DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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The Garcia Girls visit Japan
Table of Contents 1. Arrival, 2018-03-27, Tokyo 2. 2018-03-28 Okayama, Kurashiki, and Hiroshima 3. 2018-03-29 Hiroshima to Kyoto 4. 2018-03-30 Kyoto and Kimono 5. 2018-03-31 Kyoto to Tokyo 6. 2018-04-01 Tokyo Hanami-party in Ueno Park 7. Running around in Tokyo 1 Arrival, 2018-03-27, Tokyo On Tuesday, March 25th our cousins, the Garcia Girls, came for […]
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Fighting Game Events in Tokyo, 2018 April and May
Previous: 2018 February and March Fighting game events in Tokyo | Next: 2018 June and July Fighting Game events in Tokyo Seems like I’ve gotten into the habit of tracking FGC offline events in the Tokyo area. This isn’t a comprehensive list, but feel free to contact me if you want me to add anything. […]
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Talking to the “Pro Gamer Couple” Momochi and Chocoblanka about esports as a job and the severe reality of money
Table of Contents 1. To become a pro gamer requires “tournament results” and “business activities” 2. Prize money for Pro Gamers continue to increase every year 3. My husband tells me “You have no talent” 4. Before becoming a pro gamer, he played games as much as a pro 5. As a pro gamer, how […]
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NHK’s “The Style of Professional Work: New Jobs Special”
NHK aired a special in their series on jobs about new types of jobs, with a focus on a YouTuber and Professional Gamers. I’ll summarize some interesting points for the Pro Gamer section, which featured Diago Umehara. The YouTube portion followed Hikakin, who I didn’t know anything about. Interesting guy, but I don’t think people […]
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RAGE 2018 Spring New Generation Esports event
RAGE 2018 Spring New Generation Esports is a large gaming event held on March 21st in Makuhari Messe Hall 6 with a variety of tournaments attached to it. The main events are Street Fighter V, Shadowverse, and Splatoon 2. The venue opens at 9am, things start at 10am, and things should end by 8pm. The […]
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P2G Gaming Event at Redbull Gaming Sphere Nakano
On Sunday, March 18th, Shinobism’s Project Gaming Girls (P2G) held a multi-title gaming event at the RedBull Gaming Sphere in Nakano. This was a multi-title event, with Capcom’s Street Fighter V, Nintendo’s Splatoon2, Blizzard’s Hearthstone, and Capcom’s MVCI. The event was from 1pm to 5pm, with the various P2G members hosting activities for the games […]
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Capcom eSPORTS CLUB in Plaza Capcom Kichijoji
Capcom recently opened the “eSPORTS CLUB” (their capitalization, not mine) in their Plaza Capcom arcade in Kichijoji. It is an interesting place, and surprising to me in that it is completely free. They have two head to head setups, and I think eight side by side setups. It isn’t the largest space, but each station […]
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A short post-Kemonomichi interview with Tokido
The Chigesoku blog (Japanese) took some notes from an interview with Tokido from 3 days after the Kemonomicni FT10. The video is from the Living The Game people – Living the Game is a documentary (in Japanese) that primarily follows Momochi, Chocoblanka, Daigo, Luffy, and GamerBee with brief appearances by many others in the FGC. […]
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Behind-the-scenes discussion with Daigo about Kemonomichi 2
Table of Contents 1. Otani was his training parter 2. The reason for holding the stick neutral 3. Why he did EX flash kick form the start 4. Daigo’s thoughts about Tokido 5. His thoughts on Tokido crying 6. Kemonomichi makes people stronger 7. Daigo prepared for this knowing it will tank his chances at […]
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My brief appearance on AbemaTV’s Agenai! Friday
Friday, March 9th, I was invited to appear on “Agenai! Friday” (Episode 7), a show on AbemaTV. What is AbemaTV? It is a live streaming service that adopts the model of TV, and streams content on various channels at a specific time. You can also access their backlog of shows for free. I like their […]
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Daigo’s Panel on Money and Games in Japan
Today, Daigo streamed a panel discussion about Money and Games. It was super interesting. I just wanted to watch for my own purposes, but I took a few notes, so I guess I’ll put them out there. Some disclaimers: I’m just a guy living in Japan, and Japanese is my second language. So I might […]
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Fighting game events in Tokyo, 2018 February and March
2018 January Fighting Game events, 2018 April and May Tokyo Fighting Game Events It seemed like it was useful to track the fighting game events going on around the 2018 EVO Japan tournament, so I’m going to also keep track of things that are going on in February in the Tokyo area, to the extent […]
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