Karuta

Karuta カルタ Karuta
Karuta
Gender	Male
Hometown	Kuuga Village
Region	Unknown
Relatives	Father (deceased), Mother

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

Character

Karuta is a young ninja from the Kuuga Village. His home village is currently being plagued by a disease and has claimed many of his friends and family, including his own father. He is extremely loyal to his village, even going far away to get the money needed to get a cure for the disease.

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.

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 Kuuga Ninja Arts Secret Techniques into his Burst techniques.

Known techniques

Kuuga Ninja Art Secret Technique: Shed Skin Shadow Divide (Japanese: クーガ忍法秘技ぬけがら影分身, Kuuga Ninpou Higi Nukegara Kage Bunshin). Karuta glows with energy and creates several clones of himself which fly out and attack the opponent.

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  Karuta in his Burst form

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  Attacking with clones. Named "Shed Skin Shadow Clones"

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