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Mai Kujaku (孔雀 舞 Kujaku Mai), known as Mai Valentine in the English anime and English video games, is a character in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh! and the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (known as simply Yu-Gi-Oh! in English-speaking countries).
In the Japanese version of the anime, her name is spelled Mai Kujyaku while in the English manga her surname is spelled Kujaku. In the English Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses video game, she is Margaret Mai Beaufort.
Mai is a self absorbed woman who likes to buy makeup with her prize money. She once worked as a waitress, lost in life, until finding purpose with Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto in the English anime) and his friends. Mai first appears in the Duelist Kingdom arc of the manga. She loses the first duel she is seen particpating in to Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler in the English anime). In the actual tournament, she loses to Yugi. In Battle City, she loses to Marik Ishtar. In the English anime, she is sent to the Shadow Realm after she loses to Marik, but she is later pulled out by Yugi. In the Doma arc of the anime, Mai turns evil but becomes good again.
Rumor has it she likes Jonouchi--and rumor has it he likes her. Mai is also a role model to Shizuka Kawai (Serenity Wheeler in the English anime, Shizuka Jonouchi in the first series anime). "Kujaku" means "peahen". In the English anime, Mai calls Joey by his last name, while almost everyone in the manga and the original Japanese anime calls Jonouchi by his last name.
Her name in the English anime is a pun of "My Valentine".
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