Watching Kyasao - a Jumonji note

It's a real delight watching him in action, and just inspires me to turn my Kage play up another notch or two.

Just one thing I observed which is new to me, and I suspect new to everyone else or just not obvious since they don't play Kage, and that is, his Jumonji running jump kick - [JM] f,f,K - appears to be bufferable after his Jumonji attacks to the point where it looks canned! If you've seen daioh_kyasao1.wmv you'll see him perform it after the Jumonji spinning elbow - [JM] f+P - and in daioh_kyasaoh2.wmv you'll see it after the Jumonji knee - [JM] f+K. Both of these moves are done with a fwd tap, so the complete input (I'm guessing) is just [JM] f+P, f, K or f+K, f, K.

Note that he only does these post-KO, but when you think about the attack properties themselves, I think this could lead to something nasty. The [JM] f+P and f+K both hit mid, so obviously the opponent needs to guard these standing, but the following jumping kick will stagger a standing defender (if I'm not mistaken). Given how fast the entire sequence is then I think the odds are looking good for Kage. On the other hand, if the opponent was crouching to begin with, and the [JM] f+P or f+K staggers them, then the following jumping kick may well be guaranteed, or at least quite difficult to avoid.

Another tool to hang on the Jumonji belt!

 

Well, I played for a couple of hours tonight, and I tried and tried and tried but couldn't get it! Man, it's driving me nuts now.

I just want to correct something I said earlier. The Jumonji running jump kick only staggers on normal hit. That is, it can be guarded safely.

So if anyone figures out or finds out how it's done, let us know!

 

JS f+P, f, K
JS f+P, f, f, K
JS f+P, f+K

Yep I tried those too, and the following:

[JM] f, f, f+K~K
[JM] f, f, f+P~K

The interesting thing here is that you can do the spinning elbow or knee after a buffered run, but unfortunately the K followup was never to be seen, no matter how much I frigged around with timing. Argh, so frustrating! Can anyone here ask Kyasao directly?