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[ochi @ochibrochi]

🏁2026 EVENTS🏎️💨
(we're getting some extra mileage out of this graphic) this is the most event i've ever done in a year, and i might regret it. This will also be my first time exhibiting in Melbourne and Brisbane yaaaay see you soon!

[Rocco Botte @rocco_botte]

NUGGET BISCUIT NUGGET IN A BISCUIT

[Shawn Chatfield @ShawnFatfield]

A lifelong dream is coming true.

I was challenged to make an impossible trick shot for the chance to throw out the first pitch at a Padres game. After 1,000+ attempts… I made it!

See you at Petco Park on August 26th. Thank you, @Padres! ⚾️🤎💛 I can’t wait!

[ochi @ochibrochi]

@veeforvoyager See you there 🫡🫡🫡

[ochi @ochibrochi]

🌤️ OZCC MELBOURNE (AA138)
I will be tabling in Melbourne for the first time this weekend! Will be bringing my whole catalogue, but stock will be limited 🙇 (1/2)

[ochi @ochibrochi]

@rip_eek Slowly building up my clone catalogue 😌🫶

[ochi @ochibrochi]

@aileesinfiltro Slowly working on an ACGOODS store, hoping to have it up by next month 🤞!!!

[ochi @ochibrochi]

any dinner recommendations close by to MCEC 🤤? (2/2)

[excruciate @wiithteeth]

i took a nap and immediately made this upon waking up

[ochi @ochibrochi]

fuuuuck I have so much dokomi fomo, but I'm not even consistently successful enough locally to fly all the way to Europe... should I just use up some life savings next year and take the leap 😔

[11 @viicsrz]

She was like a mother…
And my master.

[ochi @ochibrochi]

@daisygirlboy A controller will always be more comfortable for me, exactly because of that! Sometimes you'll have to press 2 buttons simultaneously to make up for the limitation. All the buttons are already where your fingers rest, instead of frantically trying to dance across the keyboard lol

[ochi @ochibrochi]

after console gaming my entire life, i recently started playing games on PC and have been force-teaching myself to use a keyboard and mouse. it's been really challenging, but i have seen genuine progress in myself! now i can hit reload without looking down with 60-70% success.

[Alina 🕊️ @LOVETHEW0RLD]

I've been playing video games since I was like 5 so I'm able to rely on my experience, but playing with people who just don't play games really makes me think about how something that comes naturally to me, like the ability to "read" a level, is a skill you need to work at

[ochi @ochibrochi]

@veeforvoyager The servers are ABYSMAL! Worse so being west coast, so by the time I get home from work and settle for the night, the rest of the country is asleep already 💀😭

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

Well, in reality, Japanese people don’t usually react negatively or become suspicious of someone just because they say hello.

But when I was younger, before I had really gotten used to Western culture, if a complete stranger from overseas suddenly greeted me or started talking to me, my first reflexive thoughts were things like, “Do they need something from me? What do they want?” or “Are they trying to ask me for directions?” And depending on the situation, I might even think, “Wait, are they trying to sell me something?”

What felt even more different than the greeting itself was the difference in how people perceive “making eye contact.”

In Japan, eye contact can feel almost like an invasion of personal boundaries. Staring directly into someone’s eyes is often interpreted as “strong self-assertion,” “intimidation,” or even “glaring.” Especially when I was a student, if your eyes happened to meet even briefly with some unknown yankii from another school or another prefecture --- by yankii, I mean that Japanese delinquent-student type --- they could suddenly get angry and it could turn into trouble. So, through experience, you learn to be careful about situations where you stare directly into someone’s eyes.

When your eyes meet with a stranger, quickly looking away can actually be a kind of Japanese manners. It can mean, “I have no hostility toward you,” or “I’m not going to intrude into your private space.” It is a sort of kindness through non-interference. The difficult part is that it does not necessarily mean, “I’m hiding something,” or “I feel guilty, so I’m avoiding eye contact.”

In that sense, when people from overseas naturally make eye contact, smile, and say “Hiii!” I remember being surprised at the time that the eye contact and the smile seemed to come as a set. I even wondered the opposite: if someone is wearing a mask like many Japanese people do, then that smile no longer works, so what kind of gesture does it transform into? We Japanese basically complete the greeting by giving off a very subtle atmosphere while still wearing a mask.

Ah, this has almost nothing to do with greeting culture, but this story reminded me of something.

After I had become more familiar with Western culture, there was one incident that made me feel incredibly embarrassed.

As many of you know, after EVO started being held in Las Vegas, a large number of FGC people began gathering in Las Vegas for those few days.

By that time, from the moment I arrived at the airport, people would call out to me: “Hi Harada-san!” “Yo! Harada-san!” “Hello Harada-san!” Around the hotel, and even while waiting at traffic lights in the city, many people would approach me.

One time, I was away from the center of Las Vegas, having a meeting at a restaurant on the outskirts of town about a secret announcement-related matter. Then a waitress from a bar across the street came over with a tequila shot and said, “Um, a customer at the bar across the street wants to buy this for you. By the way, who are you?” That was a pretty funny moment.

During those strange few days in Las Vegas, the most common way people approached me was with requests for photos: “Can I take a picture with you?” “Can I get a selfie?” “Picture...”

One time, I was taking a photo with two sexy police models who would take commemorative photos with people for five or ten dollars. Then a line started forming. Both I and the two sexy police models thought, “Wow, a lot of customers are lining up.” But actually, they were fans waiting to take photos with me. So the two sexy police models ended up watching this situation where people kept taking commemorative photos with some Japanese ossan, and they looked completely weirded out, like, “Uh... who the hell is this old guy?”

So, with that kind of situation happening all over the city, one day I was walking around when a couple, a man and a woman, came up to me and said something like, “Um... picture...” So I thought, “Yes, of course,” and stood between the couple. Then I struck that fighting pose with my fists up.

The boyfriend’s face immediately clouded over, and the girlfriend burst out laughing. And I was just standing there like, “?”

Yes. Exactly as everyone is probably imagining. In that instant, I also realized, objectively, just how painfully stupid and ridiculous my action and pose must have looked.

They had only wanted me to take a photo of the two of them.

But instead, what happened from their point of view was: “A Japanese middle-aged man who had been modified to be about twenty times more friendly than an American suddenly cut in between us and started doing some mysterious pose.” Of course they were confused.

I suddenly came back to my senses, bowed my head repeatedly in a very Japanese way while apologizing, carefully took about five photos of them, and then, to hide my embarrassment, I took one photo of myself before returning the phone to him.

That was an unforgettable, embarrassing moment.

Since then, I have listened extremely carefully whenever I hear the word “picture.” That was probably the exact moment when my listening skills improved threefold.

I guess being embarrassed is one way to learn.

......Anyway, what were we talking about again?

[ochi @ochibrochi]

genuinely how many artists in australia are making doujin and want a market bc i could probably make it happen (no promises on my time capacity, but i deadass have the resources to make it happen). i just don't personally know that many people making doujin (in perth).

[ochi @ochibrochi]

madfest, we miss you every day

[ochi @ochibrochi]

and remember when madman ran a country-staple anime convention before all the buyouts and crunchyroll tried to join the industry with crunchyroll expo, and that it did so badly that it made the news...

[Valkian | Matty @Valkian24]

This also affected the physical distribution of anime in Australia since Madman's anime division joined up with Funimation, only to be absorbed by Sony and Crunchyroll.

[ochi @ochibrochi]

I thought this was Lindsey Wagner Amalie from Death Stranding 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[Charlotte. @so_much_for_fob]

I love Ewan's hair in Blue Juice, so much

[ochi @ochibrochi]

@Rikiokki hi, woah, thank you 😳 but you're right in it being a fair comparison. The shape of the face is similar enough yet not quiiite the same proportions, the difference is so subtle I really think it's down to the artist's personal style. I'm gonna miss Nakano a lot when he retires 😔

[ochi @ochibrochi]

@Rikiokki There's also a casual interview from Nakano pointing out purposeful design choices for Link (strong eyebrows, strong nose etc). Wild Link steers more on the side of being a little more broadly "pretty" instead of "handsome". A lot of charm was lost🤧