Yumi Ishiyama

Yumi Ishiyama is one of the main characters from the Code Lyoko series.
== Charactah Account ==
Yumi is the tallest and oldest of the group, alongside William. A good student, she is a Japanese national at the boarding school, living off-campus with her family. She is one grade above the rest of the Team, which proves sometimes problematic. While she may have feelings for Ulrich, Yumi is exasperated by his inability to articulate his crush. A running joke among fans is XANA's tendency to single her out for attack.
In regard to Yumi's personality, her instant trademark is how she is shown to always prefer black clothes, basically the American goth look; with a black sweater, black pants, and black boots. Her Season 4 outfit is like her sports clothes consisting of a dark gray blouse and dark pants. She wears the same boots as in Seasons 1-3 (this being seen in Cold Sweat where when an embarrassing childhood Halloween photo of her is seen, she is wearing big black boots in the picture). She inspires coldness and distance at first glance. Rather abrupt and often of a sarcastic humor, she can seem particularly stiff and ironic. However, this appearance exists only to hide her generous and sensitive inner nature, because behind this mask hides a being filled with warmth and with human qualities such as kindness, helpfulness, delicacy, and sincerity. Yumi is shown to prefer getting acquainted and knowing people first before opening up to them, but once trust is established, she assumes a limitless fidelity towards the people whom she likes.
A fine observer, Yumi is adept at understanding people and emotions. Good at sports, very smart, a hundred percent natural, she is the perfect opposite of Sissi and is very popular, although she seems oblivious to it. Also, differing from girls her age, most of Yumi's friends appear to be boys. Aelita is obviously her closest and only known female friend. Yumi is also a very applied pupil, who excels particularly in the literary subjects. Considered as having great scholastic potential, she has the respect and trust of her professors which can be seen throughout the series.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Code Lyoko
* Code Lyoko Season 2
* Code Lyoko Season 3
* Code Lyoko Season 4
=== TV Series ===
* Code Lyoko Evolution
=== Video Games ===
* Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A.
* Code Lyoko: Get Ready to Virtualize
* Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity
* Code Lyoko: Social Game
== Trivia ==
* In the series' original bible, Yumi's appearance was planned to be more prominent, with it describing her as "beautiful but [she] doesn't know it yet". She was going to be popular amongst the boys at Kadic, though "any attempt at approaching her [would be] doomed to mockery". Sissi was also said to be jealous of Yumi's general popularity with boys in this version, "whose natural beauty makes her much more mysterious". Aside from Yumi's name being a remnant of this idea, it was otherwise dropped.
** Similarly, Ulrich was also described in the bible as being popular with the girls at Kadic. Although this idea made it into Season 1, it was largely dropped afterward.
* Yumi owns a Totoro stuffed animal that she keeps on her bed.
* Yumi and Aelita are the only Lyoko Warriors who were prisoners of a Guardian. They are also the only ones who fell into the Digital Sea and got temporarily deleted.
** Yumi's frequent falls into the Digital Sea are so well known in the fandom that Jérôme Mouscadet and Sophie Decroisette were asked about it in an interview. Both seemed surprised to learn this fact, with Decroisette theorizing it might be because Yumi is "very prone to self sacrifice". She also joked that subconsciously "Maybe I simply wanted to get rid of her".
* On Lyoko, Yumi is a kunoichi, which literally means "Female Ninja" in Japanese. While traditional ninja were assassins who traveled by shadow and infiltrated strongholds by night with their inept martial arts and military-grade training, kunoichi were masters of camouflage and hid in plain sight. They used their feminine wiles to get close to their targets and had an arsenal of concealed/disguised weapons, such as hairpins that could be serrated enough for stabbing (preferably with the tip poisoned with fugu venom). Yumi does the exact same thing with her fans, which were traditionally a status symbol among the cultural elite, especially during the Edo Period, before eventually evolving into military-grade weapons. In this case, they appear to be traditional fans at first sight, but they are really flying tessens with the exact same functionality as saw blades. Also, tessens are concealable weapons that work in favor of ninja in general.
** Yumi’s Lyoko form seems to be a combination of a Kunoichi and a Geisha, women who celebrated the Japanese tradition of exquisite beauty (which William has taken notice of on several occasions).
*** Yumi was most likely given the exact likeness of a Kunoichi on Lyoko because of her athletic prowess and cat-like agility being uncanny of those of a real-life ninja as well as her well-established devotion to everything relating to her homeland.
* Yumi has proven to be a glutton for punishment when it comes to her work as a Lyoko Warrior. Specifically, other than having the highest devirtualization count of the warriors, she's almost always the one to fatally fall victim to the dangers of the virtual world, which in many situations would be X.A.N.A. mysteriously targeting her as the focal point for its evil schemes. Examples include:
** Image Problem when Yumi is abducted by a guardian and replaced with an evil clone.
** Missing Link when the scyphozoa steals the code sequence for her human DNA as a ploy to manipulate Aelita into donating her own human DNA sequence code to her so that her memory (containing the Keys to Lyoko) will be exposed and ripe for stealing.
*** An added bonus is that Yumi's lack of human DNA makes her an easy target for the monsters since devirtualization will prove fatal without it.
** Double Take when William admires Yumi's exquisite beauty all the while holding her at blade point at the edge of a cliff - before ultimately shoving her into the Digital Sea (trying to, at least).
*** However, this could've just been William's undying attraction to Yumi that remained in his digital manifestation as the only shred of humanity he had left when XANA permanently possessed him, turning him into its dark champion.
**** In fact, it was this very remaining shred of humanity that allowed William to momentarily regain his full humanity in The Lake when Yumi reminded of him of the oath he swore when he officially became a Lyoko Warrior.
** Lost at Sea when Yumi is stranded in the Digital Sea after her Navskid is gravely damaged from a battle with a pack of kongers.
*** There were many variables Yumi had to control to stay alive:
**** The dwindling power reserves of Yumi's navskid.
**** The near catastrophic damage Yumi's navskid sustained from the battle.
**** The one remaining konger out for Yumi's blood.
**** The only remaining torpedo that ultimately proved to be the only way of signaling Jeremy.
**** William showing up in a digital submarine of his own ready to finish Yumi off.
*** If Yumi had given in to even one of these variables, she would’ve fallen victim to the godforsaken empty abyss of the digital sea a second time. And this time, since the current set of circumstances didn't include a one-shot rematerialization like last time, she would've most definitely be gone forever.
** Cruel Dilemma when Yumi rams herself into a Megatank to save Aelita from a direct hit from its laser which leaves her hanging for dear life off the ledge of the landmass and she plummets to her demise when Ulrich arrives too late after she loses her grip. Jeremie is luckily able to bring her back to reality with the one-shot devirtualization program Odd accidentally created.
* As of Crash Course, Yumi is the only character who was ever virtualized by Odd.
* In Hard Luck, Yumi reveals that her least favorite monsters created by X.A.N.A. are Kankrelats due to her understandable animosity towards "big bugs", and that her favorites are Krabs.
* Yumi and William are the only Lyoko Warriors other than Aelita to be attacked by the Scyphozoa.
* Yumi is also the first person to be devirtualized by a Ninja.
* Yumi is the only Lyoko Warrior with two additional weapons (Not counting Ulrich's additional katana gained in Double Take.
* In the original pilot episode, Garage Kids, Yumi possessed strong telekinetic abilities while on Earth as well as Lyoko.
* Yumi's mobile in the first three seasons is a dark red Nokia style cellphone. In Season 4, she gets a more modern model with a sliding keyboard and video call functionality.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Yumi Ishiyama at Code Lyoko Wiki
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