Sorry I was confused as to what section to put this in. Its a general question about SF4 but not gameplay related. If a mod could move this I’d be happy.
So, throughout Street fighter, when talking to other people, Sakura refers to Dan as her ‘master’ (she might just be talking about Ryu I’m not sure). Yet everyone else (except Blanka) thinks Dan is a joke. Does Sakura really think he’s a pretty cool guy? Or is she just humoring him, because she’s a better fighter in many cases, so why does she still hang out with him in a Master/Student relationship?
General consensus is that she’s only “studying” under Dan because he’s the closest person to Ryu after Ken, all having studied under Gouken. She very well can’t follow Ken around all day, being a family man, so she sticks to Dan. At one point she was earnestly trying to learn from him, but after a very short time, she realized Dan was a joke and never took him seriously after that.
I always assumed she did mainly because she was young, and had yet to realize how pathetic his style was. However, the idea of her sticking with him due to his slight connection with Ryu makes sense.
From the anime SF4 videos Dan is a good promoter. I mean, who would take a young girl fighting in a school girl uniform seriously? Dan gets her opponents, she gets to fight, Dan gets to promote the Saikyo style. It’s a win win situation.