Almost done with 2023! Still have a perfect score on the challenge, though I definitely listened to more Japanese some days compared to others…
For Spanish, I have two episodes left of Frontera Verde. I think the next time I attempt this challenge, I’m gonna stick with Bob Esponja, because as soon as I discovered it, I kept wanting to just watch that because it’s so much easier than shows for adults, haha.
For Japanese, I had another breakthrough in listening comprehension! In the December 15 show, only some of the post-match comments were transcribed on shupro, so I was on my own for the rest. I couldn’t get much out of a few of the videos, but I did manage to translate one of them in-full, using just my listening with a tiny bit of help from the twitter caption, which luckily transcribed the hardest line.
The comments were from Maki Itoh and Rhio, who is a British wrestler who does not speak Japanese. The two of them teamed together, and Itoh translated for Rhio afterward (Itoh started learning English in 2019, and she’s actually gotten pretty decent at it!). I had to watch to see if Itoh pulled a Kamiyu while translating…
I was really pleasantly surprised to find that I was able to catch all of Itoh’s translations! Granted, they were very straightforward, and I had the help of Rhio’s comments in English, first, but it still made me happy! That was the first time I’ve been able to translate anyone’s post-match comments in full without a transcript.
Here’s a photo from the show, which was Mizuki’s 10th debut anniversary, so they celebrated her with a “瑞希だらけのバトルロイヤル”, which was officially translated quite elegantly as… “Full of Mizuki Battle Royale” 
. It was a delayed entry battle royale where all of the wrestlers entered wearing old Mizuki gear (except for Miyu Yamashita, who was unable to fit into any of it, so she wore her own debut gear, which got her disqualified from the match) and had to prove that they were the best Mizuki.
In order, we have: Suzume, Miyu Yamashita, Hyper Misao, Miu Watanabe, and Yuki Aino. Their comments after this match had a lot of background noise interference and just general chaos and were utterly indecipherable to me, haha.
Today, I just finished translating the last TJPW show of the year, which was on December 24. Nothing in particular to report from this one, though here’s a photo:
Arisu Endo faced Pom Harajuku in a randomly drawn singles match with a 10 minute time limit, and Pom got a bit too much into the Christmas spirit… Can’t believe this was actually the second time that week that I watched a match where tinsel was used as a weapon. The other time was a no-disqualification match in America. Some wrestling things are just universal.
I’ll post an overall wrap-up post after the end of the month, probably! I’m also hoping to join everyone in the winter listen every day challenge, but it will probably be during the off month again !