Turns out the same animation meddling that allowed the return of R. Mika’s butt slap in Street Fighter V also lets Ryu (and anyone else, I guess) get all slap-happy on their own derrière.
This swapping of models also allows for wonderful scenes like this, where Ryu’s character model is used for both Laura and R. Mika, and which is how I’m forever going to remember Street Fighter V: