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Me too. Because of this artwork:
 

 
It's a Neo Shadaloo uniform in Chun-Li. Despite having been rejected, as some rejected costumes have served as inspiration for others, apparently. I wonder if this will be a reality.

Wow, shitty in terms of contents to unlock, but lot to talk about
 
In super random order
 
- We finally got a name for knife guy, Cypher.
They made him do a DBZ fusion with Afro Samurai, but i'm ok with it as SFV one had kinda light hair and we don't need all of them to be blond lol
 
- Apparently Dobberman power was stolen studying an indian master, but rather than Dhalsim i think they mean Dr. Gulabjamun

 
- For the child i agree with @DarthEnderXmost easy guess is baby was another subject they was experimenting on, with Falke holding it as she's the only woman of the group so would fit as motherly figure.
Interesting part about the child is that seems to have PP telekinesis, another specific PP ability after the 4 we saw already, made me thnk he's 5th to receive one of Bison's "gifts"
 
- Baba/Gorilla gift have me bit confused, in theory super intellect is one of Bison traits, but we never seen him do the genius scientist shit, he ever looked like he had to rely on other scientists to build and explain him stuff, while often he just looked the typical army villain who don't want listen and just push them to work harder/faster.
But after all we have Urien who's canon confirmed brilliant scientist who personally made up bunch of theories and then let his scientists develop stuff based on his intuitions, so maybe Bison was similar case
 
- Maybe i'm missing some more accurate anime reference, but did bit of search, seems there's an anime dolphin with psychic powers called Ikyugo in a series about psychic powers
So guess this guy may have been their inspiration?

https://zettaikarenchildren.fandom.com/wiki/Ikyūgō
Apparently his powers are precognition and telepathy
Wich make me think if PP and SP are two faces of same coin sharing similar powers (i know we don't all agree on thiswe talked it not long ago), PP may at least have some precognition potential since we know SP have it
Btw the dolphin feels cool pick for Shadaloo experiments, considering how evolved and mysterious their brain still is to us.
 
- Capcom seem's to be unable to chose if Ed had parents or was totally lab made, just yesterday i seen his SFV story where Ed is sure to be made in lab (literally say it), today in SF6 i see him question if he had parents lol
It's also given a new(?) info on one of Shadaloo methods to get subjects, apparently they would tell families the child needs special cures for some medical condition, then do instead their experiments
 
- I'm kinda confused about Dolls destiny thought they were free after Bison's destruction but apparently afterward they was doing same shit even wearing shadaloo uniform, part that make me most skeptic about that piece is even Decapre is there, when in theory should have been saved by Cammy... it's hard even consider it retcon considering seems conflict even with SF6 Cammy info
 
- Apparently "Neo Shadaloo" name was given them by others, and Ed basically just "accepted" that as at that point his group was known with that name
Also as @YagamiFiresaid the shadaloo wannabes that seek to get Ed call themselves like that
 
-We was guessing if ASF base was in Germany, i'm not sure if is or not, but now i believe Ed and Falke grew in two totally different bases: Ed in ASF one, wich left and then found Falke's one (in Germany) where he free her.
Considering Falke is the very first he found guess possible also first base was in Germany or not far from it.
Thanks to @biachunlipost we learned that Ed does'nt know german very well, but that does'nt hep much considering he grew talking mostly to Rog
 
-Cool to see Rog still is friend with Ed... was kinda "spoiled" by same @biachunlipost where we knew they keept in touch, but still cool see it in the artwork, mostly because Ed leaving Rog to walk his own path was one of the two SFV story scenes totally ripped from Berserk, and in Berserk it resulted into dramatic end of friendship (and lot of other apocalyptic shit lol)
Cool to see Rog just accepted Ed became a man free to chose his path and the bond survived, because was rare case of SF making Rog interesting beyond being SF Mike Tyson
 
At same time could also hint Ed himself allowed him to get close because now believe to have grown strong enough to not being consumed by Bison (and so to not be a danger for Rog)
 
- Seems JP original plan could have been return to work under Bison, i mean give the throne to Ed knowing will transform into Bison.
Possible was'nt even a plan of JP, but still made up by Bison as saving-ass card... now that i think about it we never talked much about how JP could have got his PP after SF6 launch.
At first i was hoping he was one of Bison's fellow disciples (mostly hoping Capcom had the balls to not do him a Bison minion lol) , but later we learned it's not possible as he just got PP in recent times.
Another thing is that while Ed, Falke etc got the gifts split one by one, for whatever reason JP got (from Bison or took himself?)  all Bison's abilities... surely to lesser extent (we learned he's not THAT strong) but still he can do all tricks of Ed, Falke, Chyper and Baba
Make me think his apparent disgust for fighting/violence made him good candidate that could ignore PP push to seek power and stick to the plan, but fun thing is we seen JP is starting to like it too the more his PP grow, so maybe he will go "fuck the plan" and seek power as well (only to be squashed by eventual Bison returns because capcom have no testicles)
 
- Ed base moveset (for specials i used lot else) is awesomeness on my Dudley 🤩
 
- Bit pissed we did'nt got to see NS base with all freaks ingame, would have been one of Ed's coolest things
 
- Damn it Capcom adding motoGP style racing suit that could have been perfection to complete my Rosso but 3 colors out 3 were pure crap, completely useless 😭
 
Yeah, but sadly seems we will have to wait even more to complete the set (pants/boots still missing)
Thought Ed would have got the new stage as final location with merchant selling it, but we seen he's just in MC subway
 
Overall this have been most poor "world expansion" update of WTM, just 1 new item did'nt even gave us access to new stage... in all these months could have thought it better, specially considering how much stuff already done and just locked they have
 
Well, at least in 3 days we get new FPass, let's hope that's is'nt crap lol

I think the point of the quote is that Rashid lost his friend due to Shadaloo and that he takes them seriously, much how Ed takes them seriously, not necessarily that something happened to Ed's friends. Even then, if Ed was kidnapped as a kid he already lost his familiy due to them. I wouldn't read too much into it.

Lost a friend due to Shadaloo???
 
Did something happen to Falke or something?

The X post also has quotes with Luke, Jamie, Aki, and JP too

This  is PERFECT!!! 😍
 
 

Ed to himself: We're going to live our lives our way, and no one's going to stop us!

Apologies if this has already been discussed before, I've been gone from here for a while so I don't want to really scour through 100+ pages to see if this was already mentioned lol.
 
It's definitely Bosch and they're definitely teasing his survival/return;
 
https://x.com/82kmnr_works/status/1759008481074364694?s=20
 

 
The person with the cap running with the other Buckler recruits has the same hair and scar across the eye that Nakayama recently posted for Bosch (which you posted in the reply I quoted). I'm not sure if Bosch had this scar before being blown up at the end of World Tour because you can kinda see something similar to it under his hair in the other artwork Nakayama posted;
 

 
Also to add a bit more fuel to the fire, Luke's birthday artwork has someone wearing the same hat as the NPC/Bosch. It's coincidentally just obscured enough to not see who it is for sure, but it's pretty obvious it's Bosch (thanks @Lord_Vegafor pointing this out on Twitter, I never noticed this until I saw you point it out);
 

 
At the risk of being completely wrong in the future, I'm calling it now; Bosch IS alive and will be playable in the future, maybe as soon as Season 2. There's way too many deliberate nods here to chalk it up as just asset reuse or some random NPC we're not meant to notice.

Don't give much fucks but pic is cool
 

I also like it because beside being visually nice remind me this

 
and on general old pieces where Ryu interact with the new hero (even if lol at Abel being SF4 hero)

 
SFV lacked it, even if story mode tried to compensate lol

Posted the instrumental on Youtube.
 
 
"Palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy." Sweaty... Ok, Eminem! 🤣