When more than half your online friends play females characters and they are all male… anime.
When you have friends that only play female characters… anime.
When yo dick starts speaking to you during intros, winning rounds and victory cutscenes… anime.
When everyone think it’s cool for the male characters to look like full blown faggots and call that shit “SWAG”… anime.
Hadoken… anime. 
Yes it is, that’s why nobody can agree on what it means. Stop trying to intellectualise such a throwaway term, this isn’t Philosophy 101.
This topic is pretty shameful. Pigeonholing fighters into sub genres will always cause a weird divide amoungst fans. Peoples segregated attitudes about what a game should be or how it should be played like needs to die.
Last I checked they are pretty much fighting games. The type you choose to play should not concern you or others. It’s really what you enjoy. Saying just because a game plays a certain way or looks a certain way it should be classified as this brings up negative mindsets.
Calling something a “Anime” fighter or “Loli Fighter” really does not do the devs justice or it’s fans. Don’t pretend just 'cause Capcom’s the popular norm that they don’t make some fucking weird games themselves.
GG came out in 1998 and Arksys has been around since the 80’s. It’s about time players stop judging and start playing.
If your fighting game looks like it could easily be hentai…you are playing an anime fighter.
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what are you talking about
let me put it to you this way: most of the time i hear the term it is not people using it derogatorily, it is just people who play such games referring to games. we sometimes call the meetups i go to here anime (fighter) meetups despite kof/sc5 sometimes being present. i guess the difference between your experience and mine is that i play with people who play games like persona, and most of your encounter with the term is through people being stupid on SRK and shit, but a lot of people just use the term to refer to a subgenre just like how “3d fighters” like tekken are a subgenre.
nothing wrong with gameplay classifications, even if they’re somewhat silly in name(“3d fighters” “But isnt sf4 3d??”)
god forbid people have some sort of way to describe what they prefer or dont prefer
Bible Black fighting game for 2013. I foresee Kitami and EX Imari will rape fuckers.
mougdan should stop drawing bodies once he hits the neck, seriously god damn it’s gotten awful in recent years
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Fixed that for you.
Categories exist. Labels exist. You even differentiated between fighting games and other games right there, but even that isn’t clear cut! It’s almost as fuzzy a concept as “anime games”, really. Is Smash a fighting game (please don’t derail the thread)? Is Virtual On a fighting game? Is Senko no Ronde a fighting game? Is Yu Yu Hakusho Tokubetsuhen a fighting game?
If he only made the tits not so humongous, his style is actually good, it is only the way that he puts those fucking mammaries that kill his illustrations 
Yeah that and the fact that the heads are RETARDEDLY disproportional to the body. It’s like he got up to the neck and went ‘SHIT, I forgot there’s a head to this chick!’
Mogudan is a perfect example on the argument, “Can breasts get too big?” But oh well, my penis likes it.
Oh right, this thread is about anime fighters.
I’d argue that this is exactly the problem; People THINK they know what to expect in an “anime game” but they actually don’t, because the term is far too broad and vague and is basically meaningless, so it results in people stereotyping games without actually knowing anything about them.
See? Exactly like THAT.
I think that the heads feel/are disproportionated mostly because he tries to kepp some proportions between the boobs and the body, you can notice how on his old works where the funbags aren’t that big, the bodies feel right in proportion to the head, right now, it is like he is trying something like Platinum games did with Bayonetta, the bodies are exaggeratedly curvaceous and if we go by other proportions they seem taller, basically his girls are as tall as the clamp character, but how he does the proportions they end very thick so their heads seem smaller.
There are many artists that think that they con made them even bigger, making seem the girls of mogudan like flat lolis, lol
Good, so Melty Blood is not anime XD
Does Battle or Duel # count as Round #? Or it has to be precisely Round #?
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“Anime Fighters” is vague and broad. The “label” fits games as diverse as fighting games themselves.
It refers to airdashers, combo heavy games w/ and w/o airdashes, and games that play like the more traditional 2D fighters that don’t come from the more popular companies.
3D Fighters actually comes from the industry and has a clear definition.
I say call them whatever the fuck you want to call them as long as people know what you’re referring to.
The way I see it, “anime fighters” are comprised of the following…
Haters gonna hate but I don’t really see the term “anime fighter” being offensive, it is what it is. If you don’t like the sub-genre, oh well, no problem with me. I’m over here having too much fun doing my long ass, flashy combos and being all over the field like I’m having a fucking spasm to give a fuck about what people think of the sub-genre lol.
People are not going to stop hating simply because you ask them to, I say let them. If you’re genuinely having fun, then I don’t see why you’d let people get to you.
One thing though, you couldn’t get me to play Arcana Heart and take it all that seriously because of the aesthetics alone. I like my anime fighters as much as the next person but goddamn, I mean GODDAMN, that game is anime AS FUCK XD