Customer Reviews

Street Fighter II V, Vol. 4

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Volume 4 is the worst anime I've seen in the SFII series, and is almost entirely a waste of money. Aside from the first and last episode of this volume, original footage was scarce. I felt it was almost a rehashing of the story line from the last volume. I had to skip or fast forward alot of the material to keep interest. I found it very bad quality when in important scenes, such as where Ryu and Ken are about to fight, to be complemented by elevator music. Overall a very bad volume; with reasons stated above also the development of Ki for Ken was just awkward.

It is like they say, S.F. IIV is by far the best martial art anime based on a video game.Unfortunally most of the martial art anime base on video games aren't very accepted by the fans because it doesn't follow the same story line as they does in the game making it lose its bright in the anime businness.S.F. absolutelly passed the test although it is kind of different from the games story line.The animation for this anime is great and the action scenes are awsome.Buy it and see for your self that S.F. in anime can be the same as awsome and fun as in the video game.I was impress when I first watched it,it is by far one of the best fighting anime ever.

Sreet Fighter fans will not be dissapointed after watching this series. It features great animation and unmatched action. While the story does lag at points, it isnt too bad. I higly recommend it to anybody that loves watching great action flicks. Plus you cant beat the amount of eps of the dvd. great job manga!

Basically you can't watch this vol without watching the first three. Just like most old school Japanese anime, they like to drag things out. Like one scene where someone is standing there might take like 10 minutes when they probably could have done it in like 30 seconds. They like to build things up I guess. Overall, I thought it was a great series. I also like seeing Akuma appear randomly.

Pros: If you love SF, you'll enjoy this.

Cons: might be a little slow.

I had never seen the Street fighter series but am glad that I purchased it finally

This whole series was really bad, it was boring and slow not a whole lotta action here bubs.

What bogs this finale off is that it's just too long and it's split over several episodes. You never feel like you're getting anywhere with them and when something interesting happens it ends with a cliffhanger. Plus the use of flashbacks goes waaaay to far with one episode being almost entirely made up of old footage. Come on, man. We're not that dumb, we know how the story went.

Storywise, this DVD ends the series with Ryu and Ken taking on Bison on his island fortress while Guile and Nash try to rescue them. Elsewhere Cammy and Balrog clash over the assassination of Inspector Dorai. It's lively enough but can someone tell me how Ken's fatal wounds from the previous episodes miraculously healed in the space of a few hours? And despite the music being of the ususal cool standard there are few scenes, particularly the one where Ken and Ryu are forced to fight each other, where it becomes the most innappropriate supermarker muzak ever.

And what became of Bison at the end? Or Chun Li? Not a good denouement at all. It's a shame such a great show had to end on a weaker note.

As per usual , audio and video quality of the 8 episodes contained on this last volume of Street Fighter II V are excellent.
Concerning the story , I agree with other reviewers that the plot could have been reworked to allow all the characters a chance to develop sufficiently. But there is tons of actions and well-acted drama.
One big problem is the constant re-use of footage from past episodes..but I guess they were on a tight budget.
The music is fantastic ...to the skeptics, that j-pop music that plays during the dramatic scenes do work really well.
Extras are decent , but they could have added more trailers or some conceptual sketches.
And they should have left in the original intro and ending music...slag the techno remix!

Volume 4 of Street fighter II V is awesome...The animation is normal but the people are too tall and too bulky other than the video game and such...The action is very good and keeps you watching the series,at least every 5 minutes there is either action or something going on...The plot is good except the issue with Chunli,the series has much more blood and violence than SF2 the animated movie...I reccomend buying this if you like ninja stuff,action,dragonball z and so fourth.

If you haven't seen this on vhs and you like anime then I reccomend you getting this one.