Having one of those weeks where I’m just sort of behind on everything, but I watched the April 22 TJPW show when the VOD went up and just finished the translation! Looks like the comment transcriptions on the main site are maybe a permanent fixture?
The first match was the team of three Yukis vs Itoh & Hikari & Shino. Predictably, Itoh and Hikari sort of fell apart there at the end, which did their team no favors.
Shupro kept up their favorite bit when transcribing the comments for this team, and all of them are listed by first name alone (which of course does not hold up in English, haha). Interestingly, the DDT site didn’t. I guess it probably does autotranslate better that way, though I don’t know if that’s an actual concern for them, or if they’re just trying to stay consistent.
As always, I could not resist participating in the bit . Here’s the video for トリプルYUKI, and here’s what I had:
Yuki (Kamifuku): “Triple Yuki, victory!”
Yuki (Aino) & Yuki (Arai): “Yay!”
Yuki (Aino): “Haven’t we got a high win rate? Two matches, two wins.”
Yuki (Kamifuku): “I’m grateful to my parents, truly.”
Yuki (Aino): “Seriously, they’re the best.”
Yuki (Kamifuku): “The parents who gave me this name, seriously good vibes.”
Yuki (Arai): (laughs)
Yuki (Kamifuku): “Yukis, we did our best. Put your hands up!”
Yuki & Yuki & Yuki: “Yes!”
Yuki (Kamifuku): “Well, to the Yukis who worked so hard, here are some gummies.”
Yuki (Aino): “You gave me some the other day, too, didn’t you?”
Yuki (Arai): “Yay!”
Yuki (Aino): “Not only that, they’re Ninja Meshi, too. The best! You know what, they’re shaped like infinity. Like our Yuki strength is infinite.”
Yuki (Kamifuku): “Legit infinity. Well… that’s it.”
Here’s Itoh/Hikari/Shino’s comments:
Itoh: (to Shino, who doesn’t speak for a bit) “Say something. It’s your fault we lost.”
Shino: “I’m sorry…”
Itoh: “You piece of shit. You’re not sorry. Say something! …It’s not a laughing matter! Are you reflecting on what you did?”
Shino: “It was my fault…”
Itoh: “Then what are you going to do next time?”
Shino: “Next time, I want to beat the Yukis.”
Itoh: “How?”
Shino: “…With feelings.”
Itoh: “Say it properly!”
Shino: “I don’t want to lose with my feelings!”
Itoh: “OK!”
Hikari: “We’re breaking up!”
Itoh: “I’ll never do it again. We’ll never team up again.”
Hikari: (to Shino) “Go home.”
I had a moment where I wasn’t sure how hard to go with Itoh’s “ポンコツが”, but, well, figured she wouldn’t be opposed to my choice, haha. It was funny to me that Itoh blamed Shino so much for them losing when Itoh and Hikari certainly did not help their team…
Next, Rika and Miu faced Suzume and Arisu, which was a fun match that I totally kept forgetting was technically a preview match for the International title, haha. One day, Daisy Monkey will win…
In Rika and Miu’s comments, I think I understood Rika’s, uh, first few sentences:
Tatsumi: “I won! I won, but I wanted to get a direct win over Suzume, even though it’s just a preview match. To be honest, maybe that wasn’t good.”
These two were a little trickier: “まぁ次は本番、5・5おもいっきり可愛がれたらなって。もう一瞬の油断も隙も迷いも何もないので、余裕持って、でも油断せずいけるかなって思ってます”
“Well, the next one is the real deal, and I’m going to train with all my strength for May 5. There isn’t going to be a single moment of carelessness, no gap, hesitation, or anything else, so I think I have some leeway, but I can’t let my guard down.”
Miu: “Please be sure to defend the belt.”
Tatsumi: “Yes!”
Miu: “I’ll be rooting for you.”
Tatsumi: “Thank you. I’m counting on you, cheerleader. I’m going to do it!”
(Did you feel Suzume’s feelings?)
“That girl was really breaking a lot of rules, wasn’t she?”
Miu: (laughing)
Tatsumi: “Hey, the bad one, the bad bee came out, huh? I want to face her and do this fair and square.”
I also totally laughed along with Miu when Rika called out Suzume for breaking the rules, haha.
Suzume and Arisu’s comments caused me a bit more trouble. I think I got the first chunk:
Suzume: “I challenged Rika-san the other day. Today was a preview match, but it turned out to be a regular tag team match. I already knew what they were like, but Daydream was strong and dangerous as usual.”
This sentence was tricky: “でも私は未詩さんやリカさんより自分が強いとは思ってなかったし、それでも一瞬を勝ち取る自信があったから挑戦を決めて.”
“But even though I didn’t think I was stronger than Miu-san and Rika-san, I was confident that I’d win for an instant, so I secured the challenge. That confidence hasn’t changed.”
Arisu’s lines were tricky! “鈴芽さんが挑戦表明して、これは前哨戦だと思って私も気持ちをめちゃめちゃ出して。それでも負けちゃったのがめちゃめちゃ悔しくて。しかも、逆に助けられてばっかりなかんじだったから…悔しかったです”
Arisu: “Suzume-san challenged, so I considered this to be a preview match and really poured my feelings into it. Losing despite that makes me so disappointed. Not only that, but it felt like I’m the one who’s always being helped… It’s frustrating. Suzume-san’s momentum is incredible.”
And I wasn’t quite sure about Suzume’s last lines, either: “始めにちょっとすかされたりとかで、まだリカさんは私のことを全然見てないのかなっていうのを感じたので。どうにかこっちを見てほしいというか、振り向かそうみたいなところがありました.”
(We saw some moments that were a bit different than usual, such as when you choked the champion in retaliation)
Suzume: “Yes. At the start, I felt like Rika-san wasn’t paying attention to me at all. I wanted her to look at me somehow, or I guess I should say I wanted her to turn around and face me.”
The main event of this show was so wonderful. I’m gonna write up a bit about it in my wrestling journal, I think! It was Pom & Max challenging Yuka & Mizuki for the tag belts. I loved how we could see that Pom trusts Max more now, and despite Max weaponizing Pom repeatedly through the match, there was one moment where they let Pom use them as a weapon, too . It was just really good. I hope this tag team comes back, because I am so incredibly charmed by them.
Unfortunately for Pom, though, the victory was not to be… MagiRabbi’s superior tag team prowess ultimately won out in the end.
When Yuka got on the mic afterward, her first couple sentences were a bit tricky: “いや…マックスだけに気を取られてたけど原宿ぽむ、やるやんけアイツ。やっぱり自分の中でも変わろうとしてるからいっぱいいっぱいなところもあるけど、そうやって変わろうと思ってること自体がとても愛しいことなので.”
Sakazaki: “Well… I was just focusing on Max, but Pom Harajuku, that girl can really go! There are lots of things she’s trying to change within herself, but I love that she’s trying to change like that. That girl was really good. Still got a long way to go, though.”
Then she said to Mizuki, “これどした?” I think my question here is more a translation flavor question than anything, haha. I also wasn’t quite sure about Mizuki’s response: “なんかなってる?”
Mizuki: “How is it?”
Sakazaki: “It’s looks like a stylish tattoo.”
Mazuki: “Really? I wonder if it’s that. It’s like proof of being Max’s friend…”
Sakazaki: (immediately wiping it off) “I erased it.”
Mizuki: “Since we successfully defended today, I’m still double champ! That’s a surprise, huh? I never thought the day would come that I’d win the tag belts with Yuka-chi again.”
Sakazaki: “This makes the fourth time in total (it’s the third time for Mizuki).”
Mizuki: “Fourth time? Well, I’m very happy, and I still want to make TJPW’s tag team scene even more sparkling from here. So I’m really happy that I got to see Pom-chan’s serious expression today, and I’m going to try my best not to let her overtake me.”
I was following along with the transcript when watching, since this was a VOD, and Yuka immediately wiping off the mark on Mizuki’s face as soon as Mizuki suggested that it was proof of Max’s friendship killed me, haha.
Then Yuka said, “はい、縁もたけなわではございますが…ということで、いつもはハンバーグやけど.” The first part of this was a bit confusing .
Sakazaki: “Yes, our bond is at its peak… That is to say, we usually have hamburger steak, but…”
Mizuki: “It’s Osaka, so…”
Sakazaki: “Takayaki, okonomiyaki, or what else?” (to the voice saying “kushiage”) “Let’s do that!”
They close with “Eat kushiage” and “HAPPY HAPPY”
I got the beginning of Yuka and Mizuki’s comments:
Sakazaki: “Alright! We defended our belts!”
Mizuki: “V1!”
Sakazaki: “Well, with the rather unusual combination of Max and Pom…”
Mizuki: “It was rough.”
I saw “デコボコで” and was like HEY WAIT A MINUTE I KNOW THAT ONE
I didn’t really know what was going at all with Yuka’s line here, and Mizuki’s afterward was also confusing…
坂崎「タイトルマッチする日がくるとは」
Sakazaki: “The day of the title match arrives.”
瑞希「これは押されつつあったけど、すごくすごく私たちにとって…」
Mizuki: “It was a lot of pressure, but for us, it was really, really…”
Sakazaki: “There’s no one in TJPW who’s that scary.”
Mizuki: “Yeah. It felt like a new door had opened for us.”
Sakazaki: “It was amazing, huh? Max being so reliable, and Pom being really lively. But I don’t know if they see her as a partner, or as a toy.”
Mizuki: “Well, with Pom, they helped support her on the way out as they should. I thought it was kind of a strange relationship.”
Sakazaki: “I want to do it again.”
Mizuki: “…You want to do it again?”
Sakazaki: “Well… that is, uh…”
Mizuki: “I want to do it again!”
Sakazaki: “I guess so.”
Pom’s and Max’s comments are so sweet… . I think I managed to get everything?
Pom: (crying loudly) “I lost… I’m sorry…” (The Impaler wipes away Pom’s tears) “Even though I had the strongest ally on my side, I lost… But, hey, our opponents were really scary, but we’ll always be” (in English) “the best tag team forever,” (in Japanese) “right? From now on.” (The Impaler growls and goes backstage with Pom)
And that’s it for that show!
In a few days, I’ll have the 4.29 VOD to translate, and 5.1 Inspiration, too, and then 5.5 Korakuen… I totally spaced it that this week is Golden Week .