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This paper reports on the state of the art in the development of a versatile argumentation system in which various auxiliary features for argumentation are incorporated. Such an argumentation system was built on our underlying argumentation system, LMA: the Logic of Multiple-valued Argumentation, aiming at promoting our understanding of argumentation processes. We in particular present some very new and unique aspects of computational argumentation: the syncretic argumentation, the argument mining and frequent sub-argument discovery, the argument metamorphosis from symbol to animation via natural language, Eastern argumentation based on Indian logic, and the argumentation based on symbolism and connectionism. Such a hybridization of various features would broaden the scope of the applications of computational argumentation in various ways.