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JP's Outfit 3 definitively references the "Cerulean clothes" that were introduced in chapter 1 of the SF6 comic

The robes are obviously a deep-hued blue (Cerulean) but that's not all. The two designs that are embroidered into the clothes are a mandala and an organic-looking heart design. The heart design is meant to reference the hero who sacrificed his own heart in the Nayshall legend.

There's now an official canon reason as to why Luke's forearm tattoos are removed. 

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This outfit appeared in SFV but I actually came up with this after Luke's design for SF6 was established. The concept of this outfit was "more aggressive," and "young and cocky." The stars on his forearms are tattoos that he got every time he has won an underground martial arts tournament or an official tournament, and he eventually got them removed because he was embarrassed when he found out that his father had embroidered stars on his jacket for every comrade he couldn't save. My favorite part of this design are the braces on his teeth, which I hoped would express his immaturity and his ferociousness that look like as if he might come bite at you.

The stars thing is interesting because they signified Luke's victories in tournaments he had won. There are officially 23 in total; 11 on his left and 12 on his right. 

I also wonder if the jacket they're referring to is his story costume.

7 hours ago, Chun-Li_Forever said:

 

Capcom acknowledges the canon!!! Ryu x Chun-Li baby!!!

The backstory behind the jacket is charming. 

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I was thinking of a situation of Ryu wearing normal clothes and felt he might dress a little more like a regular person when he comes down from the mountain where he trains to head to town. From there, I thought about what he does in town, and imagined him going to public baths, buying ingredients for his meals, and washing his gi before returning to the mountain. We came up with the idea of Chun-Li scolding Ryu for roaming around town with his gi on, so she decides to buy him a jacket. He is also wearing a towel wrapped around his head that he wears after taking a bath, brand-new bandages, jeans that have been washed so many times that the color has faded and looks like white denim, and high-end sandals that were gifted from E. Honda.

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.

18 hours ago, Lord_Vega said:

I think that @bakfromonhad it scanned in a (Psycho) Drive. Don't remember if it's the original jpn scan or the english one.

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. 

3 hours ago, CESTUS III said:

That's interesting, i must still see that part... from SFV side-story i had impression she was poor and her brother somehow got her in that role, with her being used by him for his scam

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. 
 

1 hour ago, CESTUS III said:

When you think about it AKI probably is the SF char with darkest backstory 

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 

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

SF6 doesn't really have a main character. They gave everyone their own stories that you experience through your avatar. Ken's whole situation with JP was resolved before SF6. Ken's just too ashamed to go home. As it was pointe to me. You run into Mel in Word Tour and he's much older (4 or 5 years IIRC) than he was in SF6 comic done before the games release.

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. 

1 hour ago, DarthEnderX said:

That's probably true.  But that doesn't make it less lame.

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. 

On 9/4/2023 at 2:46 PM, DarthEnderX said:

If anyone else here has been a fan of Noe V./BigMex's blogs on fighting game design for years like me, I just want to bring attention to the fact that, for the past month or so, he's been doing a series about SF6 that's up to 16 parts now.

 

https://streetwriterpodcast.blogspot.com/

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?

42 minutes ago, Miðgarðsorm said:

L1 Super Deadly Implication is 死屍累々 Shishiruirui "heaps of corpses everywhere", an expression also used figuratively when something goes very wrong and there are serious consequences for numerous people involved. Here... no, it's used literally lol.

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. 

31 minutes ago, DarthEnderX said:

Although, technically, AKI didn't choose the knife.  She chose the writing on the side of the knife.  Which was a formula for poison.

 

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. 

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

I wasn't talking the EVO comic. I was referencing the SFV side story comic that seems to be A.K.I.'s origin story. My memory ain't what it used to be, so I'm not sure about her brother's fate. I remember F.A.N.G. giving a choice of a knife or a stack of cash which I thought he laced with poison. I know for certain that A.K.I. chose the knife. IIRC the knife had a snake on the hilt. She leaves with F.A.N.G. and her brother took the stack of cash and stayed behind from my recollection. Which if my senile ass has the right of it, means he's dead.

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. 

5 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Taking pleasure in violence isn't that unusual in SF. Just like fighting unarmed isn't unusual in SF. Cody could not stop beating people up and got locked up for it. Akuma lives to fight master level opponents. The list goes on. Taking sexual pleasure from violence is however unusual and that's Juri's thing. A.K.I. isn't being seductive or making any sexual innuendos, she just like's killing via poison like her master. A master she seems enamored with. Sakura thinks she's too obsessive. 

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
 

27 minutes ago, YagamiFire said:

AKI's design is not similar to Chun-li that I can see.

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?

33 minutes ago, YagamiFire said:

Their sadism is also extremely different with Juri being cruel and playful and AKI being weirdly analytical and obsessive.

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. 

1 hour ago, YagamiFire said:

I don't see why people keep saying she's like Juri

 

She's not beyond "A girl that is evil". They have very different looks, mannerisms, voices, attitudes, etc.

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. 

5 minutes ago, ToreyBeans said:

Welp once A.K.I. arrives we’ll have China as a new World Tour location! Wonder what we’ll learn about our deranged snakes poison girl??

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

On 8/6/2023 at 4:15 PM, Shakunetsu said:

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19 hours ago, Lord_Vega said:

Still copy/paste of the Thunderfoot story😅. Vega and Shadaloo wanted the TF land because of the ore mines (at least that was the reason back in SSF2) present there 30 years prior SF2. I'm not totally sure if the fact that it's a sacred ground could have any impact on Psycho Power. I can't find any source confirming that.

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

2 hours ago, BootyWarrior said:

Nothing on G but according to Rashid his ancestors got obliterated by invaders with "fair skin and golden hair, and flew banners split evenly in red and blue." After that you get artwork where you can see Gill riding a horse.

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. 

8 hours ago, YagamiFire said:

That's kind of impossible to change unless we think a revamp can include cutting his age by 2/3rds? 😄

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

49 minutes ago, Daemos said:

https://www.youtube.com/@Hopezera/videos

This channel has archived all cutscenes, dialogues, and arts with all characters. Give them a like or sub if you enjoy. They earned it!

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.