#kakut

[cheerforrevenge]

24. Fighting foodons. Does anyone else remember this? Don't ask me to talk about it in depth, but I do remember the character design really clearly!

[kattiperkele]

Minä: Tämä on pyhäinhäväistys! Kauhea vääryys! Salailuyritys! Hirvittävä huijaus!

Äiti tädille: Se tajus et me alotettiin se kakku ilman sitä. Ollaan ihan hiljaa...

Minä: Mä kuulen teidät!

[yuripoll]

S2 LOSERS ROUND 2

NOTE: Cirque Arachne contains some suggestive scenes.Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games contains (videogame) violence and (pixellated videogame) gore, as well as (gamer-typical) depictions of misogyny.

[lunaticobscurity]

there's a new post up at the world's greatest obscure videogames review blog, and today's subject is a pretty decent console-exclusive fighting game. go and read about it~!

and please show your support by reblogging this post and also subscribing on patreon for early access to new posts, lots more screenshot of every game i cover, and various other nice extras :D

[a-x-ce]

Kakumo Chiisaki Sekai ni te / In Such A Small World by Takaya Natsuki

First 3 chapters available on Manga Park, first 2 free (not translated)

[tytumbles]

Iron Senpai 4.

From “Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games”.

Going to try animating these in the future.

[animebackgroundmusic]

“Kakute Yuusha wa Tabidatan” (Thus Departs Our Hero) by: Osamu Tezuka & Vink from: Slayers

[beauty-marked-beauties]

Today's Beauty-Marked Beauty is: Mio Yorue from Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games

[bangjiazheng]

NES Longplay [609] Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu (2 Player)

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

Console Fighting Games of 1999 - Compilation Part 2

Part 2 of 5 of a compilation of console fighting games released in 1999, this compilation includes Fatal Fury Wild Ambition, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kakutou Denshou F-Cup Maniax (Fighter Destiny 2), Last Legion UX, Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter and Marvel vs Street Fighter Clash of Super Heroes, time stamps for each game below. 

1. Intro 00:00 

2. Fatal Fury Wild Ambition 00:10 

3. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 12:01 

4. Kakutou Denshou F-Cup Maniax (Fighter Destiny 2) 18:41 

5. Last Legion UX 35:04 

6. Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter 42:17 

7. Marvel vs Street Fighter Clash of Super Heroes 52:47 

8. Outro 01:06:32 

Twitter (Gaming & AI Art) 

https://twitter.com/zero2zedGaming 

Instagram (AI Art) 

https://www.instagram.com/random_art_ai/ 

For more fighting game videos check out the playlists below 

Console Fighting Games of 1993 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFcKSo9Eglrv2NFDHAqNDRi 

Console Fighting Games of 1994 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CF-R5w4NujQcYo8cCcOMHYv 

Console Fighting Games of 1995 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CEUiZn8FlwHoMcwoOzUqchX 

Console Fighting Games of 1996 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CF0j9K_v7UqS3dxjwh6XIIM 

Console Fighting Games of 1997 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFm1r27Q5PvbO_4CjYYsj4- 

Console Fighting Games of 1998 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CHG7kROLoO-HAXmmzib8cd4 

Console Fighting Games of 1999 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CH1CPUcsBRyu5VpFnhqj4Kv

[drcuriouslxix]

Happy 48th Birthday, Cammy!

[cerastes]

Kinda fucked up in a wondrous way that, as time passes and video games become a more and more expansive artform with forks upon forks in genres and subgenres and subsubgenres, thus games upon games upon games, there is the very real possibility that you are one of perhaps 15-ish people playing a specific video game in the whole world at any given time. I mean, I play Way of the Samurai 4 habitually, and apparently there’s around 16 other people that also do so (unrelated, there’s around 16 people in the world I want to kiss with tongue), and I’ll wager I’m perhaps the only one, or perhaps in the single digits, that still plays Kakutou Densetsu at some points in the day whenever I boot up the old workhorse.

Happens with movies, happens with books, especially books I’ll wager, but damn, it’s crazy to me to think that years ago, many years ago, a group of people got together and worked their asses off to make this game, and then decades later, maybe they even forgot about it, but there’s still someone, somewhere, on the surface, playing it, enjoying it, experiencing it. There’s always someone in the surface.

[tobiasdrake]

Watching episode 2 of Ranma reboot and it remains like a blast from the past.

Gonna be posting spoilers and screencaps to talk about it, so all of that's after the jump.

I'm sorry that I didn't appreciate the slapstick of the original manga because Rumiko Takahashi is kind of brilliant at it.

This gag sets you up to think Akane's about to hit him for yelling misogyny at her early in the morning, but then out of absolutely nowhere his fucking dad erupts from the aether and clocks him for it instead.

That's fantastic. It uses the familiar language not just of Ranma and Akane's established dynamic but of tsundere romances in general to set the gag up, and then hits it with a startling and unexpected swerve that still pays it off but in a way the audience didn't see coming.

Speaking of Genma, bits like this:

Ranma defeats Genma using the "Look, a distraction!" technique and it's funny because he won with what most martial arts anime would consider a cowardly tactic.

But it's funnier when you know the actual art he practices, 無差別格闘流 musabetsu kakutou-ryuu. Separately translated as either "Anything Goes Style of Martial Arts" or "Indiscriminate Grappling". The latter of which is hilariously specific, as 格闘 kakutou can mean wrestling or grappling but simply refers to weaponless styles of hand-to-hand fighting.

He's a fisticuffs brawler by trade, contrasting the various adversaries he faces throughout the series who are mostly tool- or weapon-based fighters, to varying degrees of esoteric oddity.

But what makes this so funny in hindsight is the "indiscriminate" part. Ranma's martial art is built around the idea that there are no rules and whatever gets you to the finish line is fine. This distraction isn't Ranma being cowardly; It's actually part of his martial art. This is how he was trained to fight. XD

You know, I actually forgot that Dr. Tofu... existed.

But setting that aside, once I remembered who this guy is, I forgot that he's implied to be an exceptionally talented martial artist. Capable of masking his presence so thoroughly that even Ranma can't detect his movements.

That's really interesting. To my recollection, Dr. Tofu never has a single fight in the entire series. Instead, his expertise simply serves as an explanation for his familiarity with all the wild and bizarre mystical maladies that come his way.

It lets him be like, "Oh yeah, the reason you're deathly ill is because someone hit you with the 5,000 year old forbidden Chinese Slow Death Syphilitic Pressure Point technique. Here, let me apply the three-step acupressure reversal technique that was lost to history."

But now I.

I kinda.

Want to see him fight.

(Has this dude been like the DBZA Popo of Ranma 1/2 this entire time?)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA She clocks him with the water kettle to make him respectfully bow.

I did not have the cultural context to understand that joke when I was young.

Rumiko Takahashi is so good at slapstick.

Yeah, okay, I don't remember half of what I said about Akane when I was young but I recant all of it. She is so fucking cool.

Imagine if you had to do this every single morning. Every morning. No exception. Just to get to school. At sixteen.

And keep in mind that this is sexualized violence. These guys are trying to overpower her because they think she'll have to be their girlfriend if they beat her up. Every single one of them is sexually harassing her. With violence.

Fuck this entire situation, y'all. I hope she gives them all life-ruining physical injuries that ruin their ability to get scouted as professional athletes at this critical age and turn them into bitter and misanthropic thirty-somethings whining on the couch about how they peaked in high school.

That's probably not how it actually works in Japan. My American is showing. But nonetheless!

She said "Kuno-senpai". She addresses him formally using his last name because that's a normal thing to do in Japan.

Subtitles, why are you changing the way characters speak to each other? The show is released with a dub and a sub alongside one another. If people are choosing to watching the sub, they don't need you to hold their hand and Americanize it for them.

She correctly calls him Kuno in the dub here. The dub is more accurate than the sub about this line. Don't. Do that.

This guy is such a dweeb he makes Jou-senpai look cool. They nailed Kuno, King Dipshit of the Jackass Mountain Akane has to climb each morning.

This is the guy who came up with the whole "Whoever beats the shit out of Akane may claim her as their trophy" thing. He probably watches Andrew Tate videos and writes internet screeds asking why women don't respect his authority and strength. Fuck this guy.

Seriously. He just. Said this. About some girl in another class. And the boys in the school were all like, "Oh, yeah, that sounds reasonable. First one to break her leg gets the girl! Thanks for showing me the best way to express my masculinity, bruh!"

A wacky setup for Akane's personal background but also a chillingly accurate metaphor for how the Manosphere functions.

For his part, it's pretty clear that what Kuno is attracted to is martial strength. He becomes interested in the "Mystery Girl" that appeared after Ranma "fled" pretty much right after she beats his ass.

He's kind of an interesting parallel to Shampoo in that regard. I never really thought of that before, but both of their interests are predicated on how strong Ranma is.

He also makes for an interesting dynamic for Ranma, from a gender perspective. Ranma's curse and the constant menace of Kuno forces Ranma to endure firsthand the kind of harassment that Akane has to undergo in her day-to-day life.

Of course, this being Ranma 1/2, Ranma's going to be getting that from both genders throughout the series. Rumiko Takahashi created a harem dodecahedron for her story, with Ranma and Akane being beset not just by rival suitors but also by rival suitors for their rival suitors trying to kill them and win the rival suitors' love.

Kuno's just one of the crowd.

But it was nonetheless an interesting choice to give Ranma a toxic male harasser as one of his suitors, that speaks to the interesting gender dynamics at play in the series.

One last thing. Something I really love about Ranma 1/2 is the way it uniquely changes the experience of just. Being around water. Like, the ever-presence of water especially in an island nation such as Japan is a constant threat.

You really don't think about how much water there is in everyday life until you have a Jusenkyou curse.

[yuripoll]

SEASON 2 LOSERS ROUND 1

NOTE: Gunjou is an incredibly bleak series with a minefield of content warnings. In particular, please take extreme caution if you are sensitive to any type of abuse, or are just generally in a bad place. Other significant warnings include bloody violence, murder, rape, homophobia, suicide, child death, miscarriage, and toxic relationships.

Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games contains (videogame) violence and (pixellated videogame) gore, as well as (gamer-typical) depictions of misogyny.

[itsfantasticac]

Carol design sheet, for Savage Reign.

Fuun Mokushiroku Kakutou Sousei Official Guidebook (Jul. 14,'95), pg. 107

[the2dstagesfg]

"Suzaku's Room"

From "Yu Yu Hakusho 2: Kakutou No Sho (SNES)" Namco/1994