Art of Fighting 2

The game's story is set a year after the original in 1979. In the cliffhanger of Art of Fighting Yuri Sakazaki stops Ryo Sakazaki from attacking his masked father working for the mafia criminal Geese Howard. After knowing they were manipulated by Geese in the first game, the Sakazakis swear revenge against Geese. Geese Howard, a rising star in South Town's criminal underworld, summons all 12 fighters both veterans and newcomers to the city for a martial arts tournament, "The King of Fighters".

The Sakazakis, Robert Garcia, among others join the tournament. After defeating Mr. Big again, Ryo faces and defeats Geese in combat but the criminal manages to escape. Geese was the final boss and series original antagonist of SNK's other related fighting game franchise Fatal Fury , whose story took place two years after the events of Art of Fighting 2 where the late Jeff Bogard had been murdered by the hands of his former Hakkyokuseiken sparring partner Geese, which sparks the revenge of Jeff's adoptive sons Terry Bogard and Andy Bogard to fight in Geese's next King of Fighters tournament which takes place a decade later in 1991.

The events of all three Art of Fighting sagas is canonically a prequel trilogy to the Fatal Fury series. Voiced by: Harumi Ikoma ( AOF ), Kaori Horie ( AOF2 – KOF XIII ), Ayumi Hamasaki ( AOF anime, AOF2 TV commercials), Sakura Tange ( KOF '94 Drama CD), Ai Kakuma ( KOF XIV onwards) (Japanese); Veronica Taylor ( AOF anime) (English) Yuri Sakazaki ( ユリ・サカザキ , Yuri Sakazaki ; sometimes written as 坂崎 ゆり, Sakazaki Yuri ) is the younger sister of Ryo and daughter of Takuma. She is introduced in the first game as the hostage of Mr. Big, prompting Ryo and Robert to rescue her.

She makes her playable debut in Art of Fighting 2 , having been trained by Takuma in Kyokugenryu to defend herself, and teams up with her family to defeat Geese Howard. In Art of Fighting 3 , Yuri is once again unplayable, but she appears along with Ryo searching for Robert. By the time of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves , Yuri has started her own fitness club, where her brother's disciple Marco Rodrigues trains after his dojo's sign is stolen. Eiji Kisaragi ( 如月 影二 , Kisaragi Eiji ) is a Japanese ninja from the feared and respected Kisaragi clan, whose techniques dates back from ancient history, through his ancestor Zantetsu, from The Last Blade series.

His school is the sworn enemy of both the Sakazaki clan and Kyokugenryu Karate. Eiji is a mercenary, willing to kill for anyone so long as they pay well. Voiced by: Yoshinori Shima ( AOF2 – KOF XI ), Eiji Tsuda ( KOF '98: UM ) Temjin ( テムジン ) is the only Mongolian dock worker at the South Town port. Temjin resigned himself to a period of menial work as a manure loader.

Finding the job paid $25 an hour, Temjin stayed on, earning money for the small school in Mongolia where he dreams of teaching one day.