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They are Apprentice Dolls. The three behind Seth  are Low-Rank Dolls. They first appeared in pachinko Chun-Li ni Makase China. The white hair doll is a Mid-Rank Doll and another Doll is High-Rank Doll. More about them: 
 
https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column-130341.html
https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/130927?lang=en
 
And the three girls are Rena, Guy's fiancée, and Maki, her sister, from Final Fight 2 and Sarai Kurosawa, Ibuki's friend..

Here's the site with all the design notes for the costumes
 
https://www.streetfighter.com/6/en-us/column/detail/guest_01
 
Chun is wearing her casual clothes with hers

I love this costume. I have it as an A Tier for Chun.
 
 

Kent Masterst canont.

So Ken’s 3rd costume seems to be based off a Hong Kong movie called Future Cops.
 



 
It used SF characters but because they didn’t have the license for it, this gentleman goes by Kent.
 

That's purely coincidental because Utena herself largely took from Oscar to begin with. Even the pink hair can be traced back to Yawara!'s Belgian jūdōka/supermodel Belkens, who in turn was based upon the real Belgian champion Ingrid Berghmans, one of the most decorated women in jūdō in the Eighties. Berghmans was a sensation in Japan because she was 180 cm (5'9'') and a frequent subject in magazines' covers, so it's not so difficult to imagine why Urasawa decided to have a jūdōka who was ALSO a supermodel in his manga.


 

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

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.

https://www.streetfighter.com/6/en-us/column/detail/guest_01

Lore for Honda’s 3rd costume
 
 
 

amazing that they include the psx and saturn exclusive scene
 
 
 
 
 

X-Kira? We still doing this!? Did yall think I forgot?

Devs talked about character creation using ZBrush.

Is it just me...or are those tikis on Dee Jay's stage Bison, Sagat and Adon? Top left, middle left and middle right and bottom right in the sand (in order)
 

@CESTUS IIII can imagine JP sitting at his desk picking various alias for whatever country he's in.
 
Brazil: Jonas Petry
Canada: Jean Pétrégne
China: Jo-Hsi Peng
Italy: Jacopo Petrucci
Japan: Jisho Paku
Korea: Joon Ho Paek
Spain: Juan Prohens
USA: John Peters
 
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Some new bio info regarding a few characters:
 
A better look at concept arts of Akuma:

 
Credit to Ryce for the summary below:
 
 I found some interesting notes on Twitter from a talk that the devs gave at the Capcom vs. Tezuka event. It's all been machine translated from various Twitter/X accounts (including here, here, and here), so it's not perfect.
There's a lot more if you dig through those Twitter accounts.

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

The laurel wreath:
 

 
Owls are symbols of  wisdom. However, I don't doubt Ed makes some bad decisions.

Ed concepts:

Juni had a pretty dark backstory too

Also, with all the talk of erasing and life paths, she could have just opted not to talk about her brother since he's no longer relevant to who and what she is now.

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.