Karin/Pop Culture

This is a page listing Karin Kanzuki's references in general pop culture.

Street Fighter

 * Although Karin is usually depicted as an only child of the Kanzuki family in most Street Fighter media (this is even stated as much in Sakura Ganbaru!), in the Ryu Final manga, she has three unnamed sisters.

Other video games

 * Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort from the Tekken series is often compared to Karin, since the former bears many similarities to her.
 * Karin and Lili both have schoolgirls (Sakura and Asuka Kazama respectively) for rivals, and declared them rivals so after they were defeated by them; Karin was defeated by Sakura after a challenge, while Lili was defeated by Asuka at the fifth King of the Iron Fist Tournament.
 * Each developed their own fighting styles, and enjoy the prospect of victory.
 * Both are somewhat selfish and stuck-up rich girls who come from wealthy families with companies/businesses being threatened in their main storylines.
 * Their butlers are present during their winning poses; Karin is shown with her butler, Ishizaki, while Lili asks her butler Sebastian if he can find a better person to fight than the person she defeated.
 * The comparisons come full circle in Street Fighter X Tekken, wherein Sakura compares Lili to Karin in the former's winquote against the latter.

Comics and Manga

 * Karin also has a similar personality and background to Nanami Kiryuu from Revolutionary Girl Utena. Karin's laugh is also similar to Nanami's.
 * Karin is often comparable to Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto character Karin, who also happens to have a fighting rival named Sakura (though the latter case regards the kunoichis' infatuation towards fellow renegade ninja turned international criminal Sasuke Uchiha).