From Project Justice, it's Momo Karuizawa! It will not surprise you, in any way, to learn that Momo is my favourite Rival Schools character (although it's often a close race between her and Hinata, of course) because she is a horrible, awful, backstabbing little gremlin. No, really, she's one of the villains and is just the absolute worst. That means, in my book, she's good. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to her coming back to ruin the online experience for people when that new Capcom collection comes out next year!

From Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX, it's Zobio (the big lug in the back) and Zobiko (the little one at the front)! They're zombies who've fallen in love and are on the run in the arcade-only mini-game lightgun game. I've only played the game once myself, very briefly at a retro game expo, but I was reminded of them because they were unlockable characters in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, alongside the likes of Bonanza Bros. and Jacky Bryant & Akira Yuki. Sure, they're the living dead, but they make a cute couple, huh? The background's inspired by the main art used on the arcade flyer for the game, sadly the pair do cover the blood streaks I went to the trouble of adding... Oh well.

From Knuckle Heads (this week's Arcade Archives release, don't ya know, it's Christine Myao! She's the obvious Gaming Hell choice in the admittedly-small roster, but she is pretty fun to play as. There's not a lot of Knuckle Heads fanart to go around, so sometimes you have to make it yourself~

From Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior and based on her appearance in The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle, it's Kasumi Todoh! She's a favourite of mine from the AoF series, but it's surprising to see her AoF3 / KOF96 design is a bit different from later ones- her hair is in a more obvious ponytail in later games, for one thing. If you're wondering about the book and the caption here, one of her win poses in a few games has her whip out an English phrase book and say "Come back when you grow up!" to her opponent in English. That's dedication to trash talk, doing so in a different language!