If you noticed any glitches while surfing the internet for cat videos on YouTube about a week and a half ago, that may have likely been martial artist, actor, writer and director Joey Ansah initiating his plans for world domination with his new hit online webseries, Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, which has earned up to well around 10 million views in total since its debut on the Machinima YouTube. And not for nothing either, as the series, long in development since its early days as the 2010 proof-of-concept shortfilm, Street Fighter Legacy, has solidified itself as a cult phenomenon around the world, earning nothing short of upworthy praise from critics and hardcore fans of the original Capcom video game franchise from which it is based.
On Saturday, although it may have been evident for some, the news became official with FUNimation announced as the North American and Canadian home and digitial distributor of the 12-episode series through its Giant Ape label, which will arrive packaged as a two-hour and twenty-tree minute feature-length film on DVD, VoD and Blu-Ray, with disc specs containing up to 13-minutes of footage not seen in the series, as well as extensive behind-the-scenes featurettes and other gems to be announced as the weeks and months progress. The series will also be distributed in the U.K. and Austrailia, through Manga Entertainment and Madman Entertainment, respectively, with a Fall release date and other distributors currently pending.
