#The king of fighters 99 characters series

He enjoy this take of the characters and was looking forward to the audience's reaction. For the otome game, The King of Fighters: For Girls, Yūki Ono is voicing the character who worked hard with Maxima's voice actor to perform a duet. However, by The King of Fighters XIV, he was replaced by Yoshihisa Kawahara. Konny, another music composer, jokingly wondered if K' is trying to say the word 'dry', since the first word of his yell was 'Dorei!' Originally, K' was voiced by Yuuki Matsuda. Music composer Sha-V suggested that K' should yell 'Dora!' or 'Ora!' to mirror Kyo and Iori's shouts, 'Kurae!' and 'Doushita!' respectively. Him exposing his upper-half with his 'another color' and having characteristics such as sunglasses on him, a wild image of him is portrayed. Whether it's his 'color E' with its overflowing roughness that is evocative of a wild dog or his 'color G' that emphasizes himself as a motorcyclist, this is a design that has succeeded in magnifying his image on many levels regardless of the variation according to Falcoon. The normal costume that has uniform levels of a hard image throughout. For the spin-off games known as Maximum Impact, Falcoon, produced multiple alternate costumes. While the character has always worn a black clothing, Falcoon has attempted to do a simpler designs that might show more sex appeal while at the same time giving him more variety in terms of clothing. When drawing him, Falcoon states K' can be challenging due to similar parts within his appearance. He based K' on Cool, a character from the arcade fighting game The Fallen Angels. In terms of design, Shin'ichi Morioka was responsible for the K' 's look. In one of the images he made, Hiroaki's superiors said that his eyes were incorrectly colored but Hiroaki insisted it was made on purpose and as in multiple arts K' stares at Kula Diamond and thus his eye color reflects Kula's. Furthermore, Hiroaki said that he has memorised the design of K' to the point he never needed to check an image in order to draw a different stance involving the character. Fellow designer Hiroaki Hashimoto said that while most characters felt difficult to illustrate, K' did not give him problems, making him the easiest character during his game debut, The King of Fighters 2000. He further compared him with Dante, the main character of Devil May Cry based on their anti-heroic traits. Nevertheless, character designer Tatsuhiko Kanaoka, better known as ' Falcoon', said K' was one of his favorite original King of Fighters characters. Įiji, one of the game's designers, commented that he thought K' would be more popular than he turned out to be, noting that K' was too plain.

#The king of fighters 99 characters series

During the early phases of the development of The King of Fighters '99, the introduction of K' to the series was meant to remove popular characters Kyo and Iori Yagami from the roster-though this idea was scrapped before the game's release. To contrast the previous protagonist of the series, Kyo Kusanagi, K' was made to be the 'dark hero'. His absence in The King of Fighters XII was controversial and his return in the following game was due mainly to his popularity as a character. The character's gameplay and role in the story has been praised to the point of often being listed as one of best ones from the series.

Since his introduction in the series, K' has received both praise and criticism by video game publications. SNK artist Falcoon still tried giving K' different outfits in the Maximum Impact spin-offs in order to attract more gamers as well as giving him more variety.

While K' 's gameplay has been altered across the franchise in order to be more stylish, his physical appearance has generally remained unchanged. He was created to be a 'dark hero' in contrast to the series' previous protagonist Kyo. Aside from the main series, K' also appears in several other media series, such as spin-offs and crossover video games, as well as printed adaptations of the series. While rebelling against organization, K' forms multiple bonds with other NESTS agents. K′ is a young man who lost all his memories when the NESTS syndicate captured him and injected the DNA of Kyo Kusanagi to replicate his pyrokinetic abilities. He debuted as the leader of the Hero Team in The King of Fighters '99, released in 1999. K Dash ( Japanese: ケイ・ダッシュ, Hepburn: Kei Dasshu, commonly stylized as K′ and also known as K Prime in certain English language materials), is a video game character from The King of Fighters fighting game series developed by SNK.