dreams of curry bread every day. 
 
However, after an encounter with the baseball ace, Hokaben, a mysterious duelist and a reunion with his childhood friend Lulu Takigawa, he rekindled his dueling spirit and return to his journey of becoming the strongest duelist. With new friends and rivals and Katta's passionate duelist soul, the greatest battle begins!

Shobu and friends continue to face the members of Fua Duelist in the world championship and defeat them all and now Shobu is the world champion. 
Before Shobu could relax he is being called into the creature world to face Diabolos Zeta, Temporal Ruler, who is about to bring annihilation. Shobu and friends gather the new legendary cards and stop him with their new powers of these cards.

In the new series' story, the balance of the Creature World is starting to crumble. A talking deck case named Decky comes to the human world to search for a Duel Master to preserve equilibrium. There he sees Joe's power to create creatures.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Shobu and friends fight the remaining Fua Duelists in order to defeat Zakira. Once again, they face off against the old members of Fua Duelists at the World Championship tournament.
 
Shobu also found the terrible fate his friends faced because of these duelists in their past.

Shoubu Kirifuda