Obari is back again
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves just got the big reveal that an open beta for the game is finally coming next month, but there’s even more on the way too.
SNK just revealed and teased a special promotional anime for the new Fatal Fury coming from a very familiar name.
According to the official post, the animated short is being handled by the somewhat divisive icon Masami Obari.
The Japanese animator and character designer has worked on a massive amount of anime and video games across his 40-year career, but SNK fans will know him from at least a few specific places in particular.
Obari was of course the Director of Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture all the way back in 1994 as well as designing the preceding Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf and Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle.
From the handful of screenshots teased so far, we can see Terry Bogard and Geese Howard during their climactic showdown from the first Fatal Fury where both fighters are looking pretty beat up.
We’re hoping, however, this will only be the first part of the promo anime and the rest should go through the highlights of the rest of the series’ story leading into City of the Wolves as a nice refresher after 25 years away.
We can probably get a good idea of what the short is going to look like too.
That’s because Obari previously directed pretty much the same type of animation for The King of Fighters 15, which only last just under two minutes in total.
It mainly served to introduce the main cast of the game with quick highlights over the main musical theme of KOF15.
According to his own post, Obari is in charge of directing, storyboarding and producing this new project.
We also recently talked about Obari because he shared his interest in reviving Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer, which was a somewhat obscure fighting game he helped create 30 years ago.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is set to release on April 24, 2025, so there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing that promo animation around that time as well.
Get ready for an animated short featuring an epic story and bursting with intense action—all set in the world of FATAL FURY! ⁰#KOFstudio #FatalFury #CotW
— KOF STUDIO (@KOFstudio_en) January 24, 2025
Source: Event Hubs
