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SF Animé & Manga
The Street Fighter universe has been growing steadily over the past 15 years. The game world information for the War is based directly on the actual series of aforementioned games. Any additional subplots and storylines not pulled from the SF games are based on the SF series in the pages of Gamest magazine and in collected manga books by Masahiko Nakahira and Itoh Mami. The reason for taking additional cues from the Gamest series as opposed to the various mangas and comics published around the world was because of the closeness to the actual storylines and characters adhered to in the pages of Gamest. The art in the manga series was superb and the attention to detail with regards to character relationships and storylines has yet to be duplicated. With apologies to Udon, I believe the Gamest Comics of the Street Fighter universe were even more accurate to the game, timeline and storyline. These books should be relied on for source material for the War.
Above left: the Cover to Gamest Comics #21 by Itoh Mami. Center art in black and white by Itoh Mami. Above right: Cover to Street Fighter Zero issues 1 and 2 by Masahiko Nakahira. Sagat from Ryu Final (SF III) by Masahiko Nakahira.
Gisaburo Sugii directed the Street Fighter II animé movie in 1995 and later the Street Fighter V animé television series. The animé movie was praised by fans for its incredible fighting scenes and closeness to the videogame story. People that were not familiar with the game enjoyed the movie for the visuals and great characters. The scenes in the movie so influential that Capcom later added a level based on the movie in SF Zero game as well as a hidden Ken and Ryu 2-player battle against Vega. The movie won more critical acclaim around the world as opposed to the reaction to the live action movie directed by Stephen De Souza. |
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