is a fictional character in the Street Fighter series. She made her first appearance in 1999's Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. In the series, she is a young Japanese woman raised from the Tosa Province of Japan who utilizes her family's dojo teachings of Rindo-kan karate as her fighting style. Voiced by Makoto Tsumura in Japanese, Makoto speaks in Tosa dialect. Appearances Street Fighter games Makoto is a young female karate master from the rural Tosa Province of Japan introduced in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. She returns as a playable character in Super Street Fighter IV in which her father was the previous master of the once prosperous karate dojo, which has greatly dwindled in attendance ever since the death of Makoto's father. With her brother having chosen not to follow the path of a martial artist by focusing more on the career of a business man, Makoto is left with the sole task of reviving her school's popularity. In her ending, Makoto becomes a young martial arts prodigy after defeating Ryu and numerous other fighters, attracting countless numbers of students interested in learning the art of the Rindōkan school. In Super Street Fighter IV, Fei-Long acts as Makoto's rival. Character design Makoto's conception as a character included many varied design drafts during the development of Street Fighter III, but "loose-fitting karate gi and a determination to fix up her rundown dojo were ideas that existed from the beginning." She is tomboyish, wearing a white dōgi and a yellow hachimaki. The hachimaki is a trademark of Makoto's design, added in 3rd Strike by the development team to demonstrate her speed and trajectory. They used its fluttering as she charged up her Hayate technique as an example. Because there was nothing in the Street Fighter IV engine that allowed them to do that, they had to create this mechanic especially for her. Before the release of 3rd Strike, rumors were circulating among players that Makoto was Ryu's younger sister, due to her similar wardrobe. Makoto's first alternate costume in Super Street Fighter IV, consisting of a sun hat, denim overalls, and gardening gloves, was the hardest to create out of all the characters' outfits. Makoto's voice, provided by Makoto Tsumura, is identified by her Tosa dialect (Tosa-ben). In order to achieve this, the development team hired a professional in country dialect to supervise the sound recording team. She was the