What makes an anime game "anime"

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To bad that is not a fighting game, but a boxing game, there is a difference

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This is amazing.

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I hope this thread never ends.

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It’s funny because I always read Japanese people saying that Darkstalkers looks like an American comic or cartoon.

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It’s the gift that keeps on giving… just like chlamydia.

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i think what makes an anime game an anime game is that its easier than capcom games

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All this time Bloody Roar has been an anime game… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCxHed_f59o

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Boxing isn’t Fighting now. K.

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Did you know that anime is the anagram for “A mine”?

Therefore supporting anime games = supporting terrorism. We can’t possibly have that in America!

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Bloody Roar has always been furry anime.

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‘Anime fighter’ is simply used for convenience amongst, from what I’ve noticed, many NA fighting game fans, most of who either haven’t grown up watching, or just plain ignorant of, the anime series of yesteryear that influenced Street Fighter, much of SNK’s catalogue (especially their earlier stuff), etc. It may not be the most ‘graceful’ or accurate term for a certain sub-genre of fighting games, but it’s identifiable and, again, ‘convenient,’ which go a long way.

Typically, this designation is used for what’s aesthetically representative of most modern anime, which is natural, seeing as this common shift in art overlaps the term itself. Add in numerous gauges, air dashes, ~4 main attack buttons, intricate-looking combos, excessive chattiness mid-fight and strange ‘only-in-Japan…’ flourishes and chances are, you have what’s unofficially recognized as an ‘anime fighter.’

Of course, there are exceptions, which: don’t utilize air dashes; aren’t 2D, not combo-centric, ‘manly,’ adhere to fundamentals or developed elsewhere than Japan. Point being, there’s commonality to be found between all of the video games that are instinctively tagged with that identifier.

Though it’s far from ideal, the working definition has pretty much been reinforced, not unlike a lot of the dumb, familiar lingo and phrases you’ll hear and read on streams, similar forums or even out of your own mouth.

Those opposed understand those in favor, but with there also being an occasional negative connotation attached to usage of the term – by users of the term, stubbornness, technicalities and generally needing to appear ‘right’ on the Internet, the whole thing becomes messy, thereby making it an invitation to a petty debate.

Frankly, a fighting game is a fighting game --it shouldn’t matter what anyone else refers to it by-- but what good would that do for the ‘meta-game’ (I already know) of a fighting game forum, right, fellas?

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Hi guys first time posting on SRK.

Is Bloody Roar an anime game? I need to know because the only way I can live in life is if a bunch of pimply-faced neckbeards on the Internet approve of what games I play.

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YOU’RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE

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So, according to a survey of Japanese wives, anime is childish unless it’s Street Fighter?

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ROM, 5 Fierce, fast fly/unfly are chain combos?

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as for bengus, he knew what was really hood

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If a fighting games has a doujin released where the girls gettin’ naked and sex’d then I’ll call it anime.

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What are you talking about I registered in 2014!

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Pretty sure that would include every game with female characters ever.

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Except Wonderful World because no one makes fucking fanart of that game.

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That’s because nobody knows what it is.

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This f****** thread. No such thing as an anime game, since all of them use elements of anime, the phrase was made up only to stigmatize games that aren’t Street Fighter or MK in America. So there.