Category: 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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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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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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2021-09 Japan FGC Roundup
This is a roundup of random stuff that I’ve been following over the past month or so. No real deep research or anything, but I like having a permanent record around, and a little more space to express my opinions that I get in twitter. 【お知らせ】 カンロ株式会社様と忍ism Gamingの共同開発、戦う脳のためのグミ「BRAON(ブレオン)」が本日より販売開始です🎉 2種類の味があり、片手で手を汚さず食べられる新形状！ゲーマーには嬉しい仕様✨ まずはオンラインのみでの販売となります。 🔽ご購入はこちらhttps://t.co/qrVYziGL6r pic.twitter.com/Quwf98IDBE — 忍ism Gaming […]