Games for a 12 year old anime fan?

We took our 12 year old goddaughter to a comicon last weekend, and they had some retro games out. She beat the shit out of me on Mortal Kombat 3 and WWF, and seemed to enjoy a couple of co op side scrollers as well.

She asked to come to ours after, and we played some more games. I panicked and found Injustice 2 and Hot Wheels in my PS5 library, I think from a monthly game. She's asked to come round again sometime to play more games and we really want to support her. Her siblings and parents aren't really into any nerdy hobbies, and we are. She actually said she felt like she could be herself at comicon, and she normally can't, so we want to help her.

But, we don't have kids, and anime isn't really our flavour of nerdism. She loves Demonslayer in particular. We tried a bit of Howl's Moving Castle but she was quickly bored, we think due to the lack of violence.

Any recommendations for games I can get ready for her? Looking for something that's not too expensive, and won't upset her mum that we let her play them (we got away with MK3 because of the old skool graphics, nothing like a modern realistic. Injustice lacks blood and gore so I thought it was on the edge of acceptable). Couch coop/multiplayer is a must, and any advice is welcome!

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