Mai Shiranui

Mai Shiranui, also known as The Alluring Ninja Girl, is one of the main characters from the King of Fighters series.
== Charactah Account ==
Mai is a very happy girl with the dream of several other girls: get married with her prince charming. She found that same Prince Charming in Andy, her childhood friend as well as her grandfather's disciple, and self-proclaimed herself his fiancé. Although her preppy fighting persona suggests otherwise, Mai is a traditional Japanese beauty and very proud of it. However, her pride as a Shiranui ninja and infatuation with Andy usually keep her from fitting the mold 100% of the time.
In XIV, Mai is pissed that Terry and Andy are teaming up with Joe, and is getting short of candidates for the Women Fighters team aside of King because she turned down other invitations (like Kasumi and Hinako) thinking that she'd be able to team up with Andy (she was too late), while the other candidates (Yuri, Mary and Vanessa) are busy with their own activities and jobs. Luckily for her, she quickly came across Alice Garnet Nakata, who proved her skills (even if it's a modified attacks of the Bogard brothers) and the Women Fighters Team rises again.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle
* Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
* King of Fighters: Another Day
* The King of Fighters XV
* The King of Fighters: Destiny
=== Manga ===
* The King of Fighters: A New Beginning
=== Video Games ===
* Art of Fighting 2
* Bokuto Dragon
* Brave Frontier
* Capcom vs. SNK
* Capcom vs. SNK 2
* Clash of Kings
* CR The King of Fighters
* Crash Fever
* Crusaders Quest
* Dai Shingeki RPG! Sister Quest
* Days of Memories
* Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
* Dead or Alive 6
* Dungeon Hunter Champions
* Fall Guys
* Fatal Fury 2
* Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
* Fatal Fury Special
* Fatal Fury: First Contact
* Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition
* Game of Dice
* Gang Legend
* Garou Densetsu Premium
* Garou Densetsu Sougeki
* Garou Densetsu Special - Roulette character
* Garou Densetsu The Legend of Wild Wolf
* Garou Densetsu vs Fighter's History Dynamite
* Garou: Mark of the Wolves
* Goddess Kiss: OVE
* Honor of Kings
* If World
* Kimi wa Hero
* King of Fate
* King of Glory
* Knives Out-Tokyo Royale
* KOF Gals Mahjong
* KOF Sky Stage
* KOF x Fatal Fury
* KOF: Maximum Impact
* KOF: Maximum Impact 2
* KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A
* Makai Wars
* Maximum Impact
* Metal Slug Attack
* Metal Slug Defense
* Moeyo! KOF Daiundokai
* Moeyo! SNK Gals Osuin Katoukai
* Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
* Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting
* Neo Geo Tennis Coliseum
* Puzzle & Dragons
* Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos
* Quiz King of Fighters
* Real Bout Fatal Fury
* Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers
* Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
* Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind
* Returners
* Samurai Shodown
* Seven Deadly Sins : Grand Cross
* Shinobi Master Senran Kagura: New Link
* Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits: Bushidou Retsuden
* SNK Beach Volley Gal's Attack
* SNK Dream Battle
* SNK Fighting Age
* SNK Gals' Fighters
* SNK Gal's Open ~Cutey Shot~
* SNK Gals Island Astro Quest Hoshi wa Nigashimasen!
* SNK Gals Island Dokidoki Puzzle Shock!
* SNK Gals Island Dokidoki Puzzle Shock! 2
* SNK Gals Island Hanakaruta Oshietekudasai
* SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy
* SNK High School Collection
* SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millenium
* Soul Warrior
* Street Fighter 6
* SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom
* The King of Fighters (Pachinko)
* The King of Fighters '94
* The King of Fighters '95
* The King of Fighters '96
* The King of Fighters '97
* The King of Fighters '98
* The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match
* The King of Fighters '99
* The King of Fighters 2
* The King of Fighters 2000
* The King of Fighters 2001
* The King of Fighters 2002
* The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
* The King of Fighters 2003
* The King of Fighters All Star
* The King of Fighters Destiny
* The King of Fighters EX: Neo Blood
* The King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood
* The King of Fighters M: Fighting Stars Assembly
* The King of Fighters Mahjong
* The King of Fighters Mobile
* The King of Fighters Mobile R-2
* The King of Fighters Neowave
* The King of Fighters R-1
* The King of Fighters R-2
* The King of Fighters Volleyball
* The King of Fighters XI
* The King of Fighters XII
* The King of Fighters XIII
* The King of Fighters XIV
* The King of Fighters XV
* The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise
* The King of Fighters: Kyo
* The King of Fighters: Orochi Go
* The King of Fighters: World
* The King of Millionaire
* Tian Tian Xuan Dou
* Tokyo Prison
* Tower of Saviors
* Ultimate Heroes
* Valkyrie Connect
* Venus Eleven Vivid
* Wizardry Online
* World Cross Saga
* YAMATO Chronicle
=== Webcomics ===
* Nerf NOW!!!
== Trivia ==
* Mai was rated #4 in GameSpy.com's "Top Ten Babes in Games" feature and number 5 in Game Informer's "Top Ten Hottest Girls of the 16-Bit era."
* In the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, she was voted as the fifth favorite character with a total of 2,380 votes.
* Mai is the only female character with a cheerleader DLC costume to wear heels with it; The other girls wear sneakers with socks.
* Mai's birthday (January 1) is on New Year's Day. She also shares her birthday with Bankotsubo, the final boss in Dead or Alive 2.
** Coincidentally, both characters had fighting styles that revolved around fans of some sort (Paper fans in Mai's case, and ha-uchiwa's in Bankotsubo's case).
* In the teaser for Mai at Dead or Alive Festival 2016, she was shown to have a face and build similar to Momiji. However, she was given a slight redesign in the August 2016 Famitsu coverage for the character's gameplay that made her closer to her appearance in the King of Fighters series, marking her the second character to have a different design from the first "final design", the only other being Hitomi when Dead or Alive 5 was first announced.
* Mai is the second guest character in the overall series to only speak in her native language (Japanese) regardless of language options while not having recycled voice clips (despite having had English voices in some previous SNK games), the only other being SPARTAN-458 from Dead or Alive 4.
* Mai is the fourth character that holds an object when fighting, after Gohyakumine Bankotsubo, Genra, and Nyotengu. Similar to those two tengus she holds a fan, but of a different design.
** Unlike Nyotengu, Mai utilizes the same object (in her case, a paper fan) regardless of her current outfit.
* Also, Mai is the second character that uses fire in her attacks. The first was Momiji.
* Technically, this is the second time Mai and Kasumi have "interacted" to some degree, as they had both previously been in the crossover video game Queen's Blade.
** They also "interacted" in a special wallpaper that was released in collaboration by SNK and Team Ninja celebrating the Steam release for King of Fighter XIV and 8 million downloads of Dead or Alive 5 Last Round.
* Mai is the only character to be absent from the Halloween 2016 costume set. This was most likely because she debuted long after the 2016 Designer's Contest ended yet before the actual release of the Halloween DLC. However, Team Ninja recently announced a Designer's Contest for 2017, but for unknown reasons, Mai is the only character absent for a costume design for said year.
* All of Mai's costumes appear to have their own tassels, much like her original outfit does.
* Some of her moves, such as her Yoshikiri-Gaeshi ("Reed-Cutter Counter") and Oraku-To ("Falling Crash"), have her open her fan, but without using it for attacking.
* Mai did not receive any further DLC costumes following her debut pack.
* If Mai performs her fire summon attacks in the Azuchi stage, the lighting in the arena will briefly dim during the attack's duration. It's unknown whether or not this is intentional.
* It's unknown whether or not her appearance in the series is canon, as her bio makes no outright mention on whether she is participating in the tournament or how she even got into the DOA universe, unlike Naotora Ii.
* Mai is the first guest character to reappear in another Dead or Alive game (not counting expansion packs), having first appeared in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, and reappearing in Dead or Alive 6. This make her a polar opposite to Ayane who has been a recurring Dead or Alive guest character in Marvelous’ Senran Kagura games (namely Shinovi Versus and Peach Beach Splash). Conditionally, both Mai and Ayane are the first known recurring DLC guests on Dead or Alive and Senran Kagura respectively.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Mai Shiranui at SNK Wiki
Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:King of Fighters