Koorifuu

His mug is a perfect amalgamation of Shodai's and Takakeisho's.

Three years away, with pretty much everyone here thinking Nishikido either couldn't bother to submit his intai papers and/or was keeping him around for some unannounced, dodgy reason... then he comes back and goes 26-9 so far, smashing his career high ranking for three basho in a row.

Genuinely one of the most intriguing ozumo developments of recent times.

Seconding this. The first sentence is exactly what I meant. I've now watched the film, and my opinion's changed - I'd based my previous comment on my interpretation of what was posted here, and that the 31st of January, 2026 date was pulled out of thin air. That's not accurate. From the looks of it, that's the date Terunofuji is having his retirement ceremony. This is most likely machine translation after all. As @Akinomaki said, someone definitely uploaded external subtitle files manually to the video, but there's plenty of traditional red flags.

If anything, I'd argue that the translations are so off that's definitely human error. Automated translations could misread the context frequently, but they wouldn't just make up whole unrelated dates out of nowhere. I tend to suspect that they prepared translations for multiple different scripts to cover all bases, depending on how things played out, and someone applied the wrong file. EDIT: ^ the above was opined before watching the video.

It's not uncommon for retirements to be formally registered too late for the recent basho. He'll certainly be in the post-Nagoya list.

In the off chance we've got readers who are struggling and unaware of it, I feel like I have to go off-topic and clarify this. People don't "look" depressed. It's perfectly common for deeply depressed people to look normal and smile regularly. You can still experience moments of joy, and times where you're relaxed.

Tamawashi's feats eclipse it, but Ryusei's ability to stay competitive in makushita until the end - almost hitting 40 - is nonetheless remarkable.

Whilst very possible, those rules are not absolute IIRC. They could always bend it slightly, if they wanted to. Although, he looked like he was about to burst into tears when his MK was sealed. I thought intai was coming but that could very well be related to kabu shenanigans instead.

I am immensely relieved that this isn't about a new scandal.

Mentioned in the 'Hokuseiho out (...)' thread - Hakuho originally wanted to give his kabu to Enho but Isegahama bought him out. Sooo I hope Enho has a future playing a role in whatever projects Hakuho has, instead.

That's an easy one - cover them up. If they're not bound by ozumo's traditions, they don't have to be bare-assed.

It sounds less and less like a joke by the minute, doesn't it? Miyagino isn't the kind of guy to lay down after feeling badly aggrieved, but neither is the NSK. We'd probably hear about less than 5% of what was actually happening behind the curtains and the ending might not be too great. Realistically I still don't expect it to happen, NSK must have the means to prevent it at any cost, despite the backing behind Hakuho.

I'm mostly thinking of Hakuho Cup. Who'd expect him to carry on with the event if he's out of ozumo? Continuing to feed those who ran him out would make no sense. Unless, and hear my tinfoil hat out, he's got plans to start a competitor to NSK. (I'm half joking.)

First thought that comes to mind: there might be another, softer, line between ms1~3 and ms4~5 for fringe shootout cases like this. Or it could really be that Kyokukaiyu not being challenged with a Darwin battle does really make a difference. Or it just depends on their whims. Probably the last one.