Not long ago, a game daily article on "why Chunli legs are getting thicker", which triggered a heated discussion among many netizens. Originally it was just a discussion about "different models of beautiful legs", but I did not expect that it eventually evolved into a scolding war between netizens on both sides.
Among them, there is such a comment, which received the most replies and received 131 likes. He believes that the reason why Chunli's legs will become thicker and thicker as a Chinese character is because of Sino-Japanese relations, and game manufacturers are rhythmically ugly.
After this review, "King of Fighters" was also pulled in, and some netizens believed that the game was also suspected of deliberate ugliness. This time, let's take a good look at "Street Fighter" and "King of Fighters", is it really as netizens said?
In 1987, Nishiyama takashi led the production of the first "Street Fighter", and one of the representative characters of Street Fighter, Takashi, was named after him. Subsequently, he left Capcom due to management differences of opinion and other reasons, thus jumping ship to SNK.
In 1991, Takashi Nishiyama co-produced The Legend of the Hungry Wolf, which was subtitled The King of Fighters. In 1993, he produced King of Fighters 93, the first generation of the King of Fighters series, and since then, another fighting game series legend has begun.
With the success of the "Street Fighter" and "King of Fighters" series, these two have created many classic game characters, many of which have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, such as the King of Fighters' Hachijin-an, Street Fighter's Chunli and so on. Many of the characters in King of Fighters and Street Fighter have references and homages to the popular culture of the time, including anime characters, movies, sports stars, etc.
For example, the image of Red Pill in "King of Fighters" borrows from Porunarev in the comic "Jojo's Wonderful Adventure";
Robert's image is also a tribute to Hollywood movie star Stephen Siegel;
Sumo wrestler Honda in Street Fighter pays tribute to Chiyo Fuji, a well-known Japanese sumo wrestler.
In the 1990s, with the improvement of China's international status, the popularity of Hong Kong films, especially kung fu films, coupled with the influence of the martial arts master Bruce Lee, Chinese kung fu was promoted to the world.
SNK and Capcom have introduced some characters in their respective games that borrow or pay tribute to Hong Kong kung fu films or well-known stars. For example, the image of Zhen Yuanzhai in "The King of Fighters" is borrowed from Su Qi'er in Jackie Chan's movie "Drunken Fist";
The costume shape of Miss Chunli in "Street Fighter" is also borrowed from the style of Mao Ying in the Hong Kong movie "Broken Ring", and the body shape may refer to the starring Shiho Mieko of the Japanese B-grade film Female Killer Fist, and the appearance background is set to hong Kong action actress Li Saifeng.
After understanding the above, let's answer the question about whether "King of Fighters" and "Street Fighter" maliciously scandalize China.
First of all, Chunli's legs, the first thing to be clear is that the "Street Fighter" series has always been realistic, like marvel comics, Chunli's legs are not always so thick. Since "Street Fighter 2", the style of the "Street Fighter" series has become more and more exaggerated, but the overall style is still biased.
And Chun Li is a fighter, muscular is very normal, not to mention Chun Li is still known for her legs, just like football and track and field athletes, so the thickness of the legs should be more normal.
Not only Chunli, taking "Street Fighter 5" as an example, you can see that in addition to the female characters Karin and McNett, the legs of some other non-Chinese female characters are also full of muscles. For example, the British character Jamie looks very thick with legs. Moreover, in "Street Fighter 5", Chunli's appearance is still quite high.
The above facts are enough to show that the so-called "Chunli thick legs are the official deliberately scandalizing the role of Chinese" is simply nonsense. And when Damu checked the information, he found that Chunli's status in the minds of "Street Fighter" players is very high, and it is not only a Chinese player, if this is the result of deliberate ugliness, it is too ironic.
Let's talk about the Chinese character image of "King of Fighters".
There are some subjective factors in the aesthetic, and netizens who feel that the Chinese characters in "The King of Fighters" are ugly are estimated to have only seen the image of Zhen Yuanzhai. As mentioned earlier in the article, the image of Zhen Yuanzhai is derived from Su Qi'er in the movie "Drunken Fist", and in the movie, Su Qi'er is the master of the protagonist Huang Feihong.
Friends who have learned about history, or who have known about the "Drunken Fist" movie, will not think that Su Qi'er's image is ugly. In folklore, Su Qi'er is one of the "Ten Tigers of Guangdong", with a high status as a martial artist and an absolute hero Haojie.
And none of the other Chinese characters in "The King of Fighters" deserves the description of "ugly". Is the same Chinese character vertebrate ugliness? No matter what kind of aesthetic point of view is not ugly, even in the current buzzword, you can also use handsome guy to describe him.
Let's take a look at the newly added Chinese character MUIMUI in "King of Fighters 14", this cute style is in any case, and it has nothing to do with ugliness.
Moreover, the protagonist of "King of Fighters 14" and "King of Fighters 15" is still a Chinese character, which is the same status as Hachijin-an and Kusasaki Kyo.
Indeed, some games have secretly done dirty things, such as a game some time ago to defame the national hero Yue Fei, but "King of Fighters" and "Street Fighter" are obviously not among them. It's okay to pay more attention to your eyes, but you always tense your nerves, and you don't have to wear colored magnifying glasses!