SNK Playmore (now SNK) filed a criminal complaint against Square Enix in August 2014, asserting that the Hi Score Girl manga features over 100 instances of characters from The King of Fighters, Samurai Spirits (Samurai Shodown), and other fighting games owned by SNK.
The two companies settled their claims over the manga in August 2015, and SNK Playmore dropped its criminal charges against Square Enix.
This year’s third volume of Square Enix’s Big Gangan magazine announced on Saturday that the anime adaptation of Rensuke Oshikiri’s Hi Score Girl manga will premiere in July.
The manga halted serialization in August 2014 following SNK Playmore’s criminal complaint, but it resumed in the magazine in July 2016.