Category: Japan

  • Street Fighter League: Pro-JP 2021

    Table of Contents 1. Leading up to the Draft 2. The Teams 3. The Format 4. The Draft 5. The Final Teams Street Fighter League is happening again this year. Street Fighter League: Pro-JP 2021 will start in October, with a pre-season that has games 2021-09-25 and 2021-09-26. This year’s league is structured differently from […]

  • 2021-06-21 Hoshino Risonare Yatsugatake

    We’ve been in the pandemic, working from home, since February 2020. We went once to a cabin in 2020 September, out in Nasu, which was nice. We haven’t had a chance to get vaccinated yet, and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics held in 2021 during a pandemic when Japan has about 12.5% of the population vaccinated, […]

  • Q1 Fighting game events in or around Tokyo

    Previous: 2020 Q4 Tokyo FGC Events | Next 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. You also should try TopTier.gg which tracks fighting game locals around the world. […]

  • Weekend trip to Nasu

    We usually go to America in the summer for a month or three, but this year due to Corona Virus we didn’t go. So we spent a bit of time thinking about safe vacations, and settled on renting a cabin in Nasu, a vacation spot about a three hours drive from Tokyo. A friend of […]

  • eXeField Akiba opening event

    eXeField Akiba is a new e-sports facility in Akihabara, located in the Akihabara UDX building. It is part of NTT eSports, and they had an opening ceremony 2020-08-10. The video is above. I’ll add some simple running commentary with just a basic overview of what is going on. 28:35 Watch that opening movie. Now this […]

  • 2020 August JP FGC News Round-up

    Table of Contents 1. 2020 August JP FGC News Round-up 1.1. A restaurant explodes, and Torimeshi’s place is messed up 1.2. Daigo wins CPT online East Asia 1 Qualifier and whiff punishes with sweep 1.3. Chocoblanka did a karaoke V-tuber stream 1.4. The Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable 1.5. NTT e-Sports division makes some moves […]

  • 2020 July and on Fighting Game Events in Tokyo

    Previous: 2020 March through June Tokyo FGC Events | 2020 Q4 Tokyo FGC Events 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. You also should try TopTier.gg which tracks […]

  • “Camping” at the deepest underground station in Japan: Doai

    2020-02-29 We took the Tanigawa Max Shinkansen from Tokyo to Jyomokougen (上毛高原). The trip was about an hour from Tokyo station. Our seats were on the second floor of the Tanigawa Max Shinkansen. I don’t think they are making more of the two story trains, so getting to ride one is pretty nice. The station […]

  • 2020 January and February Fighting Game Events in Tokyo

    Previous: 2019 September, November, and December Fighting Game Events in Tokyo | Next 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. You also should try TopTier.gg which tracks fighting […]

  • Street Fighter League: Pro-JP powered by RAGE Summaries

    Table of Contents 1. Ruleset 2. Episode 1 2.1. Tokido Flame vs. Umehara Gold 2.2. Itazan Ocean vs. Mago Scarlet 2.3. Fuudo Gaia vs. Nemo Aurora 2.4. Final ranking 3. Episode 2 3.1. Umehara Gold vs. Nemo Aurora 3.2. Tokido Flame vs. Itazan Ocean 3.3. Mago Scarlet vs. Fuudo Gaia 3.4. Final ranking 4. Episode […]