Happy Rockman Day to You
Was waiting out for the Capcom Unity Devroom to update on this, but being E3 and all posting is naturally behind. Greg has also been spending a ton of time dishing out his moves at the Let’s Dance 3 exhibition.
Today (well technically yesterday) fans celebrate “Rockman Day.” It falls on June 9th because of the Japanese trend of making numbers into words based on sounds. “Roku” is 6 and “ku/kyuu” is 9. Put together they form “rokku” (since rokuku would be a little weird to say). This is why you sometimes see the number 69 crop up in Mega Man games, like on the Support Car license plate, and Mr. Famous’ 69 battles winning streak.
Anyway, Capcom of Japan has prepared a variety of things in celebration. The biggest of which is the cool wallpaper you see above. You can head here to download it in any of three sizes, just press the red button after the notice comes up. Next, they’ve made the arranged Flutter theme that plays on the Rockman DASH 3 Project page available for download. You can grab it here. Finally, the Capcom Sound Sphere podcast “We are ROCK-MEN” has special guest Reo Uratani on the show, Legends 3′s head musician. Of course it will be entirely in Japanese, but I read that Uratani-san plays an acoustic version of a super popular Mega Man Legends tune.
Additionally, there is a bit of commentary and thanks from various people involved with Mega Man, including BN and SF producer Takeshi “Horiken” Horinouchi, artist and character designer Ryuji Higurashi, director of Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 Yoshinori Kawano, Rockman Unity front man Ucchy-san, and legendary programmer “H.M.D.” who was there at the start of it all. I would translate these if I had the time, but I’m certain it’ll all be on Capcom Unity shortly.
Well then, a grand Rockman Day to you! I implore you, no, command you to get nuts on E-Tank energy drinks and play Mega Man games all day today!
Tags: Capcom of Japan, holiday, June 9th, Mega Man Legends 3, Rockman DASH 3, Rockman Day, wallpaper
Filed under: Mega Man News
Merry Rockman Day to all and to all a good night.
Awesome. AWESOME picture.
Loving the pic.
I will obey Heat Man
happy day for megaman!
happy day for all fans ^^
Since I don’t speak Japanese. How to I download them, since when I click on the “Download” button I get a wall of Japanese text! :/
Disregard post. **Problem Solved!**
Do you command mission me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKTw50Uf8M
Happy Rockman Day!
Happy RockMan day, everyone!
This wallpaper ROCKS! I will be sure to do something Rockman related today, like maybe start reading Gigamix Volume 1 already. :3
HAPPY ROCKMAN DAY EVERYBODYYYYYY!
I changed my wallpaper to the one above. It was due for a change, and this was *perfect*.
Oh, you’ll celebrate Rockman Day, but not REPLOID INDEPENDENCE DAY?
A pox on your E-Tanks!
happy rockman day to all, rockman forever:)
played megaman 10, played megaman starforce one the bus home, and played megaman zero in the bathroom.
oh yeah i got this day megafied
And to think, it was ‘Rockman Rockman Day’ only three days ago.
Happy Rockman Day!!!
I didn’t know the 9th was Rockman Day until after it was over. That’s what happens when you don’t post it the day before…
But hey, it was Rockman Day, and that’s still cool! Neat wallpaper. Always good to see something positive that’s Mega Man related.
@Erico: Reploid Independance Day sounds very Maverick to me. Especially with RID as your initials.
Ugh, you’re gonna make me drive all the way to Tate’s Comics just to pick up some American E-Tanks? Oh well. If I must, then I must. It’ll give me a chance to buy the actual Mega Man comic anyway.
Happy Roku-Man day!
Can someone send me that wallpaper? CoJ is blocked on my work PC. Just send over to nick(dot)phaelin(at)gmail(dot)com if you will. E-Tanks!
Why do I have bad images in my head while reading this?
Oh well, happy Rokuman day folks!
Capcom Unity has translated everything, by the way. Plenty of congratulations, personal development stories, and support to be had.
HOORAAAAY GODDIES!!!
Q: Will this be enough to make people stop saying that Capcom hates Mega Man and wishes it to die?
A: Of course not.
It is pretty cool, though, that this day is the same as my wedding anniversary… which is also ironic, given we met each other through Mega Man, yet had no idea this “holiday” existed until recently.
I should open up PayPal for donations to make a Mega Man wedding cake for next year.
thanks soo much for this news update and for providing megaman news for soo many years. That wallpaper is awesome. already changed mines
-Viper