Talk:Sōta Fujii

Future expansion

I'm not sure whether the unofficial (非公式) games Fujii played during his winning streak like these should be mentioned in "29-game winning streak" section, so I've removed it for the time being with this edit. The section is simply about the streak itself and these games do notseem to belong there. I think they can probably be better incporporated into the article in another section, perhaps one of the ones mentioned below.

I was thinking that one of the ways to further expand the article would be to create a section about Fujii's popularity and the "Fujii effect" (just my term at the moment) not only on shogi's recognition factor but also economically on the JSA, etc. Fujii came along at the time of the Ryūō#29th Ryūō challenger controversy and he provided the JSA/shogi with a much needed PR boost. The JSA realized this is having him participate in all kinds of promotional events to sort of take advantage of the moment. He's been featured regularly on the JSA's new AbemaTV shogi channel to create interest. He's featured on the main page of the JSA's app (along with Yoshiharu Habu and Amahiko Sato). NHK decided to broadcast his NHK Cup Round 2 game against Toshiyuki Moriuchi live, which was last done for the championship of the 57th NHK Cup (2008). The result of Fujii's NHk Cup Round 1 game against Shota Chida was even posted on the JSA's official website weeks before the game was actually broadcast, which is something the JSA typically does not do. Whenever new mechandise related to Fujii is announced, people actuallly line up outside the JSA headquarters to buy it and it quickly sells out. Some people are even reselling the via online auctions, etc.[1] . During the streak, Fujii was often discussed on Japanese TV, from regular news programs to combo news/entertainment programs. Interestingly, Hifumi Katō was often asked to provide commentary and discuss Fujii's chances for continuing the streak.

There's a few other ways the article can be expanded, such as an "Early life", etc. which can include content about him learning the game, going to shogi juku, the shōreikai, etc. There could also be a section on his Tsume shogi skill. He's won the Tsume Shogi championship for the past three years and won for the first time as twelve-year-old sixth-grade elementary school student in 2015 with a perfect score beating a number of Class A professionals. Seems like there's quite a bit of potential here and as long as he keeps winning his popularity should not wane. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:39, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: rejected by Narutolovehinata5 (talk) 11:32, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Has not been expanded 5x and the nominator has indicated that further expansion is unfeasible at this time.

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Fujii (right) in 2019

• that Sōta Fujii—at the age of 17 years and 11 months—is the youngest person to win one of professional shogi's major titles?[2][3]

5x expanded by Marchjuly (talk). Self-nominated at 12:05, 16 July 2020 (UTC).

• DYK check tool indicates "Article has not been created or expanded 5x or promoted to Good Article within the past 10 days" Esculenta (talk) 17:22, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
  • Thank you for the notification. I wasn't aware of the 5x requirement. You may close this nomination at any time since there's no real way to expand the article fivefold, at least not at this time. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:05, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

On accomplishment of 8 titles.

On the 11/8/2023, Mr souta fujii defeated the previous holder of the ouza title to claim all available titles in japan. 103.6.151.36 (talk) 13:06, 11 October 2023 (UTC)