Fatal Fury history book

Bitmap Books has announced *Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History*, a new SNK history book scheduled for May 20, 2026. (bitmapbooks.com) The publisher lists the standard edition at £34.99 and the collector’s edition at £54.99, both with a May 20 release date. Bitmap’s product pages say the book runs more than 460 pages and includes a free PDF. (bitmapbooks.com) Bitmap says the book draws on interviews with SNK staff including Yasuyuki Oda, Takeshi Kimura, Hitoshi Okamoto, Youichiro Soeda and Nobuyuki Kuroki. The publisher also says SNK gave it access to concept sketches, promotional illustrations and cover art from the series archive. (bitmapbooks.com) Fatal Fury is one of SNK’s foundational fighting series. SNK’s official site says the first game launched in 1991 and introduced features including a two-plane “Line Battle” system and two-player co-op. (snk-corp.co.jp) The timing lines up with a broader push around the franchise. SNK released *Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves* on April 24, 2025, ending a 26-year gap since *Garou: Mark of the Wolves* in 1999. (snk-corp.co.jp) That makes the book part archive and part franchise catch-up. Bitmap’s listing says it covers the series from the early Neo Geo games through *Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition*, *Fatal Fury: First Contact*, *Garou: Mark of the Wolves* and *City of the Wolves*. (bitmapbooks.com) The release also fits a line of licensed SNK books that Bitmap has already been building. Its backlist includes *THE KING OF FIGHTERS: The Ultimate History*, a 544-page volume published with SNK archive access and developer interviews. (bitmapbooks.com) For readers who follow game books as closely as game releases, the May 20 date is the next marker. Bitmap is treating Fatal Fury as a series with enough history, art and developer testimony to support a full-format document of record. (bitmapbooks.com)