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Happy Birthday Cestus. I feel obligated to post this anytime someone says it's their 40th birthday.
 
 

😅😂🤣💀
 

Hmmm, I'm curious when Ed will drop. Based on Rashid and A.K.I.'s release dates, he'd be dropping around now. Rashid dropped on 7/24 and A.K.I. on 9/27.

Happy holidays everyone may you have a lot more coming. 

As @BornWinneralready linked Ryoredcyclone's Twitter post detailing that,
勝負あり Shōbu ari (far right, Honda's left shoulder): "victory" in Classical Japanese (literally, "the match is set"). The same writing was flashed in the background of Honda's SF2 stage.

日本一 Nippon ichi (or Nihon ichi; second right, Honda's back), "Best in Japan". Incidentally, it's the same catchphrase Mai Shiranui says during her winpose since Fatal Fury 2.
大一番 Ōichiban (second left, Honda's right shoulder), "The great first". The decisive match in sumō to determine the championship.
満員御礼 Man'in onrei (far left, Honda's left side), "Thanks for the full house". Banners with this writing are shown at sumō tournaments when the house is indeed full.

大入 Ōiri (Honda's shirt), "large attendance". The same writing was shown on the red lantern in the background of Honda's SF2 stage.

 
 
Of course I remember, having already written about it at the time.
It was Ippei Kuri's manga Kurenai Sanshirō (1968), aka Judo Boy in France, Italy and Spain and O Judoca in Brazil. It was adapted into an anime series in 1969, with many details changed. The original story was the first ever in Japan to depict a muay thai villain, who killed Sanshirō's father but lost an eye in the process (two years before Kajiwara started to use so many muay thai villains in his manga who cemented the image). So Sanshirō is searching for his dad's killer but only has the clue that the killer is one-eyed. Every episode he encountered an one-eyed villain who bothered someone somewhere, but it was never his foe. Yes, the father who took the eye of his muay thai-user killer before dying is a detail Capcom recycled for DAN. Every episode, Sanshirō ALWAYS jumped into action by grabbing his kimono and wearing it in the air, so we know that Ryu should've referenced that in SF2. You also can see Abel's tornado throw in the opening. In the original manga, the villain already used the rolling heel kick who then Kajiwara copied in his Kurenai no chōsensha five years later.
Incidentally, Ippei Kuri then became TATSUNOKO's third president. He died this July at 83.
 

Happy Turkey day everybody

Happy Thanksgiving, Homies.

Thread has slowed down a bit but a happy thanks giving to you guys.
 
I appreciate you guys being there in multiple capacities while 2020 was awful for me; the aftermath; and honestly everything else. hope you guys are having a great day.
 

Happy 🦃 Day to all my story thread peeps!

These costumes are legit top tier. Not a bad one in the bunch.

I'm always surprised by how much damage Marisa does off of just about anything.  

Brother, please.
 
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Alternate costume for Luke ("navy version", LOL).
Well, if there was EVER any doubt about what his primary source of inspiration was... They even directly referenced Popeye ROTFL.
I WANT that costume.

Source.

So the GranBlue beta went well...
 
 

For the cheap lulz
 
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The moveset crack me up
I had to put the spinach in Jamie's bottle lol

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