Oni-fight (version 2.06) - Story Mode (Kaede Hozuki)
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"Onii-chan wa Oshimai!" (localized to English as "Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister!") is a Japanese slice-of-life manga series written and illustrated by Nekotofu. The series follows Mahiro Oyama, a NEET who lives with his scientist younger sister Miharu. After being transformed into a young girl as a result of one of Miharu's experiments, Mahiro (with help from her sister and her friends) learns to become comfortable in her new body whilst living life as a middle school girl.
Onimai was originally serialized both online (via Pixiv) in 2017 and via Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Rex shonen manga magazine in 2019 (with Kodansha publishing English translations beginning in 2021), and would later receive an anime adaptation courtesy of Studio Bind, airing between January and March 2023. But official contributions aren't the only thing that Onimai would receive since its original publication, as (like many things) the series would also get its own fan-made fighting game.
Released on September 2023 by doujin circle Kotatsu Ice, Oni-fight takes elements from the original series and combines them with (essentially) fighting game parodies. For example, Mahiro in this game has a moveset taken straight from Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear, referencing several scenes in the anime in which she plays Guilty Gear ~STRIVE~ (surprisingly, Arc System Works themselves sponsored the anime, hence why it appears in the show). This playthrough uses Kaede Hozuki, a supporting character serving as one of Miharu's friends, who also got her moveset taken from Akira Yuki's appearance in Dengki Bunko: Fighting Climax.
Oni-fight has several important mechanics. In addition to normals (press A for a light attack and press B for heavy attacks), special moves (which are done by inputting a direction and the C button), throws (press D and either forward or backwards), and super attacks (universally 236D, uses up two bars of meter), there is also a move cancelling system known as the Tactical Smart Shift (TS Shift for short), which is done by pressing E during an attack and uses up a bar of meter. There's also a burst system where you could blow away your opponent during hitstun once per round (done by pressing E during hitstun), and a universal overhead attack (press D without any other directions).
The game's story involves Mahiro, Miharu, and their friends hanging out together. Mahiro has recently bought the VR game "TS Fight", a fighting game in which you design your own character and battle against other players. They then decide to play against each other - with the winner being able to ask everyone else to do anything they want. And so, they hopped on TS Fight and began mashing, which is the setup for this game's story mode. In this alternative timeline playthrough, Kaede wins against everyone, but suddenly finds herself unable to take off the VR headset, and then falls unconscious. She then encounters and fights a giant salamander - specifically the same one Mahiro and Miharu rides in the anime's opening sequence - and emerges victorious from that fight at the cost of the game console breaking down (much to the dismay of Mahiro).
The game unfortunately uses rather rough machine translation for its English patch (which is used in this video), so some of the dialogue in the game's story may nor be as accurate (therefore, I had to seek out the original Japanese version). There are also some rough edges with the game in general, such as Mahiro being the only character that is subsceptible to corner-only infinite dribble combos despite also being the only character to have a corner infinite prevention system that pushes you back (which comes standard with 2D Fighter Maker 2nd's game engine). Despite this, and the fact that low base damage from normal attacks makes doing long combos a requirement to make a dent towards the opponent's HP (which gets rather tedious over time), I still had a lot of fun playing this game. Trying to do dribble combos on Mahiro specifically is pretty satisfying to pull off and is so far the highlight of this game to me.