Ibuki (Street Fighter)

General CVG character
name=Ibuki


caption=Ibuki in "Street Fighter III 2nd Impact".
series="Street Fighter"
firstgame="Street Fighter III"
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voiceactor=Yuri Amano
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inuniverse=Street Fighter character
birthplace = flagicon|Japan Japan
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fightingstyle = Ninjutsu, concept of Budō
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dislikes = nihongo|Ibuki|いぶき|Ibuki|also written as 息吹 is a video game character from the "Street Fighter" fighting game series. She along with Elena were the lone female characters in the "Street Fighter III" series, until "3rd Strike", where they were joined by Makoto and Chun-Li.

Character design

Ibuki is a young girl from Japan raised in a hidden ninja village and trained in the deadly arts of ninjutsu. She is slim and athletic, her black hair held tightly back in a topknot that drops behind her well beneath her waist. Unlike most other female ninja or kunoichi in videogames or anime, Ibuki's outfit is a more traditional type of ninja dogi, consisting of a sleeveless upper garment, baggy pants, arm guards, and a mask that conceals the lower half of her face. Her footwear consists only of cloth bandages wrapped around her shins, ankles, and instep.

While she is a trained assassin, she also shows a "valley girl"-ish side, stating that she finds her ninja clothes ugly and her daily training strange, and jumping back into her civilian clothing as soon as she wins a bout.

Backstory

Ibuki lives in a village composed entirely of Ninja. She has been trained from childhood, but resents her lot in life. The other ninja in Ibuki's clan include Sanjou, Enjou, Genda, Raion, and Homura Yuuta. Ibuki also has a pet tanuki named Don. In "Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike", Ibuki shares a special pre-fight intro with Makoto, showing that the two consider each other as special rivals of sorts.

In the original "Street Fighter III" and "2nd Impact", Ibuki is sent by her clan to procure documents from Gill's organization. These documents concerns the "G-File" project, which was responsible for creating Necro. In Ibuki's ending, Gill voluntarily give Ibuki the documents, though the project was already under way by that point.

In "3rd Strike", Ibuki tracks down Oro to fight him for her ninja graduation exam. She fights well enough to pass, and moves on to go to a university. While there, she joins a club which, to her dismay, turns out to be based on ninja training.

Promotion and reception

IGN ranked Ibuki at number twenty-two in their "Top 25 Street Fighter Characters" article, stating "Ninjas have always been popular fodder for fighting games...You only need one ninja, though, as long as it's the right ninja, and Ibuki's a pretty sharp one as far as ninja go." [ [http://stars.ign.com/articles/894/894966p4.html Top 25 Street Fighter Characters - Day I] . IGN. Retrieved on 2008-08-15]

References

External links

* [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_III/Characters/Ibuki Ibuki's Street Fighter III] entry at [http://strategywiki.org/ StrategyWiki.org]