CHIN GENTSAI

'Chin Gentsai' (鎮元斎) is a video game character in the King of Fighters series.

Contents

History

Orochi Saga

NESTS Chronicles

Tales of Ash

Trivia

History

Many years ago Chin was renowned as a very skilled warrior and an expert
martial artist. While enjoying a moment of peace and tranquility, Chin was visited by a little
boy. Under the dizzying effects of the sake, Chin accepted the boy as his
student, and when Chin finally realized what he did, he had no other choice but
to keep his promise. Chin then teaches the boy named Sie Kensou, and is
surprised that Kensou is a host of incredible psychic powers.

Kensou and Chin always wandered together around China
and other countries in Asia, in order to keep their training
constant. One day, both traveled to Japan in a training journey. They soon found
a competitor in the form of a bulky man. However, both did not count
on the help of a certain somebody, who blew the big bully away. Both turned
around to see a girl in a Japanese school uniform. She introduced herself as
Athena Asamiya. Athena wanted both Kensou and Chin to help
her against the crime in town, and both accepted, but Chin was reluctant until
he saw Kensou's immediate interest in Athena.

The trio, quickly became known as the Psycho Soldiers (mostly, because
Athena and Kensou possessed psychic powers) and performed a lot of remarkable feats
around Japan, thwarting crime wherever it would surge.

Orochi Saga

In 1994, the team was invited to the first King of Fighters tournament
which introduced the team battle concept. Chin once again accompanied the
youngsters, and demonstrated his skillful fighting style. However, Chin was never
blind at the evil at work in every tournament. That's why before every
tournament, Chin always puts Athena and Kensou, as well as himself, through a very rigorous training in order to be able to face the evil forces. Chin soon recognized the power of Orochi at
work, and warned the teenagers. All three proposed to fight the evil power to
the end.

However, since the fights of the Psycho Soldiers have become so popular,
thousands of fans gathered around the group. Seeing this, Chin feared the young
children would stray from the real sense of battle. Therefore he told them not to enter
the King of Fighters tournament in 1997. However, a fan letter from a certain
Kaoru to Athena cheered the two young fighters very much, and Chin had no other
option but to accept their entry and enter as well, admiring the spirit of the two
youngsters. [1]

NESTS Chronicles

Before KOF '99, Chin adopted a little kid named Bao. However, recently, Chin had noticed two very exceptional cases: the impressive psychic powers of Bao, and the loss of such powers from Kensou. [2]

Always aware of the evil at work behind the curtains of the tournament, so Chin has no other choice but to lead his disciples to the location of the evil source. However, the explosion of the base forces the Psycho Soldiers to escape. Chin and Bao manage to escape, but Athena and
Kensou lag behind. Suddenly a super-psycho charged Kensou emerges from the ruins, Athena in his arms. Just in that moment, both Bao and Kensou pass out. Chin is surprised by this fact, and
begins to investigate the bond between his two adoptive students which leads to a certain term "the worst day in history". [3]

In KOF 2000, after the fights end in the tournament, upon reaching Southtown, Chin and the others spot a shining object in the sky. It turns out to be the Zero Cannon. Out of control, the Zero Cannon fires several shots, one headed directly at Chin and his disciples.

Surprisingly enough, Bao takes the initiative and leaps to meet the blast head-on. Chin desperately shouts for Bao to come back. But Bao has already made up his mind. Bao, in a surprising maneuver, absorbs the impact of the laser then silently falls to the ground.
Chin is worried about Bao's fate. In an unexpected move, Kensou holds Bao
closely, and absorbs his psychic powers in a huge blast. Chin is overwhelmed
about Kensou's new psychic powers, but Bao's shape is bad. [4]

As one year flies by, Chin watched over the progress of Kensou and Bao.
Bao has apparently recovered faster than last year, but now he suffers the same
symptoms that Kensou did the last couple of years: his psychic powers were
slowly vanishing. On the other hand, Kensou seems to have returned to his
original state, with his psychic powers back to full again. Chin smells trouble
as NESTS steps forth from the shadows to host the next King of Fighters
tournament. Chin has no other choice but to rely on his students as he
always has, and hope he can help them out in order to save the world. [5]

Tales of Ash

Though Chin didn't participate directly in the Ash saga, he was the one who encouraged K' entering the 2003 tournament. [6]
One of his students, Momoko joined the Psycho Soldiers team in the King of Fighters XI tournament. In the Psycho Soldiers team's ending in this game, Kensou believes Chin is dead, until Athena informs him otherwise. If this ending is canon or not remains to be seen, but Kensou is the second character to believe that, as Hinako Shijou also started the KOF 2003 tournament by offering a comfort gift to Athena due to the "death" of her master...

Trivia

★ Chin appears as a Striker in KOF EX for the Game Boy Advance.

★ Chin is the stereotypical "drunken master", a template seen in countless games and movies.

★ Chin dislikes pandas. This is probably the reason why his another striker in KOF 2000 is one.

★ Chin's appearance is most likely modeled after Yuen Siu Tien from the movie Drunken Master.

★ Chin Gentsai and Bao both appear in the background of the Capcom vs. SNK 2, Shanghai stage.

★ Chin also makes an appearance in the daytime Dragon's Lair stage in .

★ Chin apparently has a granddaughter, as seen in the Japan-only game, The King of Fighters: Kyo.

★ Chin's KOF '02 HDM is a small "guidable" fireball, where upon making contact with the opponent a gigantic explosion occurs. This is the only move in the series in which a projectile is under complete control of the player.