Early Street Fighter II artwork of Blanka showed him having pure green skin, despite the in-game renders showing him with yellowish skin color. (In Japan, it was brought down by Shadaloo to kill a minister that was on the same plane ) In Street Fighter II, Blanka's skin is yellowish-green, but later versions of the character are bright green. 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. 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. The staff then adopted Blanka's feral appearance, because they felt the game would be "dull" with only human characters.
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. 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.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. Yet, when angered, Blanka attacks as though he was a wild animal let loose from a cage, ferociously attacking his opponents with predatorial rage.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. 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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