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Hotaru Futaba (双葉ほたる, her first name, in Japanese, means Firefly) is a video game character who was introduced in SNK Playmore's Garou: Mark of the Wolves and also makes an appearance in NeoGeo Battle Coliseum.

Hotaru was born on May 11, 1990, in Japan. She is a Taurus. Her height is 1.56 m, or 5 ft 1 in. Her favorite hobby is collecting ribbons, her favorite food is chocolate ice cream banana parfait, her favorite sport is the high jump. Her pet ferret Itokatsu is what is most important to her. Hotaru hates earthquakes. She likes pop music a lot. She is also as innocent and pure as snow, always helping those in need. Her name means "firefly" in Japanese.

Hotaru is the daughter of a family of martial artists, but is not very fond of violence. She never wants to hurt others, which is the probable reason why her father taught her the lighter side of Chinese kenpo, the Juu-kei style, which suits her easygoing personality. There are two things that Hotaru appreciates the most after her mother's death: her ferret, Itokatsu, and her older brother, Gato. But Gato was a man who was tormented to become an accomplished martial artist, and was pushed too far by their father. Still, Hotaru knows who the real Gato is, and she is sure that he is not such a bad person at heart.

Gato's disappearance led Hotaru to a hostile city located in the United States: Second Southtown, where fighting rules all, crime is the true leader of society, and the fist of the strong demands who lives and who dies. In this harsh place, the precious Hotaru set out to find clues about her brother. She then heard news of a fighting tournament of epic proportions that would soon break out in Second Southtown. It was called "King of Fighters: Maximum Mayhem." Hotaru had a feeling that her brother would be pleased to enter the tournament, since he was always looking for strong opponents to fight. Following her heart's premonitions, Hotaru entered the tournament anyway.

Trivia

Her fighting style is very similar to Athena's from the King of Fighters series.

Hotaru's 'juu-kei' Chinese Kenpo is similar in form to fighters like Ling Xiaoyu of Tekken fame--in fact, in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum SNK Playmore modified her moveset to include stances like Xiaoyu's 'Rain Dance' and 'Art of the Phoenix'.

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