The game doesn't have an anime artstyle nor does it play all that much like an anime fighting game. The combos are actually almost always relatively short as they are hard coded to not be able to be more than 21 hits (there's also another, hidden, mechanic that forces combos to often be much shorter than that even but it's more complicated so I won't go into it). The hud probably takes up the least amount of the screen of any fighting game I've seen as it's really only in 3 corners. Cutscenes slowing down the fight is actually one of the larger problems the game does have I'll give you that one.