With the successful release of Street Fighter IV last year, the Street Fighter franchise is without a doubt celebrating its second coming. This celebration, however, feels shallow without a new Street Fighter Anime TV series to ride the train of hype and success that SF4 has initiated.

While Shizowa san hinted at several occasion that a Street Fighter Anime series is very possible, we have yet to see or hear an announcement. I am not sure if Capcom is uncertain if it should go for a new anime series or if Capcom cannot find the right ideas to make such series.

In an effort to help Capcom make this decision and to show them that a Street Fighter anime tv series can rock, I have made my outline of what a Street Fighter anime series should consist of:

Pilot episode: consists of the final match of the first street fighter tournament, Ryu vs Sagat a match that ends with Ryu tapping into the satsui no hado for the first time

Arc1 (10 to 20 epsiodes): Arc one should introduce Ryu, Ken, Gouken and Akuma and gives us a look at who ryu is, how he came in gouken’s custody and the history of Gouken and Akuma without getting too much into the dark hado storyline, the arc should end with the death of gouken

Arc 2: (20 to 30 episodes): Arc 2 should be the adaptation of Street Fighter alpha 2 game. The story can be completely based on Masahiko nakahira’s Street Fighter Zero manga. The second arc should introduce shadaloo and bison and also have Ryu and Ken meet chun-li ans Charlie for the first time. The secnd arc should end with Ryu fighting akuma for the first time with ryu loosing.

Summer special Ova or Movie: Sakura Ganbaru: A fun hour and a half anime adaptation of the great Sakura Ganbaru manga by masahiko nakahira, will be a great first SF series movie in theatres in Japan.

Arc 3: (20 to 30 episodes): Arc 3 should adapt the story of Street Fighter Alpha 3. With now that Sakura is famous due to sakura ganbaru she can be part of the Cast. Guile also gets introduced in this arc. The story should mainly focus on the threat shadaloo is presenting. Arc 3 should end with the death of Charlie Nash and the destruction of the psycho drive.

2^nd Theatrical movie: Can be anything really. A Gouken movie, where it shows how the rivalry between the 2 brothers has started. Or a shadaloo backup story could be interesting. A filler Story focusing on Ryu and co can work too.

Arc 4: Street Fighter II (40 episodes) The introduction of most of the sf2 cast sould happen in this arc where Ryu and Ken travel the wrld to perfect their skills so they can avenge their master and also prepare for the second Street Fighter tournament where Akuma promises he will show up, and where sagat promised he will retake his title. The arc ends with the end of the SF2 tournament and bison’s apparent demise.

3^rd Movie: Story takes place during the sf2 arc. Can be a filler action packed story

Arc 5: Street Fighter IV (30 to 40 episodes): The adaptation of the sf4 and super street fighter iv storyline with the introduction of Seth and SIN. Arc 5 also features the return of Gouken.

Arc 6: Street Fighter III (20 episodes):  Introduces the sf3 cast and the illuminati organization. Alex joins the rest of the heroes as a regular cast.  Ends with Ryu going on a training journey with Oro.

4^th Movie: takes place during Arc 6, and focuses on Ryu training with Oro to finally defeat .

Arc 7: Street Fighter III 3^rd strike plus iluminati vs Shadaloo war (30 episodes): Ryu thinks he is ready to finally confront Akuma. Alex is ready to defeat gill and Shadaloo is back in business and is trying to take what was theirs before illuminati showed up. Arc 7 should end with the final battle between Ryu and Akuma.

Arc 7 will be the finale of the series.

So as you can see, Street Fighter can be a LOOOONG running series that rivals the great anime such as dragon ball z, naruto, bleach and the likes.

A successful running SF anime series will be an unlimited source of money to capcom, since licensing group can make toys, games, books, shoes or even panties (the sky is the limit). An anime series will also introduce the sf franchise to a lot of people who were not very familiar with it and therefore people will buy more SF games. It’s a win win situation where the game helps the anime and the anime helps the game.

What do you think dear Capcom Staff which option is more viable and better from a business stand point?

EDIT: This is part 2 of the suggestions:

As a follow up to my previous article in which I made suggestions to capcom on how to handle a new SF anime series, I present you the second part of this mini series of articles.

The second part is basically a list of things that Capcom should include in the anime as well as the things that must not be in it.

The Do’s List:

·         The anime must follow the cannon to some extent with of course original ideas from the writers.

·         Hire some good writers who have done some great animes before.

·         The anime must be produced by a great anime studio such as Madhouse or production IG

·         The characters must have the same design as they do in the games, no more Street Fighter 2 V stunt.

·         The fight scenes and animation should be similar if possible to the GREAT Street Fighter II Animated movie.

·         The anime should start from the beginning of the game series story wise, therefore starting with SF alpha or SF1 is nearly a must.

·         The Street Fighter series has a deep story and each character has a detailed backup story, use it to get as many episodes as possible.

·         Start the series with an ova or movie to reach more audiences.

·         Respect the character’s personalities. Ryu was never the happy fun guy like he was in sf2 V

·         Use Masahiko nakahira mangas (sf alpha, sakura ganbaru and SF3 ryu final) as reference to the anime as well as Udon comics.

·         Hire Masahiko nakahira and the Udon guys to be advisers for the new Series

·         Characters must use their powers and it shouldn’t take ryu 15mn to shoot a hadoken like in the SF2 V series.

·         Use the music from the games. The use of character theme music in sfIV anime promo vids by studio 4C made those videos EPIC

·         The story must have serious moments, tragic events, and comic relief (by Dan and rufus of course)

·         Include all characters from the games into the anime series in some way (some charcatres will probably have only a cameo or 2 but they still need to show up)

·         Make mangas and comics based on the new anime series as a cross promotional thing. Make toys, shirts, and games based on it to introduce the Sf games to those who never played it yet are watching the anime. And advertise the anime in the games so those who don’t watch anime yet play the game will be introduced to the anime (maybe include ethe first episode or trailer in one of the games video gallery)

The Don’t’s list:

·         Don’t make it a Saturday morning cartoon like the horrible SF usa cartoons

·         Don’t alter the characters design. Making Ryu look like joe higashi in sf2 v was a bad move

·         Don’t start the series from Street Fighter 2 or worse: Street Fighter IV. Start with Alpha and go forward. This will help the viewers know the characters and love as they see them age from youngling to great warriors (remember all anime who introduced their charcatrs and had them age with series are considered GREAT and classic anime, DBZ, naruto and others)

·         Do not aim the series mainly at kids, Street Fighter is a franchise loved by all ages and mostly adults.

·         Don’t use a cheap studio for the animation. Studio 4c did a decent job with the ties that bind movie and the anime promos but also did a terrible horrible job with the anime prologues and endings in SF4.

What do you guys think of this list? Did I forget anything?

Look forward for part 3 of the Anime suggestion articles in the near future.

no cammy, screw u!

Updated the original post with Option 2.

Sorry for the long post guys.

Oct 5, 2009 -- 5:04AM, d3v wrote:

Why so long. Howabout we do a regular 26 episode series first and then a sequel (which could either be a full series, a set of OVAs or a movie) depending on the popularity.

thats why i added Option 2. which is composed of 4 arcs of 12 episodes each.

Oct 5, 2009 -- 8:29AM, d3v wrote:

Actually, let me rephrase my question. Why not just make a 13-26 episode series based on SFIV and look into a possible sequel (movie, OVA, series) based on Super if it's successful.

That said, no SF animé or movie production has even been canonical, why not keep it that way so that the people behind the anime can have a little freedom to be creative.

while i have no problem with that, it is going to be difficult to introduce everyone with sf4 and not before. Its hard to ignore sf2 since sf4 is a direct sequel to 2. 

Bison's revival in 4will have no meaning nor same weight if we did not witness his evil in sf2 as well as his dramatic demise.

U might start with 2 and retell alpha in flash back, but starting with 4 seems like a way to make the series fail.

just my personal opinion though.