King of Fighters – Another Day Episode 1 – Chapter 01: All Out
Just saw this anime released and decided to check it out. It’s a fairly short episode with about 5 mins of content and 5 mins of credits. Looks like they may continue it since they did call this Chapter 01. I wonder if each episode is going to be longer or if it’s going to be weird mini series. Anyway, several famous characters were introduced like Alba, Soiree, Iori, Mai and Athena.
Alba apparently is the other brother of Soiree. Alba had to leave town for the weekend and told Soiree to look after it. There’s a cute little girl named which I don’t recall them ever saying the name. I’m not even sure if she’s in the King of Fighters game. Maybe someone can tell me by looking at images 3 and 4. Somehow in the middle of a nap, a big fire starts in the city and Soiree and a few others try to evacuate everyone. However, in the midst of chaos, Soiree meets Iori who apparently lost his Yata Mirror (some magic thingy that allowed him to make fireballs or something I’m guessing). Athena and Mai shows up when the noticed the little girl was in danger. Athena seems to be some pop star and Mai, well, she just had big boobs. So Soiree and Iori gets into a fight over a trivial reason. I didn’t see why Soiree decided to stop evacutating people and began fighting with Iori, but the fight scene was pretty neat where you got to see some signature KOF moves. The building they were fighting in collapses and Iori disappears while Soiree, Athena, and Mai protects the little girl. Later Alba returns and says he met the red haired guy in another part of the city he was helping evacuate. The animation ended there.
However, a story in text began to be displayed. I’m not sure if it was the fansubber’s addition, but it was interesting:
“Soiree” and “Alba” defeated the boss of the Gang “Mephistopheles”, “Duke”.
But the days of peace did not last for long.
When twilight fell, South-Town suddenly burst into flames. With his brother “Alba” absent, “Soiree” ran to protect the city, and in the middle of the flames encountered “Iori Yagami”, who had lost the power of the Yata Mirror.
But this was nothing more than the prologue to a new battle…