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Originally Posted by deecee4

Not sure what you mean by this. The udon art style is clearly based on the artwork that bengus,nishimura, akiman,etc created for the series during the 90s. Not the other way around. They didn't even start publishing sf comics till the early 00s.

Yes, and the majority of Street Fighter stuff has come out after 2003. Sure, there was a few things (the before mentioned Hasbro Street Fighter toys, Resaurus line), but Street Fighter being seen as retro nostalgia, akin to Rainbow Brite or He-Man, is rather recent. I never said Udon invented the anime style for Street Fighter. As I said, quite clearly, Street Fighter 2 had anime-style artwork from the beginning. Udon's artwork, however, is what I see EVERYWHERE on the majority of Street Fighter swag from keychains to coffee mugs, so obviously Capcom tells licensors to look at Udon as the principle reference for characters, otherwise we'd be seeing a ton of the horrible "realistic" art from the western SNES instruction booklets.