Chouji Marukura

Chouji Marukura, also known as Marucho, is one of the main characters from the Bakugan Battle Brawlers series.
== Charactah Account ==
For an eleven year old, Marucho is wise beyond his years. Studious, he studies the strategy of Bakugan as well as being a bit of a walking encyclopedia. Marucho is the only son of a millionaire. In the Bakugan battles, Marucho devises strategy based on in-depth data analysis but sometimes misjudges his spur-of -the-moment decisions based only on data.
He is a wealthy, generous boy who specializes in Aquos. He is the brain of the Brawlers, a real walking encyclopedia. He loves to play Bakugan and work on strategies. He use to be extremely obedient to his parents out of fear, but that changed when he joined the Brawlers, however he is still very obedient. He now has no regrets for the past, realizing that he only wanted to make his parents happy. Marucho has a butler named Kato.
As a sidekick to Dan, Marucho helps work out which Bakugan would be best to pit against one’s opponent. He worries about all of the Brawlers, but especially Dan. Marucho is a master of combination play, and uses water attributes in battle.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Bakugan Battle Brawlers
* Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Gundalian Invaders
* Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Mechtanium Surge
* Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia
=== Video Games ===
* Bakugan Arcade Battlers
* Bakugan Battle Brawlers
* Bakugan Dimensions
* Bakugan: Defenders of the Core
* Bakugan: Rise of the Resistance
== Trivia ==
* Marucho has had the most Guardians with two or one under his ownership, as Shun only had Ingram after Storm Skyress decided to stay in New Vestroia, Drago being Dan's only Guardian, and most of the other characters being absent from the events of other seasons.
* Marucho is the youngest out of the 6 by 1–3 years.
** Although Dan is said to be 12 in Battle Brawlers and 15 in New Vestroia and Shun is said to be 13 in Battle Brawlers and 16 in New Vestroia, Marucho is said to be 11 in Battle Brawlers and 13 in New Vestroia. It is possible that his birthday hadn't passed yet in which case, he might have turned 14 during the 6-month timeskip between Arc 1 and Arc 2 of New Vestroia
* Marucho has a strong relationship with Ren, as he helped make Bakugan Interspace happen, before he learns that Ren lied to the Brawlers the whole time. As seen in Mechtanium Surge, they are still close friends.
* The name Marucho comes from Marukura Choji.
* He is one of the seven characters that have appeared in all four seasons; the other six are Dan Kuso, Drago, Shun Kazami, Julie Makimoto, Miyoko Kuso, and Kato.
* His personality is similar to Rekuta from Duel Masters; he possesses a high level of intelligence, and he also tends to worry when an opponent pulls out a surprise ability that may nullify that of his own Bakugan, or surpass the power of the latter.
* His personality is also similar to Kenny from Beyblade, and Kenny's Beyblade is called "Hopper", which is also Akwimos's Japanese name.
* After season 1, Marucho's forehead birthmark became much less prominent.
* Marucho is the only member of the Brawlers whose Guardians are from all worlds seen (Preyas, Elfin and Radizen from Vestroia/New Vestroia, Akwimos from Neathia, and Trister from Gundalia).
* In the Japanese version of the anime, Marucho's Bakugan all speak with a Kansai accent with the sole exception of Radizen, in which speaks in a keigo accent.
* Marucho shares some similarities with Yai Ayanokoji from MegaMan Battle Network. Both are the smallest, youngest, and richest of the team; they are also both blond.
* Marucho's glasses resembles to Max (May's younger brother) from Pokemon Advanced, with both of them being geniuses.
== Gallery ==
File:Chouji Marukura Render 01.png
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File:Chouji Marukura 01.png
== External Links ==
* Marucho Marukura at Bakugan Wiki
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