MrGrumpyGills

I have to agree with Ripe. I definitely don’t mean to lecture anyone or to sound dramatic, but I need to point a few things out so please bear with me. Let me put it this way. How many men did and do give consent due to peer pressure, coercion, fear or threats - explicite and implicite - of violence and/or being publicly ridiculed or shamed? How many just shut up and (literally) take it? Consent under the influence of alcohol or any other substance can be really iffy as it is, when in doubt back off and don’t do anything until the person sobered up and can actually consent. In particular don’t take advantage of someone who’s in a vulnerable state for your own gratification. Be a decent, kind human being. Yes, of course it’s perfectly fine if everyone involved has fun doing stuff like this (although I don’t see the fun in having a bottle with alcohol still in it IIRC - yikes! - shoved up your behind), but we also should consider the possibility that consent could've been an issue in that situation. And yes, men (straight and gay) can be raped, it’s not something that only happens to women. I never was a fan of Hakuho but I also can’t stand unfairness and Nishonoseki and Onosato are treated at least somewhat differently. Not surprising at all of course, but it still sucks.

Absolutely, that guy is amazing. Double digits at his age in upper Makuuchi is nothing to sneeze at. Huge respect for the veteran!

Well deserved yusho for Kotoshoho! Congratz

Being hyped up like a superhero/demi-god before this basho can't have done Onosato's nerves any favours, either. Can't imagine the pressure he must've felt. Considering everything he really did a decent job. I belong to the tiny minority who doesn't care for dai yokozunae as much as others do (that's why I didn't enjoy Hakuho's reign, it was much too monotonous to me), so I'm fine with a top guy who lets others breathe, too. Like a tree that's clearly the tallest and most splendid one in the forest but doesn't hog all of the sunlight and water. Onosato will have plenty of opportunity to take more yusho.

I wish the best of luck to the 3 guys in the Makuuchi yusho race - each would be well deserving of the yusho and no matter what happens IMO it's going to be a great ending to a pretty exciting basho. In other news, if Mita (Futagoyama) loses tomorrow and Daiseizan and Kotokuzan both win, we'll have a 3 way-playoff in Juryo. Possible first yusho for Mita.

In my insignificant opinion, a playoff is (almost) always a good thing and the bigger, the better Random guys? Doesn't matter to me at all. In fact I love unpredictability and generally favour underdogs anyway. And of course the winner of a playoff definitely deserves the yusho.

Huge respect for Tamawashi! (no jinx) Still lots of excitement ahead over the coming days. Love it!

If Kotozakura keeps this up, he'll be kadoban next basho... Loving the leaderboard so far, this is shaping up to be really interesting :)

As a huge fan of Takakeisho I of course have to agree on him being a competitor, but his body couldn't keep up with this at all and he had to retire at an unusually young age. Longevity really takes a hit with this body type and injuries pile up fast.

If he could take a page out of former Toyonoshima's playbook that would be very helpful, that guy arguably made the most of this body type. Definitely agree with the too much weight sentiment though, it's much better to be like Fujinokawa, Asakoryu, Midorifuji etc. if you're on the shorter side.

I've watched him eat rice plenty of times in the beya's channel videos, so it seems he got used to it So what do people think about Kayo? All he does these days is going backwards and jump around a bit and getting pushed out promptly. I admit I have a slight weakness for fluffy roly-poly guys but he can't expect to survive in Makuuchi like that?

Thank you for confirming this! I wasn't sure if I understood right and/or the subtitles were correct.

In some of the videos of the Futagoyama beya channel on YT it was hinted on that he gets injured often, apparently he pulls muscles quite easily because they're too tense (?). He also seems to have a hard time to gain weight and keep it on. That said, I think he's decently talented and could be a low to mid Maegashira mainstay if he gets the aforementioned hurdles under control. If he doesn't he might remain a Juryo - Makuuchi elevator rikishi. I like his personality so I would be delighted if he'd rise some more through the ranks.

One of the recent videos of the Futagoyama beya channel had this too, but I managed to change it back to the original voices because it was super annoying. Click on the settings symbol in the lower right corner of the video, then "audio track" and finally "Japanese original". Hopefully YT doesn't make this "feature" unchangeable in the future

Minitogawa (sorry )