However, due to his own sheer will and stubbornness, he is able to resist losing his mind to the Riot of the Blood something even Iori Yagami is unable to do. He doesn't want to be involved with Orochi and the Hakkesshu. He also carries around a knife with him at all times, which he seems to have a degree of affinity toward. He subconsciously keeps his right hand in his pocket because his idol once praised the power of that particular fist. He likes to bash, smash, cut and, basically, kill everyone and anyone. He is the calm and confident gangster at one time and is clearly mad and hysterical in another.
Yamazaki has psychopathic tendencies with a love for materialistic articles and money. Whether or not this ending in canon remains to be seen, although it does somewhat explain the characters' disappearance. In their team's ending, Billy and Yamazaki engage in a brawl and neither have made an appearance in KOF XI. He returns in the 2003 tournament with Billy and Gato on another of Geese's schemes. During the tournament it was revealed that Yamazaki is one of the Hakkesshu.ĭuring the subsequent tournaments, Yamazaki did not enter, and it's unknown what he did during this time. He then accepted Billy's offer and demanded to be paid double the amount of the tournament's prize money. Yamazaki refused at first, but after terribly mauling one of the warriors, he felt an adrenaline rush through his blood. On Geese's orders, Billy requested the broker's participation in the tournament. In the King of Fighters series, as he was trashing another dojo, Yamazaki met Billy Kane. Ten years later (1995), he joined the Chinese mafia and was hired by Jin Chonrei and Jin Chonshu to protect them and the scrolls of immortality. He is usually at odds with Hon Fu, who tries to catch and arrest him in the act. He continues to be an influential broker, weapons dealer, and drug trader with Kowloon Walled City as his base of operations.
Unfortunately, Yamazaki's uneasiness during a fateful business trip to Osaka alongside his boss marked an ambush from a rival gang, and from there his boss Sorimachi was tortured and killed the shock of his death gave birth to Yamazaki's insane alter ego.Īlthough he has little memory of his past after this incident, he murdered his boss' rival and fled from Japan to Hong Kong. Eventually, he worked under the man he admired as a surrgoeant father and found happiness for the first time in his life. Aspiring to be like the man he saw, Yamazaki left his town and joined the crime syndicate. His life was a miserable and boring existence -with American troops constantly patrolling his town- until he caught glimpse of a Yakuza (Japanese mafia) boss named Sorimachi (反町). Yamazaki was orphaned at a young age in the streets of Okinawa. Hayashida for the Fatal Fury 3 live action commercials. Weller, and Street Fighter character, Ken. He shared the spot with Samurai Shodown character, Galford D. In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Yamazaki was voted as the staff's fifteenth favorite character. Ryuji Yamazaki (山崎 竜二, Yamazaki Ryūji) is a video game character from both the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series. Has no trouble going three days without sleep Aug31 years old (Fatal Fury 3), 33 years old (Real Bout Special, KOF)ġ10 kg (242lbs, Fatal Fury-KOF 2002) 96 kg (212 lbs, KOF 2003)Īnything that has to do with personal gain