Eurogamer just posted one of the most epic interviews ever with Street Fighter superstar Daigo Umehara, so if you missed it, check that thing out.

To put it together, they enlisted the help of our own bi-lingual Shino, who also happens to be a friend of Daigo. In addition to the questions from Eurogamer, I asked Shino to include a few extra questions about his recent meeting with US SFIV champ Justin Wong.

In the interview below, in addition to her chatting about Daigo's background, the core of the piece is a breakdown on their championship match, where Justin switched to Fei Long, with the idea that Daigo (as an arcade player) would not have experience against the console characters.

Daigo: First off, there was one thing concerned me at last EVO. In Japan, the arcade is the mainstream while the home console is the core in the US. As a matter of fact, I haven't played much of it, and I had never played against home console characters before. So I was not prepared for console characters at all.

Daigo talks about what he thought of Justin's switch, and more importantly, how he was able to play the match against a great player using an unfamiliar character. Great stuff!

Thanks of course to Daigo, to Shino, and to Eurogamer for kicking off the whole conversation!

Hit the jump for the full interview!