Let's see:
Ryu Hayabusa seems a bit bland, but his real story is at Ninja Gaiden, still awesome momments in DOA games.
Jann Lee: This dude is amazing, for all i could understand, he was a poor child that learned bruce lee's fighting style by watching movies and crawled to the top with his...
I can't really tell about popularity, but personally i like a lot of DOA male characters more than the males of other fighters (that are normally the majority).
BUt i agree that TN is greatly to blame, even more now with those disgusting oppai mousepads and body pillows.
But they still do...
On topic, what if at the end of DOA5 era, i don't know, in 1, 2 or 3 years, we get a dlc that teases some of the designs present in the next game, that would be incredible, but i feel that some people would think that as some sort of spoiling.
I think that Honoka is awesome because of that. I think it is really hard to make a character that has the moves of every other character work out well...
Double in Skullgirls is the only other example i like.
I would say, Mila as Jolyne. Lisa as Mariah....
Helena as Lisa Lisa, or...
On the topic of dlc costumes that i would like.
For Ayane, i would like both her default costume from NG3RE (which is just a variation of her default costume in DOA5LR, but way better), and her Sigma 2 outfit as well.
For ryu, it would be nice his shadow walker costumes from Ninja Gaiden 2.
You know who will not be cut? Jann Lee.
I really wish the VF characters wouldn't go, but sadly, it is their destiny. Wonder how people that play DOA because of the VF characters will deal with that.
I really wish Momiji and Rachel aren't dropped in future games, but there isn't much that they...
Eliot is cool, but i can't find many ways to give a young boy a reason or a fighting style that works.
Maybe a ninja, but then it would go towards the more build up body like hayate or just straight up strong like Ryu.
About Zack, i don't know, i love joke characters and stuff of the sort, and...
It would be nice to have a classic raidou costume now that i think about it.
Ryu could have a genshin costume since there is no possibility of genshin becoming a doa character.
I don't believe in such extremes, like i said, DOA has some of my favorite males in fighting games.
DLC characters probably have some marketing thought behind it, and if they're picking females, is for pure business purposes, but saying that they don't want to put the effort into males is a bit...
I honestly think that DOA has some of the best male cast in fighting games.
Ryu Hayabusa, the supah ninja with the best izuna drops.
Brad Wong is a cool druken fist user, and i really like his design.
Bayman is awesome as well, and his moveset is so brutal, the same for Leon.
Honestly i don't...
I still don't understand Lisa.
She is behind Alpha 152 and Phase 4. but when Hayate gets locked in epsilon she is suddenly helping the ninja side of things?
Does she have any kind of moral or ethic?