Category: Japan

  • Mononoke No Kuni at Tokyo Game Show

    Mononoke No Kuni at Tokyo Game Show

    I checked out a neat looking indie game, Mononoke No Kuni at Tokyo Game Show 2024.

  • Mini 4WD OverDrive bar

    Mini 4WD OverDrive bar

    I visited MOV’s bar Mini 4WD OverDrive. Nice place!

  • Sushiro Street Fighter 6 collaboration

    Sushiro Street Fighter 6 collaboration

    I went to the Sushiro X Street Fighter 6 collaboration.

  • EVO Japan 2024

    EVO Japan 2024

    I went to EVO Japan 2024, and wrote a blog post about it. Lots of fun.

  • “Dogura Style” and Dogura’s advice to be careful at tournaments

    “Dogura Style” and Dogura’s advice to be careful at tournaments

    I saw a very interesting post from Dogura during EVO Japan 2024, and I wanted to translate it. So I did, but I had to do some research on “Dogura Style” in order to understand what he was talking about. Since I like things to be durable, I’ll embed the tweet here, and put the […]

  • Jeni’s crowdfunding campaign to go to EVO 2024

    Jeni’s crowdfunding campaign to go to EVO 2024

    Jeni, a paraplegic fighting game player in Japan, recently posted on twitter about his crowdfunding campaign to go to EVO in America in 2024. I translated the post, and wanted to make sure I had a durable copy of it. Here is the embedded tweet: Here is the content from the tweet. This post by […]

  • Capcom SF6 Real Battle Hub in Laguna Ten Bosch

    Capcom SF6 Real Battle Hub in Laguna Ten Bosch

    Back in March during my son’s Spring Break, we took a trip together from Tokyo to Nagoya to visit Capcom’s “Real Battle Hub” setup in Laguna Ten Bosch. It’s setup in Laguna Ten Bosch, an amusement park near Gamagori in Aichi Ken. Most ways to get there will have you take a Shinkansen to Nagoya […]

  • Father and son trip to Nagoya

    Father and son trip to Nagoya

    During Alan’s Spring Break, I decided that the two of us should go to Nagoya. I was interested in going there because Capcom set up a “Real Battle Hub” like the Street Fighter 6 game at an Amusement park there, and since I needed to take some time off because he was out of school, […]

  • 2023-10-25 Fighter’s Crossover AKIBA / OSAKA 10v10 for Nanai’s birthday

    At Fighters Crossover AKIBA tonight (and OSAKA) from 8pm (about an hour from now) there will be a Tokyo vs Osaka 10v10 net battle. Streamed on Nanai’s channel (lines up with his birthday). https://t.co/kVxIcPN7Dd pic.twitter.com/sEuAvudChU — FuguTabetai (@DocFugu) October 25, 2023 Yesterday Fighter’s Crossover ran a streamed 10v10 match between Akihabara and Osaka to celebrate […]

  • 2023 Q4 Fighting Game Events in Tokyo

    [ 2023 Q3 Fighting Game Events in Tokyo | 2024 Q1 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 […]