See Three New Trailers for Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist

The long-awaited web series based on the Street Fighter franchise is on the horizon, and three character trailers have been released to hype it up. Coming this May, Machinima will tell the live-action tale of Ryu, Ken, Gouken, and Akuma through a series of YouTube videos called Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist. Interestingly enough, unlike the Mortal Kombat counterpart Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Assassin's Fist will focus entirely on only one corner of the Street Fighter mythos.

Ever since the Street Fighter Alpha games hit the scene in the mid-90's, the core storyline in Street Fighter has been about Ryu and his battle against his literal inner demons. He and Ken Masters learned the martial art of Ansatsuken under their master Gouken, but Ryu's inner desperation to be the greatest fighter in the world has drawn out an uncontrolled, darker personality. Gouken's brother Akuma (Gouki in Japan) is considered the most powerful warrior in the world, and while he's become especially powerful by giving in to his negative emotions, it's also cost him his humanity and turned him into a ruthless demon. Does Ryu stay pure like his master or does he take the easy way out and give into the dark side?

Interestingly enough, while Ryu vs. Ken, Gouken vs. Akuma, and Ryu vs. Akuma have been done to death across different forms of media, Assassin's Fist appears to be one of the rare times that they go back farther to give you the "why?" Sure, we know that Ryu and Ken are Gouken's students, but what led them to that? Where does that negative emotion from Ryu come from? Ken is a rich kid who can have whatever he wants, but then why is he drawn to being a successful martial artist?

I'm intrigued by the series, but I hope we get at least one appearance by Gouken's failed attempt at a pupil in Dan Hibiki, the loveable fool of the franchise.

Check out these three trailers just released.

MACHINIMA AND CAPCOM ANNOUNCE ALL EPISODES OF STREET FIGHTER: ASSASSIN’S FIST WILL DEBUT ON THE MACHINIMA MAIN CHANNEL

Created By and Starring Joey Ansah and Christian Howard, Series Also Stars Togo Igawa, Akira Koieyama, Mike Moh, Gaku Space, Shogen, Hyunri, and features Hal Yamanouchi and Mark Killeen

Los Angeles, CA, March 14, 2014 – Machinima, Assassin’s Fist Limited, and Capcom U.S.A., Inc. announce today, in partnership with Producer Jacqueline Quella, and Director Joey Ansah, that STREET FIGHTER: ASSASSIN’S FIST will debut in its entirety on Machinima, the number-one global video entertainment network for young males. The exact air date will be announced soon. The live-action series, which is distributed by Content Media, is the brainchild of Ansah (The Bourne Ultimatum, Snow White and the Huntsman), a member of the creative team behind the hugely successful fan film Street Fighter: Legacy—which has received almost 5,000,000 views to date. Ansah, who also stars in the series (Akuma), wrote the script with Christian Howard, who reprises his role as Ken Masters from the original fan film. The series also stars Mike Moh as Ryu, Togo Igawa (47 Ronin, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai) as Gōtetsu, Akira Koieyama as Gōken, Gaku Space as Gōki, Mark Killeen (300: Rise of an Empire, The Dark Knight Rises) as Mr. Masters, and Hal Yamanouchi as Senzo. Through the coming of age story of Ken & Ryu, we are shown the back story of some of the game’s most iconic characters, and over the course of the series we will see how the past, present, and future of all of those characters are intertwined, as the battle to become Ansatsuken Master threatens to tear apart another generation of brothers.

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