DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Thoughts on EVO Japan 2023 from a Volunteer
Table of Contents 1. My event timeline 1.1. Thursday 1.2. Friday 1.3. Saturday 1.4. Sunday 2. The Good 3. Things that could use improvement 4. Final thoughts This year, I once again volunteered for EVO Japan. I volunteered for it once previously, in 2018, and was happy to do so again this year. A few […]
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Momochi analyzes his path to victory before Capcom Cup Top 16
In this video Momochi posted to the Shinobism channel the day before Capcom Cup Finals Momochi analyzes his path to victory. Here are some notes from the video. I (still!) haven’t watched the last day of Capcom Cup pools (Day 3 – I just have two pools left) so I might not have all the […]
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Momochi’s review of Capcom Cup Group Pools “Looking back from a man who died twice and miraculously came back to life”
This blog entry are notes from Momochi’s stream after Day 3 of Capcom Cup where he looks back on the pools. I am only currently through Day 2 myself, so this will contain spoilers, but I’m really interested in seeing what Momochi talks about. So I’ll take a few notes here about what he says. […]
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2022-12-29 Street Fighter League Pro-JP 2022 Playoffs
Table of Contents 1. Nagoya OJA Body Stars Mildom vs. Saishunkan Sol Systems 2. Shinobims Gaming vs. v6 Plus FAV RohtoZ! 3. Nagoya OJA Body Star Mildom vs. v6 Plus FAV RohtoZ! I wasn’t planning about blogging about the playoffs; I was just going to watch them. To watch them, you need a ticket on […]
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Shinobism Live Viewing event for the final SFL:Pro-JP regular season game
Tonight for today’s SFL: Pro-JP 2022 game @ShiNoBismGG is running a public viewing event (admittance was by lottery). The players aren’t playing from here but other SNB team members are here, and they have some merchandise sales. pic.twitter.com/Uy9UGxUxJc — FuguTabetai (@DocFugu) December 13, 2022 On Tuesday night, Shinobism held a live viewing event for the […]
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2023 Q1 Fighting Game Events in Tokyo
2023 Q2 Fighting Game Events in Tokyo. It has been a while since I’ve tracked offline fighting game events in Tokyo. With the pandemic starting in 2020, most offline gatherings shut down. At the end of 2022 things were starting to come back. Generally, you can find a Wednesday night fighting game event at eXeField […]
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2022-09-17 Tokyo Game Show and Street Fighter 6 demo play
A month or so ago, I bought tickets for the Tokyo Game Show. I was super interested to go because there would be a playable demo for Street Fighter 6, which I really wanted to try out. I bought tickets for Saturday since work was super busy that week, and I don’t have any connections […]
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2022 Summer / Fall SFL: Pro-JP
Table of Contents 1. 2022-09-06 JP SFL Section 1 Day 1 1.1. Street Fighter League Warm-up 1.2. Introduction 1.3. Team iXA vs. Gyogun 1.4. Nagoya OJA BODY STARS Mildom vs. Shunsaikan Sol Kumamoto 2. 2022-09-09 JP SFL Section 1 Day 2 2.1. Warmup 2.2. vPlus FAV Gaming vs. Comyufa Detonation 2.3. Shinobism vs. Good 8 […]
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2022 June – July trip to America
Table of Contents 1. Thursday June 23rd 2. Friday June 24th 3. Saturday June 25th 4. Sunday June 26th 5. Monday June 27th 6. Tuesday June 28th 7. Wednesday June 29th 8. Thursday June 30th 9. Friday July 1st 10. Saturday July 2nd 11. Sunday July 3rd 12. Monday July 4th 13. Tuesday July 5th […]
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Alan plans a trip to Harajuku
I had some errands to run in Harajuku – there was a King of Fighters collab at a pop-up shop in La Foret – and since it is Golden Week I thought it would be fun to bring Alan with me. He really likes trains and buses, and in the past two or so years […]
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Reading through Capcom’s “The future of e-sports viewed through Street Fighter League”
Table of Contents 1. Chapter 1: Capcom’s Path 1.1. Organizing to create the Best games in the World 1.2. Creating a new Genre with Biohazard (Resident Evil) 1.3. Starting Digital Sales early 1.4. SF2 Cultivated the PvP Fighting Game Genre 1.5. The strategy of spotting trends as fast as possible 2. Chapter 2: Our first […]
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Trip to Angel Forest Shiobara in Nasu
Table of Contents 1. 2021-10-21 2. 2021-10-22 3. 2021-20-23 We decided a few months back to take another trip domestically in Japan, since we were not going to do any international travel this year. We rented a house for three days and two nights in the Nasu Angel Forest that is dog friendly. They have […]
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