I made a tweet promoting the translation account on twitter so that new fans who started watching on January 4 could hopefully find it, and it went a little too well, haha, and it’s up to almost 300 followers, which is a bit scary… 
. But, well, as long as I’m doing the translations, I want everyone who needs them to be able to find them, because I’d still be doing the exact same amount of work on them even if only two people were reading them haha.
In any case, I managed to finish the January 7 show! This was a much shorter one!
Yuki Aino and Raku faced Hikari and Itoh and managed to get a pretty big win!
After the match, Yuki and Raku… confused me right away, haha. Yuki said, “さすが,” and Raku said, “さすがじゃないけど、この間は一緒に闘えなかったし,” and I couldn’t really wrap my head around what Raku exactly meant by “さすがじゃないけど”. The negatives still often give me trouble 
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Aino: “We won! Thank you. Just as expected.”
Raku: “It’s not what was expected, but we weren’t able to fight together the other day. I thought maybe I’d like to bring the belts back to Okayama with you, but I didn’t get my wish. For now, I thought maybe we could win today and Yuki-san would be able to go to Okayama with high spirits. I’m so glad we won together!”
Aino: “What a sweet girl, thinking about her partner like this! The tag tournament is about to start, huh?”
Raku: “So let’s keep our momentum.”
Aino: “Our first opponents are Reiwa AA Cannon, whom we were supposed to fight earlier. I think a favorable wind was blowing for us there. We were given one more chance to face them… Oh, I’m hungry.”
Then Raku says, “聞こえなかったのに。鳴ったそうです.” I couldn’t exactly figure out what she was saying in the second sentence haha.
Raku: “I couldn’t hear it, but apparently it rumbled!” (smiles)
Aino: “Sorry! Well, so… I forgot what I was saying.”
Raku: “You were talking about a favorable wind.”
Aino: “Oh yeah! We’re going to win the first match like how we won this one, and we’re going to keep our momentum.”
Raku: “Winning the whole tournament…”
Aino: “Let’s do it!”
Both: “We’re gonna eat manju buns!”
Shoko and Misao faced Yuka and Mahiro and got themselves a win, too. Their comments were really funny haha, and they’re totally just winning me over more and more.
Misao: “We won! We fought within Kyoraku Kyomei the other day and both of us started off the year with a win, and today we won our first match as a tag team. That’s a very good omen, isn’t it? …What are you eating?”
Nakajima: “It was a gift.”
Misao: “That’s the one I prepared. You got the present I gave as revenge.”
Nakajima: “I won, so I told them to give me something in return, and I got this.”
Misao: “Is it good?”
Nakajima: “Delicious.”
Misao: “Well, that’s a good sign. Everything was happy today.”
Nakajima: (to the cameraperson) “Do you want to eat some of this? We can win the whole thing. Because this is delicious.”
Misao: “Everyone, please give us a New Year’s gift, too. It’s called ‘victory.’”
Nakajima: “Praise us when we win. And I’ll be waiting for that delicious dorayaki.”
Trish Adora teamed up with Heidi Howitzer and Max the Impaler against Rika, Miu, and Pom. The match did not go very well at all in the slightest for poor Pom, who ended up getting completely destroyed and then Max carried her out slung over their shoulders like a sack of potatoes…
(Honestly, I could probably get a Max the Impaler tag match on every TJPW show and never get bored of them haha.)
The winners’ comments were all in English!
Adora: “Today, the afropunk Trish Adora and the Wasteland War—”
Impaler: (growls)
Heidi: “Wee-oo-wee-oo, somebody call the cops, because we just committed a pomicide.” (laughs) (to Max) “Put the joshi down.”
Impaler: (growls)
Heidi: “We’re here to win, we’re not here to kidnap joshis!”
(She slaps Pom’s back and wakes her up, causing her to start struggling. Pom manages to free herself and flees. Max starts chasing after her.)
Heidi: “Hey!”
(How do you feel today?)
Heidi: “Oh, I feel great! Once again victorious, once again very good-looking, once again very strong.”
The main event was Suzume and Arisu vs Mizuki and Moka. Daisy Monkey managed to pull off a win together!
I think I got what they said on the mic:
Suzume: “We did it! Thank you so much for the Kobe show! I’m so happy that so many people came, and that I could meet everyone surrounded by so many cheers. Right?”
Endo: “Thanks to everyone’s support, I was able to do my very, very best. Thank you so much!”
Suzume: “So, after this, TJPW has a tag tournament about to start… We’re gonna be teaming up for it, so I think more and more, you aren’t going to be able to take your eyes off of us. We’ll come to Kobe again, so please keep supporting TJPW!”
They finished with, “Thank you very much for today!”
Backstage, Suzume and Arisu were very excited:
Both: “Yay!”
Suzume: “Thank you so much, Kobe! Yeah, I really have like 200% more courage when I’m with Arisu.”
Endo: “That’s my line!”
Suzume: “I challenged them with the strongest feelings. Mizuki won the rumble the other day, and last year, Moka pinned me even though she’s my junior, so I felt a lot of frustration. In that sense, they were the two opponents I personally had the most emotional investment in. So by getting the win with Arisu, I think we gained a lot of momentum heading into the tournament.”
Endo: “Yay! The tournament, is it soon?”
Suzume: “It’s soon! We’ll probably be starting on January 19 in Shinjuku.”
Endo: “I’ve never got a major win before. So I’ll get the victory here, and Daisy Monkey will win the whole thing!”
Suzume: “Let’s be strong!”
Endo: “OK! I’ll do my best!”
Suzume: “Please support us!”
Then they asked Suzume, “今日は凱旋の瑞希から主役を奪った形でもあるが,” and she answered, “そうですね。ランブルでもそうだし、今年は兎年だし、世間でも東京女子でも瑞希さんの兎が主役かなって思ってたんですけど、でいじーもんきーが暴れてやりました.” I struggled a bit with “ランブルでもそうだし.”
(Today, you stole the spotlight from Mizuki in her hometown)
“We did, huh? The rumble went how it did, and this is the year of the rabbit, so in the broader world as well as in TJPW, I thought the rabbit Mizuki would take center stage, but we went on a rampage and did it. We’re gonna make it Daisy Monkey’s year!”
Endo: “That’s good! Really good!”
I couldn’t quite figure out what they meant by this last part, haha:
鈴芽「作ろう？」
Suzume: “Shall we make it?”
遠藤「作る！」
Endo: “We’re making it!”
Mizuki and Moka’s comments were short and sweet:
Mizuki: “I teamed up with Moka-chan today, but I’m going to get stronger so that I can protect her better. I’m going to do my best so that you can rely on me as much as you need!”
Miyamoto: “I’ve already relied on you enough… Today was Mizuki’s triumphant return match, but she lost because of me, and I’m really disappointed. It made me want to get stronger.”
Mizuki: “But you are strong! It wasn’t a critical match, so I felt like I could leave it to Moka-chan. There’s a tournament coming up, so try your best to get your win back, ok? I’m going to try my best, too.”
And that’s it!
This is probably my favorite time of the year in TJPW’s tour cycle because I really love the tag tournament. They’re making me work hard this month, though, haha. I still have the other VOD show to translate, and then there are three more shows this month… But, well, at least my Japanese is a lot better than where it was last year .