Hokuto Shijima

Hokuto Shijima ( Shijima Hokuto) is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime. He is the Xyz Course Representative at Leo Duel School.

Appearance
Hokuto appears to be the tallest out of Masumi Kōtsu and Yaiba Tōdō. He has short purple hair and blue eyes. Hokuto's outfit consists of a gold circlet that wraps around his head and has a star on the left front side of it. He wears a short dark blue and light purple sweater and underneath he wears what appears to be a light lavender one-piece shirt that that splits open right under his waist and keeps going down and ends right under his knees. On his sweater, he wears his LDS pin. Hokuto wears white pants and golden color shoes. He keeps his deck in a dark navy blue holster which he wears around his waist.

Personality
Hokuto has a callous, almost cruel manner of Action Dueling, apparently not concerned with the safety of his opponent. During his duel against Yūya, Hokuto repeatedly timed his actions in a way that could have potentially caused considerable harm to Yūya, such as when he chose to return "Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon" to Yūya's hand, Yūya almost fell off of a roof. He also likes to play on his knowledge of the Action Card drops of "Cosmo Sanctuary" to cut his opponents off.

Hokuto also seems to have a bit of a superiority complex. Taking a mere 500 damage from Yūya's card effect was enough to send him into a rage. His pride is also shown to be quite fragile, as seen when Masumi Kōtsu pointed out how he lost, was enough to send him sulking into a corner. He was also incensed at Shun's use of Xyz Monsters to commit attacks against LDS and vowed to prove that LDS's Xyz was the strongest.

After his duel with Yūya, Hokuto has shown less arrogance and doesn't boast as much as he did prior to a Duel.

Etymology
"Hokuto" is the Japanese name of the Big Dipper and an alternate name for the North Star. His English dub name, "Dipper", is derived directly from the Big Dipper itself. This is noted in the anime: Dipper himself also said that "Cosmo Sanctuary" was the best-suitable Action Field for him.