The manga halted serialization in August 2014 following SNK Playmore’s (now SNK) criminal complaint against Square Enix in August 2014, which asserted that the Hi Score Girl manga featured over 100 instances of characters from The King of Fighters, Samurai Spirits (Samurai Shodown), and other fighting games owned by SNK.
The December issue of Square Enix’s Big Gangan magazine revealed on Monday that Rensuke Oshikiri is launching Hi Score Girl DASH, a spinoff manga of his Hi Score Girl manga, in the magazine’s next issue on December 25.
The “’90s arcade romantic comedy” story of the original Hi Score Girl manga begins in 1991, during the heyday of the 2D fighting game boom.
Square Enix also issued a voluntary recall on all of the manga’s five print volumes in 2014, but re-released the first five volumes in 2016 under the title Hi Score Girl CONTINUE.