Darkstalkers

Darkstalkers, known in Japan as Vampire (ヴァンパイア, Vanpaia), is a series of 2D fighting games developed and published by Capcom, beginning with Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Vampire: The Night Warriors) in 1994. The series is set in a pastiche Gothic horror universe and features a highly stylized, cartoonish graphic style. It features characters based on either various kinds of monsters (the titular "darkstalkers") or their hunters, who are all engaging in combat against each other.

Besides video games, the Darkstalkers media franchise also includes an anime miniseries, an American cartoon TV series, a Canadian comic book series, and many books of various kinds and other media released only in Japan. Some individual characters (usually the series' mascots Morrigan and Felicia) appeared in the later Capcom games, as well as in a few crossover games released by other companies.

Video games

Future

In August 2010, Capcom Producer Yoshinori Ono stated during an interview about Street Fighter X Tekken that a new installment to the series would be his "ultimate dream"; however, only fan demand would cause it to happen. He went on to say that it would take one million requests before Keiji Inafune, then head of research and development at Capcom, would comply. At that point, Capcom had received 5,000 requests. By March 2011, Ono reported that Capcom had received over 100,000 requests. He later expressed during an interview at a Nintendo 3DS launch in London that, "One day, if it goes half a million, Capcom may raise its eyebrow a little bit and I could do what I did in London in 2007 when I announced the comeback of Street Fighter. In the near future, with your help, it may become true. It's on its way, because we're pretty much where we were with Street Fighter a few years back. So keep it up."

Darkstalkers (TV series)

Darkstalkers (also known as DarkStalkers: The Animated Series) is an American children's animated TV series produced by Graz Entertainment and aired in syndication on UPN from September to December 1995. The cartoon is loosely based on the Capcom fighting game Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors. It ran for one season of thirteen episodes.

Plot

As the show was aimed towards a young audience, the violence and the sexual content present in the games were toned down. In addition, rather than following the complex backstory of the games, the show went for a standard good-vs.-evil plot. Various physical and storyline changes were made to the game characters themselves, most notably Morrigan Aensland, who became a villain descended from Morgan le Fay, and served alongside bitter rival Demitri Maximoff under Pyron's command. The main protagonist is a young boy named Harry Grimoire, a descendant of Merlin created exclusively for the show.

Cast

Kyle Labine - Harry Grimoire

Lisa Ann Beley - Felicia, Hsien-Ko

Darkstalkers (comics)

Darkstalkers is a comic book series created by UDON Comics and based on the Darkstalkers video game franchise by Capcom, consisting of six issues (upon which its publishing stopped abruptly) in 2004-2005. It was originally published through Devil's Due Publishing. They were later collected in a TPB collection, which omitted the backup stories presented at the end of each issue, and included a special Morrigan background story previously only seen in a summer Capcom special.

In 2010, UDON revived the series in a three-issue miniseries entitled Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, starting in February 2010. A compilation of both UDON series, Darkstalkers: The Ultimate Edition, was announced as "coming soon" in 2012.