Let me add that in Street Fighter Alpha Generations, Sakura caught up to Ryu to challenge him to a fight. It was here that Ryu taught her a few lessons. While SFA Generations is a terrible OAV, it does indeed contain official storyline info from Capcom, and they’re even credited in the beginning and end.
While we’re on the subject of SF storyline, Gouki is Ryu’s Biological father.
Another reason I hate the sf animes: they do their own interpretation of the storyline, but some people suck up everything they make up at as gospel. NONE of the shotos are related. Ryu is half german (which is why he’s portrayed as having blue eyes on the cover of SF Anniversary, and why he had reddish hair in SF, and SF Alpha art) …how the fuck 2 full-blooded japanese people gonna have an only partially japanese kid? Think it over and quit watching lame-ass excuses for anime designed only to snatch fanboys’ money from their gullible hands.
I have to agree that it’s pretty obvious based off the official artwork throughout the Alpha series that Ryu is half white. Like many people, as they get older their lighter shaded hair darkens explaining his gradual turn from red to brown to black. And it’s not just his hair colour but his facial features such as eye colour and nose shape. Whose to say that his mother wasn’t german or irish or something, if you support the theory that Akuma is his biological father.
Japan makes characters look non-japanese all of the time. It’s really common. Blonde hair, Red hair, blue hair, blue eyes, etc. You’ll even see blond haired blue eyed samurais at times in live action and animes(new Zatoichi movie anyone?) If they made the characters look Japanese everyone would be five feet tall and all of the woman would have A cup bra sizes… well, the movie Akira was very close to how Japanese really look like overall IMHO.
Ryu officially has brown eyes. Changing the eye colors of characters from drawing to drawing is really common in Japan. I suppose for a quick crash lesson here, go look at the Ranma 1/2 books on the side bar and look at all the different hair/eye colors he/she has. I’ve seen drawings from Capcom of Ken and Chun-Li with blue eyes instead of brown. There was a manga artist who did a short Wolverine comic in the US and she gave him yellow eyes. They don’t take this stuff incredibly seriously… what ever looks nice/works with the drawing/manga/anime goes.
Does Light Of Virtue mean anything to you? Charlie and Guile’s Sonic Booms are sound, because that’s what a sonic boom is, sound. As far as this whole France and America don’t like each other thing, please. Juli(Juni?) has white skin and orange hair, yet she is still a part of the Thunderfoot tribe. Nationality and race play a very small role in the SF universe.
If we’re gonna go by “similar moves, similar blood” rule, then I guess Q was trained by Balrog, and Dudley is Balrog’s cousin. Hugo must be Zangief’s fellow Eastern European and also nephew, and Thunder Hawk is their distant Mexican cousin. Absolutely ludicrous, no?
Ok, but after being too lazy to make a new sprite for SFA3: Upper, she is the doll that Thunder Hawk wants back into their tribe. When asked about this, Capcom has stated that his intention was to indeed talk to her and not Noembelu, the doll that would make much more sense. It’s absurd, but if Capcom has said it as so, then there’s no choice but to accept it as true.
To be taught means to receive instruction, otherwise you’re teaching yourself. Whether or not one succeeds after teaching oneself is inconclusive. One end of this spectrum sits Dan, and at the other is Sakura.
It’s not a matter of feeling like accepting, it’s a matter of crossing borders with context, feeling like blending together takes and storylines when they shouldn’t be mixed.
I didn’t mean “I don’t know” as “I don’t know if I believe that”. I wrote it to mean “I don’t have an answer to that”. Of course, I didn’t at the time. I do now. Read on.
I didn’t bring it up, I just showed why it didn’t matter.
This might be a little more significant if Hugo and T. Hawk had Spinning Piledrivers. But they don’t.
Instead, Remy performs Flash Kicks and Sonic Booms. They’re not called by those names, but that’s what they are. They look no different, and unless Capcom has stated that his moves are based on light manipulation, you can’t say so for sure.
The only thing that the names of Remy’s moves prove is that he is emo, not that he uses light manipulation. Light of Virtue and Light of Justice (omg they have the word light in them!) could conceivably be the user names of any two people on myspace. Rising Rage Flash (you know, like Flash Kick?) and Blue Nocturne (I think I saw a band by this name once) are similarly emo names to fit Remy’s “torn” character and don’t give us any information on the actual source of his power. Any statements to the contrary are pure conjecture.
And again, I feel that too many of you are trying to look cool by jumping on the “omg what a stupid idea” bandwagon that you’re overlooking what I’m actually saying. So if I see one more person go “OMG THESE TOO PEOPLE HAVE SIMILAR MOVES I GUESS THEIR RELATED!”, I’m going to consider them functionally retarded and useless in this discussion, because you’re obviously not reading what I’m writing.
I never said that similarity of moves alone is enough to justify speculation on how one character is related to another. But when you combine that with a vague backstory open to interpretation, it’s easy to wonder.
Really tired right now, so I’ll elaborate later. You seem to misunderstand. The majority of my post was not aimed directly at you, but rather anyone willing to read or anyone who was guilty of any of the things I mentioned.