Mai Shiranui

Mai is fair-skinned with long, waist-length brown hair tied into a ponytail in a tight and high topknot style with parted bangs. She has many admirers (both in-game and in real life) due to her face and figure. According to an issue of Neo Geo Freak, Mai's breasts were modeled after Fumie Hosokawa's while her bottom was modeled after that of the late Ai Iijima. Both women were famous idols by the time she debuted. Her famous outfit is a red and white traditional Shiranui kunoichi (female ninja) dress with red tassels at the back fastened to an obi around her waist and forming a pelvic curtain at the front. Most of the time, she also has circular white ropes secured around her shoulders, with red and black colored tabi for footwear. However, in SF6, she appears as she does in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special – the ropes around her shoulders are not present, her heels and toes are exposed and her fingerless gloves are black. Furthermore, her outfit in the trailer has floral patterns that are seen in her appearances in New Age Saga King of Fighters games (The King of Fighters XIV and XV and also the spin-off SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy). She also usually uses a traditional white Kachō Sen or "butterfly fan" as her primary weapon, which she can also use as a projectile. Personality Mai is a very cheerful and temperamental girl skilled in stealth, climbing and the use of fans in combat and with power over fire. She tends to also be somewhat of an airhead and admires any kind of beauty or attractiveness, which sometimes comes across as being vain. She is actually a classic Japanese beauty, known as a Yamato Nadeshiko, but her pride as a Shiranui ninja and her infatuation with Andy Bogard – her self-styled fiancé – usually keep her from fitting the mold completely. She can also cook – her specialty is Japanese bento, but she can also make osechi (traditional Japanese dishes for New Year).

Art by Jay marvel

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