STREET FIGHTER II V - Episode 2

Street Fighter II V Episode 2 : "King of the Air Force"

Guile and Ryu fight each other, though it is obvious Guile has the upper hand. He has much more experience and military combat training, and even though Ryu has mastered martial arts, he still cannot beat Guile in the least. Guile easily overpowers Ryu, and then leaves the bar with his men, telling Ryu that he has guts. Ken takes Ryu home, then fights Guile at the Air Force Base in San Francisco. Ken loses badly as well, and then Ken and Ryu travel to Hong Kong in hopes of improving their fighting skills (their defeat at the hands of Guile gave them that motivation).

Character Background - Who is Ken ?

Ken - Ryu's best friend and the only son of the rich Masters family. Ken is extremely rich. He lives in San Francisco with his parents in a very large mansion (it takes 20 minutes to drive from the front yard to the main house). He too spends a lot of time training as well, but not as much as Ryu. Ken also rides a motorcycle.
His mother is Japanese. Ken also learns to use the power of Hadou later on while being held captive by Shadowlaw. Only Ryu knows the Hadoken, while both he and Ken know the Shoryuken. Ken later upgrades the Shoryuken to the Hadou Shoryuken, and then shortens it to the Hadou Shoryu. Interestingly, in the English dub Ken still called the move Shoryuken while Ryu called it by its English translation; Rising Dragon Punch.

STREET FIGHTER II V - Episode 1

Street Fighter II V Episode 1 : "Beginning of a Journey"

Ryu receives an unexpected letter from his best friend Ken Masters. The letter tells him to come to America for a visit. The two of them have not seen each other in years, and so this is the reason Ken sends the letter. Ryu, after thinking about it, decides to go to America at Ken's request. When he arrives at the San Francisco airport, he finds Ken. The two of them then drive home to Ken's place, relax a bit, then go out for the night on Ken's motorcycle. They go into the pub called Mt. Fuji, where they beat up some military thugs. Afterward, the leader of the military thugs, Guile, enters the bar and sees what Ryu and Ken have done to his men.

Character Background : Who is Ryu ?

Ryu is the main character. He's very dedicated to his martial arts and is always trying to better his own skills. He was raised in the Japanese countryside, and is as such a sort of country bumpkin.He and his best friend, Ken, have been training together since they were little kids. During their travels, he learns how to use a chi-based power called "Hadou" in the form of the Hadauken.Ryu does not wear a headband and sparring gloves through out the series. Instead, he wears prayer beads on his hands, and has spikey hair.

Street Fighter II V anime Series

Street Fighter II V is an anime series based on the fighting game Street Fighter II. Directed by Gisaburo Sugii, the series first aired in Japan in 1995, from April 10 to November 27, on YTV. The series is a loose adaptation of the games, taking several liberties with the established canon of the games. The show follows the adventures of a young Ryu and Ken, as they go through a journey to improve their martial arts skills after they both experienced a brutal defeat at the hands of Guile. Other characters such as Chun-Li, Cammy and Sagat appear through the course of the series with radically different character designs and backstories from their original counterparts.

Synopsis :

Ryu and Ken Masters are close friends and both are martial artists. In order to become better fighters and learn new techniques, they travel the world and are exposed to many different fighting styles, as well as meeting new people. During their journey, they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy perpetrated by a mysterious organisation called Shadowlaw, both now face their ultimate challenge and must fight for their lives as they combat the evil M. Bison.

Release Information

Contains 29 episodes

Release Date: 06/12/2006
Audio tracks: English 5.1, Japanese 2.0
Languages: English, Japanese
Genre: Anime, Martial Arts
Subtitles: English subtitles
Number of Discs: 4
Runtime: 696.0 mins
Format: DVD, (PAL)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Original Aspect Ratio
Catalogue: MMB206

The History Of Street Fighter

Street Fighter is one of the most popular and respected gaming franchises in the history of gaming. The game spawned multiple related industries, a huge and loyal fan base, and a Street Fighter online community rivaling any other game out there. Street Fighter might not have been the first person-on-person fighting video game, but the Street Fighter game is the one that catapulted the genre to the heights it still resides in to this day.

Street Fighter made its debut at the arcades in 1987, designed by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto.The player took control of a lone martial artist named Ryu, who competes in a worldwide martial arts tournament spanning five different countries (United States, Japan, China, England and Thailand) and ten opponents (two per country). It was a unique introduction mostly because of its controller structure, where actual button pressure determined in-game force, and its addictive combat.

The player could perform three basic types of punches and kicks (which varies between speed and strength) for a total six attack buttons and three special attacks (the Fireball, Rising Dragon Punch and Hurricane Kick; (or the Hadoken, Shoryuken and Tatsumaki Senpukyaku in Japanese) that could be performed only by executing specific motions.

In 1991 Street Fighter made its reputation with the introduction of Street Fighter II . What really made Street Fighter II the most popular game of the early 1990s was the ability of advanced players to use complex moves such as the hurricane kick. This game was also the inventor of the combo move in the fighter-on-fighter game.

In 1992 an upgraded version of Street Fighter II was launched and included more opponents, more moves and improved graphics. Until now, is still considered the greatest one-on-one fighting game of all time. The first console game version of Street Fighter II was for the Super Nintendo and came out in 1992,But the graphics were inferior and did not accurately represent the arcade experience.

In 1993 another update was issued for the arcade version of Street Fighter, called Street Fighter II: The New Challengers. It included four new opponents to face off with in the game.

In 1995 an alternative series of Street Fighter games were released under the Alpha badge. The Alpha game was a prequel to Street Fighter II and a sequel to the original Street Fighter and became its own series.

Street Fighter III hit the scene in 1997 and this is when the street fighter online nostalgia really started to take hold. Street Fighter III was received with mix reviews as classic Street Fighter fans found the game to be less instinctive and more defensive than the first two games. Street Fighter III did not hit the home console market until 1999. The next generation of Street Fighter games went 3D with the EX series of games.

Street Fighter spawned movies, including the original staring Jean Claude Van Damme, books, thousands of Street Fighter Online websites, wallpapers, screen savers, ring tones and more.