Gouken

Gouken
Street Fighter character
Gouken in Super Street Fighter IV
First appearance	Street Fighter II: Ryu (1993)
First game	Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (1995) (ending cameo) Street Fighter IV (2008) (full)
Voiced by (English)	Robert O. Smith (Street Fighter cartoon) George Celik (Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie) Simon Prescott (Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation) Dave Mallow (Street Fighter Alpha: Generations) Bern Sundstedt (Street Fighter motion comics) Doug Lee (SFIV series, SFIV animation) Keith Silverstein (SFV)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Tōru Ōkawa (SFIV series, SFV, SFIV animation) Ken Yamaguchi (Street Fighter Alpha: Generations)
Portrayed by	Akira Koieyama Shogen Itokazu as Young Gouken (Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist)
Fictional profile
Birthplace	Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Fighting style	Ansatsuken (暗殺拳をルーツとした格闘術, ansatsuken o rūtsu toshita kakutō jutsu?) rooted in the indigenous arts of Karate and Shorinji Kempo

Tōru Ōkawa (SFIV series, SFV, SFIV animation)

Gouken (Japanese: 剛拳, Hepburn: Gōken^?) 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 (), 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.

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 Gouken's dojo and killed him, leaving Ryu and Ken with the duty to avenge their master's death. While the novel took liberties with the established canon of the games, Gouken's character would be adapted in the storyline of the later games in the series following Akuma's introduction in Super Street Fighter II Turbo.

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