Edmond Honda(エドモンド本田), more commonly known as E. Honda, is a sumo wrestler Introduced in Street Fighter II as part of the starting lineup. His shikona for sumo is mentioned as “Fujinyoma.” He has black hair in a chonmage and wears only a blue yukata. His face is painted in the kumadori style of makeup used in kabuki. Honda’s signature move is the “Hyaku Retsu Harite” (lit., “Hundred Violent Sumo Hands”; commonly referred to as the Hundred Hand Slap.)
Story
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Honda appears here as more of a cameo, but a significant one to Sodom’s storyline and a bit to his own in the next game. Sodom, obsessed with both japanese culture and trying to revive Mad Gear, attempts to recruit sumo wrestlers, citing them as strong warriors. To achieve this he enters a sumo wrestling competition and faces Fujinyoma, who is revealed to be Edmond Honda. Agreeing to join Mad Gear if Sodom wins, Honda gives the match a go and defeats Sodom, though is impressed by his effort nevertheless according to their dialogue in Alpha 3.
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Street Fighter Alpha 3
His storyline in this game serves more of a prologue to his appearance in Street Fighter II, with him traveling the world looking for strong opponents and to show the strength of sumo wrestling. It’s here he meets Ryu and has a sparring match with him, and tells Sakura later on where she can find him. About this time he fights Sodom again in a friendly match as well. His wanderings lead him to Shadaloo’s base where he meets Zangief, and while the actual extent of which is unknown the two are confirmed to have worked together to help destroy the base. In the aftermath he took in a few of Bison’s Dolls to give them somewhere to stay until they could regain their memories (which ones in particular is never exactly certain due to capcom reusing sprites in his ending for the girls).
Street Fighter II
Honda in initial designs for the game was dubbed simply “Sumo”, and stated that he would be a character recognizable by americans and popular in Japan. In his backstory E. Honda is mentioned to have began his training as a child, singularly focused on becoming the greatest sumo wrestler of all time. He would eventually achieve the highly-revered titled of “Ōzeki” (in the English localization, he was incorrectly stated as having achieved the title, Yokozuna, though his recent appearance states that he’s generally considered good enough for that title). E. Honda became upset that the rest of the world did not view sumo wrestling with the reverence of the Japanese. He entered into the second World Warrior tournament intent on showing everyone that sumo wrestlers rank among the greatest fighters in the world. Beyond this, he yearns also to improve and prove his own strength, as well as earn the title of Yokuzuna.
His involvement with the second tournament is also part of him investigating the Shadaloo organization in response to sumo wrestlers taking drugs, and learning of their involvement after capturing some of the dealers. His face painting and dual=nationality name assisted him to an extent with remaining covert during this. This aspect of his character was conceived well before Street Fighter Alpha 3 and his storyline there.
After the tournament and the fall of Shadaloo, Honda returned to Japan where he continued engaging in sumo wreslting and continuing to run his bath house and training his disciples.
Street Fighter IV
Honda returns for this game, which happens shortly after the events of the second World Warrior tournament. However his goals have apparently not changed much at all, as his bio states he is once again fighting to prove the strength of sumo to the world. And to most fighters proved to be a remarkable force to be reckon with.In his ending Honda states “Look out olympics, here I come!”
or go to the Prologues & Endings page to see video’s of this characters story.
Moves