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Kyo Kusanagi (Japanese: 草薙 京, Hepburn: Kusanagi Kyō) is a character in SNK's The King of Fighters series of fighting games.The character was first introduced in the 1994 video game The King of Fighters '94 as the leader of the Japan team from the series' title tournament.
The first game in the series introduces the initial main character of the series, Kyo Kusanagi, a young Japanese fighter who is the heir to a powerful group of martial artists having pyrokinetic abilities. Kyo fights against the Kusanagi clan's enemies, his rival Iori Yagami, and the snake entity Orochi and its
The other two clans are the Kusanagi and Yasanaki clans, from which Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami are descended. Chizuru uses the tournament in the hopes of recruiting Kyo and Iori in order to stop the upcoming Orochi threat. The new boss is Goenitz, a servant of Orochi, who wants to stop Chizuru's plans of sealing his master. After Chizuru ...
The game also introduces two clones of Kyo Kusanagi, Kyo-1 and Kyo-2, as Team Edit characters based on previous playable incarnations of the character. The real Kyo also returns with his rival, Iori, but they are only secret playable characters. [7]
The introduction of the classic Kyo Kusanagi from KOF '97 was noted to be "a hit" with gamers. The developers added new alternative versions of other characters to the sequels, leading to the creation of the Kyo clones Kyo-1 and Kyo-2, from The King of Fighters '99 , and the now-more-experienced Kyo had new moves.
An example of the Dream Cancel feature. In the above picture, Kyo Kusanagi is using a Desperation Move against Gai Tendo, but changes into a Dream Cancel below in order to perform a stronger move. The game retains the gameplay elements from The King of Fighters 2003 involving fights between six characters who can tag between members during ...
Saisyu Kusanagi, Kyo's father, appears as a fighter for the first time (having made a non-playable cameo in KOF '94) as a computer-controlled sub-boss character. After defeating Saisyu in the arcade mode, it is revealed that Saisyu was being brainwashed and that Rugal will fight once again as a boss character, but as an enhanced version named ...
Masahiro Nonaka (野中 政宏, Nonaka Masahiro, born on October 15, 1968, in Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Vozator Voice Production. Nonaka has been excessively famous for his role as Kyo Kusanagi, as well as the two Kyo clones, Kyo-1 and Kyo-2, in The King of Fighters fighting game series.