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Feb 3, 2023 · Ibuki (Street Fighter) BIO: A kunoichi, Ibuki lives in a village composed entirely of Shinobi. 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, and her best friend and sparring partner is Sarai Kurosawa.
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"Behold Ibuki!"
—Ibuki (Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike)
"Ibuki! On the scene!
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(いぶき！見参！, Ibuki! Kenzan!?)"
—Ibuki (Street Fighter IV series)
Appearance
Ibuki has a petite, yet athletic build, and her black hair, remarkably divided in three angular bangs at the front, in the back it her twin ponytails are about mid-thigh length and held back tightly in a topknot (though some other media changes this). Unlike most other female characters in the same genre, Ibuki's outfit is 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. Her garments are more revealing than normal ninja ones, however. As seen in one of her win animations in Street Fighter III, Ibuki's normal clothes consist of a white sleeveless loose shirt, blue denim pants, and gray and black sneakers. She also carries a yellow backpack. Her school uniform consist of a light blue sleeveless shirt under a white short sleeve button shirt with a red laced ribbon at the center of her collar, light blue skirt, black panties underneath, white socks, and blue and white sneakers. Ibuki tends to have ninja themed accessories in some of her casual outfits. Her 2nd alternate in Street Fighter IV has a chain of miniaturized toy kunai and a shuriken belt buckle, and has added ninja elements to two of her uniforms and her school swimsuit. Her sporty outfit despite being one of the more realistic outfits for her based on a female track and field runner's outfit has Kunai printed in various parts of the outfit.
Concept
Designed by Akiman and Kinu Nishimura, Ibuki's design was modeled after Linn Kurosawa, an original character that appeared in the Alien vs Predator arcade game. Ibuki's friend, Sarai, shares Linn's last name, making the inspiration more evident. According to Akiman, the team incorporated Koppōjutsu into Ibuki's ninjutsu-based moveset because the fighting style was gaining popularity around the time she was being designed.
Personality
Likely in the wake of the era which Street Fighter III debuted in, specifically that of the 1990s and the Lost Decade era of Japan, Ibuki comes to represent the youth generation gap within Japanese society, 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. She has a typical interest in boys; in several of her win quotes in Super Street Fighter IV, she evaluates her opponents based on their looks, behavior, and clothing, as well as their fighting performance. She regards Guy in particular as quite a hunk, though she also complains about his non-traditional ninja garb. She has also shown slight interest in others like Blanka and Fei Long. Ibuki is also very conscious about her weight, as mentioned in her Street Fighter × Tekken win quote against Bob and her Arcade mode ending in Street Fighter V. Ibuki seems to be well in touch with modern pop culture and self awareness. In Street Fighter × Tekken her winning quotes against some characters, especially those who come from Tekken, seem to reference memes or even her own faults. She references "Ninjas vs. Pirates" when defeating Jack-X, hints at Naruto when she defeats Lili, referencing hairstyles when defeating Paul Phoenix, and lastly references her own low stamina when defeating Marshall Law. Most recently keeping with the trend with sport outfits, with Sgt. Ashida from the Shadaloo C.R.I. commenting on this. Ibuki also seems to be familiar with live streaming, as her reaction when defeating G has her more surprised she wasn't told their fight was being streamed rather than the fact that it was streamed itself. In Street Fighter V, Ibuki seems to take her ninja training more seriously (although her mirror match quote suggests she still finds it irksome), but still makes mistakes (such as almost falling off a cliff while talking on her cellphone, for example) and has many moments of not using her head. She is also glad to return home when her story mode is completed. She also seems to have a little bit more maturity and battle sense than her SF4-era self, as she can call out some characters like Sagat, although she still usually has her own bubbly win quotes. Her win quote against Kage displays some more serious and relatable insight to her outlook on her life, hoping to find a new path as a ninja than the more fatalistic traditions of being devoted living and dying by their ways that ninja are attributed to. Noticeably in V, Ibuki has become less cutesy and smiles significantly less in battle. In IV Ibuki would smile during her regular stance and most attacks such as Neckbreaker and Yoroitoshi, however in V she only smiles during her taunt and Idle Pose. This is most notable in attacks she has in both IV and V. Most of Ibuki's smiling and looking bubbly facial expressions have been replaced with her looking more serious and determined during her attacks. In the Street Fighter III series, Alex is the only "boy" Ibuki has shown anything resembling a hint of attraction to; however, though she calls him a "macho stud" in a win quote, she is mainly expressing her disappointment in his loss of "power instinct". In-universe, it seems she is not taken too seriously as a fighter (although not to the extent of Dan). Many characters tend to mention how she lacks some attributes. Chun-Li and Ken say that she needs to be more focused, Kolin tells her that their fights aren't even noteworthy, Balrog doesn't take her seriously during pre and post fight interactions, and Kazuya Mishima straight up telling her that she is the worst ninja he has ever faced. One of the most notable insults might be from Seth, who in both his appearances considers nothing of Ibuki's moveset to be useful. The only characters who do not verbally accost her are characters who are on the nicer end (i.e. Menat, Elena and Karin).
Background
Ibuki is a young girl from Japan who lives in a village entirely composed of ninjas, hidden from society's watchful eyes, where she has trained in the deadly art of ninjutsu since childhood. After doing the same routine everyday and attending a school for ninjas, she wishes to live like a normal schoolgirl. Her best friend is her classmate, Sarai. Ibuki also has a pet tanuki named Don, who is often referred to as "Don-Chan".
Super Street Fighter IV
Ibuki sneaks away from her clan's summer training camp to compete in S.I.N's tournament, in order to meet cool and handsome guys. When the tournament is over, she realizes that she is going to be late for camp and attempts to sneak back in as if nothing had happened. However, she is caught by one of the camp's instructors.
Street Fighter V
On October 2015, a datamining of Street Fighter V's PC beta test revealed fighter data and character meshes of Ibuki, Dhalsim, Juri, Urien, Alex, Guile and Balrog. Ibuki and the rest of the characters (except for Dhalsim, who was confirmed earlier as a default fighter) were confirmed on December 5th, 2015 at the PlayStation Experience. On May 29th, 2016, Ibuki's official trailer was released.
Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Ibuki appeared as a playable character in Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (also known as Pocket Fighter). Ibuki decides to leave her village for a while, and quietly departs for a trip to a big city, and along the way, she challenges Sakura for the knowledge of the closest ice cream shop. After learning the location of the closest ice cream shop from Sakura after their battle, Ibuki while musing happily about what she wanted to get next, she spots Guy, thinking that he is a spy from another clan, and declares a challenge from him. Guy then tells her to calm down for a second, and gives Ibuki a baked potato. While Ibuki is distracted by the baked potato, Guy tells her that he has errands to run for his master and sneaks away, as Ibuki had now forgotten what she was going to do.
Street Fighter X Tekken
Ibuki appeared as a playable character in Street Fighter X Tekken where she is partnered with Rolento, who had sent a request to her village for someone skilled in fighting and infiltration in his search for the Pandora artifact. Due to Rolento's constant orders which she follows reluctantly, Ibuki does not particularly get along well with her new partner, despite the military titles he bestows on her as their story progresses. It is later revealed that Rolento was able to extend his contract to have Ibuki work for him without her knowing about it. The Swap Costume of Tekken character Asuka Kazama is based on Ibuki's design. The in game explanation is that Asuka decided to learn how to be a ninja and Ibuki became her teacher, which, is a contradiction of sorts considering Asuka's win quote against Ibuki herself. The outfit itself is a more revealing version of Ibuki's default, exposing Asuka's midriff as well as a top portion of her breast. Like Ibuki's version Asuka's also shows it's wearer's hips (though to a less degree than Ibuki's). Asuka has much longer bands than Ibuki on her arms and similar glove style. Asuka's bottoms of her ninja out cut out earlier than Ibuki's and has banding similar to her arms with her ankles wrapped up for protection just like Ibuki's. Asuka's color scheme is much brighter with a blue main focus (mirroring her own default outfit scheme) compared to Ibuki's clay brown, though this would make Asuka's outfit much less practical for actual missions compared to Ibuki's. Lastly, Asuka's forehead is wrapped up, possibly to imitate Ibuki's hairstyle, which isn't that long around her head, and Asuka wears a mask similar to Ibuki. Asuka doesn't remove this mask during any time she is wearing it, while Ibuki removes hers during some actions. An unused outfit for Yoshimitsu shows that his originally planned swap partner was meant to be Ibuki. He has two outfits based on her that were not put into the game. The first has Yoshimitsu wearing a similar brown ninja outfit to Ibuki. He wears a black bodysuit underneath as to cover up the areas Ibuki normally shows in her outfit such as her hips. Instead of being barefoot in one he wears sandals and extra footwear and has a tanuki tail as how Ibuki tends to accessorize some of her outfits. Yoshimitsu wears a mask as he usually does and dons a similar hairstyle to Ibuki albeit shorter. The second version sees Yoshimitsu wearing shoulder armor (something Ibuki herself is opposed to judging by one of her character titles "Armor Is For Wimps") a unique mask and red hair that doesn't resemble Ibuki's. He wears a white bodysuit with red accents that also show in the open hip slits of the outfit. He also wears footwear in this version.
UDON comics Street Fighter: Hyper Looting #1
Ibuki is one of Guile's backup alongside Mika and Zangief when he correctly predicted Balrog would have his own reinforcements in Vega and Decapre. She assists Guile in his mission to prevent M. Bison in finding the limited edition Loot Crate, which the comic was exclusively created for and the service seemingly exist within the context of the comic with actual employees and their like-ness being shown within the artwork, that has what Bison needs for his plan to succeed. When Balrog's reinforcements arrive each of Guile's backup has a one on one battle with one of Balrog's allies with Zangief taking on Balrog himself, Mika taking on Vega, and Ibuki herself battling Decapre. After Decapre taunts Ibuki for using weapons at her young age Ibuki manages to defeat Decapre with a Yoroitoshi. Ibuki later is seen regrouping with Guile and the rest of his crew and is the first to ask Guile who the mysterious pink haired woman who claims to have what he wants and also inexplicitly has Dan in tow was when he acquired an unsolicited call from her. Ibuki then is seen dodging an projectile launched by M. Bison himself and Bison starts taunting Guile's crew how he now found the specific Lootcrate box that has specifically what he is looking for but then finds the box he is holding to be empty. Just before Guile could engage Bison the crew watch Charlie Nash suddenly appear and defeat Bison who then leaves with an ominous threat to Guile himself. The comic ends with a "To Be Continued"
Street Fighter: Back To School Special
Ibuki's role and story in Back To School Special takes place after the events of her own comic. She is now a University student out of high school and her physical growth/appearance compared to her legends appearance reflects this. Somewhat ironically in this comic she is the one advertising Sarusubere University hiding it's true nature as a ninja university when the very same action was done to her in her own comic. Elena and Makoto after finishing their match decide to go to the College Fair as they heard Ibuki would be there presenting. Similar to Ibuki in her own comic now Makoto and Elena are looking for future options. After hearing about the Kanzuki School of Business from Karin and Tamagawa Kita College from Sakura Ibuki hears them considering both options. Ibuki then attempts to entice her friends to Sarusubere University with Makoto interrupting Ibuki almost revealing the University's true nature as a hidden ninja training place. As Ibuki continues talking she suddenly gets hit in the face by a promotional ad for Seijyun Girls University. It was revealed that Akira, Yurika Kirishima and Zaki from Rival Schools were the ones behind the unauthorized advertisement. The Rival School girls start to appeal to Makoto and Elena about what their university appeals to but Ibuki, Karin and Sakura all point out there are there in an unauthorized manner as the three Street Fighter presenters got permission from Agato Gongen High School to be there while the Rival School equivalents are interrupting the authorized presenters. After Sarai is shown talking with Kei Chitose about their respective fighting friend a fight is shown between the Street Fighter and Rival School ladies with Sarai, Makoto, Elena and Kei spectating. Ibuki herself battled Zaki, displaying ninja skills she didn't utilize in her own comic while she was in high school to gain the upper-hand on Zaki and Zaki coming up with the nickname "toothpick" for Ibuki. The fight later ends when Kei and Sarai point out Elena and Makoto lost interest in all the potential futures each girl was offering in favor for Dan's C.W.A. Wrestling Trainee Program.
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Street Fighter III: New Generation: Lose Screen art by Kinu Nishimura. SFIII: New Generation artwork (image from Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection ) Street Fighter III: New Generation Ibuki's Stage.
Ibuki (いぶき, born December 6, 1980) is a Street Fighter character, introduced in Street Fighter III: New Generation and Super Street Fighter IV. Ibuki lives in a village composed entirely of Ninja. She has been trained from childhood, yearns for the life of a normal girl of...
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