Karin Kanzuki

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Karin Kanzuki
Karin Kanuzki from Street Fighter Alpha 3
Game series	Street Fighter series
First game	Street Fighter Alpha 3
Voice actor(s)	Miho Yamada
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	Japan
Blood type	B
Fighting style	Kanzukiryu kakutoujutsu (Kanzuki-style hand-to-hand techniques)
Likes	Total victory
Dislikes	Minds of commoners
Special skill	Various Kanzukiryu secret techniques

Karin Kanzuki (神月かりん, Kanzuki Karin^?) is a video game character from the Street Fighter fighting game series. Karin is a rival of fellow schoolgirl Sakura and has a similar outfit, complete with sailor fuku, but uses the martial art style Kanzukiryu kakutoujutsu instead of Ansatsuken. Her hair is styled into long, oversized ringlets, and she wears a blue bow in the back.

1 Story
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Story

Karin considers herself a rival of Sakura, who defeated Karin when challenged. Karin is from a very rich family, whose motto is "Be the best at everything", and used the family fortune when attempting to track down a roving Sakura to challenge her again. Karin defeated Sakura, but realized the victory was a fluke, and that the fight itself is more important.

[edit] Trivia

Karin first appeared in the Street Fighter-based manga Sakura Ganbaru by Masahiko Nakahira. Although originally not part of the Street Fighter canon, she was integrated into the games after Nakahira was hired by Capcom as a character designer.
Karin's butler, Ishizaki, and her dog appear in her win poses.
As much as Sakura resembles a female Ryu, Karin can be said to represent a female Ken (with her long blonde hair, predominantly red outfit, a rich family and sense of rivalry with Sakura). However, unlike Ryu and Ken (both practitioners of Ansatsuken), Sakura and Karin utilize different fighting styles. Additionally, unlike Sakura, Karin seems to look up to Ken, as indicated in her Street Fighter Alpha 3 dialogue with him, but wants to surpass him and makes no effort to emulate his style.
Karin is R. Mika's sponsor.
Her name is more properly pronounced "kah-rin", though English speaking fans usually pronounce it as "Karen."
In the home versions of SFA3, her stage was changed from being a nighttime version of Sakura's stage, to a sailing yacht stage.
According to the Japanese version of the home version of SFA3, as well as the arcade game Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper, the name of her family's yacht is the "Queen of Victory."