In the Street Fighter:Eternal Challenge book, it mentions that in the Japanese version, Akuma did have endings. I found this quite odd, since I’ve always heard that Akuma being labeled as a demon came from the US side, but the Japanese ending actually sounds like it is even hinting at that. Taken from the book:
Anyone know what the hell this means? I’ve been firm in stomping the rumors that Akuma is demon possessed and such, but this doesn’t really help my case at all.
Is it the original ending? The newer games surpass the old ones sometimes. Bison’s original ending made him a diferent person that he is todoay. Street fighter zero 2 counts but zero 1 dosen’t.
Hmm… I know I’m not making much sense. Try reading a little of this. http://orochi.com/?page=sffaq
Tiamatroar explains it much better than I do. :sad:
I’ve read through that a few times, which is why I am so confused. I’ve always agreed that Akuma isn’t a demon and such and it was a product of Capcom USA, but my new knowledge of the weird Japanese ending makes me wonder. Which is why I posted this. Anyone know what is going on?
Really interesting quote Wolfkiller. gabrielzero, if an ending is changed in a later game then it can be considered to have been retroactively changed, but as this is the only ending that is like this (as far as I know), it doesn’t apply.
>>Akuma: "Something within … what’s this?
We know the other voice comes from within Akuma but is technically seperate from him.
>>??: “I am the shadow of the condemned. You have killed the demon of this curse, and so you shall be condemned no more!”
The ‘shadow of the condemned’ seems like what remains of those that fell subject to the Raging Demon. I recon that the next part of this quote considers Akumas fight against himself as an internal struggle rather than an actual battle. Hence, when Akuma ‘defeats’ Akuma it means he is winning the internal struggle to fight the demon of the curse that comes with knowing the Raging Demon. So when Akuma wins the internal struggle, he will no longer be condemned by the curse and will become better than death. Just a theory based on this quote. Any other ideas?
Perhaps what you saw in that ST credit was there only because Akuma probably wasn’t all that developed as far as story goes, in the game. He was only given a more concrete story in Alpha 2, after all.
Besides one of Bison’s endings described him looking for an ancient power. {early sf 2 game} which they put in there back then cause he didn’t have a story back then either.
Capcom has been known to retroactively change their storylines and established canon. Due to this , if you see something in an older game and there’s a new version {aka, STreet fighter revial} of it in a newer game , take the new version and forget the old.
I’m not trying to sound like I know it all. I won’t get into an arguement over this either. But nothing here convinces me that Akuma/Gouki is or should still be a demon.
It makes more sense that he’s not “evil” but just a fighter who won’t let anything stop him from wining.
If your really looking to stop the rumors That Gouki is a demon then this is the best I can give you.
If you wanna believe that he’s a demon that’s fine to. :pleased:
mohammeda1i’s theory makes alot of sense too.
So which game is this ending from? The first release of Revial?
Street Fighter 2 Revial overrides all previous ones.
“Ansatsu” in Japanese means “Assassination”. Ansatsuken is assination techniques, basically a combination of martial arts designed to kill someone.
FYI: Gen uses Ansatsuken as well, but a different style than Akuma. The ‘Shotos’ (Ken, Ryu, Dan, Sean) who were taught by Gouken or students of Gouken (Ken teaching Sean) us a much more toned down version of the Ansatsuken art; basically Ansatsuken without the killing part. I’m sure they CAN still kill people, but they’re not trained to kill people.