Mai Shiranui
Mai Shiranui has drawn comparisons to the fighting-game genre's other early female icon, "Street Fighter"s Chun-Li, with whom she shared the "Top Girls" entry in a 1994 ranking of fighting games by a Spanish magazine "Hobby Consolas". UGO Networks declared Mai the "Chun-Li of the SNK universe", and Ed Laurence of "Sinclair User" wrote in 1993 that she was able to "out-Chun Li Chun Li". Previewing "Capcom vs. SNK 2", GameSpot's Justin Speer wrote about its "beautiful and powerful females such as Chun-Li and Mai", and Rich Knight of "Complex" pitted the characters against each other in his 2011 "battle of the beauties" feature, stating: "Breasts or legs? Personally, we'll take 'em both". In "ScrewAttack"'s "Death Battle!" series the same year, Mai, dubbed "the queen of fighters", defeated Chun-Li due to her greater nimbleness and superior ranged attack abilities. Mai Shiranui is also popular in Korea, where she received 62% of votes to Chun-Li's 19% in a 2009 South Korean online poll held on White Day, in which fans voted for their "most wanted" female fighting-game character. According to Crunchyroll's Nate Ming in 2016, Mai has continued to represent "SNK, "Fatal Fury", and "KoF" in the same way that Chun-li [represents] "Street Fighter"". That same year, Aleksander Borszowski of Polish magazine "CD-Action" described Mai as the "second dame" of 2D fighting behind Chun-Li. Joystiq's Richard Mitchell stated: "There is one thing "Street Fighter" will never have, and that's Mai".