North America / Europe
What’s happened to classic hand-drawn covers, eh? This design pits six fighters against each other, spinning off into three pairs. It’s awash with close combat poses, rippling muscles and more ripped sleeves than we ever thought possible — heck, only Tung Fu Rue has his shoulders covered, but that’s only because his spectral form has the full gun show on display.
Throw in some lightning in the background and an ablaze series logo for good measure, and you’ve got a pretty badass design.
Japan
Now this is far more… cinematic. We’ve gotten too used to Hollywood’s floating-head poster designs these days, but look at how hard this one slaps! We get to see every character, all featured in a much more goofy pose, while flames burst out from behind them.
Do we wish that Terry Bogard and Joe Higashi’s eyes were burrowing into our souls’s slightly less? Of course we do. But there’s no denying that it’s cool.
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