#taniguchi sho

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Onlymesarts on Twitter and Instagram sent me this cute fanart from my fanfictions Uncomfortable Truths and Autumn's Bounty of Sho acting like he and Ume were running a restaurant in Mei and Yuzu's house on Xmas Eve to entertain their granddaughter Airi.

My dad used to do this for us when I was a kid and I got married yesterday and the 3 year anniversary of his death was recently and this helped with him not being there along with my stepmother.

I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.

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Resultados do Super GT Okayama

GT500

1-36-Sho Tsuboi\Kenta Yamashita-Toyota GR Supra GT500-au Tom's -82 Laps

2-39-Yuki Sekiguchi\Yuichi Nakayama-Toyota GR Supra GT500-Denso Kebelco Sard

3-100-Naoki Yamamoto\Tadasuki Makino-Honda Civic Type R GT500-Stanley

4-38-Hiroaki Ishiura\Toshiki Oky-Toyota GR Supra GT500-Keeper Cerumo

5-23-Katsumassa Chiyo\Ronnie Quintarelli-Nissan Z GT500-Motul Autech Z

6-3-Mitsunori Takaboshi\Atsushi Miyake-Nissan Z GT500-Niterra Motul Z

7-37-Ukyo Sashara\Giuliano Alesi-Toyota GR Supra GT500-au Tom's

8-8-Tamoki Nojiri\Nobuharu Matsushita-Honda Civic Type R GT500-ARTA Mugen

9-16-Hiroki Otsu\Ren Sato-Honda Civic Type R GT500-ARTA Mugen

10-64-Takuya Izawa\Riki Okusa-Honda Civic Type R GT500-Modulo +1 Lap

GT300

1-2-Yuui Tsutsumi\Hibini Taira-Toyota GR86 GT300-Muta Racing-77 Laps

2-65-Naoya Gamou\Takura Shinohara-Mercedes-AMG GT3-LEON PYRAMID AMG

3-7-Seiji Aara\Niklas Krutten-BMW M4 GT3-BMW Team Studie

4-52-Hiroki Yoshida\Seita Nonaka-Toyota GR Supra GT300-Green Brave

5-31-Kazuto Kotaka\Jin Nakamura-Lexus LC 500 h-APR- +1 Lap

6-96-Morio Nitta\Shinichi Takagi-Lexus RC F GT3-K-tunes +1 Lap

7-87-Kosuke Matsuura\Natsu Sakaguchi-Lamborghini Huracan GT3-Metalive +1 Lap

8-88-Takashi Kogure\Yuya Motojima-Lamborghini Huracan GT3-JLOC +1 Lap

9-4-Nobutero Taniguchi\Tatsuya Kataoka-Mercedes AMG GT3-GOODSMILE Hatsune +1 Lap

10-6-Yoshiaki Katayama\Roberto Hermi-Ferrari 296 GT3-Uni Robo Bluegrass +1 Lap

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NJPW Match Card Set for June 17 + Match Predictions for NOAH's Green Journey in Nagoya 2023

Earlier today, NJPW announced match cards for their televised events in Chiba (for June 10th and 18th) and Hachioji (for June 17th). Down below is the official match card for their June 17th which is part of their "New Japan Road: Road to Strong" tour which starts in Chiba on June 10th. There will be a total of 8 matches on the card 4 of them are pictured down below:

Opening Match: Kosei Fujita vs. Master Wato

Match #2: Yuto Nakashima and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Boltin Oleg and Tomoaki Honma

Match #3: EVIL, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, and Dick Togo vs. Hirooki Goto, Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, and Hiroyoshi Tenzan

Match #4: Dan Moloney, Clark Connors, and Gedo vs. Great O-Khan, TJP, and Francesco Akira

Match #5: Alex Coughlin and Gabriel Kidd vs. Oskar Leube and YOSHI-HASHI

Match #6: Shota Umino, Ren Narita, El Desperado, and Tiger Mask vs. Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tomohiro Ishii, and YOH

Semi-main Event: Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi, and BUSHI vs. Taka Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, and Taichi

Main Event: Yota Tsuji and Hiromu Takahashi vs. SANADA and DOUKI

"New Japan Road: Road to the Strong" in Hachioji airs on NJPW World at 6 PM Local Time/5 AM Eastern/4 AM Central/2 AM Pacific.

But before that, we will have Pro Wrestling NOAH's "Green Journey in Nagoya 2023" which will air on ABEMA and Wrestle Universe at 5 PM Local Time/4 AM Eastern/3 AM Central/1 AM Pacific on the same day as "New Japan Road" in Hachioji in which right now I will give you my full match predictions for the NOAH event as promised when the match card was officially announced last week.

Opening Match Prediction: I can understand that Hiroki wants to prove himself but by leaving Kongo, he has left a big hole. Already knowing he'll lose to Kenoh, losing to Hajime Ohara is not a option but...with the way he's been going, can't see him beating Ohara. Hajime Ohara will win the opening match.

Match #2 Prediction: This match is very intriguing but if I'm to pick a side then I'm going with the team of Mohammed Yone, Super Crazy, and Alejandro for the win.

Match #3 Prediction: Apparently Hideaki Suzuki is not happy about this match and based on how he is. I'm expecting this singles bout against Shuhei Taniguchi to be a brawl. Hideaki Suzuki will dominate and win in easy fashion.

Match #4 Prediction: When this match was originally announced, I thought that this would be used to determine Hijo del Dr. Wagner's next challenger for the GHC National Championship. But with Kaito Kiyomiya's participation in the G1 announced, this is his chance to show his 7 block opponents (which will be announced on June 10th) what he's made of. I still see Kiyomiya winning and at the same time make a statement as G1 Climax 33 looms for him.

Match #5 Prediction: This is no typo everyone, Naomichi Marufuji is actually teaming up with Eita against Daiki Inaba and Atsushi Kotoge in which I see the crumbling of Kotoge continue. Eita and Marufuji with the surprise victory.

Match #6 Prediction: Welcome back Jack Morris, we missed you. GLG vs. Stinger and Sean Legacy is sure going to be something. My prediction on this match will be very interesting for I have Stinger and Legacy continuing that momentum they've been having since May 4th in Ryogoku. Stinger and Sean Legacy with the win.

Match #7 Prediction: A rematch from May 14th and a preview match for June 22nd all in one match. AXIZ returned on May 14th in a losing effort as Go Shiozaki was pinned by Kenoh in the main event. Since that loss, AXIZ has won their next two matches and it is expected by the time they get to Nagoya they will be 4-1 since reuniting. My prediction is that AXIZ will get the win here but it will be interesting to see if this match will be for the AJPW World Tag Team Championship by then. Also, note...Go Shiozaki has never defeated Kenoh in singles competition. A win here in Nagoya could boost his confidence to get that first win over the Kongo leader in Korakuen Hall five days later.

Match #8 Prediction: Very hard match to predict here but one thing is clear, Dante Leon will do whatever it takes to win back the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship and though I can see him winning somehow I don't. HAYATA will retain but how though remains to be seen.

Semi-main Event Match Prediction: My expectation here is that whoever wins between Kongo and AXIZ two matches earlier will be the next challenger team for the GHC Tag Team Championships. This match is hard to predict because when you have Saxon Huxley in the ring, he's out of control. He's the true definition of being the savage David Finlay wants in his Bullet Club. Anyway, this match...I'm predicting as of right now new tag team champions with AXIZ coming out as the next challenger team. However, should the champion team retain, this could be the chance for Go to exact some revenge because it was Timothy Thatcher that put him on the shelf in Osaka back in September. Nonetheless...here I see new champions but always expect the unexpected when it comes to Saxon Huxley.

Main Event Prediction: There's a saying, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. My prediction here is a very intriguing one for I see Jake Lee retaining despite being dominated by the challenger Takashi Sugiura throughout most of the tour. Jake Lee's toughest challenge will result in his toughest victory and should he emerge victorious be interesting to see who' will be next.

So, those are my predictions for Pro Wrestling NOAH's "Green Journey in Nagoya 2023". Sorry but no predictions for "New Japan Road". The next NJPW event that I'll do predictions on will be their "Forbidden Door" event at the end of June and their two Independence Day Events during the 4th of July 2023.

"New Japan Road: Road to Strong" in Hachioji airs on NJPW World this Saturday at 5:00 AM Eastern while "Green Journey in Nagoya 2023" airs the same date at 4:00 AM Eastern on ABEMA for Japanese Commentary and Wrestle Universe for English commentary.

Go to timeanddate.com, type in the city you live in to find out the start time to these 2 events in your area.

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As an amateur meme maker and a Yakushi enthusiast I had to.

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After Sara and Nina give Yuzu the push she needed, Yuzu takes it upon herself to be honest about her feelings for Mei, starting with her mom.

Her mom is totally supportive right off the bat before Yuzu even fully tells her.

Next up she talks to Mei's dad on a video call.

She pretty much tells him she's gonna marry Mei and asks for his blessing and the cute serious expression she has be like "yeah I wanna marry Mei and I mean it."

Last but certainly not least is Harumi and initially Yuzu is nervous about telling her to the point where she delays telling her and instead texts her to meet up with her about it.

For a bit, they're just sitting there in awkward silence enjoying some ice cream that Harumi brought with her when she came to meet with Yuzu.

Compared to how she told her mom and Mei's dad, the way she tells Harumi is pretty damn blunt and then she goes and tried to clarify what she means and gets all worked up.

And to stop her from rambling Harumi tells Yuzu she loves her bur quickly adds as a friend with a teasing smirk to which Yuzu is taken aback about like the gay disaster she is.

What Yuzu has with Harumi is really special so it's understandable she was the most nervous about telling her about being in love with Mei but she knows that she can count on Harumi to always have her back.

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Citrus Live action (fake)

Yuzu Aihara = Elaiza Ikeda

Mei Aihara = Ayami Nakajo

Harumi Taniguchi = Ren Ishikawa

Himeko Momokino = Kasumi Yamaya

Matsuri Mizusawa = Ito Ono

?????? = Shiori Yoshida

Ume Aihara = Saki Takaoka

Sho Aihara = Mitsuhiro Oikawa

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It's a BL movie starring Kosuke Yonehara, Masashi Taniguchi and Sho Tomita in the main roles. A young gay office worker who's attracted to his new boss, but can't be honest with his feelings due to a traumatic incident from his past. It's based on a manga with the same name which also features a second gay couple that you only get the vagues idea of in the movie.

Oh wow, sounds interesting! Do you recommend it? I might check it out tonight.

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Meet Main Cast Members in Requiem of the Rose King Stage Play TV CM

    A 30-second TV CM introducing the main cast members of the forthcoming stage play adaptation of Aya Kanno's dark fantasy historical drama manga Baraou no Souretsu / Requiem of the Rose King has started airing in Japan. The members showing their respective character costumes include Yumi Wakatsuki (ex-Nogizaka46 member) and Sayato Arima (Mafufu Sato in the given stage play), both of them are cast as Richard III in double cast.

        The stage play, directed by Fumiya Matsuzaki, known for his directorial works for the stage play adaptations of Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair game and Abi Umeda's Children of the Whales manga, is scheduled to be performed at Nihon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo from June 10 to 19, 2022.

  It was also announced that visitors will receive special cards using the illustrations by the manga author Aya Kanno, which were originally drawn for the TV anime's Blu-ray first and second volumes. The cards comes with messages by each of the stage play's four main cast members.

    舞台「#薔薇王の葬列」来場者特典の配布も決定???? 菅野 文先生描き下ろし、Blu-ray第1巻、第2巻のイラストを使用したスペシャルカード！#若月佑美 さん #有馬爽人 さん#和田琢磨 さん #谷口賢志 さん キャスト４名のメッセージ付き全4種(ランダム配布)✨https://t.co/Ph26I1OcMt#薔薇ステ pic.twitter.com/VtVHT3N60D

— TVアニメ『薔薇王の葬列』公式アカウント (@baraou_anime) April 22, 2022

    Key visual:

    Main cast:

  Richard III: Sayato Arima & Yumi Wakatsuki

Henry VI: Takuma Wada

Edward IV of York: Yuki Kimizawa

George, Duke of Clarence: Manabu Takagi

Catesby: Sho Kato

Warwick: Yusuke Seto

Prince Edward of Lancaster: Ryota Hirono

Anne Neville: Sena

Cecily Neville: Sayaka Fujioka

Margaret: Ryoko Tanaka

Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York: Kenji Taniguchi

    RELATED: Requiem of the Rose King Stage Play Unveils Key Visual Introducing Richard III, Played by A Double Cast of Man & Woman 

    Source: "Requiem of the Rose King" stage play official website / Twitter

  ©Aya Kanno (Akita Shoten)/Stage Play "Requiem for The Rose King" Production Committee

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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Tin ieuro2020: Tuyển Nhật Bản triệu tập Kubo cho trận gặp Australia và Việt Nam

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Tuyển Nhật Bản công bố danh sách 27 cầu thủ chuẩn bị cho 2 trận cuối vòng loại thứ ba World Cup 2022, trong đó Takehiro Tomiyasu và Ritsu Doan vắng mặt, còn Takefusa Kubo trở lại.

So với những lần tập trung trước, tuyển Nhật Bản đã tăng quân số từ 24 lên 27 cầu thủ ở lần tập trung này. Theo Nikkan Sports, huấn luyện viên (HLV) trưởng Hajime Moriyasu muốn có nhiều lựa chọn dự phòng các trường hợp chấn thương hoặc không đảm bảo thể lực.

27 cầu thủ được triệu tập lần này gồm nhiều gương mặt đã ra sân ở trận gặp tuyển Việt Nam trên sân Mỹ Đình ngày 11/11/2021 như Junya Ito, Takumi Minamino, Maya Yoshida. Trong đó, Ito là người ghi bàn duy nhất giúp Nhật Bản giành trọn vẹn 3 điểm.

Những ngôi sao vắng mặt ở loạt trận cuối là Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal) và Ritsu Doan (PSV). Tomiyasu đang điều trị chấn thương nên không được gọi là điều dễ hiểu, còn việc Ritsu Doan vắng mặt dù ra sân thường xuyên ở giải VĐQG Hà Lan là một bất ngờ lớn.

So với trận lượt đi gặp tuyển Việt Nam, đội Nhật Bản sẽ có sự phục vụ của Takefusa Kubo (RCD Mallorca). Ngôi sao sinh năm 2001 đã trở lại sau chấn thương, có 9 trận đá chính liên tiếp tại La Liga từ đầu năm nay. Anh cũng đã góp mặt trong chiến thắng 2-0 của Nhật Bản trước Trung Quốc hồi tháng 1.

Tại bảng B vòng loại thứ ba World Cup 2022, tuyển Nhật Bản hiện có 18 điểm, đứng thứ 2 bảng B và chỉ kém Saudi Arabia một điểm. Vì thế 2 trận cuối bảng gặp Australia và Việt Nam đều mang ý nghĩa quan trọng, quyết định tấm vé đi tiếp vào vòng chung kết World Cup của thầy trò HLV Moriyasu.

Tuyển Nhật Bản sẽ làm khách Australia ngày 24/3. Sau đó, họ sẽ về nước để tiếp đón tuyển Việt Nam trên sân vận động Saitama ngày 29/3.

Danh sách tập trung tuyển Nhật Bản:

- Thủ môn (4): Eiji Kawashima (Strasbourg), Shuichi Gonda (Shimizu S-Pulse), Daniel Schmidt (Sint-Truidense), Kosei Tani (Shonan Bellmare).

- Hậu vệ (9): Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo), Sho Sasaki (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), Taniguchi Shogo (Kawasaki Frontale), Naomichi Ueda (Nimes), Yuta Nakayama (Zwolle), Maya Yoshida (Sampdoria), Hiroki Sakai (Urawa Reds), Miki Yamane (Kawasaki Frontale), Ko Itakura (Schalke 04).

- Tiền vệ/tiền đạo (14): Yuya Osako (Vissel Kobe), Wataru Endo (VFL Stuttgart), Takumi Minamino (Liverpool), Daizen Maeda (Celtic), Ao Tanaka (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Genki Haraguchi (Union Berlin), Junya Ito (Genk), Hidemasa Morita (Santa Clara), Reo Hatate (Celtic), Takefusa Kubo (Mallorca), Gaku Shibasaki (Leganes), Takuma Asano (VFL Bochum), Kaoru Mitoma (Union Saint-Gilloise), Ueda Ayase (Kashima Antlers).

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日本代表メンバー発表、Jリーグ組のみでウズベキスタン戦(2021/12/7)

日本サッカー協会は7日、来年1月21日に行われるキリンチャレンジカップ2022のウズベキスタン戦に向けたメンバーを発表した。 その招集リストは以下の通りとなった。初招集は瀬古歩夢、西尾隆矢、小柏剛、そして荒木遼太郎の4名。 GK: 権田修一 / Shūichi Gonda（清水エスパルス） 谷晃生 / Kosei Tani（湘南ベルマーレ） DF: 長友佑都 / Yutto Nagatomo（FC東京） 酒井宏樹 / Hiroki Sakai（浦和レッズ） 山根視来 / Miki Yamane（川崎フロンターレ） 瀬古歩夢 / Ayumu Seko（セレッソ大阪） 佐々木翔 / Sho Sasaki（サンフレッチェ広島） 谷口彰悟 / Shogo Taniguchi（川崎フロンターレ） 中谷進之介 / Shinnosuke Nakatani（名古屋グランパス） 西尾隆矢 / Ryuya…

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Star Navigation 2023 Episode 4 and Best of the Super Junior Night Three Predictions

We're going to be in for quite the ride on Sunday May 14th. The reason...Korakuen Hall...AXIZ reunites while over in Nagoya...a rematch that took place at the finals of the 2023 New Japan Cup will be seen.

AXIZ reunites this Sunday in Korakuen Hall as part of the "Star Navigation 2023" series starting at 5:00 AM Eastern on ABEMA in Japanese and Wrestle Universe in English.

Meanwhile, it'll be night three of the "Best of Super Junior 30" coming from Nagoya with the event starting at 4:00 AM Eastern on NJPW World in both English and Japanese.

Eight Matches will be contested (2 of them singles) in Korakuen Hall for "Star Navigation" while 10 Block matches will be contested in Nagoya for "Best of the Super Junior 30".

Now..who will win each match that is presented. Well, the interesting thing is that predictions will be in a interesting type of format. Since "Best of Super Junior 30" is on before "Star Navigation" we'll start off by predicting their first three matches.

"Best of the Super Junior 30" Opening Match: Kevin Knight vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru: Considering how Kevin's BOSJ has started, one will have to think he'll need something to win if he's not victorious over Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Be interesting to see this one but I see Kevin going scoreless here.

"Best of the Super Junior 30" Match #2: Ryusuke Taguchi vs. SHO: Many will already know who'll win this match and it's a sad fact. On the plus side, at least SHO's match is so early we can all skip it.

"Best of the Super Junior 30" Match #3: BUSHI vs. Clark Connors: Now...I predicted that Clark was going to fall to Robbie Eagles while I predicted BUSHI to win over Desperado. Should those predictions come true, I expect Clark to bounce back and win this won. If these predictions are wrong, I expect Clark to win. I'm just hoping he doesn't do any of the post-match stuff he did to Kevin Knight. We don't need it in this tournament.

Now...let's predict the first three matches from "Star Navigation 2023" in which these matches may be easy for me to predict. Then again...maybe not. Anyway, here we go with the first three match predictions for "Start Navigation 2023"

"Star Navigation 2023" Opening Match: Lancelot, Alejandro, Junta Miyawaki, and AMAKUSA vs. Xtreme Tiger, Super Crazy, Dragon Bane, and Alpha Wolf - I expect insanity in this opening bout with the Lucadors from Mexico emerging victorious.

"Star Navigation 2023" Match #2: Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Stallion Rogers - I do my best to like Shuhei Taniguchi but I feel like unless he becomes a true character, he won't pass himself as a wrestler. Meanwhile, Stallion Rogers is one wrestler to look out for. My predicted winner here will be Shuhei Taniguchi but I really need something more from him.

"Star Navigation Navigation 2023" Match #3: Chris Ridgeway and Daga vs. Hajime Ohara and Hi69 - Considering the state that both Stinger and KONGOH are in now, both will need a huge win in Korakuen Hall. I expect Stinger to emerge victorious in what I think will be a horrible night for KONGOH.

Now...let's head back to "Best of Super Junior 30" and predict the winners for matches 4 and 5.

"Best of Super Junior 30" Match #4: DOUKI vs. Taiji Ishimori - Crazy that Ishimori will go early on night one, late on night two, and early on night three. Is this because he wants to watch the AXIZ reunion? Interesting fact, some of Ishimori's entrance attire in the last 2 years resembled that of AXIZ in some way. Whatever the reason is here, I expect Ishimori to pull a fast one over DOUKI.

"Best of Super Junior 30" Match #5: Robbie Eagles vs. Francesco Akira - My prediction on this match is Robbie will remain perfect for at least one more match. He goes over Francesco Akira.

Now...let's get back to "Star Navigation 2023" with the prediction to their fourth match.

"Star Navigation 2023" Match #4: Hideaki Suzuki, Timothy Thatcher, and Saxon Huxley vs. Daiki Inaba, Yoshiki Inamura, and Masa Kitamiya - Considering that the new GHC Tag Champions will be looking for their first challengers, I don't expect it to come from this match. I expect domination from REAL with them most likely pinning Daiki Inaba.

We are now at the halfway mark for both events where it's time to predict the winners for Matches 6-8 from "Best of the Super Junior 30" and Matches 5-6 from "Star Navigation 2023"

"Best of the Super Junior 30" Match #6: KUSHIDA vs. Titan - Here I have Titan coming in undefeated against KUSHIDA where I have him winning over TJP. As for who I got winning here, going with an upset special. Titan starts his "Best of Super Junior 30" campaign 3-0.

"Star Navigation 2023" Match #5: Dante Leon and Sean Legacy vs. Naomichi Marufuji and HAYATA - First time we'll be seeing Dante Leon in a long time. For HAYATA, one thing to call out Ninja Mack but to call out Dante Leon...totally different story. Would be very careful if I'm HAYATA. I expect Dante to pin HAYATA here with the GHC Junior Champion thinking how to beat someone that'll do whatever it takes to win a title match. We all saw what Dante did to Ninja Mack back in November 2022. Fear deja vu could rear its ugly head.

"Best of the Super Junior 30" Match #7: YOH vs. Dan Moloney - Based on how I have these 2 predicted going into this match, I expect YOH to finally kick it into high gear. If YOH doesn't beat Master Wato, I expect this match here where YOH gets on the board.

"Star Navigation 2023" Match #6: Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Eita - Oh Boy! A non-block Junior match between two bitter rivals. Honestly can't predict a winner here but if I was able to, I see Eita winning but like Clark Connors, I expect Yoshinari Ogawa to have the final word.

"Best of the Super Junior 30" Match #8: TJP vs. Mike Bailey - Should my predictions prove to be right here, this match here is where I expect TJP to get on the board. The momentum of that win over the IWGP Junior Champion and 4-time BOSJ winner could overwhelm Mike Bailey. Expect TJP to get on the board.

Now...we are now at the semi-main event matches for both shows. Here we go with the predictions for these two.

"Star Navigation 2023" Semi-Main Event Match: Jake Lee, Anthony Green, Tadasuke, and YO-HEY vs. Takashi Sugiura, Kaito Kiyomiya, Atsushi Kotoge, and Seiki Yoshioka - Intriguing match here considering no one came out to challenge Jake Lee for the GHC Heavyweight Championship. I expect the challenger to come from this match here and I expect that challenger to be Takashi Sugiura. Expect Sugiura with the win by pinning Jake Lee, something no one has yet to accomplish during his Pro Wrestling NOAH stint.

"Best of the Super Junior 30" Semi-Main Event Match: El Desperado vs. Master Wato - My prediction on this is that El Desperado will walk into this match winless while Master Wato will have a 2-0 edge. Something tells me El Desperado will go 0-3 here and will win his last 6 matches of the tournament. Master Wato stays undefeated.

Now...time to predict the Main Event matches for "Best of the Super Junior 30" Night 3 from Nagoya and "Star Navigation 2023" from Korakuen Hall.

"Best of the Super Junior" Main Event Match: Lio Rush vs. Hiromu Takahashi - a rematch from the finals of the 2023 New Japan Cup where back then it was the semi-main. In Nagoya, it's the main event. Title's not on the line yet 2 points are. Many back in March expected Lio Rush to emerge victorious. Sadly, he was unable to. Here...well, this is harder to predict than the "Star Navigation 2023" main event. Believe it or not, this rematch is going to go the full 30-minutes. I'm expecting a time-limit draw here.

"Star Navigation 2023" Main Event Match: Katsuhiko Nakajima and Go Shiozaki vs. Kenoh and Manabu Soya - one of the most anticipated reunions has finally arrived. The last reunion I watched live from Korakuen Hall took place back in February 2018 when the Golden Lovers reunite as part of a 2-night collaboration event between NJPW and ROH. This reunion of AXIZ is taking place here only once this month with two more matches coming in Kobe and Niigata. This will be our only chance to see them LIVE this month. Their opponents is an interesting one because as of right now, Kenoh and Manabu Soya are the reigning AJPW World Tag Team Champions with a defense coming up in Kobe. Considering that this is the only buildup match for Nakajima/Kenoh coming up on May 31st and the fact that Nakajima reunited with AXIZ because he felt Kenoh didn't need him anymore, I'm expecting him to prove that here. AXIZ will emerge victorious with Kenoh getting pinned. However, should Kenoh and Manabu Soya emerge victorious, I expect the same thing that happened to Kenoh on April 29th to happen here again. Still...going with AXIZ for the win in their first match since August 30, 2020.

And...finally we are done with these predictions for these two events. Thanks to all for reading this long list of predictions. Enjoy "Star Navigation 2023" on ABEMA and Wrestle Universe tomorrow. Same thing for night 3 of "Best of the Super Junior 30" on NJPW World.

[dailytodorokiraichi]

I made another meme. Listen Sanada could be any of these at any given moment ok. As we agreed on Discord it really depends on who he's talking to

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spring anime 2017 part 3: comfy and easy to wear

So this is where all the shorts went. Guess I finally get to use that headline pun.

See also:

• spring anime 2017 part 1: woke up late

• spring anime 2017 part 2: girlfriendship is magic

• spring anime 2017 bonus round: things you already knew were good

100% Pascal-sensei

This is a half-length show about some kids whose teacher has been replaced with Persona 4′s Teddy. It’s funny because the penguin piloting a bear-robot-thing is not acting like a teacher at all, quite to the contrary in fact! To be honest, for a mascot comedy for preteen audiences it doesn’t seem too bad, but ���I can’t believe this outrageous thing actually took place” is still not my kind of punchline. Only Nichijou can get away with that and this is no Nichijou.

Fukumenkei Noise

There’s a girl who can only express herself through PUNC RAWK singing and whose affection wavers between a hunky PUNC RAWK singer and the tiny guitarist from another PUNC RAWK band, who are both her childhood friends. It’s a shoujo as fuck romance with no particularly distinguishing features and the upcoming drama seems very predictable. Apparently it’s based on a bad manga but fans of said manga are also calling this adaptation bad, so I don’t know what to believe. It looks pretty janky on top of everything so I don’t think this is for me. The only thing it has going for it is that the girl actually does a pretty decent angry PUNC RAWK singing performance (I think?), but even if that was my jam I’d rather get the OST instead.

ID-0

I’ve been looking forward to ID-0 somewhat, since I quite liked Sanzigen’s last CG robot show BBK/BRNK. However, the first thing you notice is that ID-0 looks very different, and not in a good way – there’s a lot more robots in this, which means that all the animation effort went to them and the humans actually look significantly worse than average for a CG show. The second thing you notice is that this is a Goro Taniguchi joint, because it’s distinctly reminiscent of Active Raid. Instead of Kamen Rider Police, it’s Real Robot Sentai in Space, but the tone’s the same and so is the (lack of) coherency: A small girl researcher in the space future of space falls in with some hammy color-coded rogues in mechas that go around stealing deposits of the magic plot particle. The gimmick here seems to be that the mechas aren’t really piloted as such, but the pilot transfers their consciousness over to the machine for the duration of the mission, and in the first episode this already opens so many plotholes that it’s hard to even start picking them apart. So it’s real robots that don’t make much sense combined with only moderately engaging character comedy (which I assume will not ever pay off because the same thing happened in Active Raid) combined with subpar looks for everything that isn’t action, and the action itself isn’t glorious either - it’s just garish and hard to follow. The mecha designs are pretty good, which will undoubtedly make the /m/ faction happy, but I look for additional qualities so I think I’ll stay away.

Kenka Banchou Otome - Girl Beats Boys

In concept, Kenka Banchou Otome seems like it has potential: A girl enters (under obvious false premises) a school full of ridiculous delinquent thugs that only want to fight all day. This would have potential for a pretty cool comedy, but KBO is based on one of them PSP PS Vita otome dating sims, and it totally plays out like one too. Obviously I prefer it if something absurd like this is played straight instead for laffos 100% of the time, but this is played straight to a degree where it just isn’t much different from all the other otome dating sim adaptations any more, and that makes the premise fade into the background and the whole show not very compelling. It’s 1/3-length too, which seems to not leave much room to develop it legitimately. Oh well.

Makeruna!! Aku no Gundan!

In even shorter short news, this is 5 minutes of an ogre alien buying a franchise to conquer earth for business purposes. This is about as funny as it sounds (for those paying attention, this means “more funny than not at all” for me, which is more than I expect), and it looks pretty alright too. So yeah, I kinda like this. Problem is just that these shorts have to be outstandingly good for me to bother, and Aku no Gundan is still just decent overall. People who habitually watch comedy shorts may want to check it out, the rest of us will just laugh at the mad dyslexic Gundam fans who watch it on accident.

PriPri Chii-chan!!

Since this comes out on the same day, is also half-length, is by the same studio and for the same age bracket as Pascal-sensei, I’ll just assume the two make up a programming block. My impression of it is roughly the same as well. PriPri seems more girly, since it’s about a girl who finds a cutesy offbrand Kirby creature with a terrible speech quirk that likes human food, but apart from that it’s also a mascot comedy that’s decidedly Not For Me. One thing that’s notable is that it’s noticeably well animated for a thing like this, but I’m just adding that because there’s not much else to say.

Room Mate

Room Mate is technically a sequel to last season’s (involuntary) comedy short One Room, only instead of cute girl neighbours talking at a dork, it’s a cute boy harem talking at a dorkette. This iteration of it doesn’t stick to the first-person POV nearly as strictly as the original and seems generally more formulaic, but since the audiences kinda don’t overlap by definition I doubt anyone will notice (note: please don’t get mad at me if you’re a bisexual with a fetish for bad anime shorts, your existence is hereby acknowledged). For the connoisseur of weirdness I’d recommend One Room over this, since Room Mate is significantly watered down in the presentation department. And nobody else should watch either of them.

Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka Isogashii Desuka Sukutte Moratte Ii Desuka

Yay, finally some light novel ass light novel titles. Apparently people call this SukaSuka but since I’m a dick I’ll call it DesuDesu instead. So, DesuDesu is about a fairly nondescript guy in a fantasy universe that runs on racism who gets roped into taking care of a gaggle of cute fantasy children, an ogre maid and some other cute girl. Said fantasy children are also superweapons... somehow. So this may be the most contemporary anime concept of the season, since it is a harem and is full of dadfeels. Apart from being some hot tropes of the day jammed together, it’s pretty okay though - it thankfully doesn’t have isekai or RPG stat bullshit, the cute children are actually cute, and it looks alright (especially on the design side). It might be worth keeping an eye on DesuDesu if it keeps delivering on its strengths.

Sin - Nanatsu no Taizai

For those disappointed in Tsugumomo not living up to its manga’s reputations, here’s some real softcore porn. The story seems kind of incidental to the nipples but here it is anyway: Hot chick angel Lucifer somehow screws up in heaven and is cast into hell for it, where she meets the equally hot chick rulers of the place (the seven mortal sins) who specialize in being evil and not wearing much clothes. Some fighting ensues and results in clothing damage, then Lucifer takes off towards the mortal plane to erotically bother some schoolgirls. It’s basically a Christian-themed Valkyrie Drive, i.e. lesbian porn for dudes with some fights tacked on. The Crunchyroll version is predictably censored to hell and back (pun intended), but this is an AT-X show so the uncensored version is readily available for people immoral enough to watch and pirate it. Personally, I think I learned my lesson with Valkyrie Drive.

Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho

So after DesuDesu was just a straight up fantasy LN without any of the standard bullshit concepts, Zero does the same thing. You have to put up with it starring someone’s fursona instead of a reincarnated otaku douchebag, but I’d take that deal. Zero is even more unusual in that it even seems to be neither a harem nor otaku midlife crisis compensation, at least for now: It’s just about a burly cat dude teaming up with a snarky loli witch and them going on adventures. So it’s reminiscent of a genderswapped Spice&Wolf, only about fantasy racism instead of economics. Like DesuDesu, it’s pretty decent but I don’t know if it not being shit is enough of a selling point for me; On its own merits it seems to mainly be a competent but somewhat bland fantasy story. I might give it a try but I don’t expect much.

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Tercer vídeo promocional del Anime Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho.

El Anime se estrenará el 10 de abril.

La web oficial el próximo Anime para televisión adaptación de la serie de novelas ligeras de Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho por Shizuma Yoshinori y Kobashiri Kakeru, comenzó la transmisión de su tercer vídeo promcional. El Anime se estrenará el 10 de abril del 2017 en Japón y contará con doce episodios.

Tapimiru pondrá la canción opening del Anime, mientras que Chima se encargará de interpretar su tema musical de ending.

CAST

Yumiri Hanamori como Zero

Tsuyoshi Koyama como Mercenary

You Taichi como Albus

Masayuki Katou como Holdem

Takehito Koyasu como Thirteen

STAFF

Tetsuo Hirakawa esta dirigiendo el Anime en el estudio de animación WHITE FOX. Ryosuke Kimiya y Daisuke Mataga están adaptando los diseños de personajes originales de Yoshinori Shizuma para la animación, y también están sirviendo como directores en jefe de animación. Infinite está produciendo la serie. Otros miembros del equipo de producción incluyen:

Tableros de imágenes: Hiroki Shinagawa

Diseño de accesorios: Goichi Iwahata, Noritaka Suzuki

Director de arte: Yoshito Takamine (Bihou)

Arte escenarios: Kaoru Aoki (Bihou)

Diseño de color: Miyuki Sato (Wish)

Supervisor de efectos especiales: Kumiko Taniguchi (Team Taniguchi)

Director de 3D: Koutarou Shishido (IKIF+)

Director de fotografía: Nozomi Shitara (T2 Studio)

Edición: Hitomi Sudou (REAL-T)

Director de sonido: Noboru Haraguchi

Estudio de sonido: HALF HP STUDIO

Música: Akito Matsuda

Producción musical: Lantis

Es el año 526. El mundo sabía que existen las brujas, y que ellas practican el notorio arte de la brujería. Sin embargo, el mundo no sabía nada sobre el estudio de la magia. Nuestra historia sigue a un mercenario mitad hombre, mitad bestia; y como los seres humanos se refieren burlonamente a los de su especie como "bestias caídas". Él siempre soñó con convertirse en un ser humano, pero un día, conoció a una bruja que cambiaría su vida para siempre.

"¿Deseas tener una forma humana? ¡Entonces conviértete en mi escolta, mercenario!"

La bruja se presentó ante el como "Zero", y le explicó que ella estaba buscando un grimorio que unos bandidos habían robado de su guarida. Conocido como "El Libro de Zero", el grimorio contiene supuestamente un valioso conocimiento mágico que podría ser utilizado para llevar al mundo de rodillas sin esfuerzo. Por lo tanto, con el fin de hacer realidad su sueño de convertirse en un ser humano, el mercenario debe acompañar a Zero en su viaje, pese a ser una de esas brujas que tanto detesta. Esta es la historia de una bruja altiva y una bestia de buen corazón.

La serie original de novelas ligeras fue lanzada en febrero del 2014. Kadokawa puso a la venta el noveno de la novela el pasado 10 de agosto.

Takeshi Iwasaki lanzó una adaptación a Manga de la serie de novelas en la revista Dengeki Maoh en 2014, y Kadokawa puso a la venta su cuarto tomo recopilatorio el pasado 9 de agosto. Yasutake lanzó el Manga spinoff Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho nano! en la revista Dengeki Maoh en octubre del año pasado, y su primer tomo se pondrá a la venta el 8 de octubre. 

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Semblanzas: Kazuo Umezu

Un país que quería postular a su dibujante de cómics más prominente al premio Nobel, es un lugar en el que estos artistas definitivamente ocupan un puesto importante dentro de la sociedad. Algunos dibujantes japoneses rehuyen el status de celebridades, otros lo asumen de forma discreta o indiscreta, y Kazuo Umezu, pues nada, él es de los indiscretos. 

Umezu no es un maestro de la figura humana y la perspectiva, como Takumi Nagayasu o Jiro Taniguchi, no tiene la agilidad y elegancia gráficas de Urasawa, y asimismo carece de la soltura de los aclamados Akira Toriyama o Rumiko Takahashi, lo que hace especial a Umezu, amén de sus excentricidades, su sueter y su casa a rayas, o sus incursiones en la música pop, es la expresividad de sus personajes, y su capacidad para fusionar, de manera limpia y precisa, las historias terroríficas con el melodrama folletinesco y la comedia. En su obra maestra, Drifting Classroom (Aulas a la deriva) lo interesante no es que una escuela de primaria viaje al futuro (el edificio completo, con todos los niños y sus maestros), a una época en que la humanidad ya no existe e incluso la morfología del planeta ha cambiado, tampoco resulta tan absurdo que en esta situación los profesores enloquezcan y sean los niños los que conserven la razón, aunque finalmente protagonicen una cruenta guerra digna de El señor de las moscas,  lo realmente increíble es que el protagonista, Sho, que carga un sentimiento de culpa desolador ya que lo ultimo que hizo con su madre antes de viajar en el tiempo fue tener una grotesca pelea doméstica, pueda comunicarse con ésta a través de una inverosímil, pero inmensa, barrera del tiempo. Nacido en 1936, Umezu crecería escuchando antiguas leyendas de fantasmas y sucubos de toda especie, surgidas de la mitología popular y narradas por su padre, desde los 19 años el joven Kazuo iría plasmando estas fantasías en sus cómics, empezando por una versión bizarra y jocosa de Hansel y Gretel, The Sibling in the Forest (Mori no Kyodai), a la que seguirían incursiones en el underground de la época (el Gekiga) y más adelante los relatos de terror que lo harían famoso: Kuchi ga Mimi made Sake-ru Toki (cuando la boca llora hasta las orejas) y Hebi Shoujo (La chica serpiente).

Pero su obra más exitosa es la mencionada Drifting Classrooms, publicada entre 1972 y1976 en la Shonen Magazine. Esta extensa epopeya infantil que mezcla terror, melodrama y ciencia ficción, es comparable a la serie de TV LOST. El dibujo de Umezu es descomplicado en extremo, el acabado es ágil (y no precisamente preciosista) y los personajes están dibujados al estilo del Dick Tracy de Chester Gould o el Taxista de Marti, enfatizando en las expresiones, abusando de las líneas cinéticas y tomándose todas las licencias posibles con el dibujo del cuerpo humano. Pero todo esto no afecta la calidad del producto, Umezu solo quiere contar su historia de una manera eficaz, y vaya que lo consigue. La historia es políticamente incorrecta hasta el extremo, sumidos en la crisis y perseguidos por los profesores adultos que han enloquecido, los niños llegan a extremos de fanatismo absurdos, intentando crucificar a los que creen culpables del extraño fenómeno en el que están envueltos. Buscando evitar el caos deciden crear un gobierno, uno de ellos, el más inteligente, recomienda no incluir en el improvisado gabinete de ministros a ninguna niña, dado que “las mujeres no son capaces de pensar en gran escala, si no solo se preocupan por lo inmediato” (sic). Hay evidentemente, en el ambiente apocalíptico de Drifting Classroom,  en la desoladora imagen del lugar donde estaba la escuela y ahora solo hay un muladar sin forma, una alegoría a las ciudades destruidas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki (idea que se desarrolla menos poética y más literalmente en Gen el descalzo), hay además momentos de ternura confrontados con una triste realidad: en un mundo donde no quedan seres vivos, el único enemigo real del hombre es el hombre mismo. Ya en 1982 Umezu se aventura en Watashi wa Shingo (yo soy Shingo), una obra que no es tan famosa como Drifting Classroom, pero que, a juicio del crítico Tomofusa Kure, " no es que esta obra sea una de las mejores de Kazuo Umezu, ni siquiera una de las mejores obras de terror-suspense del manga, sino que merece ser considerada una de las mejores obras del manga en general" . Y es que   Watashi wa Shingo no es una obra común, es un manga extenso de más de 2000 páginas en los que se entremezclan el costumbrismo y la ciencia ficción, la historia de un niño conociendo el amor, la tecnología y la tragedia, y tal vez el juicio de Kure, quien es tal vez el estudioso más importante que tiene el manga en Japón, no es desacertado. Pero Umezu tiene otras muchas  historias en las cuales destacan, Baptism, el relato de una actriz que busca prolongar su juventud perdida transplantando su cerebro al de su hija, y Oroshi, la historia de dos hermanas encerradas en una inmensa mansión donde son acosadas por el niño que da título a la historia.

Tristemente, la última obra de Kazuo Umezu no es de sus mejores, Fourteen, un relato de ciencia ficción que podría entenderse como una precuela del universo devastado de Drifting Classroom, pero la historia peca de descabellada y el dibujo decae notablemente con relación a las obras anteriores del autor. Umezu abandonaría los cómics en 1995 aquejado de una fuerte tendinitis, y se convertiría en una celebridad televisiva participando en diversos programas de variedades, sus historias han sido adaptadas al anime y a series de TV y películas de imagen real. Su excéntrica figura lo ha ayudado a seguir apareciendo constantemente en los medios desde entonces y se le considera un orgullo nacional en su natal Japón, la lectura de sus atípicos cómics es recomendada a todos los que ansíen leer un manga realmente original.