Jean Kujo (ジャン 紅條,Jan Kujō?) is a French full-contact karateka and a brainwashed assassin for Judgement 6 who debuted in Virtua Fighter 5 R; alongside the return of Taka-Arashi. Jean is a practitioner of some style of Karate and uses many charge-up attacks. He was known as Karateka before his actual name was publicly revealed. He is the second J6 Assassin to be part of the Virtua Fighter roster (after Goh Hinogami).
One day during their school summer vacation in France, Lion and Jean agreed to a friendly showdown of Tōrō-ken and Karate techniques. Lion showed up on the arranged day but Jean was nowhere to be seen. Setting off to look for him, Lion found that Jean’s house had been completely demolished, and Jean had vanished without a trace…
Years later at the venue of the 5th World Fighting Tournament, Jean was intently watching the preliminary matches. Following Goh Hinogami's defeat at the hands of Jacky Bryant in the Fourth World Fighting Tournament, Jean gets his chance to prove his worth. While taking note of his assassination targets among the martial artists in attendance, he noticed a young man who looked roughly the same age as him. His peculiar style of Chinese kung fu immediately caught Jean’s eye.
Gathering his thoughts, he stepped into the tournament arena. Perhaps the result of years of J6’s brainwashing, Jean’s eyes shone with a sharp, steely confidence as he prepared to face his opponent.
