The Best Street Fighter Anime You've Never Seen

The latest Street Fighter movie is hurricane-kicking its way into theaters on October 16 — but did you know there was a critically acclaimed animated film that came out decades before it?

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie came out in 1994, the same year that the so-bad-it's-good live-action film with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia was released. And while the highly-quotable (“For me, it was Tuesday”) live-action flick is a larger part of the public consciousness, most Street Fighter fans will agree that the animated movie blows it out of the water.

The animated movie doesn’t follow the World Warrior tournament seen in the game; instead, it focuses on Bison tracking down strong warriors using an army of cyborgs in an attempt to capture them for his own nefarious purposes. …