However, when Street Fighter II was brought to the US, Blanka's coloring was attributed to his being struck by lightning during the electrical storm in which his plane crashed. Appearance and characteristics īlanka's most prominent physical characteristic is his green color, initially attributed to his consumption of chlorophyll from plants to blend into his jungle environment, a color change that eventually became permanent. The staff then adopted Blanka's feral appearance, because they felt the game would be "dull" with only human characters. Blanka's backstory mirrors that of Gorillaman with both characters having anklets made from chains and even had similar looking teeth. His finalized design was likely based on a character named Gorillaman from Ikki Kajiwara's Tiger Mask manga. His design later changed to a large man with thick hair and sideburns, named "Hammer Blanka". Thrasher in the SNES port) appeared as a boss character in Stage 1 Capcom again approached Street Fighter II and considered several designs for the Blanka character (including a masked wrestler modeled after Tiger Mask and a ninja-style warrior). After the release of Final Fight where a similarly designed fighter named Damnd (a.k.a. Blanka's original concept was likely inspired by Anabebe, a character from a popular manga series at the time called Jungle King Tar-Chan. Perhaps this is the reason that in World Tour mode, Blanka occasionally refers to himself as "Blanka-chan" even without his costume.ĭesigned by Akira "Akiman" Yasuda, the concept behind Blanka emerged in an early design as an African man named Anabebe who was raised by a lion. After his encounter with Lily, Blanka became convinced that his "power of the jungle" and Blanka-chan are one and the same and thus were "real" all along. In Street Fighter 6, Blanka uses his Blanka-chan persona to great effect in promoting his tourism business by wearing the Blanka-chan costume, and assumes this persona while interacting with tourists. Blanka is quite attached to this persona as evident by his anger when Laura accidentally steps on one of his Blanka-chan dolls. Since Street Fighter V, Blanka has developed another persona known as "Blanka-chan" to act as the cuter and friendly version of him. His dislike of masked men, as he believes good people shouldn't hide their faces, is also shown in his rival battle with El Fuerte and also with his win quote against Vega. Blanka also holds great respect to mother nature, saying that it is what made him who he is today, and is against those who are harming nature "for fun" and not for sustaining themselves.Īs the series goes on, Blanka, while retaining his usual manner of speech, starts to develop a bit more common sense which ironically makes him a more cautious-minded foil to the hot-headed Dan Hibiki. He cites his survival experience as a proof that humans were able to triumph over anything if they could adapt and respect nature, and doesn't treat his (self-proclaimed) "king of the jungle" title lightly. He held the "survival of the fittest" mindset, believing that those who were weak and being unable to adapt would naturally be preyed on by the predator. Yet, when angered, Blanka attacks as though he was a wild animal let loose from a cage, ferociously attacking his opponents with predatorial rage.ĭue to being forced to survive and later overcome the harsh environment of the Amazon forest since his youth, Blanka has developed his own personal attachment with wildlife. 7.1 Street Fighter II: The Animated Movieĭespite having the appearance of a wild man, Blanka is generally passive and docile, and is fond of family connections and friendships as well as children.3.4.2 Other character story appearances.
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