I am the Yokozuna

Unfortunately, that has been the case for some time. I was about to say how about getting back to purchasing tickets in person at the stalls but we can have once again people being paid to purchase tickets for scalpers.

https://www.takasu.co.jp/doctor/dr_katsuya.html

Almost identical to the first one. Hopefully he would try different facial expressions and body postures with the time.

What a carnage

Well, that was a bummer. I would not be surprised to see many seats going empty during the actual events judging by the high numbers of tickets available at scalper sites. Dynamic pricing and not banning bots could be contributing factors. I had two tickets selected and when I proceeded to the payment those were gone. So bad UX also could be a factor. How those seats were not "reserved" for a minute or so?

is there any stats somewhere or a link showing fastest rising rikishis to the yokozuna rank? thanks

Thanks for the explanation @Jakusotsu

Can I ask why the M18 is on the East side and not on the west for balance of the banzuke and having 21 rikishis on each side?

Most of those most expensive seats would be used for corporate hospitality or governmental one - i.e. Japanese embassy in Paris invites various important people like the French Prime minister. They would be first to run out.

well played, sir

I was wondering, as I cannot recall, are there any instances, or rumors, of him behaving badly or causing any issues off the dohyo?

It was mentioned on the broadcast yesterday that a 2/3 majority would be necessary

So good sumo and always attacking and those three losses are something that have happened were the reasons as far as I heard to deliberate it.

So, they would discuss it at the Yokozuna Deliberation Committee in the following days, so there is a chance. I think in Hoshyoryu's favor it could be the fact that he did a lot of yorikiri sumo, and for me at least, a yokozuna is someone who does a belt sumo. Three wins on a final day without looking troubled is also a very good factor in his favor. Despite the three losses it was a pretty solid basho for the Nephew.

I could ask her too - has anyone any impressions from Demi - St. Hakuho? Any chance of him breaking into paid ranks soon?

So what is the point of the thread? A placeholder? You would not provide us any inside information that we could use to exercise any trades on it. We would find the info from Kinta’s or Akinomaki’s great summaries anyhow. At least the guy with thousands threads for each article he stumbles on at least provides some info. The Daily Mail would be proud if you joined them.

They would start probably their presale for patrons or whatever they call now their members. But what value does this thread bring?

Do not care much about the jackets, but thanks for posting how some of the rikishis from the recent past look like right now.

Anyone with some impressions with St. Hakuho? He is at 2-2 so far this tournament but has anyone watched him to elaborate how he is doing?

wow his son is a carbon copy of his father in his father when he used to be younger.

In general, all sports fans are squeezed in paying various subscriptions over air and or internet due to various broadcasting agreements while still not receiving a comprehensive access to a wider selection - be it only hockey or Premier League and still not getting all we want. Japanese are not different. There is a J1 League channel on YouTube only accessible with highlights (and no commentary) of the games played the same day, but in Japan you need to pay to see anything. There was none. NHK broadcasts live but accessible only in Japan I believe. It was launched 2-3 years ago, I forgot when. NHK used to have two on demand subscriptions services dividing the TV series and their documentary in both of them making you to pay to cover normal interests - a TV series episode plus some local social theme program. Now they have merged them in one. So, clearly there has been some progress. There are now videos on YouTube albeit later than what Moti provides. Probably as always in their wisdom the Japanese would continue shutting down channels and hunting down creators and online communities instead of approaching them for some advice on how to do things or to hire them to do those highlight videos bona fide. But it is just what they are. I used to get agitated but try watching rugby anywhere outside the big 6 Northern nations and the 3 Southern behemoths. Almost impossible. So hopefully in the future instead of having 50+ streaming services there would be some major ones offering access to more sports events. But chapeau to what Moti and Natto have done throughout the years. In some more just world they should be nominated Order of Culture of the Japanese Emperor for spreading the Japanese culture all over the world.

So, no pressure on Hoshyuryu then, I assume.

Sad but necessary for his future development. A truly inspirational story. Wish him a great deal of success inheriting such a storied stable. Hope he could raise at least as many yokozunas as his shisho did.

Thanks for that tidbit. For a second, I thought it could have been Asashoryu. Had forgotten about the little fighter from Tosa.

Who is the gentleman with the black MSVP tracktop?