Kerblomboさんのイラストまとめ

Towards the end, Ryu's blue-haired sister gets kidnapped and brainwashed to help resurrect the evil god Drago.

Aside from having one of the most Go Nagai faces ever, Ryu's fleshbot could transform into a dragon. I always thought the original Kaiser/Rudra looked similar to it, with the spines and overly defined dragon pecs.

The protagonist was named Ken, and his blonde rival was named Ryu, because not all Capcom comparisons have to be intentional. They had the mark of a liger and a dragon, repsectively.

This by itself isn't much, but there is that dragon mark on the first BOF Ryu's forehead.

In '89, Go Nagai and Sunrise put together Jushin Liger, a biomechanical giant robot show. A certain wrestler's identity was themed around it, going through the same power-ups into Fire and Thunder Liger.

Masato Hayase, the designer behind Heisei Riders, is currently drawing Genma Taisen Rebirth.

I think the monsters were designed by the Phantasy Star guy, which is why the first boss is a Dark Falz. But along with a Cthulhu, it had some neat sci-fi fatnasy monsters. And the fighting had animations on both sides.

The same guy who designed the delicate bishounen of Gundam W also adapted already-ripped Capcom characters into further hulking, beef homunculi.

And then all the in-game chibi sprites were always in a radically different art style. Namely sprite artist Kazuko Shibuya's.

I feel like Xardion could make a good handheld port. Where they just take the mech sprites and give them decent gameplay and sound effects for a change.

Otherwise it's a waste of some Katoki Hajime mech designs.

@Sane_John Sword and evil form aside, I think she falls more under Tsarevna Alena's lineage of rowdy runaway princesses.

Also partly a parody of the show Abarenbo Shogun.
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