Interest Stacks

The game that popularized the genre in the early 90s spawned the anime movie that also popularized fighting game adaptations throughout the decade.

It takes the general setting and characters of Street Fighter II and makes an original story out of it. Notable for directly inspiring countless designs and elements in future games in the series.

Educational special where some of the cast learn about Japanese traditions.

An alternate take on Street FIghter II, featuring younger versions of the characters with different designs.

Set in the Alpha series, it's an entirely original storyline, aside from Sakura's subplot which is taken from Alpha 2.

It tells a bit of the backstory regarding Gouken and Akuma. It served as an inspiration for the movie Assassin's Fist.

Set before Street Fighter IV.

Set during Street Fighter IV.

Set during Super Street Fighter IV.

Promotional video for a Street Fighter 6 and Spy x Family collaboration.

Set during Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge, primarily focused on Donovan & Anita, and Hsien-Ko & Mei-Ling.

Based on the first game.

Adapts the first Fatal Fury.

Adapts Fatal Fury 2.

An original story featuring the cast of Fatal Fury Special.

Promotional video for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

Adapts the first Art of Fighting.

Adapts the first Samurai Shodown.

Set during Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage.

Adapts the Nakoruru visual novel of the same name.

Set between KOF: Maximum Impact 1 and 2.

Adaptation-wise, it is a mix between The King of Fighters '94 and the first Fatal Fury, with both Kyo and Terry as the main characters.

Trailer for an unreleased movie. It was meant to adapt The King of Fighters '96.

Promotional video for The King of Fighters XV.

Promotional video for the first World Heroes.

The full video is currently unavailable online, but you can watch the commercials for the Super Famicom version of the game if you want to see footage from it.

Alternate retelling of the first Advanced V.G. game.

Though this series started as a side scrolling game, the second entry was a fighting game, and this adaptation features characters from both games.

Adapts the first Tekken, while also featuring characters from Tekken 2.

Original story set around the time of Tekken 6.

Adapts Tekken 3.

Seems to be an alterate retelling; features characters from Virtua Fighter 2.

Promotional videos for Virtua Fighter 2, using songs from the Dancing Shadows album.

Set between Battle Arena Toshinden 1 and 2.

Based on the first game.

Promotional video for Guilty Gear X.

Promotional video for Guilty Gear Strive.

Set after Guilty Gear Strive.

Adapts the first two BlazBlue video games, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.

Promotional video for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, which revealed the character Palutena.

Unlicensed Korean bootleg movie based on Street Fighter II.

Honorable mention. It is an adaptation of an unreleased fighting game, meant to be developed by Gust and published by Zamuse. In the end, the game was cancelled and only the anime came out.

Honorable mention. High Score Girl features real life fighting games heavily, as a key part of its narrative, so much so that I felt it was appropriate to include it. Nearly every major fighting game released up to 1996, including many obscure ones, gets played, shown or at the very least mentioned. Elements from the games are sometimes compared to what the main characters are doing or thinking and are relevant to what's going on in their lives. Actual fighting game characters make appearances in sprite form too, most notably Guile, who is the main character's moral support. In some cases, like the Street Fighter cast, even their current Japanese voice actors reprised their roles for this show.

Episodes 1-12

Episodes 13-15

Episodes 16-24