Shiranui Mai

If you don't know who she is then you are missing out. Mai is a character from the Fatal Fury(tm) game and anime series. Mai first appered in Fatal Fury 2 joining Terry, Joe, and Andy in their fight against Geese Howard. She has also appered in every King of Fighters (tm) produced teamed up with King, a blond British Mhuay Thai boxer, and Yuri, of Art of Fighting fame, in the first two. In KoF '96 Yuri was replaced with Todo Kasumi, from Art of Fighting 3, in '97 Kasumi took a hike and one of the bosses, Chizuru, from '96 joined Mai and King. Mai is a kunoichi, which means female ninja. Her fighting style is a variation of standard Shiranui ryu ninjutsu, combining elements of traditional dance with her fighting art.

Mai's personality is generealy lighthearted and playful. Her capacity and desire for fun is only exceded by her ability to consume vast quantaties of alchohol. For reasons unknown she is hung up on another FF character, Andy Bogard. (.......there aren't any adjectives derogatory enough to express my opinion of this loser.) Mai trained with Andy as a child, when he was studying koppojutstu (bonebreaking techniques) under Mai's grandfather Shiranui Hanzo. Later Andy moved on to train with Yamada Jubei, an eccentric (and excedingly sukube) Judo master, and Mai followed. Despite the constant groping and peeping from Jubei, she does seem pretty dead set on marrying Andy, and stays at the old man's dojo just to be near him. However Andy seems to only have interest in his fighting arts and seems more than a little obssesed with defeating his brother Terry. My personal opinion of what should happen to Andy is best expressed in the story I wrote,


Kage no Mai : The Dance of Shadows:


Here are some of the better (and more politacally correct) Mai images I've found/scanned

Mai Image shrine
The Fan fiction
Here's the homepage for Kage no Mai as well as the rest of my fics.