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Street Fighter:The New Challengers- Animated Comic Book

By Mark Rodriguez

This story picks up right after Round 1 left off, and I decided to check it out on Hulu as well. The story was kinda long so while I won't give the super exact play by play, I will cover all of the major stuff that happened.

The story mostly centers around Cammy, now working with MI6 without really remembering her past. She's on a mission with her squad on a moving train to protect someone that is targeted for assassination by Shadaloo. During the mission, Cammy runs into one of the Dolls who recognizes her saying 'you?'. The Doll named Satsuki is captured but it leaves Cammy wondering how she knew her.

Chun Li is on a mission to find Fei Long who is being targeted by Shadaloo as well. After they meet up, they find out that two other Dolls, Xiayu and Jianyu are heading the operation in Hong Kong. Chun Li and Fei Long team up with Gen and head over to their stronghold. After some fighting, the trio defeat the Dolls and break up the crime ring. Before Chun Li leaves, she pays her respects to her father alongside Gen.


Ryu and Sakura travel the world. Ryu is looking for Sagat to test his strength. As they arrive in Thailand, they run into Adon instead, who has sworn Sagat off as his master after his defeat to Ryu. After a fight, Ryu defeats Adon and he tells him that Sagat is currently in India, so Ryu and Sakura will head over there.

Cammy talks to Satsuki in private and the Doll thinks that Cammy has gone under deep cover within MI6. Cammy plays along and finds out that they're working on the Pyscho Drive and need one last component to complete it, which will render all modern weaponry useless against it. Other Dolls attack the base, stealing the final component and Satsuki escapes, saluting Cammy as she gets away in a helicopter. Cammy comes to the horrible realization that she was one of Bison's Dolls.

Ryu and Sakura arrive in India, but before they can do much they're called by Ken to visit them in the US because he'll be marrying Eliza soon and wants Ryu in the group photo. Ken and Eliza catch a boxing match in Las Vegas, and one of the fighters is Balrog. Balrog recognizes Ken in the crowd and calls up Vega after the match.

Vega seems to be running most of Shadaloo's operations after Bison's apparent demise. He scolds Xiayu and Jianyu for failing in Hong Kong and sends them to find the final component for the Pyscho Drive. Once he gets the call from Balrog, he's eager for a rematch with Ken.

After Cammy tells her teammates what she discovered from Satsuki, they call Chun Li to help out on the case. Once Chun Li arrives, she recognizes Cammy as the Killer Bee that killed her father and flips out. Chun Li attacks her violently, while Cammy is basically trying to defend herself, confused as to all that she has done in her past life.



 The rest of M16 arrive to try to break it up, and once Chun Li sees the innocence in Cammy's eyes, she backs off and apologizes. As MI6 prepare to head out to stop Shadaloo, Cammy is captured by their agents.

Ryu and Sakura arrive to join Ken and Eliza for the group photo and a party. Guile, his wife Julia and their daughter are in the same area on their own outing. Guile's marriage is on shaky ground as his obsession with avenging Charlie keeps him away from his wife. Vega and Balrog arrive to crash the party with a couple of extra thugs.

Ryu and Ken start fighting the bad guys in hand to hand combat until one of the thugs has enough and decides to whip out a gun. As he's about to shoot in the back, Sakura finally unleashes her very first Hadouken, stopping the armed thug. Ken starts fighting Vega, though he's getting sliced up a lot, and Ryu has a difficult time against Balrog. Guile, after making sure that the guests got out safely, heads back to see if he can help.

Ryu finally defeats Balrog with a Sho Ryu Ken, but Vega is pretty much ready to finish off Ken. The crazed matador sees Eliza and says he will kill her right in front of Ken so it will be the last thing he sees. Guile arrives and fights off Vega. The police arrive and Vega and Balrog get away.

Ken thanks Ryu for the help. Eliza tells her sister Julia that Guile is a good man and she would have been dead had he not stepped in to help. Sakura tells Ryu that her summer vacation is almost over so she has to head back to Japan.

Cammy wakes up in a capsule and remembers having dreams about this before. The scientist are ready to completely erase her memories and start over. Before he can press the button, he sees that his computer systems have been hacked by MI6, and they soon enter the frey alongside Chun Li. The main scientist unleashes the Dolls to attack them all, and also to make sure they protect the final component. As everyone fights the various Dolls, Cammy sees one with a mask and manages to knock if off her face. She is shocked and confused that this Doll, Decapre, looks exactly like her!

The scientist release Blanka, who was apparently created by Shadaloo and was captured all this time. The MI6 agents are caught off guard by Blanka's Ball Attacks and Electric Attacks. Cammy calls Blanka out and the savage beast is ready to attack. He suddenly recognizes her as Killer Bee and backs off, asking for her not to hurt him anymore. Cammy wonders what she could have possibly done to him to scare him that much. The place is destroyed and everyone got away, but the bad guys still managed to escape with the final component they needed.


Cammy pays her respects to Chun Li's father, apologizing for what she did, even though she was brainwashed at the time. She'll continue to fight Shadaloo to atone for her sins. Rose watches Cammy from her crystal ball and laments that even when she tried to give Cammy a new life with MI6, it seems her destiny continues to leads her straight to Bison. She then notices something in her crystal ball that horrifies her. The Shadaloo scientists have succeeded in reviving Bison.

My opinions-

As always Udon does a great job with Street Fighter, especially in the art and action department. It's a pretty bizarre mix between doing a great job of staying true to the Street Fighter backstory and showing us things we've only heard about or seen mentioned in character endings. And then they have Cammy kill Chun Li's father. I don't know, in a way I guess it's beneath Bison to do his own dirty work, but Chun Li's battle against Bison has always felt so much more personal because he personally killed her father himself.


Sending Cammy to do it instead felt kinda weird. Yeah, I know they did a similar thing with Bison having Balrog hire Cammy as a professional assassin to kill Chun Li's father in the Street Fighter V anime series, but that series was so different and far removed from the games, it got kinda a free pass. The Udon comics feel much more legit, so this kind of change was jarring to me at first. It reminds me of Fatal Fury where Geese Howard himself killed Terry and Andy's father, but the Art of Fighting games imply that he sent Mr. Karate to do it.

Either way, this was a pretty good story and I like how it heavily revolved around Cammy and her trying to make sense of her current life, while at the same time trying to remember her past life. Despite my criticisms of Cammy killing Chun Li's father, it shows the inner strength that Chun Li has to be able to let go and forgive Cammy, realizing she was not in her right mind when she did that. I liked seeing Cammy pray upon Chun Li's father's grave as well.

 The comics did a good job of showcasing more of the other Dolls, as well as more of MI6's members. I do find it funny how Ryu and Sakura go from Thailand to India, then interrupt their travel plans to meet Ken in the US... and I assume from there Ryu is heading back to India again. For a wanderer, Ryu must have hella cash or tons of flyer miles saved up.

Blanka really felt out of nowhere though. It's like Udon suddenly remembered him and was like 'well, we gotta put him in there somewhere, don't we?'. And him being some sort of Shadaloo experiment reminds me too much of the Van Damme movie... but I guess we also need some sort of way to explain how a regular human kid turned into whatever Blanka is.

It was still an entertaining watch. I do enjoy these animated movies but I don't know if Udon made more. Hulu only had this one and the first one I saw before, but that one is already gone. These Udon comics gave me more interest and curiosity in watching other animated comic movies.

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