"You can count on me - your number one fan and pupil - to always be at your side, Master Ryu!"

Sakura Kasugano has always been obsessed with fighting. When she learned of a martial artist named Ryu, said to be Japan's strongest fighter, she tracked him down just in time to witness his first clash with Akuma, and promptly inserted herself into the situation, which went terribly.

Declaring herself to be Ryu's student, Sakura joined him on his globe-trotting training trip, incorporating everything she could of his techniques into her own style. After M. Bison's World Warriors tournament, she convinced him to take her on as a full-time pupil, and now spends her time either learning from him or maintaining the dojo he inherited from Gouken while he's off karate-hoboing his way across the world.

Beyond Ryu, she can generally be found either competing with her rival-turned-friend Karin Kanzuki, chasing after whichever wrestlers are currently performing in the area, or indulging the endless and somewhat ridiculous whims of her self-proclaimed mentor Dan Hibiki.

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Strength

• Splits a tree with a kick
• Drops some goons
• Lifts a drink cooler overhead to chug energy drink
• Trains atop a moving train
• Sakura and Hinata launch a thug with a combo move
• Takes down Dan Hibiki for the first time of many
• Obliterates Dan with her Haru Ichiban
• Launches Dan with a Midare Zakura
• Runs over Dan on her bike without even realising he's there
• Takes down Karin Kanzuki

Durability

• Takes a hit from Seth's stretchy arms
• Takes a dropkick from Zangief
• Gets knocked around by Violent Ken
• Takes hits from Karin Kanzuki
• Shrugs off being slammed into the ground by Karin
• Takes a tennis ball to the face from Karin

Agility

• Drops some goons holding her at gunpoint before they can fire
• Eats dozens of hotdogs in seconds
• Catches hotdogs launched with a baseball bat in her mouth
• Jumps from a speeding bike over a wall
• Dodges Zangief's Body Press

Ki

• Turns a falling tree to splinters with a Hadoken
• Drops a guy with a Hadoken
• Sends Karin flying with a Shinku Hadoken
• Senses Akuma approaching

Misc

• Is a playable character in Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, which exists in-universe, somehow
• She and Karin got scores so high playing Gem Fighter that they crashed the game in their championship match
• Gem Fighter is the one time she's managed to defeat Ryu

Fights

• Sakura vs. Akuma - Loss
• Sakura vs. Dan Hibiki - Round 1 - Win
• Sakura vs. Dan Hibiki - Round 2 - Win
• Sakura vs. Dan Hibiki - Round 3 - Win
• Sakura vs. Karin Kanzuki - Round 1 - Win
• Sakura vs. Karin Kanzuki - Round 2 - Win
• Sakura vs. Karin Kanzuki - Round 3 - Win
• Sakura and Rainbow Mika vs. Zangief vs. Dan Hibiki - Win
• Sakura & El Fuerte vs. Crimson Viper - Loss
• Sakura vs. Seth - Loss

Dark Sakura

"Crushing one's enemy without hesitation or mercy! Destroying any obstacles in the path to total victory! Reveling in the violence of battle! These are the ways of the Satsui no Hado!"

Sakura is one of the many fighters to possess the Satsui no Hado, the dark power that is wielded by Akuma and Evil Ryu. The power became active in Sakura after she failed to prevent the Secret Society from abducting Ryu, driving her into an increasingly mad rage that was further provoked by Akuma as part of a scheme to further drive Ryu towards darkness.

Sakura eventually had the Satsui no Hado drained from her by Ryu, and hasn't shown any hint of possessing it since, implying that she has permanently lost it.

Strength

• Sends a woman flying with a kick
• Beats down a Twelve disguised as Bison
• Launches Dan with a kick hard enough to shatter the ice trapping Ryu

Durability

• Shrugs off her own Hadoken, caught and returned by Akuma
• Slammed into the ground by Guile
• Takes Ryu's Shoryuken

Speed

• Ducks a tazer

Ki

• Collapses a stack of shipping crates with a Hadoken
• Sends Guile and a Twelve disguised as Bison flying with a Hadoken

Fights

• Sakura vs. Guile - Win
• Sakura vs. Akuma - Loss