Bloody Roar

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Bloody Roar
Logo from the first game
Genre(s)	Fighting
Developer(s)	Eighting Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Activision Hudson Soft Konami SCEA Virgin Interactive
Creator(s)	Kenji Fukuya Susumu Hibi
Platform(s)	Arcade GameCube PlayStation PlayStation 2 Xbox
First release	Bloody Roar July 7, 1997
Latest release	Bloody Roar 4 November 11, 2003

Bloody Roar (ブラッディロア, Buraddi Roa) is a series of fighting games created by Hudson Soft and developed together with Eighting. The series has been published by multiple companies including Activision, Konami, SCEA, and Virgin Interactive. Konami holds the rights to the franchise after Hudson Soft was absorbed into the former company in 2012.^[1]

The series began in 1997 under the name Beastorizer. The game incorporates anthropomorphism as its main gameplay feature and theme, where the playable characters are Zoanthropes (the name comes from the clinical term, 'zoanthropy', which is similar to lycanthropy), humans who have the ability to transform into half-human, half-animal creatures (anthropomorphic animals). This form is called a beast form, and Zoanthropes are capable of switching between their human and beast forms. The game would appear under the name "Bloody Roar" when it was ported to the PlayStation in 1998, which would become the permanent title for the series thereafter.