Kage Maru: Virtua Fighter Lore 

Kage Maru, is possibly the most believable ninja in any fighting game. Most ninjas in fighting games tend to have supernatural powers or teleportation. Though fighting game ninjas tend to have a technical, and versatile fighting style, Kage being no exception. I wish there where more ninja’s that where grounded like Kage Maru, except for maybe Shadow’s Kakuto style.

And out there are peeps wo think "Virtua Fighter has no story..." :-D

Looking at Kage's background, who he's beaten, how many tournaments he's won, what his ultimate goal is and since it's part of the main plotline in the story (save or end his mother's life and shutdown J6), he comes across as the main protagonist of VF.

You do the VF characters justice with these videos bro. I learned a couple things about Kage that I didn't know. Great video.

Virtua Fighter is possibly the only 3d fighting game I have a legit interest in and thats almost all because of this channel

One of the best ninja designs in a genre full to the brim with them: simple, straightforward and very elegant.

Kage Maru is a fun character play with

So glad to see this series resume. What I wanna know though is, how exactly does the Dural transformation/de-transformation/re-transformation thing work? Is it like, Dural is a cyborg that can have her humanity toggled back on, but she'll die of organ failure without more cyborg parts, but putting those parts in takes away what little humanity she had left? It's like the Theseus' boat argument, how much of something is the same if you replace every part?

Ive been waiting for this one. Kagemaru's another favorite of mine. Love his VF 2 theme!

Wow! I didn't realize Kage Maru's mom was a Dural. Very interesting. The Dural story really reminds me of something out of the newer Street Fighters. Really great video Segalacious! Can't wait for the next one.

Thank you for showing the lore of Kage Maru

Kage-Maru is best boi. Fantastic vid as always.

YES! .. My absolute fav main from VF Series. Thank you! :D

Another great video and on my favorite character. YES, please continue doing these video they give Virtua Fighter the respect they never got. Keep up the great work and I'm guessing you are doing Wolf Hawkfield is next? I can't wait.

I want a Doa vs Virtua Fighter, always irritated me that he wasn't in DOA 5 VF6 too of course

My favorite Virtual Fighter character! Although I don't play Virtual Fighter that much, Kage is the character I main the most.

Hi, how are you? Your work is amazing (sorry my english). Hug from Brazil! I love Virtua Fighter!

Did not know that KageMaru made so many cameo appearances, or that he's such a passionate Mahjong player--sickk ^^

I love this series. It gave me a new perspective and story of a great fighting game series I once took for granted. It's story and lore aren't told in the games like most conventional fighters, but it's all still great to learn about. Thank you so much for doing it, this work could not have been easy. I hope to see more in the future. Perhaps the next video can be about either Jeffry or Wolf? Either one is something I look forward to! Take care of yourself!

Kagemaru is a super cool character. His story also reminds me a little bit of Ryo's. I think it could be possible when Ryo goes through some sort of magical change it'll turn him into a Ninja. Also, it must be some great sack to put Sarah Byant to sleep 😂

Great video. Thank you very much for this Lore, I was waiting for it.

Best ninja

I only discovered these vids a few days ago and watched them all.....then I only had to wait a few days for another one!! Keep it up dude.

Ah man this channel is a blessing- everything I’ve been looking for having recently rediscovered the love for Virtua Fighter, NiGHTS and other classic SEGA series. Learnt so much today from your videos and I love how you’ve put in the effort to gather every available bit of information to present the full story. Virtua Fighter has such a captivating story running in the background and it’s frustrating we never learn what happens! But at least through your videos we get more pieces in the puzzle. Big thanks for all your effort man, it’s proper appreciated 👏🏻👏🏻

Welcome Back and Happy Thanksgiving.

Oh, jeez. This has been out since November? Where the hell have I been?!

Ironically, I just played VF5. 😂

I finally get to watch this when I'm not about to head out to work. Well done and absolutely marvelous work, loved seeing my boy. Hope to see more. And HOLY SHIT I never knew that his voice actor had such pipes or that he was behind Daytona! THAT'S AWESOME!!!

I absolutely love these lore videos. Keep it up!

Virtua fighter is actually my favorite 3d fighter. I personally think its better than Tekken,doa and even soul calibur. Imo virtua fighter is really underrated and NEEDS more love

My fav ninja of all time. Thanks Virtua Bros!

Thank you so much I’ve been waiting for this video for so LONG!!!!!!!

Masterpiece video bro 👍🏿

1:15 Guy:Prepare for a lesson on the power of Bushinryu! Nice to see you again and also awesome video and hoped you had a great Thanksgiving. P.S I find it funny how you usedoing the village attack scene from Ninja Gaiden to explain Kage's Backstory. 😂 Not saying it's bad. It just made me laugh.

Very awesome lore entry, i enjoyed it as much as i did the Bryant siblings ^_^ keep it up can’t wait to see more

Great video... can't wait for the next one. Keep up the good work. 👍👍👍

Can't wait for the next vid

YAY ! you're back ! Happy thanksgiving!

Kage-Maru is one of my favorite characters in the Virtua Fighter series alongside Aoi and Vanessa. I really like how you dived into his backstory and fighting style as it would allow newcomers to familiarize themselves with him. Also, it's really cool that he is voiced by the composer of the games as well as having a good singing voice since his character song was sung by him.

The inevitable mention of Dural here makes me hope for a future video that covers Vanessa, since apparently later on she gets involved in that too - although I guess it might take a while, since the characters from earlier in the series appear in more things... Maybe at some point Dural will get a video of her own and cover some of that ground? Great work BTW. The mention of mass-produced Durals brings to mind the use of a similar concept in the Project X Zone games (I think they called those Stone Durals?... I's been a while, but I think some models there also referenced the Vanessa versions, although the moves were all based on the classic one).

Such a great video!

Oh dang, someone who's won more than one tournament! I didn't think that was gonna happen in this series. On one hand, it's interesting that characterization always seems to play a strong role in who wins the tournaments (Lau dedicated years of his life to honing his craft and saw it rewarded in 1, Akira learned from his mistakes of the previous tournament and saw the fruits of his self-improvement in 2 and Kage Maru's dedication to his mother gave him back-to-back wins). However, another part of me feels that Virtua Fighter was setting itself apart from the other fighting games by not playing perennial favorites and Kage Maru's second victory doesn't feel quite as magnificent, since less came of it. Still, the guy's story is good and I like that he's a juggernaut of justice without losing his humility; also like the possibility that he respects Akira to some degree even though he's got such big and personal fish to fry in his own life. At the risk of being told, "He's just a Kage Maru rip-off," Kage Maru reminds me of some of my favorite attributes of Tekken's Yoshimitsu, specifically their penchant for justice and helping people despite their chosen trades being so well-crafted for villainy. Between their shared adherence to Buddhism (to whatever degrees they do) and enjoying of mundane things like mahjong and sumo, I'd like to think these two would get along to some degree or another, despite Kage Maru preferring "don't be seen" and Yoshimitsu mastering "confound with outward appearances" (not that he can't or hasn't used traditional stealth either).

Thanks for this, man. I had no idea I should think so highly of this dude.

I’m a Big fan of Ninjas when it comes to playing the good Video games of Ninja Gaiden, Tenchu, Dead or Alive, and Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.

Does Virtua Quest play out in a future where the Judgement Six win? That's how..... uh, main kid (I've never played it) is learning those techniques, right? Because they're, like, cyber copies of the Virtua Fighter cast? Which is the EXACT THING that Judgement Six is seeking to do - copy the fight data for all the fighters to implement them in their Dural androids, right? Where did the cyber data for them in Virtua Quest even come from if not Judgement Six's work throughout the main fighting series? Is Virtua Quest secretly genius? (O.O) Also - just an observation - why are _so many_ Ninja villages always being destroyed in fires? Using some _Ninja Gaiden_ footage for that part really made me realize that that happens a lot :P You'd figure that if one ninja is a super talented warrior, a whole village would be near-impossible to take down, yet if someone so much as drops a cigarette - _WOOOOSH!_ Kiss a whole ninja clan goodbye! We see it happen again and again - the Virtua Fighter series, Ninja Gaiden/Dead or Alive, Shinobi, anime like Ninja Scroll, Tenchu.... heck, we've even seen a burning village for Sekiro already in it's reveal trailer. Ninjas just can't catch a break, man - it must be a nightmare to get home insurance if you're a ninja (^-^) Terrific vid as always. When/If there's a Virtua Fighter 6, I hope Sega gives as much attention to it's story and lore as you are in these videos

What is even the point of having that dang bell . I've been waiting on a more video for what feels like a year and then I just type Kage Maru's into RU-vid for no particular reason and find this 2 WEEKS LATE !!! Sorry 😥

Awesome video. Thanks man. Greetings from Finland. ☺️👍👌🙏🇫🇮

These are so good. Thank you for doing these. #VivaVF

Omg i love this. I got to talking with some friends about ninjas in games and had to educate them on one of the most OG ninjas in Gaming.

You're back! Yay! 😎

Thank you for being back. Amazing job once again! Can't get enough of those videos!

I’ve never heard of virtua fighter before, I saw it on ps plus and I’m planning on getting more into it now.

I don't know Jack about Virtua Fighter. I saw someone using him, and he looked so fucking cool.

Please continue!!!!! Also you should do other sega stuff

Thank you for this series, please keep going. Can you do Leon next?

4:24 Thank Youuu Very Machu...for this video.

Oh nice video man,welcome back. Hopefully we'll have another VF in the future,i think SEGA is cooking something for us. and speaking of which,i think they need to make the game visually appealing ,and revamp the bound system because it looks ugly in VF5. And it must have a an identity and targets the competitive scene,i mean look at SCIV,people were hyped for a week and two,but then they all went back to Tekken because it wasn't that serious of a competitive game...

Kage Maru will not rest until the Judgement Six brings down and avenge his entire clan to ruscue his mother with his Hagakure-Ryū Jū-Jutsu. Namu. Amazing video, Virtua Bros. Remember that;Your training is lacking.

How could I have missed this?!

Awesome! Please do Wolf next, because muscles.

Jeffry for next vid ?🤔 I want to hear you talk about the obsurd lore on Pankration and the devil shark.

I got to be honest with a backstory like this it’s a miracle Kage isn’t the main protagonist of the series

Great work.

Great video, but you forgot to mention Shinobi games at the beginning

Hi there @Virtua Bros It's Hulkerine100 / Retro Gamers UK here; Great video on Kage Maru. My fictional character ninja/shinobi/samurai nickname is Black Tiger Of Death & my status is a Ninja Warrior Prince. I'm currently writing an action-adventure fan fiction book based on Shenmue, Yakuza, True Crime: The Streets of LA & Virtua Fighter. I'll email you the details later 👍

Kagemaru is argueably the main character of the Virtua Fighter series.

kage maru and Jackie are my favourite characters. I hope a new virtua fighter game gets released

I loved kicking off his mask in VF 2 😂 Those were the days 🫠

Great video Virtua Bros! I've been wondering when you'd finally do a video on Kage 😊

Keep going man! A word on Lion Rafale

I main Kage in every virtua fighter game I've played

Female training dummy is best girl

Is It me or dose kage seems to be a more of a "True Protagonist" in the VF lore than akira?!

Virtua fighter is famous a lot in the middle east, because of the anime. The anime holds a special place in Arabs heart and many love the games due to it

I hadn't watched this video, loved it. Every time I watch something like this I can't help to feel grieved by the fact that this franchise was the only one I ever enjoyed in fighting games, it is just sad that my first Virtua Fighter was the very last and that also it seems to be my fucking luck that there never was a virtua fighter 6, it just breaks my heart, I've tried my hand at other fighting games, but I just don't give a fuck about the characters.

Great video bro

Who knew virtua fighter had all this lore!!!

All this lore should be told *IN GAME* It's the only thing I find missing in VF

thank you very very much for those fascinating videos! I just discovered them, but i noticed jackie and akira are shut down on youtube. is there any way to see them at all? Again, thank you very much for all this tremendous work.

I would have seen some of SEGA's History with popularization of Ninja's culture. It is a big thing. Bigger than Ninja Gaiden. imo . More Ip's Since SEGA's "Ninja" in arcade to SHinobi revenge of shinobi GG. S Shadow dancer Kunoïchi etc... But good job. Please continue! Do You Have a Twitter?

08:35 what a cool skin.

Project X Zone 2 brought me here.

Where you been man

Hell yeah, my main (for now)

Wonderful information & footage on Kage Maru ! To all the ill ninjas that graced arcades & gaming consoles : Joe Musashi, Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Ryukenden), Strider Hiryu, Rikimaru, plus many others I failed to mention . Now, for the dopest rapper/emcee is : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xzrhml4TwV8.html

I can see Kage abopting a kid

Wolf Hawkfield next? 🤔

please more!

What would you prefur to see as far as a new boss in VF6 ? Personally I'd like to see Lau try too keep hiself alive by letting J6 experiment on him , keeping him alive but at a cost . While dural regains her sentients . but not all her memories and is prone to violence .

5:05 I couldn't find the source gif for this caramelldansen. Anygone got a link?

What would you like to see as far as virtua fighters barely touched upon mystical and sifi elements ?

I came here because im playing a lot of VF showdown and want to know if there is a story in there

Damn, your 3tb stream got nuked 🙁 did you try to dispute it ?

"Kagem'roo"

Hey can you make one on Lion

#1:08 Dio

It sucks that the jacky lore vid got blocked

how did you get footage of virtua fighter season 2

Kage frm the leaf village

So lore wise...strongest character in VF..in terms of feats...is kage ?