Here travel immoderate caller challengers. At the extremity of EVO 2022’s Street Fighter V tournament, Capcom revealed 2 much characters coming to the roster of Street Fighter 6: Juri, the “I tin hole her” returning fighter, and newcomer Kimberly, an ‘80s-obsessed teen.

Student of Guy and successor to the bushinryu tradition, Kimberly is spunky and colorful with an affinity for spray coating her enemies midmatch. Though Kimberly is simply a teen and Street Fighter 6 seems to beryllium acceptable successful the existent day, she’s enamored with each things ‘80s, carrying astir a cassette subordinate that immoderate younger players astir apt won’t adjacent recognize.

It’s similar Capcom is alert that, successful summation to its younger audience, there’s a definite subset of older Street Fighter players rising from their creaking knees and aching backmost looking astatine the ‘80s with fondness. In that way, Kimberly is simply a send-up, a reminder of simpler times. In different ways, she’s a precise rude reminder that those blessed days are truthful acold down america present that existent teenagers are adopting the aesthetic due to the fact that it’s quaintly “retro.” Thanks, Capcom, for reminding maine I’m old.

Accompanying Kimberly successful the quality uncover is Juri, a quality archetypal introduced successful Street Fighter IV. Juri arrives successful flashy benignant with an homage to the Akira slide that’s been having a infinitesimal lately, arsenic it was besides used to awesome effect successful Jordan Peele’s Nope. Juri seems a spot edgier than Kimberly, stomping each implicit her enemies successful bare feet emphasized successful ways that would marque Bob Odenkirk click “like.” It’s ever neat erstwhile companies seemingly clasp the thirst players person for its characters.

We’ll get the accidental to spot much of Juri and Kimberly’s stories erstwhile Street Fighter 6 launches connected Xbox, PC, and PlayStation successful 2023.