You Asakura

You Asakura is the main protagonist from the Shaman King anime and manga.

You is the main heir of the Asakura Family and the maternal twin brother of the series main antagonist Asakura Hao. During the Shaman Fights in the year 2000, he becomes a member and the leader of Team "Funbari Onsen". Sometime after the tournament, You marries his longtime fiancé, Anna and together they had a son, named Asakura Hana.

Appearance
You is 13 years old at the beginning of the Shaman King series and a normal teenage boy. He has neck-length dark brown hair and he is constantly seen wearing a pair of orange headphones behind or on his ears. He normally wears his school uniform with his shirt constantly open but when it gets cold he will button up his shirt, wear a necktie and the standard school uniform jacket.

In combat, he wore a black vest and trimmed shorts with an orange lining, and wrap-up sandals. During the second round of the Shaman Fights, he is depicted wearing a shirt with a Funbari Onsen advertisement on it and sweatpants with sandals, and long black trousers, also with wrap up sandals.

In between the battles of the Second Round of the Shaman Fights, he wore a yukata, a blue robe tied together with an orange sash around the waist, where he keeps Amidamaru's memory tablet. Around his chest of his robes is yet another advertisement for Funbari Onsen and over his shoulders, he also wears a black cape.

Around the age of 17 and when Hana was still only a baby, he began to dress in jeans pants, a short-sleeved white t-shirt and a plaid printed scarf. His hair was slightly longer and just past his shoulders. At the age of 22 Yoh's hair is now waist length and wavier. He no longer wears his orange colored headphones and bear claw necklace and instead of an open shirt, he now wears a plain white t-shirt. Attached to his orange pants is one of Hao's star earrings and he now wears brown leather sandals.

Personality
As a slacker by nature, You maintains a carefree, with a laid-back attitude about everything, even with achieving his goal of becoming Shaman King. Because he was alienated by everyone outside of the family he instead chose to bond with spirits and has decided that anyone who can see spirits cannot be evil. He has even gotten a signature catchphrase: "everything will work out" ("Subete ga Umaku Iku") as a way of seeing things. He is rarely on bad terms with anyone and always decides to make friends with the people he meets. He is deeply caring for his best friends and is even ready to die for them or give up his dreams as seen when Tao Ren was killed and would be revived by Iron Maiden Jeanne, only if You dropped out of the tournament. Although he has a kind and caring nature, when he talked with Asakura Hao inside the Great Spirit, he revealed that he didn't like humans that much either.

Even though it is rarely seen, You truly cares about Anna and has decided that, when he becomes Shaman King, he will make her life easy. Simply by seeing her face for the first time, it made him blush. Before he left to America for the Shaman Fight, Anna asked him "Tonight... may I sleep beside you?" and his response was "Yes."

Abilities
Ever since Anna became his fiancée, You has constantly been submitted to exhausting and painful training which in turn caused him to gain a tougher and stronger body. During the battle, he is very flexible, intuitive and completely relaxed and calm at the same time. It is due to this relaxed and calm attitude that he learns to negate Furyoku attacks, a skill that is likened to a grass straw bending with the wind to avoid breaking. He later develops this skill into a technique that completely nullifies Furyoku and he learns to channel it through his Over Soul or using it by grabbing his opponent directly for more devastating effects.

Yoh becomes one of the Five Elemental Warriors and attunes his Furyoku to that of earth, this is first shown as he used metal to survive the lightning attack from Ren. While fighting his way through the Plants, Kyōyama Annalooked through the Furyoku values of Yoh and the others. There it is revealed that his Furyoku is about 108,000.

Shamanic Spells
As a shaman, Yoh has learned many techniques, amongst others from his grandfather, Anna, the cat spirit Matamune and the Gandhara teams. This is one of the Asakura clan's onmyôji magic. With this magic, an onmyôji can summon Shikigami -- familiar spirits -- from leaves or paper talisman to do their bidding. They are useful, from household chores to assassinations. You never truly mastered the technique but displayed the capacity to use it at age ten, under the tutelage of his grandfather, Asakura Yohmei. At best, he could only invoke three Shikigami from the leaves. A sutra taught to him by Anna. It is a Buddhist exorcism chant of the Sankiraimon, or the Three Refuges that would send any spirit with knowledge of Buddhism who hears it to the hereafter. However, as it is a written language media, the sutra mainly works on spirit who identify with the culture of eastern shamanism. One of many spells You learned from the contents of the Chō Senji Ryakketsu that Anna brought to him from Master Yohmei. Using this spell enables one to read the flow of Furyoku and determine its course. Effective use can render most magical attacks ineffective. This was a secret exorcist magic left to You by Matamune, to help vanquish the Oni that Anna created. However this magic depleted the reserve Furyoku within Matamune, and as a result, sent him to the hereafter.
 * Ko-Oni Strike (Shou Oni Sutoraiku)
 * Okyō (Okei)
 * Chō Senji Ryakketsu - Fumon Tonkō (Chou Senji Ryakuketsu - Fumon Tonkō)
 * Chō Senji Ryakketsu - Mikazuki no Harae ('Chou Senji Ryakuketsu -Mikazuki no Futsu)

Weapons
Harusame(Sword of Light in the English version) was the personal sword of Amidamaru when he was still alive. Yoh acquired it after defeating Tokageroh, who had stolen it from the museum to get revenge against Amidamaru. Yoh later uses the Harusame as the main medium for his Over Souls.

The Futunomitama no Turugi is a red knife-shaped rock that has been owned by the Asakura Family ever since the time of Asakura Hao. It was once owned by a sword god and even though it's only made of rock, it is the perfect medium to create a sword Over Soul.

Spirits
Amidamaru is a 600-year old samurai that is Yoh's first guardian ghost. Always sticking by You's side, Amidamaru is loyal and trustworthy and can enter Yoh's body through Hyōi-Gattai and later the Over Soul. Amidamaru is very powerful but quite taciturn and extremely devoted to Yoh calling him "Yō-Dono"(Master Yoh in the English version).

During the second round of the Shaman Fights, the Gandhara determined that Yoh was one of the Five Elemental Warriors and according to Pascal Avaf, You was destined to use the Spirit of Earth as its ability is to create metal. You has only been seen using the Spirit of Earth to create gravity fields as a way of protecting himself and others from various attacks.

Trivia

 * The kanji for You's name means "leaf" in Japanese.


 * His orange colored headphones were actually "stolen" or at least, taken without permission from his father, Asakura Mikihisa. In addition, the Soul Bob records were initially Mikihisa's and You took them along with the headphones.