So Minoru is the next Daigo?
Not until she pulls off a Chun-Li full parry. :-P
Here's my take on that, which you might find interesting:
What fighting game players call "yomi" is really just educated guessing based on enormous amounts of knowledge and experience. Reading your opponent isn't really something you intentionally do, it's something you instinctively do from playing a sport or a game so much that you see the same situations repeated over and over again.
It is not an inherent trait a person can have the first time they play a game. Players like Daigo Umehara have played so much Street Fighter over so many years that they have an EXTREMELY good idea of how their opponents are going to act in most situations.
I have read arguments that yomi is transferable across games (like Virtual Fighter players also being good at rock-paper-scissors), however, and we already know that Minoru trained with her dad in some martial arts. She wasn't very good at it, but it may have been because she was hampered by her still-growing body. But if her dad managed to teach her the basic rhythm of attack and defense, these skills might have kicked in during her fight with Shijou as soon as she had learned the basic in-game tells. I am not saying that this level of yomi is not highly improbable, but still possible in the context of a fictional work. :-)
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