Cytonius discusses the under appreciated 1995 anime...Street Fighter II V...GONNA BURN SOME MUSCLE!!!! #streetfighterIIV #RyuvsGuile #streetfighteranime
Cytonius here...I made the video...ummm to all the people complaining that Street Fighter II V wasn't forgotten...that's not the point of the video. This video was made to pay homage to an under appreciated anime series from the 90s.
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.
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. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
@@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'
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.
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"
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
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"
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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 🙏🏿🔥🔥🔥
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 ! ❤
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Was SF II V even accessible worldwide? I did not learn about the anime until I found that clip of Guile beating up Ryu like 4-5 years ago. I only found and purchased the entire DVD set last year.
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. :)
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.
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.
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 RU-vid 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 know it’s probably because of nostalgia but I always thought the American intro to the anime series was the best version. I thought it really gave the best tone to the show.
Forgotten? Oh no, nobody who watched this series has forgotten. It was arguably the best streetfighter show/anime/story out there, only surpassed by the actual SF2 animated movie. This show was absolutely amazing and leagues above anything else that came out.
Forgotten in the USA, but here in Italy it is remembered fondly as one of the best adaptation of the game. Exspecially about the openings, remade by a local group, the Dhamm. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UeXdR26eIDo.html
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.
Don't think people don't *_remember_* this anime series... they either didn't know about this anime series, or knew about it and remember it existed. The most likely things they don't remember are the super long, two sentence or longer titles that each episode had.
