Street Fighter Original Production Cel & Drawing – Chun-Li Counting Cash

A matched cel-and-drawing pair surviving together in a single lot is a materially rarer condition than either piece alone — the lead animator’s original pencil line work beside the hand-painted acetate that translated it, documenting the full pre-digital production pipeline the industry abandoned around 2000-01. This set captures Chun-Li in the specific moment of counting a stack of US dollar bills — blue qipao, gold accents, head tilted downward over the folded cash in her right hand, left arm crossed protectively across her waist — pulled from Episode 11 “Keeping the Peace” of the US Street Fighter animated series, produced by Graz Entertainment and InVision Entertainment with Capcom licensing across the 1995-97 broadcast. Chun-Li’s canonical role as an Interpol officer running undercover against Shadaloo threads directly into this sequence, and her broader cultural weight as the first playable female fighter in a mainstream fighting game (Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Capcom, February 1991) continues to pull collectors from the vintage anime cel market and the Capcom archival market in equal measure.