Finished translating the February 24 show!
They opened this one with Miyu announcing that she’d be going on excursion to the US for a couple months after Ryogoku. I translated what shupro had:
After the opening remarks from ring announcer Namba, Miyu Yamashita entered the ring. A show at the Kobe Art Center on June 15 (Saturday), and a show at Acros Fukuoka on June 16 (Sunday) were announced, and then Yamashita announced that she would be going on excursion to the United States starting with the April 5 show in Philadelphia. Her return match is scheduled for June 15 in Kobe. Yamashita said that after defending her title against Miu Watanabe at Ryogoku Kokugikan on March 31, “I’m determined to defend my title in the U.S. as well!”
This show had Chika Nanase’s debut match! I’m excited to see how her character develops over time. Her debut didn’t leave as strong as an impression on me as some others, but it was still fun!
Nanase: “I faced Moka-san as my opponent, and I lost. After my debut, I’m going to gain more experience, and then when we meet again in a singles or a tag match, I’m definitely going to get the pin with my own two hands. Please keep supporting me from here.”
(What was it like seeing the view from the ring for the first time?)
“It was totally different from how it looks during practice, and I could clearly see the members of the audience cheering for me, but that became what drove me and kept me going. It was really fun. I want to keep making pro wrestling more exciting.”
(How much were you able to show of the things that you’d been practicing?)
“Not much at all. I thought I was able to bring them out, but after it was over, there were a lot of points for me to reflect on. I want to train even harder and get stronger.”
(What kind of wrestler do you want to become?)
“When I was first introduced as a trainee, I wanted to become a wrestler who can be cheerful and have fun with a smiling face, so I want to grow even more and wrestle in a way that’ll make everyone smile.”
Miyamoto: “Since this was Chika Nanase’s debut match, she threw everything that she’s capable of now at me. I’m happy to get new friends at TJPW, and I’m looking forward to seeing Chika-chan grow even more from here.”
(As someone who was in her debut match, do you have any words of encouragement for her?)
“The girls who debuted in 2023 have all been in great form since their debut, so I think Chika-chan’s growth will also be amazing, and I’m really looking forward to it.”
Juria also faced Kaya. When I saw that match announced, I wondered if they’d been building Kaya up a bit to take a loss to Juria here to give her her first singles win, and I turned out to be correct!
Nagano: “I’m very happy to have gotten my first singles win today. I’ve been aiming for this goal since last year, so I’m really happy to have achieved it. I’ve fought a lot up to now, and seeing the strategies I’ve refined finally bear fruit, I’m so happy to get my first singles win before my graduation. I’ve faced Toribami-san over and over, and she’s a really strong opponent, and she’s a senpai who always gives me advice when we train together, so I’m glad that I was able to have a match with her in these last few matches before my graduation.”
Itoh also returned to the ring, tagging with Raku for the first time in ages, which brought us the really adorable moment of Raku dancing along to Itoh’s theme during their entrance. As much as I like Raku’s and Itoh’s current regular tag teams, I do like their team, too, so it was fun to see them together again!
Itoh: “I’m finally back after missing seven weeks! Thank you so much. I know it’s only been a little less than two months, but I have nothing to do every day. Truly if I didn’t have wrestling, Itoh would be as good as dead, so today I finally got back that feeling of being alive. Sure enough, pro wrestling is fun. I really felt how much I loved the audience. That was fun. Thank you so much. I’m sorry. I think it was just a normal match for everyone except for me, but” (to Raku) “Thank you. You even danced with me for our entrance.”
Raku: “I didn’t think I’d get to team up with Itoh-san for her return match, so I was really excited for it.”
Itoh: “I was excited, too. I only slept a single hour. I was so excited.”
This part was a bit tricky because I wasn’t quite sure I was getting the tone quite right…
らく「私は10時間寝てきたので。2人でちょうどいいですね」
Raku: “I slept for ten hours. So that’s enough for the both of us.”
伊藤「２人で11時間ね。ちょうどよかったと思います」
Itoh: “Eleven hours for two people. That sounds about right.”
The main event was a big preview match for the upcoming Princess of Princess and Tag Team Championship matches! TJPW does these semi-rarely, so I was curious how it was going to go. I feel like usually the challenger team ends up losing, but today they didn’t! They managed to stick it out and the match lasted the full time limit and went to a relatively rare time limit draw in TJPW!
Here’s the post-match:
Aino: “I didn’t think Suzume would stick it out that long, to be honest. It was super frustrating, so I’m really looking forward to Ryogoku.”
Mizunami: “Hey, hey, Arisu Endo, Suzume, Daisy Monkey for short! Today was a preview match, and I wanted to get a clear win and move on to the next one. You might’ve won through your persistence this time. But it won’t be like that on March 31 at Ryogoku Kokugikan. We won the belts with our own efforts, and we won’t give them up that easily. I’m looking forward to it. We’ll settle this draw definitively at Ryogoku!”
Suzume: “We haven’t lost!”
I had a bit of trouble pinning down a translation with the right flavor for this: “まだここからずっとずっと止まる気もありません.”
Endo: "We’re not stopping here. Not now, not ever.”
Miu: “Yamashita-san, I won’t lose, either. I’m going to come at you with all of the power I have, and I’m going to win, so please wait for me.”
Yamashita: “It’s finally next month, March 31, the title match at Ryogoku Kokugikan, which is a grand venue for us. On March 31, it’ll be on the ultimate stage, so we hope you’ll all come to see us. Osaka, thank you all for coming today!”
Aino: “I’m so frustrated!”
Mizunami: “First of all, I’d like to say that the three of us teamed up for the first time, and I was ridiculously excited. Because of this trio, Yamashii, Yuki, and Aniki. That’s quite rare!”
Yamashita: “I’ve been excited since the moment it was announced.”
This was a bit tricky: “興奮の度合いがね.”
Mizunami: “It’s a high level of excitement.”
Aino: “YukinikiYamashii. Yamashii surprised me. (That nickname) came into being during the match.”
Yamashita: “It was a preview match before our title matches, and we were YukinikiYamashii, and I wanted to win.”
Mizunami: “That’s the case for all of us.”
Aino: “I’m really frustrated.”
Yamashita: “It’s the most frustrating thing.”
Aino: “It sucks that we couldn’t get a decisive win.”
Yamashita: “No, no. Some part of me was too conscious of squaring off against Miu. I should’ve been able to move faster, and been able to take her down, but I got too worked up.”
I wasn’t quite sure about the first part of this: “自分の今日の甘さを知ったので、3月までに直さないといけない部分に気付けたからよかったけど、引き分けってメチャクチャ悔しいので、3月31日は、いやその前に前哨戦があるなら、そこから仕留めにいきたい。今日はこの3人で組めてよかったです.”
“Since I went too easy today, I realized what I need to fix by March, and I’m glad about that, but the draw is really frustrating, so on March 31—no, if there are any preview matches before that, I want to bring her down there. I’m glad the three of us could team up today. That’s all I want to reflect on as we head back to Tokyo.”
This was a bit tricky: “本来、勝ってスカッと次の両国にいければベスト。でも今日ドローだった。これもなおよし.”
Mizunami: “Originally, it would’ve been best if we could’ve won and gone on to Ryogoku with peace of mind. But today was a draw. That’s even better. Because this uncertain feeling, the feeling of not being able to finish the match decisively, this is going to become the passionate energy that gets us fired up as we head toward Ryogoku. Did you see that? That mobility that Daisy Monkey had. Arisu Endo, Suzume, Daisy Monkey for short.”
I also wasn’t quite sure about this: “あの2人の機動力、今日対戦してやっぱり仕上がっているって思ったよ.”
“That mobility, I thought for sure they were ready after facing them today. So I actually think it’s good that we had this draw in the preview match. Let’s take these frustrating and unsettled feelings and express them in the match, and clinch the win and defend our belts!”
Aino: “Yes! Thank you, Aniki!”
Mizunami: “Yamashii, let’s team up again! Thank you, Osaka!”
Yamashita & Aino: “Thank you!”
Daisy Monkey & Miu (no fun trios name for these three, sadly)'s comments:
Suzume: (with tears in her eyes) “We haven’t lost… It wasn’t a victory or a defeat, so I’m going to work even harder.”
Endo: “Me too. Let’s do our best together.”
Suzume: “We’re going to run from here to Ryogoku without stopping.”
Miu: “As the challenger team in the preview match, Daisy Monkey’s determination not to lose is getting stronger day by day, and those same feelings are getting stronger for me, too.”
The rest of her answer was a bit tricky: “でも、こうやって挑戦者として決めきれなかった、それを手助けできなかったというのもデカいし、もっと勝ちにつなげられるようにしたかったと思うし。これだけ追い込めていたのに、勝ちにつなげられなかったというのはベルトを持ってない私たちの弱さだと思うし。私自身、山下さんに体力とか運動の面じゃなく、気持ちの面で負けてる部分ってすごいあると思うし、山下さんの気持ちってとんでもないものだから、それをもっと強化してこの１カ月、全部ぶつけて勝ちにいきたいと思います.”
“But not being able to get a decisive finish to the match as the challenger, not being able to help my teammates get that, that’s a huge problem, and I wish I could’ve done more to help them win. Even though we were able to drive them this hard, the fact that we couldn’t turn that into a win, I think that’s a weakness on the part of all of us who don’t have belts. I really think that I myself am losing to Yamashita-san not in terms of physical strength or training, but in terms of feelings, and Yamashita-san’s feelings are totally unpredictable, so I want to get strengthen my feelings and over the course of this one month, I’ll hit her with all of them and get the win. Let’s do our best.”
Endo & Suzume: “Let’s do our best!”
Suzume: “We’re absolutely winning those belts.”
Endo: “We’re going to get them!”
And that’s it for that one! Looks like we’re back to live shows for a bit, so hopefully there will be a slightly bigger window to finish the next translation.
), and it seems that both sides were getting thrown off by the autotranslate’s failure to figure out Toga’s name, haha.
). I’m so happy to see Yuka coming back, though! I’m glad that she’ll still do stuff in Japan occasionally and isn’t quitting TJPW entirely. Though it is kind of funny that they billed her as coming from AEW when she hasn’t had a single match there since graduating from TJPW… 
. Nao Kakuta is going to be retiring in July… I’m a bit surprised by the announcement after she sounded so excited about doing both pro wrestling and theater, but it sounds like she had decided last year that she’d be graduating.
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– she’s saying Haru and Runa have one year of seniority in experience over her in TJPW, despite being younger.
