Angel (The King of Fighters)

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Angel

Official The King of Fighters 2002 artwork for Angel.
Game series The King of Fighters
First game The King of Fighters 2001
Creator(s) Styleos
Voice actor(s) Mina Tominaga in KOF 2001
Mayumi Shintani in KOF 2002 and Neowave
In-Universe Information
Birthplace Flag of Mexico Mexico
Blood type O
Fighting style 'Perfunctory', elements of professional wrestling

Angel (pronounced Ahn-hehl as per the Spanish pronunciation of the word)[1] is a video game character in the 2001 and 2002 releases of The King of Fighters series. She is also playable as a secret fighter in the Japanese PlayStation 2 port of The King of Fighters Neowave, but not in any overseas release. She is depicted as a sexy, white-haired Mexican who works for an organization known as NESTS. Her "Unchain Circle" combo attacks make her one of the more unique characters in the KOF series in terms of gameplay, but despite her uniqueness, Angel has proven to be less popular of a character than expected.[2]

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[edit] Character design

Angel's character design is said to be the result of Styleos', her character designer, "overwhelming passion" and that one "can see his preferences in almost every aspect of her."[3] The staff for The King of Fighters 2001 were also said to have "splurged" in hiring Mina Tominaga as Angel's voice actress,[3] although her voice actor was switched to the less famous Mayumi Shintani for her appearance in The King of Fighters 2002, whose vocal clips are reused for The King of Fighters Neowave.

Angel is one of the more overtly sexual characters in the KOF series. In addition to her revealing outfit, Angel has the largest bust size of any character (92cm,[3] which ties with Shermie), undresses slightly for her win poses, and makes a few provocative comments (her taunt basically translates as "Do I make you hard?"). Her fighting style contains some elements of professional wrestling, such as the elbow drop used in "Survivors Banquet", but lacks the actual grapples and holds that define the fighting style.

All of Angel's attacks are named after songs by the Japanese band Soul Flower Union. The attacks themselves however, are all named in English with katakana, even when the song it's alluding to has a Japanese title. For example, Angel's "Starlit Field" (スターリット　フィールド?) throw is named after the Soul Flower Union song "Nodura wa Hoshi Akari" (野づらは星あかり?), which itself does translate as "Starlit Field". Many of Soul Flower Union's songs have English titles in katakana already though, so many moves, such as Angel's other throw "Go-Go Futen Girl", are the same as the original song.

[edit] Gameplay

The following gameplay information is on Angel as she appears in her most recent appearance in The King of Fighters Neowave. While her gameplay has stayed largely the same in her three appearances, there are some minor differences that may be noted.

Angel is unique for her "Unchain Circle" (UC) special attacks which must be comboed together in order to work. Angel has five "Unchain Circle" starter moves, six UC root moves, seven UC finish moves (including "Loyalty Test for the Liberalists", a 'desperation move'), and a special "Omagatoki" move. Each UC root move can only be comboed with two other specific UC root moves, but any of the UC starters or finishers can be used with any UC root move.

Angel has only has two other special moves that aren't "Unchain Circle" moves:[I] "Red Sky of Yaponesia" and "Mad Murder Roulette".

Another unique aspect of Angel's gameplay are her "Winds Fair Ground"/"Blue Monday Parade"/"Survivors Banquet" 'super desperation moves', which are some of the few 'trap' moves in the KOF series, where she does not attack unless she is hit with a melee attack while in the stance she goes into for about half a second after the move is performed. While in reality only one move, as the button input is the same for all three, the move Angel performs depends on how she is hit. Due to its short duration and unsubtle performance, it virtually requires for the opponent to be already in the middle of an attack when its performed in order for it to be excucuted.

[edit] In-game history

In The King of Fighters 2001, Angel is introduced as an agent of the secret organization known as NESTS and is assigned to keep an eye on the experiment K9999, whose purpose is to hunt down traitorous experiments that had left NESTS. NESTS enters a team consisting of K9999, Angel, Kula Diamond and Foxy into the 2001 King of Fighters' tournament with intents on killing the rogue experiment K'. However, during the final moments of the tournament, it was revealed that Angel, along with K9999, was also on a mission to kill Kula and her guardians, and in the end, Angel and K9999 appear to kill Foxy. However, although Foxy has yet to appear in another KOF, this ending is considered to be non-canon, as Foxy is still officially alive.[4]

[edit] Game appearances

In this screenshot of The King of Fighters 2002, Angel is using "Reppun Kamui", an "Unchain Circle" starter move, against Billy Kane.
In this screenshot of The King of Fighters 2002, Angel is using "Reppun Kamui", an "Unchain Circle" starter move, against Billy Kane.

[edit] Trivia

  • Angel has the largest bust size of any KOF female character, tied with Shermie at 92cm.
  • Angel's name in English, also is pronunciated as "An Hell".
  • Since K9999 is based in Tetsuo Shima from AKIRA, Angel takes the place of Kaori, being the "girlfriend" of K9999.

[edit] Notes

I^ : In The King of Fighters 2001, "Red Sky of Yaponesia" is a starting UC move, but it is just a normal move in 2002 and Neowave.

[edit] References

  1. ^ This is backed up by the fact that Angel's name is written in katakana as アンヘル (Anheru) instead of the normal English equivilent of エンゼル (Enzeru) or エンジェル (Enjeru). See Angel's Japanese character profile.
  2. ^ Interview with Marito and Kamada. SNK Playmore. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c Angel's KOF 10th anniversary profile. SNK Playmore. Retrieved on March 9, 2007.
  4. ^ Foxy's KOF 10th anniversary profile. SNK Playmore. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.

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