Originally posted by Shito:
<strong>A minor correction in your story timeline.
Real Bout Garou Densetsu take place FOR SURE after KOF97 at least.
This is because RBFF marks the 'final death' of Geese, who's still alive i KOF97 Special Team ending.
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Actually, no. And yes.
After RBFF, Geese is dead in the Garou storyline, but alive in the KoF storyline (in the manga, he's even alive to fight K'!)
What I once read, was that in the KoF manga, after Real Bout, while Geese was falling off Geese Tower, once close to the ground he threw a shippuken to slow his fall, wound up killing some guy on the street with it, and landed on top of a car or something, with Billy Kane standing there watching.
In the Garou Densetsu series however, as we know, Geese died after Real Bout. That was his true & proper end. So there's the explanation. Also, keep in mind that Geese sponsored the tournament one last time following what happened in The King of Fighters '95.