Street Fighter II V : The Forgotten Street Fighter Anime: retrospective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Cytonius discusses the under appreciated 1995 anime...Street Fighter II V...GONNA BURN SOME MUSCLE!!!! #streetfighterIIV #RyuvsGuile #streetfighteranime
I had the entire series in a DVD box set. Definitely underrated.
Me too❤
My first was on VHS, but I bought the dvd set too when it came out.
That box set has some sick art on it
I have the DVD set too I watch it once a year it’s so good. 😊
Same and I agree
I loved the video, congratulations.
I'm from Brazil and I watched this series in the 90s.
This anime was a success here.
We Brazilians have immense affection for this animation.
I didn't imagine that this series had failed in other places in the world, I found out from your video, it's a shame, because here this animation is remembered to this day, with great affection.
One of the most popular animes here of all time, without a doubt.
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I love how Akuma was a Easter egg in this series, if you pay close attention you can see him as a extra in the background in some of the scenes
I’m so happy you made this video. I been telling people for years about this anime. From the martial arts to the buddhist philosophy. This is such an underrated anime.
Am I wrong in saying that everyone uses that "underrated"-term lately. Why?
This series should have been on Toonami back in the day
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Yeah... remember the part where bison was ready to rape Chun Li
i know
Would have been a cool adult swim action show in 2002/2003 had they had the budget for new shows instead of toonami reruns.
I had the DVD collection back as ahh jit. This gem was my childhood. Just hearing the theme gives me nostalgia.
GREAT to see you fellas back! Thanks for this retrospective. I went to look if it was on TH-cam and sure enough, it was!
A lot of Street Fighter II V is missing from TH-cam with like 8 out of the 29 episodes available online
@omn8612 No, brotha. Trust me: the ENTIRE SERIES - all 29 episodes - are on here. Just search and check out the different playlists that come up.
This should be part of the Street Fighter lore. this is a great part of the Street Fighter history.
I'm just mad at how long it took me to realize that was Binary Star playing in the background
And then you close with that same Bruce Lee quote‽ earned my sub!
"He's Goku, They made the mother fucker Goku" Took me the fuck out
Classic. Remember the entire series on VHS when I was in Suncoast video. Great era in my life.
Suncoast was a great place to buy movies at.
Sun coast was the best! It was the most consistent place to find the NEW (at the time) volumes of SF2V. Their selection of anime was ahead of its time
@@questions9856 u aint never lied. Every time I went to the mall Suncoast and KB Toys was my main destination.
@@DippedInInk Same! Such joy seeing the figures at KB toys and this new thing "anime" being sold in Suncoast. Do you remember when you had to wait 2-3 months for the next SF2V volume to come out
@@questions9856 yesssss. Good times. Remember when Neo Geo was $600 back then and $200 a cartridge? Pops told me to check the price when I asked and walked out speechless. He asked me how much and I only told him 'Its too much so I won't even ask'
You left out the best line from Guile during the fight with Ryu. "Haha, you youngsters run out of steam before you get started. Now me.. I could kick your ass all night"
Love this retrospective!!! We were about the same age when we came across series. I remember reading about it in Animerica magazine in late 96 or early 97 and Manga video were releasing those joints on VHS with 3 episodes for $20 a pop🤦🏿♂️. I didn't actually finish the watching the series until years later finding the series used on DVD. This really does take me back to the high school years in the late 90's for real. Good job 🙏🏿🔥🔥🔥
🙏 Respect 🙏
The music, particularly the Hadoken Theme, is epic.
Edit: I made this comment before you played it. 🤐
I loved Street Fighter II V.
This video essay unlocked a lot of memories. One of the greatest animes ever. I wish the series had more seasons.
Always appreciate your support. More videos are on the way
A1 bro appreciate the look back to one of the animes that I hold very close to the heart still got the box set at the crib 🌊🌊🌊
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I loved it, it fleshed out the characters very good and took it seriously before alpha series came along and made their canon version. While some were good in think V did many of them better, Charlie's fate was better portrayed here and you can see how it impacted Guile . Vega was portrayed way better here , Fei Long was cocky and competitive kinda like Bruce was in when he was young , Cammy was a very cool assassin, even better than the movie. And Balrog actually being clever and deceptive instead of a money hungry simpleton was much better. Last but not least Ken and Ryu's rivalry have never been portrayed as good as this in imo. Truly underrated and I hope SF6 or any future movies takes elements from this.
Thank you for taking the time to spread knowledge on this series. I skipped it as a kid cuz the miniscule design changes gave me a bad vibe. I'm glad I went with my gut.
This was a silent masterpiece , I got it on my 13 birthday! I watched it with my brother. I also loved the creative way they introduced characters . Guile at a Bar,Sagat in Prison,Fei Long on set,Chun Li as a Tourguide, Chun Li's dad Detective Dorai in an underground crime ring, Dhalipsim with a doctor and Vega as matador! I at the time was practising competitive sports and in my later years watched it with new friends of mines! I have to say it holds a special place in my heart. There is also the beautiful Japanese song "Forever Friends"
Ken vs Vega is so good.
Slightly injuring Bison is an understatement.
He never said a word after that punch lol
Yooo I love this series, you're absolutely correct about it being popular in Brazil, to this day people still remember SFIIV fondly around here as an all-time classic. To be honest, it was a bit of a shock when I browsed the internet and looked the series up on foreign websites/forums for the first time, only to find quite a handful of people shitting on it, calling it "that weird Street Fighter anime that was nothing like the game" and stuff like that, it had a completely different reputation. I actually think the first half is better than the second because it had the most character development and was truer to the core theme of the series about martial arts being more than a tool for violence, especially the episodes where Ken and Ryu become Dhalsim's pupils, the second half feels more like a typical good vs evil story, like "Ok, they grew up as people and martial artists, now let's put Shadaloo and Bison in this and make them the main villains because they're the villains from the game". Sure, it works and there are a lot of cool moments in the second half, but the first half is what made SFIIV special to me.
Omni Frame this took me back down memory lane when my friends & I devoured this show in HS / college. You and I lived through Street Fighter mania and its effects on the arcades and media at large and for all you young kids out there, it was a sight to behold. The days where kids and adults would crowd around a fighting game cabinet all over North America might be over, but those memories live on...
This was a neat video for sure, so thank you for making this. It definitely needed a little trimming in the beginning and the OST sections, but so much was spot on. What I'm gonna say is controversial but I actually enjoy the first half of SF2V as the globe-trotting gang busting was fun.
Man I hope younger kids check this show out. I love the Japanese opening and I actually find homoerotic Ryu & Ken fine...it's young karate guys being idiots and more movies need to embrace that like John Woo. :D
Ty so much
Yeahhhhh I actually struggled with what to trim and what to keep. Originally this was going to be longer, but I'm satisfied with it and I hope this video sparks interest in the series
This was a fantastic video essay 🙏
Very dope work as always bro 💥 🥊
Thank you so much. Means a lot
Loved your summary of Street Fighter II V, would you be interested in talking further on the series on another platform?
Forgotten? How is this anime forgotten??
Because most people only know about the animated movie and the series wasn't very popular in the States.
lmaooo like bruh !
@@omn8612 interesting...on Instagram and Facebook, quite a lot of people talk about this series.
No. Street Fighter II V wasn't very successful or popular in the United States. It aired for a brief time on Encore and Starz in the late 90s and early 2000s. But compared to other anime like DBZ, Yu Yu Hakasho and Cowboy Bebop, SF II V wasn't a well known series here in the US and it bombed in Japan. It's biggest success came from Brazil and maybe Europe in the late 90s and early 2000s
I mean it was about as well advertised and promoted as an OVA could hope for in the 90s.
If you had any game magazine subscription there's a chance you would've heard about it.
That’s was one of my favorite anime I watched it so much back in the day 💯
Love this intro !!! My favorite
me and my brother have watched this anime every year for almost every year since we were children and now im almost 30 and hes 34. Streetfighter 2 V will always be my streetfighter since my father had the VHS box set. and because its so hard to find i've archived it for historical purposes on both hard drive and cloud..
also this has got to be the most hyped intro of any anime ive seen.
Now its time to watch it again BOYEEEEEE TIME TO BURN SOME MUSCLE
The fact you mentioned Fight Quest makes me a fan for life
I remember this was available to stream on Netflix & outta nowhere it was pulled from the service!!
It wasn't really outta no where. It was actually a pretty big deal. The show is actually distributed by STARZ in the US. And back in the day like half of Netflix's content was from a streaming deal they had for STARZ content. STARZ chose not to renew their deal so all their content was pulled. People though that it was going to be the end of Netlix at the time. It's pretty much the whole reason why Netflix was forced to begin creating their own content.
this usually re-runs on the streaming network Toonami Aftermath if anyone is interested in watching it again. there's a few weird character tweaks in this anime, but its pretty dope. having Tom Wyner who also played Bison in the anime film is a genius casting.
Glad That you mencioned the show's popularity in Brazil. The dubed intro bring's a tear to my eye
This anime needed a bigger and better sequel series like how Dragon Ball has.
• Titled *SUPER Street Fighter II V*
• Ryu and I come back wearing the ruby and gold colored sparring-gloves seen in Alpha and mastering each other's moves where I now have the Hadou-ken.
• The other street fighters also having ki-summoning moves like Guile's Sonic Boom, Chun Li's Kiko-ken, Sagat's Tiger Shot, etc.
• The newcomers being E. Honda, Blanka, T. Hawk, Dee Jay and Akuma as a major villain.
• The other major villain being a 2nd Bison who wears red, the plot twist reveals that was who the original Bison was talking to through the eagle-head, his own clone.
There is only one fact from this video that I found to be incorrect which is that the first time us as an audience actually see him bison is when he's watching Ryu practice the hot dog and then he faints well Ryu faints and this is actually done well before the Ken and Vega fight
You're right about that one, good catch, its when Ryu decides to not go to the ball where Vega and Ken have the fight. Bison tells his driver pull over when he sees Ryu on the beach. In the following episode Bison sends Zanghief to kidnap Ryu on the beach. My mistake.
Me and my buddy were obsessed with this anime. Use to go to the mall to see if the next tape was out yet. 3 episodes per vhs. Took a year for the series to come out
I remember watching this as a kid. The episode where ryu learns the hado especially. Chun li shadow lady design in this was pretty dope and a nice callback to her original design.
He really said "knock this kamikaze crap out!".
Lol 😆 🤣 😂
Yoooo! I forgot all about Fight Quest. I'm gon look for that💪
Ryu definitely got his azz whooped by Guile. Great job with the video.
Man, I love this series so much!! “Gonna Burn Some Muscle!” P.S the full 29 episodes is on YT to watch.
I appreciate it. You leaving the full I two of the IS cartoon. And the full fights 😊... And yes this series. Still is the best SF a imation Yet
The lost Street fighter anime, Where Ryu is Jin Kazama, Fei Long is actually Maxi of Soul Calibur, Ken is Hwaorang of Tekken 4, Charlie is Peter Gutenberg, etc..... good times
More Top 10 fun facts about Street Fighter II V:
10. The entire story takes place on May 1995.
9. In this anime: Ryu is 17, Ken Masters is 17, Sergeant Guile is 21, Chun-Li is 15, Fei Long is 17, Sagat is 31, Vega is 18 and Zangief is 28. (Source: The official Street Fighter II V trading cards)
8. The giant characters had their heights toned down in this anime so they can match the live-action casting choices from Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle (1994), ones such as Balrog being 6'0", Zangief being 6'6" and Sagat being 6'9".
7. This is the only adaptation in the Street Fighter franchise to recycle and repeat animation shots, the show was criticized because of this.
6. Balrog was done the worst out of all villains of the show. The Japanese intro (as well as some art work) shows Balrog in his boxing attire, possibly hinting that he was planned to show his fighting skills at some point.
5. Sagat doesn't wear an eyepatch, nor does he have a scar on his chest. He also has no connection with the Shadaloo. These three traits were instead briefly given to Ryu where he has deep whip-lashes, blindness on one eye, and being forced into working for Shadaloo.
4. There are three mangas based on this series: Seiden Street Fighter II V, Street Fighter II V Retsuden and Street Fighter II V: This Is Animation (an art book).
3. The first of every Street Fighter media to feature the Ken's parents Dalton Masters and Yuki Masters. However Ken's fiancé Eliza (who made an appearance in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie) is written out of the story due to her lack of character development and no plot involvement, but she still can be seen as a cameo in one of Ken's official Street Fighter II V trading cards.
2. The Hadou-Shoryuken move can be used by Ryu in ULTIMATE Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
1. This is Fullmetal Alchemist star Vic Mignogna's first voice acting debut, he played the role of Vega in the English dub of this anime.
The intro mad fire 🔥 with that voice screaming street fighter classic
I used to watch this on Encore Wam, Street Fighter and Vandread every weekday, they would just loop the shows when they ended until they eventually swapped them out. I also call this version of the Hadouken the Street Fighter Kamehameha.
Yo this show was DOPE. I remember renting the VHS tapes around 1998 and fell in love with this series
long xing of the 12 animals of xing yi looks a lot like shoryuken. im just saying. wasnt ryus original win quote "you have to beat shen long if you wis to defeat me!" ?
but just for bringing up santishi in a video, you get a like and a sub, my good sir.
keep on doing gods work.
Thanks I appreciate you. You might also like my video essay on Drunken Master II it's on the main channel page
SHIN.. KU.. SSSHHHOOORYUKEN!!!!
oh thank god ! someone is talking about that Anime ! I love it so much !
and I don't forgot it, even I have some scenes in my channel ! especially when Ken escape the M.Bison prison !
and by the way : very good OST in that Anime ! ❤
I liked this show a lot when I saw it when I was younger and didn't know anything the show was talking about. This video makes me want to go back to it. I don't like it when adaptations change character personalities, but this show feels like a rare good exception to that, since it talks about the kinds of things the games versions of Ryu and Dhalsim would talk about, so it's not TERRIBLY out of character for the series as a whole despite a few individual players getting done dirty.
shouldve been obvious about Vega being a ninja, he jumps around and uses that claw and i think its mentioned somewhere in the media. maybe the old booklet?
This anime was as popular on Brazilian tv as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs in the arcades here.
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE ANIME OF ALL TIME.
Bison looks cool in the blue
This is definitely one of the best representations of real martial arts in animation. Waiting for someone to pick this up for a Blu-ray release. Still got the DVD set
Saw this very late in life like 3 years ago very good show the voice acting the music the way it was drawn worth my time
I really love this show! in all of latín America is very well regarded, that opening hit the fells of a lot of ppl here(well the Spanish one but yeah in Brazil is huge too) thank you for the video! greetings from Guatemala.
Fight Quest and the Human Weapon were my shit🤣
I originally had the whole series on VHS !
This was my first exposure to anything related to Street Fighter. My dad had the first few episodes on DVD and to this day its animation style has always been underrated and makes me wish Tekken had a series like this focusing on Kazuya's early days and im not talking about the 90s animated movie.
Guile in this version is the best depiction of the character in any medium as well.
I remember this. "Gotta burn some muscle!"
I only saw like the first 3 or 5 or however many was on the first VHS I rented from Blockbuster.
Two best things from this series.
Ken is as strong and capable as Ryu.
And the Hadouken Theme. That gat dang AMAZING theme song. Whole soundtrack really.
My all time favorite anime, Ive rewatched the final episode probably a hundred times
Yes!!!! This used to randomly come in the e3 gaming channel in the late 90s early 2000s.
Watched it on encore wam, sweet memories
You knew you was in for some heat when that 24 minute box showed up twice for 11:00 pm and 11:24 pm on Friday night on Encore. MAN THIS WAS THS SHIIIT.
The Boosie clip after asking about Fight Quest is 😅😅😅😅😅😅
9:26 what is the name of that beat with those Street Fighter voice samples in them? Thanks.
Yeah that beat is crazy. It's titled Street Fighter hip hop instrumental. I'm surprised more ppl haven't commented on that
Underrated masterpiece
Wow had no idea they were planning more seasons, damn that would have been cool. This series should have included Blanka - a fan favourite.
Its awesome knowing that Ryu and Might Guy are voiced by the same person 😅
I remember this watching with my big bro and downloaded on PC. Good times.
I had these on VHS tapes as a child
I had this on box set DVD. I really enjoyed it overall. Some great scenes; e.g., when Guile beats up Ryu in the bar, when Ryu and Ken fight each other in the cave, when Ken fights Vega in the cage ("I'll finish you with one punch!"), and of course the end battle. The music really sells it, too. :)
That Ken vs Vega fight is one of my favorites
Who forgot about this? Lol I remember watching it very well! I remember buying the VHS tapes so I didn't forget.
This series not forgotten I use to watch on the STARZ channel back then in the mid 00's.
For me, Street Fighter II V is "what if" Capcom try to keep the hype between production but end with unexpected bad reception. The funny thing is, Virtua Fighter animated series was aired 6 months after. The initial concpet design of Akira and Pai Chan also almost the same with Ryu and Chun Li (those spiky hairs and qipao) before they got changed. You can tell that Sega and TMS staff peeked some stuff from the show
I found this series back in the late 2000s on Starz and it's been one of my favorites ever since. People might not like the slower earlier episodes but I think those were the best and honestly a far more authentic representation of martial arts in a TV anime compared to Dragonball. Heck, I think it did "Goku" better by giving Ryu an actual tangible character arc and growth
I had also added a bit of trivia to the wiki I sorta found out many years ago, those being:
The Hado-Shoryuken that Ken uses in the latter half of the series would later be given to Ryu in Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 as one of his specials in his Hado-Kakusei mode.
This is also the first instance of not only an "Evil" Ryu, but a brainwashed Chun-Li under Bison's thrall, which would later become Shadow Lady in the Marvel VS series
I still have my DVD box set of this series, an underrated gem for sure, I have a ton of the soundtracks from the series on my playlist too.
Dude I absolutely ADORE this show, I was in late school years before going to Collage when this debut in Latin America on my country in DR and it was also super popular here, the theme opening song in both Spanish and Portuguese share the same lyrics translations and the song is just pure FIRE, I always had wanted SFII V costumes themes for an actual SF game (Capcom pleaseee put these costumes in SF6, I pay 100 US just for the Cammy and Chunli costumes if you do it). Seriously underrated this show was and in my opinion one of the best SF adaptations ever made.
You know.
Street Fighter 2 the animated movie deserves to have a sequel with the same art style of 1994 when Ryu and Chun-li getting married and live happily ever after.
Do you guys agree with that idea?
Peace Brother just want to point out thr HISTORY Channel had a show called HUMAN WEAPON which came out FIRST then DISCOVERY Channel came out with that show
Yeah I know lol I have own both shows. I watched them when they aired. I just didn't want to name both shows. Fight Quest rolled off the tongue better for me
I watched this i collected it on VHS. It starts off great but loses its way half way through. Particular hilught is the Escape From New York influenced epusode.
Funny, that anime did aired on the Latin American version of Toonami here in Costa Rica, I remember watching it in the afternoons in the very early 2000s.
I used to own the DVD collection which is with my brother till this day.
My point of view of this, I loved it! :D This was a very good Anime series made-up version of it with some much details a bit differently. I still have the DVD set of this, keeping it. :D
BRO!!!!!
I only discovered the anime tv series because i was looking for the next time the live action movie was coming back on tv and there it was on the starz encore channel at 430am in 2004. I deadass got up at 430 am everyday just to watch it and maaaan after that ryu guile fight, i was hooked on the anime. Yea i didnt like that ryu or ken never used their iconic gloves or ryu had a whole new fighting stance which i wasnt a fan of but that didnt take away the show was awesome.
It’s not forgotten by me. I own the DVD collection. Not quite as good as the animated movie ( the beginning episodes have pacing problems for the type of story they’re telling), but it certainly deserves more recognition than it gets. Even the live action movie and the American cartoon that aired on the USA network for two seasons are more well received, and they’re both awful representations of what street fighter is all about and why it’s popular.
A big reason why i loved alpha on the saturn and especially alpha 2, bc this anime was doing it big time with the animation quality for a sf anime.
How is it forgotten? It was highly influential. It changed Bison's permanent look henceforth, for one. It sorted out the name difference between Charlie and Nash by calling him Charlie Nash, who by the way was black and wore glasses and kicked a ton of ass. This anime was awesome
Oh I have not forgotten it in fact I still have a copy of the series
it aired on the Sy-Fy Channel from 2006 to 2007 on mondays
I got so excited seeing a RetroSpective on SF2V in my feed I had to hit this comment section first before I watched the video.😅
I just wanted to say I appreciate that light is being shed on this. This Series alone got me interested in Street fighter when I was in like 6th grade (I watched the whole thing on TH-cam back in ‘06) .
I assumed it was popular because some of the rips were from when it aired on WB (iirc) back In the day. I’m like “why have I never heard of this!”
This sent me down a rabbit hole of SF Lore and by the time I emerged… SF4 Came out 😂.
I hope you enjoy this retrospective
Hell yeah! Great Work man! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
i was lucky to cath ll V back in the day on Kiss, definitely underrated and unique
Could somebody please tell me what is the song in the intro of the video?
It is not forgotten. It is just that Capcom knows that story is better than most story's they have told. It was awesome. I own the DVD.
I’ was about to do a video on this series one of my favorite anime shows
Do eet!!!
@@omn8612 I let you know when it’s up bro
I actually used to watch this on Japanese TV. It was paired with the 2nd season of Magic Knight Rayearth for the 7PM anime block on Monday nights. Have most of the series on US released Laserdisc, but pissed that they didn't have the original Japanese openings and endings.
I do remember Fight Quest, but I preferred Human Weapon (which actually came out before FQ) which aired on the History Channel.
Underrated show. Should have lasted as long as One Piece because I couldn’t get enough 😊 Great job on the deep dive. I didn't know too much about the making of it. (But i did know Vega was a ninja- its in the SFII game booklet!) So glad I was talked into buying these on DVD when I was at a comic convention. I had a feeling it would be hard to find in the future. Theme song goes so hard. It's up there with X-Men the Animated Series for me.