When The King of Fighters: Destiny web series was announced to complement the upcoming mobile game of the same name,
I was very skeptical. Web series don’t
have a reputation for having the highest production values, 3D animation is
hard to do right and it comes from a Chinese animation studio that was not a big
name as far as I can tell. I was
prepared for the worst, but at the same time KOF material outside of the games
have been enjoyable even at their worst, with the exception of the movie we need to try to change the title of and forbid from ever discussing.
Several months later the series has now ended its first
season and animation studio Idragon has two more planned as well as a
movie. They have some serious confidence
in this series and with the overall positive reception, it’s not unwarranted.
Since it’s a web series you can see for free on Steam or
Youtube, the question isn’t if it’s worth your money, but rather if it’s worth
your time. That’s not as much time as it
may look. Listings show episodes as
being 20 minutes long, but the truth is more than half of that is the overly
long opening prologue about Orochi, the rather bad opening theme and an
excruciatingly long credit roll. Each
episode is only 7 to 9 minutes long if you skip all that. With enough editing they could make it into a
movie.
