Shenmue Dojo

GoFundMe sounds perfect. I'll be only too happy to contribute

Hi, lurker here.

This sounds like a lovely gesture. I would be more than happy to contribute to a GoFundMe.

Himuro wrote: Let's go all out with the card. Let's have Shenmue fan art for the cover of the card (I can draw something if we don't find anything).

Someone please ask Cedric on twitter when the next time he'll be in Japan at the YS Net offices? Tell him we have a special and delightful surprise for him as fans of the series.

How about we do a collage of everyone holding up a word/character that makes up a phrase, like 皆さん, 頑張って! (Minasan Ganbatte! Everyone do your best!) similar to this:



Then we can print that onto a blank card, and maybe get everyone's signature printed on the back?

I do not mean to sound frugal... And when others chip in it may only be a few dollars each... But when you were referring to a fruit basket, I was imagining something massive with cut up shaped pieces and a decorative hallowed out watermelon bowl, something cute and nice. But unless those are some really great bottles of wine, what you have there is basically $20 worth of fruit in a basket... No meats, cheeses or anything else?

The flowers seem like a decent price though.

Fruit is pretty damn expensive in japan.

shredingskin wrote: Fruit is pretty damn expensive in japan.

Fruit in itself is considered a luxury item in Japan.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 05105.html

Combined with the wine and it's the perfect gift.

i assume we are getting awesome japan a crate full of fanta?

I'll see about setting up a Gofundme tonight. Last night I was busy.

Himuro wrote: I'll see about setting up a Gofundme tonight. Last night I was busy.

I would suggest refraining from collecting any money until you've completely established what it will be used for and how the gift is getting there.

I would love to contribute, but not while there's still risk of it being a black hole into someone else's wallet.

Got ya. Let's get all of the logistics out of the way.

Do we mail the gifts to Ys net or do we have someone like Switch show up and deliver them for us?

I think it should be by mail, because if someone shows up they might feel obligated to interact with that person for a while when they need to be working - or they might reluctantly have to ask an uninvited person to leave. Mail will get it to them in a way that they are already prepared to handle.

Sounds like a plan. If we mail it directly from the online shop that might make it hard to have that card customized in a personal manner. So we might have to go with a generic card if it's available.

BTW June 10th is Suzuki-san birthday, should we get something done for then?

Maybe. Someone please tweet Cedric and ask when the next time he will be in Japan to check up on game.