We have many discussion about japanese ST starplayer but i was not able to find any post that talk about in which game center they play and not the official tournmanent but just the simple training game that i am sure they make somewhere. I would like to know if someone know where i can find people like “Daigo”, “YuuVega”, “Kusumondo” and so on…i have read this
but for example about Daigo there is a “kanto” that is too big to search…
Denki - Check the private message. Also here.
Komoda supposedly got a 100+ game win streak at HEY last week.
doesnt sound like a very competitive arcade lol
That’s not unheard of. RX had a 110+ game streak in 3S at one arcade that Kokujin and other good players frequent.
Komoda’s no joke either. Even guys like Kurahashi and Oto-Chun have trouble beating him consistently. I don’t know how you’d play for that long though. I’d start to get tired after like 50 games.
Very interesting link. I wanted to ask the same thing.
Nohoho I like your blog and I’d like to ask you something I couldn’t understand from your site. You know a lot about the japanese scene and surely you speak japanese.
But do you live in Japan?
Are you an american who lives in Japan? Or a Japanese who speaks english?
Anyway, aside my curiosity, I want to launch a proposal. Could the players that live in Japan, or speak japanese or simply have travelled to Tokyo and have played there - american, european… gamers -, join forces and create a guide, a faq, a wiki or whatever that maps the best arcades in Tokyo?
It would be great. A precise map that lists the best arcades, the simplest way to get there - a tube plan -, the type of Street Fighter played, the prices, the hardcore gamers that train there…
The link you communicate was a good starting point but it needs to be developed, maybe with pictures of the arcades and recent pictures of the players, as you did in your blog.
If a player could finally find the money to go to Japan for tourism and has only one free afternoon or night to play, how would he be sure to get double perfected by Daigo, Kurahashi & C if he doesn’t know how do they look now and where and when do these gods usually play? 
Let’s think about it.
Very interesting link. I wanted to ask the same thing.
Nohoho I like your blog and I’d like to ask you something I couldn’t understand from your site. You know a lot about the japanese scene and surely you speak japanese.
But do you live in Japan?
Are you an american who lives in Japan? Or a Japanese who speaks english?
Anyway, aside my curiosity, I want to launch a proposal. Could the players that live in Japan, or speak japanese or simply have travelled to Tokyo and have played there - american, european… gamers -, join forces and create a guide, a faq, a wiki or whatever that maps the best arcades in Tokyo?
It would be great. A precise map that lists the best arcades, the simplest way to get there - a tube plan -, the type of Street Fighter played, the prices, the hardcore gamers that train there…
The link you communicate was a good starting point but it needs to be developed, maybe with pictures of the arcades and recent pictures of the players, as you did in your blog.
If a player could finally find the money to go to Japan for tourism and has only one free afternoon or night to play, how would he be sure to get double perfected by Daigo, Kurahashi & C if he doesn’t know how do they look now and where and when do the gods usually play?
Let’s think about it.
I’m in the US heh.
The best way to see top guys in action would be to go to a tourney. T.Akiba’s site lists some on the front page. There are a few more (incl. more far flung areas like Kyushu) listed in the back of Arcadia every month. Right now there are monthly events at Ooyama Game Newton. I think some semi-regular tourneys are starting up at Kasugai 50 (near Nagoya?) A-cho (Kyoto?) has events like every other month that the top Kansai guys usually attend (Aniken and Tasaka won one last week, btw.) I hope Mikado starts up a second season of ranbats in 08.
Tougeki Spirits – a quarterly (?) arcadia spin off mag focusing on fighting games – prints more information on arcades though y’know GGXXAC, MBAC, Tekken, VF, etc. get most of the attention. All those details you list are there. Picking up a copy of that once you’re in Japan would be a good move.
Graham - Man your brother worked that dude over. Hehe. My internet was fucked that day so I actually went to a coffee shop to watch the stream. Pretty goofy yelling at my laptop and shit with all those people around.
Dedication.
ok this topic is becoming more and more interessing!
I am living in Japan but in kansai (Osaka) area, last week i was at a.cho Kyoto tournament, me and my friend was the team “incredibili”, i am “infame” and he was “incapace”, yes, we are italians. We were not lucky at all: first turn against the team “kusuni” (or something of similar) my friend played against kusumondo and i played against Otochun…it doesn’t need to see how it finished.
However about Kansai area i becaame friend with many players, Otochun is very friendly and he introduced all his friends (Aniken, Arg,Kimomaru,Kusumondo,Tsuji, ecc…).
They don’t speak english however even if not perfectly i can so if someone is here in kansai area let me know and i will bring you for a tour in the game centers:
Namba hills
A-cho
Montecarlo
Sega Age
UFO
Yeah me and alex played him after sbo on pure st was pretty fun, he is an amazing blanka player but he was not getting 100+ win streaks when he was in the all pro arcade after sbo. All the top players in japan would alternate winning along with us. I had a 15 game win streak with my rog there and a few 10 games, as well as my brother who had some 10 game win streaks there. At the top level NO player should ever dominate in a 100+ win streak unless his competition isn’t good enough, which is what led to my earlier comment when komoda got 100+ wins.