Chouji "Marucho" Marukura

Chouji "Marucho" Marukura is one of the main characters from the Bakugan Battle Brawlers anime series.

Marucho's first Guardian Bakugan is Preyas, who has the alternate Angelo/Diablo Preyas form. In New Vestroia, because of Preyas' capture by the Vestals, Marucho takes Elfin as his Guardian Bakugan. In Gundalian Invaders, he uses Akwimos. He uses Infinity Trister as his Guardian in the first arc, and Radizen and Roxtor in the second.

In the Heroes Coalition fics, Marucho is a member of the Heroes Coalition and is part of the Deadly Hearts.

Appearance
Marucho is a short young boy with a short blonde hair with leaf-like ahoges on top, and has bright blue eyes. He wears a blue & white jacket with white collar over a light-blue overalls, white & blue rubber shoes, red glasses and red fingerless gloves.

Personality
He is a wealthy, generous boy who specializes in Aquos. He is the Brain of the Brawlers, a real walking encyclopedia. He loves to play Bakugan and to work on strategies. He used to be extremely obedient to his parents out of fear, but that changed when he joined the Brawlers; however he is still very obedient. He now has no regrets for the past, realizing that he only wanted to make his parents happy. Marucho has a butler named Kato, though Kato is not usually around Marucho anymore, due to the fact that Kato is now working for Marucho's father.

In the Japanese version, Marucho speaks in a polite and formal keigo accent, thus putting honorifics in his speech and uses honorific suffixes when addressing a character's name, such as Dan-san and Drago-san.

Abilities
In the Heroes Coalition fics, Marucho has the ability to manipulate static electricity.

Trivia

 * Marucho has had the most Guardians with two or one under his ownership, as Shun only had Ingram after Storm Skyress decided to stay in New Vestroia, Drago being Dan's only Guardian, and most of the other characters being absent from the events of other seasons.
 * Marucho is the youngest out of the 6 by 1–3 years.
 * Marucho has a strong relationship with Ren, as he helped make Bakugan Interspace happen, before he learns that Ren lied to the Brawlers the whole time. As seen in Mechtanium Surge, they are still close friends.
 * The name Marucho comes from Marukura Choji.
 * He is one of the seven characters that have appeared in all four seasons; the other six are Dan Kuso, Drago, Shun Kazami, Julie Makimoto, Miyoko Kuso, and Kato.
 * His personality is similar to Rekuta from Duel Masters; he possesses a high level of intelligence, and he also tends to worry when an opponent pulls out a surprise ability that may nullify that of his own Bakugan, or surpass the power of the latter.
 * His personality is also similar to Kenny from Beyblade, and Kenny's Beyblade is called "Hopper", which is also Akwimos's Japanese name.
 * After season 1, Marucho's forehead birthmark became much less prominent.
 * Marucho is the only member of the Brawlers whose Guardians are from all worlds seen (Preyas, Elfin and Radizen from Vestroia/New Vestroia, Akwimos from Neathia, and Trister from Gundalia).
 * In the Japanese version of the anime, Marucho's Bakugan all speak with a Kansai accent.
 * Marucho shares some similarities with Yai Ayano from MegaMan Battle Network. Both are the smallest, youngest, and richest of the team; they are also both blond.