"Cunning and sly, she may look like a common thief, but Yuffie is a very skilled ninja..."
—Description
Yuffie Kisaragi is a secret playable character in Final Fantasy VII. She is a Ninja and a Thief, wielding a large shuriken. As a rebellious and cocky tomboy, Yuffie desires to restore her homeland Wutai to the glorious nation it was before being conquered by Shinra Electric Power Company. Despite her sometimes obnoxious personality, Yuffie is friendly, helpful, and willingly helps the party in their battles.
Yuffie is the youngest member of Cloud's party. As such she is usually depicted as the shortest with short black (sometimes depicted as brown) hair, except for in Dirge of Cerberus, where her hair just reaches down to her shoulders. Her eyes are a bit inconsistent in color, as they are dark brown in Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus, and her Play Arts figures, and purple in her main concept images. Her weapon of choice is the large 4-Point Shuriken.
In Final Fantasy VII, Yuffie wears a white headband with a green, sleeveless turtleneck jumper that bares her stomach and a pair of tan shorts with no belt and an unbuttoned/unzipped fly. Over her left arm she wears a protective gauntlet that originates from a single pauldron over her shoulder, presumably meant to also act as a shield. The gauntlet is held in place via a strap tied across her chest and around her back. Typical ninja-mail mesh covers part of her right arm and left leg as well as an additional piece of armor which covers the rest of the thigh of that leg. She wears a smaller wrist-covering gauntlet on her right arm, both hands are covered with orange, fingerless gloves while she wears orange sneakers with white leg warmers. Final Fantasy VII concept artwork by Tetsuya Nomura.
In Advent Children, two years later, Yuffie wears a navy blue tank-top with a white Hawaiian flowered design underneath a sleeveless dark-gray vest. Both stop just below the rib-cage, revealing her midriff. Her shorts, while still khaki, now fold back (showing the interior fabric to be black) over a belted hip-pack, dark-gray in color, that rests across her right hip. Her green forehead protector is replaced by a black and white bandanna. A white wristband on her right arm and a black cloth that starts from below her elbow and partially covers her left hand replace the gauntlets while khaki colored, laced knee-high boots with black socks that have two white stripes at the top, which replace the sneakers and legwarmers. The animators for the film have noted that Tetsuya Nomura wanted Yuffie to have a "cute" face, and her facial animations were constantly redone. Her Wutai heritage also gave them an opportunity to use Japanese clothing styles not present in the other characters' appearances.
In Dirge of Cerberus, one year after Advent Children, Yuffie wears her usual long, black and white headband seen in most of her wearings. Her attire includes a blue and black strapless top that reveals the midriff, with shoulder straps and a black and yellow belt looped from underneath her shirt and over her shoulder, that hikes the shirt further up her stomach. She wears orange denim short-shorts with a yellow belt tied together with a cord, and a yellow pouch closed with string crossed over to create a loop that attaches to two buttons. While wearing a dark grey(although appearing white in game-play) wrist band on her left arm, she wears a dark blue fingerless glove with off-white adjustable string, that covers her enter right forearm. Braced black and blue-grey boots with a yellow band across the foot of the boot, and white thigh-high socks complete her ensemble.
In Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, a young (9 years old) Yuffie wears a green and yellow vest/hoodie and underneath a white singlet and white shorts.
In Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII- she wears a green sleeveless hoodie, revealing her midriff with a yellow button-up vest over the top. Her orange shorts are buttoned and tied with a green rope. The shorts also have external pockets that extend beyond the pant legs. She also wears white wristbands.
Throughout all of her outfits she wears a white headband around her forehead, sometimes wearing a second, black band tied over the white one. In Final Fantasy VII she has a pair of kunai knives tied to the ends of the headband to hang down her back.
Yuffie has a cocky, proud, brash personality, and at times can be aggressive. Yuffie is a bit of a tomboy and acts unashamedly towards her goals. She has a tendency to bestow honorific titles on herself, such as "Great Ninja Yuffie", "The Single White Rose of Wutai" and stating that everyone is "Dyin' to talk to a babe like [her]". Despite being the daughter of Wutai's leader, Godo Kisaragi, Yuffie has little tolerance for tradition and is highly rebellious to Wutai's old-fashioned ways, which lead to her clashing with her father.
She is clever and cunning, able to trick the party with ease. Despite this, she is not at all averse to heroics and is a reliable ally and caring friend.
Yuffie is the subject of two running jokes in the series. One is her motion sickness, as she gets ill whenever on a moving vehicle, be it an airship or a boat. The other is her obsession with Materia - when she joins the party, it is merely to steal their Materia stock. In Final Fantasy VII, she claims she wants Materia because Shinra banned it in Wutai and she wants to use it to restore Wutai's glory. However, her obsession is shown to be intact in her appearances before and after the game, having found various other reasons to hunt the magical baubles.
Yuffie was born at an unspecified time, but seems to be somewhere around the end of the Wutai War. Her mother is never mentioned in any game, but according to the Creation Materials in the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega guide, her mother was named Kasumi and died from an illness when Yuffie was young. As a child, Yuffie watched Wutai turn into a tourist resort and grew up on stories on how the area used to be a place of honorable mystique before Shinra's arrival.
Yuffie encounters the player Turks in Wutai, where AVALANCHE has set up a stronghold in the pagoda. Pursued by AVALANCHE, she is saved by the player Turk and quickly starts scheming to steal their Materia moments after learning what Materia even is.
Yuffie follows the player Turk into the AVALANCHE base and steals the bomb detonators planted in the pagoda, and the player Turk must chase her and get them back. However, Yuffie accidentally presses the detonator switch, and she and the Turk must cooperate to escape. Once they rendezvous with Tseng, Yuffie realizes the player Turk is with Shinra and flees.
Yuffie appears in Crisis Core when she is only nine years old. She first appears when Zack invades Fort Tamblin, proclaiming herself as "Wutai's Greatest Warrior". Zack plays along with her antics and she runs off. After losing the Wutai war to Shinra, Yuffie's father and the leader of Wutai, Godo Kisaragi, begin to turn their hometown into a tourist attraction. This did not suit Yuffie, who began to think about restoring Wutai to its former glory. At some time after the war, Godo was given a list of SOLDIER email addresses and locations of rare treasure by an unidentified blond man (speculated to be Lazard Deusericus or Rufus Shinra in the Crisis Core Ultimania), but Godo did nothing with the information.
Yuffie stole the information from her father and begins sending Zack emails about rare treasure, intending to ambush him at the end of each mission and either steal from him or seize the treasure for herself. She fails on both counts however, Zack either not falling for her ruses or the treasure she finds not being up to her standards. As Yuffie continues to taunt Zack through emails the locations she leads him to become more dangerous, Yuffie getting her information now from an anti-Shinra group based in Wutai. Eventually on the final mission, Yuffie manages to steal Zack's Bahamut Fury Materia and escape. She ends up mailing it back to him a few days later, not understanding how to use it.
Yuffie is one of two secret characters in Final Fantasy VII (the other being Vincent Valentine), and is a Materia hunter. She can be found in various forests on the Planet.
Yuffie later steals the party's Materia when they enter Wutai, and they must chase her and save her from Don Corneo before she returns them. Yuffie proves herself to her father by beating the bosses of Wutai's Five Story Pagoda, and her father begins to understand the reasoning behind her position. At the end of disc one, it is possible to get Cloud to go on a date with either her, Aeris, Tifa, or even Barret. At the date, however, Cloud ignores all of Yuffie's moves on him, and gets smacked more than twice. She is the only character to kiss Cloud in the date sequence, although it is only on the cheek and Cloud stays quiet after she kisses him, creating an awkward silence that makes Yuffie feel embarrassed.
Being an optional character, Yuffie is not included in the game's ending FMV, though she can still be used in the Final Dungeon at the Northern Crater and the final battle with Safer∙Sephiroth. It is later explained that she and Vincent were absent from the Highwind after the final battle because they went to Midgar to help evacuate the citizens and Shinra personnel before Meteor hit. After placing an injured Rufus Shinra aboard a helicopter, Yuffie warns Vincent to be careful in his search of the Mako Cannon. She later saves him as the building collapses from a lightning strike.
Yuffie is the central character in Case of Yuffie, where she returns to Wutai to help the people rebuild after Meteor's fall. After her return, Geostigma begins to spread, and the "Midgar illness" is blamed on Yuffie as she was at Midgar when Meteor struck. Yuffie thus resolves to find the disease's true cause and a Materia to cure it, searching around the world and helping the infected as best she can during the time before Advent Children.
Part of Case of Yuffie also overlaps with Case of Red XIII, in which Red XIII helps Yuffie save Yuri and stays at Wutai for some time before moving on.
Yuffie can first be heard when Cloud's cellphone is lost in the lake in Forgotten Capital, where she says, "Surprise! It's me, Yuffie," although her voice is difficult to pick out as other pieces of dialogue are being played at the same time. Yuffie mentions the children from Wutai have gone missing, and tells Cloud to call her if he knows why.
Yuffie appears in person along with the other playable characters from Final Fantasy VII during the battle in Edge. She arrives via Cid'sairship (still showing signs of motion sickness after parachuting down). She helps the party to defeat Bahamut SIN, and brings Cloud's Materia collection from the Midgar ruins aboard the Shera.
During the bonus feature "Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII", Yuffie sends a "Closed for Business" sign to Barret through the Strife Delivery Service as a way of getting Cloud to take a day off. She also seems to call Vincent Valentine in the time after Advent Children because Vincent asks Cloud to relay a message to her, claiming she has no right to call his phone.
"I am the champion of the earth and the sky. I am the conqueror of evil. The single white rose of Wutai...Yuffie Kisaragi!"
—Yuffie in Dirge of Cerberus
Having joined the World Regenesis Organization, Yuffie is in charge of the espionage and intelligence gathering. Yuffie works to fight against Deepground in 2010. She is the one who rescues Vincent from Rosso the Crimson in the Shinra Mansion, where the bloodthirsty Tsviets was about to kill him, and takes him back to the WRO Headquarters. Onboard the Shera, she still suffers from motion sickness, and leads the troops from the airships to the ground for the Battle of Midgar to shut down a generator inside the Shinra Building. Yuffie and Vincent go into Deepground in attempt to kill Weiss, but are stopped by Nero, who sucks Yuffie into darkness and Vincent goes to save her, since Nero's darkness does not affect him. Yuffie and other AVALANCHE members aid Vincent in Omega's destruction and she is seen last in 7th Heaven, asking Tifa if she has heard from Cloud, most likely concerning Vincent's whereabouts.
As a party member, Yuffie wields giant-sized shuriken which function like boomerangs. While she is below average on the main stats, she is quick and has the best Luck. Most of her weapons are also long range and thus do full damage from the back row.
Yuffie's weapons have a few unique properties. The Rising Sun has the highest attack of any Double Materia growth weapon. The Oritsuru has 90 attack strength with eight Materia slots and Normal growth, and is the strongest weapon with 8 Materia slots, excluding those with no Materia growth. Yuffie's ultimate weapon, the Conformer, does more damage the higher the level of the enemy, allowing it to do 9,999 damage to many bosses. It will automatically miss allies, making her a safer party member if she is confused in battle. It also does normal damage when using Morph, allowing the player to deal massive damage and get valuable items easily.
In Final Fantasy VII, Yuffie's Limit Breaks have fair power, and most of them hit multiple enemies. She also learns her Limit Breaks slightly quicker than other party members. Of particular note, her Clear Tranquil ability is one of the two healing Limit Breaks not learned by Aeris; the other one is Cait Sith's Moogle Dance. All of Yuffie's Limit Breaks, besides Clear Tranquil, rely on Yuffie's physical strength. Yuffie is also the only person to have a Limit Break that is strictly a ground attack, as Landscaper misses flying opponents.
The Mystery Ninja is an enemy that can be fought in various forests on the Planet. The forests are located in the Junon Area, the Gongaga Area, the Nibel Area, the Rocket Launchpad Area, the Woodlands Area, the Mideel Area, on Goblin Island, and on Round Island. Mystery Ninja's level, stats and abilities depend on the player's level, not of where she is fought.
Upon defeat, a defeated Yuffie lies on the ground. There is a Save Point on the field, however, if the player uses it, Yuffie will disappear and steal something from the party.
If the player chooses to go up to her, a series of dialogue initiates.
Order
Dialogue
Correct response
Incorrect response
1
"You spikey-headed jerk!
One more time, let's go one more time!"
Not interested
All right
2
"You're pretty scared of me,
huh!?"
......petrified
You're gonna lose again
3
"I'm really gonna leave!
REALLY!"
Wait a second!
Go ahead...
4
"You want me to
go with you?"
......That's right
You kiddin'?
5
"All right!
I'll go with you!"
......Let's hurry on
......What's your name?
An incorrect answer causes her to steal something and flee. After choosing all the correct answers, the player names the character.
According to the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega[3], in earlier versions of Final Fantasy VII, Yuffie and Wutai as a whole were very different from the finished product. Yuffie was envisioned as a 25-year-old bounty hunter seeking Cloud and Sephiroth, and she in turn had a bounty on her head. Posters showing her stats would be found around the world, and Yuffie's stats, abilities and level would change when the party acquired her depending on which poster was inspected last. She was also intended to be an ex-SOLDIER.
The Wutai subquest would have involved Shinra placing Wutai goods under high taxes, straining their economy. Yuffie would have stolen the party's money to try and help, but the town would reject the funds. A Shinra spy in Wutai, Sera, would have spread pro-Shinra propaganda, and planned to blow up the "Ten Face Mountain" to level Wutai and build a Mako Reactor in the ruins. Cloud and his allies would then have to climb the mountain and stop her. Her mother's name would have been Kasumi Kisaragi and she would have died while Yuffie was still very young.
Yuffie's Job Class was originally listed as "Ninja (Assassin)".
Yuffie's theme is considered to be "Descendant of Shinobi." It plays during the sequence just after the party defeat her in battle and during many other scenes involving her. This theme appears in a vocal form on the Final Fantasy Song Book "Mahoroba" album. The theme "Stolen Materia" is also often used in association with Yuffie, generally whenever she is behaving in a sneaky or untrustworthy manner.
Yuffie is a secret playable character in the game Ehrgeiz: God Bless The Ring. She primarily fights with punches and kicks, but can also perform several slash attacks with her shuriken and throw many smaller shuriken for ranged attacks. Her alternate costume is a palette swap based on the early concept colour scheme for Final Fantasy VII seen above.
In the Kingdom Hearts series, Yuffie appears as part of Squall Leonhart's party, who is now referring to himself as "Leon". She is accompanied by Aerith Gainsborough and Cid Highwind.
Originating from Hollow Bastion, the group fled to Traverse Town when Maleficent took over the castle. The three of them form a trio that assists the game’s main protagonist; Sora, in his adventures throughout the series, helping him fend off the Heartless and giving him advice and information.
In Kingdom Hearts II, Yuffie is part of the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee and works towards restoring the ruins of Hollow Bastion to the home she once knew. Yuffie appears as an opponent in various Colosseum cups in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II, using her shuriken and ninja skills; including teleportation and healing, in her matches.
In the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts, Yuffie is voiced by Yumi Kakazu, while in the English release she is voiced by Christy Carlson Romano. In the English version of Kingdom Hearts II, she is voiced by Mae Whitman instead.
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