Shakunetsu

The whole Ryu petal training is a callback to the Nakahira manga and his Third Strike ending. At the beginning of the manga, it was explained that part of Gouken's teachings included Ryu and Ken using their energy to coax a leaf down from a tree and into their hands. 
During the SF3 ending we see Ryu himself saying he's far from even telling where the leaves would fall although he is keen enough to catch a few in his hand by chance.


 
During SF6 Ryu now has enough mastery to seemingly not only control multiple petals from the tree through his energy, they seem to flow with it as well. 
In contrast to Akuma's hardstyle training which focuses solely on destruction, Ryu's style is more so akin to Gouken's now more than ever. 
Akuma probably knows he's failed in trying to goad Ryu into succumbing to SnH and he's giving up on trying to convert him over and is preparing for their next meeting
 

This is it, and it is because Ryu won't succumb to the SnH in the way Akuma wants he's decided to play Ryu's game and start to take inspiration from him. The thing is when it comes to the Shoryu in canon it was the second most effective move in Ansatusken right below the SGS. Goutetsu didn't ban the move, but Gouken did for himself yet he did teach it to his students as their most potent attack. In canon, the SRK is supposed to be a last resort move which is why both Ryu and Ken have some variant of it as their SA3 & CA .
 
I understand from the canon of SRK that it by design is meant to kill in one hit.
The SRK was already scientifically proven to have the potential to knock a person's head clean off their shoulders.
 
What is Akuma doing to the statue in SF6 that he's practicing his Shoryu on?

 
It's a blatant killing move yet Gouken and Ryu have made the attack just as effective without the destruction and killing through the technique. 
How is the technique performed?
Look at the obvious difference between a Tiger Uppercut and SRK. 
 
From the initial description of an SRK you would think a style like Muay Thai would benefit from an extra knee strike within the said technique. 
Although, Sagat has always performed Tiger Uppercut without a launching knee like the Shoryu.

 
Possibly because even Sagat knew that adding such impact without good judgment would probably end in disaster.
 
The Shin Shoryu in SF6 displays that Ryu launches his opponent with his knee during the final hit and that his fist only initially connects with the jaw and gut of his opponent. It doesn't launch the opponent through his jaw like a typical SRK would be designed to do. The launching action is directed toward the opponent's full body through a knee to the stomach in hopes of a clean KO.
 
This is in direct contrast to Kage just a game prior in SF5 who would launch a knee in conjunction with his fist connected directly to his opponent's jaw during his Metsu Shoryu. This would probably add more impact to the devastating nature of the SRK in rending a person's head from their neck.
 

If I ever come across Akuma in World Tour Mode, I'm going to give him a gift in the form of a magazine in the hopes that he replies with a Raging Demon for wasting his time.

people are raging on MH costume wanting them actual character like SFV ken lol
 
 
 

Well, he was top tier in dark stalkers... 😱

😆😂🤣💀
 
Edit: Wait a minute, does this mean Sasquatch from Darkstalkers is really Akuma?

At least Ed got a trailer. Alex fans had to make their own trailer
 
 

I could see Sean becoming more King Cobra-esque if he gained some confidence though.

I still find it kinda hilarious how out of all the games out there that get our hair right and is bursting with variety, is Fortnite.
 
 

Bosch concept designs posted by Nakayama.
 

 
 

Video of devs creating A.K.I. (13 mins): https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/5001412/ 

These are just concepts for Luke of course. Interesting that at least 5 of those concepts for Luke are black characters. Regarding the fact the whole game is urban-themed and that they were considering a person of color to be the main character of SF6 is kinda fitting I feel.
 
Also, the artwork in the second-row sort of resembles Nash from SFA3, the poses are similar.

 

Copied and pasted from another forum. A dataminer named Shang discovered something in regards to the location of the "Ruined Lab" stage, and it's not what you think. 
 

@EvilCanadianputting in work as usual. Appreciate you fam.
 
 

Nakayama had made a comment to a fan a few years ago regarding him wanting Ed to have  a group of friends. He hinted that the naming convention of the friends would follow some sort of Alphabet pattern. 
 
 
The first Neo Shadaloo members were the first in the Alphabet series, and now we have the rest.  (The Dolphin Amrita is “A” and Goliath is “G”)