Shun Kazami

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* Castle Knight
* MSA1
* MSA2

*For the character in the Battle Planet series, see Shun Kazami (Battle Planet).*

—**Shun**, Battle For the Second Shield
**Shun Kazami** (風見 駿 (シュン), *Kazami Shun***?**) is one of the characters of the anime series *Bakugan Battle Brawlers 1: Original Series*, *Bakugan Battle Brawlers 2: Reploids Advent,* *Bakugan Battle Brawlers 3: New Vestroia*, *Bakugan Battle Brawlers 4: Gundalian Invaders,* *Bakugan Battle Brawlers 5: Mechtanium Surge* and *Bakugan Battle Brawlers 6: Battle Force*.

He is one of the inventors of Bakugan brawling, and was originally the best brawler worldwide before Marduk and Masquerade and their minions took over the rankings and he got dropped to sixth place. Due to various personal circumstances with his grandfather, he temporarily resigned from brawling until he was convinced to join the Battle Brawlers as their Ventus brawler.

## Bakugan

He is a Ventus brawler. He approaches Bakugan like a ninja. He lives with his grandfather (who used to be a famous ninja warrior) who once expected Shun to follow in his footsteps instead of playing Bakugan. His first Guardian Bakugan is a Ventus-attribute Skyress whom Shun received from his now-comatose mother in the hospital.

In battle, Shun combines his knowledge of ninja skills and his Bakugan's natural abilities to outwit an opponent and win. In New Vestroia, he battles with Ingram, and wields a Bakugan Trap called Hylash. During the Neathian-Gundalian War, he worked with a Neathian Bakugan called Hawktor. Later on he used another Neathian Bakugan called Taylean. He now uses Jaakor.

### Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Original Series

Shun is a Ventus Brawler. His Guardian Bakugan is Skyress which takes the form of a Green Phoenix. She evolves into Storm Skyress. Unlike most of the Brawlers, he does not have a large collection of Ventus Bakugan and only has four Bakugan shown while most of the other Brawlers have ten and over.

* Ventus Skyress (First Guardian Bakugan)
	+ Ventus Storm Skyress (Evolved First Guardian Bakugan - Evolved in episode 54)
* Ventus Monarus
* Ventus Ravenoid
* Ventus Falconeer

### Bakugan Battle Brawlers 2: Reploids Advent

* Ventus Storm Skyress (First Guardian Bakugan)

### Bakugan Battle Brawlers 3: New Vestroia

Shun still uses Ventus Bakugan. He has a New Guardian Bakugan called Ingram and a Bakugan Trap known as Hylash which hooks up with Ingram for High Mobility Mode. He got Ingram from when he was about to be abducted by the Vestals. He was his Temporary Guardian until episode 26, where Skyress decides to make Ingram Shun's Worthy Partner.

* Ventus Storm Skyress (First Guardian Bakugan - Used in episode 41 battling Lync)
* Ventus Ingram (Second Guardian Bakugan - Permanent after Skyress decides to stay in New Vestroia)
	+ Ventus Master Ingram (Evolved Second Guardian Bakugan - Evolved in episode 34, when Ingram received the Ventus Attribute Energy from Oberus)
* Ventus Hawktor (Third Guardian Bakugan - Used in last episode to test out Bakugan Interspace)
* Ventus Hylash (Bakugan Trap) (Killed in episode 71)
* Ventus Shadow Wing (Master Ingram's Ability Bakugan)
* Haos Hammersaur (Taken from in Vanessa episode 13)

### Bakugan Battle Brawlers 4: Gundalian Invaders

Ventus Hawktor becomes Shun's Guardian Bakugan for Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders. Swayther is his Battle Gear. It is unknown about Master Ingram's whereabouts during these Events in the series, it could be inferred that, like Sharktor, Elfin, Tigrerra, Wolfunoid, Gorem and Dyrex, he returned to New Vestroia.

* Ventus Hawktor (Third Guardian Bakugan - First the Digital Clone - Then the real Bakugan, left on Neathia.)
* Silver Swayther (Battle Gear, left on Neathia.)
* Pyrus Lumino Dragonoid (Swapped with Dan temporarily in episode 33, returned in episode 36)

### Bakugan Battle Brawlers 5: Mechtanium Surge

In Mechtanium Surge, Shun is partnered with Ventus Taylean in arc 1, and with Jaakor in arc 2. Taylean is a Neathian Bakugan and Jaakor is from New Vestroia, and both are Shun's Bakugan partners that does not resemble a bird or have wings.

Arc 1
* Ventus Taylean (Fourth Guardian Bakugan) (Went to New Vestroia prior to Evil Arrival)
* Ventus/Pyrus Mutant Taylean (BakuMutant)
* Gold Hammermor (BakuNano) (Taylean's BakuNano) (Received From Marie)
* Ventus Silent Strike (Mechtogan) (Taylean's Mechtogan)
* Ventus Faser Titan (Mechtogan Titan) (Taylean's Mechtogan Titan)
* Ventus Zoompha (First Mobile Assault)
* Ventus Blasterate (Battle Suit) (First Battle Suit) (Given by Spectra)

Arc 2
* Ventus Jaakor (Fifth Guardian Bakugan) (Obtained prior to Evil Arrival)
* Ventus Fortatron (Battle Suit) (Second Battle Suit) (Given by Mira)
* Darkus Skytruss (Temporary Guardian Bakugan - Reunited with Jim Parsons) (Obtained by whistling)
* Darkus Orbeum (Temporary Guardian Bakugan - Reunited with Jim Parsons) (Obtained by whistling)
* Ventus/Darkus Magmafury (Baku Sky Raider Combination of Jaakor, Skytruss, and Orbeum) (Shared with Jim)
* Ventus Thorak (Second Mechtogan) (Jaakor's Mechtogan)
* Ventus/Aquos Duomechtra (Mechtogan Combination) (Shared with Wynton)

### Bakugan Battle Brawlers 6: Battle Force

* Ventus Falconoid (Sixth Guardian Bakugan)
	+ Ventus Jade Falconoid (Sixth Evolved Guardian Bakugan)
	+ Ventus Hurricane Falconoid (Sixth Evolved Guardian Bakugan)
* Silver Swayther (Battle Gear)
* Gold Hammermor (BakuNano)
* Ventus Zoompha (Bakugan Mobile Assault)
* Ventus Blasterate (1st Battle Suit)
* Ventus Fortatron (2nd Battle Suit)

## Appearance

Shun's outfit in *Bakugan Battle Brawlers* was a blue shirt, covered with a thin purple shirt with a triangular-backed ending. He had black pants with a brown zipper like designs on around them. His black hair consists of two layers. The first layer of hair is the front all one his forehead, and his second layer is the straight hair tied up with a ponytail. His light brown eyes are in an upset mood.

In *Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia*, Shun's outfit consists of a fully black sweater-like turtleneck, gloves that reach to his elbows, black Vestal jeans that he stole along with the rest of the outfit from when he infiltrated the Vestals after he saved Ingram. He has black rubber boots that almost goes to his knees. He later wears a long green vest up to his knees with a belt on the side when its open. When he is on Earth he wears black pants with a black shirt with green markings. Shun's hair is almost the same only the difference is that he cut off his ponytail and his hair is now up to his neck.

In *Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders*, he wears a green ninja style shirt with purple and gold trimming, black pants, black wrist bands and purple and green boots. he has Neathian pupils in *EP 28*.

In Arc 1 of *Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge,* Shun sports a light green shirt under a white shirt with dark green trimming, a dark green choker, tan colored pants and light brown boots. His hair is starting to grow more.

In Arc 2, he wears a black jacket and a green shirt with white pants along with black shoes.

## Biography

Shun Kazami lives in the province and is a Ventus attributed brawler. He is also an aspiring ninja, receiving training from his grandfather. He is a loner, yet is still willing to help his friends at all costs. Together with Dan and Grey Ikenami, his best friend and childhood friend, he invented the gameplay for Bakugan. He had been the first ranked battler until Masquerade and his minions dominated the rankings and because his grandfather didn't let him play, ending up in 6th place. Marucho and Runo try to convince Shun to join the brawlers, but he defeats both of them in battle. Masquerade decides to recruit Shun to his side although during a battle with Grey he leaves and helps Grey beat him then he beats Grey in a one on one battle. After joining the bralwers he jornies with them to Bakugan valley and faces Billy, Riley and Komba alongside Julie and Grey eventually winning. After defeating Komba in a rematch, he ends up fifth. Shun is currently in 3rd place.

His mother was really sick and it was when she slipped into a coma that Shun gave up on Bakugan, mainly because his grandfather stated that since he has to take custody of Shun until his mother gets better, he can't play the game anymore and has to concentrate on his training. His grandfather lets him brawl again, though.

### Bakugan: New Vestroia

Shun, now 16 years old, is first mentioned when Dan complains about not being able to reach him. He makes a cameo debut after Wynton passes out from his battle against Mylene Farrow. We hear Mylene tell him that she doesn't want to keep losing to him and asks him if he wants to join the Vexos. When he doesn't reply, she takes that as a no. Shun then leaves, leaving Mira to wonder if he was her brother Keith.

In the Japanese/Funimation Ending of episode 72, he is seen with Alice, Wynton, Grey, Leon and Ingram as they watch Marucho repairing Bakugan Interspace. At the end of New Vestroia, one week later, Bakugan Interspace is completely repaired. During this time, Hawktor becomes his new Guardian Bakugan, with no word as to Ingram's fate, people named Ren Krawler and Anne Pearce appear, asking Dan, Grey, Wynton, Runo, Shun and Julie if they are the Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

### Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders

Shun is seen competing in a battle in Bakugan Interspace with the synthetic Ventus Hawktor as his partner. He battles Shuji and Koji Beetle along with Grey in arena F-12. He is ranked the #3 brawler in Bakugan Interspace, right between Grey and Wynton. He is then seen watching Dan, Grey, Anne and Ren battle which ends with a huge explosion.

## Trivia

* In the original series, Shun is the only brawler to win a battle outnumbered against Marucho and Runo. He is also the only brawler to perfectly win a match without losing any Bakugan in the Doom Dimension, when battling Komba in a rematch.
* Between the original series and *New Vestroia*, Shun cut his hair. It began to grow out in *Mechtanium Surge*.
* Shun, Ryusei and Kaede are the second oldest out of the 12 by 1 year.
* Some early promotional material for *New Vestroia* depicts Shun's outfit in different colors.
* Shun is one of the only two characters who have a former Guardian Bakugan and two new Guardian Bakugan during the events of New Vestroia, the other being Marucho.
* Shun's last name, Kazami, means "Wind Watching". Similarly, his first name in Japanese, 駿 (*shun*), means "Speed". His whole name, transliterated from Japanese, means "Wind Sees Speed".
* With the exception of Skyress, all of his Bakugan have some similarities affiliated with being ninja-like and lacking a mouth.
	+ Also with the exception of Taylean, Jaakor and Orbeum, most of his other Bakugan have similarities to birds.
* In the original version, with the exception of his generic Bakugan, all of his abilities are named after ninja techniques.
	+ Also, Skyress is his only Guardian Bakugan to not have a **Kazami Style** ability.
* Shun Kazami shares his first name and initials as Shun Kurosaki of Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC V. Both of them also have bird related monsters.
* Shun's Castle Knight uniform bear resemble with Uryū Ishida's Quincy Uniform from BLEACH in anime-only arc, Bount Arc.
* Shun's Mectanium Surge arc 1 outfit resembles Cheren's Pokémon Black2 White2 outfit.
* Shun looks a bit like Dragon Shiryū from *Saint Seiya*, while he also shares the same name of another character of the same anime: Andromeda Shun.
* Shun is one of a few human beings (and their alike, such as Vestals, Gundalians and Neathians) that can not only combat but actually harm Bakugan on their own power. This is prominently shown in *Showdown in Wardington* and *The Prodigal Bakugan*.
* Shun is inhumanly agile, as witnessed many times with him performing many jumps and other acrobatic feats that are impossible for most humans. He also can move at rather high velocities, enough to keep up with and escape motorized vehicles.
* Unlike Shun's Battle Planet counterpart; he is an Ventus brawler, instead of a Aquos brawler.