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Duke Pukem posted:That look interesting, but you can only watch it for a week if you buy it? I think that's because it'll probably go up for everybody at that point fez_machine posted:Poster for the TJPW PPV THUMBS UP FOR ENDO
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The Taxman posted:I think that's because it'll probably go up for everybody at that point That's what NJPW does but a lot of Japanese PPVs are time limited and then disappear forever except if you buy a dvd. Nomads for example were two great shows that are no legally available on the internet to stream. Luckily it'll probably turn up in your favorite place to see wrestling unbounded by such trivialities
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fez_machine posted:This is good because it is clearly indicating that Miu is going to be pushed real hard this year. That is good BUT Haruna Neko is at the bottom! THis is an outrage and will not stand!
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Penguin Patrol posted:No Yuki Arai, Juria Nagano or... that new girl that isn't Himawari? I guess Arai and Juria are busy that day, Uehara is also an idol iirc?
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So what would be recommended TJPW shows from the past couple of years to check out? Preferably with English commentary so I can hopefully get a bit more of a feel for the wrestlers and their personalities. I watched Summer Sun Princess over the weekend, and now I'm starting Wrestle Princess III.
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The Wrestle Princesses, the 1.4 shows, and basically any show with a Princess label are the traditional recs.
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karmicknight posted:The Wrestle Princesses, the 1.4 shows, and basically any show with a Princess label are the traditional recs. OK cheers. That'll keep me occupied for a while. Also holy crap it's kind of trippy to watch this very bright and sunny interview with Yuka Sakazaki, remembering that she also does ... this. https://i.imgur.com/jWFKPUi.mp4 The duality of Yuka.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:OK cheers. That'll keep me occupied for a while. Eventually you'll start seeing the moment Murder Yuka emerges midmatch
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:OK cheers. That'll keep me occupied for a while. Murder Yuka is the greatest.
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Not only is Ryo Mizunami too cool, she also just had a god drat banger of a match with Suzume at Wrestle Princess III. God drat. E: Why did Hyper Misao decide to use a bunch of balloons filled with confetti, a giant squeaky hammer and a bagful of plastic monster toys in her match? Is her gimmick some kind of comedy hardcore wrestler? Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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Hyper Misao is a superhero defending love and peace across the galaxy But really she's just Wile E. Coyote
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Hyper Misao game plans every single match in an attempt to do as little work as possible with props and concepts and poo poo, but it blows up in her face like 99% of the time.
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Yeah, she's a superhero who cheats an awful lot. Street wrestling brought her into the business (I believe she walked past some and thought "what's that I want to do it) and that has a lot of foreign objects. She bicycles into people a lot too. Another thing she does a lot is immediately grab a mic and say "this is actually a [some silly stipulation] match" and I have to go searching to find out it's a trivia contest now as well.
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Yeah I just saw a bicycle spot. This match sure went in a direction I wasn't expecting. And holy poo poo it would suck to take bumps on those hard rubbery plastic dinosaur toys. E: Oh no, Max the Impaler, leave Pom alone! Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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Misao also whips out a handgun on occasion in mid-match, so there's that.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:E: Oh no, Max the Impaler, leave Pom alone! Outlook not good
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(still watching Wrestle Princess III) Good god this Maki Itoh/Miyu Yamashita - Riho/Hikari Noa match was insane. It's so cool to see Riho really cut loose and it's also been very nice to see how much Maki Itoh has developed in under two years.
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Here's a few recommendations that might not show up as TJPW involved shows There's a lot of TJPW in the Abema Towers Rojo https://www.wrestle-universe.com/en/videos/sZmHM2pPGn92sW6h8L9e8A (English commentary) Maki Itoh teams with Minoru Suzuki at DDT Nevermind 2021 https://www.wrestle-universe.com/en/videos/8nERBsNp4oKszfW2qkHzri at ~1 hour 40 minutes in The TJPW segment in the DDT Tokyo Dome Rojo https://www.wrestle-universe.com/en/videos/5ULbHg2Tzj4HVqkejqEedt at 22 minutes Shunma vs. Hyper Misao (It's built a little off the Tokyo Dome Rojo so watch that before hand) https://www.wrestle-universe.com/en/videos/jbCqYHCjTWTuG7pRZovZXT
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You should check out the complete run of "That's JPW".
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:E: Why did Hyper Misao decide to use a bunch of balloons filled with confetti, a giant squeaky hammer and a bagful of plastic monster toys in her match? Is her gimmick some kind of comedy hardcore wrestler? To be fair, the monster toys have become a staple of Hyper Misao and Shoko Nakajima's annual 1/4 matches over the past few years and it was kaiju lover Shoko who started it  Pami's (Haipaa Misao, get it?) overall story arc is, without a shred of irony, my favorite in all of professional wrestling. After graduating college she was mostly a shut-in with severe social anxiety and it was happening upon a DDT street wrestling event featuring Jun Kasai that inspired her to start wrestling - but she insisted on doing it in a mask. That plus, well, not being particularly good at the wrestling part led her to a chickenshit heel-who-may-or-may-not-know-she's-a-heel superhero character. With time and persistence, though, she got confident enough to challenge Jun Kasai - whose wrestling literally saved her life; she has been fairly candid about attempting suicide before she started wrestling - to a match at the May 3, 2018 TJPW Korakuen show. The stipulation for this match was that they had to eat an entire bag of chocolate cream puffs before their pins would count, because that was most of what she ate when she was a shut-in. It's a very good, emotional match, and it represented a real turning point in Hyper Misao's career, where she really started stepping up her game as a wrestler. I won't go into too many details beyond that, but since then, she's tried and failed to form a tag team with Rika Tatsumi; sacrificed her mask and pledged loyalty to the villainous Sakisama and NEO Biishiki-gun (February 23, 2019); had a run with the tag belts with the same and revealed that she's actually pretty good at wrestling now; had her soul saved and reclaimed her mask; lost her name in a stipulation match against Shoko Nakajima; forced Nakajima to become a superhero like her; spontaneously announced her retirement, had an impromptu but emotional going-away match, then announced her engagement, then announced that the retirement part was a lie but the engagement part was not; gotten legally separated from her actual age; and formed a named tag team with Nakajima even though the two of them still have annual wacky grudge matches every January 4. Johnny Landmine fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Hyper Misao vs. Arisu Endo from "That's JPW" was probably my favorite match from that whole run and it really illustrated Misao's grasp of telling a pro-wrestling story. She managed to inject a lot of tension and energy into the format. Her "Random Switching Rules" match with Saki Akai at Wrestle Princess was also some genius brain stuff. I love TJPW but a lot of the matches have a very obvious winner and loser and Misao's antics are great at raising her up against a superior opponent through trickery or, when she screws up and is undone by her own schemes, making you think the underdog is going over. It's a quite old match but another one of hers I loved was vs. Miyu Yamashita from the 2016 Princess Cup tournament. An early showing of her getting serious and working her rear end off.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Also holy crap it's kind of trippy to watch this very bright and sunny interview with Yuka Sakazaki, remembering that she also does ... this. Doing stuff like this IS what makes her bright and sunny the rest of the time!
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Johnny Landmine posted:To be fair, the monster toys have become a staple of Hyper Misao and Shoko Nakajima's annual 1/4 matches over the past few years and it was kaiju lover Shoko who started it Oh yeah, I wasn't trying to poo poo on Hyper Misao and the tone of my post was not what I intended. Rather than "why did Hyper Misao decide to use" I meant "why is Hyper Misao using", because I genuinely don't know anything about her other than "she used a small garbage can on Aja Kong in that one match". That's definitely a very inspirational and cool backstory, thanks for sharing it. And those storylines sound wild as hell, is TJPW always like that or is it just Hyper Misao?
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Oh yeah, I wasn't trying to poo poo on Hyper Misao and the tone of my post was not what I intended. Rather than "why did Hyper Misao decide to use" I meant "why is Hyper Misao using", because I genuinely don't know anything about her other than "she used a small garbage can on Aja Kong in that one match". Someone mentioned to NeoJoshiSizzle before, they're probably the best resource for roster storylines of the past (not 100% accurate though so take a pinch of salt with them). The Hyper Misao vid is very good as is the Maki Itoh one. https://www.youtube.com/@neojoshizzle If you like Misao's backstory check out these three vids about Lulu Pencil, a star who burned fast and bright and then disappeared from our lives (a very common story with Joshi in general) Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HveLrmFkhIA Part 1a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HkhHFQLDXw Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v70YCnYmpVU fez_machine fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:That's definitely a very inspirational and cool backstory, thanks for sharing it. And those storylines sound wild as hell, is TJPW always like that or is it just Hyper Misao? Honestly, most of the non-Hyper Misao storylines are on a surprisingly down-to-earth, realistic "we are competitors in the same sport and we're all striving to do our best" tip. Well, surprising for a promotion whose most prominent heels are a rotating squad of aristocrats who all bear striking but mostly coincidental resemblances to, say, Saki Akai, Mei Suruga, etc. who only visit from France every now and then to terrorize the tag scene
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https://mobile.twitter.com/tjpw2013/status/1618217129706225666 Babe wake up its time for Miyu to murder another rookie
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Miyu is famously bad in tournaments  Al least for me the only first round matches that aren't gimmes are Nao/Endo and Misao/Miu, but even those are stretches
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Part of me had assumed Miyu was finally gonna get it together to win the tenth anniversary Princess Cup this year but the fact that this tournament is called Princess of the Decade has me sweating. Is she gonna do it folks e: Though the two-count fall rule has me expecting fewer sure things than I would otherwise tbh. Last time they had a two-count tournament Yuki Aino pinned Miyu Yamashita clean
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Johnny Landmine posted:To be fair, the monster toys have become a staple of Hyper Misao and Shoko Nakajima's annual 1/4 matches over the past few years and it was kaiju lover Shoko who started it And the best version of Misao teaming with Shoko was when Shoko lost a match and had to become superhero Shin Ultra Shoko for a month.
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Johnny Landmine posted:To be fair, the monster toys have become a staple of Hyper Misao and Shoko Nakajima's annual 1/4 matches over the past few years and it was kaiju Shoko who started it Fixed it for you.
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ItohRespectArmy posted:gona lol when mahiro knocks out maki itoh Maki Itoh will beat Mahiro and then Miyu and then win the cup and then look into the camera and tell me I can be a success in life too
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Itoh and Mahiro are going to go into time and Mahiro is going to apologize and I'm doing so inadvertently throw paper resulting in her beating Itoh who threw rock.
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Maki Itoh owns, but I'm sure that's not news to anyone here. https://twitter.com/PuroresuFlow/status/1618238282827182081 Johnny Landmine posted:heels are a rotating squad of aristocrats who all bear striking but mostly coincidental resemblances to, say, Saki Akai, Mei Suruga, etc. who only visit from France every now and then to terrorize the tag scene God drat I love pro wrestling. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Apparently Women of Wrestling has some connections. My mom just texted to tell me they were on Let's Make a Deal today, with two of the wrestlers and a prize of VIP tickets to one of the shows. Edit: Mom sent a clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHI84jnjxT0 Maigius fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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yea ok posted:Stardom is tite.  The Triangle Derby has been excellent. I just wish they would put the points rankings up at the end of each match like they did for the 5*GP and the Tag League. I have to keep track myself and I sometimes forget and I'm not sure who is in the lead now
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Rarity posted:Maki Itoh will beat Mahiro and then Miyu and then win the cup and then look into the camera and tell me I can be a success in life too we're successful in life because we're here and that's all that matters. Shaman Tank Spec posted:Maki Itoh owns, but I'm sure that's not news to anyone here. she's alright i guess
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