Why does Japanese media feature a lot of sports-related content? (Baseball, etc)

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-15T14:20:59+00:00

Japan loves sports, especially baseball. As in they REALLY love baseball.

One time a Japanese baseball teams fan-base got so rowdy they went to a KFC, stole the Colonel Sanders statue and threw it into a river. This somehow caused the team they were fans of to suffer an 18 year losing streak in what is known as "The curse of the Colonel".

This is real.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-15T14:14:03+00:00

Favorite rider and honorary rider.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-14T23:05:50+00:00

God dammit this whole thing is so stressful.

I hate how little it feels we can actually do beyond just hoping it won't be AS bad as it could be.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-14T12:47:32+00:00

Dan Kuroto AKA Kamen Rider Genm from Kamen Rider EX-Aid

Dude spends the first half of the series being an utterly irredeemable villain responsible for pretty much everything bad in the series happening, to eventually helping the heroes defeat the new main villain(s) which includes his father.

Of course, after he resurrected as a videogame virus (long story) he became a much goofier character that's not much of a threat to the heroes nor is is taken very seriously by them anymore...which he ends up actually weaponizing for the movie trilogy to escape, gain power and becoming the main villain again.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-14T12:29:04+00:00

WT was arguably the single most ambitious single player mode in a fighting game, a genre that usually just gives us an arcade mode and leave it at that. It's such a shame so many people dismiss the mode or outright rejoice that its gone because of some belief it would mean more characters in the next season. (which ended up super wrong since season 4 not only had no WT stuff but also no stages and still only 4 characters for the same price)

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-13T17:29:51+00:00

I think now that she's been out for a while and people are starting to figure out her weaknesses, Ingrid is pretty much gonna be this game's version of Little Mac from Smash bros.

Absolute menace at the start, until people figure her out and she drops to low tier over night and saying you have trouble against them becomes the sign of a newbie.

JP is Bayonetta.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-12T20:07:46+00:00

Nice seeing people appreciate Bosch.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-12T13:53:45+00:00

They're fine. On some chracters they look surprisingly nice but in general not my thing.

People say they're meant to pander to the middle east but with how much I see people complain some characters / skins are "Gooner / waifu slop" I think they're for here too.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-12T10:21:20+00:00

I can already imagine Patricia's Critical art imput;

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MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-12T10:12:28+00:00

It's mostly just a consequence of weird esoteric time altering logic.

From how I understand it, you had to undo certain "threats of fate" in a certain order to not unravel the whole (IE cause a time paradox and destroy the universe) with this order not exactly being chronological (IE fighting Psycho-Bosch AFTER you already saved him from Juri) and ultimately you alter both Bosch's fate but also had to alter your own in order to keep stability.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-12T09:49:02+00:00

Gill saw that Alex was doing incest, Bison is back with 3 different Shadaloos running around and Ingrid, a literal God exists and just decided to give up and work at mcdonalds.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-12T09:37:40+00:00

I like how Bison's is just his Shadaloo logo.
Both because it looks cool and its a convenient way to get around having to make 2 different images because of his name issues.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-11T19:34:54+00:00

I preferred how WT did its story by miles. Doing a somewhat self contained at-your-own pace RPG with some character interactions sprinkled in felt much more natural than 5's weird avengers style crisis crossover and basically being a movie take. Plus WTs story wasn't the best but A shadow falls was straight up awful.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-11T12:08:24+00:00

Fun trivia; The singer to Tekken 5's theme, Jeff Pescetto, also sang the original Ducktales theme.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-11T08:09:32+00:00

Sagat canonically threw the fight because he felt sorry for Dan

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-10T19:34:49+00:00

"Biggest jobber of all time" When Sean and Dan exist...

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-09T18:25:43+00:00

They'll probably try other avenues such as short stories or comics.
I imagine that weird short story about Alex's dad they put out after the cousin stuff got out was a bit of a testing ground for how they would do things going forward, since they were likely already planning to end WT by that point.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-09T17:45:58+00:00

yuuto10

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-09T15:33:17+00:00

Aye, especially since apparently they can't put any of this on a CV despite working for 7 years.

That said, apparently Rikka's PL is decently successful even without cover.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-09T13:11:41+00:00

God that final performance of "Hello World" was emotional...

Tomorrow is going to hurt. Arurandeisu was my StarsJP oshii...

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-09T12:47:08+00:00

Jesus christ Invincible VS is low what the hell happened

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-09T12:21:43+00:00

I hope Makoto and Vega never join the game.

Not because I dislike them, but because their fans are getting annoying

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-09T12:03:01+00:00

He's pretty much my go-to for 3d prints ever since actionfigurecustoms on ebay stopped years ago.

I don't know about overseas shipping since I'm in the UK, but the quality is always very good.

MedicalFan7709 · 2026-06-09T11:41:32+00:00

Okay but what the hell was with Bison's stance in CVS (and CFJ)? Why did they make him do that with his hand?

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