The King of Fighters '95, '96, '97 - Arashi No Saxophone | Reacting To Video Game Music!

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  @jarelldavis31 · 2 years ago · pinned

  LFG!!!🎉<br><br>HAPPY 30 YEARS KOF!!<br><br>And Jesse, TYSM!!

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  @NibelungJ · 2 years ago

  Little context for the reason why each year have a different team formation. <br><br>Iori was added to the franchise in 95, as a rival for Kyo Kusanagi, the protagonist of the 94-97 arc of KoF. All of his attacks are similar to Kyo, but with blue flames instead of red. He was paired with two villains (Billy Kane from Fatal Fury, and Eiji Kisaragi from Art of Fighting), and after the tournament, he beat the crap out of both of them, and tell them to never talk to him again.<br><br>In 96, Vice and Mature were the secretaries of the 94-95 boss, Rugal Bernstein. With the death of their employer, they convinced Iori to join forces with them to participate on this year tournament. In the ending, it&apos;s revealed that the Yagami family have some blood connection with Orochi (the bigger bad of the first arc), and both women were actually priests of Orochi, and were tasked to awaken Orochi blood inside Iori. They did, and Iori enter a berserk state, where he end up killing Vice and Mature.<br><br>For 97, he just decided to enter the tournament solo because he don&apos;t trust anyone to group up with him. He eventually have his Orochi blood awakened during the tournament and Orochi Iori is a mid-boss that you fight in the 7th stage of single player mode. If you have Iori on your team, you fight Orochi Leona instead (another character with connections with Orochi).<br><br>The true ending of 97 is Kyo and Iori teaming up to actually seal Orochi once and for all. And then they both disappear, and only return in KoF&apos;99 as secret characters.

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• EN

  @enemychaser6487 · 2 years ago (edited)

  You know it&apos;s gonna be good when he&apos;s using his black glasses on the thumbnail

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• HA

  @hamettjuan · 2 years ago

  Finally Arashi no Saxophone! Fuck yeah! :_jesseBoy:

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• FU

  @fussomoro · 2 years ago (edited)

  Just FIY, the band that plays most of the arranged versions is Nobuyuki Mori (Saxophone), Osamu Koike (Saxophone), Chiharu Mikuzuki (Bass), Jun Kajiwara (Guitar), Ken Morimura (Keyboard), Chizuko Yoshihiro (Organ), Nobuo Eguchi (Drums) and Brother-Hige is the one that usually do the &quot;vocals&quot; (you know, saying &apos;cool&apos; or &apos;double time&apos;)

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• NO

  @nodot17 · 2 years ago

  I always joke that the ghost of vice and mature are haunting Iori playing sax wherever he goes

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• KR

  @kriskaburagi · 2 years ago (edited)

  Sees &quot;King of Fighters&quot; and sunglasses in thumbnail: &quot;Gotta be Arashi no Saxophone&quot;<br><br>Also, I have yet to hear a bad version of this song.

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• FE

  @FelipeDayz · 1 year ago

  Arashi no Saxophone 96 arrenged version is the best fighting theme ever!!

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• MI

  @Mike_Strider · 2 years ago

  Listing bands here if you want to listen further on where these saxophonists came from.<br><br>KOF 95, original Arashi no Saxaphone - Shigeo Fuchino. He&apos;s a member of The Seatbelts, which was Yoko Kanno&apos;s band that was mainly known for working on the soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop. But there was plenty of other works.<br><br>KOF 96, Arashi no Saxaphone 2 - Nobuyuki Mori - He&apos;s a member of the Japanese bands Original Love and Surface (not the R&amp;B group lol).<br><br>KOF 97, Cool Jam ~Arashi no Saxophone 3~ - Osamu Koike - ALSO a saxophonist for The Seatbelts, but also a ton of solo albums. He&apos;s the easiest to find solo. Albums to look out for - Inside (1999), Diamond Land (2000).

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• O_

  @o_oro-q1k · 2 years ago

  Happy 30th to The King Of Fighters!

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  @maestradebobobo767 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdQKsMsCSSE&amp;t=100">1:40</a> Arashi no Saxophone means literally &quot;Stormy Saxophone&quot;

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• BE

  @belitr5915 · 2 years ago

  The greatest theme ever.

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