Though she no longer has a place to return to, the former waitress wishes to find a certain samurai who smells of sunflowers and enlists the help of the now exonerated pair to do so. However, they are rescued by Fuu, who hires the duo as her bodyguards. The only problem is, they end up destroying the entire shop as well as accidentally killing the local magistrate's son.įor their crime, the two samurai are captured and set to be executed. Unfortunately, Mugen decides to pick a fight with the unwilling ronin Jin, who wields a more precise and traditional style of swordfighting, and the latter proves to be a formidable opponent. That is, until she accidentally spills a drink all over one of her customers! With a group of samurai now incessantly harassing her, Fuu desperately calls upon another samurai in the shop, Mugen, who quickly defeats them with his wild fighting technique, utilizing movements reminiscent to that of breakdancing. No pun intended.Fuu Kasumi is a young and clumsy waitress who spends her days peacefully working in a small teahouse. If we do end up getting a fourth season, we'd imagine that Gen-an will be at the very top of the shortlist. We can't really know, but given that all the data suggests Gen-an is quite a popular pick who brings his own flavor to the series, a lack of notability is certainly not why he remains absent.Īs far as we are currently aware, Samurai Shodown only has one character left to be added to its roster, who is going to be a guest character from Guilty Gear (and also most likely Baiken), but there's no telling if that's truly the end of SNK's latest swordfighting installment or not. Perhaps it was difficult to make the character work the way they wanted, perhaps they couldn't get him to look the right way in the game's new graphical style or perhaps he was never brought up as a viable option at staff meetings at all. So if it isn't a lack of popularity or an uninteresting moveset, why is Gen-an still absent from the game? There are no concrete answers since SNK have never really commented on the Samurai Shodown fighters they left out of the game, but my best guess is that this attractiveness-deficient little bastard and his fans simply ended up being unlucky.
While several later additions beat him in the poll (all of the top 6 - Mina, Iroha, Shizumaru, Cham Cham, Basara and Rimururu, in that order have been added), he actually beat out some of his rivals from the first game, notably placing higher than both Season 1 addition Wan-Fu and the most recently released character Amakusa as well. Looking at this, Gen-an actually ended up in 9th place of all the Samurai Shodown characters who weren't in the launch roster. We also know for a fact that SNK heavily considered the results of this poll when deciding which characters to add, even citing Season 2 character Mina Majikina's announcement as a direct result of her placing first in the poll. A while back, shortly before the launch of the Samurai Shodown revival, SNK held a poll which we've covered several times on the site ( here, for example). Honestly, though, this also seems unlikely to be the case why. Is it then a question of popularity? That would be the obvious route considering we live in a day and age where fighting games receive continuous updates and it's simply less feasible to expect consumers to shell out extra cash for characters who just aren't that beloved. As earlier stated, his gameplay is certainly unique enough - you won't find anyone in the current roster who fights quite like he does.
So why exactly has Gen-an been left as the odd man out from the original Samurai Shodown cast? Well, we can't know for sure. though I'm honestly fine with that one in particular, since Amakusa is awesome. Even Amakusa, who wasn't originally playable but rather a boss character, has gotten in before him. You need look no further than the character select for the original game to see that Gen-an has been somewhat unjustly treated - Galford, Haohmaru, Ukyo, Charlotte, Tam Tam, Earthquake, Nakoruru, Wan-Fu, Jubei, Hanzo and Kyoshiro make up this screen together with him, yet he's the only one nowhere to be found in 2019's revival of the series. While he may not really be a looker, he most definitely sticks out both visually and gameplaywise from his fellow Samurai Shodown roster members. we think) who debuted in the first game as a weird goblin-looking ninja character with a claw on his hand. The character I'm referring to is of course Gen-an Shiranui (no relation.
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