The Dead or Alive Iceberg 

I can't seem to get chapters to work for some reason, so timestamps are at the top of the description! Also mild correction: Free Step Dodge Cancel was not the inspiration for the FSD name, it was a reference to dodging attacks with a Free Step.

I'm a Melty Blood player that happened to get DOA6 this year. I had no clue there was more overlap than i thought. What a coincidence!

Hajinmon and Tenjinmon refer to the clans and fighting styles.

Great video. I've been waiting for a DOA Iceberg during a good time.

Dude... I remember having the DoA 2 Dreamcast disc, and if you put it in your PC, there's image files of all the girl characters in bikinis. Had a little more fun with that feature than I should have... but yeah, being 13 and all... stuff happens😏

swoozie being on this iceberg is not what i was expecting😭😭

This is a really well done iceberg! I was really bored and some of these details astonished me

DoA online was basically the only way for a PC-gamer to experience more or less modern 3D fighting games at the time. I remember navigating those chinese menus, dang it, but it was worth it

This is a very informative video. Nicely done!

Great iceberg video!! I’ve been a longtime casual fan of the series, so it was nice to learn so many new things! Maybe not the thing about Marie Rose in Stage 6 though 😭

I’m so happy someone made a dead or alive iceberg video because it’s my favorite 3D fighting game

Awesome work! I can tell you put a lot of effort into this.

Some interesting info, the bit at the end was nice lol.

I was expecting a mention of Honoka looking like Honoka from the Love Live series, i actually thought she was kind of a reference tbh. I loved the video!!!

It’s funny that Mortal Kombat players defended a spinoff game from another company; I usually see the opposite situation when fans of similar games quarrel among themselves about whose game is better or worse.

_DOA_ is *still* the best fighting game movie, by far - and don’t forget Jaime Presley, Devon Aoki (of Sin City fame), or Eric Roberts. It was incredibly well produced.

The last part is hilarious great video!

really awesome iceberg video! Also I thought it was just me getting annoyed by the amoeba guy 😆 I've been making DOA modding videos since 2008 and I'm still here 😱 I'm currently working on DOA2 custom stages with the help of others who are making SEGA Naomi/DC model import/export tools. I really want to see how much I can push the Dreamcast with textures and polygons.

Man you did your homework bro. Respect.

I don't think I've ever watched one of these iceberg videos, despite the frequency they appear, but as a fan of DOA and your content, I'm naturally intrigued. Interesting to hear that you started out with Last Round, was the also specifically thanks to the free-to-play Core Fighters? I started out with Dead or Alive 4 at Christmas 2005. 1:01 - Interesting to see the Core Values incident be a part of the "Basics" section. Is it really one of the most well known incidents/facts about the franchise? 1:55 - I was curious as to who this character was, popping up in my DOA game. I've only played one Ninja Gaiden game and my opinions were... mixed. 4:07 - It's kind of hilarious that the jiggle physics of Dead or Alive 1 was a major part of what spread word about the game when there was only 3 female fighters. Given the emphasis put of the feature, you would have thought they'd have more females to demonstrate it. 4:44 - I feel this incident and statement gains further notoriety when you add in how, not too long after, one of the co-founders of EVO got kicked out because of harassment. The irony was hilarious. 7:42 - It wasn't exactly the most accurate movie but I had a good time to watching it. Any moment with Bass in it was a delight. 9:25 - I believe there was consideration for having Samus be a playable guest fighter but I remember some comment about wanting to keep Dimensions as a pure DOA experience or something. Regardless, a missed opportunity. 11:28 - I've been interested in trying to find some more DOA content creators (one of them I've been watching is planning to move away from DOA, so this screen here is pretty handy). 12:27 - I've never heard of this scrapped DOA content. DOATEC attacking the Ninja village would have been a cool development and the death of Kokoro's mother could have resulted in Kokoro siding with DOATEC (which given the villain side lacks fighters, would be something I approve of). 15:15 - I've seen some of the footage of Nikkei... I certainly would like to see DOA character's depicted in that style. 18:56 - I've heard plenty about Code Chronos but Project Progressive I think I've only heard mentioned once, an not in much detail. 20:23: Happy to see PangYa get a mention. Kasumi looks great in the game, surprising it's just a costume rather than a full character here. The Kasumi and Ryu artwork from the game is loved by me that I've used it twice in thumbnails. 20:42 - The high quality promo art is appreciated. Kokoro and Hitomi look beautiful in it and it's nice to see Kasumi centre stage given how often she gets pushed aside (an not just by the more recent Marie Rose and Honoka, she's previously been pushed aside by Ayane and Hitomi for both promotions and crossover events). 24:54 - Surprising that Team Ninja never revisited this idea. A belly dancer fighter seems like a natural fit for the series. 27:33 - That's a strange overlap. I figured if an overlap would occur it would be with another 3D fighter like Soulcalibur (gosh, we need more 3D fighting games... I miss Bloody Roar). 29:46 - Okay, I loved this entire line and it makes the existence of Dead or Alive Xtreme even better. It's kind of ironic how the perception has played out, given the Xtreme series was made to allow the sex appeal aspect to flourish outside of the main series so it could focus more on the fighting side of things. I for one don't mind the existence of the Xtreme series, at least when it focuses on the Volleyball. It's when they make entries such as the PSP Paradise game which ditches the sport aspect where I question it's existence. 34:46 - That's not too surprising, Kasumi did have a school outfit as an unlockable from the very beginning. Strange though that neither her nor Ayane designs, even in the first games, seemed 16 (Kokoro and Eliot I could see being those ages back in DOA4) so it just seems to be Japan's fixation on keeping the female characters particularly young. With the time passing from Dead or Alive to Dead or Alive 4, with an estimated year passing between each game, Kasumi should have at least been 18 or older by the 2nd or 3rd DOA. 37:19 - Wouldn't Phase 4 make more sense as the Princess of Darkness in this scenario? A fun interpretation though and I like the dedication to the presentation here. 39:45 - That would actually be a pretty cool twist. Something similar was done with Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash, though this makes the owner sound more mystical and menacing.

This video was so freaking good❤

You gived me the envy of more DOA shitposting. I would really like to see more of Kazumi shitpost-like antics. Also, Neko Kazumi or Neko Lei Fang when? My only direct contact with DOA was vvia the Ninja Gaiden Master Collection, playing Ayane in Sigma 2 and Kazumi in Razor's Edge was quite a blast even if they only have one weapon. I would really like to play the games one day.

Cool I didn’t know they were holding DoA6 Tournaments I would love to participate

About the negative guard break thing; in KOF14, there's a character named Nelson that has a move that guard breaks. It's safe if it does, but it's actually unsafe on HIT, making for an interesting layer in his offense. Kinda reminded me of that

Those early DOA televised tournaments were great. I believe there was some for DoA3. Great memories.

Of course Marie Rose is in the top 100. She's great!

The DOA franchise means so much to me ever since I was young, I grew up with it a lot and it sucks to see it dying slowly. I just hope we can keep it alive as long as possible.

Nice video 😊

I’m I that one guy as a injustice fan overlapped to dead or alive cause I never heard of melty blood or played it but looks interesting

Wow my first time playing DOA WAS I Japan when I was 11 and I played DOA2 in an arcade.. I fell in love with Ayane. I've been a fan since then but it's wild how much information you have after having playing the game from 5 onward.... Like wow I shoulda done videos like this years and years ago. Thanks for giving me an education on a game I've loved for over 10 years

I never knew about the belly dancer character. I would love to see her playable someday… I also did not know Venus Vacation was not canon I thought it was? Good iceberg so far.

This is a great video, that is making me want to get into DOA, is there an OST list for each section

17:00 I remember playing the AOT stage in DOA5LR on a cracked pc port

Nice video.

I still remember Itagaki’s DoA5 it would have been 100000000x better than what we got. Aye, we got the better muy tai fighter.

Core values my behind. All those two lovely ladies did was prove that the jiggle physics were accurate!~

15:56 That costume... 👀

it used to be xbox exclusive but it somehow lost contract with microsoft

18:16 So we just gonna ignore the fact that Keith "Spawn" David lent his voice to xbox ?

14:49 why didn't we get Hayabusa or Tina or or ayane

I stopped playing after 5 came out since it kinda fell off. I wish DoA7 would change that but I'm not holding my breath.

I love DOA

31:10 JAKE?! MAGGIE!!?!?!?!?

SOMEONE ELABORATE ON THE "REAL DEAD OR ALIVE" THING THAT HE SAID, I NEED TO KNOW

Fun video, but the whole section with the annoying voice effect was pretty unwatchable for me. I hope DOA doesn't die permanently.

Hey i know you Beely im Drunken Dragon ive played you on pc didn't know you do RU-vid lol

No shot ur video popped up 😭

whats the music at 0:59

31:17 WHY THE FUCK IS MAGGIE SIMPSON NUMBER 11?!

Cool vid but I csnt watch that last tier. That voice changer got old really fast

great vid,im kinda new to DOA as whole but liked it a lot...but bro final stage was CORNIEST SHIT EVERR😭🙂

You forgot to add how evo lost respect from the fgc and got roasted. Fuck evo and esports. DOA is Fighting game core values.

There is one collab/cameo you miss it was Azur Lane

The only thing I have to say is there isn't anything "deep" really. I already knew nearly all the stuff on this and the things I didn't is just highly personal to you. The community pages are big "who cares", besides it isn't shocking. A person that plays one fighter, most likely, plays two or three-- a lot of the player base for Dragon Ball Z Fighters also play MVC games, so is there a lore deep dive overlap? Just silly. You are aware that developers/ directors don't need corporate permission to make deals amongst each other, right? Just because one character is seen in another game (in house) doesn't mean the company is on fine terms with that character (or even series). It just means that either the two directors [teams] are friends, or one thought the other would help bring in sales. I believe the tournament only happened twice (maybe thrice), and it wasn't "officially" announced-- the DOA team did the lion share of the marketing. The treatment of DOA compared to Temco's other titles can easily lead one to believe, DOA isn't appreciated. Especially since Temco doesn't really back the spin-off games, but turn to DOA when they are in the red. I get the feeling that you are trying to reject aspects, about the game, that's been there since the first arcade. You are aware that the sexuality of the characters is a joke, right? The juggles are there because the creator thought it was funny-- nothing else. In the future, when there is sexuality within the topic, just talk about it and move on. Keep your game journalist impression to yourself. Using back-handed comments, false virtue signaling, and innuendoes just makes me raise the eyebrow to you. If you don't like it, then don't talk about it. Well, if you ever make another Iceberg, then hopefully you get some better stuff or drop the soy-boy act.