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Hello and welcome to the ADTRW Japanese Pro Wrestling thread! I think that you guys would appreciate pro wrestling here, as it is very similar to shonen. But enough of that, let's get started: MAJOR COMPANIES MEN (in japan, usually women and men's wrestling is segregated by company, so a men's only promotion would not have women and vice versa. This distinction goes back over 50 years and isn't changing any time soon.) New Japan Pro Wrestling The big dog of wrestling. Largest fanbase and most recognizable brand in Japan. Famous for its excellent in ring wrestling and attractive men, New Japan is popular in the west as well because of its english language commentary and easy to use streaming service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyu3ER9i9c4 Dragon Gate The second biggest company in Japan. Its style is called lucharesu, a hybrid blend of Mexican lucha libre and Japanese pro wrestling. This promotion has a large fujo audience because of the undeniable appeal of hunky bois doing flips. Dragon Gate also has a streaming service and English language commentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5W8tyh3CHA DDT Weird poo poo. The world's largest comedy wrestling promotion. If you've ever seen a gif of a wrestler wrestling a child or a blow up doll, this is where it's from. Secretly filled to the brim with amazing wrestlers, though. streaming service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LApVz53Spw Pro Wrestling NOAH Very traditional strike based pro wrestling. If you want to watch shonen fighting spirit exchanges and speeches about who should be the protagonist of the company, this one is for you! Noah has English language commentary and a streaming service. Actually owned by the same company that owns DDT. Go figure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXvzh9y3oz8 WOMEN'S Stardom Wrestling based idolish promotion. That's right, this promotion is full of idols! You love those! Apart from singing and dancing, the Stardom girls are also kick rear end wrestlers! Great stuff here, but very serious. Stardom has a streaming service and English language commentary (sometimes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K_oOvMytCo Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling Very idolish promotion. Basically an IRL version of an Idolm@ster squad with fake fighting. This promotion is more reliant on storylines than Stardom is, but they're not that hard to understand. If you can get the gist of a manga from raws, you can understand TJPW. streaming service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O15X-tr5wk There are of course many more companies running in Japan at the moment, but this is a general overview of the most popular. Thank you for reading my thread! Below are some helpful links if you want to get more into Japanese pro wrestling! New Japan Thread Dragon Gate Thread NOAH Thread Women's wrestling thread Misc. Japanese pro wrestling thread
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Namtab posted:Mr. Crow, if my money is limited, which promotion would you recommend the most? 3 promotions: DDT/TJPW/NOAH because their streaming service is the same and 900 yen so like $8.50 and it's a great value
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A bit of #CrossoverContent for all you v-tuber fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL1ddCjARG0STONE COLD 64 posted:i think dragongate has been overtaken by ddt for 2nd largest promotion i thought ddt couldn't draw outside of tokyo, or are they so strong in tokyo that it doesn't matter?
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Saagonsa posted:I know nothing about Japanese wrestling, but I've seen some people on twitter talk about New Japan so I might check it out at some point. new japan just had their biggest show of the year that sets off storylines for the rest of the year this week so check those out on new japan world
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I have memories of watching wrestling from Japan during the Christmas-and-Newyears vacation in the 90s - I think it might've been AJPW that was broadcast here, but it was a local station that also did weird things like Insomniac with Dave Attell a few years later, and I'm not sure they had the rights for any of what they broadcast. if you want that style of wrestling, both current NOAH and new japan are heavily indebted to 90s AJPW
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