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"Japanese Bug Fights" refers to a more than 58-part video series featuring various kinds of insects, arachnids and other invertebrate creatures battling to the death in a little plastic arena. Naturally, something like this could only come from Japan.

The videos have gained quite a bit of notoriety and infamy on the web, and are very popular among both 13 year old boys and people who like watching things kill each other (one of the internet's two key demographics). The videos are all hosted on japanesebugfights.com, but most of the videos, as well as others, can be found on gladiatorbugs.com or YouTube.

Japanesebugfights.com seems to be the original source of the videos. They have all sorts of elaborate graphics, sound effects, and epic music played in the background, making the videos poke fun on a nature docummentary. Additionally, one thing that is simultaneously great yet irritating about the videos is that trademark Japanese commentary. While Japanese commentary can make pretty much any event hilarious, it's impossible to tell what's being said, since nobody has ever bothered to translate the language. This becomes a problem at the end of some of the videos, since there isn't always a clear winner and both bugs are sometimes left alive. It is assumed that the Japs then go to the scorecard to declare the winner. And perhaps the cheesiest part of all is that the site displays ads for pest control during the whole thing. In addition to the 30-part video series, the site also has a section for user-submitted content. However, there are only 4 user-submitted videos, one of which was deleted from YouTube. Finally, there's a rules section, showing that this forced battling of mindless creatures is, in fact, very organized and professional.

On the American website Gladiatorbugs.com, most of these videos are illegally hosted along with a bunch of others from around the web. Coupled with the videos are descriptions and information on some of the noble insect warriors. This site also allows comments, so you get some interesting discussion, as well.

Finally, as with mostly anything else in the world, you can find tons of these videos on YouTube. And, of course, the best thing about watching the videos on YouTube is reading the comments. Along with the standard "OMG AWESOME 5 STARS!!1" responses and the inevitable whining about animal rights, there's also a fair amount of professional analysis of the fights and people arguing over their favorite competitors.

1. Two Bugs to a fight
2. Bug fights go on as long as they have to
3. first bug to fall off log loses

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• The 1th: Giant Cricket (Orthopteran) vs. Camel Spider (and yes, they actually spell it with a "th")
• The 2th: Scorpion vs. Hornet (not available on JBF.com)
• The 3th: Stag Beetle vs. Scorpion
• The 4th: Tropical Centipede vs. Hornet
• The 5th: Stag Beetle vs. Atlas Beetle
• The 6th: Camel Spider vs. Praying Mantis
• The 7th: Scorpion vs. Tarantula
• The 8th: Stag Beetle vs. Crayfish
• The 9th: Cave Centipede vs. Cricket (Orthopteran)
• The 10th: Hornet vs. Praying Mantis
• The 11th: Scorpion vs. Crayfish
• The 12th: Tropical Centipede vs. Hornet: (Rematch)
• The 13th: Tarantula vs. Rhinoceros Beetle
• The 14th: African Cave Spider vs. Praying Mantis
• The 15th: Hornet vs. Scorpion: (Rematch)
• The 16th: Scorpion vs. Tropical Centipede
• The 17th: Scorpion vs. Tarantula
• The 18th: Cricket (Orthopteran) vs. Praying Mantis
• The 19th: Camel Spider vs. Praying Mantis No.2
• The 20th: Atlas Beetle vs. Crayfish
• The 21th: Scorpion vs. Tropical Centipede: Rematch
• The 22th: Scorpion vs. Scorpion
• The 23th: Stag Beetle vs. Tropical Centipede
• The 24th: Tropical Centipede vs. Scorpion: Again
• The 25th: Atlas Beetle vs. Scorpion
• The 26th: Tarantula vs. African Cave Spider
• The 27th: Hornet vs. Grasshopper
• The 28th: Vinegaroon vs. Fail Beetle
• The 29th: Tropical Centipede vs. Scorpion
• The 30th: Stag Beetle vs. Scorpion

• 1: Praying mantis vs Brazilian Wandering Spider
• 2: Pray mantis vs Camel spider
• 3&4: Centipede vs Praying mantis
• 5: Yellow creepy scorpion vs Vinegaroon
• 6: Stag beetle vs Scorpion
• 7: Stag beetle vs Vinegaroon
• 8: Cave spider vs Trap door spider
• 9: Centipede vs Camel spider (this one is hary)
• 10: Stag beetle vs Scorpion (rematch)
• 11: Yellow creepy scorpion vs Brazilian Wandering Spider
• 12: Scorpion vs Scorpion
• 13: Scorpion vs Grown beetle
• 14: Grown beetle vs Stag beetle
• 15: Pray mantis vs Brazilian Wandering Spider (Rematch)
• 16: Scorpion vs Scorpion
• 17: Stag beetle vs Sinney Funnel Web Spider
• 18: Stag beetle vs Camel spider
• 19: Stag beetle vs Centipede
• 20: Stag beetle vs Cave spider
• 21: Stag beetle vs Pray mantis
• 22: Stag beetle vs Scorpion (Again)
• 23: Stag beetle vs Vinegaroon
• 24: Stag beetle vs Pray mantis (Rematch)
• 25: Stag beetle vs Scorpion
• 26: Stag beetle vs Scorpion
• 27: Stag beetle vs Stag beetle
• 28: Stag beetle vs Grown beetle

• Japanese Beetle Wrestling! Round 1 Stag beetle vs Scorpion
• Japanese Beetle Wrestling! Round 2 Rino beetle vs Atlas beetle
• Japanese Beetle Wrestling! Round 3 Atlas beetle vs Scorpion
• beetlesnew_04 Atlas beetle vs Rino beetle
• beetlefight05 Atlas vs Scorpion Rematch
• beetlefight06 Scorpion vs Centipede
• beetlefight07 Stag beetle vs Rino beetle
• beetlefight08 Rino beetle vs Atlas beetle
• beetlefight09 Stag beetle vs Hercules beetle
• beetlefight10 Stag beetle vs Scorpion
• beetlefight11 Tarantula vs Centipede

Japanese Bug Fighting features a wide variety of spectacular creatures that could most likely thrill you in a fight. Below are all of the warriors, along with descriptions and rankings. Of course, many see this cherished Japanese pastime not as an entertaining event, but as a cruel, sick game of animal cruelty. But those people are all a bunch of animal rights protestants, so nobody really cares what they think of the series. One reason this stuff still takes place is because the creatures in question are all terrifying insects,as with other ferocities such as dinosaurs and entelodonts, and not cuddly ones such as farm animals, litoptherns or dolphins. You see, the lack of popularity discourages most animal rights activists from throwing hissyfits and picketing outside the Japanese Bug Fighting headquarters. Still, there are some hardcore PETA members that follow the time honored tradition of bug dueling, and they're not afraid to let their feelings be known to the whole internet.

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