Yōko Sakaki

Yōko Sakaki ( Sakaki Yōko) is a character in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime. She is the mother of Yūya Sakaki and the wife of Yūshō Sakaki.

Appearance
Yōko is a fairly tall and youthful-looking woman of slender built with blue eyes and light skin. She has long blond hair the front bangs being golden in color. Her hair is tied in a ponytail and sections out as spikes. Her bangs part to the right side and frame her face. She is commonly seen wearing and aqua-colored long-sleeve shirt and blue jeans with brown low shoes. She also accessories with silver big-loop earrings, two golden bands on her left wrist, and a small golden necklace hanging under her neck.

Personality
Yōko is a kind-hearted woman, and is shown to care a lot for Yūya. She understands his true feelings, as seen when she told Shūzō Hīragi that Yūya spent the last several years acting like a clown to cope with Yūshō Sakaki's disappearance.

However, Yōko is easily charmed by anything she deems cute, such as Sora Shiun'in when he stayed at the Sakaki residence, up to the point she gave Yūya's breakfast to him, as well as several other young boys such as Michio Mokota and Dennis Macfield. In these situations, she will not hesitate to support them more frequently than her own son. Yōko's love for cute things also has caused her to adopt several cats and dogs, including En, Core, Kilo and Watt. In the past, Yōko had a brutal personality and enjoyed defeating her opponents mercilessly, whether they were rival gangs or pushy men. Her meeting with Yūshō Sakaki changed her outlook in life.

Past
In her youth, Yōko was the leader of a biker gang, the Maiami Queens, as "Shooting Star Yōko". At one point, one of her teammates was held hostage by a member of a rival gang. Yūshō Sakaki stepped in and saved her. Yōko was touched by Yūshō's ability to end fights peacefully without violence and developed feelings for Yūshō. The two of them eventually got married and had a son, Yūya Sakaki, together.

Yōko appeared with Yūya in a tournament that her husband, Yūshō Sakaki, was in. When Yūya said he'd duel in place of his dad, Yūshō, Yōko told Yūya to stop it now.

Pre-Maiami Championship
Yōko showed up during Yūya's Duel against Strong Ishijima. She told Shūzō Hīragi, Yuzu Hīragi and Noboru Gongenzaka about Yūya's behavior: he had acted like a clown to cope with Yūshō's disappearance and reinvented himself while Dueling. She watched the rest of the Duel with the three, and was proud of her son when he won.

Yōko eventually invited Sora Shiun'in to stay at the Sakaki residence, to Yūya's annoyance. She prepared breakfast for the two boys, but she was taken in by Sora's cuteness after he called her Yūya's older sister rather than his mother, causing her to give Yūya's food to him.

After the events involving between You Show Duel School and LDS Yōko then came to watch Yūya's duel against Shūzō but left early before the duel could end.

Yōko made an appearance during Yūya's duel with Michio Mokota. Having failed to make one of his recipes due to its complexity, Yōko converted it into a pancake sandwich, which infuriated Michio. She smiled as her son wins the duel.

Yōko and the other staff and students of the You Show Duel School are spectators during Yūya's duel with Gongenzaka.

Maiami Championship
The day of the Championship, Yōko found Yūya sits on a bridge railing who looking at the Dueling Arena. She chided Yūya, telling him that she just got a call from Yuzu and everyone was worried because he went missing. She said that he picked the wrong place and if he wanted to tell his father something, he wouldn't do it here but there, pointing at the stadium. During the opening proceedings, she and Shūzō cheered Yūya and the others. After Yūya's brief mess-up and subsequent speech, Shūzō believed that Yūya could catch the famed duelist Yūshō Sakaki but Yōko affirmed that he could surpass Yūshō. Later, she watched Yuzu Duel Masumi and Gongenzaka Duel Gen Ankokuji.