The reason I believe Akuma is NOT evil is because he only LOOKS evil when fights. In reality he's an OK guy, he will help people as long as they don't make him angry. When he fights he doesn't go easy on people unless he chooses so (like when he fought Gen in Street Fighter Alpha 2) which is what a lot of people mistake about Akuma for being evil.
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AKUMA (GOUKI in Japan)
Height: 178cm
Weight: 80kg
BWH sizes: B118, W84, H86
Blood type: Unknown
Birthplace: Unknown
Special Skill: Unknown
Likes: Unknown
Dislikes: Unknown
Fighting Style: Ansatsuken
Street Fighter 1: He wasn't in the actual game, but behind the scenes, he
was doing things. Akuma challenged, fought, and killed his brother,
Gouken, while Ryu was away at the first Street Fighter tournament.
Witnessing the battle was Gouken's daughter, and by the end of the battle,
one of Gouken's students, Ken, had arrived, and witnessed Akuma pulling off
the killing blow. Akuma, victorious, then leaves to go back to his island
of Gokuentou. [Official]
Street Fighter Alpha 2: Gouken's student, Ryu, has tracked Akuma down, and
challenges Akuma as a fighter. Akuma, always looking for worthy foes,
tests Ryu's mettle at his island, Gokuento. Akuma is very impressed by
Ryu's skill, and tells Ryu about the Satsu no Hadou power within Ryu. He
wants that power to awaken within Ryu, and tells Ryu that once it does, Ryu
should seek Akuma out again so they could have a real match [Official].
Akuma then forcefully slams his fist into the ground, and the island of
Gokuentou sinks into the sea, with Ryu escaping just in time [Conjecture
from Ryu's SFA2 ending].
One day, an old man named Gen found Akuma, and challenged him. Akuma
used the Shun Goku Satsu on Gen, but Gen somehow managed to survive it!
Gen then did his his Zan-ei on Akuma but Akuma survived. As the battle
goes on, Akuma realized that Gen was sick and the two set apart. Neither
one won the battle. Gen survived the Shungokusatsu because he emptied his
spirit, heart and mind (which makes him immune from the past sins and
dragged to hell aspect) [Official].
Street Fighter Alpha 3: Akuma spent SFA3 looking for a worthy challenger.
He found Gen, once again, by the end of SFA3. Gen really is persistent,
and wants to finally end things and have a match to the death. He tells
Akuma that Akuma won't win, again (Gen considers Akuma the winner of the
last match because Akuma chose to 'spare' Gen by withdrawing when he saw
that Gen was sick). Capcom hasn't stated who won the final battle, though
Gen's ending shows that Gen won it, whereas Akuma's ending just shows the
two meeting again, finally (course, Gen's ending could also be interpreted
as him having KILLED Akuma, which obviously didn't happen). After winning
the battle, Gen decided to spare Akuma and just give up, finally, on
finding an opponent worthy of a deathmatch. He states that Akuma was the
only one worthy of such a battle, but now that the battle was over, there
is no more reason for Gen to use his fighting style, any longer [Conjecture
based off in-game storyline].
Street Fighter 2: Akuma has heard about the Street Fighter 2 tournament.
However, he doesn't sign up for it. When the final championship of the
match came with someone against the host of the tournament and leader of
Shadaloo, M. Bison (Capcom hasn't stated who), Akuma decided to randomly
jump in and test just how powerful this M. Bison was. When Akuma
approached M. Bison, M. Bison was caught off guard. Akuma declared that
Bison was pathetic, because he had allowed himself to be consumed by his
own shadow, as opposed to Akuma, who had mastered his own fighting style
through sheer training alone. Akuma declares that the master of the fist
will always win over one possessed by his own shadow, and attacked M. Bison
[Akuma's SF2 Revival ending]. I'm pretty positive Akuma was talking about
Psycho Power when he said that to Bison, because in Street Fighter Alpha 3,
Akuma calls Bison weak for not relying solely on his fists (and having to
rely on Psycho Power, instead). Since Psycho Power relies on negative
energy (there's also the fact that Bison is the dark side of his own soul,
since Rose is the light half), that probably is what represents Bison being
consumed by his own shadow. As for when Akuma attacked Bison in SF2, it
also hasn't been stated by Capcom whether this happened before whoever was
set to fight Bison fought him and won, or after, though in the game, it
happens before (in actuality though, I imagine it was probably after, since
that allows for everyone else's SF2 endings to take place, and since Capcom
considers most SF2 characters resolved as shown by them not bringing most
SF2 characters over to SF3, well... their endings probably all took place,
then). At any rate, Akuma randomly jumped in (surprising the heck out of
M. Bison), then pulled off the Shun Goku Satsu on Bison which killed M.
Bison. Hmm. That wasn't so tough [Official].
Street Fighter 3 Double Impact: Akuma develops "the ultimate technique",
Kongou-kokuretsuzan. It is so powerful that it splits an entire mountain,
Ayers Rock, in half! [Akuma's SF3DI ending]. Considering that he's a
secret character, I'm pretty sure he didn't register and sign up for the
tournament, just like how he didn't sign up for the SF2 tournament.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike: Oro has been sensing some powerful ki for
some time. He finally tracks it down and finds Akuma! Out of curiousity
to see how powerful each other is, they fight [Official]. Third Strike
dialogue indicates that the fight was more just to see each others'
strength than anything serious, so there probably was no death matching.
Akuma is still training. He has developed himself so much that he is now
powerful enough to do inhuman acts, such as stay deep under the ocean.
While training there, he uses the Tenshoukairekijin to destroy a sunken
ship. Observed by a submarine, the crew members are shocked. The move is
so powerful that it causes the sunken ship to be blasted to the surface,
causing chaos even for another ship on the water [Akuma's SF3TS ending].
Where Is He Now: As shown by SF3 dialogue, Akuma still waits for Ryu to
get better to become a worthy match (even though officially, Ryu has since
then given up Satsu no Hadou, he still is improving and still has
potential) or to find a worthy match out there. Akuma himself is always
training, also [Conjecture based off in-game storyline].
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Surprise! Akuma's fighting style is NOT shotokan. He's an Ansatsuken
fighter (ditto for Ken and Ryu, except they use a style of Ansatsuken
that's been toned down in terms of lethal killingness). Shotokan is a
mistranslation by Capcom of America, and in fact the 'shoto-scrubs' as some
people like to call them fight nothing like the real-life style of Shotokan
(or at least, 100% like shotokan. See below). Just like how Blanka fights
nothing like Capoeira. Strange Capcom of America. They probably censored
it from Ansatsuken because heaven forbid that a fighting style is actually
implied to be able to, GASP, KILL people!!! Oh, won't someone PLEASE think
of the children!?
Note from Saiki: Both Gouki and Gen use Ansatsuken. Gouki uses
Ansatsuken but with more karate, judo, taekwondo and koppo elements to it.
Gen actually should have more styles but I guess it'd be too hard to put it
all into the game. I can't remember all of them but I think it was Mantis,
Crane, Tiger, Bear, err, can't remember the rest. Ryu tand Ken use a toned
down version that Gouken taught them that isn't designed to kill, unlike
Gen's and Akuma's style.
