The Entire Terrifying Story of Akuma ! - Street Fighter History (1991-2024)

In this upload, we look at the rise and rise of Akuma - let's cover the history of this classic Street Fighter character, their debut in Street Fighter 6 and why they are so important.
#streetfighter6 #akuma #streetfighter
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[@shin-oni4223]

It's pronounce Gotetsu

[@user-cn3jk4gk6p]

we heard your father fought Akuma back in the 90's and lost pretty badly until you were born that is and he still has the marks to prove it and the med document records to illustrate the coma he was in for 15 yrs before you were born

[@xblade149]

Akuma reminds me of Zodd from berserk

[@JS-eu1co]

Akuma isn't so bad, he saved a kid from a cave, and is friends with Elena. He is also a fruit vendor.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Akuma...one of the few who increases his badassery as he ages like fine wine.

[@bizzaro13]

I can't wait for him in Street Fighter 6, his new default look is so awesome. I appreciate that his classic look will be in the game as well.

[@roberthuff4763]

This……would honestly be so cool! I actually dig it a lot!

[@RikouHogashi]

Its hard to find a more fine a wine like Akuma he really is timeless no matter what Era he is in it dosen't matter with the Master of the Fist

[@Constellasian]

Some fans pointed out that Akuma dishes out the damage, but also takes more damage. Capcom did say that Akuma, and even Oni, needed to have this handicap for gameplay balancing purposes. However, I don't recall them saying it's canon that he takes more damage. I guess that explains why fighting against an AI controlled Shin Akuma and Oni, as hidden bosses, in SSF4 was tough. They didn't seem to have lower health pools.

[@MICHAELTUMANGDAY]

Remember Gouken said you can't fight the influence of the Satsui No Hadou and there's no turning back. He was correct on the no turning back, but the overcoming it was kinda wrong. Gouki managed to overcome it. It only altered his appearance but not his overall personality. Notice that he doesn't attack the weak nor the defenceless.

[@farazhuq5568]

Finally. Someone that gets the character. In SF Assassin’s Fist, Gouki even mentions that the old masters had it wrong. They gave in to the Hado. Gouki controls the Hado. He has achieved what he set out to do and has mastered the way of the Satsui no Hado.

[@S-account2]

Der gescheiterte Zustand der Überwindung ist „Oni“ in 4. Er war bis jetzt die mächtigste Version von Gouki, als „der Preis für das Scheitern“, aber schließlich, in 6, hat er sein Ego behalten und wurde Oni

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

Akuma is such a legendary character surprise Capcom didn't give him his own game.

[@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo]

Akuma's SF6 Raging Demon is so far the best Raging Demon

[@Ibuybabyaliens]

Yes because they let you see it lol duh before it was never really seen outside of the bs version in sf5

[@fodolocraigo8426]

⁠you didn't like 5?

[@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo]

@fodolocraigo8426 Akuma's sf5 demon in the dark was the first time we saw what goes on during his demon. And there was Kage and his Raging demon which was the most violent & bloodiest

[@Ibuybabyaliens]

@@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo there’s no blood….

[@fodolocraigo8426]

@@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo I know. Why is it bs tho

[@DragoonMS]

Street Fighter x Darkstalkers: One thing you may not have considered is that Akuma's base form is literally his older self from Street Fighter III: Second Impact & Third Strike. Who's to say that he hasn't had the time between SSF4:AE and SF3:2I (including SF5) to train further and gain control of his Oni abilities?

[@ES-dp6tw]

It's going to be wonderful seeing Akuma interacting with all our avatars. The look on his face as all sorts of bizarre entities with the most inconceivable of proportions waltz into his cave. And that's before he has to do ballet with Manon or buy Blanka-chan dolls.

[@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo]

Akuma is the reason Street Fighter & Tekken are connected

[@DBattyJr]

Your videos are epic. Well done.

[@jayro792]

Finally you got a video out on the new SF6 Akuma. Yay!!!

[@cashordeals3672]

Knowing that his sf6 English va is the same va for tfs cooler is wild 🤣

[@tryoink5541]

Is it actually

[@aaronbowers8035]

I was surprised Akuma wasn’t in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom

[@F1ghtGam3r]

U forgot to mention him fighting Gen, but sparing his life in this updated video

[@ashuosake2323]

You’re the best at what you do do mate🎉🎉🎉❤

[@juanduplays]

Awesome stuff!

[@omarreyes7626]

I get an aneurism every time I hear "RI-U"

[@xviper2k]

You have to admit the spelling and pronunciation don't match. I originally pronounced his name the same way.

[@omarreyes7626]

@@xviper2k for english maybe, not the case in both the original Japanese and most of latin based languages.

[@00jp]

I think it's a bit strange to see this character with the name of an akuma, because I've known him as gouki since the beginning

[@yeabih5607]

If you arent from japan YOUVE SEEN HIM AS AKUMA FOR DECADES NOW. Lol you dudes that ate snobs over a LANGUAGE . Are weird afffff

[@thejashin]

Who noticed how he looses his composure when using certain moves in sf6 he smiles crazy then goes back to unfazed as if he was thinking "I am stronger than satsui no hado ahum now back to fighting" and when he wins and turn back " shhhhh I broke my new toy too fast !!!" love crazy Gouki

[@cardellgivens4308]

Great video. Akuma is also an herald of Galatus in MVC3 and Ultimate MVC3.

[@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo]

11:03 Oni Akuma beyond Shin Akuma

[@Pruflas-Watts]

Cyber Akuma is one of the greatest, most epic boss/villain ever made. His theme song in MSH vs SF was an absolute banger

[@orangetouch2685]

Where’d u get that new clip of akuma in sf6?

[@lucyxoxoxxx]

great vid! seen some other entire akuma stories that are ai generated garbage, but this is well done.. with heart!

[@ThomasSerruques]

nice feature! no sf6 i thought? then found out akuma dlc for sf6 is not out yet 😊

[@literallyKarl]

You know, the fact, that his first "Die one thousand deaths" was silent made him scarier for me.

[@santibelmondo5480]

I wish for Akuma to be in Tekken 8. Only then will I buy the game.

[@F1ghtGam3r]

Again, u forgot to mention him as a secret boss in SF X Megaman

[@THATCRZYKING]

The only issue I have with Akuma lore is that like 90% of people hit with the Shun goku satsu are still alive after or have had literal hacks to survive it. Love his character though and use him in whatever game that has him

[@zakirstocks9514]

Best Epic Badass Street Fighter and Villain there is: Akuma! I Absolutely Love this guy! He's Pure Evil and Merciless! The Perfect Evil Longtime Archenemy and Worthy Adversary of Ryu!

[@lordronn472]

Now why do you pronounce Ryu like that? It’s not Rai You it’s Ree You

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

Tomato, tomato. One accent is not superior to another.

[@vetlekarlsen8382]

@@TopHatGamingManChannel Thats not how names work. Sure, other words can be pronouced in several ways, but names have one correct way of pronoucing them. It's Ree you, not Rai you. Just like John is pronounced Jonn and not Joan.

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

Sure it is, my name is Richard and when I visit Greece they role the R. I don't complain about it though and the way a Scot pronounces it to someone in the South East is very different too. For the record, a Frenchman pronounces John very different to Brits.

[@vetlekarlsen8382]

@@TopHatGamingManChannel When you go to Greece and they roll the R, they are pronouncing your name wrong. I get why you don't complain about it, it's obviously not a big deal at all, but it IS wrong. There ARE different ways to pronounce the same name, but each person has one right way to pronounce theirs. If a person is born in France and is called John, then the french pronunciation is the right one. If a person is born in England and is called John, then the english pronunciation is the right one. If the french person went to England, and I called him John in the traditional english pronunciation, I would be saying his name wrong.

[@PlanetDiablo16967]

@@TopHatGamingManChannel This comparison is just entirely false because it's not an accent issue, it's a pronunciation issue and those two things can be related but they aren't inherently related. Usually when accents result in an incorrect pronunciation it's a result of the person with accent having a native language that is incompatible with the correct pronunciation. Your accent here isn't incompatible with the correct pronunciation, it's just that the incorrect pronunciation was just sort of normalized in western countries. I grew up in the states where "Rai-You" was also the more common pronunciation when I was younger but it's not because of the American accent, it's because people looked at the spelling and went "Y makes an EYE sound". Tldr, it's not an accent thing, you're just saying it wrong.

[@The_Buff_Guy]

Shin Akuma, canonically, actually got his ass kicked by devil kazuya. Fucking crazy how powerful the mishimas are If Even the master of the hado himself got wrecked.

[@JokersVsZombies]

THE GOAT THE GOAT

[@LastOfGamers]

He has "isshun sengeki"ed all SF and Tekken characters, maybe soon he will go to Mortal Kombat realm!?

[@noidont8149]

Well. Done with this one man thorgi couldnt have done it better

[@michelvanderlinden8363]

to this day I wonder if somewhere, someone was able to play as Ryu and not be hit *at all*, and then being able to fight Bison without ever being hit there for ten rounds. Its absolutely ludicrous to think this could be real, but you can bet your ass tens of thousands of players attempted it. Imagine being that gamer and finding out it was a joke. Man, murder would absolutely be on the menu that day

[@AcidGlow]

Surprised you never covered the hidden Japanese text Shin Akuma has in Super Turbo II X. It's overlooked since most people play the american version which does not have it.

[@slythehedgewolf1577]

You kind of forgot about Akuma being featured in Resident Evil 2 as a special character to play and in a special mode Maximilian dood actually paid off a couple modders to dig deep into the file and they ended up finding it and made a mod for people to try it out on originally you had to play the game six times beat it six times get a rank and everything and you had to do it all with a knife once you've done this you had to go into a computer in a lab and type Akuma and then you could start playing with him apparently he shoots Fireballs he can punch instead of knife he can even do a shorter you can and when he's pushing objects he's doing the tatsumaki senpukyaku he's even strong enough to kill Mr X in 5 hadoukens and apparently they like to put three Mr x's in a couple rooms and with this mode there's a special ending you can unlock by killing eight special NPC zombies which includes characters from the Resident Evil 2 game like irons Leon Claire Sherry Annette Aida is a really interesting looking at game it's funny that a lot of people were left thinking that it was only an April Fool's joke only for it to actually be true sadly we're only finding it now because the final product of the game had a glitch in the code so no one ever really ended up finding it even if they did the conditions

[@AcornElectron]

I’m sure we can all agree that street fighter reached its pinnacle at II.

[@JoeEnglandShow]

Assassin's Fist is the definitive portrayal of Akuma's origin in my book. If anyone here hasn't seen it, I highly recommend looking it up! It's free to watch on KZbin. The finest Street Fighter live-action film, hands down (admittedly not a high bar). The canonicity to the games is debatable, but it's as faithful and loving as an adaptation can get. For anyone who doesn't care to see it and wants SPOILERS (not my recommendation), I'll mention that it suggests that Ryu, a foundling, is actually Akuma's son, conceived after his father transformed into a "demon" (perfectly portrayed by Joey Ansah), explaining Ryu's mysterious innate connection to the Satsui no Hado.

[@JMFabiano]

OSW Review did another wrestling picture inspired by SFA2's cover

[@eyezonly8593]

The only person I have ever seen Akuma tolerate is Elana

[@icefoxx1523]

*THE RAGING DEMON LIVES ON!!* 👹

[@a1tech11]

Its weird he doesnt have his own movie

[@sayonaras]

Akuma was also Nosferatu Zodd in past life

[@Maikeru-os4ti]

But we never got closure on Akuma in tekken 7 plus he never killed Heihachi Kazuya did so Akuma failed in his mission and never paid his debt that he promised to Kazumi

[@DoodlesGaming]

Early af bois

[@MinusNeko]

You have no problems pronouncing Gouken, so why do you pronounce Ryu as Rai-yuh and Akuma as Akuuumah? You spent 40 minutes on lore and canon crossovers, yet there's no mention of his fight with Gen, and most importantly, his real name Gouki?

[@xviper2k]

You mean his Japanese name. Akuma (which he's pronouncing correctly) has always been his only name everywhere else. And Ryu is not an easy name to pronounce if you've never heard it pronounced correctly, because the spelling doesn't match. I used to pronounce it the same as him.

[@MinusNeko]

@@xviper2k Him being a Japanese character by in a Japanese game by a Japanese gaming company means his Japanese name is the original name you tallywhacker. The youtuber wants to use Akuma because it's more familiar to english viewers? Fine, but this is a video about the character, why is there no mention of this discrepancy? And no Akuma being the Japanese word for devil, was pronounced badly too. And yada-yada with the oh it's hard to pronounce, the whole world learnt how to pronounce there vs their, someone intending to spread knowledge can at least put in the effort to properly pronounce the name of the main character of a game they're talking about.

[@TheProperSquatch]

There ain’t no way as long as he got the lore right why tf it matter why he says people name right😂 it’s like how people say tomato two different ways you know what he’s saying so what’s it matter😂

[@asrieldreemurr1918]

He was also in resident evil 2

[@tinfoilhat1619]

Wish ryu got a buff in sfvi

[@trainerredcharizard7982]

Doesnt The udon comic hint that Akuma IS the father of Ryu?

[@F1ghtGam3r]

Debate this Cyber Akuma vs Oni

[@bruhwhat2270]

Easily oni

[@LuluBanzai]

Rayu 😭

[@pirategangllc]

Now he need to appear in super dragon ball z

[@chessduncan1864]

Akuma is the undertaker of street fighter 🎉🎉😅

[@regal7677]

Hi it's me GOKU, I hear ur..AKUMA...FUQ Akuma ✨👹✨

[@cesarvelasquez8528]

Akuma sf6 is bigger better harder. Stronger

[@JoshuaLowe-ci3wo]

Can you imagine if Akuma appeared in Tekken 8 only for Kazuya to defeat him and absorb his power instead of Azazel's

[@carlousparker9406]

Akuma name is gokui en Japan 😂😂

[@user-dq8vn7wr7o]

Disgrace akuma he didn't know how I hate him I'm fan of Ryu and Ken

[@javsheredia6234]

Please, stop saying "Rai-ohh", it´s "Ree-yooh" (refering to Ryu), it hurts my ears everytime.

[@dmora2386]

Should he transcend lore and space and franchise and fenagle his way into the dragonball z universe to fight Goku? 😂 I mean it makes sense right?

[@kongobongo6538]

You just couldn't help yourself from revealing you nostalgia bias by going on a tangent about how deep and complex cyber Akuma is? Cyber Akuma is a goofy concept and has the exact same morals as regular Akuma, what made him deep and complex had nothing to do with the cyber part of him. We get it top hat, you're old and yearn for the old days

[@christhechilled]

0:13 Nothing screams “wiser” then trying to connect and older Ryu to the dark side, AGAIN! Like that red headed idiot can’t get a clue. How about Akuma go after Ken instead??? Cmon, Capcom! 😂😂😂

[@DanPankrat]

What if Satsui No Hado was used not by human being, but some… object, like katana? I have an interesting concept for new Street Fighter character: Tsumiki Arikawa - the last member of the Arikawa clan and the wielder of katana, cursed by Satsui No Hado energy. The Arikawa clan is a clan of assassins who eliminate anyone who use Satsui No Hado techniques by the cursed katana, currently owned by Tsumiki. As the last descendant of the clan, eighteen-year-old Tsumiki vowed to end the hunt, began by her ancestors, and kill the last known and the most famous master of Satsui No Hado - Akuma. Tsumiki’s cursed katana has “Raging Shogun” - a technique similar to Raging Demon: Tsumiki ran through the opponent, slashing him by the katana, and after when she put the katana back in the scabbard, opponent is being hit by numerous attacks and one powerful blow in the end. If the opponent is defeated by Raging Shogun, the ten (heaven) sigil appears in black screen with Tsumiki and her opponent. Yup, Tsumiki is supposed to be Akuma’s rival.

[@icefreak_55]

Go-TET-su, not Go-SET-su. 😂

[@prodclaysmith]

Ryu not rayu

[@siouxsiexymox6594]

I hate that Capcom keeps making Akuma look more and more like a silly lion 😅

[@eyezonly8593]

Time stays still for no man I guess even fictional ones

[@thesmokinggamer8149]

🌾u

[@thequadragamerz]

Can you make more lore content instead of fake theories please?

[@codyjames4814]

He is a sloppy finisher! One one who stayed dead was his master 😂. Or did his master just play dead too. 😂😂

[@Gameroomrebel1980]

What if.... Akuma is actually Ryu in a parallel dimension? Lol

[@djkaneck1]

Corny

[@liquidbiden]

The true horror to tophat would be if akuma insisted on different pronouns.

[@SantiagoOXfir]

ryu is akuma and akuma is oni

[@scarlindo]

Comics are not canon.

[@liublanka3925]

God I am so sick of gummy fighter 6. The music alone is such a slap in the face to us real street fighter fans. It’s as shitty as modern dei wwe entrance sound effects err “themes” the gfx look like something from a 360 game. Capcom is a shadow of the 90s capcom that was godlike. From beautiful sprite art to this garbage and morons who pay like $80 to have ninja turtles skins not even for the actual sf characters and $100 for skins. Modern fighting games are woke trash *looks at mortal kombat 1 rainbow weddings*