Lili (Tekken)
Encyclopedia
, full name , is a fictional character in the Tekken
fighting game series. Along with Sergei Dragunov and Armor King II, she is one of the three characters that were first introduced in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
in 2005.
teenager with long blonde hair. Her fighting style style appears to mix moves from classical dance, ballet and basic krav maga
moves. Other moves derive from gymnastics techniques, such as cartwheels, handstands and backbend kickovers. She is very confident in her fighting abilities, as shown by her winning and pre-match quotes.
In her first-player outfit, she dresses in a grey corset and grey jeans with white sneakers. Her second-player outfit (also her primary outfit, as shown in promotional pictures and her epilogue) is a white satin Victorian
-style skirt dress with long sleeves. She keeps both outfits in Tekken 6
, in which she also gets an extra outfit designed by the manga
artist Ito "Oh! great" Ōgure
(a revealing dress with a corset, chaps and open-toed boots). In Tekken: Dark Resurrection, one of Lili's customization parts includes having the Prince of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy
on her head. Her secondary hair colors are black and pink.
Lili participated in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 without telling her father. However, her chances of winning the tournament were completely destroyed at the hands of Asuka Kazama. To make matters worse, her father discovered her involvement in the tournament, and as punishment he forbade her from leaving the house until further notice, thwarting her chances of a rematch with Asuka. Sometime later, the Mishima Financial Group seized the oil fields her father owned. Rochefort Enterprises fell into disarray, and Lili's father (who was forced to cope with the takeover) collapsed from overexertion. Lili, who was worried about her father's well being, believed that if she were able to reclaim her father's oil fields somehow from the Mishima Financial Group, she would without a doubt remove his anxiety. While she deeply thought how best to act, the Mishima Financial Group announced the opening of the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 6. Believing this was her big break, Lili entered the tournament for her father's sake.
Lili also appears in the non-canon Tekken game, Tekken Tag Tournament 2
and is set to appear in the crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken
.
franchise, illustrated by Meiwa Morita, and is a playable character in a role-playing video game
Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos.
Lili is also featured on the cover of Play
's Girls of Gaming Vol. 7, where she is seen at a beach in a bikini. A model portrayed Lili in the nude Tekken Maxim Photoshoot gallery in Maxim
.
and manufactured by Super Modelling Soul for their Tekken 6 toy line. One of them features Lili in a pose resembling one of her Tekken 6 promotion images. In 2011, Hobby Japan
released a Lili action figure, based on her appearance from Queen's Gate. The action figure shows Lili doing a high kick with flames on her feet. As promotion for her appearance in Street Fighter X Tekken, a Lili wall poster was released.
The initial reception for her debut in Tekken: Dark Resurrection was mostly favorable, in particular praised for her smaller repertoire of attacks when compared to other characters in the series, and called by IGN
a "deadly Lolita-looking warrior that relies on speed". In GameZone
's review, however, Lili was stated to have stiff moves compared to other Tekken females and that she just feels like a rehash, but is still a decent character. GameSpot
commented in the preview of Tekken 6 that Lili looks "great", complimenting her hair and clothes. GamesRadar
calls Lili a "baby-faced girl who dresses like a pop star". PALGN
complimented the addition of Lili in Tekken 5: DR, saying she fits well into the game and doesn't feel tacked on. TeamXbox
included Lili on their "Hotties in the Xbox Universe" article, commenting that her self-confidence is part of what makes her appealing and also states "Her graceful movements only emphasized her physical beauty—which her many outfits made sure to accentuate.". NowGamer praises Lili for her "flowery girly-girl" appearance and "light-footed" fighting style", concluding that everyone will love her. ComputerAndVideoGames.com
calls Lili "attractive" and a "classic Tekken femme fatale", citing both her looks and her fighting style, as well her choice in clothing. They also say she has a "very pretty face".
Tekken
is an arcade fighting game franchise created and developed by Namco. Beginning with the original Tekken arcade game released in 1994, the series has received several sequels, as well as various home conversions and spin-off titles released for consoles...
fighting game series. Along with Sergei Dragunov and Armor King II, she is one of the three characters that were first introduced in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection is an update to Tekken 5 and is technically the seventh game in the Tekken series. The arcade version was released in Japan in 2005 and in North America in 2006, while the PSP version was released later that year...
in 2005.
Character design
Lili is a MonegasqueMonaco
Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...
teenager with long blonde hair. Her fighting style style appears to mix moves from classical dance, ballet and basic krav maga
Krav Maga
Krav Maga is a noncompetitive eclectic self-defense system developed in Europe that involves striking techniques, wrestling and grappling. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and extremely efficient, brutal counter-attacks...
moves. Other moves derive from gymnastics techniques, such as cartwheels, handstands and backbend kickovers. She is very confident in her fighting abilities, as shown by her winning and pre-match quotes.
In her first-player outfit, she dresses in a grey corset and grey jeans with white sneakers. Her second-player outfit (also her primary outfit, as shown in promotional pictures and her epilogue) is a white satin Victorian
Victorian fashion
Victorian fashion comprises the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and grew in province throughout the Victorian era and the reign of Queen Victoria, a period which would last from June 1837 to January 1901. Covering nearly two thirds of the 19th century, the 63 year reign...
-style skirt dress with long sleeves. She keeps both outfits in Tekken 6
Tekken 6
is a fighting game developed and published by Namco Bandai. It is the eighth game in the Tekken franchise. It was released in Japanese arcades on November 26, 2007 as the first game running on the PlayStation 3-based System 357 arcade board. The game received an update, subtitled Bloodline...
, in which she also gets an extra outfit designed by the manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
artist Ito "Oh! great" Ōgure
Oh! great
Oh! great, whose real name is , is a Japanese manga artist most recognized for the manga series Tenjho Tenge and Air Gear. In 2006, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Air Gear. Oh! great also created the adult series Silky Whip...
(a revealing dress with a corset, chaps and open-toed boots). In Tekken: Dark Resurrection, one of Lili's customization parts includes having the Prince of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy
Katamari Damacy
Katamari Damacy is a third-person puzzle-action video game that is published and developed by Namco for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was first released in Japan, and then later in South Korea and North America...
on her head. Her secondary hair colors are black and pink.
In the Tekken series
Lili is the only daughter of a wealthy and pacifistic oil magnate. She resides in a very luxurious suburban mansion with her father and her butler, Sebastian. At the age of 12, Lili struggled violently to free herself from a group of kidnappers, and she unexpectedly took out one of her captors. At that moment, she first realized she took pleasure in defeating her opponents. Lili only wants to please her father, but she knows that he despises fighting because he wants his daughter to be a prim and proper lady and not a thug. Her desire to fight could not be controlled, and for this reason, she uses her family's private jet to travel abroad to take part in worldwide street fighting tournaments, which she enjoyed immensely. This was done under the guise of a vacation from her homeland. One day, after defeating an opponent in San Francisco, she acquired an invitation to The King Of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Lili noticed that the sponsor of the tournament, the Mishima Zaibatsu, had caused her father much trouble in the past. With the assumption of the Mishima Zaibatsu being a useful potential asset to her father, she was determined to take part in the tournament and win to put an end to her father's business troubles.Lili participated in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 without telling her father. However, her chances of winning the tournament were completely destroyed at the hands of Asuka Kazama. To make matters worse, her father discovered her involvement in the tournament, and as punishment he forbade her from leaving the house until further notice, thwarting her chances of a rematch with Asuka. Sometime later, the Mishima Financial Group seized the oil fields her father owned. Rochefort Enterprises fell into disarray, and Lili's father (who was forced to cope with the takeover) collapsed from overexertion. Lili, who was worried about her father's well being, believed that if she were able to reclaim her father's oil fields somehow from the Mishima Financial Group, she would without a doubt remove his anxiety. While she deeply thought how best to act, the Mishima Financial Group announced the opening of the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 6. Believing this was her big break, Lili entered the tournament for her father's sake.
Lili also appears in the non-canon Tekken game, Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
is a fighting game in the Tekken series and the successor to 1999's Tekken Tag Tournament. The game was released in Japanese arcades on September 14, 2011 and will be released on the PlayStation 3 sometime in 2012...
and is set to appear in the crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken
Street Fighter X Tekken
is an upcoming crossover fighting game being developed by Capcom. The game was announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International by Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono. The game is set to release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Vita sometime in March 2012. The game...
.
In other media
Lili is featured in the manga Queen's Gate Lili from the Queen's BladeQueen's Blade
is a series of visual combat books published by Hobby Japan based on the licensed works from Flying Buffalo's Lost Worlds. First published in 2005, it features sexually suggestive depictions of an exclusively female cast of characters. The overall plot of the game revolves around a tournament...
franchise, illustrated by Meiwa Morita, and is a playable character in a role-playing video game
Role-playing video game
Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...
Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos.
Lili is also featured on the cover of Play
Play (US magazine)
Play was a U.S.-based magazine focused on video games, anime, manga, film, DVD, television, comics, music and media. Published by Fusion Publishing, Inc. since 2001, Play magazine also had a separate Internet presence on its website, Play Online...
's Girls of Gaming Vol. 7, where she is seen at a beach in a bikini. A model portrayed Lili in the nude Tekken Maxim Photoshoot gallery in Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
.
Promotion and reception
In 2009, two Lili action figures were released by BandaiBandai
is a Japanese toy making and video game company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third-largest producer of toys . Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs...
and manufactured by Super Modelling Soul for their Tekken 6 toy line. One of them features Lili in a pose resembling one of her Tekken 6 promotion images. In 2011, Hobby Japan
Hobby Japan
HobbyJAPAN CO. is a Japanese hobby magazine and publishing company, specializing in roleplaying, war, and tabletop games, as well as action figures, toys, and artbooks for successful anime, manga and light novel franchises.- Role-playing games :...
released a Lili action figure, based on her appearance from Queen's Gate. The action figure shows Lili doing a high kick with flames on her feet. As promotion for her appearance in Street Fighter X Tekken, a Lili wall poster was released.
The initial reception for her debut in Tekken: Dark Resurrection was mostly favorable, in particular praised for her smaller repertoire of attacks when compared to other characters in the series, and called by IGN
IGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
a "deadly Lolita-looking warrior that relies on speed". In GameZone
GameZone
GameZone is an American multiplatform video game website. GameZone's daily coverage includes reviews, previews, news, hints & cheats, and editorials. Additionally, GameZone offers downloads, a child-targeted website and in association with GameStop, hosts GZGameShop, an online retailer...
's review, however, Lili was stated to have stiff moves compared to other Tekken females and that she just feels like a rehash, but is still a decent character. GameSpot
GameSpot
GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. The site was launched in May 1, 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. It was purchased by ZDNet, a brand which was later purchased by CNET Networks. CBS Interactive, which...
commented in the preview of Tekken 6 that Lili looks "great", complimenting her hair and clothes. GamesRadar
GamesRadar
GamesRadar is a multi-format video game website featuring regular news, previews, reviews, videos, and guides. It is owned and operated simultaneously in the UK and US by worldwide publisher Future Publishing...
calls Lili a "baby-faced girl who dresses like a pop star". PALGN
PALGN
The PAL Gaming Network is an Australian based video game news and reviews website that focuses on the videogame industry and culture in PAL territories, particularly Australia and the UK. It was launched in 2003 by a group of PAL forum members on the IGN message boards who were disenfranchised by...
complimented the addition of Lili in Tekken 5: DR, saying she fits well into the game and doesn't feel tacked on. TeamXbox
TeamXbox
TeamXbox is a gaming media web site dedicated to Microsoft's Xbox and Xbox 360 platforms. While the majority of content is Xbox and Xbox 360 related, the site occasionally covers general technology and other video game news....
included Lili on their "Hotties in the Xbox Universe" article, commenting that her self-confidence is part of what makes her appealing and also states "Her graceful movements only emphasized her physical beauty—which her many outfits made sure to accentuate.". NowGamer praises Lili for her "flowery girly-girl" appearance and "light-footed" fighting style", concluding that everyone will love her. ComputerAndVideoGames.com
ComputerAndVideoGames.com
ComputerAndVideoGames.com is the web-based successor to Computer and Video Games magazine, the world's oldest specialist gaming publication.- History :Launched in August 1999, CVG is one of the UK and Europe’s leading gaming web sites...
calls Lili "attractive" and a "classic Tekken femme fatale", citing both her looks and her fighting style, as well her choice in clothing. They also say she has a "very pretty face".