>>149848944
>He was even planned in SFV or 6 to be like a Lone Wolf and Cub situation with a child strapped on his back, showing that the character is more than just frowny martial arts guy with purple fireballs.
Again, this kind of direction with the character wasn't defined by the time Udon started introducing him in their comics, they had a much more generic character to work with and they went with what was, at the time, clearly the intended archetype for Akuma. He was an antagonist and kind of evil too (murdering people because they're strong is not good mmkay), just not on the level of Bison or even Vega.

I agree that Udon writes mediocre stories at best, which I think is strictly correlated with the fact they want to follow the canon as much as they can because, well, SF canon is mediocre at best too.