Akira Yuki
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| Game series | Virtua Fighter series |
| First game | Virtua Fighter |
| Creator(s) | Yu Suzuki |
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| Nationality | Japanese |
| Birthday | 9 / 23 / 1968 |
| Hobby | Kung-Fu |
| Height | 180 cm (5' 11") |
| Weight | 79 kg |
| Measurements | 105 / 90 / 94 |
| Blood type | O |
| Occupation | Kung Fu Teacher |
| Fighting style | Hakkyoku-Ken |
Akira Yuki is a fictional character in the Sega video game series Virtua Fighter. His fighting style is based on Bajiquan, a Chinese martial art.
Akira strives for perfection and will drive himself relentlessly to master his techniques. He seeks worthy opponents to fight in order to find flaws in his skills to further attain mastery.
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[edit] History
[edit] Virtua Fighter
Hakkyoku-ken is one of the foremost Chinese martial arts known as Bajiquan. During the Second World War, the Japanese army developed their own Hakkyoku-ken techniques to improve their infantry's fighting ability. Akira Yuki is the son of the man who developed these techniques. He serves as the assistant instructor at Yuki Budokan. Hot-blooded and impulsive by nature, he also can be naive and intemperate. After completing his training under his father's tutelage at the age of 23, he went on a quest to test his abilities. When he got word of the 1st World Fighting Tournament, he decided to enter and test his abilities.
[edit] Virtua Fighter 2
The only person to whom the ultimate martial art of Hakkyoku-ken is handed down. Realizing that the last time he lacked experience; Akira is now testing the results of last year's training and practice. During the last Tournament, Akira was a bit too "enthusiastic" and his attitude was met with much disapproval. He was defeated and humiliated by Kage, so now bears a grudge against him.
[edit] Virtua Fighter 3
Realizing that he lacked experience from his failure to win the First World Fighting Tournament, Akira went through rigorous training to prepare himself for the Second World Fighting Tournament. Akira returned home, with the second tournament trophy. Yet as he was about to proclaim his victory, his grand-father told him, "Don't flatter yourself. You haven't mastered anything yet." In order to answer the question, "What is true strength," Akira resolved to fight in the tournament once more. On the Third World Fighting Tournament, Akira’s main intentions are to show his grand-father and himself that "true strength".
[edit] Virtua Fighter 4
After Akira failed to win the tournament, he went back to Japan and told his grandfather about the disappointing results. With further encouragement from his grandfather, Akira decides to continue his training in the mountains. This time, Akira trained harder than ever, while trying to understand exactly what "true power" really is. However while training, Akira received an invitation for the 4th world tournament. Akira decides to join the tournament to test out the new skills he has learned and try to find the "real" power within him.
[edit] Virtua Fighter Kids
In Virtua Fighter Kids, Akira is depicted as a young boy (6 to 8 years old) and he lives at the dojo that he works in, Yuki Budokan. In his FMV movie, he fights a warrior similar in appearance to Goro from Mortal Kombat, which results in a large hole in the dojo wall. He hammers it up but accidentally stubs his thumb.
[edit] Trivia
- Akira is the Assistant teacher of his father's dojo. This dojo is his stage in Virtua Fighter 4.
- Not following the "main character is the strongest character" philosophy as seen by most fighting games (Mortal Kombat's Liu Kang, Tekken's Jin, etc...), Akira is not to be considered a beginner's character. His moves are some of the most challenging to perform in the game. This makes him a very difficult but satisfying character to master. In all fighting games, he is considered to be the hardest cover character to successfully master. Watching skilled Akira players is a sight to behold. He has three combo moves that are some of the strongest in the game, but requires many button combinations for only 3 hits. The hardest is an attack that acts as a throw by pressing P+K+G ~ back,down/forward P+K ~ down,forward P, which does about 70 points of damage. He also has an attack in which the command list says "K+G release G after one frame" while the game moves at about 50 to 60 frames per second. Many hours of practice or very good hand-eye coordination is required to use him effectively.
