YMMV / The King of Fighters: Destiny

• Adaptation Displacement: The animation is better known than the MMO game of the same name, despite that the KOF series is a video game driven franchise. This has to do with their availability; the KOF: Destiny animation is readly available on both SNK's official YouTube channel and Steam (with English subtitles), while the KOF: Destiny game is only released in China and Taiwan. Most of those living outside the countries don't know the game exists, let along playing it.
• Awesome Art:
  • The choreography is quite impressive for a webseries.
  • The illustrations for the side story episodes are nothing short of impressive.
• Awesome Music:
  • The series provides some pretty kickass remixes of classic King of Fighters tracks. For instance, the early episodes end with "Tears" - KOF Destiny Ver..
  • "Awakening of Justice" by M2U and NICODE serves as a great opening song for the series, and the full version even features "Esaka?" in its guitar solo. They also made an English version.
  • "No Time to See You / Too Late to Say Goodbye", the second ending theme, which appears to be a love song by Angelina declaring her love for her hero, Terry.
• Evil Is Cool: Geese and Rugal, of course. Two evil badasses that you love seeing on screen while looking forward to their inevitable beatdown.
• Ho Yay: Kyo's relationship with Benimaru. There are times in which you think one of them is a tsundere for the other and while Kyo even compliments on Benimaru to get his aid.
• Never Live It Down: Terry's incredibly bad luck with the ladies has been going on starting from the Fatal Fury OVAs to this series.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • Although the battle animations are well-regarded, many fans believe the designs leave something to be desired due to looking very Off-Model relative to their appearances in the games. It doesn't help that the quality between each of the character models is rather inconsistent.
  • Some of the characterization choices are not well-received, such as Ryo becoming a complete Butt-Monkey or Kyo losing his Hot-Blooded spitfire traits.

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