Joe Higashi

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Joe Higashi
Joe Higashi in King of Fighters: Neo Wave
Game series	Fatal Fury series King of Fighters series SNK Vs. series
First game	Fatal Fury
Voice actor(s)	Katsuhisa Namase (FF2, FFS, KOF '94) Nobuyuki Hiyama (FF3 and onward)
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	Japan
Blood type	AB
Fighting style	Muay Thai
Likes	Fighting, Fried alligator bits, Any combative sports, His headband
Dislikes	Dressing up

Joe Higashi (ジョー・ヒガシ, Jō Higashi^?) is a character in both the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series, used mostly for comic relief, he is currently dating Lilly Kane, the sister of another Fatal Fury and King Of Fighters character Billy Kane, who disaproves greatly of this.

1 History
- 1.1 Fatal Fury
- 1.2 The King of Fighters
2 Trivia
3 Related characters
4 Related Disciplines
5 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Fatal Fury

Although Joe's place of origin is Japan, he spent the majority of his time at Thailand, where he trained Muay Thai. It was through his victories that Joe got the nickname "Hurricane Uppercut" Joe Higashi.

Joe earned his title as the champion of Muay Thai by besting Hwa Jai in a Muay Thai only tournament. Hwa Jai later joined the King of Fighters tournament in order to exact revenge against Joe but failed, and after admitting his defeat they're good friends and sparring partners. Ever since then, Joe has been defending his title against lesser opponents. Joe then met Andy Bogard and assumed that he is superior to Andy in an exhibition match. Joe was wrong as he was defeated. Realizing that he was much slower than Andy, Joe congratulated Andy for his tenacity. Andy then offered Joe a chance to join him on a quest to Southtown in order to help him and his brother Terry exact revenge against Geese Howard, the man responsible for the death of their father Jeff Bogard. Although Joe understands that he risked expulsion from the Muay Thai Federation for this, Joe accepted Andy's offer and then went to the King of Fighters tournament to support the Bogards unconditionally. While both Andy and Joe were not able to fight Geese, Joe did his job in helping the Bogards out. Terry managed to defeat Billy Kane and later on bested Geese on top of the Geese Building. Joe then returned to Thailand to defend his title.

However, his recess turned out to be short-lived when a German brute named Wolfgang Krauser attacked his archrival Hwa Jai without warning. Joe was forced to enter the King of Fighters tournament to investigate the truth behind Hwa Jai's beating. While Joe tried to prove that he was much stronger than the Bogards, he could not do so and all he could do was provide support for the Bogards again. Joe then helped Terry and Andy defeat Billy, Axel Hawk, and even Laurence Blood. Terry provided the final wallop, prompting Krauser to fight Terry. Terry wasted Krauser with a Power Geyser, leading to Krauser's loss. Krauser tells Terry to leave at once since he has to live with his pride destroyed by an upstart. With Krauser finally losing to Terry, Hwa Jai and Joe ended their rivalry and became friends ever since.

[edit] The King of Fighters

Joe is a mainstay to Terry's team throughout a lot of King of Fighters tournaments. During the 94 tournament, Andy chose to include Joe as a team member instead of Mai Shiranui, making her feel left out. While Joe never played much of a major role since the defeat of Geese, Joe has proven to be a loyal sidekick to the Bogards, teaming with them in every KOF.

He is absent from KOF XI because a Muay Thai tournament is being held at the same time.

[edit] Trivia

Joe appears as a Striker in KOF EX for the Game Boy Advance.

Joe Higashi, along with Dan Hibiki are additional characters in the Japan-only Capcom Vs. SNK Pro, an update of the title for the Dreamcast and Sony Playstation.

Terry Bogard's ending for SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium reveals Joe lost to Adon, of the Street Fighter Alpha series, knockig him out of the compeition.

Joe has used what is considered one of the strangest super-moves in fighting games, during the NESTS Chronicles (King Of Fighters 99, 2000, 2001 and 2002) his special move was 'The Strongest Low Kick In History' after posing for a second, Joe would perform a quick hopping low kick into the opponents skins, inflicting an incredibly high amount of damage and sending the opponent spiralling through the air, the move was 'semi-reprised' the move with 'The World's Most Explosive Punch' (one solid punch coupled with explosions that does similarly disproportionably large amounts of damage)

Joe's DM 'Golden Tiger Kick' from the newer KOF titles is almost identicle to his 'Tiger Kick' he used in the original Fatal Fury.

In many games, Joe's taunt consists of turning around and mooning the opponent while yelling "Ora, ora!" (hey hey!)

Joe makes an appearance in the daytime Temple of Ruins stage in KOF: Maximum Impact 2. He is leaning up against pillar and largely obscured from the fight unless the camera is tilted sideways to see down the side Joe is on.