Venus of the Desert Bloom

We are now voting for Mii Fightet costumes from Street Fighter, Metal Gear Solid, PAC-MAN, Bayonetta, and Castlevania! Please vote in our poll in Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel Project! We are also voting On which moveset we will use for Bandana Waddle Dee. We have six submissions total so please take some time to vote which one you think best suits him!

We are voting for which modern Kirby stage to include in Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel Project. However, the votes are currently in a tie. Even if you don’t participate, we appreciate anyone taking the time to vote in our poll.

Please come and join Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel Project! We are now submitting stage concepts for Golden Sun and modern Kirby as well as Golden Sun Assist Trophies and Mii Fighter Outfits

Bandana Waddle Dee and Octoling are our next newcomers for Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel Project. We will start with the development phase after finishing Isaac’s. Which reminds me, please join in and vote for what you think the best moveset is as well as add in the misc info for Isaac including taunts and victory animations. Finally, we are adding two items so please submit your own. One item is from a first party franchise and the second is your own creation.

Come join in on the fun as we submit two potential newcomers for Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel! One is a usual newcomer and another is an Echo. Also, don’t forget to vote which Pokémon you want as a Pokeball!

Hey all! Is there a Gen 8 Pokémon you want to see be included as a Pokeball in Smash? We are submitting our favorites in Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel Project! Submit yours and make sure to vote! Voting starts in 12 hours. We will also be rounding off our Isaac discussion section and moving onto Newcomers again!

In Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel Project, we are currently working on fleshing out Isaac’s moveset, creating a new Game Mode, and bringing back a stage that missed out in Ultimate. Please join in!

The tv show “Silent Library” in Japan is still a popular show


Most of these guys are now in their 50’s and having been doing it since the early 2000’s. What many don’t know if that this show is a New Year’s Eve last time and apart of the new years programming. Though they no longer really do it in a library now. It’s more so in train, parks, cinemas, etc. this year they are taking a fake trip to Vegas and must not laugh during their fake trip. They also decreased the power of the hits they take and now it’s an inflatable bat rather than a newspaper bat.

Isaac from Golden Sun is our first newcomer in Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel! Come in and discuss his his gameplay and moves would be like! You can also vote on how many launch newcomers there will be plus submit a new assist trophy character!

Hey everyone,

A while back I started a new thread called Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel Project where we act as a “developer team” and create a sequel to Ultimate from the ground up. We are currently adding our first fighter so please vote on who you think deserves the first roster spot!

We are currently deciding on a character to add in the Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel Project. The criteria is that it has to be a first party character who was present in some form in Ultimate and will be shown off at E3. Please come and join in by submitting a character! We will start voting which character will be selected to include and start “developing” said character.

And in one fell swoop, Japan closes its borders to 150 countries for all of January.

I don’t often make threads but, when I do, I try to make a good thread. I recently launched a new project called Create a Smash Ultimate Sequel. Basically, we aim to create a sequel to Ultimate (on the forums). Please join and let’s start working on adding our first character!

In Japan, New Years is a far larger and more important holiday than Christmas. Typically, people still go to work and classes are in during the Christmas holidays. None of the other winter holidays are celebrated in Japan either.

People have a week off including schools starting on the 30th for New Years. On New Year’s Eve, many families usually visit a neighborhood Shinto shrine to pray for the upcoming year while some will stay up to watch the New Years sunrise. Prior to New Years, there is a massive rush to go to visit family and is an extremely busy time for travel. In the morning, the family will say “akema****e omedetougozaimasu” with a more casual “akeome” between friends. In formal situations, they will say “yoi otoshi o omukae kudassaï”. These all translate to “Happy New Year”. You can also say “Shinen omedetougozaimasu” for Happy New Year as well. In addition, before the New Year, you say “yoi otoshi o”. Regardless if Shinen or Akema****e is used, “kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegaishimasu”. is used.

On the New Year’s Day, the Japanese postal service does an extraordinary feat by delivering New Years cards right on the morning of New Years Day. They will come packaged and bundled and delivered to your front door in the morning. There’s usually 50-200 cards in one bundle with cards company from family and friends, coworkers, shops you visit often, and even your mechanic or the person who dry cleans your suits.

In the afternoon, they will eat Osechi with a conglomeration of various specially prepares food that comes in departmental boxes. They range from $150-800 on average and can be purchased at restaurants or shops. People also eat Ozoni which is a special soup prepared on New Year’s Day which contains Mochi, a soft and white food made form pounded and pulverized rice.

In front of the house, the family will prepare a stake of bamboo with an arrangement of natural leaves and rope. This is a Kadomatsu. When New Years is over, people visit a nearby school grounds or parking area and performs a community burning of them which is said to bring good luck for the year as the ashes rise up.

Children often get Otoshidama from grandparents and relatives. This is usually a letter with tons of decorations and designs and inside will contain money to be used to purchase something in the new year. Money ranges from $10-100; depending on the status of that family member.

People mostly just eat, sit, relax, and sleep. It’s customary for the men of the family to get drunk during the New Years celebrations. Not drinking with the men is a sign of disrespect and ... well... not manliness. During the day, people watch tv shows for the New Years with specials on all day.

Following the New Year’s Day, shops are then in full swing with tons of sales and promotions and, before 2020, every store would be extremely crowded. The loudspeakers in the stores and malls would playbtraditiona New Years Japanese music using things like shamisen, koto, and Biwa.

Also, before the vacation starts, most government institutions, companies, and businesses has a end of the year party; usually at ritzy hotels or high-end restaurants.

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve here in Japan. We have classes up until next Monday and then off for several days for winter break so I’ll be teaching tomorrow and Friday. We plan to go to a Candle Light Service tomorrow night at the local church which also happens to be where my daughter goes for kindergarten. I’m not religious by any stretch of the imagination but I was raised evangelical for most of my life. In Japan, it’s customary for only kids to get presents and, typically, it’s just one gift. So we follow that tradition slightly but with a bit more Western flair so we got three presents each for the kids and then one present for my wife and I though I splurged and got her something a bit special as it will be our last Christmas in Japan. Unfortunately, it’s shipping from overseas and it won’t arrive until next week :/. Not sure what I’m getting but I am very easy to please in that regard.

My wife was telling the kids we will make cookies tomorrow for Santa to give with milk. I told her that I’m pretty sure Santa prefers buffalo wings, nachos, and double bourbon straight. I think Santa is still getting milk and cookies.

Here is my preliminary Smash reboot concept in a post-Ultimate world.

In Fall 2028, Nintendo makes an announcement that a new Smash game is on the way for the newest system.

E3 2029 reveals the new Smash game titled “Super Smash Bros. Origins”. The launch trailer reveals total veterans which includes:

1. Mario
2. Link
3. Kirby
4. Pikachu
5. Inkling
6. Sonic

The trailer reveals these will be the starting fighters for Origins which will launch in September 2029. The trailer further details that there will be a monthly release with 1 or more fighters added On a monthly or bi-monthly basis. Each character has been reworked from the ground up to make them more inline of their current depiction.

Folliwing the initial character reveal trailer, it then transitions to the story trailer called The Usurper’s Throne which features a six-armed gigantic knight who commands an army of baddies from Nintendo and beyond’s libraries. Our aforementioned heroes were defeated by these baddies but, as Hope is almost lost, a sudden surprise changes the tides!

Enter the new challengers!

A gigantic magical hand appears and pushes away all the badges from our dueher heroes. Isaac from Golden Sun lands and does a thumbs up before created a clump of dirt, levitating it’s, and riding it to fight the baddies.

The dragon from Twilight Princess trues you torch Isaac and Company but suddenly the fire is stopped and absorbed by a barrier. Isaac looks up and sees a floating Gardevoir rising past him while absorbing all incoming projectiles.

Isaac throws out a magical palm attack from within the barrier and rushes towards the opponents. Jumping out from the palm is the fashionable girl, Stylist, from Style Saavy. Taking a thing of lipstick, a comb, and scissors; the newcomer wrecks gabjc in the baddie’s army. She lands and she’s a peace sign.
The Usurper roars our violently but gets thrown to the ground By a beam of light. Hovering down within the beam none-other-than Geno. Several minutes if character gameplay.

Following this, Sakurai who is currently 62 firs onto say that Smash will see characters periodically added and requires a character quest to be completed in order to unlock the character after that are added. These quests are intended to be hard. He also says each character is free, everyone isn’t returning, and that purchasing the game in full will download the characters automatically.

And this is the perfect reason why I don’t dedicate my entire being on a single character, regardless how likely they are or not. It’s better to be diverse in the characters you want to see rather then narrow it down to one sole contender.

Japan is starting to close up again. We’ve been asked to stay inside if we can and to avoid traveling. Remote working will start again from what I can tell. It will depend by prefecture though and, from what I heard, I’ll still be teaching classes at the school and won’t be remote teaching.

The upcoming Sephiroth present will be 35 minutes in length

Many schools in Japan have begun allowing junior and high school female students to be able to wear either the typical uniform skirt or a pair of uniform pants. This in addition to thier sports uniform tracksuit they wear which is more often than not. To my knowledge, only one school in the entire country has allowed male students to wear skirts.

I haven’t changed my main since Brawl. Even for Cloud who was my second. I may have to change this for Sephiroth though if what I’m seeing is how he actually plays.

It’s hard to believe that my ten years of residence in Japan is finally coming to an end. My wife’s immigration to America has finally been approved and we are set to move along with our two kids this coming April.

One thing I’ve always liked about the Game Awards is how it’s a mashup of tons of content across the gaming world. It was great watching Smashers watch the awards and go “huh? What’s this? Breath of the wild? Metroid? Oh, Mass Effect? What’s that.” to games that I know about and like and fans from those communities reacting to Smash like “Smash...Smash...isn’t that that one nintendo game where like Mario fights Link?”

Smash Ultimate trailers are in a league of their own with some of my favorites easily being Ridley, King K Rool, Hero, Terry, and Banjo but, Sephiroth easily takes the cake.

I love how it’s initially so Super Smash Bros and World of Light but as soon as Sephiroth comes and bisects the god in half; you know he’s here to **** **** up. Despite appearances by Greninja, Bayonetta, and Mario; the entire tone and feel of the trailer feels like a page right out of Advent Children and Dissidia. This feeling is enforced further by the epic battle between Sephy and Cloud. Even Sephy’s line “I’ll never be a memory.” was chilling. I never got that sort of reaction ever in a Smash trailer. It’s like you forget you are watching one but watching a scene of Advent Children. They carried over the general atmosphere from these flawlessly.

My only hang up on Ark 2 is that Ark Genesis Part 2 will be released in March 2021. So its Ark 2 coming out like in 2022 or 2023? I want to tame and ride Godzilla, god dammit. Give it to me now

The awards themselves seemed rigged but the reveals were rock solid.

Sephiroth, Ark 2, Dragon Age, and Perfect Dark were all high marks for me but probably the biggest, even higher than Sephy, was Mass Effect. To me, the Trilogy is akin to the Bible and is sacred which Andromeda greatly....sullied. I’m glad they decided to return to this story and perhaps we will see an actual canon ending. Did Shep control, destroy, or assimilate the Reapers?

My mom is out of the hospital and, from what we can tell, my grandma is improving. I’m very happy that they are both out of the woods, to to speak, as well as my dad.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEx100

Finally, One Winged Angel is in Smash

I waited so long for this moment.

Thankyou! And finally some FF Spirits!!

Please go take a look at my Monster Hunter Character article here!

I wrote this as a message earlier but I removed it as it got pretty personal. Basically, my grandma and mom are in the hospital with COVID. My dad also has it and is “quarantining” from home (he’s been going out on motorcycle rides every so often). My grandma isn’t doing so well but there hasn’t been any changes since the beginning of this week so that’s good news I suppose. My mom has improved slightly but still has a high fever and trouble breathing. My sister and her husband got checked as they had thanksgiving with my parents but they tested negative. One of my mom’s bible study friends that came over over Friday also now has it but the twelve other women either tested negative or haven’t taken the test. I wish I could help or do something but I can’t do much from Japan. Most of my family also thinks this virus is a hoax and still maintain this line even though they contracted it. They often call it the Wuflu, Kung-flu, and the China Virus and they fully believe this was a NWO/Deep State scheme to remove Trump. Regardless, I still love them and I hope we can get through it.

This commercial just started airing in Japan:

I’ve been a fan of heavy metal since I was a little kid and, while my tastes have changed over the years, I still have my favorite songs. Here’s a small list of my favorite heavy metal and all its sub genres.

Part 2 of my Geno Analysis article will be published sometime next week. In this article, I’ll explore more content from Super Mario RPG like music, stages, and spirits. If you wish to read the Geno Character Analysis, you can do so here. I always enjoying writing these articles and your views and comments help motivate me. I’m still working on more characters and series and I hope you look forward to what’s coming in the future!

Tokyo: We have a record surge of coronavirus cases and may consider shutting stuff back down again.

Small town in Hokkaido: We got bear problems so let’s make monster robot wolves https://japantoday.com/category/national/japanese-town-deploys-'monster-wolf'-robots-to-deter-wild-bears

There’s a talk/variety show here in Japan called “The Most Important School in the World”. The show has six segments which represents six periods in a school day and each period is devoted to a subject. The segment then focuses on an interesting topic. I was watching it on tv and fifth period was Health and was covering health issues behind e-sports. I don’t know why but to demonstrate how tiring certain games can be, they had a model and a professional esports player play Puyo Puyo which also featured Arle. It seems the series is very popular to be featured in a prime time tv show that has been extremely popular since 2004.

My wife messaged me asking what a “blue tsunami” is so I explained how it’s the idea of a sweeping Democrat/political left victory through the Presidential, Senate and the House elections. I then explained that the opposite is a “red wave”. I was surprised to find she was really offended by this but it makes sense now so that’s why I’m making this profile post. Tsunami, in Japan, is obviously not a positive thing. It’s a deadly thing that we saw firsthand in 2011 when the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami combo killed over 15,000 people. I’m not asking people to stop using “blue tsunami” but please be mindful in its usage and, if possibly, please inform others about it.

People underestimate the voting power of expats (Americans living in foreign countries). I don’t have an official count but, from my connections and travels, I’ve ran into only two vocal conservatives/trump supporters out of the hundreds of other expats that I have met. Most others are center left to far left. This leads me to think that a decent majority of expats identify as Democrats and vote as such. We have eleven English teachers in my small rural city in Japan and all but 1 is liberal. The non-liberal subscribes to QAnon/Infowars/Gab/DailyStormer and he’s typically forgotten/shunned by the rest. Many expats are extremely critical of America and may even view their “adopted country” far better than America. Furthermore, many expats really hold onto thier American citizenship (if dual isn’t an optiom) just to vote in elections even if they haven’t been back in over a decade.

So while some may threaten to leave if Trump wins, that doesn’t mean they can’t vote. Sure, it’s a few extra steps but it’s worth to to get the vote out. For this year, I had to contact my district, send a scan of my id SSN, and ballot request form. I then got my ballot which I then filled out and printed. From there, I sent it to the Embassy in Tokyo who then shipped it off as priority mail to the States.

Today was a holiday (Culture Day) so i took my family today to a popular sightseeing spot that has beautiful fall colors. I was shocked to see very few people, especially those from out of town like Tokyo, not wearing masks Meanwhile my wife and I were in masks as well as my three year old. The one year old obviously wasn’t in a mask. In addition, the place is pretty crowded and since it’s near a waterfall, you have to grip the railings to stable yourself. I was trying to social distance my family from everyone else but I eventually threw it out of the window as it was impossible

Probably the most jarring was buses of Chinese tourists (japan opened up the borders to select Chinese cities I guess) and groups as large as 15 walking through - each group not wearing a mask or anything. It seriously felt like pre-COVID times and it was jarring to see. I even happened upon a group of Americans who live in Tokyo who weren’t wearing masks. It just felt strange and it wasn’t a good trip. At least an elderly couple with a dog let my daughters pet it. My kids love dogs and cats.

Japan has very low COVID numbers in contrast to its elderly and crowded population. For a country that relies on public transit and other ways to transmit germs, it has caused confusion as to why Japan doesn’t get so many cases compared to other countries.

Please read this 2014 article and this will explain and hopefully shed some light as to why wearing face masks is a good thing.