Hello friends, by now I'm sure you've seen the news online regarding the Street Fighter IV update. T. Hawk and a new character have been leaked in images posted online like wildfire. The new female seems to be an odd-looking fighter named Juri.

Her look is very non-traditional. Similar to the other new characters in SF IV, her coloring scheme and wardrobe stick out. These things fly in the face of the more conservative SF designs, which I have always believed to be more iconic and longer-lived than designs in any other fighting game.

Certainly the character Rose was very out-of-place. With an odd hairstyle and even odder coloring scheme. Rose did at least have moves that were not based on a fighting art but instead a psychic one. Judging from the screenshots we can see that Juri has moves based on a real fighting art, like Tae Kwon Do, which has yet to be covered in the SF universe, yet it is her design conventions that seem out of place. The design for Juri seems to borrow a lot of elements from contemporary fighting games. The gloves, coloring scheme and and even sprightly pigtail remind me a great deal of Ling Xiaoyu from the Tekken series.

Am I the only person that sees this? Am I the only person that thinks that Capcom is spending too much time trying to create hip characters, when they should be trying to create fighters? I've spent lots of time talking about this in the past, for a change I want to hear your thoughts on the reported new female.