Here’s that pic of Ryu, Ken, and Guy… looks like Ryu’s trying to make that outfit look like his gi or something.
Ryu in other clothes just dosnt work.
Try and draw Ryu in diffrient clothes and see if people can even recognize him, take away his headband and its almost impossible to tell its him, take away his headband and put him in diffrient clothes and its basicly no longer Ryu he becomes completely unrecognizable.
Example the Ryu in SF2V dosnt look anything remotely like Ryu (nor does he act like Ryu) because all his key features have been taken away from him (cause he dosnt wear the headband, he hardly ever wears the gi, and his hair is diffrient)
i believe ive seen a picture of ken, ryu and guy all dressed up in like kimono things with sweet treats like they were at a carnival or something. (edit: oh shit, sycho totally posted it. silly me)
i like siegfried’s analysis of ryu’s financial situation. that’s what i’m gonna believe.
and i really enjoy that pic of ryu in his underwear. i have the capcom design works book and that one always makes me giggle. it’s so true tho… you know he probly just rolls up into any laundrymat he can find when his gi gets too fucked up and tears it right off his back and tosses it in the washer.
ONE MAN, ONE GI.
And if there’s no laundrymat in the country he’s in? I suppose a good river, a srubbing brush and a lot of effort is in order. Its like training! Only, not really!
I do hope his changes his underwear though - otherwise that’ll be far more messy and smelly then his Gi.
I just picture him walking around, picking fruit trees, and getting hitchhiking. If the tourney he wants to attend is across a body of water, I can picture him standing on some shitty trash barge or fucked up tugboat. I can see him doing menial tasks for food.
Then again, if some guy dressed in a Karate outfit smelling like five shades of funk showed up on my doorstep and asked for a sandwhich in exchange for yardwork, I’d be hard pressed to let him.
… Hey, how DOES Blanka get around? Maybe he just Blanka Balls where he wants to go.
Here’s what Gisaburo Sugii, the director of the SF2 Animated Movie and SF2V said about Ryu changing clothes in an interview that appeared in Animerica’s Vol. 4, No. 5 issue back is 1996.
Animerica: “You were involved both in the Street Fighter II Movie (Animated) and the TV series. How did you become interested in them?”
Sugii: "Actually, until I got involved in the movie, I wasn’t interested in the video game. But when it was decided the movie was going to be made, I got involved with Street Fighter II for the first time. There was talk of making the game into a movie at my studio, so I knew about the project. Then there’s this Street Fighter II poster that’s given me a lasting impression. The impressive thing about the poster, artistically speaking, was that they had all these military planes, but then they just had the characters from all the various countries standing in front of them, not even facing each other. I thought that was interesting - I can’t really express it well in words. I often thought that image might be interesting to produce as an Animated Movie.
“For example, in the movie, Ryu never changes his clothes. During the staff discussion, the producer said, “He probably changes into T-Shirt and jeans after he takes a shower after a sweaty workout.” But I refused that. That came from the impression I got from the poster. I wanted to make a heavy, realistic sort of movie, but this one thing had to be my breach of realism. I wanted the characters to be just standing there, unchangeable, including their clothes, just like they seemed in the poster. But they still wanted some change of dress in the movie, so we decided that Ken will get all the fancy changes of dress.” [LAUGHS]
Wow, that’s an awesome quote. Thanks for sharing that! I actually know the poster you’re talking about, but i haven’t seen a version of it online. The only place i’ve seen it aside from random OLD issues of video game magazines such as GamePro, is White Wolf’s SF RPG game that was published (and died) a long time ago. It’s actually the image on the fold-out Street Fighter Storyteller’s Screen released in 1994. Here’s a pic of the right end of it (which is the front cover image).
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=197
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