Chample

BIO:

Chample is a shisa who is found alone in the ruins of Mina Majikina's destroyed village. Thinking it to be a harmless beast, she takes it along with her. However, in her ending, Chample reverts back to his true form and Mina senses his energy to be akin to the one responsible for the village attack. Mina prepares to kill it and promises to follow it soon afterward. Chample served as Mina's companion in SS5 & SS5 Special, but was only a playable character in Samurai Shodown 6.
  

   

ORIGIN:
Samurai Shodown V

   

   

OTHER APPEARANCES:
Samurai Shodown 5 Special, Samurai Shodown 6

  
                         
 

Page Updated:  Dec. 14th, 2025

Nope. Just no. WTF is this, Samurai Shodown?!? This doesn't look like a character from the series I fell in love with in the early 90's. What the hell is this dumb teletubby-lookin' thing in my SamSho? SNK, are the devs addicted to Pokemon? Send help. I ask again... Why does this atrocity of a character exist in... Samurai Shodown? I don't say this often, but I HATE THIS DESIGN. Yeah. And judging from Chample's official storyline, I'm supposed to hate it? It's lore. What was the point of this business model SNK? This is not the direction I wanted to see Samurai Shodown go in.

To state the obvious, characters like Chample and Kusaregedo marked a period in the series when creative started to get weird. Very weird. And you wonder why the series fell deep into obscurity and almost died? (I didn't wonder. I saw it coming when I saw the original concept art of Chample. Ohh well I played SSV anyway.)

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