haha. everyone has this experience with something.
you know sfxt is maybe introducing some players to combining chains and links to cancellable normals. that’s a pretty vampire friendly system…
Oh, yeah, that’s true. Hmm.
This is something that’s always bothered me: Isn’t any animation from Japan “anime” by definition? I mean the word is just animation in Japanese. Therefore the only even semi-popular fighters that aren’t anime would be Skullgirls and Mortal Kombat.
@Cactus: I will be buying it anyways because if it sells Capcom might be convinced that DS4 isn’t as huge of a risk as it is.
I was under the impression “anime” is a very loose term and applies to any animated media? Then again, I’ve also heard it’s a subject that sparks a lot of pointless debates, so I’ll leave it at that. Last thing we need here is to have this thread turn into an anime debate.
At this point, I don’t think anyone knows what it means. I thought for the longest time anime fighters were airdashy fighters like Marvel and GG/BB but it’s seriously just used to describe anything not Capcom/MK at the moment. When I saw someone call KoF anime fighter and others support that view I kind of just stopped thinking about these labels.
Man, I dunno, only anime I’ve ever watched and liked was Gurren Lagann.
I’m sure that some weeboo will come in here and explain in a multiparagraph essay how the differences in anime and western animation are much more than typical east/west culture differences.
Nah it’s usually a rant about how the anime and manga that influenced SF was good manly stuff like Hokuto No Ken and the anime fighters are influenced by the new whiny high school anime.
lol ok
I play BB Hood and Tron, manliness does not concern me.
My lack of manliness wraps right back around into manliness.
To be completely honest with you Skullgirls has a very Japanese Anime feel to it. Anime is more of the defined lines and big eyes liiiiiiiiiiiiiikeeeeee so:
There’s all different types it’s just open to interpretation, but that seems to be the more defining features.
I resent that remark on the whole.
BB Hood is bad ass. That scene from the first Matrix when Neo and Trinity were loaded with firearms = BB Hood
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It’s admittedly a very West meets East style but you should see a lot more Looney Tunes and Tex Avery influence.
maybe CPS2 era games would have been seen as ‘anime fighters’ if anime had a strong presence in the US back then like it does now. But because it didn’t yet and there weren’t that many fighting games to distinguish between yet, they were all just lumped together. Until maybe GG which was clearly a different style and attitude (although vampire/marvel share some qualities) and came out stateside once anime was something most teenagers had actually heard of or experienced (DBZ I would guess).
Definitions are usually temporally specific. When you remove the history they often lose a lot of value.
I generally just think of anime fighter as anything in the GG vein as far as pacing, length of combos, air movement, character design and so on. Something that looks like it would be some kind of shounen action anime/manga. Nothing to get in an argument about.
Skullgirls looks more like the Scott Pilgrim game than the picture you posted, Soothsayer. Ms. Fortune’s severed head looks like it’s ripped right out of that game.
Not that it would be a terrible thing if it did look “anime”, I really don’t give a shit.
Despite what modern depictions and my avatar might say, 
is pretty BA too. Blame the Marvel 3 character design team for going all-out saccharine.
Marvel should lend Capcom Hit Girl – just once – so I can see the Bulleta vs. Hit Girl matchup.
Also, wasn’t MSH/the Marvel series the first to exhibit “anime” style mechanics/pacing?
Maybe I’d have some idea what you mean about Hsien-Ko being BA if I actually knew some Japanese, Cactus. I mean her playstyle is pretty awesome but I don’t get the “I am going to fuck your shit and I am going to be a douche about it” vibe I get from Bonnie.
And ironically enough, when one actually asks an actual Japanese person about Skullgirls’ art style, this is what he gets as a reply:
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg832/scaled.php?server=832&filename=yamane.png&res=medium
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Japan thinks it’s American
America thinks it’s Japanese
I think they achieved the look they wanted lol
I would not be distraught if Scott Pilgrim disappeared from the world forever. But yeah it does look similar and everything.
Fair enough with all that paneling in the beginning it looks like an american comic. It’s a mash-up I guess. It’s not too clearly defined because it’s not like Marvel comics and it’s not like an anime/manga either. I consider it the latter more than the former. Others would disagree. 
I think most Americans just describe anything between hyper-gritty darker and edgier Marvel comics and goofball Danny Phantom animation as “anime”.
@Soothsayer: I hated the movie and never read the comic. The game is fun though.