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GAME: Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax

These characters are video game characters and not anime/manga character like let say Goku of DBZ or Naruto. I guess this is why DBFC may not get pick up in the US, but Tatsunoko vs Capcom is the only exception.

Well as I mention above, we couldn't get Super Robot Wars (except the 2 OG game and Endless Frontier), and we couldn't get Jump Superstars or it's sequel.

However, the only character crossover video game that people in US were able to get were:

Chao Wars (which had characters from Shdowheart, Growlanser, Blazing Souls, Spectral Souls, Gungrave, and Code of the Samurai)

Cross Edge (which had characters from Darkstalkers, Disgaea, Ar Tonelico, Spectral Souls, Blazing Souls Atelier Marie, and Mana Khemia)

Trinity Universe (which had characters from Disgaea, and Atelier series)

One exception is:

Tatsunoko vs Capcom (I heard bringing this game to the US wasn't easy according to interview with the producers, Seth Killian of Capcom USA has added more thing about bringing that game to the US)

So judging from only these 4 crossover games that got US release. These characters are video game characters and not anime/manga character like let say Goku of DBZ or Naruto. I guess this is why DBFC may not get pick up in the US, but Tatsunoko vs Capcom is the only exception. But I ighly doubt this game would get pick up for US and outside of Asia.

So judging from only these 4 crossover games that got US release. These characters are video game characters and not anime/manga character like let say Goku of DBZ or Naruto. I guess this is why DBFC may not get pick up in the US, but Tatsunoko vs Capcom is the only exception. But I highly doubt this game would get pick up for US and outside of Asia.

Not sure if the recent Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS count, but in addition to Nintendo characters, there are cameos from Capcom, Namco, SEGA, and Ubisoft. (And possibly EA through Dr. Wright.) Again though, those are all video game characters, which makes legal issues much simpler.

Also, for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, one of the characters had to be excluded from the international release because the European rights holders to Bob in the Bottle adamantly refused to give Capcom permission to have him in the game.

Not even that--I'd bet something like Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion!! would be just as much of a nightmare to localize in other countries as different groups would be in charge of different franchises.

By the way, although not a video game, Heroclix is a tabletop game that IS pretty popular among comic book fans that has a lot of characters from all of those publishers. IDW is the only major publisher I can think of that doesn't have any Heroclix representation. I'd bet this game is stuck solely in North America because of rights issues.

Whoa, that was a surprise. Punch Time Explosion! was pretty low-key in its release, and no one really seemed to care about this game so I couldn't find much information about it.

Regarding the status of Cartoon Network properties in Japan, I think it's more that besides a few shows, Cartoon Network's stuff just isn't popular in Japan. Heck, you barely have much foreign material on television for the reasons that Japan makes enough of its own stuff and that there is a high failure rate of shows brought to Japan from elsewhere. I'd bet Punch Time Explosion! would've bombed in Japan, considering it plays like a Smash Bros. clone with no polish or depth.