@everybest: What a twist!

Kloud

@everybest: I think in a girls voice.

Kloud

Story was kinda dull. Nothing really happened other than Chun-Li realizing she wants to fight deep down. Did her father die a second time or something?

everybest

@Keanu: Thats how girls work, so I've heard.

everybest

@Keanu: He probably didn't watch it. Just read the comments, which made it sound like it wasn't in English.

everybest

So... Chun-Li thinks in a guys voice in the beggining?

Keanu

@Greenstuff-Alex: Umm, isn't this already dubbed English?

Keanu

@Greenstuff-Alex: got a link?

kitsuneconundrum

There is an English dubbed version too, you know.

Greenstuff-Alex

@Shin_Ein: Silly you. Japanese people don't really speak Japanese. They just speak in that goofy kind of dialogue when we're around, and when we turn our backs, they go back to speaking normal mideastern English.

It's all a big conspiracy.

Ashurahori

The animation was spot on. The Eng;ish dub, rather correct. I hope they keep this up. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Zuiyo

@Keanu: Eh... is it weird for me to say im a black guy, but I think in a white guys voice? And sometimes I think in a grils or robot voice but I never think in my own voice... This is true, im not being a troll. It's weired

DontCrossMyanimals

ya.. that was totally in English yo! Unless my Japanese is to the point where my mind just autotranslates Japanese to English without so much as a thought (which i doubt)!

Go Go lame SF stories. As much as i love SF the story is kinda weak, but who cares anyway. As long as everything is coherent it's all fine and dandy. Interesting video though. Seeing as it tells us pretty much nothing except that Chun-Li became a cook who traveled in her spare time.

Shin_Ein

Something about it just doesn't do much for me. I think its the voice acting... probably should stick with the Japanese version. Dubbing is always a bad way to go.

Neer'mo

I think these anime cutscenes are awesome, much cooler and appropriate than the Esurance ads they're doing for Mirrors Edge...

And I had no idea Cammy was gonna be in the game. Awesome!

Korey

@Keanu: It's no wonder considering the amount of testosterone that she'd need for those arms and legs.

hikaizer

Wait I thought these things happened BEFORE Street Fighter 2, what with guile looking for charlie and stuff.

jive238

@Shin_Ein: So is she a cook that knows martial arts, or a martial artist that knows how to cook?

Kloud

@Keanu: I think in Jack Nicholson's voice.

Ashurahori

That was lame. They should have stuck with scrolling images with text.

Narishma

take it this is after 'street fighter 2; the animated movie'? that was produced several years back.

oh, wonder if they'll redo said shower scene.... you know you guys are thinking it, im saying it :P

karmakid

@everybest:

Woops!

I'm on a college PC, which has no speakers. I just assumed, what with the text accompanying the video, it was the Japanese Version.

My bad.

Greenstuff-Alex

Finally, that whole mysterious 'between games' plottage explained... Chun Li gets bored! Guile thinks of Charlie, again! Ken punches a heavy bag! Blanka...spins... Cammy..switches sides?? er, that's it.

Doesn't really clear up the 'Guile's wife looks suspiciously like Ken in drag' problem tho.

Pogman

Well that was a pretty terrible dub. Why does Cammy sound like a 40 year old with a fake British accent?

Jiggeh

Every time before seeing an anime based on a fighting game, I always wonder; "Can this surpass Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie?" and I'm always left disappointed afterward that there is still no worthy successor to that film after all these years. Granted, Fatal Fury - The Motion Picture is my second favorite after the Street Fighter II film, but that's really where the list ends.

Street Fighter II V, Darkstalkers OVA, Street Fighter Alpaha - The Movie, and the King of Fighters: Another Day were all alright, but none have ever managed to be as seemingly timeless as The Animated Movie. At least in my opinion.

Also, It's a dame shame that with all the advancements made in animation technology, many present day works cannot capture the level of detail found in some older, hand-drawn cartoons. Sure, many of today's productions look alot clearer, fluid, and cleaner than almost any anime from back in '94, but the reliance on simplistic designs, limited motions, and computer generated imagery really takes away from the "awe" found in older toons, and this anime looks like more of the same material being pumped out for a quick buck like so many other modern Japanese anime on the market. Sure, I don't dislike everything I'm seeing so far, but I definitely would have liked it if the designers were a bit bolder and give the characters more defined anatomical features without losing the "look" of the characters like the The Animated Movie. Oh well, different people, different styles. I'll get over it.

On the other hand, I do hope the story is good. Street Fighter Generations had a decent story, but suffered from fluctuating levels of animation quality (to say the least).

KeroseneClimax

@Mink_Car: Where??????

Alex_Mexico

That was cool. :)

Mobus

Y'know, you can really tell they've changed around the focus of this game by incorporating Chun Li as a main character (Box Art, this clip). I guess it's all to tie in with the live action movie.

Zero_

@KeroseneClimax:

I agree Kerosene. The original Street Fighter II Movie and Fatal Fury at both excellent animes. Have you seen the Street Fighter II anime series? I think it's called Street Fighter II V, and it's in the same style as the movie.

Zero_

SO whats this clip from then?

Dusk777

Iiiit's Colonel Campbell!

Cool.

Mink_Car

@KeroseneClimax: If you want an awesome, non-animated Street Fighter story with even better art, get the Udon comics. They're amazing.
[www.udonentertainment.com]

Poison

@karmakid: The sole reason I got the movie on video back then...

Poison

@Keanu: I think in Japanese. And I don't even speak Japanese!

Poison

I'm glad they are focusing more on Chun Li, I always thought she was the most iconic character in the franchise.

ReignFury

Didn't know Interpol members have so much spare time. Having a second job, travelling...

Cris_Spiegel

at 4:00 you see Rad Spencer (AKA: Bionic Commando) or Wesker...

Or it is just another character.

sm_twinz

I'm more curious about what happened between IV and 3rd Strike. God I wish this looked like KOF XII instead of the lazy 3D that IV is done in.

SubjectNameHere

Oh and Street fighter 4 happens before 3, IIRC.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

Street Fighter has always made kick ass material for anime.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

I'm sure Street Fighter III happened in there as well... It just wasn't important. At all.

JDavis

@Kloud: ...and apparently she was a part-time cop while being a cook! Unless she was a cook for the cops or a Cop-Cook!.....mmkay...do i make any sense?

tok1879

@ReignFury:

Who could forget her with thighs like that!

Lockgar

@Poison: lol! question. Do you make sense to yourself?

tok1879

I love the animation, please say street fighter 4 is full with movies like this, or tell me theirs going to be a series based that looks like this.

Lockgar

@Jiggeh: Probably because the voice actress is 40 and thinks she does a pretty swell Brit. ;)

Knoxximus (XBL/PSN)

Animation was great, dub was all over the place. Oh well...if its just a promotional trailer, it's hard to expect them to go out of their way to make sure everyone actually fits the roles. It does make me yearn for a proper Street Fighter anime. Like, a REAL one. Not the crappy ones they've kept churning out since the 90s.

Rebochan

@JDavis:

actually, Street Fighter III happens after Street Fighter IV, just like II happens After Alpha.

detraya

im confused......are all these anime movies, promos only or are they gonna be in the final game....come on capcom, its 08, we dont want those crappy text endings....THIS is want we want for endings....THIS

Hi_ImBlack420

@jive238: no, they were saying their ending the search, which guile was on in sf2. i think..

detraya

Paul Eiding! Voicing another military commander! Excellent.

In related news, aside from the "Cambell" cameo, this was boring and uninteresting, but I suppose you can't expect much from a story out of a fighting game.

Merauder

@Jiggeh: Confirmed!!! Cammy is voiced by Madonna! JK, Madonna's actually fifty.

Sylar

@KeroseneClimax: What do you expect, this is a commercial for a game. They ain't gonna go super-quality animation for a commeercial...

Dreamwriter

@Korey:
So glad she's going to be there.
Yeah the E-Surance Ads felt a little out of place for Mirrors Edge, I hoped they'd do something on par with the Promo videos for Heavenly Sword. I guess when you make a 5-hour game you have time to do other stuff before launch.

fishbonez

Ugh...

So basically they are telling us that nothing was resolved in SF 2. Might as well slap on another silly adjective. Not to mention that the art looked like crap at times. :\

henhowc

@Hi_ImBlack420: Looks like a promo to me.

Đipic

Ahh gotta love the continuity. "After the events of street fighter 2...it's street fighter 4!!". Wait, what?

Cheezsama

Man, Guile's family looks sick of his shit.

Belabras

@Alex_Mexico: The voice actor of the colonel... I think. It's similar

Chopper_Mike

why is Tommy Chong doing the voice-over?

Samboni

Yeah i love anime cutscenes!

And frankly, i've read to much subs that i've fed up with them, bring me Dubs anytine!!! (sure not perfect but sure beats reading lol!)

Guile still looking ofr Charlie???
Bison still not dead???
Story can't make much sense, canon is gonne hurt.

Cragnous

@convercide:

Ack, didn't mean for that to post twice, it just happened. If any of my understanding is incorrect, please correcct it as I wouldn't mind actually knowing what is really going on.

convercide

This is my understanding of the story so far...

Ryu defeats Sagat in Street Fighter, giving him his trademark scar. Originally it was Sagat who killed Ken and Ryu's master, but later this was retconned making Akuma the culprit. It was the Dark Hadou in Ryu that overcame him to injure Sagat in such a way.

Next up, the Alpha series. These (1-3) fill in the background behind Super Street Fighter 2. (The original SF2 story was retconned by the arrival of the four new warriors, mainly so Capcom could earn money by selling a new SF series...). M. Bison (yeah, ok, Vega if you're Japanese) appears as the boss of Shadaloo and is defeated by Ryu who obliterates his body. Just prior to the Ryu and Akuma have a head to head and Akuma states Ryu isn't powerful enough yet. Ryu vows never to go down the path of the Dark Hadou.

Street Fighter 2. M. Bison has a new body. Yeah. Hmm. Originally, Ryu defeated M. Bison again. The appearance of Akuma at the end by not losing a round etc. is not canon.

Street Fighter 4. Anyone's guess so far. Odds on it's Chun Li who gets revenge this time.

Street Fighter 3. New boy Alex is the protagonist. He is defeated by Ryu early on but comes back and defeats Gil.

convercide

This is my understanding of the story so far...

Ryu defeats Sagat in Street Fighter, giving him his trademark scar. Originally it was Sagat who killed Ken and Ryu's master, but later this was retconned making Akuma the culprit. It was the Dark Hadou in Ryu that overcame him to injure Sagat in such a way.

Next up, the Alpha series. These (1-3) fill in the background behind Super Street Fighter 2. (The original SF2 story was retconned by the arrival of the four new warriors, mainly so Capcom could earn money by selling a new SF series...). M. Bison (yeah, ok, Vega if you're Japanese) appears as the boss of Shadaloo and is defeated by Ryu who obliterates his body. Just prior to the Ryu and Akuma have a head to head and Akuma states Ryu isn't powerful enough yet. Ryu vows never to go down the path of the Dark Hadou.

Street Fighter 2. M. Bison has a new body. Yeah. Hmm. Originally, Ryu defeated M. Bison again. The appearance of Akuma at the end by not losing a round etc. is not canon.

Street Fighter 4. Anyone's guess so far. Odds on it's Chun Li who gets revenge this time. As for comments on canon: as SF3 only featured a few of the old characters, the story can be manipulated to fit.

Street Fighter 3. New boy Alex is the protagonist. He is defeated by Ryu early on but comes back and defeats Gil.

convercide

Old vidja is ollllllld.

Also, what an awesome remix of Chun-Li's SF2 stage music at the end.

yflow

@Belabras: Yeah, i wanna see you marry a person who is risking his/her life 24/7 and you don't get that kind of look

Clave

so wait..Why has nobody else commented on the fact that Cammy is all over this? Cammy hasn't been confirmed ingame yet, has she?

Pikadrew

@Pogman: Yea I'm a big fan of Guile but watching that I just had to think "Dude your wife looks rather rough to say the least."

Stevetrop

I take it this is the reason why the console version will be released around the same time as the movie...

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@Vargas:

I'll tell you why - it's because you heard it from someone else that it just sucks "for some reason". And thus it must be true.

StormTec

any english dubbed anime really sucks. don't know why... it just does.

Vargas

@Pikadrew: She's been confirmed in the console version for a few weeks now.

PlatformJunkie

weak

Torokun

So story wise, how many tournaments has this been since SF Alpha?

Now there's another tounament after the events of part 2 or are all the fighters just getting together for one last prom night?

Boo, no good at all.

maniacmayhem

@Torokun:

Yeah, it wasn't that great was it? I was expecting some story, but there was none!

dead_red_eyes

@Vargas:

I feel the same way really. I don't watch anything dubbed.

dead_red_eyes

@Vargas: Ah, I remember that mindset. I thought it died back around 1995, but I guess I was wrong.

Now, even though I grew up on dubbed anime (Speed Racer, Sport Billy, Astroboy and the like), when I really got into anime (late 80s, fansubbed), it was either unsubbed or the aforementioned fansubbed work. Then I picked up on Urusei Yatsura and watched a ton of that show. Got used to the Japanese voices (Furukawa Toshio as Ataru, Hirano Fumi as Lum). Also watched the first fansubbed verions of Ranma 1/2. Then Viz Video was created, and started releasing Ranma as dubbed. It took getting some used to to hear totally unfamiliar voices doing Ranma and Akane (especially grating to hear Akane pronounced "A-kan-ey"), but one gets used to it.

Urusei Yatsura, otoh, I never got used to the dub. Why? I liked UY far more, that's why. I watched much more of that series than Ranma, and got more used to the way the Japanese voices sounded, and then I watched Those Obnoxious Aliens (the Animeigo dub of the first 4 short UY eps). Practically made me want to claw my own ears off. Horrible, horrible memories ^_^. And the original dub of the 2nd movie didn't help, even though Lum and Ataru's VAs sounded competent.

But today, dubs tend to be much better than the bad old days. El Hazard, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and many more series sound really good, sometimes even better than the Japanese VAs IMO (example; did you know that Hayashibara Megumi (who did Ayanami Rei and girl-type Ranma),did Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop? Now, for some reason I prefer Wendee Lee in that role myself.
Just seems like a more natural fit to me.

Of course, it could be part of a herd mentality to simply state that all English dubs suck as well. I've certainly seen that also. But I am giving you the benefit of the doubt here.

relic1980

@convercide:
I actually read somewhere that it was Akuma who defeated M. Bison and not Ryu in SF2.

But hell who knows.

maniacmayhem

@tok1879: Er...Chun-li's a member of Interpol. Always has been. I'm pretty sure that ties into her fighting, so the cooking was a side-job.

Taiyz

Is it just me or does Guile's wife simply look like she's saying, "Man, I am so tired of your bullshit,"?

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

Ehhh. That dub is spotty at best. I think I'd go sub on that.

YotaruVegeta

@dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased: Hahahaha you're awesome for that.

Nisori

I think she's saying "Oh yaaay you're leaving again, now I can rehire Gustavo, the pool boy!"

Kiros

@Kloud: +1 lulz for Robot Chicken reference. That M. Night Shamylamanana or however you say his name is one crazy guy.

sandal-hat17

@dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased: See the bags under her eyes? Poor woman is going to die from stress.

Earthjade

I love this video.

PLEASE MAKE A NEW STREET FIGHTER ANIMATED MOVIE. THANK YOU.

bfwings55

im so psyched. criticize the voice over all you want but sfII is nostaligc and epic at the same time for me. Paint me fanboy idc i freakn love SF!!! my snes carts would over heat i played them so much. I know the SF2 anime series blew ass but it would be cool if these made a series from the cut scenes

mash25

@convercide:
Where does Street Fighter: The Movie fit in?

RaginFox

i liked the anime. personally i perfer dubs over original english...

i dont think they have american otaku fans over there wanting non-dubbed versions of shitty nick-toons like spongebob.

much like highschool spanish. u pretty much forget it by the time u graduate. and not all japanese people can understand english good either.

so deal with it.

dubs are good, and if u wanna read ur cartoon. more power to ya. god forbid u miss some of the action while ur reading the text.

and can't wait for SF4 dammit!!!

DoomLight

Was Ken fighting Chun-Li in the octagon?? Make that the Los Vegas level and I'm in heaven.

MaribelBurdick

I liked the animation and even the dubbing, hope they keep it up!

ShogunAssassinX

@Neer'mo: It's just a terrible dub. There are way better dubs out there nowadays.

eastx

@Zero_: Umm, the art style is not the same in Street Fighter 2 V, plus the plot is 80% different. It's a cool show but I wouldn't imply that it's so similar to the movie.

eastx

@Cris_Spiegel: Um, the fact that she QUIT her job after SF2 may have something to do with it.

Jiggeh

@KeroseneClimax: To be fair, Street Fighter II MOVIE was a big budget theatrical production, while pretty much everything else you mentioned were straight-to-video productions. Still though, I'm in complete agreement that a new fighting game based (or similarly themed) animated martial arts movie, up to the standards of SF2M, would be pretty awesome.

Jiggeh

@Knoxximus (XBL/PSN): Well yes, fair enough. I guess the proper question to ask is what voice director would think that's a good idea!

Jiggeh

SO THIS IS REALLY CRAZY RIGHT?!

The very first thing I thought of was the commercials for Scene It! on the 360.

So it's Friday night.. and I'm all about hangin' out with my friends!

cmoody17

So... they're fighting again because....

secretly they all suffer from anti-social tendencies that can only be calmed with physical violence?

I remember bad guys wanting to rule the world was enough to assemble a group of fighters.

Cpryd001