Julie Makimoto

### Age:

12 (Battle Brawlers) 15 (New Vestroia) 16 (Gundalian Invaders)17 (Mechtanium Surge)

### Home Planet

Earth

Julie Makimoto (Japanese version: Julie Hayward (ジュリィ・ヘイワード, *Juryi Heiwādo*?)) is one of the characters of the anime series Mega Man Grey. Julie is the Subterra brawler of the Battle Brawlers, partnered with Subterra Hammer Gorem.

She has a sister named Daisy Makimoto and is childhood friends with Billy Gilbert; they hail from Bakugan Valley in Australia, though Julie moved to Bayview at some point before the start of the series.

Julie appears as a recurring secondary character in the following seasons, and moves to Bayview along with Grey and Dan in Mega Man Grey 3*: Gundalian Invaders*. By the events of Mega Man Grey 5*: Mechtanium Surge Arc 2*, she has become a news reporter for Mega City.

## Appearance

Julie is a young, pretty girl with very tanned skin, long, pinkish-white hair that is always in a side ponytail, and blue eyes. She has long tanned legs.

Julie enjoys dressing immodestly (particularly to attract boys), always wearing clothes fit for summer months. She is particularly fond of leaving her midriff (belly) and long legs completely exposed.

In Grey 1, she wears a pink midriff-baring outfit with white fingerless gloves that covers her forearms. Her belly button is visible. She wears headphones and a portable music player attached to her right shoulder (but is rarely seen listening to it). She wears white boots that matches her white hair.

In Grey 2: *New Vestroia*, Julie wears a bleached rainbow half-shirt with red shorts and a red scrunched and a gold heart hair clip, unlike the gold scrunched and pink hair clip in the original season, A purple t-swell seeker paddle mid shorts bodysuit.

In Grey 3: *Gundalian Invaders*, Julie's outfit changes to a dark blue belly shirt and sometimes a green jacket. She wears a pink waitress uniform as well as a cheerleader's.

In Grey 5: *Mechtanium Surge Arc 2*, Julie wears a black tank top with a pink jacket. She also wears white shorts.

## Personality

She may come off a bit scatter-brained, but Julie can compete with the best Bakugan brawlers. She is bubbly, extroverted, and adores Grey (whom she calls "darling" in the Japanese version, but now calls him in his real name since Season 4). Because she saw herself as Grey's number one fan, she and Runo Misaki often clashed out of jealousy. However, after her attentions turned to Billy, she and Runo went on to become best friends.

She tries to help out and give helpful advice whenever someone needs it. In Reploid's Advent, *New Vestroia* and *Gundalian Invaders*, she advises Vincent Karthog, Mira Fermin and Jake Vallory, the brawlers that filled the Subterra positions in the Battle Brawlers, how to properly brawl in their element.

## Mega Man Grey

In the beginning of the series, she only made appearances chatting with the other Battle Brawlers in a chat room on the site, and would usually be eager to hear if Grey had won any battles or not.

She makes her first in-person appearance battling her childhood friend Billy and being defeated easily due to the appearance of his talking Bakugan, Cycloid, making her upset that all her friends had talking Bakugan. On a day off from school, she spent the whole day looking for one, almost getting stung by scorpions, bitten by venomous spiders, and falling off a steep cliff, with absolutely no results. After returning to her room, in her depression, she started crying, until a Bakugan named Gorem spoke to her. Gorem befriended her, and together, they defeated Billy in a rematch.[1]

When she discovers that Billy had joined Masquerade, she is crushed by this fact.

She and Shun Kazami challenged Komba O'Charlie, her neighbor, and Billy. In their battle, she lost both Tuskor and Rattleoid (although they later reappear[2]), and nearly lost Gorem though with Shun's help, he was saved. By the end, they pulled it together and defeated them both.[3]

In Julie Plays "Hard Brawl", she follows Dan around since she is still upset over Billy, which resulted in Runo calling her a "dog". She states that she would do anything to free Billy from Masquerade's grip. This leads to another brawl between the two and almost leading her and Gorem to be banished to the Doom Dimension forever. Fortunately, she was able to convince him otherwise, and Billy ends up quitting Masquerade's team.[2]

Through the series, she tackles or bear hugs Grey whenever he wins a brawl, ticking off Runo.[4][5]

When Billy was defeated by Masquerade, somehow Julie sensed that something was and wrong, and it was proven true when Joe Brown told everyone about what happened to them.

She watches Grey's match against Masquerade and tries her best to encourage everyone after he was sent to the Doom Dimension with Drago and Dan.

When the brawlers ended up in the Doom Dimension with Dan, she tackled him to the ground as usual, but didn't seem happy to see them, at first.

She is then tested by Clayf, one of the Legendary Soldiers of Vestroia In order to return to Earth, she must battle against an illusion of her sister, Daisy, making her think she wasn't special and how Daisy would always out do her at everything. Her realization that she is special and doesn't need to compare herself to her sister, allows Gorem to evolve into Hammer Gorem.[6]

She makes another appearance during Dan's test and along with the rest of the Battle Brawlers as illusionary clowns.

She battles Dan first to get Drago to evolve, where it is revealed that she has moved up to eighth place in rankings. At first, he didn’t want to battle her, worrying that she would fall off Hammer Gorem, but due her words of encouragement convince him to use his ability, win, and catch her before she fell.[7]

When the Brawlers were in Vestroia, she didn't do much in the Ventus/Aquos world besides having Hammer Gorem find the next world. She and Runo stay behind in the Subterra/Haos world to slow down the Subterra-Haos Hybrids Rabeeder and Tricloid, challenging them to a race and stalling for time until Grey, Dan and Drago reached the portal. When Grey, Drago and Hydranoid thought they defeated Centorrior and Druman, Julie and the rest of the gang re-appear, although they never revealed how they were freed.

She later faces Tricloid again alongside Billy and Nene and defeats her. It was also revealed in that episode that Julie and Billy really did have feelings for each other and of course she asked Billy on a date to which he said "Okay...".[8]

She later helps Grey to defeat and destroy Naga.

## Trivia

* Julie, Dan, Alice and Runo are the second youngest out of the seven heroes.
* Julie is the only Brawler (in Mega Man Grey 2*: New Vestroia*) that didn't have a direct battle against a Vexos.
* In the Japanese version Julie spices up her speech with English words and phrases, making her way of speaking different from the other characters. It's briefly explained that Julie was still learning to speak Japanese, as she is from Australia rather than Japan like the others. She also refers to herself by her name, rather than pronouns.
* In the Mega Man Grey 2 & 6, Julie's outfit (as with Runo's) was censored, by coloring her torso and legs purple.
* Billy refers to her as "BakuBabe", which apparently angers her.