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The backstory behind the jacket is charming. It's funny to think that Chun scolds Ryu for wearing his gi in public so she went shopping with him. They also say that the sandals he's wearing are gifts from Honda.

I started to re read this again in English. I had just gotten through the fight with Hugo when a panel caught my attention that hadn't before. In the original Japanese script it was this "闘いの中に 答えはある・・・か" "Tatakai no naka ni kotaeha aru." This was transliterated into; "The answer lies in the heart of battle" Ryu's most popular catch phrase! Yet another notable aspect of SF that had been borrowed from the Nakahira manga.

I do have access to the Japanese edition and I remember posting it a couple times a few years ago. I just recently found a fully uploaded English version on the net though😁👍🏾 I know a lot of you never read it in it's entirety so here's your chance. Please reply if these links don't work. Vol 1 Vol 2

Some of the tracks on here a very solid. Violent Ken is an instant favorite for me.

Right and she also gives the impression that she had no family or home to go to. It’s only when she later tells you in detail about why her parents were seemingly out of the picture. She was born out in the country and her parents worked in the city too much to raise her effectively so they gave custody to their relatives. She must have hated her relatives a lot to want to run away from them but she doesn’t mention why she disliked them. If she had been abused it would make sense but we don’t know that for a fact. She may have just been attracted to the streets out of a sense of excitement and her family had been boring her. Who knows, but what we do know is that she flat out states she had a family out in the countryside that she abandoned.

You would think that to be the case but she says that she sorta puts herself in the situation she was in being a street urchin. She had parents who worked in the city so much that they pretty much didn’t have time for her so they pawned her off to her relatives. She didn’t like her relatives so she decided to run away from them and live on the streets. At first AKI mention that she had no parents or family so it kinda implied that she was an orphan by chance and not by choice. Who knows why she wanted to leave her relatives? She doesn’t mention any details about their relationship or why it didn’t work out. Though apparently her life as a street kid outweighed whatever she was going through with her relatives. It’s not really that dark when you consider that her path in life was something that she had a choice in and not something she didn’t. Especially when characters like Juri were orphaned by having her family killed and was herself gravely injured in that process. AKI’s life doesn’t start to become dark until after she starts making bad decisions for herself and that includes meeting FANG. Then she takes so much after FANG that she has that obsessive trait for him that he has for Bison. It’s funny because AKI just drools over FANG while he couldn’t care less and is a Bisonsexual waiting for his masters return. That’s just a love triangle in the making.

AKI Arcade & WTM interactions

Luke is literally stated to be the main character of SF6. He ties to Ken's story and is the avatars main teacher. The games functional story is still focused on Ken playing the main victim against the antagonist. From what the prelude comic portrays it should be the proverbial passing of the torch when Ken beats Luke.

It’s better than another Evil Shoto or Necalli. People like evil Chun Li variants. They each have something that sets them apart from Chun Li besides the fact that they’re just evil variants of her. They also have something that is similar to designs or concepts that were also tied to Chun Li. Juri and Chun li are the most relevant popular characters in the past 5 years of SF. Why wouldn’t they base yet another character off of their most relevant top two characters? More so off of the edgy one who ranks higher than the goody two boots one.

Some good reading material they’re obviously drawing correlations between Juri and AKI too It’s really not if Capcom thinks if AKI is redundant or a negative stereotype. She’s similar to Juri, and Juri is the most recent successful and popular SF design. Her design is not about representation of Asian women or an artistic choice. Her design is pushing what Capcom thinks is successful. Chun Li is successful, so is Juri, why not double down into what has been making them money so far?

I noticed this name was borrowed from FANG’s CA in SFV but her variation is vastly different from his. Her laugh is reminiscent to FANG’s which is supposed to sound like they’re constantly say “death” (shi-shi-shi) which she also uses to name some of her moves.

Well the writing on the knife held the secrets to Nguuhao so it could’ve been different poison and techniques. AKI had never been to school so she couldn’t read the writing but was intrigued by it. So we know that FANG must have taught her rudimentary knowledge as well as his skills in fighting and poison.

It’s implied that AKI’s brother wanted the cash as he urged her to pick it over the knife. We know FANG gave the kid a glare when he mentioned the cash and he shut up about it after that. We don’t know if he took the poisoned cash or not so his fate is a mystery. We just know she left him behind for FANG after their initial meeting. It’s heavily implied that he wanted the money so he may have just taken it and died afterwards.

You do remember AKI used to act as teenage prostitute in order for her brother to blackmail individuals later for money? Its already integrated into her character that she’s willing to use at the very least the promise of sex in order to get money. It’s obvious she takes pleasure in her poisons and what sorts of various violent things that they do to people. It’s not to far from a stretch to think she using sexual innuendos when she looks like she’s having an orgasm talking about her master. The tone she uses talking about experimenting with her poisons is exactly the same Juri uses for basically every innuendo she makes

Some other things I noticed about AKI We already know that this is the girl known as “Phantom” from the side story featured for FANG in SF5. This is referenced in the kanji characters in this artwork (阿鬼-Ghost this is pronounced A-ki) Her motif being based on a snake was also explained in the side story. The serpent dagger was the gift that FANG offered her. AKI’s chained spiked tendrils are something that was intended for FANG according to his concept art.

So both of them wearing qipoa dresses are just something that’s a coincidence because they’re both stereotypes of Chinese women and not based on Chun’s design at all? Their sadism is definitely similar, sure they have differences but they both sound alike in tone of voice. Both have motifs that revolve around venomous creatures. Juri’s is the spider and now AKI’s is a snake. Its not really that much of a reach to see how similar Juri and AKI both are to each other. That being said they’re both just evil female characters based on Chun Li in some way.

She’s very much like Juri. Both have similar color schemes (Black, Purple, White). They both have a sadistic personality in wanting to torture their opponents in their own way. Her voice is similar to Juri’s too having a hint of playful sultry and conniving bitch. When you look at both Juri and Aki you automatically see they’re based on precursor Chun Li when she was supposed to be Gen’s granddaughter and student assassin. Aki adopted this old concept into her story now with Fang filling the role of Gen as her master. Juri and Aki are both evil counterparts to Chun in design and personality.

You sure she’s gonna bring a new world location or just be located in Chinatown Metro City but only at night?

Super Street Fighter Plot Guide II(2022)

The Illuminati stole Rashid’s land in order to harvest the power of the winds for the benefit of mankind

I don’t think it would have been Gill as we know him but an ancestor of Gill. Just like Rashid’s ancestor look like him the previous Illuminati leader that looked like Gill. The timeline is messed up as is but if they’re really saying that Gill is as old as Rashid’s ancestors than idk wtf is going on.

Hey my name’s Zeku my major revamp was literally based around a technique that cuts my age by 2/3rds which gives me access to a whole new move list. I’m sort of like Gen but instead of having 2 styles of fighting my moveset is based around the fact that I can de-age myself by 2/3rds

Something’s that Ryu confirms about his livelihood are pretty interesting. Everyone thinks he’s some sort of vagabond who travels on the money he’s earned during his fights and odd jobs. Apparently Ken was the one who managed Ryu’s money for him and even entrusted him with a black card funded by the Masters Corporation savings. Given Ken’s status now I’m wonder who’s managing Ryu’s assets? Maybe it’s something still funded by the Foundation but off the books? Given Ryu’s modest lifestyle it would probably last him his lifetime even if left unmanaged by Ken. He’s definitely a wealthy man under disguise. Gouken also entrusted Ryu with a pair of prayer beads similar to the ones he used to wear. This symbolizes that Ryu is now a true master of his own art even though he chooses not to wear them himself due to their lack of mobility during training and fighting.

SF6 is so detailed that they even added E.Honda's bones on his top knot during an electric shock. A true SF tradition

He taught it to his students because it was the final secret technique he could teach them. Goutetsu who taught both Gouken and Gouki SGS was the original forbidden move. Goutetsu taught them this technique as a way for both students to ultimately decide for themselves how they were going to utilize it. Gouken can use SGS but chooses not to for obvious reasons and thus he's developed a counter for it and Gouki uses it wholeheartedly. Think about how Ryu describes the difference in both his and Kens styles in SF6 WTM. Ken chooses to add variations to his style while Ryu stays true to what his master taught him and expands upon it Following his arts tradition Gouken teaches his most dangerous technique to his students which is SRK. Gouken forbade Ryu and Ken from using them it while under his tutelage. Though since they graduated they can utilize the technique anyway they choose to. Ken has multiple variety of SRK while Ryu sticks to the tradition that his master taught him. This is why Shin Shoryu is Ryu's most powerful attack because Gouken learned the proper the form from his master. It's been almost indistinguishable from a Metsu SRK until now. Metsu SRK launches the opponent with the knee while the fist is still connected to the opponents jaw. The most recent depiction of the Shin Shoryu is one body shot to the gut an upper cut to the jaw and a knee to the gut with the fist to the jaw already disconnected and rising to the air. It's a subtle difference but one that implies that the technique is supposed to render an opponent unconscious rather than break their jaw or neck.