This was when Ken and Ryu were still teenagers. Guile was the first “world class” fighter they had encountered in the world. This very fight (first time Ryu had ever been beaten in a fight) opened both Ken and Ryu’s eyes that there was another level of fighters that they have yet to catch up to which is why they both go out on a world quest to become the best. Great series that shows the growth of both fighters with Guile being the measurement of how much they improve (ken would get his butt kicked by Guile too the next day after this fight) but by the end of the series both fighters have surpassed Guile.
Street Fighter II V and Ys Book I & II are the only video game animes I think are properly done. Maybe Persona 4 but still prefer Persona Trinity soul for its an anime only thing based 3 years after P3.
I wouldn't exactly call it a proper representation of the source material because they changed a lot of plot points of the lore, but it was still a great anime for what it was.
This is the only time in any japanese-made story/lore type of thing I've ever seen Guile get the respect he deserved. The funny thing is it's pretty true to the games too. In OG Street Fighter II before turbo, Guile was like an unstoppable beast.
Ken crushed that water bottle when Ryu got flashed kicked!! You can tell by his reaction that he didn't like watching his best friend get beat down like that, being that he's never seen Ryu lose a fight... There so close that they are like brothers.👊👊👊💪💪
Still this is a teen ryu like 16-17 , it's obvious that a navy seal who is also a fighter would beat him but the fact that he didn't even blink to get beat up shows that Ryu has a never give up attitude , but now Ryu can destroy him in a matter of seconds
@WarriorBoy *haha, realistic?? he wore his gi because he was a proper street fighter, he never worked and wasn't a normal teen, he probably kept himself alive via camping and hunted for food or lived off his fight money, infact according to the game story he beat the shit out of sagat, this is a TOTAL different SF story rewrite*
From the description: "a shame that Ryu got owned", not really. I always appreciated this show was willing to display the protagonist as not always being in the right, and able to lose as well. Many Shounen anime don't embrace this enough, and often have over-powered, one-sided battles with their main characters that make become boring to watch. What's the point if you know they're going to win 100% of the time and never grow? Loss is relatable, I thought it was extremely badass when Ryu gets put down by Guile, rolling on the ground, right back up into attacking him again. Even Guile was impressed at his spirit in that moment. This gave Ryu and Ken both a place to grow from.
I love anime with lack of or sparing use of supernatural powers with the only fights being necessary ones with good animation, coreography, and emotional weigjt behind it
reyian451 better than some anime today whose lanky protagonist that looks like he couldnt even hurt a fly, for the love of god, is weilding a greatsword for a weapon.
I really loved Street Fighter V. It was a genuine attempt at adding charachter depth and was one of the better slow burn action animes I've seen. It kind of fell apart in the third act, as it had to, since they weren't going to be allowed to rewrite the canon, but it was a romp while it lasted.
Many Years Later: Ryu: Care for a rematch? I've improve my moves well and my fist can show you the answer. Guile: Deal. *Immediately jump back into corner* Sonicboom! Sonicboom! Sonicboom! Ryu: Damn.
Marilen Hernandez In game Ryu will lose fireball war to Guile due to Sonicboom has way faster recovery. Ryu needs to move forward and try really hard to break Guile’s defense. I know Ryu is mainly considered a spammy character but trust me, Guile is much worse when it comes to turtling.
it wasn't really that good, it was a rehash of the original characters by reinventing all the storylines, even the master that taught the chi technique to ryu, if you look at the still photo of the master when he was young, it was a rip off of a bruce lee poster of 'the chinese connection/big boss' the art was sloppy, it never really established all the characters or what shadowloo was, it was really just pandering to fans
Oh yeah, there is always the exception to the rule. But trust me, most airmen are out of shape compared to the other branches. They didn't call us the Chair Force for nothing lol
I don't deny that there are out of shape people in other branches. Heck, I'm sure even the Marines have members that are out of shape. But, from my experience in the Air Force, most airmen I met were pretty out of shape. After all, we had low physical standards back then.
I was a 4N031, that's an aerospace medical assistant. Training was at Shepard AFB in Witcha Falls, TX and Travis AFB in California. After that, my permanent duty station was at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, NV. What else do you want to know buddy?
"You youngsters run outta steam before you even get started! Now, me, I could kick your ass all night!" Seriously, why is this not a win quote Easter Egg? Also kudos to the great dubbing group "Animaze/ZRO Limit" The gold standard in Anime dubbing from back in the day
A great, but underrated series. I agree with what you said in the description and plus, someone's age, size, gender, and physique in fights doesn't always matter. Big, small, medium, 17, 18, or 19 and older, who cares? What matters is that you hold your own well against your adversaries before you either win or lose. Ryu has done a great job at fighting Guile because he's agile, speedy, and tougher than he looked, despite him landing a small number of blows on Guile. Ryu was very determined to not give up no matter what and that's I like about him, having the courage, confidence, and determination to do the right thing and not let your friends and family down. I'm on Ryu's and Ken's sides because those military assholes have started the trouble before Guile showed up and Ryu and Ken had to finish it. It is a shame that Ryu did take a lot of blows and lost. Guile and his friends were the jerks and assholes in this one as well and I don't blame Ken for being pissed off about Ryu getting hurt.
I'm not on their side on this one. Yes, they were obnoxious and noisy, but they never directly started anything. It was Ken who went out of his way to get into the bar they were at, and THEN antagonized them into a fight. They were both arrogant and highly amused at having beaten these guys easily. Then Guile shows up, to see his men busted up while two smirking youngsters looking at him. Even then, Guile doesn't attack, only asking if they did this. Whereupon Ken and Ryu joke about Guile being the 'main course on tonight's menu'. Then Ryu makes the first move, starting the fight. Even then, Guile asks Ryu to just stop three times, being willing to let it go at that if the kid stood down. It was only when Ryu slammed Guile against the bar that Guile finally lost his temper and stopped holding back. I'm on Guile's side.
@@Ares99999 Okay then. I understand. Edit: But I'm afraid that my previous comment has already been made and I meant every word that I said. At least the three do eventually warm up and they're on better terms now.
Ryu could have done some more chip damage he has shoes on. Kicking Guiles arms enough could have made them red, i'm disappointed in you Ryu no collar bone strike. -_-
Guile didn’t even need to use sonic boom for this fight. All jokes aside, that beatdown on Ryu was absolutely brutal. That flash kick at the end was honestly unnecessary. Still surprised that Ryu was able to stand after all of that. Overall this was a really sick anime and I wish that there could’ve been more episodes.
To be fair to Guile, he gave him 2 chances to give up and fair warning, Ryu in a combination of Pride and Teenage Bravado, having never lost before couldn't take the hint that he was way out of his league.
Man, this brings back memories. Street Fighter II V was Street Fighter Alpha before Street Fighter Alpha was even a thing. This was before the Dark Hadou was ever revealed to exist, before Ken had long hair, and before Ryu even had a white headband. Rather interesting alternate take, all told. This might not be canonical by any stretch, but it's a pretty cool series.
while ryu was highly trained, he lacked experience. so much so that guile saw it and tried to not really hurt him, telling him to stay down or go home. later on, ryu fights a illusion of guile and thanked him for opening his eyes and showing him a wider world.
*"He he he... You youngsters run out of steam before you get started. Now me... I can kick your a$$ all night."* >:) Those words alone motivated me to train even harder at the gym as it is 100% fact what Guile says. If you don't have the steam to last and compete against others, you are NOTHING. lol
Biggest curve ball to the fans when this series first came out was Ryu getting his ass kicked in the second episode then Ken in episode 3. But their comeback at the end and defeating Bison was AMAZING
As another guy posted, Ryu loses here as motivation to improve himself as fighter, basically underpinning the basis of this anime: *TO GET STRONGER!* Kinda similar to Kenshiro getting guyted by Shin the first episode of HNK.
Street Fighter 2 V is a FANTASTIC anime. Highly reccomend you young guys watch it if you are a fan of street fighter. It's very near to series in adaptation. The fights and music is awesome(as you can see from this video). The actual anime has way cleaner animation than this video uploaded from 2008. If you are tired of watching Sword Art Online garbage and all of this friendship lovey dovey crap and want to real high testosterone stuff to watch go watch Street Fighter 2 V in English you won't be dissapointed. I've seen over 500 anime and this one still sticks out in my mind.
XD No, there're tons of anime better than this one. This one was cancelled for a reason, it's way better than the crappy US cartoon but that US tv show was like cancer. English dubs are crap.
Obviously a couple of teenage punks like Ryu and Ken weren't gonna be any match for a seasoned combat veteran like Guile, no matter how good at martial arts they were, or thought they were.
It's like Guile said: he asked for it. If you see the whole episode, Ken and Ryu cut Guile and his boys off in traffic, they were being punks here and it caught up with them.
@Ninja Spider-Man *its not the real storyline, in the real storyline he had learnt everything from his master @daniel anderson *yep thats the american military/airforce for you bombing and attacking civilians but can't even kill the taliban or isis, just like real life, did you know how many innocent civilians got raped by bullets by the americans. There was one instance a whole family was waiting for a taxi and the yanks just sprayed them with machine gun fire @WarriorBoy *yes cutting people off in traffic makes it acceptable to bash teens with military style fighting*
I remember seeing this fight the first time on Tv. Hoping Ryu would win. But I knew after getting his flying kick countered like that I knew it couldn't end well.
This series is Lowkey am underrated gem. I saw it for the first time last year and it's so good. If you haven't seen it and love street fighter, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot
WOW. I remember watching this in High School when Suncoast was the place to get your Anime. I loved this series so much. The Vega and Ken fight was one of my fav's but I think I loved the Fei Long scenes the best.
I never imagine Ryu wearing Normal Clothes.. He looks like Cody from Final Fight, Just with no Blonde hair. Edit: Jesus christ, where is the music? And where was Ryu's Hadouken, Tatsumaki, and his Shoryuken?
As relentless Ryu was as a youngster, Gouken would've frowned to this. His blind anger is what got him to losing against Guile. Guile was also lucky Ryu didn't tap into the Murderous Intent at the time.
Ryu should wear street clothes and sneakers like that more often. Tired of seeing him fight bare foot all the time. It's like doesn't that hurt? They need to give Ryu street clothes for the fighting games and any anime he shows up in.
They believe in fair fight. But Ken went and fought Guile the very next day and Ken got his ass handed to him too. But guile gave them both respect. Though we didn't see it Guile took a beating from them as well and was very surprised.
Ken Masters It had flaws. It was rushed in the end to close up the story. But I love how it took its time to expand on a story that admittedly is paper thin and rather bogged down by cliches. Trying to give a realistic soul to something that's happy being a caricature is difficult, but I think they did a great job.
Ken Masters To put it another way, I think SF Victory was the tone most people had hoped a live action movie would have been. A nice origin story with two boys, a trip around the world, fights on the street, a shadowy syndicate, the youth growing into their destinies. "Ryu. What Do You See, Beyond Your Fist?" is basically the mantra of Street Fighter 2V.
Krystal Myth, the things that suck about this anime series: 1. Recycled animation 2. Bad humor and cheesy lines 3. The depictions of *Ryu* the Goku knock-off, *Chun Li* the not so strong and thicc little girl, *Dhalsim* the non-stretchy "monk", *Cammy* the Sarah Bryant/Nina Williams rip-off, *Balrog* who lost his balls and *Sagat* the unlikely king of muai thai 4. Instead of making *E. Honda* the Chief of Interpol, they made some reject named *Barrac* . And we could've had another E. Honda vs. Balrog scene 5. Like no. 4: They didn't make *Sagat* the Asura crime boss but instead created another original reject named *Mr. Zochi* 6. Speaking of *Sagat* , they gave him the role of a framed inmate which they could've given that role to the kickboxer *Dee Jay* 7. They used a Jay Reno knock-off version of *Charlie Nash* instead of reusing the idea of *Carlos Blanka* just for the sake of the *green man-beast* to return 8. At the final battle scene, they did another redundant *Ryu & Me vs. M. Bison* match instead of a *Ryu & Me vs. Akuma* and on the side with *Chun Li & Guile vs. M. Bison* 9. Instead of *Master Gouken* , *Ryu & I* have *Dhalsim* 10. *Ryu's* Hadouken and *my* Shoryuukn take to long to launch 11. Street Fighter: The Animated Series had more World Warriors than this anime series including the Alpha characters 12. There is no CP System-III video game tie-in to Street Fighter II V
I had this whole series (except for the one CD that Managa cheated us with). I Couldnot Wait to go to my local SUNCOAST: Motion Pictures (R.I.P.) Store to buy Every Episode/CD, WHen it arrived at SUNCOAST. THe managers were like; this guy must be pressed to have this CARTOON! Yes, I was; because I am a DIE-HARD SF and ANIME FAN!!! Unfortunely; just before I took a trip away from home, I had to throw out all the CD (Movies) I had brought!! DAM!!!
