The prototype of Xiuying

[FlagshipFighter]

Sorry for my poorly english, I'm a shenmue fan from china.
And I just heard something about the prototype of Xiuying, from Gadio, a chinese TV-game podcast.

In Yu-san's tour to china, his tour guide Ms. Zhang told him the past of her family. Because her grandfather had worked for japanese during the WW II, her parents suffered persecution and died in the cultural revolution. And her elder sister joined the Red Guards (红卫兵, the group killed Ms. Zhang's parents) after that.
Yu-san got inspiration from Ms. Zhang, he planned to design a character named Zhang Hongyu (张红玉) for Virtua fighter 3.
Finally Zhang Hongyu became Hong Xiuying, and there is no doubt that Ms. Zhang's family story is the source of the plot of Xiuying and Ziming.

The interviews of Yu suzuki in beep MD magazines:
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1jGMuZSa

[NeoShredder]

Interesting stuff, welcome!

Can you post a link to the Podcast?

[Youzhi]

Interesting stuff, welcome!

Can you post a link to the Podcast?

OK, the podcast is in chinese. You can listen to it in their website and iTunes.
http://www.g-cores.com/volumes/15746
https://itunes.apple.com/cn/podcast/ji- ... 60752?mt=2

The part about Xiuying and Ms. Zhang starts at 46:20.

[Sonoshee]

This is valuable information! Thank you!

[Supa]

Wow, very interesting!

[Sonoshee]

Interesting stuff, welcome!

Can you post a link to the Podcast?

OK, the podcast is in chinese. You can listen to it in their website and iTunes.
http://www.g-cores.com/volumes/15746
https://itunes.apple.com/cn/podcast/ji- ... 60752?mt=2

The part about Xiuying and Ms. Zhang starts at 46:20.

Thanks!

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[Chaikilla]

Really cool find! Thanks for sharing.

[Miles Prower]

Whoa, interesting stuff!! Welcome

[Mr357]

Thank you for the insight! Your English is excellent, by the way.

[Hyo Razuki]

So he was gonna put that Zhang Hongyu in VF 3 or 4 but then he decided on making Vanessa for VF4 and some other character (Aoi?) for VF3 and leave Zhang Hongyu for Shenmue. Great find!

Also, if some of you want to read up on the youth movement Ms. Zhang's sister joined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards_%28China%29

[Youzhi]

So he was gonna put that Zhang Hongyu in VF 3 or 4 but then he decided on making Vanessa for VF4 and some other character (Aoi?) for VF3 and leave Zhang Hongyu for Shenmue. Great find!

Also, if some of you want to read up on the youth movement Ms. Zhang's sister joined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards_%28China%29

Yes, and the original news source is an interview of Yu-san in one vol. of the Beep! MegaDrive magazine 1994.
The interview mainly talk about Yu-san‘s tour to china.
A friend of mine have the magazines, I'll upload the photo of the article few days later.

[NeoShredder]

So he was gonna put that Zhang Hongyu in VF 3 or 4 but then he decided on making Vanessa for VF4 and some other character (Aoi?) for VF3 and leave Zhang Hongyu for Shenmue. Great find!

Also, if some of you want to read up on the youth movement Ms. Zhang's sister joined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards_%28China%29

Yes, and the original news source is an interview of Yu-san in one vol. of the Beep! MegaDrive magazine 1994.
The interview mainly talk about Yu-san‘s tour to china.
A friend of mine have the magazines, I'll upload the photo of the article few days later.

That would be FANTASTIC, thank you!

[Pltnm06Ghost]

Xiuying has always been m favorite character. This new bit of info just makes me like her even more! Thanks : D

[shengoro86]

Great stuff!
Thanks!

[R3N]

Confirmed Red Guards are the Chi Yo Men!