Churaumi

So...I'll check back on this in 2025...

Does anyone have any insight into how long this kind of suit takes to resolve? In the US this would take years.

Hattorizakura will wrestle until he's 65. I think his body will be able to survive training for his level of performance indefinitely.

I doubt any will return, Kotoshogiku will pull the plug soon, and Terunofuji will outlast the rest. Bonus prediction is Tochinoshin is next after KSG. I have been wrong about Terunofuji each step of his return though...

My understanding is the YDC has no real power at all. They can recommend retirement all day but the Kyokai needs to act on it. They have to have some mechanism to remove wrestlers against their will, but the question is if the Kyokai would risk the PR trouble of expelling a yokozuna like this. I don't think they will, because they haven't expelled yokozuna for this in the past. That could change if it looks like one of them is malingering, but as long as they show up when they can and don't get caught doing something they shouldn't be doing (like playing soccer while kyujo), they will be allowed to limp to retirement.

We've been catching up on Murder, She Wrote at the Churaumi household. I was a little too young in the '80s to appreciate it, even though my mom watched it every Sunday.

I lost too much of my youth to the Final Fantasy series, VI and VII in particular. I don't have time for that kind of timesuck anymore, but shorter games do still get played. I really liked What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, etc. Walking simulators are rarely good, but good ones are usually short. Erica was lots of fun. Story was not great, but the uniqueness of blending movies and games and not being crap at both was fascinating to me.

Good news, as long as the virus doesn't go to degeiko too. I think a lot of the sekitori looked rusty last basho.

Orora has done some healthy living stuff, but I don't know if that's because he's getting paid to or he has seen the light and is trying to spread the good word of not actively trying to be 300 kilos.

The kensho and mochikyukin money are probably what he'll miss most, not that the kensho has been flowing his way lately...

IIRC, a yokozuna makes ¥5 million a month, totalling ¥60 million a year, and a new oyakata makes about ¥10 million a year. But, there's lots of perks.

The sky here turns green sometimes before a tornado. It ranges from a slight tinge to a bright emerald green. Something to do with a change in the way airborne droplets of water refract light or something scientific like that. Back in the '90s it was our first clue to go underground, but the weather service has better technology now. Still, when new residents see it for the first time, it's a shock. It probably happens everywhere there's tornadoes, but they don't call this area Tornado Alley for nothing.

At least I got my bonus projection right, but it's more likely than not for the yokozuna to be kyujo. Might as well try to claim credit for guessing the color of the sky.

What color was the macaroon this time?

Tanakayama also has a sumo lineage.