Ryu's Remade Stage Theme - Street Fighter Tribute Album

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Ryu debuted in the first Street Fighter as the primary playable character in the game, with his best friend, rival and sparring partner Ken serving as the second player's character. In this incarnation, Ryu has red hair and wears a tattered white karate gi with a white hachimaki and red slippers. Also, a constant trait in his design is the Fūrinkazan (風林火山?) kanji motif (meaning Wind, Wood, Fire, Mountain), battle standard of the historical japanese military leader Takeda Shingen, embroidered into his obi, simulating Karate Dan degrees. The connection of Takeda's standard to the character can be found in its philosophical meaning : Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain, traits that serious practitioners of martial arts often pursue to achieve.

He and his rival Ken (who both trained under the same master, a character later established to be Gouken) compete in the tournament depicted in the game in order to test their strength against the tournament's champion, Sagat.

His next appearance was in 1991's Street Fighter II, which features an older looking Ryu with brown hair and a red hachimaki. He also fought barefooted this time. Set several years after Ryu defeated Sagat in the first tournament (with Sagat bearing a chest scar from his defeat by Ryu's Dragon Punch), Ryu participates in a second tournament, inviting his old friend Ken to compete against him. In his ending in the game, Ryu wins the tournament against Sagat and M. Bison, but does not stay for the ceremony, already seeking his next challenge. This ending defines Ryu's characterization as a "wandering warrior".

Ryu's backstory, along with those of other Street Fighter characters, would be explored in the subsequent Street Fighter Alpha prequel series. Set between the original Street Fighter and the Street Fighter II games, the Alpha series features a young Ryu much like the one depicted in the original Street Fighter with light red hair and a white hachimaki.

The first game, Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (1995), features Ryu confronting Sagat as his last opponent in a rematch following their first fight. Street Fighter Alpha 2 (1996)) depicts Ryu on a quest to confront Akuma, his master's brother and enemy. After their match, Akuma reveals that Ryu possesses the "evil intent" or "Satsui no Hadou" within him, the same power Akuma uses. An alternate version of Ryu using this power is featured in the game as hidden character (see Evil Ryu). In Ken's ending, Ryu is shown receiving the red headband he wears in Street Fighter II as a gift from Ken (a concept previously used in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie). In Street Fighter Alpha 3 (1998), Ryu is sought by Bison, who seeks to use Ryu as his next host body. With the help of Sagat and Sakura, Ryu is able to defeat Bison and fend him off until he is ultimately destroyed by Guile and Charlie (it is explained that Bison had a new host body constructed for himself prior to Street Fighter II).

Ryu and Ken would return in Street Fighter III 1997, with a new character named Alex serving as the new lead character. It was followed by Street Fighter III 2nd Impact and Street Fighter III 3rd Strike. While Ryu's motivation in the game and rivalry with Ken would remain the same, he was also shown getting acquainted with several of the new characters featured in the game, such as becoming a tag partner for Hugo in 2nd Impact or Oro's pupil in 3rd Strike.

Ryu appears in Street Fighter IV, which takes place after Street Fighter II but before Street Fighter III. He was one of the first characters revealed for the game, along with Ken. His Destined Rival in his storyline is Sagat in a final rematch between the two. He is also the Destined Rival of many of the other characters in the game, including Sakura, Akuma, and Gouken.

Street Fighter The Animated Movie also establishes the name of his master Gouken's temple: Gōrinji, where he was trained along with Ken, in Ryu's vital statistics scenes.

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[elic1t]

@unionofonion That's true. I remember in "The Last Samurai", Katsumoto's son had a hard time saying Algren.

[slimstar06]

@unionofonion lol thanks 4 the info

[unionofonion]

@slimstar06 It's called engrish.

Japs can not pronounce their l's or r's so they sort of mix them together and they end up sounding like some deaf person.

[wertyjess]

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU

[slimstar06]

is he singing in jap or mex somebody tell me

[Mesarphelous]

weed

[csbutler3]

FIST OF WAVEMOTION!

WAVE MOTION EMITTED!

The lyrics are fine if you know what he's saying... It described Ryu to the letter

*sigh*ppl only use Ryu cause he's a "top tier" and not because he's their actual favorite character... whatever though I catch Ryu posers in Metsu Shoryukens all day long so it doesn't really bother me =D

[tharcis1]

men he fuck up in some parts of the song the intrumental part is great but when he goes back singing god damn it whatever its tolareted

[DaELFGokulio]

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi for the win!! I can't for the life of me figure out why the hell is everyone hating on the guy who gave us ROOOOLLLIIING STAAAAAAART?!

Oh wait, now I remember: the mass collective of Youtube associates Street Fighter with SF2 on SNES, then they moved to the Gaystation 1, they wouldn't know a good SEGA Saturn game if it hit them in the head.

Poor kids..

[Sipong79]

Ryu is on the quest to find this singer and dragon-fireball-hurricane-volc­ano-meteor-omega punch the guy for messing with his theme song.