{"id":44390,"date":"2025-02-17T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=44390"},"modified":"2025-02-17T16:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:39:56","slug":"legendary-guilty-gear-x2-esports-moment-immortalized-in-nissin-commercial-featuring-daigo-umehara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/legendary-guilty-gear-x2-esports-moment-immortalized-in-nissin-commercial-featuring-daigo-umehara\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Guilty Gear X2 esports moment immortalized in Nissin commercial featuring Daigo Umehara\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To promote its chili tomato-flavored cup noodles, Nissin parodied announcer Gama no Abura\u2019s viral commentary of fighting game professional Daigo Umehara competing in a <strong>Guilty Gear X2<\/strong> tournament at the 2003 Tougeki \u2013 Super Battle Opera (SBO). The Nissin commercial in question replaces Gama no Abura\u2019s riveting fighting game critiques with exclamations such as \u201cUmehara drives the ramen into the corner of the screen!\u201d \u201cUmehara takes the kettle!,\u201d and \u201cUmehara places the cheese!\u201d:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30a6\u30e1\u30cf\u30e9\u304c\u3041\uff01\uff01\uff01<br>\u30c1\u30ea\u30c8\u30de\u30c8\u306b\u3043\u3043\u3063\uff01\uff01\uff01\uff01<br>\u30c1\u30fc\u30ba\u3067\u30d5\u30bf\u3092\u3057\u305f\u3041\u3041\u30fc\u3063\uff01\uff01\uff01\uff01<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%8C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%81%E3%83%AA%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30ab\u30c3\u30d7\u30cc\u30fc\u30c9\u30eb\u30c1\u30ea\u30c8\u30de\u30c8<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%95%E3%82%BF%E3%83%81%E3%83%AA%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30c1\u30fc\u30ba\u30d5\u30bf\u30c1\u30ea\u30c8\u30de\u30c8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V1onlxKwGp\">pic.twitter.com\/V1onlxKwGp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30ab\u30c3\u30d7\u30cc\u30fc\u30c9\u30eb (@cupnoodle_jp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cupnoodle_jp\/status\/1891306573206519914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Post translation: <\/strong>Umehara!!! <\/em>He covers the chili tomato noodles!!! With cheese!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The original commentary features Gama no Abura giving an extremely passionate play-by-play of Daigo\u2019s match. After two of his teammates were eliminated from the match, Daigo was left to combat the three members of the enemy team. Daigo went on to defeat the enemy team by himself and advance his team to the semifinals, which they unfortunately lost.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"umehara ga kimeta better quality\" width=\"1160\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DO38IFrs9wU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Though it has been more than 20 years since the match, Game no Abura\u2019s overzealous commentary has immortalized the match into the halls of meme culture. Different aspects, from <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_IGJISNg2X4?si=983eo121d8300G_B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Guilty Gear X2 gameplay to the audio<\/a>, have been modified to humorous effect. Nissin, however, was able to go the extra mile by getting Daigo himself to eat a cup of instant noodles at the end of the commercial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To promote its cup noodles, Nissin parodied the legendary commentary of pro gamer Daigo Umehara competing in a Guilty Gear X2 tournament in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":44396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-44390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legendary Guilty Gear X2 esports moment immortalized in Nissin commercial featuring Daigo Umehara\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To promote its cup noodles, Nissin parodied the legendary commentary of pro gamer Daigo Umehara competing in a Guilty Gear X2 tournament in 2003.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/legendary-guilty-gear-x2-esports-moment-immortalized-in-nissin-commercial-featuring-daigo-umehara\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legendary Guilty Gear X2 esports moment immortalized in Nissin commercial featuring Daigo Umehara\u00a0 - 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