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}} is a fictional character in the ''Street Fighter'' video game series. He is the martial arts master who trained Ryu and Ken, as well as the elder brother and former training partner of Akuma. Gouken is usually depicted as a bearded man who wears Mala prayer beads on his neck and a karate gi with the kanji ''mu'' (無), or "void" sewn to the back. Although Gouken has been a supporting character in the ''Street Fighter'' series since ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'', he did not make his first full-fledged appearance in the video game until his appearance as a hidden character in ''Street Fighter IV''. ==Character development== While the backstory for the early installments of the ''Street Fighter'' series established that Ryu and Ken trained under the same martial arts master and that the master was killed by his brother, the identity of this character was originally unnamed. The character Gouken was conceived to serve this role in the Masaomi Kanzaki manga ''Street Fighter II: Ryu'', an adaptation of the original ''Street Fighter II'' show cased in Japan's ''Family Computer Magazine'' (and later adapted into English under the simplified title ''Street Fighter II''). In the storyline of the book, Gouken trained Ryu and Ken in his temple somewhere in the Japanese wilderness. One day, Akuma stormed Goukens dojo and killed him, leaving Ryu and Ken with the duty to avenge their masters death. While the novel took liberties with the established canon of the games, Goukens character would be adapted in the storyline of the later games in the series following Akuma's introduction in ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo''. Other characters were also conceived to fill the role of Ryu and Kens mentor in licensed adaptations. in ''Street Fighter II: The Anime Movie'', which was released shortly after ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'' in Japan, is mentioned to be Ryu and Ken's master when their vital statistics are compared in a scene. Although Goutetsu was also introduced in Akuma's background story in ''Super Turbo'' as well, in the video game canon he serves the role of Gouken and Akuma's sensei. Also filling a similar role is in the 1995 manga ''Street Fighter II V Retsuden'' by Yasushi Baba (a loose adaptation of the TV anime series ''Street Fighter II V'' serialzed at ''Comic Bon Bon''). In ''Retsuden'', Gou-un was the assistant instructor who taught Ryu how to perform a ''Hadouken''. The instruction manual for the American and European versions of ''Street Fighter II'' for the SNES identified Ryu and Ken's master under the name of Sheng Long, a name derived from a mistranslation of Ryu's victory phrase in the arcade version of the game ("You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance"), which was also basis of the hoax character of the same name. In fact, Sheng Long is the Mandarin pronunciation of the first two kanji characters in , the Japanese name of the Dragon Punch, one of Ryu and Ken's special techniques. ''Shōryūken'', or ''shēng lóng quán'' in Mandarin, means "Rising Dragon Fist". Gouken makes his first full-fledged appearance as a fighter in the arcade version of ''Street Fighter IV'', where he appears as a secret computer-controlled challenger.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=『ストリートファイターIV』リュウの師匠が登場 - ファミ通.com )〕 His presence in the game was hinted months before his official appearance in the game, with ''Street Fighter IV'' project manager Natsuki Shiozawa showing a silhouetted illustration in her blog, claiming that the character was "Sheng Long", as well as the character being featured in an animated teaser for the console versions of ''Street Fighter IV'' and in Akumas ending in the game. In the home versions of ''Street Fighter IV'' he becomes a selectable character. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gouken」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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