Sakura's plotline and history for Street Fighter 4
Last updated on Jan. 19, 2009
Don't be fooled by her schoolgirl charm. Sakura is far from your average teenager.
After witnessing her idol, Ryu, win the first World Warrior Tournament, she was instantly inspired to become a fighter he would be proud of.
She traveled the world in hopes of persuading Ryu to train her, but is turned away when he confesses that he himself has much to learn and cannot take on a pupil.
Now word on the street is that a new fighting tournament is starting up and Sakura enters with head held high, hoping to see Ryu once more.
Sakura's fighting style is similar to Ryu's, having memorized his movements and trained with Dan, a previous student of Ryu's sensei, Gouken.
She may not have the same power as her idol, but her impressive ability to manipulate ki is hard to ignore.
Posted by KEN on January 20, 2009 at 12:47 a.m. #1
Sakura owns. Theres enuff to make none of the fighter pure clones any..SEAN aallll the way!
Posted by ED on January 20, 2009 at 3:06 a.m. #2
Surprised they didn't put Allen Snider and Kairi in the game, since they got all the shotos and shoto clones
Posted by Chin on January 20, 2009 at 11:22 a.m. #3
there's only 6 shoto's why complain there are 19 other characters to choose from .....
Posted by A Shame on February 12, 2009 at 10:06 p.m. #4
Doesn't anyone know Sakura's the best shoto? Duh!
Posted by name! on March 3, 2009 at 8:32 p.m. #5
Sakura Dan Sagat and Goujen aren't even really Shotos. YOu might as well call Guile a Shoto because he has flash kick and sonic boom. Or Dhalsim because of yoga fire and yoga blast.
Only Ryu Ken and Akuma really play similarly, and Akuma is added to quite a bit, and the strengths and weaknesses of Ryu and Ken are different enough to make them individuals.
Gouken's Hadouken is very different. His Tatsu is straight up, and he has no regular shoryuken.
Sagat has high and low projectiles, and his tiger knee is very different from tatsu, and all his normals are very different.
Sakura is completely unique, with her chargeable hadouken, her shunpu, and shouou. the basis is obviously ansatsuken, but her style is very much different.
And Dan is more a clone/parody of Ryo than Ryu
Posted by rma on March 7, 2009 at 5:20 a.m. #6
Dan is NOT a shotoclone -_-. Dan is a joke character (literally), if you wanna call him anything call him a 'SNKlone', since he was MADE for the purpose of parodying SNK's Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia in style,story and techniques. So no, he's not a shotoclone, hes a shotoclone of an SNK shotocopy. 'Nuff sed.
Posted by Al from the 954 on March 12, 2009 at 6:48 a.m. #7
how do you charge Sakura hadoken?
Posted by al from the 954 on March 12, 2009 at 6:55 a.m. #8
ha, disregard, i just read the other page
sakura is this bizomb
Posted by huh? on April 15, 2009 at 9:54 a.m. #9
I'd plough her pretty little face to be frank.
Posted by Isilwen on July 13, 2009 at 5:49 p.m. #10
Anyway, "Shotokan" is a term invented by americans. It never existed in the original version. The style of Ryu, Ken, Akuma etc is not even SIMILAR to real Shotokan Karate.
So, "shoto" is always wrong :P
Posted by Shin Shoryuken on July 30, 2009 at 5:16 p.m. #11
Despite who's write or wrong on the "shoto" theory we can all agree that Sakura's a great fighter.
Posted by blah on January 2, 2010 at 10:39 a.m. #12
@shin Shoryuken
amen brother i just picked up sakura like two days ago and was winning matches that ken couldnt even beat sakura will always be my lil schoolgirl fighter
Posted by Artist 7/XIII on January 8, 2010 at 9:06 a.m. #13
Sakura is my favorite character in this version of SF. She is just fun and I love the her dragon punch. The way she leans into it gives it much more range.
Posted by tony_deception on March 11, 2010 at 10 p.m. #14
how old is she .... .or is she the youngest street figter ... ... i jus jus thinking about it ....
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