Mai is a young girl with brown hair tied into a ponytail with a yellow ribbon and brown eyes. Mai, who feels that a KOF tournament isn't complete without her, decides to enter the KOF XIII with her first KOF teammates. In the various team endings, she is often celebrating the team's victory at King's bar or fantasizing about Andy. Denied again, she is angered by the request and joins the Women's team again and has remained a reoccurring member ever since. However, in the following tournament was asked to step out to allow Blue Mary investigate a case. In The King of Fighters' 99, she is finally able to join the tournament in the same team as Andy. In the following years her teammates change, but she remains firm to enter the tournament to help encourage King and her fellow team members and to prove to Andy the error of his ways. Upset at his refusals and choice to join a separate team, she forms an all women team with the help of Yuri and King. However, they did divulge that she still loves Andy - as she always has - ten years later.ĭuring nearly every King of Fighters tournament, Mai pesters Andy to enter and form a team with her. When developers were asked about her whereabouts during Mark of Wolves, they chose not to answer the question directly.
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She spends much of the series endlessly pursuing Andy and fantasizing various daydreams about their wedding. It wasn't until he gave her a present on her birthday that she saw him in another light and eventually fell in love with him. At first, Mai was uninterested in Andy and only thought of him as another callous man only interested in his training. Mai then had to take alternate courses from her grandfather's friend, Jubei Yamada, in Ninjitsu. She had met Andy, during this time, who had come to train under her grandfather. Mai learned from her grandfather the secrets of Ninjitsu. Mai Shiranui is the granddaughter of Hanzo Shiranui, master of Ninjitsu and Koppoken.
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She is voiced by Akoya Sogi in KOF XI movie and KOF Summer Adventures movie, Ami Koshimizu in the Miraculous Animals series, Lisa Ann Beley in the VIZ English dub, and by Tara Strong in the Cloverway English dub. She appears in 5 SNK OVAs, except for the first one, she makes a cameo appearance, talking with a 15 year old Athena Asamiya. Along with the many figures and merchandise that have been made in her image, she has made an outside game appearance in the spin off series Queen's Gate. Mai was rated #4 in 's "Top Ten Babes in Games" feature and #5 in Game Informer's "Top Ten Hottest Girls of the 16-Bit era." In the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, she was voted as the fifth favorite character with a total of 2,380 votes. According to an issue of Neo Geo Freak, her breasts were modeled after Fumie Hosokawa and her bottom is modeled after Ai Iijima both women were famous idols at the time. Her characteristic "bounce" was loosely modified from a kunoichi (female ninja) method of assassination: to be sensual to their unassuming prey before they strike. When developers shifted their focus to including an idol character into the series, they decided to scrap the Shiranui man for Mai. She was originally not planned to be included in Fatal Fury at all, as her fighting style was created for a different male ninja. In the third SNK OVA, their relationship is cemented because she and Andy have shared their first kiss. Since her first appearance in Fatal Fury 2, she has been converted and recognized as the main sex symbol of SNK. The relationship between the two is often unclear and subliminal, usually on Andy's part, who at times seems to suppress his feelings for her in favor of treating her like a little sister. Mai Shiranui is one of the protagonists from both the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series of fighting games. ~ Mai Shiranui's famous victory catchphrase. ~ Trailer from the Miraculous Animals series one.
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