inhashi 2,363 Posted December 5, 2017 7 hours ago, dada78641 said: Baruto will be starring alongside Santou Ryuuda in a TV adaptation of an LGBT themed manga called "My Brother's Husband" by Gengoroh Tagame. It's about cultural differences in daily life of a family with a single father, his daughter and his brother's husband from Canada. Just found the manga online http://mangakakalot.com/chapter/otouto_no_otto/chapter_1 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dada78641 884 Posted December 6, 2017 17 hours ago, rhyen said: This should be filed under off topic, probably in former baruto activities. not in the ozumo discussion. To be honest, maybe the other topic I filed the other day about Musashimaru's gyoza restaurant should be there too, I just realized... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted December 6, 2017 6 minutes ago, dada78641 said: To be honest, maybe the other topic I filed the other day about Musashimaru's gyoza restaurant should be there too, I just realized... No, he is still in the NSK, so it is oyakata activities - and all the former rikishi and similar threads actually don't belong into off-topic, but into "sumo related off-topic", which we still don't have 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dada78641 884 Posted February 14, 2018 On 12/5/2017 at 09:55, dada78641 said: Baruto will be starring alongside Santou Ryuuda in a TV adaptation of an LGBT themed manga called "My Brother's Husband" by Gengoroh Tagame. It's about cultural differences in daily life of a family with a single father, his daughter and his brother's husband from Canada. More info from NHK: http://www.nhk.or.jp/dramatopics-blog/30000/285794.html Here's some more info on the manga the TV drama will be adapted from: https://honcierge.jp/articles/shelf_story/3675 It's set to air from March 4 next year, on Sundays, three episodes in all. Update on this, with the poster for the show: https://www.cinra.net/news/20180213-ototonootto 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kawika 123 Posted March 5, 2018 watch two nights ago, it is pretty good. Baruto can act. hope to see him on more television shows. there are two more episodes to go... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
inhashi 2,363 Posted March 6, 2018 First episode below. Hopefully more to come from the channel. Aw.. I miss the big guy, but very glad to see he's staying so busy with an acting career :) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhyen 1,828 Posted March 7, 2018 On 06/03/2018 at 10:37, inhashi said: First episode below. Hopefully more to come from the channel. Aw.. I miss the big guy, but very glad to see he's staying so busy with an acting career :) Well that got taken down quickly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted April 25, 2018 (edited) Baruto had his 2nd tournament at the TBS Downtown Wednesday variety show - I had skipped the first one in December ( youtube-dl www.pandora.tv/view/sbs-tv/55643535/), there will be a 3rd. Sumo against a bunch of weirdo teams - with a total of up to his weight in the team, now 178kg, with wife and kid watching. In the end against 2 kids teams: The last middle school trio from apparently a freestyle wrestling club (hard to believe that to be still quite young kids) managed to get him out with a perfect team effort, which looked a legit win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doR2cpd4mSs6t=12m38s - better: youtube-dl www.pandora.tv/view/sbs-tv/56012784 On another show this week youtube-dl www.pandora.tv/view/sbs-tv/56006028, Baruto talked about how he lost half of his retired money: to one introduced to him by his sister. That guy talked him into joining the car repair business - and disappeared after 6 months with 20 million yen. But now Baruto is gaining big money from the import of tuna from Croatia to Japan. Edited April 25, 2018 by Akinomaki 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) Today on TV: Baruto's activities, his farm in Estonia, he's the volunteer fire department for the village, and he's campaigning for a seat in parliament (should he get it, we might be seeing less from him as talento on Japanese TV)- elections in Estonia are on March 3rd next year. 6.5 min, starting at 35min: youtube-dl www.pandora.tv/view/themiku/56019447 Edited April 29, 2018 by Akinomaki 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Akinomaki said: he's campaigning for a seat in parliament (should he get it, we might be seeing less from him as talento on Japanese TV)- elections in Estonia are on March 3rd next year. For this, Baruto returns to Estonia (for longer) on May 5th. The chances of the Estonian (called by Japan a) "national hero" to get elected are seen as: sure win. His dream for the future now is: president o o Edited April 29, 2018 by Akinomaki 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted June 1, 2018 Baruto has officially quit the job as talento, but will be appearing as one of the "strongest men ever" opponents of AKB48 member Yui Oguri, in the NTV late night drama series "MajiMuri Academy" (maji: really - muri: no way), which starts July 26th. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2112609/full/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kintamayama 44,864 Posted November 11, 2018 Baruto's 34th birthday, with his son: 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted November 13, 2018 (edited) On 01/06/2018 at 13:48, Akinomaki said: Baruto has officially quit the job as talento, but will be appearing as one of the "strongest men ever" opponents of AKB48 member Yui Oguri, in the NTV late night drama series "MajiMuri Academy" (maji: really - muri: no way), which starts July 26th. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2112609/full/ The recent post here reminded me to check for this, and MioMio has the whole series http://search.miomio.tv/?keyword=マジムリ学園 Baruto appears in episode 4 http://www.miomio.tv/watch/cc393209/, with face starting at 19min, as high school student Raizanmaru aiming for the interhigh, with some weird Wagner connection Edited November 13, 2018 by Akinomaki 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kintamayama 44,864 Posted December 25, 2018 One and Only went to visit Estonia and Baruto , who showed him around his town and stuff. Really nice seeing him (One and Only) get all sentimental- all in Japanese. 4 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted March 3, 2019 (edited) On 29/04/2018 at 18:25, Akinomaki said: On 29/04/2018 at 15:41, Akinomaki said: he's campaigning for a seat in parliament (should he get it, we might be seeing less from him as talento on Japanese TV)- elections in Estonia are on March 3rd next year. For this, Baruto returns to Estonia (for longer) on May 5th. The chances of the Estonian (called by Japan a) "national hero" to get elected are seen as: sure win. His dream for the future now is: president Baruto is called a major contender for the Estonian Centre party in the elections today. Results tomorrow - his party is one of 3 in the government at the moment. http://www.nikkansports.com/general/news/201903030000945.html https://news.err.ee/859508/former-professional-sumo-wrestler-kaido-hoovelson-joins-centre-party https://news.err.ee/853519/kaido-baruto-hoovelson-joins-enterprise-estonia-board Edited March 3, 2019 by Akinomaki 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted March 4, 2019 16 hours ago, Akinomaki said: Baruto is called a major contender for the Estonian Centre party in the elections today. Results tomorrow Baruto lost - his party dropped to 2nd place http://www.daily.co.jp/society/world/2019/03/04/0012114117.shtml Now he can continue as talento in Japan 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted March 8, 2019 Baruto wasn't elected, but one elected member declined his seat to stay mayor and Baruto becomes MP after all. https://news.err.ee/916775/maardu-mayor-passes-riigikogu-seat-on-to-baruto He will be at the Horiemon festival in Estonia on the 16th http://music-book.jp/video/news/news/228020 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kintamayama 44,864 Posted April 4, 2019 Baruto has been elected to the Estonian Parliament. Link in Estonian, can be translated online.. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 40,232 Posted April 4, 2019 On 08/03/2019 at 11:03, Akinomaki said: Baruto wasn't elected, but one elected member declined his seat to stay mayor and Baruto becomes MP after all. https://news.err.ee/916775/maardu-mayor-passes-riigikogu-seat-on-to-baruto So it took the Japanese news agencies a whole month to realize that Baruto had made it - as he will start work in parliament today o o o 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Otokonoyama 2,735 Posted April 4, 2019 Ex-sumo wrestler Baruto becomes Estonian lawmaker Quote A retired sumo wrestler has been elected to Estonia's parliament. Kaido Hoovelson was formerly known as Baruto. The country's election commission announced on Wednesday that Hoovelson had won a seat in last month's general election... https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190404_26/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kintamayama 44,864 Posted April 6, 2019 Walking the halls of Parliament: John Goodman will play him in the film? 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jakusotsu 5,894 Posted April 8, 2019 On 06/04/2019 at 10:20, Kintamayama said: John Goodman will play him in the film? Nah, DiCaprio more likely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kintamayama 44,864 Posted April 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Jakusotsu said: Nah, DiCaprio more likely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jakusotsu 5,894 Posted April 8, 2019 Would be hard for Goodman to get younger, while DiCaprio gaining weight is just a piece of cake away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
