Momotani Mika set off from her home in Saitama Prefecture at 6:10. After many transfers on the Tokyo railway system, she successfully arrived at Akihabara, the holy land of anime, at 7:30.
LJL's commentary desk is located at the AKIBAD·SKUARE (Akihabara Plaza) e-sports.square store on the second floor of the UDX Animation Building in Akihabara, Tokyo.
Akihabara is a bustling time at night. The streets are brightly lit. There are electronics malls, toy model shops and posters of two-dimensional games along the street. Passers-by rub shoulders with each other, and you can encounter two-dimensional people wearing weird clothes everywhere.
Enthusiast.
Not caring about experiencing Japan's two-dimensional culture, Meixia walked out of the subway and went straight to the commentary venue.
But don’t look at the fact that LJL’s venues are located in the most luxurious areas of Tokyo, and don’t be deceived by the English string of venue names. The Japanese e-sports industry in 2015 is basically at the same level as China in 2005. The so-called venues are not even exclusive stadiums for the LJL league.
, but a luxuriously decorated e-sports themed bar with a maximum capacity of no more than one hundred spectators.
The bar hosts various e-sports competitions, including arcade game competitions. When there are no games, it is a normal e-sports themed bar. Guests can order wine and drinks at the bar, and they can also sit in the same seats as e-sports players.
Play online games on your seat.
There are obviously no competitions scheduled in the E-Sports Plaza today. LJL only rented the broadcast room in the backstage to serve as the commentary desk for the World Championships.
After showing her LJL player ID to the guy at work, Meixia successfully entered the bar...
Enter the Internet cafe...
No, enter the venue!
The big screen in the venue switched to the live broadcast room of the League of Legends World Championship that day. The game has not started yet, and the guests below are patiently drinking wine or playing on the computer, or holding a wine glass in one hand and controlling the mouse with one hand...
People who take the initiative to spend money in e-sports themed bars are basically the few e-sports enthusiasts in Tokyo, and there are many e-sports practitioners among them. Therefore, unlike walking on the streets of Akihabara, Mika attracted a lot of attention as soon as she stepped into the lobby.
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However, unlike the fanatical fan atmosphere in China, South Korea or North America and Europe, although Momotani Mika is now very famous in the world, she does not feel like an e-sports star in the eyes of local e-sports audiences in Japan.
Someone took a picture with a mobile phone.
Someone said hello to Mika.
Some people also came forward to ask for signatures.
But these practices are more because of Mixia's good looks rather than her identity as an e-sports player. It's like meeting a well-known local cosplayer. Although she will take the initiative to ask for a photo with a perfect v, she won't care if she doesn't get the right v.
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Meixia easily got rid of the crowd and pushed the door into the commentary room. She was faced with a long and narrow cubicle less than two meters wide. The long table took up another third of the space. On the table were three computers and a camera, facing the camera.
Plastic boards covered with ljl sponsor logos were erected on the walls.
The commentator, wearing black-rimmed glasses and a suit and leather shoes, was sitting upright and seemed to have been waiting for a while.
"Hello, eyes-senpai!" Mixia bowed in greeting.
"Welcome, Miss Mika, the commentary room is a bit cramped, please bear with me!" Eyes bowed in response.
"Ah, it's okay. Where is Revol-senpai?" Meixia asked. She has been playing in ljl for half a year. Although the players generally don't have much contact with the host, it is difficult for her to remember the only commentator in the league even if she doesn't go to learn more about it.
Their IDs and appearances.
"Oh, Revol went to buy coffee. FNC will play EDG tonight. The two teams are close in strength. I'm afraid the game will last until very late!"
Well, it does take a long time.
But it has nothing to do with the strength of the two teams.
fnc swept edg 3-0, but the rematch in the middle took more than an hour.
When Revol, the host who looked like Shan Shenchao from RNG, came into the room with three cups of coffee, the signal from the European broadcast station was finally connected.
Before the game, the s5 World Championship theme song WorldCollide began to play. Unlike the animated MVs in later generations where the theme song was almost a show-off, today's MV has neither cool special effects nor gorgeous pictures. It just invites the players in the group stage to take a brief photo.
Work, add simple special effects of crystal shattering and line movement, and then mix in close-ups of the group stage matches.
But even so, relying on the right rhythm of the picture and the song, it still produced a shocking effect.
The number of comments in the Japanese live broadcast room has begun to skyrocket, and most of them are in English and Chinese. The occasional Japanese sentence that floats by can be seen at a glance as being posted by non-native Japanese speakers.
"mika!mika!mika!..."
"The game is about to start, and you can hear Mika-chan's voice soon!"
"Let me ask you, what should I do if Mika-chan speaks with a male duck voice?"
"roll!"
"Come on edg! Come on edg!"
"letsgo!fnc!letsgo!fnc!"
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At the end of the three-minute music video, the footage of the Paris match was finally given to the host, and the Japanese stream was also transferred to his own commentary booth.
"Take your time to dig it out!" Mixia and the two commentators bowed together, and then introduced themselves.
After everyone reported their names as commentators, Eyes started to control the field, "I believe all viewers already know that today we specially invited mika, a player who just finished the World Championship, to commentate on the game together!"
"Well, but... Ms. Mika may be a little nervous because it is her first time to participate in commentary. When she invited Mika player before, she also claimed that she did not know how to commentate, so if she said something wrong, I hope all viewers can bear with me.
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The two hosts learned from the chairman of DFM that Mika felt guilty about being a guest in the competition, so they took the initiative to find a stage for her in advance.
Momotani Mika said appreciatively, "Well... I still need to learn from the two commentators in this aspect of commentary! I hope you can give me more advice!"
After a few exchanges, the two commentators agreed that Mika is such a polite and humble player!
And with the debut of Meixia, the barrage in the live broadcast room once again ushered in an increase.
"Mika-chan is saying hello to me! Her voice is very nice, and it goes well with her innocent and cute appearance."
"He looks like a simple junior high school student! He doesn't look like the same person as Mika, who was all assassins in the competition and used a fish-man to kill Faker alone..."
"What is mika talking about? Someone come and translate!"
"No way, no way, there are really people who don't understand Japanese and they come here to watch the game on the Japanese stream, right?"
Momotani Mika looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar barrages, and her lips curled up. She seemed to have returned to the happy time when she posted barrages on Douyu and Bilibili to communicate with netizens and anchors.
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At this moment in the competition field, edg jungler clearlove felt vaguely uneasy.
Before the end of the group stage, the reminder from Japanese player Mika is still in my ears. The Chinese words spoken in the soft and sweet Japanese language are like a fairy's spell, which cannot be forgotten no matter what I do.
"She told me to be careful about fnc. It must be a random guess! There is almost a one-fifth chance that I will be the opponent in the knockout round by chance." clearlove calmed down.
"Mika is now a Japanese stream commentator, so she must be watching this game too! I will let you know that European teams like FNC are vulnerable to our LPL teams!"
He stared at the camera with his dead fish eyes, full of fighting spirit in his heart.