I’ve got a volume of Umehara FIGHTING GAMERS! and it’s actually pretty entertaining. Daigo Umehara appears as this completely silent, unstoppable force, as less-famous Great Player Nuki tries to learn the Vampire Savior metagame well enough to challenge him.
There’s a great moment when Street Fighter Zero (Alpha) 3 comes out, and Nuki’s trying to talk his friends into pooling their money to buy the arcade board so they can practice at his house. “C’mon, guys! It’s only a few hundred bucks each if we all throw in! Don’t you guys want to beat Umehara?” Then he looks down to the “camera,” face smirking in shadow, and thinks “Not like any of you stand a chance.”
I should order more of that.