Better Image?: Goldfish Scooping Game

This is the first time I'm opening an Image Pickin' thread, so don't hesitate telling me if I'm doing something wrong.

The pic at Goldfish Scooping Game is good, but I think I have something better: a picture of Mei Ijuin playing the game in Tokimeki Memorial 2.

Here are my rationales for why I think the new pic I'm proposing is better :

• 1) It's from a media, namely a video game (we're TV Tropes here),
• 2) The current pic is a weenie bit low quality,
• 3) We can't see the scoop on the current pic (unlike the proposed new one) and the new one still shows the rest of the game fine,
• 4) The new one has a young girl playing it and visibly having difficulties at it, showing the "cheating kids nature of the game" bit of the description,
• 5) Said girl is wearing a yukata, showing she's playing it at a Japanese summer festival (thus covering the "game usually found at festivals in Japan" bit).

Your thoughts on this ?

(Remember to Right-Click => Display Picture on the pic to see it its original 350 px glory)

edited 24th Nov '10 10:12:31 AM by AceNoctali

Here is the current pic, for reference:

Personally I like the current image myself. The problem I'm finding with the proposed image is that the fish game is really only 30% or less of the image, while the rest is of some person who I've never seen before doing something. While the proposed image does have a full body shot of the player, it's almost distracting from the fish game, as the game itself isn't that noticeable.

I disagree, the fish game is perfectly viewable. And if you go by that angle, the current pic has, as I said earlier, a critical flaw : the scoop is hardly viewable, if any.

Okay, lesse if those cut versions less focused on the char work better (tried to cut so that there's enough of her red belt for her cloth to be distinguishable as a yukata). Normal version, and mirror-reversed version :

edited 24th Nov '10 11:02:05 AM by AceNoctali

I like the second one much better. The current one could easily be a fish tank in a pet store. It's a fish tank, yes, but there's nothing to indicate that it's a game, or even that it's particularly Japanese.

I like the kid. It's clearer and I prefer in media examples. It does also have more more of an Eastern feel to it.

Definitely the new pic.

OK, well since other people seem to like it, is it alright if we put it up now?

As far as I'm concerned I agree to put it up (obviously). But which version should we add? The original one, the cut-normal one, or the cut-mirror one? And should we add it on the right, or the left of the page?

Cut-normal and on the right.

Okay, thank you for your advice.

Image added. I think we can lock the thread. Thanks for your attention everyone. :)