My personal opinion is that Balrog (bullfighter) should die not too old because he has to remain beautiful to the end. I just don’t see him getting old. Except maybe if his face gets hurt and he keeps it under his mask for the rest of his life and nobody knows what he looks like. But best solution for his story is probably to let him die young like in SFIIAM. What do you think?
Balrog’s rich, I’m sure if he ever got old looking he’d probably get some surgery or something. Beautiful male types tend to look the same even when they age, so for an older Balrog I’d expect his hair to be silver and that’s about it.
And Gen teaching Chun-Li would almost have to be in place in the beginning when the character was created, seeing that her crouching Roundhouse has always been called the ‘Gendenansatsushu,’ so even if it wasn’t written in a book during the original SF2, the creators must of had it in mind when they gave her the move.
SFZ2 shows she doesn’t remember Gen however, so it must of been a long time ago. In the last Issue of the US SF Comic, she does remember. The entire Lee/Yun/Yang/Gen/Chun-Li (Chun-Li is not related to any of them in the comic BTW) connection actually makes a lot more sense in the Comic than it does from what Capcom of Japan let out.
The comic’s great, but again it left Guile and Julia hanging from #7. Hope they show up next time, maybe at Ken’s wedding party.
AAC and Eternal both have some words about Gen and Chun Li; I’ll read them thoroughly sometime and see if any other book has anything. Watch for more stuff soon. Laters.
Here’s the answer to #9 in HnN, sorry for the long wait, been busy :
There’s a drawn picture in the center of Dhalsim’s stage. It seems to be an elephant seated on a rug with both hands holding mysterious weapons. Ordinarily a picture as such would be overlooked, but this picture is quite deep within, as deep as the southernmost crevasses of the Mariana Trench, secret as profound myths and legends.
With this picture, Dhalsim has kept his creed alive and belief in the Hindu-taught diety Ganesh (Kangiden) and perhaps no more than that?
Ganesh is the elephant diety. Drawn within this picture is an indiscretion with the elephant there, such that is not considered.
In India, elephants are used as holy messengers and held with immense respect. Dhalsim honors those elephants, through the heart of his creed they’re in the fighting arena of course. Dhalsim’s elephants in comparison probably believe they don’t measure up to that known level.
In Dhalsim’s stage, six elephants cry out PA-O!..PA-O! twenty-four hours a day, in the center the elephant god Ganesh brings out the like, in Dhalsim’s religious view, it realistically appears.
Wild elephants decrease in numbers these days, for all of them does the great Dhalsim not follow their example and cry out for the elephants’ protection with a loud voice?
In the casino stage centered in what is known as Las Vegas, Bison’s matches seem to be financed matches. A slice of reality for the American dream with a requisite of a large sum of funds. Here Bison conceived his boxing sense to let loose, and the financed matches turned to street fights here… Naturally, financed participations from people with supplied money, the rate observers from the galleries making a living probably not from what is said are the funds of the American dream. And the supposition is it.
Thus said, it’s possible that some people can probably witness this. In truth, at Bison’s stage one can see many types of spectators. A person looking like a trainer and a silk hat wearing person, even a strange homeless one witnesses.
However, what draws one’s eye, are probably SFII’s two stage girls from this time. With these two, from the SFII upgrade, their designated proportions included body exposure becoming quite showy. At the time of SFII, anticipated fans (you out there?) secretly held back tears. With this series’ trend from now on, will there not be probably more good anticipations forthcoming?
Thanks, vasili10. ‘American Dream’ keeps turning up whenever I read a Balrog (boxer) bio. It’s kinda funny. I’ve brought this up before, but every Japanese SF-related website I’ve been to lists Chun-Li’s fighting style as ‘Chinese martial arts’ or ‘Chinese martial arts boxing’. I think Tai Chi is only one of the martial arts she incorporates in her style. Lee’s fighting style is also listed as Chinese martial arts/Chinese martial arts boxing. Kempo means martial arts or ‘fist method’, right?
Yes, kempo or more accurately kenpo is generic Japanese for any Chinese form of self defense (martial arts), and breaking it into its kanji pair it can be a “fist method.”