Hashi,
There’s this great book called ‘Slum Online’ by Hiroshi Sakurazaka(or Sakurazaka Hiroshi if we’re going to be all Japanese) published in America by Haikasoru that really introduced me to fighting games. I honestly bought it because it had a more colorful cover–I’m a sucker for pretty colors–than anything else in the new Sci-Fi section at my local book store and it has, surprisingly, become one of my all time favorite novels. The whole book is about a pretty apathetic Japanese college student who drifts through life during the day and spends his nights working on his personal quest to become the best player of an mmo-fighting game. The whole book is centered around parallels and interactions between his life in the real world and his life in the game.

I read the book at the end of my freshman year of high school (I’m a junior now) and it got me kind of curious about fighting games so I ended up buying Marvel vs. Capcom 2, only to have my butt handed to me by a couple friends who’d already been playing for a few years. Even if I sucked I just knew I wanted to play fighting games, to become a stronger player. So I spent that summer working to buy an arcade stick and a copy of Super Street Fighter 4. Now almost two years later I can safely say I’m far better than any of my friends, I’ve shaken hands with Daigo, I’ve made the pilgrimage to EVO, and I’ve made countless friends through the experience, all because of some book a Japanese guy wrote.

Andrew,
I’m not really a Soul Calibur man, the gameplay of that series just scares me! I can’t wrap my head around any of it haha. My main games right now are pretty much the Street Fighter series (I’m a pretty decent Juri in AE, and an okay Blanka in HDR) and Skullgirls

EDIT: Sorry, I apparently have this weird habit for making overly long posts!

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