Oro
Street Fighter 3 series.
ORO
Birthdate: 1860 (no month and date given)
SF3 character. Not much other official bio that could be dug up on him.
Well, his fighting style is Senjyutu, since Capcom refers to him as the
Senjutu master, and he's confirmed to be born in Japanese,
and he's about 140 years old (1860 was a birthdate I got), but that's
about it.
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Oro enterred the tournament to find worthy
opponents. He fought Ryu and defeated Ryu, but was very impressed by Ryu's
fighting ability and very intrigued, too. He didn't show up for his battle
with Alex. He is now pondering about how much potential Ryu has, and he
wants Ryu to meet that potential so he can have a worthy opponent
[Official].
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike: For her ninja graduation exam, Ibuki tracks
down Oro and challenges him to a fight. Oro is so dissappointed! He
thought Ibuki was there to ask him out for a date, instead! [Official]
Oro's boredom has reached the limit. Oro has accepted many students, but
most of them are unworthy and can't endure the practice sessions. Then one
day, a rumor from the outside world reached his ears. He hears about the
mysterious organization and Akuma. He decides to leave his cave for the
outside world and uncover the rumors himself [Official]. Oro has been
sensing some powerful ki for some time. He finally tracks it down and
finds Akuma! Out of curiousity to see how powerful each other is, they
fight [Official]. Third Strike dialogue indicates that the fight was more
just to see each others' strength than anything serious, so there probably
was no death matching.
Oro is pondering how the only one who seems to have the potential and is
worthy enough is Ryu. His Third Strike ending seems to depict him training
Ryu a la Yoda training Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, which I imagine is what
he's doing, now. Of course, that might be a joke as the two don't seem to
really notice each other, either... [Oro's SF3TS ending].
Where Is He Now: See above.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Oro is VERY VERY powerful, storyline-wise. He has voluntarily
magically bound and sealed his arm in order to give his foes a fighting
chance, and he himself hasn't even bothered training actively for the past
fifty years, yet he is still a strong contender who was able to defeat Ryu.
You can see him unbind his arm in his three hidden EX super arts. Oro
breaks the seal on his arm for all three of his EX'ed Super Arts. When you
EX the Tengu Stone super, he stretches both of his arms out to the side to
summon larger objects. When you perform the Kishen Tsugi (EX Kishen Riki)
Oro grabs the opponent with both arms. Lastly, when you perform the Yagyou
Daikon (lvl 3 Yagyou Dama) Oro uses both arms to unleash his gigantic ki
blast. Also, if you defeat your opponent with the Yagyou Daikon, Oro
performs a special victory pose in which he uses both of his arms to draw
and encircle himself in sphere of ki (Clay's description).
Like Akuma, Oro has achieved his great abilities (such as living to
such an old age) through sheer training and focus, for the most part. It
seems, however, that time is finally catching up to him which is why he's
seeking out a student to be his successor.
Akuma and Oro have never met each other until Third Strike, though
they've been able to sense each others' ki before then (because both are so
powerful). This would be why Oro feels like he's met Akuma in his win
quote against Akuma in Second Impact, though of course it's not until Third
Strike where they have a storyline mid-boss battle against each other and
thus meet for the first time. It was mainly just Oro and Akuma recognizing
each other's style that they've been sensing for so long, but not being
impressed by each other then deciding to rough each other up, a little.
For Gouki and Oro, the line between them in Jap. Eternal says
"known hearsay of fellow masters," basically they both learned about
each other through word of mouth, so that can be interpreted as reputations
of fighting expertise.
In addition to a worthy opponent, Oro wants one who is worthy of Oro
passing down his style to before Oro passes away and that style is lost,
forever. As you can see, he chose Ryu to be that one.
Oro is over one hundred and forty years old. Sennin means 'aged
person', by the way.
He's a hermit. Of course. This is why such a powerful guy as Oro
wasn't noticed by people like Gen or Akuma, despite how much Gen and Akuma
were looking for worthy opponents. It was only recently that Oro decided
that he must find a successor. ...my opinion is that Capcom simply is
making an excuse for how deus ex Oro is (just like the majority of Street
Fighter 3's plot, IMHO) but ah well. No biggie 😛
Supposedly, the magic seal on his arm isn't very selective, and
randomly switches to the other arm while Oro sleeps. At least, that's what
I've heard. I also believe that Capcom announced that his arm's magic
bound switches to the other arm in the middle of battle sometimes to
explain why it's on his left then on his right depending on the direction
he's facing in, but I'm not sure about that, either^^; And that still
doesn't explain why everyone else becomes a literal mirror image when they
face the other direction in the SF universe >😛
Oro was born in Japan.
He made his living as a martial arts instructor in his younger days.
He moved to Brazil w/ a friend in the early 1900’s. Unfortunately, his life
in Brazil wasn't going very well and he eventually became a recluse. He
spent much of his time practicing Sennjyutu. Finally, after several
dozens of years, Oro had mastered it.
Apart from mealtime, he is limited one arm for his daily affairs. He’s
not sure whether or not he should use both arms when playing handheld
games.
Oro occasionally leaves his cave and visits town. Other than that,
he lives in a cave in the Amazon Rain forest.
Out of boredom, he embarked on a journey (travelling the world atop a
jumbo jet) to seek out the ideal successor to his Sennjyutu style. This
was the first time he left Brazil since he moved there.
Oro's SF3 TS official bio word for word (From Vasili):
"...leaving here" Oro's boredom has reached the limit.
Looking for young fighters to take as willing apprentices, whom all cannot
last long. One day by chance worldly rumors caught his ear.
"The mysterious organization, ken o kiwameshi mono*? This may prove
entertaining."
*referring to Gouki of course. Literally it means "the one with the extreme
fist." Several ways has this phrase been translated for English speakers:
-SFA Movie/ SFZ OVA: "master of the fighhhttttttting style."
-SFA/ SFZ series: "power made flesh..." (((((((Uuugh..)
-EGM guide: "the ultimate in the way of ttttttthe fist." (the most accurate
in my opinion, and the oldest)
His SF3 nickname is "The Senjutu Master".
2nd Impact stage - The Stalactite Cave (Amazon)
3rd strike stage - SANTOS HARBOR 4:48PM (Brazil)