

Realistically the gloves would protect Ibuki's wrists from impact when she connects when hitting her opponent and if she happened to get hit. She has finger-less gloves and leg wrappings in a darker brown shade. She has her head wrapped in the same material as the rest of her body. Ibuki's default outfit is 1 piece a brown ninja outfit. This outfit has been Ibuki's main outfit for most of her SF existence and all of her non-canon appearances. According to Akiman, the team incorporated Koppōjutsu into Ibuki's ninjutsu-based moveset because the fighting style was gaining popularity around the time she was being designed. Ibuki's friend, Sarai, shares Linn's last name, making the inspiration more evident. Her sporty outfit despite being one of the more realistic outfits for her based on a female track and field runner's outfit has Kunai printed in various parts of the outfit.ĭesigned by Akiman and Kinu Nishimura, Ibuki's design was modeled after Linn Kurosawa, an original character that appeared in the Alien vs Predator arcade game. Her 2nd alternate in Street Fighter IV has a chain of miniaturized toy kunai and a shuriken belt buckle, and has added ninja elements to two of her uniforms and her school swimsuit.

Ibuki tends to have ninja themed accessories in some of her casual outfits. Her school uniform consist of a light blue sleeveless shirt under a white short sleeve button shirt with a red laced ribbon at the center of her collar, light blue skirt, black panties underneath, white socks, and blue and white sneakers. Her garments are more revealing than normal ninja ones, however.Īs seen in one of her win animations in Street Fighter III, Ibuki's normal clothes consist of a white sleeveless loose shirt, blue denim pants, and gray and black sneakers.


Her footwear consists only of cloth bandages that are wrapped around her shins, ankles, and instep, somewhat realistically protecting her from foot related injuries. Unlike most other female characters in the same genre, Ibuki's outfit is a more traditional type of ninja dogi, consisting of a sleeveless black upper garment, baggy pants, arm guards, and a mask that conceals the lower half of her face. Ibuki has a petite, yet athletic build, and her black hair, remarkably divided in three angular bangs at the front, in the back it her twin ponytails are about mid-thigh length and held back tightly in a topknot (though some other media changes this).
