Tatsuhisa Kamijo

*Kamijō Tatsuhisa*

**Tatsuhisa Kamijo** (*上（かみ）城（じょう） 龍（たつ）久（ひさ）, Kamijō Tatsuhisa*) is the supporting protagonist of the "*Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS*" series. Copying his eldest sister, Haruka Kamijo, he wants to be called "**Luke**" (*ルーク, Rūku*). He is the self-proclaimed number one Duelist at Goha 7th Elementary and friend of Yuga Ohdo. He is an aspiring lad who aims to become the next "King of Duels" by partaking in Rush Dueling.

## Biography

### **Background**

Luke and his older sister Tiger grew up learning martial arts as the family customs. Tiger was a prodigy in trained herself to mastery level at such young age, aspiring Luke to defeat her so he could be acknowledged. Luke would challenge her in everything, including Dueling, but he got defeated in all of them. These defeats lead Luke to disguise himself as an adult to improve his Dueling skills in the adult Dueling Center. The improved Luke re-challenged Tiger, but he was still defeated by her again.

Later on, Luke heard of legends about Duel King that challenging it will allow any Duelist to become the next King of Duels. Being a superstitious Luke, he went to the underground chamber where the legend told to be and challenged the Hologram man to a Duel. However, the imposing time limit put on Dueling's condition caused Luke to receive a penalty every time he did, receiving about six penalties, which got his account banned.

### **Birth of Rush Duels Arc**

Luke heard the conversation between Yuga Ohdo and the Class President Gakuto Sougetsu about Rush Dueling, which piqued his interest. Luke tried to challenge him to a Duel, but Yuga rejected his request. Yuga reasons that he doesn't have time because he has to try installing the new dueling. Luke proposed his solution for solving his problem of not installing Rush Duels into the Duel disk. He led Yuga to The Relic's Chamber, telling his recollection about Urban Legend of the King of Duels. Yuga then decided to gamble it for one last time to install Rush Duel, while Gakuto and one of Goha Corps Drone, including spying Romin Kirishima, arrived. When the Goha Drone tried to stop them, Luke uses his mysterious power to stop the drone. When Yuga was about to install the Rush Dueling, and his Duel Disk's battery is about to die, Gakuto came up using the Duel Bicycle to power up the Duel Disk. Luke watched Yuga duel Hologram Man to pull off a victory to install Rush Duel successfully. Hologram Man then erased his and Yuga's penalties.

The following day at school, Luke caught Yuga telling his friends about Rush Dueling. Luke dragged Yuga underneath the desk to warn him of the importance of keeping this new way of Dueling a secret. However, Yuga urges his creation of Rush Duel is to bring fun to everyone, while Luke rejects this idea saying this is a one-way ticket to become King of Duels. Romin, who was listening to their argument, suggested they settle it with a Rush Duel. When surrounding people took pics of them, Luke presumably assumed his so-called power to somehow stop everyone's phones from recording the Duel with the wave of his hand; Yuga believes the Pauli effect caused it. The Duel unexpectedly ended in Luke's victory. Luke finds out from Romin that their Duel was trending on the net, which led Luke to accuse Romin of recording the Duel. When she denied it, it forced Yuga to admit to living streaming the Duel secretly, revealing his reason for doing so because he did not give up his original goal of bringing the joy of Rush Dueling to everyone. This reason led Luke to agree to it finally. Luke, suspicious of his victory, asked if Yuga let him win on purpose, to which Yuga didn't answer.

On another day, Luke stopped Yuga, who is on his way to school, telling him that their Rush Duel on the net has been deleted. Luke points out that Goha Corp is maybe observing them, suspecting a spy in the school, which he directs possibly their classmate Romin. From the behavior of her taking pics of them when dueling and her knowledge about duel programming, Yuga and others found her suspicious and decided to find her secret. Luke watched on as Yuga uses one of his inventions, known as a microphone attached to a fishing pole in front of her, to test truth and lies based on sound waves. However, this turns out a failure. Romin showed interest in Yuga's inventions. When Yuga invited her to his Road Laboratory, he praised him for it. At Yuga's lab, Luke and Gakuto, and Romin got to greet the newly modified drone named Kaizo. Luke tried some of Yuga's Roads, especially the hairdressing machine while listening to Yuga finally to getting Romin to Duel.

    When Romin refused Kaizo for letting him peak into her guitar case, it furthered aroused his suspicious of Romin being an undercover agent sent by Goha Corp. During the Duel between Romin and Yuga, Luke repeatedly tried to peak into the guitar case to prove his suspiciousness – but he was held back by Gakuto to stop him from prying on someone's privacy. Luke was shocked when Romin summoned her monster card "Prima Guitarna." Yuga still managed to defeat her bring her enjoyment of Rush Dueling. Yuga asked if she was spying on him and others, but she denied it.

Later, Luke brought up the idea of making a promo video of Rush Dueling to Yuga. Yuga agrees to this idea of recruiting Gakuto but was declined by Romin as she reclines to sing the anthem. Yuga got Gakuto to sing it instead. Although Gakuto's tone-deafness lackluster showed in his singing on the anthem, Yuga and his classmates successfully produced. Yuga used Kaizo to hack into the net and like several thousand times to get the video trending. When he and Yuga wanted to get time for Rush Dueling, Gakuto admonished them, even revealing that he will ban Rush Duel at school. Yuga pointed out to duke it out in Rush Duel to decide if it should be ban or not. Luke also places another request that will force Gakuto to step down as Student Council President.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-12-20/yu-gi-oh-sevens-anime-reveals-april-2020-debut-staff-cast/.154622
2. ↑ *Episode 1: Let’s Do This! Rush Duel!*
3. ↑ *Episode 2: The Man Who Possesses a Demon*
4. ↑ *Episode 3: Romin's Secret*
5. ↑ *Episode 4: Farewell, Student Council President!*