Yato Shiryui

Yato grew up in a smaller family with just his father and older brother. At school, he never seemed to make a lot of friends due to being very non-athletic and quiet overall. His constantly frayed hair and downturn face made people reluctant to interact with him. He always had trouble expressing himself and reaching out to people, so he found himself very lonely when in school.

On his tenth birthday, he received a present from a man who ran a shop in his local neighborhood, a pack of duel monster cards. He had them in his pocket when he went to school that day.

That day he ate his lunchbox in the classroom silently, while others chatted around him. He stood up to go get a drink when the cards fell from his pocket. He scrambled on the ground to pick them up when another kid came to help him.

That was his first friend, Takashi Yumehara. Thanks to duel monsters, kids started talk to him freely and he was able to make friends. He started to slowly and definitely fall in love with the game.

He favors a Zombie Swarm deck because when one gets hit to the graveyard, the others help to pick it right up, and they charge the field together in a big group, just like a gang of best friends.

He enrolled in Neo Duel Academy to pursue a career in pro dueling with his ace monster Dragonecro the Nethersoul Dragon.