Katsumi Morikawa

Character Information Gender: Male Romaji: Morikawa Katsumi Age: 15 Deck(s): Mixed Deck mostly comprising of Grade 3's Nubatama (As Ninja Master M) Nova Grapplers (Rented) Kagero (Kai's deck) Friends: Aichi Sendou Yuta Izaki Taishi Miwa Avatar Card: Season 1: Juggernaut Maximum Gold Rutile Season 3: Dragonic Overlord the End First Anime Appearance: Episode 1 First Manga Appearance: Volume 1 Voiced by: Noriaki Sugiyama (Japanese) Wan-gyeong Seong (Korean) Lucas Gilbertson (English)

“	His strength is neverending! My genius is also neverending! If two neverendings join hands, everything else comes to an end! I strongest break ride Dragonic Overlord the End!	”
—Katsumi Morikawa, Episode 112

Katsumi Morikawa is a character in Cardfight!! Vanguard. Despite "katsu" meaning 'victory', he's one of the weakest known players in the anime, though this is due to the fact that he uses a deck with too many grade 3s.

Contents 1 Information 2 Biography 2.1 Anime Biography 2.2 Manga Biography 3 Season 2 4 Season 3 5 Deck 5.1 Main Deck 5.2 Construction Deck 5.3 Nubatama Deck 5.4 Kagero Deck 6 Battles 7 Comments

Information

He is very boastful, and is proud of his "strength" even though he has lost almost every Vanguard fight he has had, giving him the nickname "lose-umi" (often just called "loser" in the dub). He's very superstitious and regularly consults an astrology book. He also has a huge obsession with Ultra-rare member Kourin and is often 'fanboying' over her when he knows she's set to appear somewhere. An example of this is in episode 26 when he implies he might have come to the nationals just to see Kourin instead of the actual fighting.

Biography

Anime Biography

Morikawa is the self-professed strongest fighter in Card Capital. He starts the series off by stealing Aichi's Blaster Blade and betting it in a fight with Kai, attempting to use the rare card to beat him. While Morikawa is initially just a bully, he eventually lightens up and becomes Aichi's friend. His favorite card is Juggernaut Maximum, but his deck has no set clan, as Morikawa attempts to stuff as many grade 3 cards in it as possible. Naturally, this causes him massive problems in successfully riding from one grade to the next, boosting his cards' power, and activating triggers. However, it's demonstrated in rides 51 and 52 that he actually is a good fighter, but only when using a deck that is good in itself. This shows that Morikawa is poor at deck building, not the game itself,so Kamui calls him Makemi.Make(Ma-ke) from the word Makemi means"defeat".

Manga Biography

Initially Morikawa steals Aichi's Blaster Blade as in the anime. As it happens, he's a member of Hitsue Junior High's CF Vanguard Research Club, sponsored by Mr. Mark. Unlike in the anime, Morikawa does not run a grade 3-centered deck, but instead a more traditional (and useful) Spike Brothers one, although during his first appearance, he does use Savage King which is a Tachikaze unit.

Season 2

Morikawa will stay behind with the rest of the crew at Card Capital.

Season 3

Morikawa and Izaki graduate from Hitsue Junior High School and becomes students at Kai and Miwa's school, Hitsue High. Morikawa gets angry at Aichi for Kourin moving in to his class. Morikawa then decides he is going to the school, then Aichi states that your not allowed unless your a student or a Parent, then Morikawa declares himself "Father" of Aichi Sendou, but Kamui stops this.

Deck

Main Deck

His main deck is a Kagerō deck, with a random assortment of Grade 3s. It has more Grade 3s than any other grade, leaving him constantly with hands full of Grade 3s and nothing else, which he cannot Ride.

It is shown he is actually an incredibly strong fighter when using a balanced deck as shown in Ride 51 when he forgot his deck and was given a Golden Mechanical Soldier deck. He then won every fight he had in the episode.

Deck
Normal Units Grade 0 Lizard Runner, Undeux x1 Grade 1 Embodiment of Armor, Bahr x2 Grade 2 Blaster Blade x1 * Dragon Knight, Nehalem x1 Grade 3 Demonic Dragon Berserker, Yaksha x2 Demon Eater x1 Hell Spider x1 Juggernaut Maximum x1 Monster Frank x2 Stealth Dragon Voidmaster x2 Tyrant Deathrex x2	Trigger Units Dragon Dancer, Monica x1 (Draw Trigger) Embodiment of Spear, Tahr x2 (Critical Trigger)

Construction Deck

Shin give a Golden Mechanical Soldier Deck to used for 3rd Shop Tournament and defeating everyone with this deck and Shin cast a spell on him and everyone is embrassing them on Team Q4 and won the tournament with this deck

Deck
Normal Units Grade 1 Screamin' and Dancin' Announcer, Shout x2 Tough Boy x2 Oasis Girl x1 Queen of Heart x1 Grade 2 King of Sword x2 Super Electromagnetic Lifeform, Storm x2 NGM Prototype x1 Grade 3 Gold Rutile x1 Mr. Invincible x2 Death Metal Droid x1	Trigger Units Battleraizer x2 (Stand Trigger) Shining Lady x2 (Critical Trigger) Ring Girl, Clara x2 (Heal Trigger) Cannon Ball x1 (Stand Trigger)

Nubatama Deck

Katsumi uses a Nubatama deck during the second Card Capital Shop Tournament disguised as Ninja Master M.

Deck
Normal Units Grade 0 Stealth Beast Hagakure x1 Grade 1 Stealth Dragon Dread Master x2 Grade 3 Barking Manticore x2 Crimson Butterfly, Brigitte Hell Marquis, Amon x2 Juggernaut Maximum x2 Monster Frank x3 Nightmare Doll, Alice x2 Raging Dragon, Blastsaurus x3 Stealth Dragon Voidmaster x2 Stil Vampire x2 Super Dimensional Robo, Daiyusha x2 Tyrant Deathrex x 2 Vortex Dragon x2	Trigger Units Dragon Dancer, Monica (Draw Trigger) x 1 Embodiment of Spear, Tahr (Critical Trigger) x 1

Kagero Deck

In Episode 112, Kai lends his Kagero deck to Morikawa, hoping to see how his strength compares to Aichi's through Morikawa, based on his old deck centered around his ace, Dragonic Overlord the End. This deck now uses the Break Ride unit Dauntless Drive Dragon as an alternative vanguard to ride the End on, granting it high power as well as the ability to re-stand if its attack fails to hit. This forces the opponent into a no-win situation; if they guard, it re-stands through Dauntless's skill, and if they don't, the End re-stands by its own skill instead, basically ensuring two attacks at least on that turn.

Deck
Normal Units Grade 0 Red Pulse Dracokid x1 Grade 1 Embodiment of Armor, Bahr x2 Wyvern Guard, Barri x2 Dragon Monk, Gojo x2 Iron Tail Dragon x1 Grade 2 Berserk Dragon x3 Cross Shot, Garp x2 Dragon Knight, Nehalem x2 Grade 3 Dauntless Drive Dragon x2 Dragonic Overlord x 1 Dragonic Overlord the End x2	Trigger Units Dragon Dancer, Monica (Draw Trigger) x 1 Dragon Monk, Genjo (Heal Trigger) x1 Embodiment of Spear, Tahr (Critical Trigger) x1 Blue Ray Dracokid (Critical Trigger) x1

Battles

Record (Season 1)
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome
Toshiki Kai	1	Lose (x2)
Aichi Sendou	3	Lose
Aichi Sendou	3	Undetermined
Kamui Katsuragi	5	Lose
Kamui Katsuragi	7	Lose
Misaki Tokura	9	Lose
Emi Sendou	15	Lose
Gai Usui	34	Lose
Misaki Tokura	37	Lose
Yuta Izaki	51	Win (x2)
Taishi Miwa	51	Win
Aichi Sendou	51	Win
Fighters at Card Capital Tournament	52	Win
Osamu Kishida	52	Win
Misaki Tokura	52	Lose

Record (Season 3)
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome
Aichi Sendou	111-112	Lose

• It has been shown that Morikawa is actually a stong cardfighter when using a balanced deck, this is shown in Episode 51 and 52 where he used a trial deck given to him by Shin and achieved many victories. This is also shown in episode 112 where he used Kai's deck to battle Aichi, he gave Aichi a hard time, even close in defeating him, but in the end Aichi won.