Iori Yagami

Iori first appearing in The King of Fighters 95, Iori enters the tournament as the leader of the Rival Team as he learns that the heir of the Kusanagi clan. In the next video game, Iori teams up with two women, Vice and Mature, servants of the Orochi demon. The same team would be repeated in KOF 98, KOF 2002, and Neowave, games which do not feature a storyline. During the 96 competition, Iori meets Chizuru Kagura, heir of the Yata clan, who wants to gather Kyo and Iori in her team to seal Orochi. Together they defeat the Orochi follower Goenitz but neither Iori and Kyo agree with the idea. He is unable to control this surge of Orochi power, resulting in their deaths. Iori continued to suffer from multiple outbreaks and during The King of Fighters 97. Iori appears as a sub-boss character on the game depending on the characters that the player use. After entering his cursed form again, Iori finds himself along with Chizuru and Kyo confronted by the three last servants of Orochi, who are meant to revive him. Orochi awakes in the body of one of his followers, but he is defeated and sealed by Iori's group. In The King of Fighters: Kyo, a role-playing game situated before KOF 97, Iori appears as an antagonist to Kyo in his journey around the world. Iori appears in the spin-off video games Maximum Impact series. In the North American editions of Maximum Impact, Iori is voiced by Eric Summerer. Iori also appears as a sub-boss during The King of Fighters Ex: Neo Blood, which is situated after his fight against Orochi. Although Iori enters the tournament to fight Kyo, Geese Howard, the organizer of the tournament, tries to make him awake his Riot of the Blood to absorb his powers, but Iori avoids doing it. In The King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood, Iori enters another tournament, and is joined by Miu Kuroaaki and Jun Kagami, two women who want to find Miu's brother, who is being controlled by the Orochi power. Iori also appears in SNK's hand-held game, SNK Gals' Fighters, as a comical interpretation called Miss X The character insists he is a female to participate in the game's Queen of Fighters tournament, though several female fighters easily see through his disguise. In the crossover video games NeoGeo Battle Coliseum and SNK vs. Capcom series, Iori appears as a playable character; the latter includes his Riot of the Blood state. His character is also a boss character in the GameBoy version from Real Bout Fatal Fury Special. In The King of Fighters 99 Iori is a secret character in most versions of the game. Iori can be faced as a bonus fight in the end of the game if the player manages to get a high score. In the story, Iori discovers the creation of clones of Kyo and enters the annual tournament where he finds those responsible, an organization named Nests. Iori follows the battles in secret and fights against the Nests agents to continue his fight against Kyo. An assistant version of his character also appears for Iori in The King of Fighters 2000 but with an outfit based on his illustrations from artbooks. In The King of Fighters 2001, an agent named Seth invites Iori to join his team for the next King of Fighters tournament, under the presumption that he would get his shot against Kyo. In The King of Fighters 2003, Chizuru appears to both Kyo and Iori, requesting that they form a team and investigate suspicious activities concerning the Orochi seal. During the investigation, the team is ambushed by the fighter Ash Crimson who plans to get the power the descendants of the clans who sealed Orochi and steals the ones from Chizuru. In the following video game, Iori and Kyo form a team once again with Kyo's student Shingo Yabuki to fill Chizuru's spot to stop Ash. At the end of the tournament, the strengthening presence of Orochi causes Iori to enter the Riot of Blood state, in which he attacks Kyo and Shingo. Ash Crimson appears and defeats Iori. Iori is a playable character in King of Fighters XII. Iori is featured with a different outfit and with a new moveset that does not use blue flames. he does not have a team.

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