Rating: 
Summary: Truly average
Review: A lot of die hard fans gave this volume 5 stars. I believe that is fandom clouding their judgement. The music is absolutely horrible. I felt like I was watching an animated series for little girls, which plays poorly against the violent theme and adult language.The story in this volume is not very exciting either. They do a great job demonstrating the bond between Ryu and Ken. That is probably the best thing about the series at this point. The only characters introduced are Guile, Chun Li, and Fei Long. The fighting is bland, the animation is made-for-TV anime. The only reason I give this 3 stars is that fandom is clouding my better judgement and this is just the beginning of the series.
Rating:
Summary: Truly average
Review: A lot of die hard fans gave this volume 5 stars. I believe that is fandom clouding their judgement. The music is absolutely horrible. I felt like I was watching an animated series for little girls, which plays poorly against the violent theme and adult language. The story in this volume is not very exciting either. They do a great job demonstrating the bond between Ryu and Ken. That is probably the best thing about the series at this point. The only characters introduced are Guile, Chun Li, and Fei Long. The fighting is bland, the animation is made-for-TV anime. The only reason I give this 3 stars is that fandom is clouding my better judgement and this is just the beginning of the series.
Rating: 
Summary: STREET FIGHTER!2
Review: Buyit Buy it! If you like SF2 Then buy it! I grew up with SF1 and 2 also 3,But this has to be the best Japanese Animation yet!Now we can only hope they continue more like this!
Rating:
Summary: Great series, poor DVD...
Review: Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this series, however, I've been having some annoying problems with this disc. For starters, episodes 5 through 7 are all "glitchy", and I often get some skips during the animation. Also, some episodes can't be chosen from the menu without my getting a "Disc Error". It could be just the incompatibility from my DVD Player, but incompatibilities are annoying, and should be fixed. Otherwise, the DVD has crisp, clean picture, and great sound. Also, you get seven great episodes into one DVD. Can't go wrong there, now can you? Street Fighter II V is a fast-moving series with great animation, great characters, and music...? Well, I would have preferred an orchestra playing the music as opposed to the cheap synthesized sound playing in the background. I would have also liked to see Manga use the original opening theme instead of their alternate one (which is still cool, however, the original is about ten times better). Nevertheless, this is a great series, and if you enjoy action-packed fighting scenes, then Street Fighter II V is the anime for you. However, if you own a DVD player, it'd be best to rent it first to see if it is compatible with your player. If it is, go and buy it somewhere, if it isn't, try owning it on VHS.
Rating:
Summary: Great series, poor DVD...
Review: Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this series, however, I've been having some annoying problems with this disc. For starters, episodes 5 through 7 are all "glitchy", and I often get some skips during the animation. Also, some episodes can't be chosen from the menu without my getting a "Disc Error". It could be just the incompatibility from my DVD Player, but incompatibilities are annoying, and should be fixed. Otherwise, the DVD has crisp, clean picture, and great sound. Also, you get seven great episodes into one DVD. Can't go wrong there, now can you? Street Fighter II V is a fast-moving series with great animation, great characters, and music...? Well, I would have preferred an orchestra playing the music as opposed to the cheap synthesized sound playing in the background. I would have also liked to see Manga use the original opening theme instead of their alternate one (which is still cool, however, the original is about ten times better). Nevertheless, this is a great series, and if you enjoy action-packed fighting scenes, then Street Fighter II V is the anime for you. However, if you own a DVD player, it'd be best to rent it first to see if it is compatible with your player. If it is, go and buy it somewhere, if it isn't, try owning it on VHS.
Rating:
Summary: Great series, poor DVD...
Review: Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this series, however, I've been having some annoying problems with this disc. For starters, episodes 5 through 7 are all "glitchy", and I often get some skips during the animation. Also, some episodes can't be chosen from the menu without my getting a "Disc Error". It could be just the incompatibility from my DVD Player, but incompatibilities are annoying, and should be fixed. Otherwise, the DVD has crisp, clean picture, and great sound. Also, you get seven great episodes into one DVD. Can't go wrong there, now can you? Street Fighter II V is a fast-moving series with great animation, great characters, and music...? Well, I would have preferred an orchestra playing the music as opposed to the cheap synthesized sound playing in the background. I would have also liked to see Manga use the original opening theme instead of their alternate one (which is still cool, however, the original is about ten times better). Nevertheless, this is a great series, and if you enjoy action-packed fighting scenes, then Street Fighter II V is the anime for you. However, if you own a DVD player, it'd be best to rent it first to see if it is compatible with your player. If it is, go and buy it somewhere, if it isn't, try owning it on VHS.
Rating: 
Summary: ideal
Review: First of all, I'd just like to start off by saying how sorry I am that I have to give this DVD four stars instead of five. The reasons are the following:
- The animation and art quality of this series is kinda bad...although at times it will look great, most of the times the characters keep changing how they look- sometimes they look buff, other times they look thin and ugly, other times they look stupid... as if the artists were always taking turns drawing.
- At times, the DVD color will screw up a little. Though, not really a major problem after you get used to it, but in the beginning, it might become very annoying.
- The biggest flaw in the DVD- They took away the intro theme song(Kaze fuiteru- which, btw, is the best anime song I'v ever heard by far.) and video, and they also took out the ending theme. These were replaced by a techno like theme which is ok, but I'd much rather have Kaze Fuiteru instead.
- Even though the Japanese voices are the perfect choice for the characters, sometimes they're moving their lips and instead we will either listen to laughing(which wont match the lips) or nothing at all... But, now for the pluses of this wonderful series and DVD:
- The japanese voices are P E R F E C T for every single character, even the Director of Fei Long's movie. I specially like Chun- Li's voice, which is as cute as you can get.
- The english voices are OK...although at times I feel like Manga only casted these voices for their battle cries and yelling. Ken and Chun- Li's battle cries are pretty good, but their voices are awful, they dont match the characters at all.
Fei Long's voice is good, although his Bruce Lee like yelling during his fight with Ken was not Bruce Lee at all...more like a high pitched rip off of the american Fei Long voice in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.
Ryu and Guile's voice are excellent. If I'm not mistaken, they are the same voices from SFII, which is very pleasing, as I loved Guile's voice in the animated movie aswell.
In the american dub, they also change around alot of the things the japanese voices are saying, and sometimes they even add words where they shouldn't be. This doesn't bother me, though.
- The DVD has seven episodes. This is great, because the VHS only had three.
- It contains a trailer of various Manga Animes(which is pretty cool if you enjoy anime), including the trailer to the series.
- It contains a catalogue of Manga Anime.
- It has the intro theme song remix- I'd still prefer Kaze Fuiteru, or Cry.
- The character development is great. The characters are really unique, and you'll end up either loving them, or hating them.
- The fights are superb- specially Fei Long vs Ken and Ryu vs Guile. AWSOME FIGHTS.
- The music. The music which plays during the fights and such is really catchy and enjoyable. Overall, if you like Anime, Martial Arts, or Street Fighter, this DVD is for you!
I cant wait to recieve Volume 2, which I will order in a couple of days.
Rating:
Summary: Great collectible series
Review: I bought all four volumes and was not disappointed. The story is great, action is frequent, many of the main characters are included (Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Bison, Vega, Zangief, Cammy, Balrog, Dhalsim, Sagat, Fei-Long, did I forget anybody??). I STRONGLY recommend that if you are getting this get all 4 volumes. You'll find yourself hungering for what happens next and the finale is worth it!!! :) The only reason I held back from giving this a full 5 star rating is because I got some glitches on a couple of the episodes. I wouldn't be surprised if it's because of how many episodes they crammed into each disc. Still, sans glitches this is a must for true anime fans and Street Fighter junkies.
Rating:
Summary: Great collectible series
Review: I bought all four volumes and was not disappointed. The story is great, action is frequent, many of the main characters are included (Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Bison, Vega, Zangief, Cammy, Balrog, Dhalsim, Sagat, Fei-Long, did I forget anybody??). I STRONGLY recommend that if you are getting this get all 4 volumes. You'll find yourself hungering for what happens next and the finale is worth it!!! :) The only reason I held back from giving this a full 5 star rating is because I got some glitches on a couple of the episodes. I wouldn't be surprised if it's because of how many episodes they crammed into each disc. Still, sans glitches this is a must for true anime fans and Street Fighter junkies.
Rating: 
Summary: Boring, and has little relationship to the game
Review: I never watched the entire run of the show, because the first few episodes; the ones represented on this DVD, were phenomenally boring.
Probably the biggest reason for this is that the game bears very little resemblance to the game at all. The characters have all been reimagined, and not in a good way. A lot of the distinctiveness and personality of the original characters was lost in this translation. In fact, the entire show feels very little like the game, which begs the question: why bother getting the license to do it as Street Fighter if you're not going to stay true to the Street Fighter feel and characters?
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