Shizuka Kawai

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Shizuka (Serenity) in the second series anime
Appears in	manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Original manga) anime: Yu-Gi-Oh! (first series anime) Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (second series anime)
Debut	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Volume 1, Duel 4 Original Japanese manga Volume 8, Duel 63
Birthday	November 20
Deck	Saint
Sign	Scorpio
Age	13-14
Height	157 cm (about 5 feet and 2 inches)
Weight	49 kg (107.8 pounds)
Blood type	AB
Favorite food	Fried Chicken
Least favorite food	Onions
Status at debut	N/A
Relations	Brother: Katsuya Jonouchi
Seiyū	1st series: Michiko Neya 2nd series: Mika Sakenobe
Voice actor(s)	Lisa Ortiz

Shizuka Kawai (川井静香, Kawai Shizuka^?), known in the English anime as Serenity Wheeler, is a character in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh!, and both Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series. In the first series anime, she is Shizuka Jonouchi (城之内静香 Jōnouchi Shizuka). Her second series name is a play on the Japanese word kawaii, meaning "cute".

In the manga and the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime (known in Asia as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters), she is nearly blind. Her brother Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler), enters the Duelist Kingdom Tournament in order to gain the prize of three million dollars. Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto) wins the tournament and gives Jonouchi the money to finance Shizuka's eye surgery, a very expensive operation that can actually allow the almost blind to regain their good eyesight.

Because of divorce, Shizuka and Jonouchi were separated at a young age. Their father took Jonouchi and their mother took Shizuka. However, the siblings love each other very much, and Shizuka always cheers for Jonouchi in his duels. Shizuka refers to Jonouchi by his given name, Katsuya.

Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor) and Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin) also develop a crush on Shizuka in the second series anime. She seems oblivious to this and instead considers them both as her friends.

In the virtual reality arc, Shizuka, along with Honda and Ryuji, dueled against the fourth member of Kaiba corps Big 5, who had assumed the form of Mechanical Commander, and later Perfect Machine King. During the duel Shizuka employed a deck consisting of female monsters, such as Saint Joan and the Forgiving Maiden.

In Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, which was not released outside of Japan, Shizuka is simply ill, and Dr. Kekeru Goyu, who is supposed to be caring for her, is slacking off, causing Nurse Miyuki Sakurai to get angry at him. After he fires Miyuki for hitting him, Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi) defeats Dr. Goyu in a shadow game.