I don’t label any of those as anime games. Except musou, dunno what that is.
shit man, guess we all gotta play injustice when it drops or we’ll be accused of not supporting our country
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The topic keeps coming up because anyone who hears the term “anime game” is confused by what the hell it means. Stop saying it and let it die so these topic can end.
Or just tell people what it actually means: 2D fighter not made by Capcom or SNK
Why is the Call Me Maybe music video a related video on every P4U and GG vid I watch, is this anime?
“The “anime game” does not have to do with the anime art style.”
SRK at its finest.
Fixed.
There is one
Old School/ New School, or if you prefer, Ground Based/ Air Based
One has More Air Mobility option and the other doesn’t.
It doesn’t have anything to do if it has bursts, sub systems, chains, cancels, etc.
It is only based on one single factor that it is easily noticeable and heavily determinates how the games are payed.
It never did. Ever.
Or are you saying SF characters don’t look like they’re out of one?
you can use the term “anime fighter” in many different ways, i guess i’ll primarily address how i mainly see it used
1)if going by everything aside from gameplay, most fighters are “anime” fighters, but most people dont really use the term like that
2)it is not just a matter of specific mechanics but general design. While marvel and Vsav have a lot of mechanics which are seen as those of “anime fighters”, you can generally tell that the way neutral, chains, mixup, pressure, etc etc is designed differently from guilty gear/blazblue/melty blood/persona. Skullgirls is a weird case because there’s some things which are more like marvel and some aspects which are more like the “main” 4 “anime” games. IMO it is more like marvel.
I dont understand why people are fixated so much on “anime fighter” as a negative term that needs to go away. I feel like it is convenient slang for GG/BB/MB which is a subgenre that many, myself included, like more gameplay wise than most other subgenres of fighting games.
3)“anime fighter” could of course refer to games like dbz and naruto stuff, but because those games arent really relevant to tournies etc they dont really play into the definition. in any case, those games play differently from the main games people think of as anime fighters.
So yeah, in my experience with the term “anime” fighter is mostly used(and, in my opinion, most “conveniently” although perhaps not logically used) to describe these fighters:
Guilty Gear
Melty Blood
Blazblue
Persona
and probably Under Night Inverse and Arcana heart, although these veer off from this subgenre significantly.
As counterexample, Vanguard princess, despite being extremely anime in many ways, is not like the subgenre at all.
Same for Aquapazza.
If you wonder why those two games aren’t considered similar to GG etc, I hope you realize that you know very little about those games. Mobility, pressure, etc are very different.
Of course, some people probably use “anime fighter” to describe vanguard princess but not guilty gear. Slang is slang, different people in different areas use shit differently.
not quite universal much of the time
nope
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next you’ll tell me all sf games have focus attack, random dizzy and dashes
but many people honestly just use it as a gameplay term. if countries besides japan made more fighting games, you’d probably see games that are very like gg etc but aren’t anime visually at all, but end up roughly put into the subgenre
Tech Romancer is my favorite anime game.
Real talk.
Its not gonna make people play those games anymore or any less. Most people know what the hell to expect in an anime game.
And hell, most 2d fighters not made by capcom or SNK have the exact same mechanics as other anime games. Save for akatsuki, yatagarasu, and despite the ANIME AS FUCK appearance, Vangaurd princess. Its just a term. Its not like people are gonna go to tournaments and be like “yo that thread on SRK said to stop saying anime game” This is honestly a whine thread becuase no one is ever coming up with a solution, just everyone pointing fingers at capcom players again.
No, none of the characters throughout all three games ever had a panty shot, bare ass, or anything of that sort. The ugly side of the Japanese fandom made sure to check on that.
Arcana Heart was an absurdly fun and addictive game that was hindered by its pandering shitty fucking dartboard character design. I was an utter die hard of the game but god damn did I ever hate the character designs. It’s something that plagues a lot of ‘anime games’. The game play is phenomenal but the aesthetics are just bad. Vanguard Princess is a prime example of this. God damn that game is fucking amazing but I want to slap the son of a bitch for the design of every character in the game and the absolutely incessant amount of panty shots.
I blame the actual anime trend to satisfy the moe lovers, because of them we wouldn’t see a Hellsing fighting game or Samurai Champloo, Samurai X, or Afro Samurai Fighting game 
Mightfo is on to something.
A similar situation: Not every shmup made in Europe is a euroshmup. And likewise people will argue what a euroshmup is… If it’s a lifebar, a shop, general gameplay, aesthetics…
Yeah. It’s why I think Persona is doing nicely now. The character designs don’t make you cringe or try and play the game in the confines of your closet.
I wish I had the patience for it but yes, calling them “anime fighters” and the scene the “anime community” has probably hurt more than helped since they acquired the stigma of being weirdo creeps and as Chris G ranted to nearly 1.5K people, a bunch of mean guys who need to be nicer to him and new players and telling what people say about “them” (he actually said “you people” to them lol) is true.
It’s like a bunch of small nations and one group acts like the other group is a bunch of savages.
Good shit to the people who can ignore it but it needs to pointed out how fucking stupid all of that bullshit is.
Was this during the 8wayrun stream yesterday?
You’re going to need use words like a grown up not a kid from GameFAQs.
Tobal 2 is so an anime fighter.