Shun Kurosaki

"We will always take back our comrades!"

- Shun's will to protect his friends.

Shun Kurosaki ( Kurosaki Shun) is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime. He is an Xyz User and is one of Yūto's comrades and Ruri Kurosaki's older brother. At the beginning, Shun was targeting LDS to capture Reiji Akaba until he was offered the chance to enter the Maiami Championship to fight against Reo Akaba.

Appearance
Shun has short, black hair and a teal colored bang that is swept to the side. It is also overlapped by the black part of his hair. He has pale skin and yellow, bird-like eyes. Like Yūto, Shun concealed his face with black sun glasses and a red scarf covering half of his face; Now he wears it around his neck. He wears a long, blue jacket with ripped trimmings below, accompanied with grey, tight pants and brown, business-like shoes. He is also as tall as Reiji.

Personality
Unlike Yūto, Shun acts recklessly and irrationally when it comes to issues on the battlefield. When in a negative or battling mood, Shun's sense of distinguishing between friend or foe is to no avail as he warned Yūto that he would crush him too if he was going to interfere. He displays huge amounts of anger and hatred towards any opponent or duelist who uses Fusion Summoning. Despite such a stone heart, Shun is also sensitive and caring towards his younger sister, Ruri and also to his other comrades as well who he promises to save them. During some occasions, Shun can take the time to listen to other people's opinions or what they have to say and agree in a sensible manner. When dueling, Shun tends to trail off and begin talking about the battlefield he faced with his comrades. Other times, he remains quiet and unresponsive - ignoring and paying no heed to those he dislikes or have nothing to say.

Abilities
Shun possesses the ability to summon duel monsters to life and inflict destructive damage to his opponent or enemy, though the reasons to why or how this is possible is still unknown. Like in the older series, Shun is able to seal an individual's soul inside a card. However, unlike the older series, Shun seals the individual's entire body away, not just the soul. Like Yuto, Shun also has highly athletic ability, as he is capable of landing from high distances and dodging incoming attacks.

Etymology
Shun's given name means 'Falcon'. His family name can be read by sperating the two syllables apart. Kuro means "Black" and Saki means "Bloom" or "Cape".

Past
In the destroyed Heartland, Shun and several other Duelists arrived to witness the clash between Yuto and Yugo. Due to the high numbers, Yugo retreated and Shun asking about Ruri to Yuto. The response he got pushed him to curse in anger as Yuto did not know where Ruri's whereabouts were.

Story
Shun appeared standing on a building not far away from the building of LDS. His duel disk was scanning for something or someone inside the infrastructure. Before this, however, Shun had attacked one of the teachers, Professor Marco, of LDS and sealed him inside a card.

Upon his second appearance, Shun was dueling a member of LDS's top team as Yūto arrived, due to being warped by Yuzu's bracelet. He was then found standing in the middle of an ally way with "Raid Raptors - Vanishing Rainias" behind him, encountering Yūya Sakaki. After noticing the LDS badges of one of the men chasing Yūya, Shun challenged them, brought out his Xyz Monster and sealed them in cards. Yūya was knocked out and Mr. Sawatari ran out of fright.

After Masumi Kōtsu mentioned that she was from LDS, when confronting Yuzu Hīragi, Shun knocked Yuzu aside and stood before Masumi challenging her to a duel. As Masumi continued to back away, Shun was stopped halfway through the crisis by Yūto. Angrily, Shun scolded Yūto and soon noticed Yuzu although he was mistaking her for his sister. After he got too excited, Yūto punched Shun to knock him out and both were teleported away by Yuzu's bracelet.

The next day, Shun stood out in the opening waiting for the arrival of Masumi. Shun insulted her professor, confessed that he was the perpetrator and challenged her to a duel. Shun told her that two more duelists wouldn't help her defeat him after Masumi contacted Hokuto Shijima and Yaiba Tōdō. They decided to duel in Battle Royale mode with Masumi ending her turn with a monster and a face-down card. Shun followed, summoning three "Raid Raptor - Vanishing Rainas" to the field and setting two cards face-down. Hokuto and Yaiba wasted no time to bring out their respective Xyz and Synchro Monsters as well as ridding Shun's field of his monsters and discarding his entire hand. Masumi brought "Gem-Knight Lady Lapis Lazuli" and her ace "Gem-Knight Master Diamond" using their effect damage to lower Shun's LP. Shun manages to fend of the rest of the effect and battle damage and quickly summoned his ace, "Raid Raptors - Rise Falcon". With its destructive damage, Shun managed to destroy all Extra Deck monsters on the trios' side of the field and wins the duel. The impact of the attack knocked all three out and LDS arrived on the scene. Shun immediately asked for the boss as Reiji quietly walked up to him.

After Reiji's appearance, Shun challenged Reiji to a duel only for him to be asked why was he attacking LDS. Shun responded saying he did not need to know that. Reiji deduced that it was to save their dear comrades who are currently captured by his father, Reo Akaba. Shun then added that he attacked LDS to draw Reiji out and use him as a hostage for the release of Ruri. Although Reiji tells Shun that he doubted that his father would value him that much, he tells him to join LDS's group in the tournament to fight against Reo. Reiji explained that in the tournament there were two duelists he wanted Shun to observe: One who used real Fusions and another who uses a Summoning method Shun was not familiar with.

Shun was later seen on the monitor by Yūya and Yuzu with LDS, as he had agreed to fight in the championship. He kept his distance from the group and found out that his opponent would be Sora Shiun'in, the Fusion Duelist that Reiji had previously referred to. Shun passed by Sora at one point releasing tension between the two. He later watched Yuzu's duel with Masumi but left shortly after seeing her use Fusions. During Yūya's and Shingo Sawatari's Duel, Shun secluded himself away from the crowd and quietly observed the Pendulum Summons presented in the duel. After Yuya's duel with Sawatri was over, Shun faced Sora and said to him that he will show no mercy if he was a Fusion user. During their Duel, Shun began to talk about battlefield and this then promts Sora to get serious. He was voielently taunted by Sora and then talked about Resistance. He also defeated Sora ruthlessly after the match. He then approached Sora who claimed to have a rematch but Reiji then warned him to not take any action in public as they could learn more about Sora  who is said to be Academia and he also left ignoring Sora's injuries.

Expectations and Speculations
-Reiji's counterpart.

-At one point (due to the episode being released without subs) he was thought to be Ruri's boyfriend.

-Rio Kastle's son or her descendent/Barian.

-A Barian who lost all of his memories when he was sent to Earth.