Oume has thought that Arina still needs to train to become stronger and she has set everything for her to fight one of the toughest schoolgirls around. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in this vid Arina fights   more...Haruhi Suzumiya.

For those who don't know her, she's the main character of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (duh), an anime both loved and hated by many people. I don't love it nor I hate it. It's entertaining at least...

But what about Haruhi's MUGEN persona? Does the word "mindgame" ring a bell? Haruhi is opportunistic and once she sees an opening, prepare yourself for pain. In fact, even if here I defeat her in two rounds, it took me a long time to finally beat her in more than one round.

She has also three strikers (Yuki, Mikuru and Konata), but when other characters like Fat Albert use their strikers with no downsides, Haruhi's need more or less half of an energy bar to come out and it's not that difficult to knock them down, except for Yuki. Besides that, Konata has random effects, from attacking you to giving life for Haruhi or energy or losing energy.

Haruhi, all and all and despite the unnecessary pantyshots, is a balanced character. By the way, this isn't her most recent version, this is the old one before she got some updates.

So to make this clear: I don't hate Haruhi, I just love good challenges and Haruhi gives me what I want in that department.

Only thing to complain about? That I should look for a better recorder than CamStudio. The frame issue is getting worse. But I don't want to go back to HyperCam either and I don't think my laptop would be able to run SnagIt without crashing... =_=

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Stage: Asuka120% - Cathy Wild's Stage
Music: On your mark Remix - Kagayaku kisetsu he  less

Who will be Arina's foe this time? No one but Tifa Lockhart, from Final Fantasy VII fame. Y'know, the hyped game. Although I like FFVII, it's been overrated. Anyway, I'm not here to rant about FFVII and   more...furious fanboys...

This Tifa is made by Yamakichi. You may think this is a decent Tifa character for MUGEN, right? Well, you're half right.

Spritewise Tifa is mainly an edit of Jill Valentine and Yuri Sakazaki. Her sprites look good, but still I think they need work... and less fanservice, please. I can't stand looking at Tifa's panties in some of the frames. I like girls and all, but I'm not playing MUGEN for looking panties. :P

Her AI is aggressive, but she's all the time with the same sequence of low attacks and powerful punches. And she's specially annoying after you defeat her in the first round.

What bugs me is the "low attack" thing, it also makes her small enough to not be hit by many standing special attacks. So if you use a Hadouken against her, be sure she's standing up, because if she tries a low kick you'll totally miss her...

I felt a bit dirty playing against Tifa. Not because of the panties, but that I had to overuse Arina's projectiles. =_= And excuse the inital desynch - fortunatelly, it fixes itself in a couple of seconds. xD

By the way, I've changed some of the sounds in this screenpack. Guess next step will be the lifebars, but I have to learn to do that first...

ROUND 1: "Brace yourself for immediate desintegration" - Marvin the Martian.
ROUND 2: "Is that your best?" - Shao Kahn.
ROUND 3: "That's it! You're history pal!" - Peter Griffin.
FIGHT: "Die" - Ganon from those CD-i games.
KO: "It's over 9000!!!" - Vegeta!!

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Stage: Rooftop (Rouge's stage in the Freedom Fighters MUGEN game)
BG Music: Hulk's theme from Marvel Superheroes  less

Arina is back for more, and this time she fights Ingrid, that strange Athena Asamiya, Kula and Rose white-haired mix.

Beximus's Ingrid isn't a hard opponent overall. Anyway, if she can connect her combos,   more...Ingrid can be a bit annoying, but overall she's a good character to fight with and against.

And for a character somehow limited like Arina, she's a bit of a challenge, though nothing so big. That's why the video isn't that long...

Both the background and the music are Metro Dream, by Beximus.

You can get Ingrid and the background - including the music - at Mugen History: http://www.mugenhistory.com/  less

Tomboy galore! Team Draug's second battle and Arina's first one as a member of this team. Looks like she's going for some tough people... like Sakuraka's Sailor Jupiter. A parody of magical girls as Arina   more...versus a real magical girl as Makoto. Who will win?

Makoto Kino (aka Sailor Jupiter) is the only decent Sailor Scout in the Sailor Moon series - at least that's my opinion - and she's also a strong fighter in MUGEN. Sakuraka's version of Sailor Jupiter is heavily based on Banpresto's Sailor Moon arcade version of the Scouts.

She's quite aggressive. Her attack pattern is highly based on combos, projectiles and grabbing you in mid-air. I thought she would be a really cheap character, but actually she's more on the tough side than in the cheap one. I'm glad she isn't like that aberration called Eternal Sailor Moon.

The background is Sky Battle, based on the Ryu vs Scorpion battle in the awesome flash movie "Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat, part 2" by Proxicide. The music is Moonlit Wilderness, from Tekken 5 - which I chose since I associate it to Proxicide's SF vs MK series.

You can get Sailor Jupiter by Sakuraka at http://myweb.hinet.net/home1/ayu_tsukimiya/mugen/jupiter_readme.htm

And the Sky Battle background by Doorhenge at http://doorhenge.i-xxcell.com/stages.html (New link!)  less

Now it's time to see if Arina is really a good choice for Team Draug.

Instead of making her fight four foes - one per round -, Arina will have to face two fighters... at the same time! Those fighters will   more...be Fervicante's Mudman - now a member of Team Draug - and Warner's Homer Simpson.

It must be said: this match is way harder than Mudman's test, and that's because Arina, as a player's choice, isn't as strong as Mudman. Fortunately, if you know how to use her, she becomes an extraordinary fighter.

The background is the alley from Kizuna Encounter, and the music you hear during the fight is "Power Field", Kraft's theme in Rockman Zero 4. Once again, the music from the beginning is "Neo Arcadian March" and the one in the end is "Result of Mission III", both of them from Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero: Telos.  less

Yeah, here is another MUGEN video.

As you may think, this time I recorded the battle with no background music and I just added it later. That's why you notice the difference of quality between the BG music   more...and the fight's sound effects.

This time I'm playing as Arina Makihara, one of my favourite female fighters. She comes from Waku Waku 7 and while going for a walk, she meets Peter Griffin...

PETER: Hey, how's it going? I'm Peter. You wanna go out sometime?
ARINA: ?
PETER: Yeah, you know what? I don't care, you're a bitch. Go to Hell!
ARINA: A bitch?! That's it!!

And there it goes!

Arina Makihara by NHK
http://nhkxx.hp.infoseek.co.jp/arina.html

Peter Griffin by Warner
http://www.freewebs.com/warner12/personajeschars.htm

Burning Fight BG by Ruben
http://www.mugenhistory.com/downloads1.html

The song is "Spread the Wings", Rock Howard's theme from Mark of the Wolves.  less

Actual video length is 3:45!Just added some black space for better quality! Didn't help much though!Even on youtube its a better quali!(O.o)

I'm in LOVE with Arina Tanemuras art!!I just had to make this   more...mmv after reading the manga!So much better than the anime..;P

Manga: Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
Song: Always by Saliva  less

Oume's initiation into Team Draug? Maybe the title says so, but this is no normal initiaton video...

Oume challenges all current five members of Team Draug to fight her in order to join their group...   more...as their president?! Anyway, this video has some sprite non-animated cutscenes. I'll be making this only in special vids like this one.

==First battle==

* I'm playing as Oume Goketsuji/Goketuji - both forms of her last name seem to be accepted, by the way, and so are Gouketsuji and Gouketuji... odd, really odd.
This old lady is one of the weirdest characters you can find in a fighting game. She comes from Power Instinct and this is her Matrimelee version. Overall she combines both her and Otane's moves from that game. Her attack, defense and specials are normal, but maybe her supers are a bit overpowered, specially the giant hand and ghost ones - although they deal more or less the same damage, they're unblockable and the ghost one has nearly no chance to be avoided if you aren't close to Oume to hit her before she releases it. Be careful if you play against her in CPU, since her AI tends to be too aggressive, although you can use this for your good, since she rarely blocks.

* First opponent is Mudman. He's pretty much AI-less, jumping around and occassionally using Mud Attack and Mud Launcher. Sometimes he will be quite defensive.

* Second one is Arina. I don't know if she really has an AI or not, but when computer controlled, she's very aggressive and quite a combo-whore. Strangely, even if she says in this video that Oume is too strong, she's the only one who presented a real fight.

* Dan is the third in the series. He's by far the hardest Dan in Mugen, since he's quite PotS-ish. But Dan isn't as far as hard as many people say. If you know Dan, you can predict his moves quite easily.

* Finally, Rasputin. Another quite AI-less character, or maybe his AI isn't that good. He plays with the fact that his attacks are strong, but he isn't a challenge at all.

==Second battle==

* Leona, as I said in the Mudman initiation video, has a competitive AI, even if she isn't a big challenge. Anyway, in both her normal and Orochi-controlled versions, she is a good opponent.

Next videos will show more of Oume's battles, since I want her to be in MKR's tournament along with Dan, both representing Team Draug. Rasputin and the rest of initiations will come later. But I already have a baldy as Lobo's first victim... :P

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Stage: King Leo's stage in Savage Reign
Music:
- Intro and middle cutscene: Heat Blur (remix of Desert Palace in Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Project Chaos)
- First battle: In spite of one's age (KOF 98 - Takuma, Saisyu and Heidern)
- Second battle: The Doomsday (remix of Doosmday Zone in Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Project Chaos)
- Ending: Momentary Standstill (remix of Azure Lake in Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Project Chaos)  less

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Here's an AMV I made with Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne and Full Moon Wo Sagashite. After I heard Djphredee's version of Aly and Aj's song Potential Break Up I downloaded the song and made an AMV with it! I   more...hope you like it!
-- Joiee  less

This is a really cool Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne Trailer I made! I hope you enjoy and please leave leave some feedback! ^__^
-- Joiee