Mai Shiranui is a character from both the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters arrangement. Her official moniker is The Alluring Ninja Girl, Miwaku no Kunoichi).
Because of Mai’s tremendous prominence among fans the world over, she has been in most special craftsmanship, game expressions, subjects, and product out of any character, making her the female mascot and sex image of SNK. Mai was appraised #4 in GameSpy.com’s “Main Ten Babes in Games” include and #5 in Game Informer’s “Best Ten Hottest Girls of the 16-Bit period.” Along with the numerous figures and product that have been made in her picture, she has shown up in the side project arrangement Queens Gate. Her extraordinary standing has additionally impacted other female contenders in other battling games, principally Dead or Alive in which Mai herself shows up (in the fifth and 6th portions).
Improvement
She was initially not intended to be remembered for Fatal Fury by any stretch of the imagination, as her battling style was made for an alternate male ninja. At the point when designers moved their concentration to incorporate an icon character in the arrangement, they chose to scrap the Shiranui man for Mai. Her trademark “ricochet” was approximately changed from a kunoichi (female ninja) technique for death: to be sexy to their unassuming prey before they strike. As indicated by an issue of Neo Geo Freak, her bosoms were designed according to Fumie Hosokawa and her base is designed according to the late-Ai Iijima; the two ladies were acclaimed icons at that point.
During the improvement of The King of Fighters ’94, Mai’s originator needed to add more movement to her impartial posture. At the point when the fashioner returned with the “influencing chest”, the engineers were awestruck. Because of this present posture’s strength, nonetheless, Mai’s eye-popping movements were stilled in the KOF ’94 worldwide home version.
In a meeting with one of the arrangement architects, Shinkiro, he answers that Mai Shiranui Hentai was the most troublesome character to show. He remarks “I idea she planned to blast out of her costume…” In the Neo Geo Freak’s 1997 Volume 8 character survey, she was casted a ballot as the third most loved character with an aggregate of 1,604 votes. 199 votes from the male fans and 1,405 votes from the female fans.[13] And in Neo Geo Freak’s August 1998 issue, she was positioned as the seventh best character. In the character prominence survey on Neo Geo Freak’s site, she was casted a ballot as the fifth most loved character with a sum of 2,380 votes. On Falcoon’s SNK 40th commemoration page he expresses that both Mai and Terry are his number one SNK characters.
History
Mai Shiranui Hentai is the granddaughter of Hanzo Shiranui, expert of ninjitsu and Koppo-ken. Mai gained from her dad the privileged insights of Ninjitsu. She had met Andy Bogard, during this time, who had come to prepare under her granddad. Mai then needed to take substitute courses from her granddad’s companion, Jubei Yamada in ninjitsu. From the start, Mai was uninterested in Andy and just idea of him as another insensitive man just intrigued by his preparation. It wasn’t until he gave her a present on her birthday that she saw him in another light and at last became hopelessly enamored with him. However, this befuddles him extraordinarily.
She spends a large part of the arrangement unendingly seeking after Andy and fantasizing about different fantasies about their wedding. At the point when engineers were gotten some information about her whereabouts during Mark of the Wolves, they decided not to address the inquiry straightforwardly. Nonetheless, they disclosed that she actually adores Andy — as she generally has — after ten years. Yasuyuki Oda, tongue in cheek expressed she is presumably as yet searching for Andy yet is generally in a tight spot.
The King of Fighters
During essentially every King of Fighters competition, Mai irritates Andy to enter and shape a group with her. Resentful about his refusals and decision to join a different group, she frames an all-ladies group with the assistance of Yuri and King. In the next years, her colleagues change, yet she stays firm to enter the competition to help empower King and her kindred colleagues and to demonstrate to Andy the blunder of his methodologies. In King of Fighters 99, she is at last ready to join the competition in a similar group as Andy. In any case, the accompanying competition was approached to venture out to permit Blue Mary to research a case. Denied again, she is infuriated by the solicitation and joins the Women’s group again and has stayed a reoccurring part from that point forward. In the different group endings, she is frequently praising the group’s triumph at King’s bar or fantasizing about Andy.
Mai didn’t partake in the KOF XI to look for Andy, who was occupied at preparing his follower, Hokutomaru. Afterward, Mai chooses to enter the KOF XIII with her first KOF partners, King and Yuri, as she felt that the KOF competition isn’t finished without her. She isn’t resentful about Andy while settling on her decision, substance to enter a competition with both her and him in it again.
Character
Mai is a merry and sensitive young lady. She will in general additionally be to some degree a moron and respects any sort of magnificence or allure, which now and then appears to be being vain. She additionally now and again contrasts alluring young men who tease and her or recognize her magnificence to Andy, recognizing their engaging quality yet finishing with a remark saying they’re ‘not as adorable as Andy’.
In the same way as other young ladies, she fantasizes getting hitched to her Prince Charming. She found that equivalent Prince Charming in Andy and self-broadcasted herself his life partner, which now and again, has creeped out Andy himself. Inside the Fatal Fury arrangement, he generally attempts to disregard her advances as he sees her like a more youthful sister however struggles satisfactorily returning dispassionate kind gestures because of her industriousness.
Another prominent illustration of this inside the King Of Fighters arrangement, is her introduction with Andy in KOF97, proposing to Andy out and out in a wedding dress, or frightening Andy with a counterfeit kid doll in KOF ’99 and 2001. In spite of this, Andy commonly recognizes her affection however wants to stay silent about it.
Despite the fact that her perky battling persona recommends something else, Mai is really a conventional and ideal Japanese magnificence. Be that as it may, her pride as a Shiranui ninja and fixation on Andy for the most part shields her from fitting the form 100% of the time.
Regardless of her Hentai mind boggling relationship, Mai has demonstrated her help for the ladies’ group and their famous standing for quite a long time and appreciates working with her colleagues. With respect to Andy’s sibling Terry, Mai appreciates him, in spite of the fact that she gets distrustful when she feels he’s concealing something about Andy. Mai shows regard towards Joe however she feels his senseless propensities are a bit of irritating.
Forces
Pyrokinesis: Mai can make and control fire. Notwithstanding, she can’t control flares that she didn’t make, and isn’t insusceptible to different sorts of fire.
Make Fire: Mai can make fire.
Fire Attacks: Mai can imbue her assaults with fire. She can likewise totally shroud herself with her blazes.
Discharge Channel: Mai can channel shoot through her garments, weapon, and anything she contacts.
Fire Burst: Mai can cause blasts and emissions of fire.
Flying Control: Mai can incidentally remain airborne and control her developments noticeable all around. This permits her to coast, skim, change bearings in mid-air or addition impermanent flight.
Sledge Space: Mai can cover up/pull out boundless weapons and things from her attire and cleavage, from apparently no place. She keeps different fans (her weapon of decision) with her that can’t be seen. She likewise at times conveys garments, monster fans, and normally an umbrella.
Bunshin: Mai can incidentally extend shadow pictures of herself and her weapon
Battling Style
Her style looks like typical ninjutsu with more elegant and lofty moves, fairly regarding conventional Japanese dance. She additionally utilizes paper fans as weapons, incorporating them into her battle strategy and utilizing them to play out a few blends and moves. Her apparel, explicitly, the decoration on her ninja attire, is likewise used to assault the adversary. She’s likewise remarkable close by to hand battle utilizing various tosses and strategies to pick up the advantage. Mai has indicated extraordinary Strength just as being sufficiently able to toss adversaries heavier than her and utilizing her solid elbow strike fit for getting through her foe’s guard’s debilitating them.
