__Height:__ 175cm

Mai Valentine, known as Mai Kujaku in the manga and Japanese anime, is a character in Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime and Yu-Gi-Oh! manga    &quot;Kujaku&quot; means &quot;peahen&quot;. Her name in the English anime is a pun of &quot;My Valentine&quot;.     At the beginning of the series, Mai is a self-absorbed woman who is only set out for prize money, personal satisfaction and power.    Mai is extremely lonely and convinces herself she doesn&#039;t need friends at first. At one point she believed her &quot;Harpie Lady&quot; cards were the closest she would have to friends.    Mai&#039;s selfish attitude and outlook on life continues until she meets and finds meaning with Yugi Muto and his friends (of course, she also has a soft spot for Joey). After she meets them, she seems to start caring more for her friends and the deeper meanings of the game. Later on in the series, Mai&#039;s wins become empty and her feelings of loneliness return. However, as the series continues she appears to regain her self-esteem and pride as a true duelist.    In the Japanese version; Mai typically uses a quite informal manner of speech. She commonly omits honorifics when speaking with others, but addresses Anzu and Shizuka as &quot;-chan.&quot; She uses the informal and potentially condescending &quot;anta&quot;, a contraction of the more formal &quot;anata&quot; (similar to the English &quot;hun&quot; from &quot;honey&quot;). She uses the personal pronoun &quot;atakushi&quot;, which tends to be a more elegant, if not older, form of self-reference.

Retsuko looks exactly like her mother, but their opinions on Retsuko's life are very different. The typical cynical mom, she judges everything about Retsuko, from her lack of a romantic relationship to her inability to keep a clean home. Forcing Retsuko into an arranged marriage does nothing but to push Retsuko further away from a functional relationship with her.

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