Sorry about your goat, Sajam

I saw Daigo playing Helldivers 2 ... It's over.

Let's see Mena go up against the real threat in Japan: Vtubers

That's the real reason japanese devs didn't want to implement rollback

Surprised Jiyuna doesn't have a Chipotle sponsorship with all this extra GAUC GAUC.

The number 1 gawk gawk god is a crazy title fam

This is why the JPY is in the dumps....

I don't think Japan is washed up, everyone else is just stepping up. Mena is a monster though.

The price Japan pays for having girlfriends and getting married.

If Japan wants to dominate again they need to go back to delay based netcode and forcing international players to wait months for the game lmaoooo

I see what you're doing having the 3rd Strike OST playing in the background. Truly Yun mirrors are the only hope for Japan.

having no arcade release is huge, it evens the playing field by a lot.

Knowing that anyone could show up and win any tournament anywhere is very exciting. We truly are living in a golden age part 2 of fighting games. Thank you for the video King

Just means that accessibility has helped to thin the gaps between regions. Everyone is training and competing with each other daily/weekly and social media is spreading fighting tech like wildfire. Just means more close matches which is a win for viewers.

Menard baiting the last grab is crazy This guy is such a monster

Similar to USA in basketball everyone just caught up.

tempest has shown that the true american way will always prevail: mashing on gorilla characters and never letting your opponents think

The time for Zangief meta is now. There is no other way.

This year was a wash for the JP scene, really surprised a bunch of Americans won.

I thought the "Japan is only good because of their 6 month head start on new fighting games" meme was just a meme...not like this weabros....

Surely 2XKO will save the japan scene…

I remember reading those SRK threads or being on IRC and seeing those live updates of who was still in and if US team was out in round 1 or not since 2002 lol

Mena vs Inflitration, let's see it

Time to relay looking at the RGC. The one thing that Japan still excels at to this day.

LOL it's ok Jiyuna, Side tournaments like Melty, Garou Mark of the Wolves, Fatal Fury Special, Project Justice, Asuka120% and Fighting EX Layer are still Japan's games! Hope is still there!! XD.

Damn jiyuna forgot about GBVSR, japan won that lol

I’m pretty sure JP has and is currently dominating GBVSR.

Could Japan being "washed" be attributed to most of this games not having an arcade release in japan and/or "being made more easy to play"?

Japan is finally free.

i remember around 2011 team madcatz was rinsing our wallets, and it felt like japan would dominate forever. i would hear stories about how great japan was from the older players from the arcade generation. it's crazy, that was over a decade ago. and the 09ers that were new to the fgc are grizzled washed up veterans now

You will never be japanese ken-sama

I fucken love your channel man, been here since the strong zero streams, love to you and yours.

japan still #1 in the only fighting game that matters, vf baby

Japan's been washed for years now. Huge difference when you don't get the game early before anyone else.

IT'S NEVER OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Japan land of the fallen sun

You didn't even mention Lex got third and Winner's Finals didn't even have a Japanese player in it which was to me the most wild thing.

You are a mess and I heart you for it 😄 Don't change king. Old people unite

Asobi wa owari da... said Iori

a new BB under current arc sys is a no, they'd have to bring back the GOD mori for JP to make a comeback 💪 cool video as per usual

Chikurin stocks keep rising

Granblue carries the Japan fgc with its honest ground based footsies and neutral

I think it's mostly just that the arcade era is over. Obvious answer but yeah, back in the day Japan was the scene where the games were played constantly, 100x more than anywhere else in the world. Even with online available, they would have gotten the game first and grinded for a year+ before the rest of the world had a shot. In the US, New York, Cali and maybe Texas were essentially mini-Japans where you had your second best shot of grinding to be good. Now that online is so good and arcades are going away/gone, the whole world can be "Japan" now. Legacy skill has been carrying for a long time, but these NEW games tend to move away from that too. As for what Japan still has? Probably Granblue lol, I don't think we're taking that. And it's closer than ever, but I think they still got us in +R. Doable though because +Rollback is a giant ass arcade that never closes, like I said

First. 0:09 Excuse Me?! Oh.

8:07 "Jowari da..." Underrated comment. Based weeb is present in chat!

In some dark corner of youtube, there are probably some grifter japanese youtuber talking about how the country has fallen. Rollback was a mistake.

Nah, Japan's just waiting for Project L

That thumbnail/meme is so good lol The results are bad enough, soon with Project L as well we'll probably have the most popular fighting game not be from a Japanese publisher. Not that I mind tho? As EST gang I'm very happy about Mena and Tempest crushing

Noooooooo! We need you to save Japan!

Now that games come out at the same time Japan doesn't have the months or even years advantage of the old US release dates.

Japan seems dominant in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising...

You guys can fight me but i thought the best evo Japan top 8 was GBFVS. Not because it was all japanese, it's because the games were good and not people getting crushed.

and yet, no American has ever won EVO America for SF... really makes you think

To think that there would be a time where I'd miss Omito not entering tournaments just because he knew he would smoke everybody anyway...

USA USA USA Its rare i get to cheer that lately. Jp players gotta drop the gacha man

Hey! At least Japan still has 3rd Strike! Right guys!!??!???

Japan still dominating smash bros though

Can't wait to see how the new Blazblue is like after Strive stops getting new seasons

Remember how everyone lost it when Lost Soul made it into the evo top 8 for Xrd... Times have changed. But just cause we westerners won the battle doesn't mean we've won the war. Here's to more healthy competition from both sides!

japan won't take this lying down, at least hopefully

I remember when Japanese players were talked about with the air of myth.

Modern games were made easier so other counties could compete. There...I said it.....

Japan can win and be the best, but so can other nations. If you want Japan to win bring the shorts to the tournament and remind them that they need to have the fire you had...and maybe have them watch Rocky 2.

The reason they didn’t act like that is because that’s not the culture in Japan. 🇯🇵

Don't worry Jiyuna, Japan still has third strike (i think)

Do a case study on DDR/Konami Arcade Championships and Chris Chike. I really hope JEvo doesn't follow suit. We love our brothers and sisters all over.

Japan won Tekken; It's a japanese game

Japan did better than anyone else taking 1st place in the premier game, and 2nd place in the second most popular game. They are currently still the most dominant country. That being said, you are making me wonder if that is on the decline... only time will tell.

Potemkin was the only one that had a chance against tempest 😂

With style, Petite. With style.

its fine jiyuna zoo law won marvel

It's not surprisng in this day and age. I'm Japanese but I often take advice from Western players. Other thing is we tend to focus on knowlegde and theories a bit too much according to Dogura. The nation nurtures people like that I suppose.

TSA Nobi always doing the work to keep out the pakistani gods

It was a good run.

Thank goodness Japan has 3s my fav haha

It’s joewari da jp bros

Cost of living is going up… taxes, goods, foods etc. With salary pretty much staying the same, gotta work more to make a living. Hard to make a living of a fighting game though, without any concrete sponsor… most events u get no money. So it’s hard to compete when working overtime or worse, 2 jobs, so you might squeeze like an hour of gameplay now and then vs people that can grind exp whole day long cos coming from a place where “pro-gaming” gives more stable income… or just can sit on social welfare and play whole day…

Tanabata Slayer is gonna win strive next year just watch

Well mena has been playing sf6 for 2 1/2 years

I'm sorry Jiyuna but there's no more blazblue, we still got granblue tho

Who won GBVSR?

Just need Monarch to make Fenretti looks free and it’s definitely over for JP bros

Something was really off about evo japan this year, the award ceremonies were poorly directed, in all instances the player who came first had no idea when to come forward to celebrate their victory on stage on every game and receive their check and eyedrops carepackage. It was awkward and anticlimactic as hell 😂

Japan got nerfed when modern fighting games started catering to the lowest common denominator. Input buffers, simplified controls (hell, simplified everything), RPS-heavy gameplay and slower than ever. Having trouble counter-hit confirming? How about if we freeze the action to a crawl and have the word *COUNTER* take up half the screen?

Jiyuna, are any prominent JP players still on modern?

that happy chaos player in grand finals wasn't even Japanese

Congrats on 100k

JP has had the advantage for yeeeears and now fighting games are released worldwide on the same day.

its cuz they made all the games aggresive now so americans can win 😂

Joewari da...

Persona 5 Battle Royale needs to release. P4A had its time, we need a new game

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This is how us English have felt about football for decades 🤣

the caveat is that NA will never be nearly as good at the older games.

Commenting on every video before Arakune BBCF combo trials. Shoutouts to Tempest, hes a vtuber fan too.

Thats the problem when you make fg EZ

Your follower count on stream went down by one during this video and that makes me sad.

I've always heard the JP Tekken style favors a more aggressive, faster paced Tekken. I wonder if that was a heavy influence in developing T8, and if more attention in Japan will lead to a resurgence that breeds some monsters.

Was Gobou playing strive?

They are dominating the Smash Ultimate scene btw