Julie Makimoto & Runo Misaki (Bakugan New Vestroia / Bakumaru! ~ Makino Tomoyasu)

LoRA Model of Julie Makimoto and Runo Misaki from the second season of the "Bakugan Battle Brawlers" anime series titled "Bakugan New Vestroia", in the art style of artist Makino Tomoyasu/Lowtech-City from his ero image set titled "Bakumaru!".

Julie Makimoto/Julie Heyward is an athletic and curvy dark-skinned foreigner girl (American in the English dub and Australian in the Japanese dub) with silver hair kept in a side ponytail that later joins the Bakugan Battle Brawlers group. She may come off a bit scatter-brained, but she can compete with the best Bakugan brawlers. She is bubbly, extroverted and adores Dan Kuso (whom she calls "darling" in the Japanese version, but now calls him in his real name since Season 4).

Because she saw herself as Dan's number one fan, in addition to her also having a more curvaceous and developed body compared to Runo while also wearing revealing outfits to confidently flaunt her athletic frame, she and Runo Misaki often clashed out of jealousy. However, in episode 47, "Here's Mud In Your Eye", after Julie realizes she likes Billy Gilbert and the two become a couple, she and Runo went on to become best friends, with Julie offering to work at Runo's parents' family diner.

Though the two are much closer friends in season two, a bit of rivalry and jealousy still exists between the two baku babes due to Julie being a big reason for an increase in customers at Runo's diner, largely because of her exotic dark-skinned foreigner body, revealing clothing choices and an outgoing bubbly cute personality making Julie the more popular waitress between the two.

Julie tries to help out and give helpful advice whenever someone needs it. In both New Vestroia and Gundalian Invaders, she advises Mira Fermin and Jake Vallory, the brawlers that filled the Subterra positions in the Battle Brawlers, how to properly brawl in their element.

Runo is a slim and fit light-skinned Japanese girl with aqua hair kept in long twintails and a more modest choice of clothes and less developed body compared to her foreign friend. She is a very focused, furious and hot-tempered girl. She loves playing Bakugan with her friends and detests those who underestimate her for her gender. Runo is always arguing with her friends Dan Kuso and Julie Makimoto. She has a close bond with her Guardian Bakugan, Haos Tigrerra, who is very obedient to her and powerful in battle.

One of the things she hates the most is when people believe they're better at brawling than her, just because she is a girl. She loses a lot of her Bakugan to the Doom Dimension, to a point where she almost quit the game, but she then decided not to.

Runo is arguably the most headstrong heroine throughout the four series of Bakugan, as she always wants to have her own way in everything, wants attention from people, and often attacks head-on before carefully judging the situation. She is also very proud and is eager to go her own way.

Despite having certain, undeniable flaws, Runo is shown to be a caring and kind girl who always tries her very best in everything and never slow to help her friends. As time passes between the seasons, she seems to have grown more mature even stopping Dan, Marucho and Shun from fighting in Mechtanium Surge arc 2 as well as rarely getting into arguments with Dan or just fighting with him in general.