Akira Yuki (結城 晶, Yūki Akira?) is the mascot of the Virtua Fighter video game series. His fighting style is Bājíquán, a Chinese martial art (pronounced "Hakkyoku-ken" in Japanese). Canonically, he won the second World Fighting Tournament (Virtua Fighter 2). Akira strives for perfection and will drive himself relentlessly to master his techniques. He seeks worthy opponents to fight in order to find flaws in his skills to further attain mastery.
In the original Virtua Fighter, Akira serves as the assistant instructor at Yuki Budokan, and is known to be hot-blooded and impulsive by nature. He also can be naive and intemperate. After completing his training under his grandfather's tutelage at the age of 23, he went on a quest to test his abilities. When he got word of the 1st World Fighting Tournament, he decided to enter and test his abilities. He was a childhood friend of Aoi Umenokoji.
In the Virtua Fighter anime, Akira starts his quest to see the eight stars in heaven after he had gotten overconfident in his Bājíquán skills from his days training with his grandfather. He is often seen as a comedic glutton in the anime cartoon, as opposed to the games where he is serious and disciplined.
Akira Yuki and Jacky Bryant are partners in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. He is also a guest character in Dead or Alive 5 and he will appear alongside Pai Chan in Project X Zone.
Akira is voiced by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (光吉 猛修, Mitsuyoshi Takenobu?) in the original Virtua Fighter, who also voices Kage-Maru and composes the series' music, and by Shin-ichiro Miki (三木 眞一郎, Miki Shin'ichirō?) from Virtua Fighter 2 onward.
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