Arthropod Deathmatch
Evidence of my trip to Japan:
In Japan, they have many things that we do not have in the 3rd dimension. For starters, it is possible in Japan buy a DVD that, I'm guessing from the content, was called something like Arthropod Deathmatch. This was the deluxe edition, featuring three-plus hours of macro-photographic battles such as Scorpion versus Millipede, Tarantula versus Preying Mantis, and Giant Flying Wasp Creature versus Some Other Venomous Gnarley Ass Thing. I would have bought a copy, had it not been PAL and cost like $7000.
Later, I was able to fight my own beetles to the death when I happened across a video game, called Mushiking. With Mushiking, Sega allows you to have your own arthropod deathmatch any where, any time! You put in your yen and get these cards, each with a different beetle. And the beetles have these special powers, which you then use to fight your avatar beetle against either other players' beetles or the CPU's beetles, which, according to this, have been bewitched by evildoers. The cards represent special powers and you use those to find the other beetle's weakness. Or something like that. All I know is I saw this:
