That said, the tentpoles of how he came to be are roughly the same. There’s been so much Street Fighter media within the last three decades that there isn’t a whole lot of consistency to be found in establishing the details of Blanka’s story. But I spent a significant amount of time in the populous cities São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro, and no one was green. Of course, Brazil is an enormous country – 8.5million square kilometres, with an estimated population of 211million people – and I can’t claim to have visited every patch of it or met everyone who hails from there. Now, I’ve been to Brazil – I went there ten years ago, to interview Gogol Bordello, for NME – and I didn’t see anyone, not a single person, who had green skin. The reason for my confusion is this: in Capcom’s 1991 mega hit Street Fighter II – a game celebrating its 30thanniversary this month – Blanka is Brazilian. Everyone, it turns out, is asking the same question. Is anyone searching for an answer to why Blanka can emit electricity? Or why he bites other Street Fighter combatants in the face? Nope. Type ‘Why is Blanka…’ into said search engine, and the first question that the algorithm will reveal is – you guessed it – ‘Why is Blanka green?’ I’m not alone in wanting to know the answer to this. “Why is Blanka from Street Fighter IIgreen?” READ MORE: ‘Skyward Sword’ isn’t the Zelda remaster everyone wanted, but who cares when we have ‘Mario Golf’.But most often – and this is something I’ve been looking for the answer to for thirty long years – I will type the following words into the Google search bar: Sometimes they will involve locating the whereabouts of a beloved footballer from my childhood – what happened to former Doncaster Rovers full-back Steve Prindiville? Turns out he signed for Stafford Rangers and retired in 2001. Often these questions will concern the supernatural: are ghosts real? Does Bigfoot exist? That sort of thing. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I find myself sat up in bed, Google open on my phone, searching for answers to the questions that seem to only plague me in the wee hours of the morning.
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