Raiu

Click on the button that says "ダウンロード" (which translates to "Download"). As for the character itself... I like it. A decent boss character whose attacks are not completely undodgeable or unblockable - and, surprisingly, it doesn't hit as hard as you'd think with most of its attacks, though it does have 10,000 HP, which makes fighting it a slow prospect. You only have to beat it in one round, though. The second round just has Schala kneeling on the ground, with no life, and you win automatically.

The question is, how does it fare against Ahuron's Lavos Core? There's a question for Watch Mode while I do things around the house :D Downloading, will test out soon.

Yup, have the trio ("Queen, Manticore, and Dragon"), and the individuals. The King is still one of my favorite dragons, and is one of my team mode bosses (as is the Manticore). Thielle is still one of my favorites, too, and is one of my solo mode bosses and team mode sub-bosses.

The original version of the dragon in Minecraft just does charge attacks, too. But in the Xbox version, he spits "Ender Acid" and purple-acid fireballs in addition, and it would have been nice to see those attacks used.

From http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/ender-dragonminecraft-159955.0.html : I haven't tried the character myself yet, but it's DarkRuler, with all that implies (both good and bad), so I think I know what to expect. Edit to add: Now I've tried it. Yup, pretty much what I expected. Keeping it anyway, because I collect dragons, but doggiedoo's Red Dragon and Synn and DEMAN's Bloodbane are still ruling the roost in that part of my collection. (My first news posting here, so let me know if I did it right) :D

Not the "MM" Rock I was expecting...

Oh, it's the Wilford Brimley sprite from the Adventure Island hack, not the one from River City Ransom hack. Hm. Well, I'll keep an eye on it.

I nearly missed this release! I'm also a big fan of end-bosses (my original intention was to have nothing but bosses in my MUGEN, but it's now about one-third bosses, one-third characters I just plain like, and one-third dragons who may or may not also be bosses), so this was a must-have even before I read about the Secret Code system. Anyway, I'm downloading now.

Looks like he just changed the hit sparks with this update, nothing major.

I recognize that guy - he's from Amalgam Comics. He's a combination of (obviously) Bizarro and Carnage, and one of the enemies of Spiderboy (Spider-Man / Conner Kent Superboy amalgam). I have to try him out.

He was called "Frog" in the English version of Chrono Trigger, which may be causing the confusion. (Kaeru means "frog" when used as a noun, but it can also mean "to change" and "to return" when used as a verb, and all three meanings are relevant to the character) He's actually pretty awesome: Anyway, Imma gonna download this and see what's new.

Eh. It's okay. It's a bit too large for my screen proportions, and I don't like its complete lack of a death animation (not even a lying down sprite), but it's good enough for my Dragon Collection.

I tried him out (selecting him as my character in a 1-player game), and... he just stood there. No AI at all. I could move him left and right and jump around, but I couldn't attack. Does the AI only work in 1.1?

Looks like Ravange's stage to me. Those are her heads on the various pillars and statues.

He was Ginzu in the English version, Sho in the Japanese. Similarly, the mummy was Mack in the English version (a reference to the song "Mack the Knife"), Jennety in Japanese. And, finally, the baby was Baby Head in English, Hoover in Japanese. As for this character... eh, I'll try him out.

Someone else asked the question in the wrong place, so I'll ask it here in the right place (because now I'm wondering about it, too): Are there any Cowboy Bebop characters (Spike or otherwise) available for Mugen? Admittedly, there's a complete lack of games to take sprites from. The only two games at all were a shooter - where Spike never leaves his ship - and a fully 3-D PS2 game which doesn't lend itself to -D sprite rips. (I can barely even find fan-made sprite sheets on the Internet. Typing "Spike Spiegel" "Sprite sheet" into Google brings me up mostly pictures of Homestuck characters. How does that work?) But Spike is one of my favorite anime characters of all time, so it'd be cool to have him for Mugen.

The Sendspace link worked for me. I'm downloading it as I type this.

... "one is" what? If you mean one of them might be from Dragon Quest.. all three versions of Ryugen are basically the same character, so if one is not from Dragon Quest, then none of them are. And there's no character named "Ryugen" in any of the ten Dragon Quest games, so none of them are.

Ryugen is frequently put into the "Dragon Quest" category in some Mugen warehousing sites, but I can't find any reference to a character with that name in any of the Dragon Quest games, unless there's a second "Dragon Quest" series not related to the well-known and long-running one. Looking through the various Ryugen's Readme files, they all say "オリジナルキャラクター", which just means "Original character" in katakana (in English - "ORIJINARU KYARAKUTAA"). So he's probably not from Dragon Quest.

Looks like new idle animation for Ananzi. I was hoping for Janos myself. Maybe in 1.3.

Aw. I was hoping for Momo from Breath of Fire III. (Though there are a lot of Momos out there, so I wasn't really expecting her. But definitely hoping)

I thought this would be using the sprites from the little-known arcade version. Those would be bigger and have a lot more frames of animation, and all three characters have their own sprites (since all three are playable): http://www.spriters-resource.com/arcade/battletoads/sheet/50079/ http://www.spriters-resource.com/arcade/battletoads/sheet/50080/ http://www.spriters-resource.com/arcade/battletoads/sheet/50081/ Unfortunately, you never fight the Dark Queen directly in that version, so she doesn't have any sprites at all. Still, I'll have to give these three a try.

It's more that Spider-Man and Iceman had already been comics characters for nearly twenty years at that point, while Firestar was made up specifically for that show. They did put her in comics afterwards, but she didn't catch on there, probably because (despite her origin in the show) they didn't team her up with Spider-Man, Iceman, or the X-Men, instead starting her in the Hellions, pairing her up with Justice (remember him? Me neither) and moving her to the New Warriors. (Well, and the Avengers, but just about every Marvel hero has been an Avenger at one point or another, so that's not saying much)

Aha! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouken "Also filling a similar role is Gou-un (豪雲 Gōun?) in the 1995 manga Street Fighter II V Retsuden by Yasushi Baba (a loose adaptation of the TV anime series Street Fighter II V serialzed at Comic Bon Bon). In Retsuden, Gou-un was the assistant instructor who taught Ryu how to perform a Hadouken."

Some are suggestive, but none are overtly sexual. Grizella, as you can see, has visible nipples through her top and isn't wearing much overall. Harmir isn't wearing pants, there's only a small patch of feathers covering her crotch, and her intro pose involves stretches that raise her legs straight up, making her lack-of-pants even more obvious. None of Harmir's other poses are even remotely suggestive, however. Ferir isn't wearing pants, either, but her fur covers her better than Harmir's feathers do (and her Midnight Bliss actually gives her more clothes). The most suggestive thing about Shartel is her large portrait. And Rucheca is basically wearing little more than a bikini on her front, but that's about as suggestive as she gets. They're overall about as sexual as Mai Shiranui's "bounciness" - in other words, not sexual at all. At worst, there's a bit of playfulness and teasing, nothing overt, and nothing suggestive is directly used in attacks.