The
other day while trolling the internets I found this Street Fighter:
Assassin's Fist on Youtube that came out the previous week that I had
no idea about. It was done by the same guys that did this cool, like,
two minute short a few years back. This time they broke it down into
multiple parts or you can watch the whole thing on DVD/BluRay and you
should because it's pretty damned amazing.
It is
the story of Ken and Ryu being trained to become the fighters that
they are as well as the story of their master and Akuma who if you
don't know is the baddest son of a bitch on the planet. The story
goes back and forth between the present and the arrival of Ken to the
dojo where he meets a young Ryu. Ken hates everything and is a
spoiled ass kid who gets humbled by Ryu immediately. Also shown is
their master's training as well as his brother who thirsts for more
power who eventually becomes Akuma.
What I
liked is that they actually show how Akuma got his strange looking
features. At first I was like “Okay, how is this small Japanese guy
gonna turn into this beast?” but then they show after first getting
a big taste of the evil power how it deformed his face.
I like
that they incorporated the struggle that Ryu had with the evil power
that wanted to use him as a vessel. At one point after being ax
kicked in the head by Ken and knocked out, Ryu wakes up full of rage
and the energy flowing from him. Ken has to pull out a fire Shoryuken
to put his ass down while Ryu charged up a massive Hadoken. By the
way, the Hadoken training was awesome. Ken tries to shortcut all the
training after learning the evil power from their masters handbook
and his master is like “The fuck you learn that?! Don't ever do
that again, and for the love of god, don't tell Ryu about it!”
This
was a really cool series. Way better than that Mortal Kombat: Legacy
which had more throwaway episodes than not and lost track of itself
as it went on. Every single one of these mattered. Oh, and the nods
to the video game were awesome. The old man making a song for Ryu
which was his theme in Street Fighter 2 and Ken working out to the
music that plays on his stage. They didn't even have to touch the
other two dozen characters from the game to make this good.
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