Voiced by: Atsushi 'Monster' Maezuka (games, King of Fighters: Destiny), Eric Kelso (XII, English), Hikaru Midorikawa ('94 Dengeki Bunko drama CD) Kyo's and Daimon's partner. A lightning user who's also quite the ladies' man. Fans of the King Of Fighters Kyo manga rejoice! Chapter 12 of the series has been translated and edited for the first time ever. In chapter 12 Kyo challenges Iori to a Guitar band contest, while Saisyu and Eiji take on Goenitz.

Joe watches as his best friends have relationships with women that they arguably take for granted while he’s left with nobody. The only woman he’s got any spark with is unfortunately the sister of one of his greatest enemies. He talks a big game and owns up to it, but it’s secretly never enough. He’ll always be alone and isolated no matter how much he brags about his fighting skill, or how many championships he defends, or how many fighting game articles for Den of Geek he writes, or—I MEAN, UM He uppercuts so hard that tornados happen!

Let’s move on! MATURE First appearance: KOF94 First fighting appearance: KOF96 Vice and Mature are the X-factor of King of Fighters, always keeping you guessing.

Introduced as Rugal’s secretaries over the first two games, they don’t become actual characters until King of Fighters ’96 as Iori’s accomplices. They turn out to be spies for the Orochi faction with the added twist that Iori was well aware of it.

They intended to use him, but he used them instead, and – judging from their pre-boss fight dialogue in that game – probably got at least one three-way out of the deal. Then they got slashed to bits by Riot of the Blood Iori. They died and it seemed like they took out two promising characters before they could hit their stride. They returned in King of Fighters XIII, which was surprising, since up until recently, SNK was fairly good about the “dead means dead” policy. They’re ghosts now, existing in the land of the living. Not only does their return raise questions, but so do their motivations. They’ve acted as mystical agents for Iori, but why?

They don’t seem to want to unleash Orochi anymore, as they had the opportunity. Is it affection for Iori? Are they planning on stabbing him in the back?

Or is there a bigger picture? Wise registry cleaner pro 5.94 free download. VICE First appearance: KOF95 First fighting appearance: KOF96 So with that said, that leaves the question of which Orochi secretary is better. I have to go with Vice on this one. Mature’s super-sharp Sharon Stone is dandy, but Vice is the one whose personality truly stands out. She’s snake-like and psychotic, making her moveset shine through. Then there’s the whole eye-patch thing.

Mature has an eye-patch in King of Fighters XIII. She no longer has it in King of Fighters XIV. I’m not sure which confuses me more: that a ghost can have an eye injury or that a ghost can heal from an eye injury. Vice is free from those mind-bending complications. But for real, was it just a fashion thing? Can ghosts get pink eye?

One thing’s for certain about both. Slamming someone so hard that a skull made of energy explodes from the ground or wall is the sweetest shit ever. TIZOC/KING OF DINOSAURS First appearance: Garou: Mark of the Wolves First KOF appearance: KOF03 Tizoc started as just another cool design in Garou, a game filled with cool designs. While he looked rad and did some ridiculous superhero wrestling moves, it became apparent when he was adopted into King of Fighters that there wasn’t enough to him. He was yet another Mexican luchador wrestling for the orphans of the world. That cliche's been done to death.

Suddenly, King of Fighters XIV propelled him into being amazing. After losing a match against Nelson, Tizoc lost his goddamn mind and turned heel for the sake of getting revenge.

Instead of a stoic griffon, he became a maniacal tyrannosaurus. Because of course he did. King of Dinosaurs adds to Tizoc in every way.

He looks better (and is the best-looking fighter in the game), his moves get an extra shot in the arm, and his personality has gone into overdrive. From his angry response at Terry casually calling him “Tizoc” to his bewildering inner-monologue during his team’s ending, King of Dinosaurs is the best change of wrestler gimmick since the Ringmaster decided to start drinking beers and flipping people off. TAKUMA SAKAZAKI First appearance: Art of Fighting First KOF appearance: KOF94 In the early days of King of Fighters, Takuma was just a generic karate master. He’d yell at Ryo and Robert to train more while looking like John Saxon. It seemed like he had peaked, since the first Art of Fighting game featured him as Mr.