Gai Tendo

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Gai Tendo
Gai Tendo in Buriki One
Game series	King of Fighters series
First game	Buriki One
Voice actor(s)	Nobuyuki Hiyama
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	Japan
Blood type	B
Fighting style	Total Fighting

Gai Tendo (天童凱, Tendō Gai^?) is a fictional character from SNK's 3D fighting game Buriki One for Hyper Neo Geo 64. Gai is a red hair fighter with a hot-blooded temperament that always drives to a fight. Also in the protagonist of the game.

1 Appearances
2 Story
3 Gameplay
4 Trivia
5 See Also
6 External Links

[edit] Appearances

Gai is one of the more charming SNK characters, with a great fame in Japan. Since his appearance in Buriki One, Gai has made various cameos in SNK games.

His first appearance in a game is as a striker in the King of Fighters '99 Evolution (secret) and later in King of Fighters 2000 (Takuma Sakazaki's alternate striker).

Later, in SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash series, as a SNK character card and one of the four Buriki One characters pictured in this game, with his name misspelled as "guy".

Recently, Gai appeared as a mid-boss in King of Fighters XI alongside Silber, the boss of Buriki One, both of them can be unlockable. This is the first game Gai is a playable character after his origin game.

[edit] Story

Gai is 17 years old (in Buriki One) and in spite of his age, he is a well rounded and skilled fighter. But he has a cocky personality that is matched by few people, though when it's time to fight, he becomes serious and focused on the fight at hand. At the tender age of 10, Gai was able to best many masters of different martial arts. Soon afterwards he began gathering knowledge of different martial arts and applying them in unison to create a complete form of combat. Thus Gai decides to enter the tournament “Buriki One: World Grapple Tournament '99 in Tokyo” to demonstrate his skills as a fighter. [1] He also joins to the KOF XI tournament to test his strength.

[edit] Gameplay

Gai mastered his own martial art, self-titled Total Fighting, a mixture of various Martial Arts, like Vale Tudo and MMA. His fighting techniques are based on physical motions alone without the use of ki. He uses strikes, holds, and pressure points to dispatch his opponets, creating a unique fighting method not seen in the 2-D fighting game world.

Gai is one of the few MMA/Vale Tudo characters to be shown in the fighting game world along with Craig Marduk from Tekken series and Vanessa Lewis from Virtua Fighter series.

[edit] Trivia

Gai in KOF XI

Gai is based in Kazushi Sakuraba, a Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former professional wrestler.
Gai is also based on some manga and anime characters, like Baki Hanma from Grappler Baki or Eikishi Onizuka from Great Teacher Onizuka.
Gai is close friend of Seo Yong Song and Takato Saionji. Rob Python is his rival in Buriki One, as well as Ryo Sakazaki. Silber is his nemesis, his ultimate rival, and appeared with Gai in KOF XI, both as mid-bosses.
Based in various official artworks and fanarts, Gai may be involved with a Buriki Girl, Hinako Tono.
Gai makes a cameo appearance in the nighttime War Memorial stage in KOF: Maximum Impact 2, watching the fight from front row next to Silber.
Gai's spandex are from Mizuno sportswear, one of the real sponsors of the game.