I assume it’s because Gouki returned back to the dojo more than once. Because when he faced Gouken, he says that he knew he would come back for the old man. And in one of the later episodes, you see Gouki meditating in front of the dojo door.
Gen has survived the SGS as well by emptying his soul or some such shit. It’s also one of the few fights Akuma bowed out of, he realized during the fight Gen was sick and didn’t want to fight a sick man.
Gouki was literally made on the spot due to a EGM prank so naturally his raging demon is inconsistent.
No, the series ends in 1989 (when Ryu and Ken have their fight). Most of it happens in 1987-88.
I beg to differ. For mass appeal, Live Action would be the way to go. People are put off by animation be it 3D or traditional 2D because it signifies ‘kiddy and cartoonish’. The Assassin’s Fist crew really did a great job pulling off a serious adult story here. See how in the extract from the LAtimes interview that I copy pasted below in italics.
Truly, a labour of love (see bolded bits below below). It seems like the main crew decided to go without pay for Assassin’s Fist.
*http://herocomplex.latimes.com/games/street-fighter-assassins-fist-joey-ansah-and-the-definitive-back-story/
In the same way that Nolan took Batman back to the roots – it takes an hour before you even see the Batsuit — you have to get people hooked on fundamental characters and story development before it gets too fantastical and supernatural. If you just throw people in the deep end with Blanka and Dhalsim and everyone’s doing fireballs and stuff, a lot of people would say this isn’t for me. This is kids’ stuff. It’s Harry Potter. I wanted to tell a really serious adult story. And besides, “The World Warrior” would need a much bigger budget. **This was made for about $2 million, and a hell of a lot of blood, sweat, tears and favors. The core group didn’t even pay ourselves. We deferred our payments and put that money on the screen. We wanted to give the studio superhero films a run for their money in terms of narrative and length and action. *So I do plan on doing “The World Warrior,” but that will be on a much bigger scale.
However I’ll also chime in that the flying shoryukens weren’t exactly my cup of tea like SkiesOfAzel mentions. Especially how they were done during the Kata’s (kinda came off rather gimpy). During the fights it’s more tolerable and felt more natural though. Just the crazy flying motion and the low angle shots during the Kata felt a little too exaggerated (It’s like “this dude’s jumping the height of a tree, lolwut”). Just a minor nitpick I thought I’d express as well.
Well you gotta remember that this was their final test and they were instructed to go at it until knockout or submission. Plus, when Ryu first reawakened with SNS he was backing down Ken despite him dropping his guard and having no more intentions to fight (Ken had knocked out Ryu and so considered the test to be over). Ken had already tried calling out to Ryu and instead Ryu’s reply was to make him eat that walk up SRK like a scrub. From that Ken probably figured the only way to snap Ryu out was to just beat his ass into submission (again), him being in the heat of the moment, most likely pissed off from Ryu’s scrub tactics probably and only fueled Ken going into RTSD mode rather than “Bro lets go see a doctor”. Straight after, he runs over to help Ryu anyway so he was still concerened for Ryu. (Note: if you pay close attention you’ll notice that as Ken performs that final Shoryuken, he spirals upwards as he’s rising. Perhaps this is the precursors to him developing the Shinryuken?)
Fuka, not Sayaka (although they do share the same voice actors so maybe there’s a connection between the two?). We don’t see Sayaka anymore when Generations time-skips to present day with Ryu and Sakura. It’s heavily hinted that Fuka may be the daughter of Sayaka (she pays respects to both her parents at the dojo’s footsteps and waters the flowers there everyday, could it be Gouki/Gouken and Sayaka?). Generations also heavily hints at Ryu being the son of Gouki so if Sayaka and Gouki did indeed hook up, they could have very well been siblings?
I say screw the Fuka connection and retcon the bullshit. If not that means Ryu has a brother (Shun) and Akuma is left in no doubt as the father. The only way I even find that tolerable as it establishes Akuma badassness on a level such, that his heirs are inherit satsui no hado masters much in the same vein that Luke Skywalker was the most powerful Jedi (even tho Vadar was more naturally intune with the force).
I hate that Son of Akuma shit, my most disliked part of Generations. I don’t mind really subtle hints to it like in Assassins Fist tho cuz that just opens room for Head Canon and that’s always fun, but a definitive bit of info I would not be cool with, personally.
Shun was involved in Alpha and was complete dogshit, Generations was its sequel and tried to establish satsui no hado as an evil energy seperate from chi, movie was also dogshit. Discount both of them lol.
SF:AF lifts more from generations than any other anime source tho, it also shares the mystery of an unidentified old man who is very knowledgeable of whats going on.
Ken’s AF remix theme is so hot, especially the way it starts up. Then of course it goes into the usual Ken goodness. Anyone know when the soundtrack drops?
Since I still havn’t came down from the high yet, I’ve just been going through all these behind the scenes promo vids on youtube.
The photoshoot at 2:40, they’ve got Indestructible blasting in the background. Fuk yea, bwhahah!
Vids like this and above would be perfect as featurettes for the disc release. I hope they jam pack as much shit in because I absolute eat all this up lol
Thanks for that last video there Beesuit, makes me want to start watching the episodes again from the start.
ahem I THINK I WILL. 
~K.
The most logical answer I can think of is that he made a copy just incase he got caught by Goutetsu and had it taken away.
I’m pretty sure the OVAs are non-canon anyway.
Considering that it’s implied that he’s been hanging around the dojo (the ominous ki, him meditating at the entrance), it’s possible that he may have actually left it there for someone to find it.
^ I think he was only around the dojo for those scenes because he noticed Gouken was there and it was for the anniversary of Goutetsu. Paying his respects so to speak.
Also he did leave in quite the rush, so it’s very possible that stuff could’ve been left behind and he might’ve had many different notebooks with varying content in each (duplicate or non-duplicate for example).
Personally I think he left it on purpose. Remember Gouki believes the true path of Ansatsuken is that of a killing art. It makes sense that he would want the “purity” of the art to be passed to future generations.
I don’t think he really cares about the lineage (otherwise he’d be seeking out students like Gouken) as much as he cares about his own strength and power and reaching his full potential. It just so happens that the path he chose involved embracing Satsui no Hadou and Ansatsuken to it’s fullest. If we rewatch him packing all his stuff, you can see there’s multiple books that he just carelessly chucks into his duffle bag. He could’ve very easily just missed one.
I mean if he really did care about passing down the heritage, then he would’ve gone to seek out students of his own. Leaving a notebook in some obscure dojo hoping someone, somewhere would stumble upon it and then have enough knowledge to understand the contents within seems like a rather farfetched way of going about it in imo.
I wish Capcom would give us an alternate costume for Gouken that looked like Akira Koeyama’s portrayal. Heck, I’d pay money for one.
Well, if we go by how he is in canon, Gouki is a “blood knight”, i.e. he keeps looking for challenges or fighters of his caliber or better to fight. It might be that he’s not looking for a student, but for someone who will provide him a challenge. That could be a reason for him to leave the notebook around. I mean, in the SFIV itself it seems pretty clear that he wants Ryu to follow the same path as him so that he can fight him.
Akuma just seems like more of an upfront kind of character though. He doesn’t really go sneaking around and scheming things. If he wants to crack your skull, he’s just gonna straight up do it. No trying to manipulate you into tripping down stairs and head planting yourself into the floor.
If he wants to demonstrate SNS and the secrets to Ansatsuken to someone (for whatever reason, maybe so they can learn it and fight him per say), I’d imagine he’d want to find someone worthy first and then show them first hand personally (i.e how he constantly taunts Ryu I guess. Does he ever fight him and how many times? I know he SGS’d Gen, I assumed he left Gen alive so he could fight him another day as an even greater challenge. A non-sick Gen with knowledge of SGS). Leaving a simple notebook lying around willy nilly doesn’t really guarantee him anything, although I’ll admit that there is no harm in doing so. But I dunno it just doesn’t fit in well with his character imo.
If anything I personally think he’d be targeting who to drop the notebook off to if so, and since he wasn’t even aware of Ken and Ryu I don’t think it’s possible that he’d leave the notebook to tip them off if he doesn’t even know about them. Leaving it for anyone sure, even if it’s out of character, but leaving it specifically for someone requires him seeking out a worthy target first.
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I can see him returning all his stuff though, since after ‘completing’ he’s training he has no more use for such material and couldn’t care less what happens to them anymore.
Fuck me, is it a bad thing that I’ve given this much thought into this simple notebook? lol
Wouldnt he just burn it up then like Gouken did? (awesome scene btw I nearly wet myself when his pure rage just engulfed that bitch up in flames)
Yea it’d probably be easier and possibly more fun for him to just burn it with fire too.
i just wish there was a bit more explanation as to why akuma actively had to seek the power the achieve dark hadou where ryu just accidentally trips into the shit.
probably cause its in the only anime to really talk about the past. there are a few lil things from sf2 anime…young ken and ryu going to the creek n shit. but there isnt too much they can lift from that series yet.