Akiman drew that famous Ryu picture to the right. I was searching on his art blog and one of the entries was dedicated to that Japanese guy Antonio Inoki (Kanji Inoki is his real name.) Inoki had a new book coming out. Inoki was a famous pro-wrestler in Japan. He is like the Japanese Hulk Hogan pretty much and even got to fight with Muhammed Ali in the ring back in their prime.
Inoki had a very distinctive face which probably helped his popularity. Akiman has drawn some very manly Ryu's in the past and I wouldn't doubt that Inoki is a strong inspiration of when he draws very gruff and manly characters. Do you guys see a resemblance?
A vague resemblance, though I guess it depends on which Akiman piece you have in mind. That inspiration only shows in the more realistic ones he did for SFII, and it still looks like he altered his face somewhat.
If you gave him the red headband, I'd personally just look at him as a cos-player, not "Ryu brought to life." I prefer Ken Watanabe.
anyway, I thought his father was caucasian American and his mom being asian, so his features are plausible since the hair color is fake.
His dad's fully Japanese and his mom's a split between that and American. He's pretty much asian with only subtle caucasian traits, which is why I don't see people like Owen Wilson or Brad Pitt doing him justice. I wouldn't blame people for thinking that in the 90's, but there's a reason he spoke Japanese in all the previous games and not English.
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Akiman drew that famous Ryu picture to the right. I was searching on his art blog and one of the entries was dedicated to that Japanese guy Antonio Inoki (Kanji Inoki is his real name.) Inoki had a new book coming out. Inoki was a famous pro-wrestler in Japan. He is like the Japanese Hulk Hogan pretty much and even got to fight with Muhammed Ali in the ring back in their prime.
Inoki had a very distinctive face which probably helped his popularity. Akiman has drawn some very manly Ryu's in the past and I wouldn't doubt that Inoki is a strong inspiration of when he draws very gruff and manly characters. Do you guys see a resemblance?
A vague resemblance, though I guess it depends on which Akiman piece you have in mind. That inspiration only shows in the more realistic ones he did for SFII, and it still looks like he altered his face somewhat.
If you gave him the red headband, I'd personally just look at him as a cos-player, not "Ryu brought to life." I prefer Ken Watanabe.
anyway, I thought his father was caucasian American and his mom being asian, so his features are plausible since the hair color is fake.
His dad's fully Japanese and his mom's a split between that and American. He's pretty much asian with only subtle caucasian traits, which is why I don't see people like Owen Wilson or Brad Pitt doing him justice. I wouldn't blame people for thinking that in the 90's, but there's a reason he spoke Japanese in all the previous games and not English.
Hm I dont mean Inoki IS Ryu. Im saying he has the distinguished face and probably influenced Akiman's manly gruff characters. I think that Ryu picture is a culmination of that. Again he's not supposed to be Ryu brought to life. Neither is Ken Watanabe, I just said he resembles and could carry such a big role in a movie.
Also that Ken mod is pretty awesome.
Kaze no Kobushi - "Fist of the Wind" Ultra for SSFIV! details in http://www.capcom-unity.com/trueryu/blog
This is off topic but I think it's interesting how all of the Shoto's even the ones from other countries are at least part Japanese. Ken is 3/4 Japanese, Sean is 1/4 Japanese. When I first started playing SF, I thought Ken was caucasian. Then I thought Sean was full blooded Brazilian and found out his grandfather is Japanese.
