Line #13 Series/TokyoEncounter


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3	''Tokyo Encounter'' (東京エンカウント), or ''Tokyo Encount'', is a 30 min show that airs two times every three months on ''AT-X's'' night programming in Japan. It's about {{seiyuu}} Creator/TomokazuSugita and Creator/YuuichiNakamura playing video games. Unlike Shinya Arino in ''[[Series/RetroGameMaster GameCenter CX]]'', Sugita and Nakamura don't have to finish the games they're playing, so they spend most of the time riffing them and playing them with some of their seiyuu friends and co-workers.
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5	The show started in May 2010 and initially ended February 2013. However, a special episode called ''[[{{Pun}} Die]]... Tokyo Encounter'' aired in January 2014 and the second season, ''Tokyo Encounter Nii'', has been airing since May 2014. ''Nii'' has featured two ''Gaiden'' episodes as an extension to the normal episodes, one for episode 30, and one for episode 48, both of which were aired one month later. Both ''Gaiden'' episodes had a major segment that took the majority of those episodes' time, the first featured ''Tokyo Encounter Dai-Nenpyou'' ("Tokyo Encounter: Big Chronology"), and the second featured ''Watashi no Takaramono Encounter'' ("My Treasure Encounter"). In June 2020, during the COVID-19 crisis, the show aired two ClipShow specials featuring the highlights of the series up to this point.
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7	While the show is hosted by Sugita and Nakamura, sometimes guest players will appear and play with them. All players aren't professional, but they enjoy playing video games privately. During the show, they always talk either about the games they are playing or about their job or private life, which gives the show a homely atmosphere. The guest players appear in two episodes that are aired in the same month. The games vary in all genres, platforms and age. Also, between the main games, Sugita and Nakamura play minigames with each other that are prepared by the studio staff, where they can win prizes and/or points.
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9	For the list of the {{seiyuu}} featured in this series, see this sheet [[Characters/TokyoEncounter here]].
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12	!!The show is associated with following tropes:
13	* AntiClimaxBoss: The gang encounters one while playing ''VideoGame/DungeonExplorer'' during episode 14. Creator/HiroShimono's reaction during the whole thing just makes this trope even more poignant.
14	--> ''(the trio enters the BossRoom and finds [[DualBoss two]] [[EvilIsVisceral gigantic masses of flesh, tentacles and eyeballs]] that start chasing them around the room)''\
15	'''Shimono:''' eeee[[SuddenlyShouting EEEEEHHH WEHHHH]] [[OhCrap SCARY SCARY SCARY SCARY]] HUGE HUGE HUGE\
16	'''Nakamura:''' [[{{Squick}} GROSS!]]\
17	'''Shimono:''' HUGE HUGE\
18	''(the bosses die within a few seconds, disappearing in an almost comically small puff of smoke)''\
19	'''Shimono:''' [[FlatWhat Ah--]]\
20	'''Nakamura:''' They were weaker than expected.
21	* BirthdayEpisode:
22	** Episodes 31 and 32 are more of a ChristmasEpisode in double pack, but in episode 31, it also serves as a delayed birthday episode of Uesaka.
23	** While episode 53 is aired in November 2017, it's apparently recorded in October 11, the birthday of Sugita, Sakaguchi and Nishiyama.
24	** Episode 57 celebrates Creator/DaisukeOno's 40th birthday. Since his birthday happens to be in May 4, this might explain the one-month delay of the broadcast.
25	* BlatantLies: When they refer something as "cute" games, those actually turn out to be zombie games.
26	* BookEnd: The ClipShow specials start with the "2P Game Selection" segment in the first special and end with the "2P Game Selection" segment in the second special.
27	* BrickJoke:
28	** Sugita and Nakamura play ''VideoGame/Left4Dead 2'' with Yuuki Kaji. Later, they play ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' with Aoi Yuuki.
29	** During Aoi Yuuki's first appearance, she brings fluffy bear-ear jerseys for all players. This happens again over 31 episodes later.
30	* TheCameo: Mafia Kajita appears with [[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting Mr.]] [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Karate's]] tengu mask in episode 3 and brings the two hosts food and drinks, but he doesn't say anything.
31	* ChristmasEpisode: The episodes that get aired in February are recorded in Christmas. In fact, since Creator/AoiYuuki, all guests who have been appeared on Christmas have been women. In July/August 2016, Creator/MikakoKomatsu is the first female guest who doesn't appear on Christmas since Creator/YukoSanpei and Creator/AmiKoshimizu back in May 2011.
32	* ChristmasMiracle: What Nakamura seems to think, since they get all those impossible-to-get guests (Creator/NanaMizuki in 2012, Creator/YuiHorie in 2015) at the end of the year.
33	* ClipShow: In June 5th and 19th, 2020, ''Tokyo Encounter Nii'' aired two specials that featured highlights of the entire show. The clips were categorized in following categories: "2P Game Selection" (which featured clips with no guests), "Retro Game Selection" (focusing on retro games), "Multiplayer Games Selection" (focusing on multiplayer games with at least three players; this category also took the majority of screentime in both specials), "Arcade Game Selection" (focusing on the Arcade Corner segments), and "Singleplayer Games Selection" (focusing on single-player games). Almost every guest appeared in these two specials, with the exception of Creator/AyanaTaketatsu (although her name was brought up a lot thanks to the ''Ikki Online'' clips). The second appearances of Creator/AoiYuuki and Creator/HiroShimono were also not shown.
34	* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Especially with the older games they play as the AI is just perfect. Of course, this gives the cast quite a few laughs at how unfair it is.
35	* DoubleKnockout: In episode 22, when they play ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', Nakamura and Eguchi knock each other out with Guile and Sagat, respectively.
36	* EarlyBirdCameo:
37	** The ''Platform/PlayStationVita'' shows up in episode 19 before it was released.
38	** Similarly, the hosts get the chance to play the Playstation VR in episode 41 before its release.
39	* FlatWhat: In one episode while Aoi Yuuki gets herself caught up in a giggling fit looking at how utterly ridiculous Sugita and Nakamura in their (ridiculously undersized) animal hoodies Sugita responds with one of these. [[GratuitousEnglish In English no less.]] Nakamura trying to reach for something on the table just makes her laugh harder.
40	* GagCensor: Whenever one of them makes a joke where it has to be censored, usually when one of them says something really dirty or says the name of a famous person or copyrighted work deemed inappropriate to make fun of, the censored part itself is played with. A rather suggestive sounding "Yamete!" (Stop it!) is often used as the sound.
41	* GagPenis: One of the characters Nakamura created in ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburV'' has a large front tail and huge balls infront of the crotch. Even funnier is that the character is supposed to be Sugita, complete with no pants and with Voldo as the basis.
42	* TheGhost: Since it's a show about {{seiyuu}} playing games, a lot of them are mentioned, but do not appear in the show.
43	** Creator/HoukoKuwashima is the most frequently mentioned seiyuu. Sugita ''very'' fond of her. In ''Die... Tokyo Encounter'', she eventually makes an appearance in a video message.
44	** Creator/NorioWakamoto is mentioned several times. He's even impersonated by Sugita, Nakamura and Sakurai. Sugita still impersonates him from time to time.
45	** Sphere, a unit between Creator/AkiToyosaki, Creator/HarukaTomatsu, Creator/AyahiTakagaki and Creator/MinakoKotobuki, is often mentioned during the show. Sugita and Nakamura really want to have them as guests. Eventually, Tomatsu and Toyosaki do appear in episodes 51 and 52.
46	*** When Sphere fan Eguchi shows up instead of one of the Sphere members, Sugita responds with Takagaki being not 180cm tall.
47	** Creator/NobuyukiHiyama is sometimes mentioned, mostly because of his roles in the games they play.
48	** Sugita jokes that the character Mezu from ''[[VideoGame/FuunSeries Savage Reign]]'' has the last name "[[Creator/MegumiToyoguchi Toyoguchi]]" because it sounds similar to "Megu".
49	** Creator/ShigeruChiba is mentioned when Sugita, Nakamura and Sakurai play ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''.
50	** Creator/HikaruMidorikawa (who would later become a guest himself), Creator/MasayaOnosaka, Creator/TakehitoKoyasu, Creator/FumihikoTachiki and Creator/KikukoInoue are mentioned in the Okiayu episodes.
51	*** Episode 68 features the game ''Deka Voice'' where Tachiki played the protagonist. Of course, the seiyuus pick this up immediately.
52	** During the ''Die... Tokyo Encounter'' special, Sugita compares Nakamura's depiction of the Neo-Geo logo as Creator/YuuKobayashi's drawing.
53	*** Onosaka, Koyasu and Creator/MitsukiSaiga are mentioned during the ''30-sho Gaiden'' special and they apparently recommended Miyano to play ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''.
54	** Creator/AkioOtsuka in episode 10.
55	--> "''Ore wa Charlie.''"
56	** Creator/HitomiNabatame by Koshimizu and later by Sugita.
57	** Creator/HochuOtsuka is mentioned when Nakamura, Sugita and Shimono discuss if they are old and middle-aged men.
58	** When Sugita, Nakamura and Shimono play ''Ikki Online'', Sugita makes a {{Pun}} of bamboo spear ("takeyari") and [[Creator/AyanaTaketatsu Taketatsu]], and he keeps saying "Taketatsu" whenever he uses a bamboo spear. After the game, Sugita suggests he should probably write an apology letter to ''I'm Enterprise'' (Taketatsu's agency).
59	** Creator/SaoriHayami is mentioned a few times.
60	*** Of course, at one point, Creator/ShoHayami has to be mentioned.
61	** Creator/KosukeToriumi is mentioned in episode 15 because there is an enemy called "Kousuke".
62	*** They call an enemy "[[Creator/AtsushiAbe Abe-san]]" in the same game.
63	*** Toriumi is mentioned a few times again in episode 33.
64	** Creator/MiyuIrino is mentioned in episode 16 and in ''30-sho Gaiden''.
65	** Creator/HiroshiKamiya gave Sugita "Let's TV play" controllers from the ''Plug it'' series, which appear in episode 16. He is mentioned several times before and after that, too.
66	** Creator/AkiraIshida is described by Sugita, Nakamura and Yuuki as a man who is untouchable and has a strong [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion AT-Field]].
67	** Creator/RieKugimiya is mentioned by Sugita when he, Nakamura and Yuuki talk about Akira Ishida (see above). Sugita, Kugimiya and Ishida went on an udon shop; when Ishida ate nabeyuki udon and said "It's hot!", Kugimiya laughed. He mentions her sometimes later.
68	** Creator/{{Yukana}} and Creator/ShizukaIto in episode 18.
69	** Creator/MamikoNoto is mentioned a few times. Notably in episode 19, when Sugita tells Nakamura that she (and Nabatame) is(/are) in ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow''.
70	--> '''Nakamura:''' "[[{{Fanboy}} ...Should I watch it...]]"
71	** In episode 26, Nakamura mentions Creator/YuiOgura, and Sugita responds with Creator/KaoriIshihara. The two guys wonder if they invite one of them, would the other come along, too. (Both girls are members of the unit [=YuiKaori=].)
72	** In ''30-sho Gaiden'', when they play ''Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2'', Sugita picked an old man (Shigoku) who had [[Manga/HunterXHunter very long hair that stood up in the air]], with Nakamura commenting it's "[[Manga/HunterXHunter Gon-]][[PlotRelevantAgeUp san]]". Then Sugita calls the old man "[[Creator/MegumiHan Han-chan]]".
73	** Creator/KentaMiyake and Creator/FumikoOrikasa are mentioned when Sugita, Nakamura and Eguchi play ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', since they are Eguchi and Sugita's senpais respectively and play ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Zangief and Chun-Li]]''.
74	** In episode 37, Sugita imitates Creator/DaisukeGori and Yuusuke Numata. When playing ''VideoGame/TimeGal'', Nakamura wonders if Reika Kishihara was voiced by one of the ''Anime/DirtyPair'' seiyuus, Saeko Shimazu or Kyouko Tonguu. However, Sakaguchi eventually figures out that Reika was played by Yuriko Yamamoto.
75	** Aside from their seiyuu co-workers, Sugita often mentions his older brother or/and his cousin Kazuyuki.
76	* HelloInsertNameHere: A variation involving a character's favorite activity (''a la'' [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Ness's]] favorite food) shows up in episode 13 when Sugita and Nakamura are asked to show their gaming-related photographs. The moment also serves as a funny role reversal of their usual BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine.
77	--> '''Nakamura:''' I brought this one just in case, but I thought it might be a little inappropriate...\
78	'''Sugita:''' What d'you mean, "inappropriate"?\
79	'''Photograph:''' I do penis a lot. But I do it too much... The people in town don't think it's good.\
80	'''Sugita:''' This is a dirty picture!!
81	* LaughTrack: Subverted, since it is recorded with the studio staff around, and they laugh their asses off at any of the antics or jokes that Sugita and Nakamura pull out when playing the games.
82	* LastNameBasis: Nobody calls someone by his/her given name, except for rare cases like Creator/DaisukeSakaguchi.
83	* LetsPlay: Unlike regular Let's Plays, ''Tokyo Encounter'' is about playing through games just for fun, so there are no walkthroughs or tutorials.
84	* LethalJokeItem: When they played ''Ikki Online'', they thought the bamboo spear was just a joke item because it only attacks forward and they thought it was useless. Once Nakamura found a good way to use it however, him, Shimono, and Sugita thought it was a OneHitKO item.
85	* OverlyLongName: Some of the games have really long names.
86	** Episode 80 has the ''Wii'' game ''Zaidan Houjin Nihon Kanji Nouryoku Kentei Kyokai Kounin: Kanken Wii -- Kanji-Ou Ketteisen'', which is all written in kanji (except for "Wii").
87	* ProductPlacement: As ''Tokyo Encounter'' is a show about playing video games, [[JustifiedTrope this is pretty much unavoidable]]. However, there are a handful of notable products that show up in a few episodes (See EarlyBirdCameo), and Nakamura lampshades the show's Creator/{{SNK}} slant (particularly towards VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters) in episode 14.
88	--> '''Nakamura''': What is with this show? Are we getting money from SNK or something?
89	* PunnyName:
90	** The word "Die" in ''Die... Tokyo Encounter'' is a pun to "Dai", which means "Great" or "Big".
91	** In episode 5, when one of the characters is called "Mezu", Sugita jokingly says that Creator/MegumiToyoguchi is in the game, only then to explain the "Mezu/Megu" pun when Kaji is looking up at the menu to check if it's true.
92	** In episode 76, when they are fighting against giant ants, Sugita calls them "Ozawa". Yashiro finally sees the connection when he says "ari" ("ant") and that Sugita was making a pun with Creator/AriOzawa's name. Nakamura catches the pun after Yashiro.
93	* RuleOfCool: When they play ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'', a game where you play as the President of the USA in a mecha suit while fending off against terrorists, this is their reaction.
94	* RunningGag:
95	** Anything about [[{{Fanboy}} Sugita's]] adored Creator/HoukoKuwashima.
96	** The most common reaction to the question "What's up lately?" is "That's so blunt!".
97	** Sugita and Nakamura winning the same [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai]] [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Shiranui]] figure in the box game corner. '''Three''' times.
98	** Sugita and Nakamura tell some of their guest that they will play a "cute" game. Those games turn quickly out to be zombie games.
99	** Sugita and Nakamura imitating other seiyuus.
100	** Most of the time, when they see a bald character, they (usually Sugita) say it's Mafia Kajita.
101	* ShoutOut: It's amusing to go through many of them (there are tons to not only video games, but visual novels and anime and manga series, too), until the non-casual viewer remembers that, firstly, they are seiyuu who have worked with many, many others that had at least a role in many of those games or anime series; and secondly, that Sugita is a well-informed ''otaku'' who knows his stuff ever since he was a kid (when it is about videogames) and a teenager (when it is about anime).
102	* TitleDrop: The episode titles are quotes from the episodes.
103	* WorldOfHam: '''All of them''' are pretty loud!

Context Series / TokyoEncounter