A bonus post/translation!
Firstly, my TJPW translation account’s first debut anniversary was on August 2, so I wrote a sappy thread about that, and started a fundraiser for the Marsha P. Johnson Institute if people want to show their thanks for my labor. I found out through my blog’s stats that it has apparently had 2,315 unique visitors since I started it, so I set $2315 as the fundraiser goal with the expectation of basically never making it, haha, though we’re off to a decent start!
Secondly, the 666 show was a lot of fun, the Ram/Raku match especially! I saw that there were post-match comments, but the video isn’t available anywhere. I asked Mr. Haku about it, and he said if the video does go up, it’ll probably be on his youtube channel.
But I really wanted to make sure that they got translated, so I ended up just going for it. I used the Battle News recap instead of shupro’s for the transcript source because Mr. Haku confirmed that it was more complete/accurate (another friend of mine had warned me that Battle News had a tendency to embellish in some cases, so I was a bit apprehensive, but it seems like here at least, they did alright).
I let this show jump ahead in the translation queue because I thought it would be nice to try to finish it while there was still time for people to purchase the PPV.
Since it’s so recent, though, I’ll put this translation under a cut in case people don’t want to have the match spoiled. I’ll just go ahead and include the full Japanese transcript, since this one’s available for free, and there’s no video anyway. I had some issues trying to pin down Ram’s tone, since I’m not super used to translating for her, haha.
らくラム結婚の試合…？
ラム会長「らくちゃん今日はね、参戦してくれてありがとう。いやーめちゃくちゃ嬉しいよね、なんか。てかもうお客さんもすごくて感無量になっちゃったし、私のマイワイフ、らく選手とこうやってね、晴れ舞台に立てて、ちょっと曲もね、結婚式チックだったよね」
Ram Kaichow: “Raku-chan, thank you for joining us today. I’m like super happy. The audience was amazing, and I’m full of emotion. Getting to stand on such a big stage with my wife, with Raku like this, the music was also, it was wedding-ish, wasn’t it?”
らく「うん」
Raku: “Yes.”
ラム会長「今日のデートはね、絶景見たね」
Ram Kaichow: “Yes, we saw some beautiful scenery on our date today, huh?”
らく「うん、絶景見ましたね、今日のデートは。ちょっとドキドキしちゃいました」
Raku: “Yes, we did. My heart was pounding a bit.”
ラム会長「見てほしいんですよ。キスマーク」
Ram Kaichow: “I want people to see it. The kiss mark.”
らく「はじめての・・・」
Raku: “It’s my first…”
ラム会長「はじめての？初めてのチュウ？」
Ram Kaichow: “Your first what? Your first kiss?”
らく「ひゃあっ」
Raku: “Eep.”
(Here’s the キスマーク)
I wasn’t sure how exactly to translate Raku’s response there. Really wish we had the video 
…
For this next part, I had to look up “ごっちゃんです”, and it seems to be a sumo thing? From what I can tell, she’s sort of saying “thank you” three different ways? I wasn’t entirely sure, though. And of course, that’s a bit hard to translate into English… I also had to look up “おにゃにゃのこ”, though it seems to just be a slangy way to say “girl”? I wasn’t sure if there was a better way to translate it to capture the nuance.
ラム会長「いただきました。ごっちゃんです。ありがとうございます。ていうことで、こんなヘンテコな、アンダーグラウンドな団体ですけど、こうやって快くね、かわいいおにゃにゃのこを出してくれた甲田代表、ありがとうございます！今後とも長い付き合い、よろしくお願いします」
Ram Kaichow: “Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. We’re such a strange underground organization, so I would like to thank representative Koda for cheerfully sending over such a cute girl! We’re going to have a long relationship from now on, so I look forward to working with you!”
――ホームでこのメンバーで後楽園での試合、感想は
――How was it having a match in Korakuen at your home promotion with this lineup?
ラム会長「なんかそれこそ全員試合で東京女子さんで当たったことあるというか、一緒に同じ試合あったんですけどやっぱり全然違うし、なんかすごい大きなお世話かもしれないけど東京女子のお客さんもこういう独特な客層の前でするのはじめてだったから、いい宣伝になったんじゃないかなと。そしたら嬉しい。お互いWin-Winですね」
Ram Kaichow: “We’ve all faced each other in matches at TJPW before, or I should say that we’ve done the same match before, but it was totally different. I thought maybe it’d be like ‘stay out of our business,’ but it was their first time wrestling for the TJPW audience as well as our peculiar clientele, so it’s good publicity and all that. I’m happy. It’s a win-win for us both.”
Lots I wasn’t sure about in that last paragraph, haha. Also, Ram has faced all of them in TJPW before, but hasn’t done that specific match configuration in TJPW, so I wasn’t confident I was translating that part correctly…
Here’s Pom and Hikari:
乃蒼「いやーちょっとね、いや、初めての他団体に参戦で、もう勝って、引っ張りだこになっちゃおうと思ったのに、やっぱり強かったですね。愛の絆を感じた」
Noa: “Ugh, it’s a bit, well, it was my first time wrestling at another promotion, and I thought I had this one in the bag already, and I was going to get the win and then get popular, but in the end, they were strong. I felt their bond of love.”
原宿「契りの強さ」
Harajuku: “The strength of their vow.”
乃蒼「契りの強さぁ？」
Noa: “The strength of their vow, huh?”
原宿「どうですか」
Harajuku: “How was it?”
乃蒼「私もずっと666が好きで、プロレスを見てきて、まさか自分が666に上がれるなんて想像してなかったので。デビューした頃の自分に、『ラム会長さんとラム会長さんのリングで戦えてるよ』って教えてあげたい。でも東京女子は広められたんじゃないですかね？」
Noa: “I’ve always liked 666. I’ve been watching them, and I never imagined that I’d be able to step into the 666 ring. I want to tell my old self back when I was making my debut that ‘you’re going to be fighting Ram Kaichow in Ram Kaichow’s ring’. I think we’ve spread the word of TJPW, don’t you think?”
The tricky thing in this next chunk was “リア充爆発させる”, which I had to look up. I’m still not confident I totally understand it? From what I read, it seems to be a reaction out of jealousy of someone else’s happiness/fulfillment, like, “I’m going to make this perfectly satisfied person blow up”. It’s a bit of a pain to translate, haha .
原宿「ですかね？ぽむはでもラム会長とプロレスを始める前から知ってて、知り合いで。まさかこうやってリングの上で再会すると思わなかったので超嬉しいし、次もまた、戦いたいです。今度は絶対にリア充爆発させる！」
Harajuku: “Have we? Well, I’ve known Ram Kaichow since before I started wrestling. We’re acquaintances. I never thought we’d meet again in the ring like this, so I’m mega happy, and I want to fight again another time. Next time I’m definitely going to ruin their happiness!”
乃蒼「リア充好きじゃないんで（笑）」
Noa: “She doesn’t like people who’ve found fulfillment in life.” (laughs)
原宿「リア充爆発させるので」
Harajuku: “So I’m going to blow it up.”
乃蒼「待ってろください」
Noa: “Wait, please!”
――後楽園で戦うラム会長の印象は
――What is your impression of Ram Kaichow fighting in Korakuen?
乃蒼「私は東京女子のリングで戦ったことはあるんですけど、やっぱりホームの力はすごいなって思いました」
Noa: “I’ve fought her in the TJPW ring before, but I thought the power of her home company was pretty amazing in the end.”
原宿「思った！」
Harajuku: “I reckon it was!”
乃蒼「東京女子で戦うのも楽しいけど、なんかこの自分がアウェーの場所で戦うのもすごい自分的にはスリルがあって楽しいなって。結構小柄だけどパワーがやっぱラム会長爆発的にあるので、やばい、やばい負けられない、負けられない！ってなった。そう。」
Noa: “It’s fun to fight in TJPW, but it’s also like incredibly thrilling and fun to fight somewhere away from home, too. She’s pretty small, but Ram Kaichow’s power is explosive, so I was like, ‘oh no, oh no, I can’t lose, I can’t lose!’”
I’m honestly considering writing an essay for my blog about the whole Ram/Raku storyline, because it’s the kind of thing that I feel like should be documented somewhere… I certainly never expected all of this would lead to a full-blown lesbian marriage storyline in Japanese pro wrestling, of all places. And one that features an idol, too, haha!
But, well, I’m a bit behind on my study log, wrestling journal, and basically everything, so that’ll probably have to wait a bit .