As far as Street Fighter players go, they don't get much bigger than Daigo Umehara. He has an endorsement with peripheral maker Mad Catz, and he even authored a book. But it doesn't stop there. He recently popped up in a Japanese manga.
But not just any manga! According to this
Japanese blog, Umehara is appearing in Kindai Mahjong (近代麻雀), a Japanese manga centered around mahjong. The manga with Umehara is titled "Umehara's Mahjong". Below, you can see the manga version of Umehara and what looks like Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono.
The manga tells the story of when Daigo Umehara once had his eye on becoming a mahjong pro—a mahjong pro who apparently wore Mad Catz t-shirts.
近代麻雀オリジナル 12月号を買ってみた [世紀末麻雀ブログ-じゃんキチ！]
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