Category: Japan

  • 2023 Q3 Fighting Game Events in Tokyo

    [ 2023 Q2 Fighting Game Events in Tokyo | 2023 Q4 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 […]

  • Momochi with some thoughts on EVO Japan

    Table of Contents 1. Momochi reflects on EVO Japan 2. Momochi talks about his match with Punk 3. Momochi’s secret EVO Japan Cody tech I posted a twitter thread today about Momochi’s review of EVO Japan, and thought it would make sense to capture that here on my blog for archival purposes. Here’s the tweet: […]

  • 2023 Q2 Fighting Game Events in Tokyo

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

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]