#ryogoku kokugikan

[natsoumi]

Beating the drum for tournaments. At the thriving hub of the heavyweights, Ryogoku Kokugikan Studium with all the noise and the bustle. Sumo folks (including yours truly) were packed like a can of sardines. But all spend a quiet evening at the bow-twirling ceremony (held after the last sumo bout each day during a match). The pure exhilaration and relief being in situ.

[twosecondstreet]

Watching Sumo Live at Ryogoku Kokugikan

Big men slapping each other around? We're talking sumo! #twosecondstreet #sumowrestling

Japan has many traditional sports that have come and gone in popularity over the years, but one that seems to continue to capture the imagination is sumo. After a pandemic and a bit of procrastination, a friend of ours offered us the opportunity to go to the main sumo stadium in Japan, the Ryogoku Kokugikan, to watch sumo of every size, stature, and ranking slap, push, and throw each other out of…

[grandsumo]

大相撲大阪場所 . . 本日は3日目は 貴景勝、霧馬山、阿炎、豊昇龍、大栄翔、翔猿、御嶽海、宇良、阿武咲、翠富士、遠藤、高安、碧山などは勝ちました。 新入幕の北青鵬と金峰山の対戦は北青鵬が勝ちました。 武将山が幕内初白星。 十両の朝乃山は勝ちました。 . . 📷2023.02 ↓↓↓ share #大相撲大阪場所 #大相撲春場所 ＃大相撲3月場所 #玉正鳳 #翠富士 #北青鵬 #金峰山 #大栄翔 #豊昇龍 #貴景勝 #若隆景 #若元春 #宇良 #琴ノ若 #朝乃山 #霧馬山 #sumo #grandsumo3 #kokugikan #ryogoku #tokyo #japan #sumoday #followme #rikishi #力士 #大相撲 #相撲 #両国 #東京 #エディオンアリーナ大阪 @grandsumo3 @sumokyokai (両国国技館) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxEJ5qLVt9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[heymecjapaaan]

Victorious Mongolian rikishi, bowing French official and glowing green macaron 🏆🐟🍰 2022.9.25 #sumo#tournament#akibasho#tamawashi#mongolia#macaron#yobidashi#kokugikan#ryogoku#tokyo#japan#japon#instagramjapan#igersjp #相撲#大相撲#秋場所#玉鷲#優勝#おめでとう#マカロン#呼出#日仏友好杯#千秋楽#モンゴル#国技館#両国国技館#両国#東京#日本 https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci9QglOJ-Yk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[allelitewrestlings]

Eddie Kingston's final match at the G1 Climax 33 August 13th, 2023 • Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo

[questintheskies]

Jon Moxley vs. Josh Barnett at BLOODSPORT: BUSHIDO. June 22 at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan!!!

[rikatatsumi]

 Translation via StoryBookTJPW (follow them!)

Miu: I never expected it would be such a tough fight against Daisy Monkey, but they were really strong… It’s alright, though. Daydream will keep dreaming from here, and I want to keep making dreams come true.”

Tatsumi: “No, I can’t see a future anymore… It’s pitch black.”

Miu: “It’s alright, it’ll be fine.”

Tatsumi: “My dream of having the belt is also far away. You’re challenging for it, right?”

Miu: “Yes, On March 31 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.”

Tatsumi: “Will you hand it over to me? The right to challenge?”

Miu: “What?”

Tatsumi: “Give it to me.”

Miu: “Absolutely not. No way.”

Tatsumi: “If you do, it’ll all be fine. Everything will work out, so give it to me. Please. PLEASE!” (pleading as she grasps Miu’s hand tightly)

Miu: “Scary… But I won (the battle royal).”

Tatsumi: “It’s fine, give it to me.”

Miu: “No!”

Tatsumi: (strangling Miu) “Shut up! Are you ready to give it to me?”

Miu: “I’m not! I’m scared, I’m scared!”

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[scarskelly]

Hello, on the 4th of August in Japan, GLEAT are holding their VER. MEGA show at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Yes, this is the show that has Ibushi's return match in Japan. However, that is not all. This card is stacked!

Here's a handy dandy little English match card I set out as none of the ones I could find were in English (start times in JST included). Best of all about this show: it will be for free on YouTube! Here's the link:

No, I'm not a GLEAT fan, but I was not aware of the YouTube stream until very recently, so I thought I'd bring awareness to it just in case others didn't know as well! There are a bunch of people from a bunch of different promotions, and who doesn't like free wrestling?

[kamigoyes]

First time back to wrestling in Japan is GLEAT Ryogoku Kokugikan event! It's going to be good.

#GLEAT

Before #GLEAT

#Maybe something great is in the works!

[kyuuxmizu]

I went to watch both events for the Gintama Ato no Matsuri!!

The afternoon event via live-viewing in the cinemas

The evening event inside the actual venue, Ryogoku Kokugikan~

IT WAS HONESTLY THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!

(2023 is also my 15th year as a Gintama fan so what better way to celebrate than attend the matsuri!!!!)

Hihi we used the penlights inside the live-viewing theater too.. hey most of the ppl in our row were using it too okayyy😂😂 It was so much fun!!!

ofc nothing beats the experience of watching it LIVE inside Ryogoku~🥹🥹

3Z Anime announced!!!! Everyone was like majiiiii????

They kindly asked us not to post any spoilers on social media until the evening event ends, so I kept mum about it XD

Upon arriving at the Ryogoku, my friends and I took pics of our matching Sonjuku ita-bags!! 🥹🥹 (Mine is the Takasugi one hehehe)

So many ppl!!

Then I went to pickup my preordered goods, which I'll post later!! XD

Outside Ryogoku~

Inside Ryogoku~

With my sibling wearing our matsuri shirts and sukajan~

We won the tickets during the Advance reservation lottery so we got pretty good seats~ マス席 in the first floor and facing the front! My friends were seated on a different row T^T

On to the event~ (A lot of screaming and crying XD)

I already knew most of what was gonna happen since I watched the afternoon event so I thought my hype would be dampened??? But the emotions just kept flowing!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭 (Tho ngl I wished they unveiled the 3z anime in the night event instead... I was expecting another bomb to drop actually hahahah xD)

The atmosphere inside Ryogoku... everyone's so passionate!!! You could feel the love not only from the fans but also from the seiyuu and bands as well!!! Aaaa I love Gintama and it's fandommm 🥹🥹💞💞

Never watched One Piece but the hype inside the venue and Kitadani's energy was so high it made me sing along too, idk how I managed to do it cuz I barely know the song😂😂 they went all out with this even parodying the OP of One Piece and the seiyuu mimicking the strawhat pose😂

Then the 生アフレコ went a trip down the memory lane🥹🥹 Makes me wanna rewatch everything all over again 😭

I started getting emotional when ChicoHani started singing ヒカリ証明論 (Kiheitai tapos Bansai death scene talaga..mashaket po mga mamshie...😭)

And サクラ舞う暁に..it's my fave ChicoHani song okayyy Chico shouting Matsuri ja Matsuri jaaa🌸🌸🌸 So fun to sing along with the crowd!!! Almost everyone switched their lights to pink!! one brain cell~ XD

Their surprise was the Samurai Heart cover!!! 😭😭😭

ChicoHani's gntmと出会わせてくれた song, Pride Kakumei!!! When the Honeyworks guitarist shouted "saikou da saikou" waaaa the hype!!!!! Crowd went crazy!!

Otsu-chan so cute I didn't expect the fox at all (Gintama always subverts expectations so true even for events like these x3)

Toshi always up for anything riding the Thousand Sunny Sadaharu-Eli ship hahahah And Sakaguchi-san!!! 🥹🥹

Then 生アフレコ again~!! XDDD

Surprise was KUROKO's special appearance (with Suzuken as Murasakibara and Nakai-san as Imayoshi!! Chiba-san's side comment: なんかイチャイチャする 😂😂😂😂)

SuzuKen funny he said he could hear Kensho Ono from the Kuroko mascot hahahah

plus GINCHAAAN (for the evening event)

It was so adorable how Sakaguchi-san took a pic of Gin-san and Sugita on stage... He really loves Gintama, ne (The whole cast loves Gintama!! that alone makes it so special)

Sugita's side comment: he wants Oguri Shun to join too hahahaha

DOES so cool!! Everyone switched their lights to red when DOES started their set list~

It's also no secret that Wataru-san loves Gintama sm, he mentions it in his SNS accts frequently🥹🥹 ワタルさんかっこ良かった...有難う! Crowd shouting Wataruuuu Bravo!!! XD

The SPYAIR covers gosh 😭😭😭 I almost cried listening to the Wadachi cover 😭😭😭 (I did cry when I rewatched it through Abema haha 😭😭😭)

From the band's message in the end, it was apparent that SPYAIR really wanted to attend but alas they have no vocalist yet 😭😭😭

The highlight of the event for me was Yama-chan's surprise appearance 🥹🥹 LITERAL CHILLSSSSS I mean... THE KOICHI YAMADERA...

Apparently, Yama-chan never attended events like these and Ato Matsuri was the first one. That alone just made me.....🥹🥹🥹😭😭

is Gintama that special he agreed to make an appearance 🥹🥹😭😭

Or did Higuchi-san (producer) really splurge their budget on him ahahahah

We were joking that they must have spent most of the special guest budget on Yama-chan that's prolly why no other guests appeared 😂

And gosh that man has range.... I also learned that Yama-chan voiced Donald Duck from Kingdom Hearts..!!! That's why his animal and nature dubs (from the special Matsuri manga) are on point 😂😂😂😂

He can sing too (He sang JPN version of Prince Ali and Circle of Life) and had a duet with Hirano Aya (Nobume VA) for the Yakuza game 😭

Koyasu-san was a no-show as usual (I had high hopes since he attended the Isekai Oji-san seiyuu event at Anime Japan last year) He had a voice message tho, saying his ponpon was in pain (basically he had a stomachache) 😂😂

And then there's Sugita's closing message 😭😭😭

That even though gntm has ended 4 years ago, he hasn't forgotten about Gintama

That he'll be Sakata Gintoki until he dies..no, even if he dies 😭😭😭GURL I GOT SO EMOTIONAL!!!

Then he says "Chinko"!! how very Gintoki!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

And finally the Ginpachi-sensei anime which will be part of a series of projects for Gintama's 20th anniversary (which will last until 2026!!!) I am so excited 😭😭😭😭

AAAAAAA MY HEART AND WALLET ARE READY

As Suzuken said 終わらないね銀魂ァァ

Thank you so much Ryogoku~ See you again in the next Gintama Matsuri!!!

[nakanotamu]

help please I've discovered the gif of Syuri kissing Utami Hayashishita, and then Utami's post-match reaction, can you please tell me if there was followup, what else happened?!

Oh my goodness anon CAN I EVER (sorry I waited days to respond to this I've been having A Time)

Okay so immediately after the kiss they didn't have any matches against each other for a few weeks until their singles match in the Cinderella Tournament that year. Utami spends this time pining and wondering if Syuri really likes her and Syuri keeps teasing her on Twitter. Syuri eliminated Utami and even though it was just Over The Top Rope it ended up being enough to earn a title match given that Utami also wanted to fight her.

Their first title match was really good, real unstoppable force vs immovable object type stuff. They fight to a 30-minute draw just as Syuri seems to be getting the advantage, lay on the mat for 2 minutes and say they both want to keep fighting and are granted an extension. That 2 minutes was enough for Utami to get her wind back and negate the advantage Syuri had had, and they fight 13 more minutes to a double knockout.

Utami (and her tag partner and perennially friend-zoned bestie Saya Kamitani) challenge Syuri (and her tag partner at the time and perennially friend-zoned worstie Giulia) for their tag belts bc they can't fucking keep away from each other or leave each other alone at this point and it's in the leadup to that match that they have the unbelievably charged staredown you've hopefully seen gifs of that was somehow even more homoerotic than when they actually kissed.

I don't remember specifically what happened in the tag belt match but it's not super important, Syuri & Giulia retained.

They had another match in the 5 Star GP that year and they were both desperate to finally beat the other going into it, fully aware given the year they were having 20 minutes probably wouldn't be long enough, and they were right, fighting to a vicious draw where they both clearly had more left in the tank.

Syuri won 2021's 5 Star GP and with that earned another title shot against Utami. She asked to get her title match not at the next big show, as had been customary in previous years, but at their huge Ryogoku Kokugikan show at the end of the year, Dream Queendom, so she could be as prepared for Utami as possible and they could fight on the biggest stage possible, as she felt they deserved. Because she defers her title shot she has to defend the right to challenge a few times in the interim, but she's on a mission, unwavering and seemingly obsessed with the red belt, and finally taking it from Utami. They request their title match be no time-limit this time for obvious reasons.

They fight for only 33 minutes, the lack of a break at half an hour proving to be what Syuri needed, this time pressing her late game advantage and able to capitalize where she ran out of time before. Syuri is finally the red belt champion, and Utami is crushed.

That chapter of their story pretty much came to a close at that point, but every interaction between them was still like, significant. Every time they face each other it was incredibly obvious how important they are to each other's growth. Utami spends much of 2022 rebuilding herself after losing the belt, sometimes trying to take it easy and recharge and sometimes trying to get her groove back, trying to learn how to be the new leader of Queen's Quest. She also cuts her hair god fuckin bless

They face each other in the 5 Star again, and Syuri is faltering this year. Seemingly every person in her block understandably sees her as a huge target, Utami included. Between the pressures of being in the tournament as champion and leading her new unit, God's Eye, Syuri can't balance everything and prepare for everyone and she's overwhelmed. Utami, on the other hand, comes in immensely prepared for Syuri this time, beating her in just under 15 minutes. (The 5 Star thankfully has a shorter time limit again now than it did in 2021.)

After the 5 Star Syuri has one other defence to get through first, and then accepts Utami's challenge, to make up for her loss in the tournament. To Syuri, she wants to purge the blemish from her record as champion and prove the red belt is unqestionably hers, but she's a little excited to face Utami again. Utami tries to hide it but she's a little desperate to turn back the clock, thinking if she can just go back to who she was a year ago she can handle her current struggles.

The lead up to that match is, god, fucking -

I hate them.

Anyway Syuri successfully defends in another really, really good match. Utami tries desperately to turn back time, go back to the way she fought, the person she was, a year ago. But Syuri's already beaten that person. She peels the layers off of her and fights her with raw emotion, dragging the same out of Utami until she's forced to fight as she is now, scared and uncertain and angry and passionate. Syuri makes her stare herself in the face and then beats her again. But after, she tells Utami she is her greatest rival, and she wants to do this over and over again for as long as they both can. Utami cries.

And as of now, that's where things stand between them, though no stories in wrestling are ever truly finished. They don't currently have reason to go after each other, though they'll never be completely unentangled from each other at this point. They're both leading their units in the upcoming Triangle Derby, which starts in January, and they are in opposite blocks, which means they will face each other. I'd guess the question this time will be whether they face each other on equal footing as two unit leaders who are expected to head their team in the tournament, or if they won't be able to help but have things get personal again. They face each other on the very first show of the tournament, January 3rd.

[bang-bang-gang]

TJPW Grand Princess is the upcoming sunday (31st of march). here's a link to the press conference translation!

[thegoldenelite]

"First time back to wrestling in Japan is GREAT Ryogoku Kokugikan event! It's going to be crazy!

#GREAT

Before #GREAT

#Maybe something great will happen!

There's still so much going on, summer could be amazing!

It would be a shame if you can't make it to this convention 👊 What's happening? Happening? Is it happening? I don't know..."

[Translated with DeepL Translate]

[grandsumo]

大相撲トーナメント . . 本日、大相撲トーナメントでした。 . . ↓↓↓ share #大相撲トーナメント #大相撲トーナメント2023 #ジャンクスポーツ #大栄翔 #豊昇龍 #貴景勝 #碧山 #若隆景 #若元春 #宇良 #阿炎 #琴ノ若 #朝乃山 #霧馬山 #北の若 #sumo #grandsumo3 #kokugikan #ryogoku #tokyo #japan #sumoday #followｍe #rikishi #力士 #大相撲 #相撲 #両国 #東京 #大相撲初場所 @grandsumo3 @sumokyokai (両国国技館) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoR9TWhr9tI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[heymecjapaaan]

Piqué de sumo? 💉👏 Moderna advertising banner at the Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. #sumo#grandsumo#tournament#kokugikan#ryogoku#vaccine#advertising#banner#japan#japon#instagramjapan#igersjp #相撲#大相撲#本場所#秋場所#両国#国技館#東京#日本 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cie8iilpUcw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=