PURORESU WEDNESDAY - HUSTLEMANIA 2007 - Razor Ramon HG vs. Bob Sapp

November 28th, 2007 by Brack

Photos from the clash of the century here

What a short post.

Here’s the music vid recap of Hustle House 27 to make up for that:


I believe this is the one where YinLing gave birth an egg that would later hatch into Monster-bono (played by former sumo wrestler Akebono).

Why did YinLing lay an egg?

Well, she was inadvertently impregnated when the Great Muta sprayed the green mist into her crotch! God bless HUSTLE.

Late breaking edit. I failed to notice that Scott Norton also wrestled Keroro Gunso at Hustlemania!

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Five Awesome Links

June 5th, 2007 by Brack

Danny Baker’s All Day Breakfast Show - It’s the radio show that Danny Baker always does, but in podcast form. Yes, a phone in show (well, a phone out show) as a podcast. While I could take or leave Baker as TV presenter (his Letterman-aping was always too strong for me), I think he absolutely kills as a radio presenter. And the promise of a football podcast with Danny Kelly makes me even happier.

Interview with Mamoru Hosoda - by Wes Black, taken from that new and promising Otaku USA magazine. Pleased to see he brought the issue of One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island and it’s relationship to Hosoda’s experience at Ghibli. He doesn’t real get an answer, but at least it was brought up. I was watching it again the other day, and with K-F’s translation the reading into it of the potential scenarios that took place when Hosoda was in charge of Howl’s Moving Castle become a lot clearer. I hope to write some more about that film at the weekend - and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time too.

Hey! German OST to Vicky the Viking - as my recent post on Vicky the Viking seems to be attracting people to this blog, lets see if I can milk the Viking fandom some more and link to this blog that discusses/rapidshares the german OST to the norse-orientated cartoon.

A Bloody Zombie Mix, Part 2 - The Good Reverend Frost at Spread The Good Word comes correct with another awesome zombie themed mixtape.

Mecha Mummy vs. Mokujin Ken - 10 minutes of out of this world grappling action from CHIKARA. Mecha Mummy faces off agains Mokujin Ken in a battle of the ages.

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Puroresu Wednesday… on a Thursday!

May 31st, 2007 by Brack

Someone posted the Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori Dream Slam I match to Youtube!

This is the best brawl you will ever see. I’m not sure how well it will come across on Youtube, but by the end of the match the ring so smeared in blood that it’s turned from white to pink.

For those not familiar, both wrestlers are archtypal stiff heels. Akira is the woman in the make-up and bleached hair. Shinobu is the one in the ugly ring gear and looking a bit like a man.




This was in the early nineties. Nowadays Kandori still wrestles full time, but Hokuto is retired. Of course this is wrestling retired and she does still make occasional appearances, often with her husband Kensuke Sasaki. What I find fascinating is that since retirement Hokuto has successfully reinvented herself as a celebrity mum. In fact if you look at the Kensuke Office website, which apparantly Hokuto runs, you ge the feeling that they are marketing their whole family (including “adopted” son, wrestler Katsuhiko Nakajima) as being something more than just a family of wrestlers. Looking at the “Family Entertainment Side” they seem to be are making plenty of regular non-wrestling TV appearances.

Akira’s cookbook:

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Akira advertises Kincho products:

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Puroresu Wednesday - Sakura Hirota vs. Eiger

March 14th, 2007 by Brack

From GAEA, my favourite comedy wrestler, the now retired Sakura Hirota wrestles LLPW’s Eiger. Yes there is someone doing that whole pale ghostly woman thing as a wrestling gimmick. And it rocks hard, especially as it’s being done as a variation of the whole classic wild man gimmick.

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Puroresu Wednesday - Hustlemania 2006

February 28th, 2007 by Brack

Now, I’ve never seen the wrestling opera that is HUSTLE, at least not in terms of a complete presentation. There seems to be almost a concerted effort to keep the show out of the radar of wrestling fans outside Japan. Which is really odd seeing as it is more like WWE than any other Japanese promotion.

My limited understanding of the promotion is that it struggled to find an audience to begin with, as it’s style is something of an anathema for your puroresu hardcore fan. However, addition of mainstream media stars like Razor Ramon HG (who started as a wrestler) and the Taiwanese model Yinling seems to have raised it’s profile to where it is a success amongst folks who would not normally follow wrestling.

Despite the difficulty in finding HUSTLE, there are plenty of neat promo videos that you can find on your video sharing sites of choice. Here’s one of Hustlemania 2006. Yes, it does feature Yinling (in her NewLing face gimmick) getting shot.

SHOT WITH PSYCHIC BULLETS!

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Five Awesome Links

February 27th, 2007 by Brack

Sumire, Age 17! - a review of what appears to be an odd and awesome and awesomely odd manga about a strange middle-aged ventriloquist who pretends his dummy is a 17 year old girl called Sumire. Apparantly there is a sequel, Sumire 16. Which you may be able to get fan translations of here.

Dave’s World - Home Of The Games Animal - Remember bandana’d, Dominik Diamond-mocked, talking head Dave Perry from Gamesmaster? Well here’s his website. Apparantly he is the GAMES ANIMAL! An object lesson in self-promotion.

Windows version of MB/GW’s HeroQuest boardgame - Remember when Games Workshop really tried to go mainstream with HeroQuest and Space Crusade? Well here’s one of those games as a Windows program.

Japan’s Anime Culture - A Foreign Press Center Japan briefing from Ryusuke Hikawa, the presenter of Anime Maestro. Talks about animation history, before discussing Mamoru Hosoda and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

Lucha Wiki - It’s a wiki all about people who have wrestled in Mexico at some time or other.

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Puroresu Wednesday - CLASH OF TITANS

February 21st, 2007 by Brack

Saitama Pro Wrestling Company weirdness.

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Hey Mickey!

February 12th, 2007 by Brack

As performed by the wrestlers of GAEA. Props to Youtube user shonshu2 who has uploaded a ton of GAEA clips.

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Puroresu Wednesday Returns - Mr Magician vs. Naoshi Sano

January 11th, 2007 by Brack

The greatest botched finish of all time?

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Merchandisable Frogs and other things.

November 26th, 2006 by Brack

First things first, here is the greatest Ayako Hamada photo I have ever seen (nicked, I think, from the lj of one of the writers of Progressive Boink):

See! She can smile!

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I heard Andrew Thompson's song “We're In Business” today. I liked it's blend of vocodered robots and silliness. And songs which mention the singer's name in them are great. In short, it's Chromeo if Chromeo wrote stupid songs full of rhyming couplets about robots.

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I'm intending on get the rest of Kemonozume watched before I drive back tomorrow. I've 4 more episodes to watch. Episode 9 was really great I thought, my favourite since episode 6. AniPages Daily pointed out that apparantly it was animated by an all-female crew. Should that make a difference or be notable? I don't know. I mean, you wouldn't go out your way and proclaim something as having a special quality just because only men made it. It seems odd that, that should still be a notable thing. But I guess it's a male dominated industry and so it is still noteworthy.

Let's just say it was a a really good cartoon, and I shall keep an eye out for more things made by the same people, regardless of their gender.

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I see Keroro Gunso got licensed while I was working and not paying attention to the internet. ADV too. I wonder how much that cost them? Still good to see it licensed and good to see ADV pick up a potentially big series (and if handled well - a license to print money).

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Been catching up too with Man To Man With Dean Learner. Can't help wondering Ayoade and Holness' parodies are possibly too specific to have a wide appeal. Even when parodying something with a fairly high public status like Uri Gellar, they get into parodying specific points like Gellar's appearance on The Tonight Show.

Which for me is aces, as that's the sort of anal retentive accuracy that I'll eat up with a spoon. There's a vague spectre hanging over the show that the original concept may have the Deano's After Dark show we see clips of occasionally. And that probably would have been even better from my point of view, though possibly not for the casual viewer. Regardless, I've been enjoying it and the Merriman Weir and Glynn Nimron episodes especially.

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