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When a new character or a new game appears, Desk is rarely far behind. Thus, given how many games the man has tried to completely break, it’s no wonder that he would be able to draw many parallels between the recently revealed version of Ibuki and various other fighting game characters and mechanics.

While he (obviously) shows how little many combo options have changed for everyone’s favorite ninja schoolgirl between Street Fighter IV and the present iteration, he also draws some conclusions on possible inspiration for Ibuki’s design. In doing so, he found that there might be a correlation between her V-Trigger and Doctrine Dark’s Explosive in the Street Fighter EX series, and even more surprisingly, that her ability to float might have been inspired by Karnov’s Balloon Attack in Karnov’s Revenge (also known as Fighter’s History Dynamite in Japan) by Data East–a now-defunct company Capcom once attempted to sue out of fear that they had completely copied Street Fighter’s mechanics for this very IP.

Whether these parallels are intentional or not may forever be left up to the imagination, though it is hard to ignore how close they are in terms of design.

Source: Desk

When Capcom first announced that Ibuki was the next character coming to Street Fighter V, they declined to give an actual release date. A new update from Capcom Japan, however, gives us an idea of when she’ll finally hit the game. According to Capcom’s Saikyo Blog, Ibuki will now be coming alongside the cinematic story mode expansion later this June.

While no concrete release date was ever given for Street Fighter V’s third DLC character, this technically does count as a delay since the official release schedule promised that the character would come out in May.

This isn’t the first time that content for Street Fighter V has been delayed. The game’s “Zenny Shop” that would allow players to convert real money to in-game currency was also originally meant to release in March alongside Alex.

In addition to this announcement, they also acknowledge their mistake with the recent trailer for Ibuki–which has a mouse cursor pop up about halfway through it–and stated that a fixed trailer is coming soon.

Source: Capcom via NeoGAF, with a tip from NightmareSteam