u/Tokyogerman

With Mayu and Yuzuki back, we are currently getting a full on Icon, Peach, Arrow show with them greeting everyone together before shows and closing shows together with a smile. Which is fine all in all, but doesn't give the company the spice to make it interesting.

A great face, stable or team can only show it's real strength if it has a rival force. The natural rivalry would be Mayu-ism vs Sareee-sim, but with the Sareee team not being there regularly, it is not sufficient currently. Marigold also needs to find a way to have the same energy in terms of rivalries and matches, as when they are fighting outside forces like Marvelous and ChiChi, but it is currently rarely the case.

But who should be their rival group then?

Should it be DR, naturally as the heels to the ultra babyfaces?

Should Kizuna turn her back on Yuzuki when she comes back and form something like a New Arsion with Shinno and Seri? Since Marigold still doesn't seem to have a clearly established identity, they could rebel against the Stardom like glittery Mayu-ism with the more cold and shooty Arsion-ism of their parents.

Should Aono Miku, Kouki and Gochika finally have enough and rebel against the constant barrage and ridicule from fans and against clearly not being accepted partly due to their AWG past?

Does Sakurai with La vie en rose want take the spot as the real top group from them?

Maybe my ideas are crazy and just a thought experiment to fill the void that has been there since the Ota Ward show before the Dream Star, but I feel like they are in desperate need of more spice.

For comparison, here is a ranking of the last 18 shorts on the Marigold YouTube by views.

Match highlights Yuzuki/Mayu vs Spark Rush	100000
Yuzuki promo against ChiChi and Sareee at Korakuen	63000
Mayu return announcement promo at Korakuen	62000
Yuzuki promo after Otaku	35000
Gochika airplane spin	25000
Sareee/ChiChi promo after Korakuen match	19000
Twin Tower/Yuuka promo after Otaku match	17000
BBQ event highlights	18000
Highlights from Komomo/Miku vs Sareee/Chichi	15000
Yuzukik at press conference on her return	13000
Shinno flying at Ota	11500
Miku crying after Korakuen	7000
Aono pre-show talk at Kyoto	6000
Unagi, Megaton at Ota	5000
Nozaki-sama promo on title challenge	5000
Megaton pre-match promo	5000
Ishikawa/Natsumi vs Matsui/Nozaki	4500
Twin Tower/Yuuka after preview match promoa at Korakuen	4000

Marigold has uploaded highlights from the awesome tag match from Summer Destiny as a youtube short.

All Japan put up a video with highlights for all of this year's participants of their Junior Festival (Junior League).

Good to get to know all 12 of them in just about 5 minutes.

The program description reads as follows:

Inspired by the legendary TV director Matsudaira Kunimitsu—known as “Ramen D”—young director Ippei Date plunges into the television industry.

Aiming to revive the once-popular but now-flagging segment “Ramen Investigation Squad,” he takes the lead on the front lines of reporting.

As he travels across the country visiting ramen shops, he meets shop owners and fellow ramen enthusiasts, and is moved by the passionate dedication of those who stake their lives on ramen—all while striving to grow both the show and himself in this passionate food drama.

Anzai stars as the main character Ippei Date and the show will have 8 episodes to be broadcast in December.

He is also going to star as the main character in the horror action comedy Kai that is to be filmed this year and is set to challenge Kento Miyahara for the Triple Crown on the 29th this month.

As always, fast work from the the guys, about 9 hours before it was supposed to be released.

As always they are really fast with their uploads.

Sorry for the unimportant, very minor topic. I searched the sub if someone had made a topic on this before and didn't find it in 30 seconds so I made this one.

I never realized until now that already for the last two months the regional shows don't have their own match graphics anymore on Wrestle Universe.

Some might find them a bit too fake, but I always liked that you had a theme for the tours with the graphics and every wrestler in the promotion basically got their turn "in the spotlight".

The thumbnails for the regional shows now often look very underlit, often too far away and in general unappealing, like someone just randomly took a screenshot from the show and didn't really adjust the lighting. (The Marigold youTube has the same problem, they really need to work on their thumbnail game.)

I'm fully prepared for every telling me that the current ones are better though!

Dan weighed in at 106kg and was told by Doi he was out and a heavyweight. The trainees then took Dan's suit jacket off and Dan weighed in at 96kg.

Doi questioned this and asked Dan if he is a Dragon Ball character that always has a 10kg jacket on.

Dan later explained to the journalists that he always wears this jacket ever since birth, since he thinks training is important.

Since Dan Tamura is now officially 96kg the title match is on.

Considering Wrestle Universe usually takes two to three days for VODs, All Japan seems really fast, just a few hours after the show and it's there!

Backstage comments also up on the official youtube channel. Looks like Yuuya Aoiki will be in the Junior Festival as well. (Yuma Aoyagi was joking on his youtube channel yesterday, that he should also take part as depending on the day he is at 98 kilos or 101.)

Tokyo Dome City is of course the area where the Tokyo Dome and also Korakuen Hall are located. The so called Chill Out Nights will a bunch of events running for two months, for which All Japan star Yuma Anzai was chosen as Ambassador.

Therefore, from 7.18 to 9.23, there will be a life size Yuma Anzai panel in the area, there will be several short videos be shown on a big LED screen in front of Tokyo Dome, there will be a talk event with Anzai and much more.

Anzai is hitting the mainstream more and more and All Japan shows for July are basically sold out, except for Kobe, which has about 9 tickets left online.

Here is the offical event page as well: