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Karin Kanzuki (神月かりん, Kanzuki Karin) is a video game character from the Street Fighter fighting game series. She was originally a character from the 1996 Street Fighter manga Sakura Ganbaru! authored by Masahiko Nakahira, but her character would be integrated into the video game series starting in Street Fighter Alpha 3, where she appears as a playable character. She also appeared in Capcom Fighting Evolution.

Biography

Background

Karin is the daughter of Daikenjuro and Nadeshiko Kanzuki. The wealthy Kanzuki family's mottos are "All you need is victory" (also interpreted as "Be the winner in everything") and, alternately, "The worst we'll ever be is the best". Her family's private estate covers 200 acres of land, and not only has its own geographical features, but its own climate.

Karin considers herself a rival of Sakura, who defeated her when challenged.

Appearance

As a self-styled rival of Sakura, Karin naturally has a similar outfit, complete with sailor fuku (this one being predominantly red and white with a blue bola tie. However, she uses the martial art style Kanzuki-ryū kakutōjutsu, a style she created herself, instead of the "original" style Sakura uses. Her hair is styled into long, oversized ringlets in a European Victorian-era fashion, and she occasionally wears a blue bow in the back. She also unusually wears her underwear on the outside of her leggings.

Personality

Due to the fact that she is from a wealthy family, Karin is quite snooty and thinks other people are "commoners", or inferiors. She lives by her motto more than the rest of her family, as she takes majority control of her father's company from under his nose in a hostile takeover (ironic, since he was the one to drive that philosophy into her).

After Karin finds and eventually defeats Sakura in a rematch, she feels that she won only "by chance" and Sakura is actually the best of them. Karin then decides to step a little out of her family's motto of "always winning", and starts to praise the fighting itself as more importantly than victory or defeat, thus showing a bit of humility.

Story

The Kanzuki corporation is threatened by Shadaloo, which makes demands of the dynasty. She uses the family fortune in an attempt to track down Shadaloo as well as a roving Sakura to challenge her again. Along the way, she encounters Blanka and defeats him in a friendly match, musing that "the world is so vast" for such a beast to exist. She also encounters R. Mika and battles her, and is so impressed by Mika's ability that she offers the wrestler her sponsorship. Karin eventually finds and defeats Sakura, but realizes the victory was a fluke, and that the fight itself is more important, not winning or losing (as Ken Masters told her this previously).^[1]

Entourage

Ishizaki is Karin's butler, and appears in her win poses. Ishizaki is a pudgy but engaging middle-aged Japanese man with burly arms and a warm, welcoming smile. He is always willing to do what Karin wishes of him (such as tending to the opponent's injuries or serving her a cocktail drink), though sometimes he wants to get in on the action and do battle. In addition, Ishizaki was assigned the job of baby-sitting/watching over Karin while she traveled the world, in search of a rematch with Sakura. Since he and her have such a close albeit rocky bond, he can be considered to be her closest friend in the Kanzuki mansion, as he is very proud of her and takes such good care of her.

Shibazaki is the Kanzuki family's steward. While steward usually means butler, it has many other definitions, such as a person who manages another's affairs and/or finances. According to Sakura Ganbaru!, he drives her to and from school, arranges her meals (she won't eat school cafeteria food), does background research on anyone she takes interest in (even straying into the TMI territory), and other odd jobs. While concerned for her welfare, especially in regards to her interest in street fighting, he is nonetheless in awe of her abilities as a martial artist and as the heir of the Kanzuki Zaibatsu.

Trivia

Karin may have been intended to appear in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter; a sprite of her with Sakura's outfit (with boots instead of sneakers, as shown below) exists somwhere in the ROM data, near Dan's sprites.^[2]
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 fighting schoolgirls (Sakura and Asuka Kazama respectively) for rivals. Both declared their 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.
- 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.
- Both enjoy the prospect of victory.
- Both developed their own fighting styles.

Stage Theme

Gallery

Screenshots

Sprites

References

Street Fighter Alpha Characters
Alpha		Adon · Akuma · Birdie · Charlie · Chun-Li · Dan · Guy Ken · M. Bison · Rose · Ryu · Sagat · Sodom
Alpha 2	Original	Dhalsim · Evil Ryu · Gen · Rolento · Sakura · Zangief
	Console	Shin Akuma
	Gold	Cammy
Alpha 3	Original	Balrog · Blanka · Cody · E. Honda · Juli · Juni · Karin · R. Mika · Vega
	Console	Dee Jay · Fei Long · Guile · T. Hawk
	Upper	Eagle · Maki · Yun
	MAX	Ingrid

[1] ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIKKl1eH0FM

[2] ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anJOQs5_-vo

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 Shibazaki is the Kanzuki family's steward. While steward usually means butler, it has many other definitions, such as a person who manages another's affairs and/or finances. According to Sakura Ganbaru!, he drives her to and from school, arranges her meals (she won't eat school cafeteria food), does background research on anyone she takes interest in (even straying into the TMI territory), and other odd jobs. While concerned for her welfare, especially in regards to her interest in street fighting, he is nonetheless in awe of her abilities as a martial artist and as the heir of the Kanzuki Zaibatsu.
-<p style="font-size:13px;">'''Karin Kanzuki''' (神月 かりん, born September 15, 1973) is a character from [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Street_Fighter_Alpha Street Fighter Alpha 3]. She is a rival of fellow schoolgirl [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura Sakura]and has a similar outfit, [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Karin# complete] with sailor fuku (this one being predominantly red and white with a blue bola tie), but uses the martial art style ''Kanzuki-ryū kakutōjutsu'', a style that she created herself apparently, instead of Sakura's imitation of Ryu's martial art. Because of the fact that she is from a wealthy family, Karin has a habit of acting snobby and dismissive and thinks lower-class people are "commoners"; as such, she hates the ideals of said social class.</p>
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-==Street Fighter Legends==
-<p style="font-size:13px;">[http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/UDON UDON] released a four-issue mini series in 2010 called ''Street Fighter Legends: Sakura''. Karin is a main character in the story.</p>
-==Notes==
-<p style="font-size:13px;">Karin first appeared in the ''Street Fighter''-based manga ''Sakura Ganbaru!'' by Masahiko Nakahira. Although originally not part of the ''Street Fighter'' canon, she was integrated into the games after Nakahira was hired by Capcom as a character designer.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">Karin's mother is named Nadeshiko, which means either "fringed pink" or "lovable girl". Her father is named Daikenjuro. Daikenjuro is likely to be based on the ''Tekken'' series' [http://www.tekkenpedia.com/wiki/Heihachi_Mishima Heihachi Mishima], as he is in some ways rather strict - he constantly pushes his daughter into becoming a better heir to the Kanzuki family fortune, as he wanted a son. Nadeshiko, however, has never made any official appearances, so we don't know what she looks like, but she is described as being more lenient and caring towards her daughter than her husband is.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">Karin has been given several tests by her father to complete or else she is disqualified from inheriting the family fortune. Her first test was when she was 9, where she was taken to the woods with meager food and water; she had to come home safely or else she'd be disowned. (Her father struggled two weeks to accomplish this when he was her age, but Karin polished the trial off in 4 days.) Another test, based solely on her gender, was that if she didn't charm at minimum 5,000 of the world's gentlemen she cannot inherit the family fortune. She passed this test too, and her mother Nadeshiko is said to have charmed 50,046 gentlemen, including her husband, to see if Nadeshiko would qualify to be Daikenjuro's wife. Yet ''another'' test required her to stop a stampede of fifty wild bulls, single-handedly stopping a running of the bulls at age 14. Karin subdued fifty bulls in all, beating Daddy's record by one.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">Although she is usually depicted as an only child of the Kanzuki family in most SF media, in the Ryu VS manga by Masaomi Kanzaki, she has three sisters that at this time are unnamed.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">Although they're rivals, Karin and Sakura get along rather well. Sakura addresses Karin a little more distantly (Kanzuki-san) than Karin does Sakura (Sakura-san), possibly because Karin is a rich heiress, even though ironically, Sakura is a few months older than Karin is.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">As much as Sakura resembles a female [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Ryu Ryu], Karin can be said to represent a female [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Masters Ken Masters] (with her long blonde hair, predominantly red outfit, a rich family and sense of rivalry with Sakura). However, unlike Ryu and Ken (both practitioners of the same style), Sakura and Karin utilize different fighting styles. Additionally, unlike Sakura, Karin seems to look up to Ken, as indicated in her ''Street Fighter Alpha 3'' dialogue with him, but wants to surpass him and makes no effort to emulate his style.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">''Sakura Ganbaru!'' depicts the Kanzuki estate as so large, it doesn't just have its own rivers, mountains, and savannas, it has its own climate as well. Even though it's in the middle of Tokyo, visitors don't arrive by car, they arrive by chartered plane and land at the private airstrip near the mansion.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">Karin is [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/R._Mika R. Mika]'s sponsor; she offered to become her sponsor after Karin became impressed with her martial arts ability..</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">Her name is more properly pronounced "kah-rin", though many English-speaking fans usually pronounce it as "Karen." In the home versions of ''Street Fighter Alpha 3'', her stage was changed from being a nighttime version of Sakura's stage, to a sailing yacht stage.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">According to the Japanese home version of ''Street Fighter Alpha 3'', as well as the arcade game ''Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper'', the name of her family's yacht is the "Queen of Victory."</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">She is credited as being the inventress of the family's fighting style, and was given a "son's upbringing" because, according to her father, the birth of a daughter is considered a discouragement in the Kanzuki family. But despite this, however, Karin dresses very girlishly.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">According to the ''Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia'', Karin's school uniform is of the same style as Sakura's, but colored in red and blue and custom-made especially for her.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">In stereotypical "rich girl" fashion, Karin calls [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Tamagawa_Minami_High_School?action=edit&redlink=1 Tamagawa Minami High School] a "school for commoners" despite being a student there herself. She actually is attending the local high school to "observe the lifestyles of the less fortunate".</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">For a girl who has only appeared in one canonical game and two other games (''[http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Capcom_Fighting_Evolution Capcom Fighting Evolution]'' and''[http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Namco_x_Capcom Namco x Capcom]'', where she's paired with Sakura no less), she has a surprisingly large fan following. She was also one of the most fan requested characters for ''[http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Street_Fighter_IV Street Fighter IV]'' and ''[http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Street_Fighter_IV Super Street Fighter IV]'', alongside [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/R._Mika Rainbow Mika],[http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Elena Elena], and [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Rolento Rolento]. Sadly, the Capcom team did not listen, but pressure still builds for her to appear in ''[http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Tekken_X_Street_Fighter?action=edit&redlink=1 Tekken X Street Fighter]'' and ''[http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Street_Fighter_X_Tekken Street Fighter X Tekken]''.</p>
-==Other Appearances==
-<p style="font-size:13px;">Karin is a playable character in the crossover game [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Namco_x_Capcom Namco x Capcom], where she is paired with Sakura.</p>
-<p style="font-size:13px;">She is also featured in the game [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Capcom_Fighting_Evolution Capcom Fighting Evolution], but does not appear in [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Street_Fighter_IV Street Fighter IV] nor [http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Street_Fighter_IV Super Street Fighter IV].</p>
-==Voice actress==
-<p style="font-size:13px;">In all of her appearances thus far, Karin has been voiced by veteran seiyuu Miho Yamada. However, she has no American English voice actress.</p>
 ==Trivia==
+* Karin may have been intended to appear in ''[[Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter]]''; a sprite of her with Sakura's outfit (with boots instead of sneakers, as shown [[#Sprites|below]]) exists somwhere in the ROM data, near [[Dan|Dan's]] sprites.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anJOQs5_-vo</ref>
-*Lili Rochefort in ''Tekken 6'' can be customized to vaguely resemble Karin, with or without the hair ribbon.
-*According to ''Sakura Ganbaru!'', Karin's fighting style is actually a combination of karate, judo, aikido, sambo, muay thai, taekwondo, amateur wrestling, koppo, Shaolin kung fu, tai chi chuan, bagua-zhang, etc. (Karin possesses 100 dan and 8 kyū so far).
-*Karin was based off of the ''Little House on the Prairie'' character [http://littlehouse.wikia.com/wiki/Nellie_Oleson_Dalton Nellie Oleson].
-*Her family name, ''Kanzuki'', might be based on Masaomi Kanzaki, who did the Ryu VS mangas, known in the West simply as "Street Fighter II".
-*Karin has never lost her shoe.
 * [[w:c:tekken:Lili de Rochefort|Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort]] from the ''[[w:c:tekken:Tekken (series)|Tekken]]'' series is often compared to Karin since the former bears many similarities to her:
 ** Karin and Lili both have fighting schoolgirls (Sakura and [[w:c:tekken:Asuka Kazama|Asuka Kazama]] respectively) for rivals. Both declared their rivals so after they were defeated by them; Karin was defeated by Sakura after a challenge, while Lili was defeated by Asuka at the [[w:c:tekken:Tekken 5|fifth King of the Iron Fist Tournament]].
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