Karuta

Karuta カルタ Karuta
Karuta
Gender	Male
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	White
Hometown	Kūga Village
Region	Unknown
Relatives	Father (deceased), Mother (deceased), Iroha (cousin)

Karuta (Japanese: カルタ) is a character in the Pokémon RéBURST manga.

Character

Karuta is a young ninja from the Kūga Village. His home village was plagued by a disease that had claimed several of his friends and family. He is extremely loyal to his village, and is willing to even let his own mother disown him so that he can leave far away to find a cure for the disease.

Karuta is also sort of a crybaby, and tends to start crying very easily. Because of this, he is known as "Crybaby Karuta" (Japanese: 泣き虫カルタ) in his village.

History

Karuta first appears as one of the many contestants of the Burst Warrior tournament, Burst Heart Survival. By using his Burst, Karuta passes the preliminary first round known as "Suddenly Bottomless Survival" and makes it to the second round along with the fifteen remaining contestants.

In the next round, "Box Escape Survival", Karuta is paired up against Ryouga in the E Box. As they try to escape the giant-sized box, Karuta becomes desperate to escape and decides to defeat Ryouga to free himself. With the time limit nearly finished, a desperate Karuta activates his Burst and attacks Ryouga. Karuta reveals to Ryouga why he entered Burst Heart Survival: to win the prize money and help the sick people of his home village.

Ryouga manages to easily block Karuta's attack and pins him to the ground. Luckily, Ryouga figures out a way to break both of them out of the boxes and go onto the next round. Ryouga presses the button that opens the door to free them while Karuta goes out of the box and presses the second hidden button, freeing them and allowing both of them to move on.

In the third round, "Add-up-to-ten Survival", Karuta is given the medal labeled "2" due to him being the second-to-last person to come out of the boxes. Unfortunately, his medal is stolen by Dokan, who is fought by Ryouga who aims to get Karuta's medal back for him. Karuta is soon eliminated from the tournament and has his Burst Heart taken away.

Later, when the third round is finally finished, Ryouga accidentally ends up to the location where the other losing contestants ended up. Ryouga meets up with Karuta—who now has his arm broken—again and is taken back to Pauline and the others while the defeated contestants are allowed back in the tournament so they can watch the next matches.

Some time later, the final match ends in a tie between Ryouga and the Boss of Great Gavel, Fraud. Great Gavel leaves the area and leaves the prize money there. After returning all of the stolen Burst Hearts, Ryouga, Miruto, and Yappy travel with Karuta to buy the medicine he needs to heal his dying village. After buying the medicine, Karuta and the others are attacked by a Great Gavel member named Rūkamu. When Rūkamu uses his Burst, no one is able to take him seriously, angering Rūkamu enough to display how strong he is.

Karuta arrives to find his mother dead

After Rūkamu sends Miruto off of the bridge, Ryouga runs to go rescue her, leaving Karuta alone to face the Scraggy Burst Warrior. Despite his best efforts, Karuta is unable to land any hits on Rūkamu and is angered when Rūkamu calls him "Crybaby Karuta", a nickname that he is referred to in his village. Eventually, Ryouga returns with Miruto and defeats Rūkamu by sending him flying into the mountains. After defeating Rūkamu, the group proceeds to village but, upon arrival, Karuta tells them that he doesn't want to go into the village.

After explaining to them how he got his nickname and who his father was, Ryouga tosses Karuta into the village and gives him words of encouragement. Moved by his words, Karuta gives the medicine to his dying village and heals the sick people. Unfortunately, when Karuta arrives at his house to see his mother, he finds that she had died this morning.

Pokémon

		Accelgor
		Accelgor is Karuta's only known Pokémon. Karuta uses Accelgor to Burst, allowing him to use the abilities that Accelgor possesses.
Debut	Mother

Burst

As a user of Burst, Karuta can use many of the abilities of the Pokémon he combines with, his Accelgor. Due to Accelgor being a ninja-based Pokémon, Karuta can implement his own Kūga Ninja Arts Secret Techniques into his Burst techniques.

Known techniques

• Kūga Ninja Art Secret Technique: Shed Skin Shadow Clone (Japanese: クーガ忍法秘技ぬけがら影分身, Kūga Ninpō Higi Nukegara Kage Bunshin). Karuta glows with energy and creates several clones of himself which fly out and attack the opponent.
• Moonsault Bite (Japanese: 宙転杭刺 Midair Turning Stake Pierce; read as ムーンサルトバイト Moonsault Bite). After using Shed Skin Shadow Clones, Karuta has his four clones flip off of a nearby wall and simultaneously stomp on the opponent. It has a similar ability to U-turn.

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  Karuta in his Burst form

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  Karuta's Burst Heart

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  Attacking with clones. Named "Shed Skin Shadow Clone"

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  Attacking with clones. Named "Moonsault Bite"

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  Attacking with clones. Named "Moonsault Bite"

Names

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.