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Anzu Mazaki (真崎杏子 Mazaki Anzu), known in the English anime and English video games as Téa Gardner (oftentimes written as Tea), is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!. In some English games, her name is incorrectly transliterated as Anzu Shinzaki or Kyoko Mazaki.

Anzu, who is in class 1-B at Domino High School, is the childhood friend of Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto in the English anime). She is also good friends with Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) and Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor), though she is not fond of them at first. In the first series anime, Miho Nosaka is also one of Anzu's friends. Anzu does not usually play games with Yugi and his friends, but in the beginning of the show, she can beat Jonouchi in Magic and Wizards, also known as Duel Monsters, while she herself is not that strong a player.

In the manga, especially in the beginning, Anzu has a spunky, tomboyish personality, and in the first chapter, is able to scare away Honda and Jonouchi after they bully Yugi. She's very kind hearted, strong willed and supportive, yet she can also be seen in some parts of the series as a quick-tempered, pushy, mischievous and somewhat bratty girl who likes doing everything her friends do. In the Duel Monsters anime, she and Honda, while keeping their personalities somewhat the same, are basically cheerleaders for Yugi and Jonouchi. She is known among fans of the Duel Monsters English anime for her "friendship speeches", as she makes one in the majority of the episodes she appears in.

While Anzu is athletic, she holds jobs to save money in order to attend dance school in New York City. In the beginning of the series, she is revealed to be working at "Burger World" (in the English Duel Monsters anime, "Burgerpalooza"). By Volume 4 in the manga, Anzu is fired from that job for punching a customer who pinched her buttocks. She gets a job at KaibaCorp afterwards and encounters her friends at KaibaLand. In the Toei anime, Anzu, Honda, and Miho work at Burger World, with Miho and Honda working to support Anzu. Once Burger World closes down, Honda and Miho work for a beef bowl restaurant.

In the original Japanese versions of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Anzu's speech isn't that polite. Anzu omits honorific suffixes when talking to many people, including Jonouchi and Honda. In Toei's anime, she uses "kun" when referring to Honda and Jonouchi.

Anzu is in love with Yugi, but is uncertain if it is Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) or regular Yugi that she loves more. Even though she has been friends with Yugi since childhood she is unaware that he is in love with her. The story of Anzu's affection for Yugi differs from medium to medium and is a hot debate topic among the fans.

Image:Anzumazaki0.PNG In the manga and the first series anime, Anzu is held hostage at Burger World by Prisoner number 777, who demanded cigarettes and vodka. Dark Yugi challenges him to a shadow game, which stipulated that each person can move only one finger. Yugi tricks the prisoner into a situation where if he fired the gun at him, he would set himself on fire, allowing him to free Anzu. In the manga, the prisoner sets himself on fire anyway when his cigarette drops from his mouth; while in the anime, he drops the gun and removes the lighter from his hand, prompting Yugi to give him a penalty game; the prisoner imagines himself set on fire. Since the prisoner was the manager of the restaurant, Burger World was closed down afterwards. The manga has been translated into English but the first series of the anime has not been translated.

Image:AnzuToei.PNG In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime (which was translated for a North American release), after Yugi's friends find out she worked at the restaurant, she receives a note in her locker. In the Japanese version of this anime, the note, written on the back of a photograph showing her working at the restaurant, threatened that the school will be told that she has an after school job (not allowed except in certain situations) if she doesn't come to the gym after school. When Anzu shows up, she finds the gym teacher with a camera videotaping her body; it is implied that he was the one who wrote the note.

Image:AnzuSecond.PNG In the English version, the note, which had a picture of dancing shoes, stated that the warehouse was a good place to take dancing lessons, and the man Téa encountered was a mugger instead of her gym teacher. Yugi appears and jumps the man. The girl bites the man's arm, and she is knocked unconscious against a wall. Dark Yugi a.k.a. Yami Yugi challenges the man to a game where whoever draws a better Duel Monsters card wins. Yugi's Dark Magician defeats the man's Curse of Dragon. In both the Japanese and English version, the man is a victim to a Mind Crush.

In a manga chapter (Duel 45: 13 O'clock Terror!), when on a date with Yugi Anzu is so perterbed at him apparently ignoring her that she goes to extreme measures and plays a little joke on Yugi. She makes Yugi fearful for her safety by going onto a ferris wheel when it was known that a bomber was in the park; she was "pretending" to be in danger so she could "make the Yugi she wants to appear" (Dark Yugi), not knowing that she placed herself in danger of being blown up for real. She is rescued by Dark Yugi, so her ploy succeeds in the end.

In the manga and the anime for much of the series Anzu believes that Dark Yugi is a more mature personality of regular Yugi. While at Duelist Kingdom (Duel 80: The Man Who Comes With the Night!) Yugi tells Anzu that he "knows" that she prefers Dark Yugi. When he offers to switch out with Dark Yugi to give them time alone, Anzu stops Yugi and tells him that there's no need because Yugi and Dark Yugi are both Yugi, so there's no need for him to change, as she cares for both "personalities". It is only later on in the series (Duel 146: Stones of Old), when Yugi is in the hospital after trying to save Dark Yugi that she finally accepts the fact that Yugi and Dark Yugi are two seperate people. This then causes quite a bit of confusion as to who Anzu is really in love with: Yugi or Dark Yugi.

"Anzu" in Japanese is an apricot or apricot tree.

1 Notable Dueling Cards
2 Reference

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Notable Dueling Cards

Anzu uses a deck full of mostly fairy cards. She only duels twice during the course of the series, although due to a character's words in the English dub, she has actually dueled 6 times.

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