In the Street Fighter series, Sakura has always wanted to prove herself to her hero Ryu. In Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition, the bar appears to have been raised.
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By Street Fighter 4, Sakura had a crush on Ryu, but now in Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition, the recent high-school grad ponders the bigger things in life and appears to want more from Ryu.
She doesn’t explicitly say she wants to have Ryu’s child, but Sakura talks about how everyone gets old and dies. Ryu says he’s busy and cannot take on a disciple.
Sakura replies, “Well having a disciple is similar, but I meant… having children to create new bonds in our lives.”
Having children. Our lives. That isn’t very subtle!
PLEASE pic.twitter.com/o6fPlS2h8X
— Ollie The Magic Bum 5x (@KazuCrash_) January 17, 2018
Of course, what Sakura is saying seems to go over Ryu’s head, and he replies, “I see… I’ve never thought of it. But, that is another type of strength.” Sakura thanks him, and she then says this was what she was looking for.
Ryu replies that he was glad to have helped, adding, “I think you should seek out strength in your own way.” Here is Sakura’s reaction:
Sakura low-key said she wanted to have children with Ryu. And he’s all chill about it. pic.twitter.com/MKWk07KYze
— Pablo (@pibloarrecis) January 17, 2018
So, yeah, this is now canon! Street Fighter fan fiction community has enough fodder for an eternity.
I CAN’T BELIEVE SAKURA JUST WENT WITH THE “PUT A BABY IN ME” RUSHDOWN
LOOK AT RYU’S FACE
LOOK AT HIS FACE
HE JUST GOT HIT WITH THE WAKEUP SUPER VERSION OF PICK-UP LINES pic.twitter.com/U1Rc0XFgR8— Walt (@_watsu) January 17, 2018
I did always think it kind of gross that Sakura always wore Ryu’s old sweaty headband.
— Ryu’s Most Famous Fan (@hunkyrhino) January 16, 2018
sakura: hey ryu do you wanna put a baby in me
ryu: no
sakura: what if i let you train the baby
ryu:
ryu:
ryu: let me think about it— passionate stickers (@voltyline) January 17, 2018
fuckin really not buying this ryu/sakura thing. These images of his frozen face are really not helping. Isn’t he like 50? Isn’t she like 20???
— cheezopath (@cheezopath) January 17, 2018
Previous Street Fighters: Implies With Varying Degrees Of Subtlety That Sakura Is Crushing On Ryu
Street Fighter V: pic.twitter.com/Dyvn74padz— Like A Lizard (@trilllizard666) January 17, 2018
sakura literally cannot contain her ryu boner pic.twitter.com/M0y4CWrxRe
— THE YAMCHAD (@DAIROCKETTO) January 17, 2018
After the Sakura story ending, I believe the Sakura/Ryu fan fiction community will BLOW UP! #SF5AE
— DANfan69 (@DANfan69) January 17, 2018
Sakura: so anyways I wanna have a baby wbu
Ryu: WE JUST LINKED UP FIVE MINS AGO pic.twitter.com/NtQrUz4GSN
— ????FrogMom???? (@KeroChobittsu) January 17, 2018
Damn, Ryu don’t even got time to load for Sakura lol #PS4share pic.twitter.com/X8U6y6JvKL
— Ryan Mejia????⛄️ (@ConvictedofFun) January 16, 2018
if Sakura ever hit on Ryu it’d go something like this:
Sakura: hey do you wanna…come back to my place 😉
Ryu: oh yeah we can spar in the backyard! i love sparring in your backyard.
Sakura: or we could…spar…in my room?
Ryu: nah your room is too small.
Sakura:
— Its ya boy Patrick Miller aka Hat Trick Killer aka (@pattheflip) January 17, 2018
WHY ARE YOU ALL HYPE THAT SAKURA BEGS RYU TO PUT A BABY IN HER!? RYU IS GOING TO BE THE ABSOLUTE WORST FATHER. GOKU IS GONNA LOOK LIKE FATHER OF THE YEAR COMPARED TO RYU
— TuboWare @ FFX (@TuboWare) January 17, 2018
IT’S REAL, KIDS!! RYU X SAKURA!!!! THE SHIP HAS SAILED!!
— Whisky-Matsu (@ZeroAlucard27) January 17, 2018
Comments
12 responses to “Why People Are Freaking Out About Street Fighter’s Ryu And Sakura”
Sakura thirsty for the pelvic hadouken.
She would love some pound cake?
So pregnant Sakura costume as paid DLC?
Also, if I buy this does that mean I don’t have to purchase the previous content or are Capcom still ruining my street fighter experience with Fight Money and DLC?
Ruining your experience with fightmoney?
All fightmoney does is allow you to get DLC for free. How does that ruin your experience?
See where I come from– the 80’s– we unlocked extra characters and so forth via skill and commitment. Yes, I know you could argue that “Fight Money” is the same system essentially, but it is mindfully crafted to seem intimidating when compared to being able to throw money at the timehole fight money represents. I don’t like it, it’s detracted from my SF playing greatly. It’s cool if you’re cool with it though, I’m just too used to the old way to get behind this shit.
I’m not a willing participant in the monetisation of fighting games outside of tourneys.
where i come from -the 80’s- we had to buy street fighter 2 five times, and street fighter 3 three times, because they kept rereleasing the game with new features and characters, why do people act like dlc characters are worse that what we had before, fighting games have been doing this for a long time, dlc just made it easier for them
Buying SF III twice on Dream sat still cost less then all that DLC.
Also, SF III was only release twice at the time (first two versions came as a twofer). And Third Strike was fresh and different from the predecessors enough that it feel like a new game. Your argument is invalid.
Fight money and season passes are still a thing. Though at the moment the season passes are reduced in cost…
It still makes my SF feel too much like Candy Crush. And yes, I am aware an aspect of my opinion makes me sound like a dad talking about the kids and their rap music.
I totally understand your point of view. You either grind for ages online to gain BP to unlock things or you just whip out the good old credit card and buy everything at a huge cost. It’s a shameful and terrible idea, but it’s one that publishers have jumped on with force and will not let go of ever. So it’s either grind away, pay, or not play at all.
And I’ve chosen the latter, I’m afraid.
It’s a shame in a way, but with epic SF DLC and a less than lacklustre MVC game in the past couple of years, alongside general shenanigans, I’ve closed Capcom as a chapter in the life of my fandom and I’m cool with it. They went with Konami.
Sakura: Give me a baby!
Ryu: You’re like a daughter to me.
Sakura: Sure, I’m down with roleplay, daddy!
How did we get here?