What is written in Akumas back?

The kanji "ten" (天) — meaning "Heaven" — can be seen on his back when it appears during certain win animations.
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What does the letter on Akumas back mean?

Fighting Style

His first video game appearance in the series was in Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The kanji ten (天) - meaning "sky", "heaven", or "providence" - can be seen on the back of his gi. Capcom has stated that this symbol was meant to represent "immortality".
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What is the kanji on Akuma?

akuma – 悪魔 (あくま) : a noun meaning 'devil' in Japanese. This can also work as plural. Depending on the situation and context, this can mean 'demon' or 'fiend' as well. These two kanji characters literally mean a bad devil in Japanese.
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Is Akuma RYUS dad?

Generations makes it pretty clear that Ryu is Akuma's illegitimate son.
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What does Shin Akuma mean in Japanese?

Shin Akuma (真・悪魔, Shin Akuma?, "True Demon" or "True Devil"), known in Japan as Shin Gouki (真・豪鬼, Shin Gōki?, "True Great Demon", "True Great Devil" or "True Great Ogre"), is a character from the Street Fighter series, first appearing in Street Fighter Alpha 2 as a hidden boss.
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Is Akuma black?

Akuma has dark red hair, dark skin tone, glowing red eyes with black sclera, wears prayer beads around his neck, a dark gray karate gi and a piece of twine around his waist in lieu of an obi.
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Why is M Bison evil?

Though his soul while using the Soul Power had two distinct sizes (one good and other evil), he chose to expel all the goodness that was in his soul and become entirely evil. Captured teenage girls and brainwashed them into becoming the Shadaloo Dolls. Killed Cammy's parents and brainwashed her.
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Who is Ryu's brother?

Shun is a major character from Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation. This boy is apparently the younger brother of Ryu, the Japanese fighter who has played a primary role in the Street Fighter video games, though Shun himself has never appeared in any of the games.
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Is Ryu son of GOKI?

As time passes, Sayaka leaves Gouken while pregnant with child, being Ryu. And in both Generations and Assassin's Fist, he's unleashed the power of the Dark Hado.
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Why is Akuma called Gouki?

The reason Capcom USA changed Gouki's name to Akuma was because they thought that "Gouki" didn't sound intimidating enough for english speaking audiences.. It had nothing to do with religion at all, because both names can be translated to have demonic meaning (Gouki = Great Demon, Akuma = Devil/Evil Demon).
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What does Akuma say?

Akuma: "One must defeat one's own shadow, one's own demon, or he is condemned to nothingness. I have dwelled in darkness and have conquered it."
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What does KO mean in Japan?

child. More meanings for 子 (Ko) child noun. お子様, 子供, チャイルド, 幼児, 児 infant noun.
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What does Evil Ryu symbol mean?

Evil Ryu has a different symbol than that of Akuma, Shin Akuma and even Oni: In Street Fighter Alpha 3 and in Capcom vs. SNK 2, the symbol was Metsu (滅) for "Destruction".
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How did Evil Ryu come to be?

After Asura changes into his six arms form, uppercuts Ryu into the moon and attempts to drive him through the chest with his fist, the Mathra causes the Satsui no Hado to awaken, allowing Ryu to transform into Evil Ryu.
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What does Akuma logo mean?

Akuma wears a symbol on his back, referred to in Street Fighter as the 'ten' symbol. It means several things as Japanese words often do, including 'day', 'heaven' and 'invincibility'. David Williams wrote in and adds: "It is synonymous with 'Immortal'.
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Who trained Akuma?

Goutetsu (轟鉄 / ゴウテツ, Gōtetsu?, "Roaring Iron") is a non-playable character in the Street Fighter video game series. According to the backstory introduced in Super Street Fighter II Turbo, he was the martial arts master of Gouken and Akuma, who trained them in the martial art style they used.
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Is Kage A Ryu?

Kage is not the Evil Ryu, despite the fact that he's an evil Ryu doppelgänger, but something else. Here's how Capcom describes the new character: Kage, meaning “shadow,” is the physical embodiment of the evil spirit, “Satsui no Hado,” that could hypothetically overtake Ryu and turn him into the character Evil Ryu.
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Who can beat Evil Ryu?

4 COULD DEFEAT: Bullseye

Bullseye is arguably the deadliest marksman in all of comics. In his hands, anything becomes a deadly weapon. Given enough time to study Ryu, Bullseye may just be able to defeat Ryu in a fight.
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Who is Ryu's sister?

Yua Bateson is a character in Breath of Fire II. She is the daughter of Ganer and Valerie Bateson, and the younger sister of Ryu. Following a key moment in Ryu's childhood, she and her parents mysteriously vanished.
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Is Sakura in love with Ryu?

By Street Fighter 4, Sakura had a crush on Ryu, but now in Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition, the recent high-school grad ponders the bigger things in life and appears to want more from Ryu. She doesn't explicitly say she wants to have Ryu's child, but Sakura talks about how everyone gets old and dies.
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Is Rose M Bison?

Rose appears in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li as M. Bison's ulterior objective in the story, having sought her in Bangkok, where she was left after her mother died. As in the games, she is depicted as the manifestation of M. Bison's good side, though she is born instead of created, making her M.
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What is Bison's first name?

Though the "M" originally stood for "Mike" in Japan (for the boxer character), Capcom has never explained what it stands for in Western releases, calling it "part of the character's mystery". His name stands for “Mike Bison”, but is abbreviated for copyright.
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Why is M. Bison named Vega?

The dictator character we know as M. Bison is called Vega in Japan, with the Spanish matador's name being Balrog. These names were all switched around in the international editions of the game, due to fears of a lawsuit from Mike Tyson's representatives when the game was released in America. This led to M.
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Is zangief a villain?

Zangief is an outright villain in this feature-length movie, where he is depicted as a near-feral monster who was more than happy to try and brutally murder a young boy after the boy angered him - he was so brutal that Ryu had to intervene to stop him potentially killing his opponent and although Zangief did show some ...
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