Akuma is a fighter from the Street Fighter series. He makes his first appearace in Super Street Fighter II Turbo and is the brother of Gouken and Ryu's adoptive uncle. Him and his brother were initially under the teachings of Goutetsu, but eventually Gouken left due to the nature of the teachings. Akuma on the other hand embraced the style and in order to master it he needed to give up any compassion towards human beings. Akuma left in order to train on his own, but returned to fight and kill his former master. After killing Goutetsu Akuma removed his beads and wore them himself. He then set out to find his brother in order to challenge him. Akuma lost and while he wanted his brother to kill him he did not so and thus years later Akuma challenged Gouken again and killed him, or so he thoug