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rz-jocelyn · 4 years

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[NEWS] Sato Ryuji will Star in the Upcoming TV Drama "Nippori Charlies"

BROADCAST CHANNELS, TIMES AND DATES

ABC TV on August 02, 2020 at 11.50 pm (Japan time)

TV Asahi on August 08, 2020 at 2.30 am (Japan time)

CAST

Sato Ryuji as Kishi Hotaru

Maruyama Tomomi as Yanaka

Ota Yuuri as Misaki Hatsune

IKKO as Imosaka

Sasaki Kuranosuke as Charlie (voice only appearance)

Kakei Miwako

Nakamura Yuichi

Fujino Ryoko

Oikawa Nao

Matsuo Shun (Chocolate Planet)

Kimura Yuichi

STORY DESCRIPTION

Tokyo Nippori - the emotional town where there is a mix of newness and nostalgia. In the "Nippori Dark Night" in a mahjong parlour located in the corner of the town, there are 3 gentle warriors who lend a helping hand to clients for free.

Yanaka (Maruyama Tomomi), a flop of a playright from a small theatre company, who acquires information from unknown sources, which leads him to success. Imosaka (IKKO), the magician of beauty who transforms pupae into butterflies. Kishi Hotaru (Sato Ryuji), the infiltration specialist with a hundred provisional appearances.

Their mission: solve the problems of the various clients who come to the "Dark Night" on the orders of their boss, Charlie (Sasaki Kuranosuke).

Paid by their boss, the remuneration for their work is 1 million yen. Clients are not expected to pay for their services, but they cannot tell others about the "Dark Knight"... That is the condition of their contract.

A female college student who is worried about her friend who seems to be dating a suspicious man. The owner of a monja [1] shop who, in their 9th year of marriage, suspects that his wife might be cheating on him. A single mother and online streaming personality who is afraid of a threatening email.

To solve the clients' problems, borrowing the power of Imosaka, the magician of beauty, Kishi transforms into various characters, including a female college student, a cameraman, a handsome Hallyu [2] guy, an old woman, to infiltrate the scene...

To gain inspiration, Kishi would arrange the tiles on the mahjong table and plow forward at an amazing speed.

Will Kishi and the others be able to solve the clients' problems? And, what is the real identity of Kishi that is eventually revealed...!?

NOTE:

[1] Monja is a type of Japanese pan-fried batter popular in the Kanto region that is similar to okonomiyaki, but that uses different liquid ingredients. For more information about this, please refer to this link: HERE

[2] "Hallyu" is another way of referring to the Korean Wave.

"Nippori Charlies" Official Twitter Account: HERE

"Nippori Charlies" Official Website: HERE

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gdwessel · 3 years

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NJPW Strong Episode 26 - 2/12/2021; Castle Attack Tour Lineups Announced: Title & Feature Matches, New Young Lion Debuts; Review of NJPW World Pro Wrestling on Roku Channel; KENTA AEW Match On NJPWWorld, Other Notes

Last night was this week’s edition of NJPW Strong on NJPWWorld, continuing the Road to the New Beginning USA:

JR Kratos [Team Filthy] d. Jordan Clearwater (Fisherman’s Buster, 6:20)

Bateman [ROH] d. Clark Connors (This Is A Kill, 8:41)

Chris Dickinson & Danny Limelight [Team Filthy] d. TJP [FREE] & Ren Narita (Dickinson > TJP, STF, 15:04)

Can’t say I’m too broken up about Dickinson beating TJP. There appears to be a feud between Dickinson and Ren Narita brewing here. Between the first and second matches, Kevin Kelly interviewed KENTA, in response to Jon Moxley’s interview last week. KENTA declared he would save the title from “rotting” under Moxley. The last few weeks, now that Moxley is actively part of the feud, this has really heated up. A mere two weeks away from the title match. Next week’s episode is the start of the New Beginning USA series of episodes.

The full slate of cards for the two Castle Attack shows on 2/27 and 2/28/2021 have now been announced, as well as for the Road to Castle Attack tour that starts tomorrow. I won’t be posting the full lineups here, but rather in an Upcoming NJPW Events post later on today.

Already, there are two things working against the tour. First, the state of emergency in Tokyo, which later got expanded to Osaka as well as other prefectures, has been extended, with no sign of letting up, so the cards are going to be as limited as they were on the Road to New Beginning that just ended.

Second, the show next Sunday, 2/21/2021, is scheduled for the Toyota Crown Arena in Fukushima. Fukushima got hit with a 7.3 magnitude Earthquake at 11:08pm Saturday JST (so about 8:08am CST) with tremors also being felt in Iwate and Yamagata prefectures, where shows are also booked for this tour. There is a distinct possibility those shows may not happen now because of this. The good news is, there is currently no tsunami alert right now, so hopefully we don’t have a repeat of 2011. That being said, this blog/podcast extends our hopes and good thoughts that everyone will be alright in the end.

All this said, there is a full slate of title and special singles matches due to take place at the Castle Attack shows, and even one on the final Road to Castle Attack date. That one will be Los Dos Peligrosos, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI, challenging Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo for the IWGP Juniorheavyweight Tag Team belts on 2/25/2021 at Korakuen Hall. This will be a prelude match to Hiromu’s defense of the IWGP Juniorheavyweight title on 2/28/2021 v. ELP.

The biggest title match of the tour will be Kota Ibushi defending only the IWGP Intercontinental title v. Tetsuya Naito as the main event of 2/28, following Naito’s challenge on Thursday. In a press conference yesterday, Ibushi had this to say about Naito’s challenge:

Perhaps one reason (Naito challenged) is out of opposition to my idea of unifying these two titles. I want to say that I have a deep, deep connection to both of these titles. I have my own way of thinking, and when these two belts become one, then I can really achieve my dream, and bring professional wrestling to new heights.

Also featuring on Night 2 will be Hiroshi Tanahashi’s first-ever defense of the NEVER Openweight title, he will face off against United Empire’s Great O-Khan for that title. And the challenge has been made official, as Guerrillas of Destiny will defend their IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team belts against the CHAOS tandem of Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI.

Night 1 will feature five singles matches, however the only “title” match on there will be a Provisional KOPW2021 match between current holder Toru Yano v. Chase Owens. Kazuchika Okada and EVIL finally get their grudge match, as does Jay White, looking to finally beat his current nemesis, Tomohiro Ishii.

Another highlight of this tour is a debuting Young Lion, the first in two years! 24-year-old Yuto Nakashima will be in the opening matches on this tour starting tomorrow, although, the way they list him, I am not sure he will be on the NJPWWorld streams. More information:

24 year old Nakashima will see action in special opening matches through the Korakuen Hall events on the Road to Castle Attack, in singles bouts against established Young Lions Yuya Uemura, Gabriel Kidd and Yota Tsuji. These special matches will take place at the earlier time of 5:40 on each night. He will also be competing on non-televised live events through the tour.

Standing 180cm tall and trending at a potential heavyweight 95 kg, Nakashima has an athletic background in MMA, judo and jiujitsu, as well as water polo. Having spent a year in the Fale Dojo before it became the NJPW New Zealand Dojo, he entered the Noge Dojo in June of 2020.

Best of luck to Nakashima as he begins his NJPW career.

As I mentioned above, I’ll have the tour lineups in an Upcoming NJPW Events post later on today.

Last night, I was able to finally sit down and watch the debut episode of NJPW World Pro Wrestling on Roku Channel on-demand. They definitely did start with Wrestle Kingdom 14, as the match they chose to debut the show with was Jay White v. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Intercontinental title. They did not go with the “World Pro Wrestling RETURNS!” intro like the earlier episodes of NJPW on AXS (and honestly, I don’t even know if they do that anymore on TV Asahi), but rather, a recap of the storyline by Kevin Kelly, which, fair enough, for the supposed “new” viewers out there. The match commentary was lifted from the NJPWWorld English feed from the event, so Kelly, Chris Charlton, Rocky Romero and Gino Gambino on the call here.

It’s a little befuddling to once again have NJPW on American (and Canadian, and UK) TV be behind once again, after the efforts of NJPW on AXS to be as close to current as possible, however, there could be a bit of desire to show how big NJPW was prior to the pandemic too, as Night 1 of WK14 was their biggest crowd in many years. There were also multiple commercial break spots, which did take me out of the match, but sadly, that’s par for the course with “free” streaming these days.

In truth, this did seem to be lifted from a TV Asahi episode, as the final credits did show the TV Asahi logo. And they ended as they used to, with Naito’s post-match backstage interview. Strangely, despite this being a “weekly one-hour TV program,” the second episode was available, showing Kazuchika Okada v. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight title from that same show. I didn’t watch that one yet.

Overall, it’s a decent presentation, but with Roku being the streaming powerhouse it is, I’m not altogether sure what the point of the program is, when they could just have NJPWWorld available on the platform (which it is not). Between that, and the weird Thursday 5pm (EST?) timeslot, I don’t feel like this is best serving the product, especially now being a year behind current times, something NJPWWorld can provide easily. I hope it’s a success, but at this point I don’t feel as if weekly TV is something NJPW needs.

A few other odd notes:

The match from Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite featuring KENTA & Kenny Omega v. Jon Moxley & Lance Archer is now up on NJPWWorld, if you had not been able to see it when shown live on TNT.

Contrary to what I felt about it, Keiji Muto did indeed beat Go Shiozaki for the GHC Heavyweight title at Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Destination 2021: Back To Budokan show yesterday, a show which also unveiled yet another new logo for NOAH (at least with this the green was brought back). I still think this is a mistake, but also, the Muto/Muta fanboy in me is happy that he’s joined Kensuke Sasaki and Yoshihiro Takayama as holders of the IWGP, Triple Crown and GHC titles. Congratulations to my favorite wrester of all time achieving that milestone.

There is talk right now that if there is health department approval, venues in New York including Madison Square Garden could start allowing fans back in at 10% capacity as early as 2/23/2021. There hasn’t been much talk about Wrestle Dynasty of late, since the pandemic overtook the world and cancelled the event, however NJPW did say they hoped to hold it in 2021. If this goes through, don’t be surprised if NJPW starts pushing that again. I think allowing fans back anywhere in the USA is a massive mistake right now, but then, nobody asked me and they wouldn’t listen anyway.

I think that’s it for this post. Upcoming shows post later.