Works That Can Be Adapted Into A Fighting Game — Gintama

Gintama is one of the funniest manga and anime franchises ever, which I believe could be adapted into a serious fighting game.

Can Hoang Tran
7 min readNov 27, 2022

I recently posted an article on how I believe the Magic the Gathering card game could be adapted into a serious fighting game, not an arena-type one like Kill La Kill or My Hero Academia because it has almost 30 years' worth of lore.

I thought of another work that would also make a great conversion to a fighting game, while maintaining its core comedic elements, Gintama. This work is created by Hideaki Sorachi and it originally started out as a manga, which ran from 2003 until 2019, then received adaptations across multiple mediums of entertainment, with anime being the widely known adaptation.

Video games are the second most widely known adaptation of Sorachi’s original manga.

The mobile game The King of Fighters All Star, which is developed by Netmarble and published by SNK, had two collaborations with…

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Can Hoang Tran

Veteran citizen journalist who enjoys martial arts, indie & foreign film, anime, manga, gaming, music, and martial arts. https://linktr.ee/aeonxtrigger