Shu (Blue Dragon)

Shu is a protagonist of the Blue Dragon.
In the game, he is voiced by Mona Marshall in the English game and Marina Inoue in the Japanese version.
==Story==
The impulsive Shu, the bookish and calm Jiro and the kind and good-natured Kluke are a trio of young friends in the village of Talta. One day, portentous purple clouds descend on their village, which are purported by common wisdom to bring about the destruction of everything they touch. True to form, the village is immediately attacked by a lethal "land shark", which Shu, Jiro and Kluke attempt in vain to ward off with a massive net and traps. They are eventually carried off by it into a nearby cave where they discover that it is actually mechanical in nature: What the game calls a "mechat". Before they can react, the mechat land shark carries them off to a floating mechat base where they encounter Nene for the first time. After some villainous dialogue, Nene roundly defeats the trio and throws them off the floating base to their apparent demise.
They are saved by a beam emitted from a different area of the base and given spheres to swallow by a mysterious voice. Though initially reluctant to acquiesce with the voice's commands, they are eventually forced to when cornered by a massive unit of mechat soldiers. They immediately notice the change the spheres have caused them - each now has a powerful "shadow" creature protecting and fighting for them - and successfully escape the floating base to a desert below.
Heading back towards Talta, picking up the friendly and quick-tempered Marumaro of the bat-like Devee race along the way, they discover that the population of Talta is relocating to the nearby kingdom of Jibral, where they hope they will find safety. The party escort them along the way with their new shadow powers but are overwhelmed just outside of Jibral's borders. The benevolent King Jibral, his coolly competent lieutenant Zola (who also has a shadow) and a force of his royal troops manage to save the party and the other refugees.
As thanks, the party assists the King in his successful plan to destroy a nearby mechat base, but in the process Kluke is captured and receives a collar that is set to explode from Nene should the party interfere in his business any further. However, this is revealed to be a ploy to bring the other shadow-users to him as Nene manages to trap the whole party with collars and steal all their shadows. A considerably stronger Nene effortlessly defeats the party and almost kills them, but Shu is somehow able to teleport the party away to safety.
After teleporting the team finds itself in Devour Village, which is surrounded on all sides by deadly flora the party is unable to fight in their current state. Despondent, the group settles into the village, except for Shu who spends a considerable amount of time in training until his shadow powers slowly return. He helps the group escape Devour and chase Nene. One by one, the others regain their powers as well.
Nene meanwhile has sundered the world with his ancient technology and has escaped to a cuboid structure in the centre of the now split world. Zola takes the team to him on a mechat and it is revealed that she was (reluctantly) working with Nene the whole time, as he was the one who saved her life and supplied her with a shadow. It was also his idea that Zola spy on King Jibral from within his inner circle. Encouraged by the youths and their open defiance of Nene, she reveals that she was the voice that saved them all and initially gave them their shadows. Together with the group, she defeats Nene once and for all. Unfortunately, the true threat is revealed to be Nene's pet Deathroy - actually Destroy, an ancient bio-mechanical weapon intended to annihilate the world. The group manage to defeat Destroy and escape the cube to join their families in Jibral, yet the world remains sundered as of the game's conclusion.
== Personality ==
Shu is sixteen years old and ten in the anime. He has a brash and impetuous nature that has often gotten him into trouble. But his courage, strength and dogged determination has saved him from certain death many times. He is also protective and caring of his friends shown when Jiro and Kluke were unconscious after the Land Shark escaped from their trap and chose to wake them up before opening treasure chests and when protecting from Nene and other means.
He refuses to give up no matter what the circumstance is, to the extent of having the catchphrase: "I won't give up!". Still, he does know when to run away when it means to protect the people he cares about as shown when Nene tried to crush him and his friends with his mech, and in Blue Dragon Plus when he Marumaro and Zola are trapped he warps them away even when having the chance to defeat Nene.
==Appearence==
In the game Shu has a round face, a normal complexion, black round eyes and dark-brown long jagged hair. His hair is dressed in a ponytail with a red hair-tie, he wears a black top, a yellow pants a red ribbon around it, blue protective sleeves, blue legwarmers and brown boots.
In the anime Shu has a round face, a bronzy complexion, black round eyes and dark-brown long jagged hair. His hair is dressed in a ponytail with a red hair-tie, he wears a black top, a yellow pants a red ribbon around it, blue protective sleeves, blue legwarmers and brown boots.
==Trivia==
*Shu is one of only two characters, along with Zola, to use profanity in the series.
*He and Zola are also the only characters in original game that use weapons other than shadows. Shu uses a sword and a dagger, while Zola uses a more refined sword.
*There is much contradictory in Shu's background, age, and personality from sources.
*All sources say that Shu lost his parents years ago, one saying that he lost them due to an epidemic, another saying he lost them as a baby from the attack of the Land Shark (which contradicts the source that said that Shu is 16 as the opening phrase of the game that said the Land Shark attacked for ten years).
*They also say that Shu is bright and that his courage makes him a natural leader, but neither of these qualities were shown in the games. They were expressed in the anime.
*His personality changed drastically in Awakened Shadow as well as his voice; he sounded and acted just like his anime counterpart.
*It was never expressed as widely in the first two, but Shu's appetite increased in Awakened Shadow; just like in the anime.
*He is one of four characters whose appearance was altered the least between mediums(anime and game).
*Shu's hairstyle resembles Future Trunks Super Saiyan hairstyle, from another one of Akira's animes. "Dragonball Z"
==Goddess==
Shu is an egyptian god.Sister and wife is Tefnut. His father is RA
==Videos==
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 1 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 2 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 3 of 23)
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Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 6 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 7 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 8 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 9 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 10 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 11 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 12 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 13 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 14 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 15 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 16 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 17 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 18 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 19 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 20 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 21 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 22 of 23)
Xbox 360 Longplay 015 Blue Dragon (Part 23 of 23)
==External links==
*Blue Dragon Wiki
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