It wouldn’t be an EVO without some character announcements, so Capcom took the opportunity this evening to show off the next two characters making up Street Fighter 6’s roster: the return of Juri, alongside Kimberly, a fighter making her series debut.
You can see both in action below in this trailer. Juri makes her entrance with one of the slickest Akira slides I’ve seen for a while, while Kimberly is described by Capcom as, uh, a “spunky new ninja”, who has special moves involving spray cans and a walkman:
Of course this isn’t really the first time we’ve seen Kimberly, who is the first playable African-American woman in street-fighter series history. She was teased in the game’s announcement trailer, and we saw her full design de ella (as well as Juri’s) in that art leak from a few months back.
That leak is probably going to spoil a lot of these announcements going forwards, at least a little, though I guess it has also got us wanting to see more of some of the cooler examples, like China’s AKI and Italy’s glorious new gladiator.
Street Fighter 6 is due sometime next year.
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