Street Fighter: The Animated Series 3-Disc Box Set DVD

Street Fighter: The Animated Series is the mid-1990s American animated adaptation of Capcom's blockbuster fighting-game franchise, following Colonel Guile, Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Cammy, and the rest of the Street Fighter roster as they take on the criminal warlord M. Bison and his Shadaloo organization. The series aired on USA Network and in syndication across 1995 and 1996, with a 26-episode run plus the tie-in 1994 animated movie.

The format is the appeal: each episode pairs a fresh Bison-related threat (a desert thunder, a media manipulation, a chunnel chase, a kidnapping, a movie set) with the Street Fighter team's running attempts to stop Shadaloo, holding the source games' signature blend of international fighting tournaments and serialized action storytelling as the engine. Episode titles like "The Adventure Begins," "Demon Island," "Cammy And The Bachelor," "Cammy Must Die!," and "Final Fight" telegraph the show's commitment to genre action storytelling. The animation has the unmistakable mid-1990s look.

For mid-1990s USA Network and syndicated programming, this was a confident swing at translating one of the era's most-popular video-game franchises into proper animated form, sitting in the lineage of game-to-cartoon adaptations of the era. Suited for longtime Street Fighter fans, viewers with affection for the era's particular brand of fighting-game animation, and anyone with a soft spot for the broader Capcom franchise.

Standouts worth revisiting include "The Adventure Begins" (the opener), "Getting To Guile" (an early classic), "Cammy Must Die!" (a major-stakes swing), "The Beast Within" (a thematic peak), and "Cammy Tell Me True" (the closer). This 3-DVD collection brings all 26 episodes plus the 1994 animated movie of Street Fighter: The Animated Series into one place, the complete adaptation in one set.