Kaioshoryu

Also known as the Wesemann school of sumo.

I feel this is Takakeisho's basho, and that is how it should be. If his injury is healed 100 %, I fully expect him to become the next yokozuna.

Ura Ms1e

This is a good thing. He is the slowest rikishi I've ever seen at the tachiai.

Fantastic stuff mt fuji! You just gained a new subscriber.

I'm just happy Konosuke managed to speed up the painfully slow Tsurugisho at the tachiai. The guy takes ages to crouch and get ready, breaking the concentration of the other rikishi. He really is annoying. Another slow one is Meisei. Get on with it already!

This is an extremely interesting peek into a world so foreign to my modern western form of life. They navigate by a different moral compass than me, and I feel that me passing judgement on their behaviour would be wrong. Thanks so much for this translation!

Great KK for Hokutofuji!

Kaio, and Toki for the sideburns.

I'm pretty sure you are right Mr. Gunning. If I knew all the behind the scenes stuff you know, I'm afraid my interest in Sumo might suffer... There's a reason why I refuse to watch documentaries about industrial chicken farming, I still love my Chicken McNuggets.

He’s probably using his skills in «expert analysis» right now to show how this picture is proof of bias against foreign rikishi.

Comment of the year!!!!

Is it just me, or is Kimura Kounosuke a lot more subdued than usual this basho? He usually sounds a lot more assertive and strict, now he sounds kinda tame...

Trans-gender issues?? Damn, I never thought of that....

Methinks you are taking this issue a bit more seriously than me Kinta.... I haven't really advocated anything. And you are probably correct in everything you write, I'm just not certain allowing women to stand on the dohyo will lead to the total annihilation of all sumo traditions.