Yuuri Shibuya

The Two Forms of Yuri: Maoh and teenagerName: Yuri Shibuya (渋谷有利 Shibuya Yūri).

Aliases:
Yuri (ユーリ Yūri)
Your Majesty (陛下 (へいか) heika) - by subjects and foreign citizens/rulers
Your/His Majesty, the Demon King (マ王陛下 (まおうへいか) Maoh-Heika)
King Yuri (ユーリ陛下 (ユーリへいか) Yūri-heika)
Wimp (へなちょこhenachoko in Japanese) - by Wolfram
Shibuya - by Murata
Yu-chan - by his family
Young Master (坊ちゃん (ぼっちゃん) bocchan) - by Yozak (sometimes interpreted as "kiddo")
Shibuya Yūri Harajuku Fūri ("advantage Shibuya, disadvantage Harajuku")

Race: Half human, half demon (魔族, マ族 (まぞく) Mazoku)
Gender: Male
Age:Episodes 1-78: 15, Episodes 79-117: 16
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Hight: 169.8cm (around 5'6)
Birthday: July 29
Status: Demon King (魔王, マ王 (まおう) Maoh), engaged to Wolfram von Bielefeld
Clothing: Japanese School Uniform

The stories protagonist. Born and grew up in Saitama prefecture. A high school student who enjoys baseball more than textbooks. He was 'named' by Conrad when he mentioned to Yuri's mother how, where he comes from, Yuri means July. Early in the show, bullies make fun of Yuri's name by calling him "Shibuya Yūri, Harajuku Fūri" (advantage Shibuya, disadvantage Harajuku) — a reference to popular districts of Tokyo. In the English dub, this becomes a pun on "Yuri is short for urine."

When Yuri arrives in Shin Makoku, he is declared the 27th Maoh of the Mazoku ("Demon Race"). Yuri easily gets caught up in his emotions to the point of loosing control of himself. He is a little bit quick to anger, and once he's on a rampage he can't even stop himself. A music teacher he once had dubbed his rants "the Turkish march". When he is angry or sad or has a strong emotion his natural powers emerge. Yuri uses expressions from historical dramas when he gets this way, which probably has to do with the fact that he loves historical dramas. They call this condition is sometimes called Maou mode (「上様モード」 (uesama mo-do)(emperor mode) in Japanese). In the anime this form can be recognized mainly by the longer hair and demon eyes. He can summon powerful magic (majutsu), even in the human territories (a notable feat as most Mazoku cannot perform magic outside their country). Yuri's magic is manifested in various shapes - usually one or more great water dragons, or some messy magical "creature" made from mud, food morsels etc. After spending time in this form, Yuri becomes worn out and in some cases passes out and doesn't remember what happened afterwards. Later, Yuri learns to control his power and uses it to close the first of the Forbidden Boxes. In the beginning of season 1, he often fainted after he used Maryokou (especially in Human land) due to exhaustion. But later on he was able to maintain his consciousness after returning to his "former self".

Yuri's soul was once the soul of the healer Susanna Julia von Winncott, who died during the war against humans 20 years ago. The pendant Conrad gave to him belonged to her. Since his soul used to belong to Susanna Julia in a past life and Adalbert brought out his stored language memory in his soul he is able to understand the mazoku language but because Suzanna Julia was blind he is unable to read the language, although, he can read raised letters with a finger. And sometimes when he goes into a crisis mode Julia's influence comes to the front of his brain and he temporarily looses eyesight.

Yuri has many allies and friends. His closest allies are Wolfram, Conrad, Günter, Gwendal, Murata, and Josak. They help Yuri throughout the series. At his first encounter with Wolfram von Bielefeld he ends up engaged to him due to a mishap: Wolfram, angry that Yuri has been chosen as the Maoh, makes the mistake of insulting Yuri's mother - which earns him a slap. Slapping another noble on his or her left cheek is the way in which Mazoku propose marriage (some consider the slap as unmanly, but Yuri explains in the light novel that he only slapped Wolfram because he has a beautiful face, otherwise he would have punched him). Incensed by this insult, Wolfram challenges Yuri to a duel, which is also mistakenly accepted because of Yuri's unfamiliarity with Mazoku custom (he picked up the knife that fell off the table).

Throughout the series, his main goal is to create a world in which Mazoku and humans can live together in peace, something that progresses slowly but surely as the series goes on.

Yuri is said to be the greatest Maoh after defeating Soushu and freeing the Original King from the dark power. Because of that, Yuri is able to travel between worlds even without the help of the Original King.

Seiyu: Takahiro Sakurai
Voice actor: Yuri Lowenthal

Source: Wikipedia