Fatal Fury: Devil Street of Horror was a two-volume manga series based on the Fatal Fury series written by Ken Ishikawa. Set after the events of Fatal Fury 2, it focuses on Terry Bogard and his friends as they battle against undead forces in order to save his brother Andy from the clutches of Geese Howard, seemingly back from the dead after the events of the first game.
This manga features the following tropes:
- Action Girl: Mai might look a little shoehorned into many group shots in the story but she does get to fight and do cool things in it, such as freeing and uniting the townsfolk who save Terry from a Hostage Situation towards the end.
- Adaptational Villainy: Geese Howard is devoid of any redeeming traits he had from the games and is a more murderous character.
- And the Adventure Continues: After the demise of the Martial Emperor, Terry and company set off for their "Next Battle Stage".
- Bittersweet Ending: The Martial Emperor, Liuo Himmler, and the majority of the demons die which saves the world from their evil, but Geese Howard has not been shown receiving any punishment.
- Bloodier and Gorier: Compared to the games, this story has much more bloodshed and death. It features a crazy take on Terry Bogard who mercilessly kills the chaotic evil demons he fights, to the point of shattering one to a pile of broken bones by producing a Power Geyser within the villain's body.
- Canon Foreigner: There are a variety of characters who have been created for the manga but did not appear in the games. Two examples are the Martial Emperor and Liuo Himmler.
- Clothing Damage: One scene has Mai's clothes getting slashed by spider threads, which expose her breasts for several pages. Her costume sort of regenerates on its own afterwards, though, appearing to be slighty tattered but not enough to leave her topless.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Terry actually defeats the dreaded Martial Emperor rather easily with the soul power of his many victims. The villain transforms into a Humanoid Abomination in response, but Terry and his friends attack him all at once and throughly break all his bones. Surrounding him with a circle of positive energy, they hold him in place before Terry pulverizes him and crushes the remaining embers of his soul.
- Death by Irony: Ranjaku at one point summons and tosses dozens of spears onto Terry and his comrades. Some scenes later, he is overwhelmed by both the heroes and the townsfolk, who turn him into a Human Pincushion.
- Energy Absorption: The Martial Emperor absorbs the spiritual energy of those he kills. Seeing this, Terry starts pulling it off too so he can righteously use the victims' rage to avenge them.
- Expy: The Martial Emperor looks suspiciously like the Pillar Men vampires from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency, body absorption ability and all.
- Fanservice: Between chapters 6 and 7, Mai is bound by threads and her clothes are tattered, exposing her breasts for several pages.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The spiked chandelier Liuo Himmler intended to kill some kids with was not only prevented from its intended use, it was used to impale Liuo instead.
- Hot-Blooded: It's Fatal Fury as imagined by Ken Ishikawa. The heroes are bombastic and constantly make crazy Slasher Smile expressions.
- Human Pincushion:
- Liuo intended to kill some kids with a spiked chandelier, but ends up becoming the pincushion instead.
- Ranjaku also ends up stabbed by dozens of spears and sickles after trying a similar attack on Terry and company.
- Karma Houdini: While the Martial Emperor and Liuo Himmler die, Geese Howard disappears from the plot with no hint he was ever punished for his misdeeds.
- Kick the Dog: The demons senselessly kill civilians at any chance they get to convey to readers how unredeemable they are.
- Killed Off for Real: Both Martial Emperor and Liou Himmler die and stay dead after receiving their mortal wounds.
- Master of Threads: One minor villain uses spider threads to leave Mai stripped topless and bound upside down. Luckily, she had grabbed one of her fans in time to use it as a Battle Boomerang and set herself free.
- No Name Given: The Martial Emperor was never named at any point of the story, not even in his backstory.
- One-Winged Angel: The Martial Emperor gets more monstrous in appearance as the fight against him rages on.
- The Smurfette Principle: Mai is the only woman in the team of protagonists. She looks so tiny in comparison to the rest of them that group shots often feature her barely visible on a corner while the guys are striking action poses.
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: The fights in the story vary from one of the heroes fighting a demon solo while the rest watch on the sidelines to subverting the trope and defeating Geese and even the Martial Emperor quite easily thanks to coordinated attacks between all five protagonists.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Geese disappears prior to the Martial Emperor's death with no character making any hint of him being punished.
- The Worf Effect: Joe and Big Bear are the first heroes who meet the revived Martial Emperor. The villain whacks them out of his way without even looking and blasts them all the way to Terry when they show further defiance.
- You Have Failed Me: The Martial Emperor turns on Geese when he realizes he's been revived in an incomplete form.
