#Takuya Nomura

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[blueonwrestling]

Match of the weekend for me is Eddie Kingston vs Mark Briscoe at Supercard of Honor.

MVP of the weekend is Billie Starkz for doing about 50 million shows this weekend.

Show of the weekend might honestly be the Stardom American Dream show, even if Supercard of Honor was the better show the Stardom show felt very nice and happy that these gals were able to really hit a homerun on a very rare american soil and prove how good they are.

Overall a really great weekend, Marina Shafir was absolutely fantastic in her bloodsport matches, Takuya Nomura vs Fuminori Abe was fun as fuck, we got alot of good fucking wrestling over the weekend and im happy that alot of indie wrestlers got to do a shit ton of stuff, especially the women this year, felt like the women stole the weekend on the indies.

[jasvvy]

[colossal-niamh]

hey someone put the Astronauts singles match I gushed about on Youtube. to all my wrestling mutuals and other freaks who see this post please go out of your way to watch this it's objectively the best match I saw last year

[wrestlingwiththoughts]

Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura vs. Kazusada Higuchi & Ryota Nakatsu, BASARA 251 ~ Utage, June 21, 2024

A common refrain in the lament about professional wrestling in 2024 is that tag team wrestling, a unique format that sets wrestling apart from other combat sports dramas, is at a very weak state. (2 vs. 2 or 3 vs. 3 MMA, for example, is very wacky, but it's more of a free for all than tag team wrestling, which is regulated by the rules around tagging your partner and colored by the drama that circumventing those rules creates.) When I hear that refrain, I think about how tag teams have been a consistently highlighted aspect of Japanese wrestling, even in 2024. From Dragon Bane and Alpha Wolf to the factions in New Japan, Stardom, and Dragongate to the teams like the Astronauts, tag team wrestling doesn’t seem quite as moribund as critics might claim.

Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura, the Astronauts, exploded in prominence after their highly rated singles match at their produce show in October 2023. Based on that match's reputation, GCW brought them to the United States; GCW even asked them to replicate the singles match at Bloodsport X. DPW also brought Fuminori Abe, the Buddhist priest and slightly younger member of the duo, to the US to face Roderick Strong in a well regarded singles match this year.

Nonetheless, Abe and Nomura have done most of their work this year as the Astronauts in Japan as the traveling tag team, stopping in AJPW, DDT, BJW, BASARA, 666, and a variety of independent produce shows. With such a variety of venues and audiences, it must be tempting to find a formula and stick with it to make life easier for yourselves. Yet, every time I see the Astronauts at work, they seem to present a twist on the variation of their trademark high speed action, laced with humor, that keeps monotony from setting in on them.

In this case, I checked out Abe and Nomura against Ryota Nakatsu, who turned me off immediately by wrestling most of the match in a t-shirt three sizes too large, and Kazusada Higuchi, the ex-sumo wrestler whose career feels like it should have been more than what it currently is even though he's held every KO-D championship in DDT. True to the Astronauts’ formula, the match was worked at a high pace with lots of action and intensity between the two teams, and it was punctuated with a very Three Stooges inspired segment where Abe, Nomura, Nakatsu, and Higuchi paired off to hit each other and Nakatsu kept asking Higuchi to switch partners because Abe and Nomura were hitting him too hard. That was also when Abe acted out that punching Higuchi was like hitting a wall, which was tremendous.

I think I would put this in the category of "worth your time because it's a very fun match" and not in the "one of the best matches of the year." Still, this is an easy recommendation, especially if you just want fast action before an excited crowd.

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Erik Hammer vs. Takuya Nomura (Josh Barnett's Bloodsport Bushido 2024)

Three minutes.

If you had to show somebody a match to get them into pro wrestling, or at least make them understand why you're too obsessed with considering it something serious, this match could do the work. After all, perfect pro wrestling tends to be the best thing that has ever graced this earth, and there's no language barrier to indiscriminate violence for the sake of it. When I saw the card for this show, I thought this match was going to be good but nothing beyond: Bloodsport tends to be a show in which matches are better the more you move on the card and to be honest, that's how it should be.

But man, in any world did I expect something like this. When you think of booking Erik Hammer you wouldn't book him against Takuya Nomura because you wouldn't even think of Nomura in the first place. These two are really different wrestlers, but in those differences, you find magic because in that way you can build a narrative. Who would have thought the best way to tell a story in wrestling is to let wrestlers express their angst with their own bodies? I loved every second of this because, in its immediate and fast-paced brutality, you appreciate all of it. Short matches are an exercise of how much you understand wrestling, and because few wrestlers today can have short matches without them being legitimately awful to watch, this must be appreciated and praised accordingly because it proves wrestling shouldn't be about time, but about what happens in said time. I don't have to say anything more and nothing less, just watch this match and understand sometimes you should just get to the point.

[princeoftennis-scenarios]

St. Rudolph Academy Masterlist

Akazawa Yoshiro

Nomura Takuya

Mizuki Hajime

Kisarazu Atsushi

Yanagisawa Shinya

Fuji Yuuta

Girlfriend cornered by some creeps

NSFW headcanon with their girlfriend

Sleeping in their jersey on the floor

Kaneda Ichiro

[moonsuke]

I keep seeing this snippet of Nomura glazing Reo calling him a genius, all-rounder, rich, has everything etc., and Kaneshiro adding on that he's beautiful too which I thought didn't really flow that well and not Kaneshiro-ish? So I went to look for the original Japanese source and apparently he uses "男前" (otokomae) which makes soooo much more sense to me and fits the image I've of Reo (and what I think Kaneshiro's image of Reo is) better.

"男" (otoko) means "man" and "前" (mae) means "front", so rather than beautiful it's more like a handsome, good-looking man, more masculine than say "ikemen". But more than just describing physical appearance, 男前 is also meant to symbolize an ideal man or masculinity in terms of personality, style, appearance, the overall package which fits Reo's elite status well.

For example being well-groomed, has good manners, generous, popular, charismatic, cool, the sorta guy every guy looks up to etc. (Basically Chad lmao). In Japan, an image conjured of such a guy would be one that smoothly pays for everyone's dinner in the group without raising attention to that fact, or just buying everyone drinks etc. When I searched up "男前", the first example that pop up was Kimura Takuya lmaoo.

Anyway I was saying 男前 fits what I thought the interview? was trying to convey better, and what Kaneshiro is trying to portray with Reo with the super elite dude and all.

And of course the snippet ended with how his strong attachment to Nagi makes him spiral which according to Kaneshiro, is the best part of him lol.

[blackbellaswan1]

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favorite wrestlers are Momo Watanabe, Takuya Nomura, Dan Tamura, Mayu Iwatani, Kaito Kiyomiya, Mio Momono and

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[frentique]

[akumagrapps]

Sweet, sweet violence.

Wow. There are no words I can use to describe how I feel towards this match, this match, for me, at least. Is the PERFECT match. A slugfest where 2 dudes just beat the everliving fuck out of one another to see who truly is better, Yuji Okabayashi is a different beast that really should be lauded more for how hard he fucking hits you, the man looks and strikes like a fucking wall and I am here for it. On the other hand, pre-pandemic Takuya Nomura is a fucking beast, the man was BUILT, able to tank a few of Big Yuj's chops, and deliver some of his own. Honestly, this is a 10/10 for me. Perfect match.

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[blueonwrestling]

Now this is techincally two matches in one rating here, but because they happen right after one another, and have got the same wrestlers in it, i am combining it into one rating.

BJW Saikyou Tag League 2022 Semi Final

Astronauts (Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura) vs. Crazy Lovers (Masashi Takeda & Takumi Tsukamoto) - 4 stars

you might notice im going on a bit of an astronauts binge after seeing alot of hype around them and yeah, these lads rule, but especially Abe, really like him.

And not only that, you can watch this match RIGHT HERE:

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