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Kyo's appearance and sketch in The King of Fighters XIII, by OguraĪccording to Nobuyuki Kuroki, the staff wanted to provide a new design that would captivate new fans. He then expressed some difficulty accepting Kyo on the same level. Kyo's voice actor, Masahiro Nonaka, related greatly with his character as being young and reckless until he "grew up" in his later appearances.
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Since then, veteran developers for the series admit that Kyo's repeated appearances in the series is due to the marketers and the main planners' insistence to add him, Iori, and other SNK regulars in every game, making it a challenge to decide the story for each title. However, they retracted this decision, as "they couldn't leave these popular characters in limbo". The idea of having two versions of Kyo at once lead to the concept of his clones during the early development stages of The King of Fighters '99, SNK planned to avoid adding any version of Kyo altogether, or Iori, to the game, as the story's focus was meant to center on the new protagonist, K'. To appease all fans, they also included an older version of Kyo from The King of Fighters '94 into The King of Fighters '97 and placed the ' 95 version of Kyo in '98, which made both versions of Kyo popular during location tests.
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His change in fighting style was also made as a part of the series's overhaul in The King of Fighters '96. He wanted Kyo to be a character who "dislikes training and was strong due to natural talent." While in charge of designing the character, Yuichiro Hiraki sought to contrast Kyo with Street Fighter character Ryu, he considered the character to be an "overwhelming rival or a wall." He believed the latter was a popular character that couldn't be surpassed in the same field, so he made Kyo's characterization and design contrast Ryu so he could benefit from appealing to a broad demographic. Other influences include Jo Yabuki and Akira Fudo from the respectively series Ashita no Joe and Devilman. It is also a homage to a Japanese phrase of giving birth to fire (roughly translated as "lighting strikes the earth which sparks the flame"). The idea for his flames -as well as the other elemental powers for the rest of the Japan team- was derived from the anime Getter Robo in the show, there were three featured heroes who served as the inspiration for the KOF trio: the protagonist had a "fiery" persona, his friend was "edgy and daring", and the third hero was the "down-to-earth giant".
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When Syo appears as a striker in KOF 2000, he would be voiced by Mitsuo Iwata who also voiced Kaneda. When designing Syo, Shinichi Morioka (Kyo and Iori's creator) used Shotaro Kaneda from the Akira manga as inspiration. But late in production, his name became Kyo Kusanagi, likely due to the KOF story's change in direction towards the Yamata no Orochi legend. Through most of his development, Kyo was meant to be called Syo Kirishima, and was dressed in martial arts clothing common with fighting games at the time. When designing characters for the first The King of Fighters, developers wanted a new hip hero who would easily rival the Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting characters in style. He is a member of SNK's character image band, The Band of Fighters and also co-star alongside Iori in one of SNK's promotional series, Part Time Stories: Kyo & Iori.Ĭoncept artwork from The King of Fighters '94, including sketches for Syo Kirishima (left) In addition, a number of image songs and audio dramas featuring Kyo's character have been released, including the contents of his own character image album consisting of all of his theme songs. A video game under the same name was also created to further expand his character. Īside from the main series, Kyo also has a spin-off manga story based on his adventure in The King of Fighters '96, entitled The King of Fighters: Kyo. His official nickname is " Scion of the Flame" ( 炎 ( ほのお )の 貴公子 ( きこうし )) or " The Cleansing Exorcising Flame" ( 火炎 ( かえん ) 祓 ( はらう ) 濯 ( ゆす )). His family's treasure is the Kusanagi Sword ( 草薙 ( くさなぎ )の 剣 ( つるぎ )), and his family crest is the sun, represented in a stylized halo of fire. They, along with the Yasakani and Yata clans, keep one of the Three Sacred Treasures used to contain Orochi long ago. His clan wields pyrokinetic powers, an inherited power that few members obtain. He was first introduced as a cocky delinquent high school student who is the heir of the Kusanagi Clan, one of the three clans that sealed the legendary snake entity, Orochi, 1800 years ago. He was first introduced in The King of Fighters '94 as the leader of the Japan Team. Kyo Kusanagi ( 草薙 ( くさなぎ ) 京 ( きょう )) is the main protagonist in SNK's The King of Fighters video game series. Kusanagi style of ancient martial arts + personal style of Chinese boxing ( Kenpō)