However, they did divulge that she still loves Andy - as she always has - ten years later. When developers were asked about her whereabouts during Mark of Wolves, they chose not to answer the question directly.
She spends much of the series endlessly pursuing Andy and fantasizing various daydreams about their wedding. It wasn't until he gave her a present on her birthday that she saw him in another light and eventually fell in love with him. At first, Mai was uninterested in Andy and only thought of him as another callous man only interested in his training. Mai then had to take alternate coursesfrom her grandfather's friend, Jubei Yamada in ninjitsu.
She had met Andy during this time who had come to train under her grandfather. Mai learned from her father the secrets of Ninjitsu. Mai Shiranui is the granddaughter of Hanzo Shiranui, master of ninjitsu and Koppo-ken. Along with the many figures and merchandise that have been made in her image, she has made an outside game appearance in the spin off series Queens Gate. Mai was rated #4 in 's "Top Ten Babes in Games" feature and #5 in Game Informer's "Top Ten Hottest Girls of the 16-Bit era." In the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, she was voted as the fifth favorite character with a total of 2,380 votes. According to an issue of Neo Geo Freak, her breasts were modeled after Fumie Hosokawa and her butt is modeled after Ai Iijima both women were famous idols at the time. Her characteristic "bounce" was loosely modified from a kunoichi (female ninja) method of assassination: to be sensual to their unassuming prey before they strike. When developers shifted their focus to including an idol character into the series, they decided to scrap the Shiranui man for Mai. She was originally not planned to be included in Fatal Fury at all, as her fighting style was created for a different male ninja. Mai Shiranui (不知火 舞, Shiranui Mai) is a character from both the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series of fighting games by SNK (now SNK Playmore).