Ibuki (Street Fighter)

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Ibuki is a female video game character who features in Street Fighter.

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Biography

Ibuki (いぶき, Ibuki, also written as 息吹) was a young Japanese girl who lived in Japan in a village composed entirely of ninjas that were hidden from the watchful eyes of society. Since childhood, she had been trained in the deadly art of ninjutsu. However, years of going through the same daily routine and also attending a school for ninjas led to her wish to live like a normal schoolgirl.

She came to attend her clan's summer training camp but grew bored of it. This saw her sneaking away in order to compete in S.I.N.'s tournament in order to meet cool and handsome guys. During the course of this event, she was noted to had befriended one of the competitors with this being Sakura Kasugano. After the tournament was over, she came to realise that she was going to be late for camp an attempts to sneak back as if nothing had happened. Despite her attempts, she came to be caught by one of the camp's instructors.

Later on, she was completing a ninja assignment when she had a call from Sakura who told her of a party invitation from her rival Karin Kanzuki. Ibuki is seen at the Kanzuki Estate with Birdie, watching a tag team match between Zangief and R. Mika against Alex and Laura. The screen suddenly shuts off, a result of the electromagnetic pulse caused by Shadaloo's Black Moons. Karin decides to travel to New York to find out who is responsible for the activation of the Black Moons, and Ibuki goes with her. After returning to the Kanzuki Estate, Ibuki is seen having an argument with R. Mika, while Karin and Cammy discuss the plan to stop Shadaloo. The estate is suddenly attacked by Shadaloo agents, among them Decapre and Marz. After defeating them, Karin threatens Ibuki and Mika with the same punishment unless they stop fighting.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Ibuki was a young Japanese teenager with a petite yet athletic build who had black hair divided in three angular bangs at the front whilst the back had twin ponytails of about mid-thigh length and held back tightly in a topknot. Her outfit was a more traditional type of ninja dogi, consisting of a sleeveless black upper garment, baggy pants, arm guards, and a mask that conceals the lower half of her face. Her footwear consists only of cloth bandages that are wrapped around her shins, ankles, and instep, somewhat realistically protecting her from foot related injuries.

She was shown as being a tomboyish teenage ninja divided between traditional Japanese devotion to duty and the rise of a global liberated and outgoing youth culture in the wake of the rise of modern Information Age infrastructure. Even though Ibuki is a well-trained ninja, she displays traits typical a normal teenage girl in modern day society, stating on several occasions that she finds her ninja garments ugly and her daily training strange, while focusing more on enjoying life and being baffled at those who devote themselves to what they do. Despite this, she performs her role out of at least respect and to hopefully leave the way of the ninja peacefully in hopes of having a normal life. In turn, while she is with a sense of duty and responsibility and with striving determination for her own future, she comes across as somewhat shallow, vapid, and youthfully ignorant, with plenty of people noting she lacks focus as a ninja stemming from her not taking her role seriously, and with her not respecting at full what she was born into, the ways of the ninja included.

Her best friend was one of her classmates with this being a girl her age named Sarai.

It was shown that Ibuki had a pet tanuki named Don who she often referred to as Don-Chan.

Powers and abilities

As a ninja, she was skilled in the martial arts of ninjutsu which emphasized kicks, grabs, speed, agility and accuracy for an aggressive and deadly approach.

Among the techniques known to her included:

  • Hien (飛燕? "Flying Swallow") :
  • Kobekudaki (頭砕き?) :
  • Agemen (揚面?) :
  • Nobusuma (野衾?) :

Notes

  • Ibuki was designed by Kinu Nishimura where she featured in the setting of the Street Fighter universe.
  • The character's design was modelled on Linn Kurosawa who was an original character that appeared in the Alien vs. Predator arcade game.

In other media

Comics

Video games

Appearances

  • Street Fighter III: (1997)

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