Umehara ga kimeta
Umehara ga kimeta or Crazy Live Commentary (Japanese: 電波実況, romanized: Denpa Jikkyou) was live commentary in response to a match by video-game player Daigo Umehara at a national fighting game tournament in Japan in 2003.
In 2007, a 17-second video clip of "Crazy Live Commentary" was posted on a video-sharing website.
"Crazy Live Commentary" was play-by-play commentary by "Gama no abura" on a match by Daigo Umehara, the top player of the fighting game Guilty Gear X2, at the 2003 Tougeki – Super Battle Opera (SBO) fighting-game tournament in Japan.
[1] SBO, with participation from leading foreign professional gamers, was Japan's first internationally recognized e-sports tournament.
[4] Umehara made it through to the main competition of all four of the seven titles he entered in SBO'03, finishing as the individual runner-up in Capcom vs. SNK 2 and the team champion in Super Street Fighter II Turbo.
[5] The number of new arcade-game titles released was declining; Gama no abura was involved in the launch of the fighting-game tournament, believing that if the industry could be boosted by simultaneous national tournaments for multiple games, manufacturers would be more willing to create new titles to revitalize the industry.
[4] On 6 March 2007, a 17-second video entitled 『電波実況 「ウメハラがぁっ！！！決めたぁぁーっ！！！(Crazy Live Commentary "Umehara ga kimeta!!!
[9] According to the IT-news site Mynavi News, "ふぃぎゅ@ウメハラ," (a Crazy Live Commentary mashup for the theme song of the adult PC game ふぃぎゅ@Mate) began the Crazy Live Commentary mashup craze.
[10][11] "Gama no abura" has a positive view of the commentary's fame,[5] and approved its use as mashup material: "There were a lot of comments and stories about that play-by-play, but I heard that there were people who got to know Umehara because of that play-by-play, and that there were people who became interested in fighting games, so I think it was a success in a sense.
[6] Online news outlet Netorabo introduced the commentary as "game-jargon-free, easy-to-understand, and emotionally-expressive shouting", and praised it for "making a significant contribution to the resurgence of fighting-game popularity".
2, a promotional video for the book was narrated in Crazy Live Commentary style by "Gama no abura".
[19][20] When "Gama no abura" arrived in the United States to comment in Japanese at the 2011 Evolution Championship Series (the world's largest fighting-game tournament),[21][12] he was interviewed by local media and replayed the Crazy Live Commentary.
[22] In 2015, in the final match of the Ultra Street Fighter IV division of the fighting-game tournament Stunfest 2015 in France, Umehara made a one-sided attack.
[16] In 2010, Umehara signed a sponsorship deal with an American video-game peripheral manufacturer and became a professional gamer.
[26] In 2024, Umehara was still active in the top echelon of the fighting-game world and working to expand the player population.
