KMC Forums - Respect Ryuji Yamazaki

Come on, you got to give it up for SNK's resident Orochi-fueled sociopath. He was always one of my favorite SNK fighters, and he has a style that's his own.

Birthplace: Okinawa, Japan
Birth date: August 8, 1964
Fighting style: Combative Homicide (self-taught)
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 209 lbs
Blood type: A + Orochi
Hobbies: Collecting knives, Trashing Dojos
Favorite food: Basashi (sliced horsemeat)
Favorite sport: None
Most valuable: Anything that financially benefits him
Hates the most: Manual labor, Geese Howard and anyone who screws him over from gaining more money

Yamazaki never had parents to look up to when he was growing up, so he quickly fell in with the wrong crowd at a young age. Eventually, after years of petty crime, he fell under the tutelage of a crime boss, where he soon climbed the ranks of crime until he became the boss's right-hand man. One day, Yamazaki and his boss went to a warehouse where an illegal deal was taking place. Yamazaki felt that something wasn't quite right with the situation, and told his boss so. The boss laughed Yamazaki's feeling off and ordered him to stay with him. Unfortunately, the deal was a setup, and both Yamazaki and his boss were ambushed by rival criminals. Yamazaki's boss was killed, and seeing the only "parent" that he ever had die before his eyes drove Yamazaki to insanity. He is now completely psychotic and is extremely mentally unbalanced.

In 1995, Yamazaki was signed up by Jin Chonrei and Jin Chonshu to protect them and the scrolls of immortality.

As he was having fun at a local dojo, Yamazaki was faced by an Englishman named Billy Kane, who worked as the bodyguard of Geese Howard, main crime leader of Southtown. Yamazaki refused Billy's offer to join him and participate in the King of Fighters tournament at first, but after terribly mauling one of the warriors, he felt an adrenaline rush through his blood. Feeling a need to fight and kill, he accepted Billy's offer.

During the subsequent tournaments, Yamazaki did not enter, and its unknown what he did during this time. He finally returns in the 2003 tournament to participate with Billy and Gato to engage on another of Geese's attempts to take over Southtown.

At the end of the tournament, tensions between the team members increase somewhat, and culminate in a fight. Gato, disgusted with his team members (whom he is obviously not friends with), simply takes his leave.

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Chuck Norris learned his trademark move, along with his sense of duty and justice, from Jesus after watching Him roundhouse kick a money changer out of the temple.