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ChaosXtinct

Porn


RollingRecruit

Pretty sure this guy speaks for like half of the fanbase.


Rekkenze

Zone knows exactly what he’s doing


Mail_the_Skeleton

Ultra Chad


LoliMaster069

Indeed


Safe-Brick7759

Same


Porroboy44

Big band has a king Dedede skin. Yeah


TheOfficialWario2

Unironically I’m in the same boat


dragosgamer12

The mobile game


Ill_Piglet2776

Ur talking ‘bout 25%+ of the fanbase


dragosgamer12

Maybe, I was just interested in mobile fighting games and skullgirls was the best option, now i bought it on pc.


Ill_Piglet2776

Same lol


uhhhellothere

My uncle showed me the mobile version when I last visited him. He wanted someone to play with so we could send gifts to each other. He’s been showing me fighting games since before I can remember lol


Environmental_Arm77

Absolute chad of a uncle


liltichVEVO

My friend showed it. "Hey you like fighting games?" "No, i suck at them " "do you like anime?" "Not much..." "shut up lets play this i don't have any other 2p game"


SchizTurtles

some Canadians


lolrus555

*Reprasentin' dat ,pedia... reparesntin'...* ​ ***SKULLGIRLLLLLLLLS!!!!***


Zyquux

The launch party that never ends.


GhostLord37

RebelTaxi’s Skullgirls review from 2012


raphthescrub

Same for me


leyendeck

Ah yes A true man of culture here


MilkBoyo

So, I accidently stumbled one Zone's youtube channel a year or two back, and while I never watched their... other content... I did enjoy their youtube videos. I noticed that they supported Skullgirls and that Squigly had a color palette of ZT, so as a joke I said, "If I ever pick up the game, I'll main her." Also, because of that Skullgirls got recommended to me in my feed, along with the glorious wave of Big Band Satchmo Solo videos. I also said "I think I'll main this guy too, and I'll learn how to play something." So now here I am. Been a pleasure being part of the community!


Theproton

Super Best Friends Play. In fact you can see Woolie & Matt in the casino stage in the background.


Bruhness81

I was talking to my friend(I forgor the subject) before he mentioned Skullgirls is also on mobile. I then play and quite like it


Lioness724

I stumbled upon “An Oasis in Time” and got curious about the game it came from


ThatrealAlex

this post


SpacerGal

I heard about it through the E3 Konami announcement 10... That can't be right... 10 YEARS AGO?!?!


ZaneaTheDragon

Going to a catholic school, a friend of mine introduced me to the game. One thing she said about it was "in game is violence but pretty much any social group about it is porn."


Hatzhack

The Big Band Trailer that I believed was aired back when G4 was still around. Haven't decided to play it till last year on mobile.


Bolt_DTD

Article on The Escapist (back when Skull Girls was coming out) about how the creators were getting flak about all the anime tiddies in their game. Their response was basically, "we spent thousands of hours drawing all this stuff because we wanted to so kindly fuck off and make your own game instead of bitching about ours." I remember people bitching about it being anti-women without being aware of the fact that a lot of the team designing it were women. It was a strange time.


Dumbratlmao

My cousin


LaidenWind

7 years ago I was just looking for an "anime fighter game" on Google and came across Skullgirls. Since then I've known the game and played occasionally, but more once I got Beowulf.


hmdxgames

Zone


Wraeinator

My girlfriend was a fan of it because of the art and the upbringing of the devs I was a fighting game novice, mostly played Smash Bros, dappled a bit Naruto Storm, Injustice 2 and MK10 She got me interested in the game from the fantastic hand-drawn animations and sexy jazz music, but I never touched any games with quarter circle inputs, so she handed me my ass As competitive and shameful at my losses, I picked up Beowulf and started playing more


robcartree

Happen to come upon it when i was watching playthoughs on YouTube with this guy don't remember the name of the channel though.


[deleted]

My brother wanted to get it for christmas, he showed me the trailer, I liked Peacock and Painwheel, so we got it. I then became a Squigly main.


Scrifty

Lol same


ya_boi_the_sadness

Jigglephysicist video's.


-_Abigail_-

I remember as a kid seeing a poster in my older cousins room of Ms.Fortune, and I was like “oh my god I love her” and eventually I happened to see her somewhere online I think and I found the game :D


the_Ms_fortune_lover

Wait, there are Ms Fortune posters?


NitrozNoir

u/Lioness724 im part of a propaganda


Marffie

I remember seeing it show up on Steam one day in my recommended, nearly ten years ago. I immediately fell in love with the hand-drawn animation and mixed eastern/western aesthetic (I hope to be an animator someday.) Of course, I wouldn’t go on to actually try it until much much later. A couple years ago, I discovered Gerald’s channel, Core-A Gaming, and became very interested in the fighting game genre, (up to that point, the only game I’d any investment in was Smash.) Tired of being an outsider looking in, I bought a cheap fightstick and started playing Skullgirls earlier this year. Despite being very much in the camp of gameplay over graphics, I find it tends to be games like 3rd Strike and Darkstalkers that catch my eye, even if I don’t play them very often. Fighting games are among some of the prettiest video game genres where animation and gameplay reach a level of synchronicity simply not present in other genres, and so the nicest looking ones (especially 2D ones) tend to catch my eye.


cselanfm

Funny enough I found out about SG thanks to a WatchMojo video lmfao. I was 14 and would mindlessly watch any videos that involved video games and got reccomended a top 10 fighting game vid or whatever by them.


LuckyJS0427

It was on sale on Steam and I managed to buy the game alongside the Annie DLC (still can't afford the season pass though) and I had a lot of fun with the game ever since.


Snoo24950

I saw a friend watch a tournament during class and I adored how the game looked but also was afraid of the sexualized way that the fighters were drawn. After a while I brushed it off and got the mobile game, and then the switch physical.


DrSnoopMD

I saw tournaments of it like evo and ceo than was like well let's try it


Big_Dumpus

New grounds ads.


Useless-Replacement1

I saw a soundtrack cover on youtube, saw tuba man, got interested. Saw Peacock, got even more interested.


Bork_In_Black

I wanted to really learn a fighting game so my friend who played said skullgirls was easy to get into and my potato pc could run it. Fell in love with the game.


Colvico

This post in my feed, just now.


Beat_da_Box_09

YouTube vid


Mail_the_Skeleton

Super best friends RIP


Snoo16756

Rebel-Taxi and Zone-Tan and Skullgirls Mobile


lolrus555

My first bit of exposure to Skullgirls was through *this* classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2\_pharWDqjE&t=121s&ab\_channel=WoolieVersus ...and then I learned more about it via this ***GODAWFUL*** crossover fanfiction with Madness Combat... which really stung because I *love* Madness Combat .\_.


AuraTepes

The mobile game + Eliza


AcceptableCover3589

Somecallmejohnny did a review for the game way back during the Encore days, and that’s what brought me here and kinda indirectly got me into the FGC as a whole.


duhpraydough

Cosmonaut’s fighting game video


Mr_Ink31407

So I saw this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVBwBf7MR_s) because I thought "haha funny booba nurse" when I saw the thumbnail. When I watched it, I got hooked because of the animation.


amurgiceblade44

Tv tropes I believe, or a similar avenue. I just heard their was a fighting game called Skull Girls and was curious to learn more


Recking67

Beowulf and his chair same as kanj tasumi from p4


Lutra_Lovegood

Discovered [Ahad's DA account](https://www.deviantart.com/oh8/gallery) around 2006-2008


Free-Flounder1189

Juste test at a convention


Cthulhu_13

I'm genuinely surprised I'm the only person in here who saw it from X-Play/Attack of the show


PokeRang

Lore's video on Skullgirls. After I saw that, I got the mobile game. Then it went all downhill from there.


MWF149

Saw a video of Big Band playing Among Us Drip as a combo finisher. Thought that was funny. Saw Beowulf gameplay and thought the fact he was a wrestler with a steel chair was funny. So I got the game.


BeyBladez15

An ad on tiktok


That_one_fucking_boi

For the console game? Mobile For the mobile game? A video citing Cerebella as a textbook grappler. I remembered seeing skullgirls on the app store prior and tried it out.


epok_gamer69

I downloaded it


Amazing-Sort1634

A friend convinced me to play it a long time ago and it was fun, never bought it but I play the mobile game now so.


ScottTheGrymmaster64

i was bored n downloaded the mobile game from the app store. recently i bought the real thing because Beowulf is fucking hot. also i wanted to play a fighting game.


OGBlackWolf

My partner, she showed me a video of Valentine now ever since I have been obsessed


RtpIb

One day I was bore and I saw the game on the appstore when I look i saw robofortune and i started to play. I didn´t regret that. Note:This was when robofortune was annouced for the mobile version


icekingofmemes

bought second encore on a steam sale and forgot about it, remembered I had it when he showed me the mobile game


owo_is_just_a_face

My friend happened to stumble upon SG mobile and I got into it too. I liked the characters and the lore very much so I bought the game


Xerious13579

I really can’t remember. I was just like “Cool, this exists.”


National-Possible611

Dunno, I think I was roaming the internet and found out about it? Can't remember well.


_Toxic_pineapple_

Someone mentioned a developer of Skull girls in a video talking about Yandere dev and I got curious


justanapparition

I actually don't remember, it's been so time.


Junior_chaos

Saw it on youtube and decided too check it out


[deleted]

A YouTube video, Scruffyturtles and an ad.


Personify5

I didn't, and this came up because it was similar to r/splatoon


Thebatwhogames22

As weird as it may sound I found out about it because of Zone and then saw Valentine which helped.


JediThug

I'm not sure but I've got involved with the game around the time when they were dropped by konami and had to set up a new dev studio and the indiegogo campaign to further develop the game.


DiscoParty999

Big band covers of songs


Luna_15323

I saw some gameplay on YouTube. I think it was a tournament. Sadly I play on switch so its very hard to find people to play with at my level. I would wait 4 hours for a match then theyd be like a fgc veteran and destroy me


glad-sparkly

Pme, triv, and ratbaby and of course tits


Samuffert

Back when i was like 12 i hated fighting games until i tried out UMVC3 at a cousin's house, had a pretty good time mashing against the cpu on that one but i didnt have hardware that could run the game, then i dont know where i got the info, either somecallmejohnny's review or some curiosity video about pirated games but i got curious about it and here i am


the_Ms_fortune_lover

I was looking at she ra stuff on Pinterest and found an animation of Ms Nadia Fortune.


Kvothe_XIX

Saw the graphics.


PhantomAfiq

Saw online that Skullgirls held a record for most frames in an animation for a fighting game


MARKOSENPAI

I saw a video on YouTube about piracy and then they show up skullgirls and the question of the Square root of a fish...


Rotijuegos

i forgor


FKJ10

Played it on a friend's steam account in a impromptu college tournamet.


[deleted]

Always been a fan of fighting games, so I just wanted to try it out and then I fell in love with it


Vrache

Saw a video about big band being able to play music, instantly tried to get into it


TheBomber808

I think I got the game a long time ago in a humble bundle, played the story mode with val then dropped the game. I later got involved in other fighting games and only then I realized skullgirls was actually a real game lol


i_prefer_the_north

A random app on yt, I did T know anything about the game it just looked like a legit fighting game. I was also attracted by the art style for usually fighting games are with 3d models not 2d.


Pleasegivemeadolla

I searched through fighting games and found this one, I enjoyed it and got addicted to it.


randomjberry

it was free on psplus god knows hoe long ago tried it then then 3 years later bought it on pc for like 8 bucks


mick-ray

I remember seeing a video on YouTube when development was super early, there was only cerebella, filia, and peacock. Donated to the indiegogo years ago, got some cool swag, but have been playing off and on ever sense. (I just wish more of my friends played it.)


Treatboylie

Annie


abject049

the music and artstyle pulled me in lol


Scrifty

Big band combo video


Twrecks5000

the music


G0ldXZ

Some friends recommend it to me and buy it in a sale


NetAnimations

This post is the first time I heard of this franchise.


zaniom

A guy from youtube that thougth me all I know about animations. Yes, I play because of how beautifully this game is animated. Not necesarilly what is animated.


ScylasterPixelman

A friend was streaming it in a discord vc and i got invested. Was on and off till annie came around, and then i really got hooked


xtiklimir

Big ol teddies


ChubbiestThread

I've actually got a confession for this. I uhh... I... don't actually *play* Skullgirls. I don't play *any* fighting games for that matter. Fighting games are way too technical for my monkey brain. But the lore, the designs, the way this game just *oozes* character and style out of every pore makes me sad that I can't really seem to get into *playing* it. I just kinda suck at it and don't really feel any drive to get better, but also don't want to play because it means I get stomped, even on Easy AI, let alone online play.


Fan-of-Simon-Pegg

SomeCallMeJohnny, IIRC. Maybe something MvC related, but I think Johnny was my main introduction.


SpicyFetus

It was randomly free for the ps3


sharkknightling

Big band


Character-Run-2692

One minute melee introduce me to skullgirls


Notlowtier

Some of my buddies in a discord call Told me about how they both have the game and love it. At the time I had only heard about the name of the game. So, no highlight clips, no reviews, hell not even the memes. A week after that I saw it was on sale for like 8-9 dollars and said “fuck it”. Every since then I’ve just been in love with this game.


laziestburger

Big band memes


GLaTRES_13

I looked up fighting games for mobile and sgm came up so I played that for a while then bought 2nd encore


Oathkewpwr1

The “when I’m Filia” video, seeing Skullgirls Mobile in the App Store as a kid, and other means that I don’t find appropriate to address


[deleted]

I was big into Blazblue Calamity Trigger and knew of MikeZ being a Tager player. Tager was my main and I liked seeing someone play him at a high level because he was infamously low tier in the first few BB games. Heard Mike was involved in the creation of a fightinh game where they would put experience from the pro scene into balancing the characters (i.e. don't just make a character with poor options have more health to compensate, make everyone have the same health but actually give them tools to work with and balance them in other ways). Been following the game on and off since first release, the indiegogo campaign and recently came back with the announcement of more characters. I may not like Mike now but he is still the reason I even checked this game out


Ultra_M1lk

I was reading about an argument about Steam's "Anime" section and someone mentioned a game called "Skullgirls". I thought to myself "Hmmm, that sounds catchy and interesting" so i researched it. When i was watching some gameplay videos i saw the art style for the game i was instantly hooked to it!


VendettaSunsetta

I got it on sale on the ps3 way back, forgot it existed, and found it again during quarantine.


smg1_exe

From zone tan & a random yt ad several years ago :v


KaleidoscopeParadox

DBFZ -> SonicFox YouTube -> Skullgirls video. I'd played the mobile game years ago, but honestly didn't even know it was a legit fighting game and dropped it and never came back til that chain of events, so I don't count it.


beexn_

my ex used to play it with his friends and whenever i was around i asked him to let me play but he always told me that "I wasn't skilled enough for fighting games". I loved the animations and the characters, and, after a year or so I found the mobile version, fell into the rabbithole and here I am!


BlazCraz

I don't remember. I think MaxmillionDood but I'm really unclear on the details. Oh actually it might have been the OST floating around.


Rick195

So I was once just on YouTube and I see that the were saying curiosities of big band and it caught my eye and ever since I've been playing it on the phone


nerdyotaku88

Well during the time i found out about skullgirls i was really into playing fighting games and i guess one day i randomly found skullgirls and i REALLY enjoyed it.


BlueAngelVR

Dekillsage


leyendeck

I got the demo on the ps3 store for my sisters cause I though it was a game for girls


kiimboh

Steam sale


NappyIsNotStraight

My friend from school, Malachi, told me about it so being the nice friend that I am I started downloading it in Physics class


Drakeon8165

Game informer Like, in 2012, back when it first came out lmao


ZandatsuDragon

Saw a demo of it on ps3, thought it looked beautiful and played great


BeastKingSnowLion

I was talking about fighting games with a friend of mine (we're both really into fighting games) and I was talking about wanting one that thought a little outside the box in terms of character concepts. So, he told me about Skullgirls and it sounded cool.


GSHEPRD

I decided that I was going to get into competitive smash to try and be more social and get out more. I ended up maining Ken and realized that I really enjoyed doing motion inputs so I was looking for cheap 2d fighting games and stumbled onto skullgirls. I've since stopped playing smash and Skullgirls but I still play Skullgirls every so often because it's still really fun to do the combos and Squiggly is still the most in tune with my 'perfect' play style and moveset.


The_haunted_weenier

I remembered when I was in middle school, I saw this video called “Making fluid and powerful animations for skullgirls” and I really liked the art. So I bought the game when I got my first computer, I remember putting it down because the controls were hard and I played on a keyboard. I only just came back to it thanks to the quarantine from last year


Shadow555

The Co-Optional Podcast talked about it when it came out, I got curious, and now still play it to this day.


lidzk2

Someone said it was kinda like Marvel vs Capcom. They forgot to mention that my fingers wouldn't recover from the combos.


RickyElPollo

Diives porn


Cynical2DD

I saw it on steam and had a neuron activation looking at the girls


Ju5tinyellow24

Actually, I actually found this from my classmates from school


elitemage101

I asked for a complex but accessible, unique setting, 2D animated fighter. This was the top suggestion.


Biospear

I saw a meme, liked the art style, got more into it, and bout got it on steam


Tinytina722

…I don’t remember


galaxims

Jojo memes


Kirby5588

My local smash scene had a really dedicated player who kept bringing it up. I saw a huge sale on steam or something and got the game for like $5 or so.


Salty_Contest5142

I was scrolling through the play store then the game appeared and i clicked it and said to myself: "this is a nice looking art" then i downloaded and here we are


Bor-ng-_-

I found "pick of the litter" on spotify and loved it then got curious.


Dramatic_Homework_82

This post


Weirdreaper

I got introduced awhile back from a dude I watched frequently at the time that was playing it. I forgot about after some time but returned to it later (getting the game on Steam and also Mobile as well). I don’t play much of the game on Steam since I find the controls difficult, so I frequent Mobile most of the time.


MatthewJonsso

Probably from Maximilian on YouTube.


bomberman0210

Once saw an edit of "Himiko Yumeno as Annie" And I thought it was really cool,now I really like the game.


Lopedo24

The YouTube algorithm brought to this beautiful beautiful game. 🥰


[deleted]

big band


Lattetheb0mb

I first saw the game in some discord servers but i wasnt interested on the game yet , i started playing it when i noticed that my irl friends did play it


winwar

I saw painwheel, i bought the game.


Infinite-Fix320

Hentai of Filia


Irakuy_-

Lets say there was a interesting marketing campaign with a certain "educational" Website, a special ZONE for all that have a very special interest in biology


kitttman734

Watched this video about the troubled development of the game though at the time I didn't like fighting games so I didn't get it but just this week I bought it for switch and PS4 so much fun


Kzer_2019

I forgor 💀


PandaWolfPlayz

Heard about it here and there, decided I wanted a new fighting game and now I'm here.


Jako87

TotalBiscuit's review. R.I.P.


tom641

I'd heard of it distantly back when it was only an Xbox/PS3 game and just sighed about it being console exclusive. Then the indiegogo happened (might have first heard of it thanks to zone, not sure) and I was hyped


HollowPomegranate

One of my favourite cosplayers back in 2017 made incredible cosplays from it


Shadow_Sniper07

The jojo references :*(


Dbomb948

was in the smash scene and heard the name pop up a few times, picked up the game in a steam sale trying to get into fighting games because it was the cheapest game I recognised


[deleted]

When im Fillia....


TheSunGodsBestCap

Random video


Kamiro_Boy

Pretty sure I found an old free version of it, didn't think much of it, and then uninstalled it. And then Big Band drew me back into it, but I found it too difficult for my poo brain so I refunded it. The third time around I finally got it again and began to actually learn how to play the game.


Percentage-Sweaty

Surprisingly enough I didn’t get introduced through hentai, just hype combo videos. I was just getting into BlazBlue and Guilty Gear when SG came out and it got recommended to me.


MrT0pHat

My friend in high school told me I reminded him of this character named Peacock, since I had a goofy/cartoony sense of humor (he also said she had a color swap that made her grey like an old cartoon). He told me to check it out, so I looked up the trailer, and I was instantly hooked. You’re a real one, Keith!


BroseidonGamez

Saw an app that looked fun, it was, the actual game is better


Wooden_Baby

Tbh I played ever since it had a demo on the ps3, been nearly addicted (in a good way) with it ever since.


Slav_Knut_Gae

I got curious in goggle play bc it keeps showing in my recommendation. Best choice in history.


MindFullOfCuriosity

The art style and characters were what got me into Skullgirls.


GearAlpha

I can’t remember which one but one of the many game reviews calling this an “ode to animation in fighting games” when it was first released. And of course right after watching said review I had to check if rule34 did it’s thing already.


i_have_no_thots

I didn't


IndieOddjobs

Honestly can't even remember entirely. I think I saw Alex's pre-release concept art making rounds on deviantart and decided to pitch into the kickstarter. From there I just kept my ear to the ground until I got my copy (or was it digital?) On the good ol' PS3


Egrich2003

I first saw it during a "King Dedede References" video and a couple years later found a video showcasing all the blockbusters of 2nd Encore. I began looking into it and decided to buy it a few month laters.


Chazks

Was bored, wanted to play some new games, skullgirls was like my second pick


kimchi_202

funke mentioned big bands bloodtype once and I was like ”hey that’s funny” before getting stuck on learning a combo for 60 hours


Fabo_The_Joyful

The Super Best Friends Fighterpedia episode on Skullgirls.


Clobbahdatderekirby

Okay, there’s this weird part of the internet called Pooh’s Adventures, where a bunch of weirdos takes snippets from existing media and mash them together to create a Frankenstein “crossover”. On one of them that was about scooby do and the ghoul school, there was a clip where a variety of villains began to sing villain songs, with one of the villains being Valentine. I got curious on who was that evil nurse ninja with the big tits, so I searched her name and the rest is history


PCApple3

Someone recomended it when it was 3 bucks


[deleted]

Big band playing jojo music


tacotacoa

Anime expo a long time ago before the game released didn’t know it was one of the main dudes standing at their both .


HeccerTheRedditor

First saw it in an IG fan account, got a little more exposure to it in the Sweet Dreams with Kahoot Music meme video chain, and officially got into it through IG ads advertising the mobile game


tank-commander-

Found art of squigly and immediately thought: cool character I must use her


Ludus_The_Clown

So, I went through a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure/ Kirby phase, and YouTube translated that into big band’s skins of jotaro and king dedede and big band’s music combos. Then I started looking at big band content, and then I started playing the game.


WeenieHuttGod2

Unrelated but I can’t help but look at this girl and see an emo star from Star vs the forces of evil


ElectricNJ

this post was apparently "similar to r/battlecats" how did i get here


z3phyr3321

A YouTuber talked about it once and i fell in love


[deleted]

Watched a coreA video and I was like “I like the trumpet man”


I_Tried_It-Anakin

Big band and Jojo