Episode One: "The Beginning of a Journey"
A few years after he's completed training with Master Gouken, Ryu, age 17, lives in Japan on the remote Mikunai Island
with an old logger and his granddaughter. An airmail letter arrives for Ryu from Ken Masters, his best friend whom he hasn't
seen since training. It contains money, a plane ticket and an enigmatic message that simply reads, "Come to America -Ken."
Ryu leaves his island home for San Francisco where Ken lives in style, his family home a massive mansion replete with an exact
replica of the dojo in which the two friends spent years of gruelling training. Then the two head out on the town to look
for some trouble at the Mount Fuji Bar…and they find it in the form of some Air Force flyboys.
Episode Two: "The King of the Air Force"
Flyboy Guile makes his entrance in this episode by knocking Ryu's ego down a few notches, sending the Japanese youth to
rehabilitate and rest in bed. Ken gets up bright and early the next day, still smarting from Guile's comments and his easy
mastery over Ryu, and works out in his dojo preparing for a rumble with Guile himself. Ken seeks out Guile with the help of
Dorothy, a military babe who tries to warn him off from fighting the tough army sergeant. Ken ignores this, of course, and
dives into the fight with his hung over opponent, underestimating the dirty tactics of a true street fighter - tactics that
intrigue rather than dissuade the brash American. Now Ken's reason for asking Ryu to come to America becomes clear: It's been
too easy for Ken to beat the soft fighters in sanctioned competitions. He wants Ryu to travel the world with him to learn
the tactics of the street fight.
Episode Three: "Landing in Hong Kong"
In Hong Kong they seek out a lawless zone called Kowloon Palace that's been fenced off from the rest of the city. Ken
arranges a helicopter tour for which the tour guide ends up being a young Chun Li, age 15 who insists on accompanying them
into Kowloon. After a bit of searching through the burned-out, darkened remains of buildings, they follow some gamblers to
the Devil's Battle Cave. Ryu leaps into the ring and beats a steady stream of combatants including Daldoh, the undefeated
champion. This enrages the master of Kowloon Palace who issues a death warrant for the three newcomers.
Episode Four: "Darkness At Kowloon Palace"
Trapped without a helicopter to fly them out, the trio makes a run for the perimeter fence but soon come to face the Black
Snake Gang, an assemblage of fighters that prove no match for Ken and Ryu. Next up, the Demented Hockey gang, pure psychos on
skates. Again, no problem. At the fence, however, the Kowloon master waits with some hired muscle, the twin brothers Sodom and
Gomorrah.
Episode Five: "Hot Blooded Fei Long"
Chun Li takes them to a movie set where the famed martial artist Fei Long argues with a director over the wussiness of the
stunt men. Chun Li offers the services of Ken and Ryu as tougher match-ups for Fei Long's martial prowess. The boys bicker
over who gets to fight the movie star, but Fei Long picks Ken and the two engage in an epic confrontation. Several priceless
artifacts sacrifice themselves to the battle, but in a fierce endgame Ken does his first shoryuken. Fei Long gets a swollen
face.
Episode Six: "Appearance of the Secret Technique"
Bored during one of Ken's shopping sprees, Ryu offers assistance to a sweating, shivering old man who insists he just
needs some privacy. Outside the old man begins to meditate, drawing forth from his hands a ball of light, which he swallows.
The old man gets up, looking completely well again, and invites a stunned Ryu to his home for an explanation. The old man
introduces himself as Young the Tea and helps Ryu make his first attempt at forming hadou ko, a spirtual energy that will
serve as the basis for Ryu's future use of the hadouken attack.
Episode Seven: "The Revenge of Ashura"
Chun Li's father, chief of police Dorai, makes a drug bust on a large drug shipment belonging to the Ashura gang, who in
retaliation plan on using the chief's daughter as bait for a mortal trap. Ken, Ryu and Chun Li thwart the planned attack and
learn of the Ashura gang's plans to exterminate the chief. But Ashura has also sent Muay Thai assassins to deal with Dorai at
his dojo.