Street Fighter Alpha: Generations

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Street Fighter Alpha: Generations
DVD cover
Directed by	Ikuo Kuwana
Produced by	Kaoru Mfaume, Kazufumi Nomura
Starring	Yasuyuki Kase as Ryu Yuri Amano Eiji Hanawa Mao Kawasaki Daisuke Gōri Kinryu Arimoto Tadashi Saito Takeshi Aono Yasunori Matsumoto Kenyu Horiuchi
Music by	Bill Laswell
Distributed by	Manga Entertainment
Release date(s)	October 25, 2005
Running time	50 min.
Language	Japanese,English
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Street Fighter Alpha: Generations is the second installment of Street Fighter Alpha series. It doesn't start off right after the end of Street Fighter Alpha anime, but it's a remaking and full telling of the story behind the Dark Hadou, Ryu, Sakura, Akuma and Gouken. It was released on DVD October 25, 2005.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Plot 3 Not a Prequel nor Sequel? 4 Trivia and notes 5 DVD Extra Features 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Characters

These are the characters that appeared in the movie

• Ryu
• Akuma (Gouki)
• Master Gouken
• Goutetsu
• Sayaka, Goutetsu's daughter
• Old Monk (Sheng Long)
• Sakura Kasugano
• Fūka, Old Monk's granddaughter
• Ken Masters

[edit] Plot

From the trailer of Street Fighter Generations, it starts off with Akuma, focusing on his chi, (when a character focus on his/her chi, the wind blows, which they absorbs the air around them, trees and plants), but with Akuma's dark hadou, it particallys absorbs the whole body of the trees. The chi gathered together then form a fireball, the audience can see the clouds going darker. After that scene it lipps right to Gouki{Akuma} fighting Gouken, and Akuma released his fury and anger (this must be the part where Akuma killed Gouken). Later the scene jumps right to Ryu'trainig, showing Ryu meeting up with an old man both of them fighting ( the old man was testing Ryu's skills). Sakura meets Ryu and fights him, after all that is the final battle between Ryu and Akuma, who will succeed? who has the true powers of Dark Hadou? and will Ryu Avenge is masters death?

Full Spoiler

After an intense fight between Goutetsu and a young Gouki (Akuma), Gouki initiates the Shun Goku Satsu (Raging Demon). Gouken and Goutetsu's daughter are running towards the fight to stop them, when Goutetsu's daughter falls to her knees and coughs. Gouken is about to ask a question, but the scene cuts back to the fight. Gouki is the one who performs the move successfully, completely annihilating Goutetsu. The dark clouds that formed from the battle of the two Dark Hadou practitioners parted to form the kanji Ten for heaven, which Gouki later wears on the back of his gi.

It is present day and Ryu has come to the humble burial site of his master, which is only a few small tombstones in the grass at a fork in the road. He sees a young girl there, and she asks him whether or not he knew anyone there. He told her he was there to pay respects to his master. After declining her offer to use her bucket, Ryu pulls out a large sake bottle and says his master only needs this.

As Ryu sits at the now old and desolate dojo where Goutetsu taught Gouken and Gouki, he falls asleep and dreams that Gouki appears at the dojo gates. Ryu recognizes him as the man who killed his master, and challenges him to a fight. Gouki does not answer, and this provokes Ryu further. Gouki turns to leave, but before Ryu can pursue him, he wakes up. Ryu starts to boil some water as he bites into an onigiri, or rice ball, when something falls from the roof of the dojo. Sensing an intruder, Ryu flings the boiling cup of water, but misses. The intruder reveals himself to be an old monk, who stole one of Ryu's rice balls without him noticing. The monk compliments Ryu on detecting his presence, but remarks that he still needs a lot of training. As thanks for the meal, the monk offers to fight Ryu.

Ryu is unimpressed and doubts the old man's fighting prowess, when the old man launches a sudden attack. Ryu only blocks and dodges until the old man asks why he doesn't fight back. The old monk then uses Senpuukyaku (Hurricane Kick) and Ryu wonders if they learned the same style of martial arts. The old monk knocks Ryu through the walls of the dojo, greatly angering Ryu. Ryu releases a hadouken but the old man simply catches it and plays with it before sending it back at Ryu. Ryu tries to block his own hadouken but is smashed into the wall from the force. Ryu admits defeat, seeing as how the monk even made light of his powerful hadouken.

Ryu stays with the old monk and finds out his granddaughter Fuuka is the girl he met at his master's grave. He stays with the old monk and trains, and although the old monk seems to know about the animosity between Gouki and Ryu, Ryu doesn't feel he has improved and doubts that he can defeat Gouki. One day, Fuuka asks Ryu to go shopping for groceries with her. On the way home, Fuuka reveals that the old monk took her in after her parents died. Her father was also a fighter who wished to become a "true fighter" just like Ryu, but he died in a match. This distresses Ryu, but before he can respond, they are interrupted by Sakura. After saying that she finally found Ryu, she collapses.

Afterwards, Sakura stays with Ryu at the old monk's home. After revealing that Ken Masters, whom she met in Tokyo and is also going to honor Master Gouken, had told her where Ryu was, she traveled all the way there to see him. She asks Ryu for a sparring match and Ryu reluctantly agrees. After doding all her attacks and only landing a few light blows on her, Sakura cries out to Ryu and asks why he doesn't use his full power; he was insulting her. So Ryu doesn't hold back and goes all out on Sakura. As Ryu fights, he is impressed that Sakura would wish to fight him at full strength when she knew she was no match for him. Afterwards, Sakura thanks Ryu and says it was a good lesson for her. Ryu is surprised but responds that it was also a lesson for him. He no longer cared about getting revenge for his master, he knew that he only wished to fight Gouki. As Ryu visits his master's grave one last time, he takes out the sake bottle that was dedicated to his master. He takes the cloth wrapped around the neck and takes a drink of the sake. He spits the sake onto the bandana and ties it around his forehead. The old monk, who is standing nearby, remarks that Ryu looks ready.

On a rainy day, Fuuka is sitting at the door looking outside when Sakura asks where Ryu was. Fuuka responds that he left early, before dawn. Even though both are alarmed, they can only sit and wait. Ken Masters is on his way to his master's grave, when he is stopped by the old monk. He says that the fight is between Ryu and "him" referring to Gouki, but Ken would not have the monk stopping him from reaching Ryu, but is easily overpowered by the old man. As the old monk sits on top of Ken, Ryu and Gouki fight in the forest.

None of Ryu's attacks faze Gouki, even taking powerful spray of hadouken, which only causes some steam to rise from Gouki's body. As Ryu blocks and dodges Gouki's attacks, his guarding arm is beginning to feel strange, and is blackened from the force of Gouki's onslaught. As they fight, purple and blue orbs begin to appear in the forest, near the old monk and Ken, and at the old monk's home. The blue orbs turn into villagers, who are all gazing at the mountain where Gouki and Ryu are fighting along with Fuuka and Sakura. Ryu is frustrated that all his attacks are useless, and becomes consumed by the Dark Hadou, the evil power that consumed Gouki. The Dark Hadou from the two combatants causes the purple orbs to turn into tortured souls, and also warriors wearing prayer beads and having facial expressions similar to Gouki. As the souls march past Ken and the old monk, the old monk tells Ken that the Dark Hadou was once inherent in many warriors. It was bad kharma that flowed through their blood, and even now it still lived in Gouki and was dormant in Ryu. The Dark Hadou was literally the strength that would allow a fighter to destroy every living thing on the planet. The old fighters who had the Dark Hadou killed enemes and allies alike, including loved ones. As the purple orb warriors marched past, they destroyed all the innocent souls. They are there to witness Ryu's accepting the Dark Hadou, and as Ryu's face grows more and more enraged, his pupils disappear, and his face becomes like Gouki's, twisted in anger and rage.

Immediately, Ryu launches a fierce attack with the intent of destroying Gouki. His attacks are so strong, his arms spout blood from the impact. Gouki manages to land a few hits, but Ryu recovers from all of them extremely quickly. One of Ryu's kicks grinds into Gouki's leg, and causes him to roar in pain. Gouki flings Ryu away and both fighters pause. As Gouki grasps his injured leg, he tells Ryu that this was their disgusting fate; to become true fighters whose only goal and purpose is to become stronger. As they both clash again, with Dark Hadou glowing in their fists, Ryu sees Fuuka's face in Gouki's Dark Hadou, and the Dark Hadou loses its grasp on him. Gouki sees this, and says that his purpose has been obstructed, and that his thirst for power destroyed while his muscles grow larger, powered by the Dark Hadou. Ryu launches a final attack, but this time his hadou is the normal blue rather than the purple of the Dark Hadou. Ryu's strength causes a pillar of blue light to flow from the mountaintop, where only purple light had flashed before.

The scene shows Gouki holding Ryu's limp body aloft, and after dropping him on the ground, Gouki's chest starts to go back to its normal, lighter skin tone from where Ryu had struck him with the good hadou. As Gouki's entire torso turns back to normal, he walks a few steps and stumbles, having flashbacks of when Goutetsu's daughter attended to his training wounds while he was not consumed by the Dark Hadou. He turns to Ryu and says that he would definitely like to fight him again one day. As Gouki disappears, Ryu stares at the sky, where the clouds have once again formed the kanji Ten. The old monk releases Ken as the fight has finished, and Ken rushes off to see Ryu. The old monk looks at the sky and speaks to himself of the man who brought a child to him a long time ago. The man said that the mother died shortly after childbirth, and that the old monk was not to let the child follow in his father's footsteps. The old monk then says that he has not failed in doing this, and refers to the man as Gouken. He remarks that he is very tired and wonders if perhaps he had lived too long.

Ryu is bandaged and dressed in street clothes. He sees Fuuka, who is crying, and instead of holding one flower for her father's grave, there are now two flowers (one for the old monk). Ryu looks on sadly, but does not interrupt her. He bows to the graves and turns to leave.

From this movie, it is believed that Goutetsu's daughter and Gouki had a child together. When Goutetsu's daughter collapsed on their way to Goutetsu and Gouki's fight, Gouken may have been about to ask if she was pregnant before the scene is cut. When Gouki has put on Goutetsu's bloody prayer beads, Gouken cries out that Gouki's happiness was so close, why did he have to throw it away? It then shows Goutetsu's daughter, clinging to a gate pillar. Also, when the old monk speaks of Ryu, he says Gouken brought Ryu to him when he was still a child, and said that the mother died shortly after childbirth. This explains why not much is heard of Goutetsu's daughter. The man who brings Ryu to the monk is Gouken. This explains why both Gouken and the old monk are so welcoming to Ryu. Ryu himself claims that he does not remember much about the time before being taken in by Gouken, but that he ran away from his first home because of the loneliness. It is possible the old monk had taken care of Ryu until he ran away and became a disciple under Gouken. Additionally, the old monk says that he has prevented Ryu from following his father's footsteps (Gouki) and not being consumed by the Dark Hadou precisely at the point when Ryu reverts back to the normal hadou and finishes the fight with Gouki.

[edit] Not a Prequel nor Sequel?

Despite the way Generations was promoted it is in fact not a prequel nor sequel to the original SFA anime (aka Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation) but rather instead a completely new story based on the Street Fighter storyline, much in the sameway the first Street Fighter Alpha anime was in comparison to Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, even though it was originally promoted at times by Manga as being a sequel/prequel to the SF2 anime.

The movie can not be a prequel nor sequel to SFA as it flat out contradicts things when compared side by side. For instance the movie can not be a prequel because of things like Sakura and Ken knowing one another despite meeting for the first time in SFA, while it can't be a sequel either as Ryu is too young, does not yet have his white headband, apparently knows very little about the Dark Hadou or Akuma, and so on and so fourth.

So why have each of the 3 animated Street Fighter movies been touted as being connected by Manga even though none of them truly are? It has to do with Manga Entertainment's initial desires for both Alpha movies. Years ago it seemed that Manga put up an amount of money (but not all the money) to have a direct seqeuel produced for Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, however what they got instead was Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation (done by Madhouse) something that was very far off in basically everyway from being a direct sequel the SF2 anime, however they still promoted it as being a sequel. After the SFA anime was released Manga then decided they wanted a sequel to that based on the way it was left off, but once again they got something diffrient then what they originally wanted, yet still promoted it as being connected just like they did before, so as an end result despite Manga's wishes there currently exists three very separate and very independent Street Fighter anime movies.

[edit] Trivia and notes

• No other Street Fighter Alpha characters in this movie except for Sakura and Ken.
• Akuma, Gouken, and Goutetsu's looks are radicaly diffrient then their Capcom counterparts.
• Ryu's headband is the wrapping of a sake bottle dedicated to his deceased Master Gouken's grave, where as in other Street Fighter media, its never been explained as to how Ryu received his white headband.
• Akuma's trademark victory symbol, the kanji for Ten, is shown in the clouds rather than glowing on the back of his gi
• Akuma adopts the red Ten on the back of his gi after killing Goutetsu. In the movie, it does not flash or glow.
• Akuma is referred to by his Japanese name "Gouki" in the English dub, despite other English/American versions of names or titles appearing, ie Dark Hadou (English) instead of Satsu No Hadou (Japanese)

[edit] DVD Extra Features

• Interview with the Director & Casts
• Subtitle, Japanese and English languages
• Production Report
• Manga Preview
• 3 original soundtracks by Bill Laswell (Best Buy Exclusive feature)
• Interactive Menu/Motion

[edit] See also

• Street Fighter (animated series)
• Street Fighter II (anime)
• Street Fighter II V
• Street Fighter Alpha
• Street Fighter Alpha (Movie)
• Street Fighter II: The Manga

[edit] External links

• Street Fighter Alpha: Generations