yuri sakazaki

A character from SNK's Ryuuko no Ken and The King of Fighters series. She has brown hair most commonly done up as a braided ponytail. She wears a red headband and a training outfit - typically the upper half of a white sleeveless dougi, with a blue sports bra (or sometimes a cropped blue shirt) worn underneath, blue fingerless gloves, blue leggings, and red sneakers.

She is the second child and only daughter of Kyokugen-ryuu Karate founder Takuma Sakazaki. She has an older brother named Ryou Sakazaki. She is the love interest of fellow Kyokugen disciple and friend of the family Robert Garcia.

She practices the Swallow discipline of Kyokugen-ryuu Karate, having learned the family style within a year (against her father's wishes, initially). She is also the first female to be able to perform the Haou Shoukou Ken. She is often described as a genius, able to learn moves very quickly. For this reason, Yuri has a habit of parodying moves from other characters, most infamously Ryu and Akuma from Street Fighter (a way for SNK to lightly poke fun back at Capcom after the latter made Hibiki Dan).

She first appeared as a damsel in distress, kidnapped by Mr Big in Art of Fighting 1 and rescued by Ryo and Robert. She made her playable debut in Art of Fighting 2.

Her original fighting stage was a fitness gym, and her signature theme song is named "Diet". As of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, which takes place long after the events of Art of Fighting, Yuri owns her own gym.

In the King of Fighters continuity, Yuri is a founding member of the Women Fighters Team alongside Shiranui Mai and King.

She has a voluntary verbal tic of adding "-cchi" to the end of her sentences, allegedly for the sole purpose of sounding cuter. For example, "余裕!"/"Yoyuu!" ("Easy!") becomes "余裕っち~!"/"Yoyuu-cchi~!" ("Easy peasy~!")

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