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August 30, 2026

Match 1: Singles Match (15-Minute Time Limit) Misa Kagura def. Selene Misora (9:21) via Samiton Club

The opening match was a singles bout between freelance star Misa Kagura and SEAdLINNNG’s Selene Misora. Amidst a shower of paper streamers, both wrestlers received their ring introductions. Kagura struck first, dropping Misora with a shoulder tackle. Following a hair-whip and a corner missile attack, she riled up the crowd, stepping on her opponent’s face and yelling, “Are you watching, Kobe?!” Misora showed her grit, firing back with a barrage of elbows. However, Kagura scored a knockdown with a stiff strike and locked in a single-leg Boston crab, demanding a submission. Misora survived the hold, launching another elbow strike followed by a dropkick. Down the stretch, she showcased her resilience with a flurry of offense, including a diving body attack and consecutive standing foot stomps. In the end, however, Kagura drilled her with a devastating lariat before locking in the Samiton Club (High-Angle Boston Crab) for the submission victory.

Match 2: Tag Team Match (20-Minute Time Limit) Takako Inoue & Aya Sakura def. Momoka Hanazono & Honoka (11:23) via Lateral Press

Takako Inoue made her appearance in the second match, teaming up with Kobe City Nada Ward native and Stardom roster member Aya Sakura. Brandishing her trademark stun gun, Takako stepped into the ring where Hanazono and Honoka were waiting. Sakura and Honoka started things off. Sakura popped the crowd with her energetic movement, while Honoka landed a dropkick and yelled, “Alright, let’s go!” to the fans. As the two went back and forth, Hanazono pulled Sakura’s leg from the outside, shifting the momentum. They attempted a double-team attack, but Sakura dodged at the last second. It looked like friendly fire was imminent, but they narrowly avoided it, shouting “Safe!”

Sakura then tagged in Takako. Hanazono and Honoka hesitated, intimidated by the crackling stun gun. Hanazono tried to throw Takako off her game by instigating a mock cavalry battle and baffling her with fake crying. Takako initially seemed unfazed… until she completely fell for the cuteness of a squeaky dog toy. Cursing, “You’re gross!”, Hanazono attacked Takako. However, Takako ultimately scored the win over Hanazono with a lateral press, standing tall alongside Sakura with her arm raised in victory.

Match 3: Singles Match (20-Minute Time Limit) MIRAI def. Sayaka Toyota (15:30) via Lariat

T-HEARTS’ Sayaka Toyota entered the fray for the third match. Toyota immediately grabbed MIRAI’s hair, looking to disrupt her pace. She wrenched in a headlock, but MIRAI refused to back down, firing back with sharp movements to target Toyota’s arm. Toyota retaliated with her own rough offense, unleashing a series of hair-whips and stomping on MIRAI’s face. Answering the crowd’s energy, MIRAI declared “Double payback!” and returned the favor with her own hair-whip and face stomp, drawing a huge reaction from the audience. Not to be outdone, Toyota displayed her wicked side, locking MIRAI in a Camel Clutch and mockingly playing with her hair. She then unleashed a flurry of Hisho Tennyo (Flying Angel) signature offense, including a Kamagatame (sickle hold), a missile dropkick, and a rolling cradle, but couldn’t quite secure the win. Ultimately, MIRAI countered with a soul-crushing left lariat for the three-count, claiming victory over Toyota.

Match 4: Tag Team Match (30-Minute Time Limit) Ryo Mizunami & Cohaku def. LINA & Miku Kanae (17:32) via Diving Guillotine Drop

The semi-final featured the tag team of T-HEARTS’ Miku Kanae and LLPW-X’s LINA, dubbed “MikuLina.” Their opponents were the cross-promotional duo of Mizunami and Cohaku. The bell rang with LINA and Cohaku squaring off. LINA was initially overwhelmed by Cohaku’s speed, but managed a clever counter, allowing Kanae to spring in for some MikuLina double-team action. After the tag, Kanae rushed Cohaku but was smoothly reversed and planted with a DDT. Mizunami then unleashed a barrage of machine-gun chops that left Kanae’s chest beet red. Mizunami and Cohaku continued to tag in and out, isolating Kanae in a grueling sequence. Even so, Kanae showed her fighting spirit with a desperate series of elbows. After eating a stiff strike from Cohaku that left her laid out flat on the mat, she managed to catch Cohaku with a springboard plancha counter and make the hot tag to LINA.

Finally entering the ring, LINA unleashed a flurry of kicks on Mizunami. Mizunami answered with elbows, but LINA’s momentum was unstoppable as she backed Mizunami into a corner with a striking rush. Kanae tagged back in, firing off consecutive dropkicks. She followed up with a barrage of elbows, a running dropkick, and then scaled the ropes to take out Mizunami on the floor with a high-flying plancha. Back in the ring, they hit a MikuLina double-team maneuver, but Kanae’s German Suplex attempt was broken up by Cohaku, instantly reversing the tide. Kanae hung on and fought tooth and nail to the very end, but eventually fell prey to Mizunami’s diving guillotine drop, taking the pinfall loss.

Match 5: Six-Woman Tag Team Match (60-Minute Time Limit) Yumiko Hotta, Chihiro Hashimoto & Saori Anou def. Shinobu Kandori, VENY & Miyuki Takase (10:40) via Pyramid Driver

The main event of Hotta’s homecoming show. Led by Takase’s entrance, Hashimoto, VENY, Anou, Kandori, and finally Hotta herself gathered in the ring for the marquee match. The hometown star was presented with a commemorative bouquet, and a shower of red paper streamers rained down during the ring introductions. The valiant Hotta volunteered to start the match, specifically pointing out her eternal rival, Kandori. “Mr. Joshi Puroresu” answered the call, and the bell rang on their highly anticipated matchup. Kandori immediately swarmed her with strikes. Taking the blows head-on, Hotta lost her balance and tumbled to the outside. Kandori pursued her, sparking a massive brawl across the arena floor. The two legends brawled without a shred of regard for the building’s status as a Tangible Cultural Property. Eventually, Hotta found her groove. Going completely rogue, she battered Kandori outside the venue before returning to the ring, popping the crowd by delivering a vicious palm strike to Takase.

Hashimoto tagged in and hit a body slam, followed by Anou locking in a modified Kamagatame to force a submission. Takase refused to yield, countering with a powerslam and tagging in VENY. VENY blasted Anou away with a missile dropkick, then leveled Hotta with a brutal lariat. When Hashimoto rushed in, VENY took her out with a dropkick as well. Anou fired back with a suplex, and Hashimoto followed up with a lariat to VENY. Unfazed, VENY executed an avalanche-style Frankensteiner, sending the crowd into a frenzy. Both sides tagged out.

Hotta rammed into Kandori, who responded with a flurry of palm strikes and two consecutive one-legged headbutts. Hotta barely escaped a sleeper hold attempt and countered with a sleeper of her own, but VENY and Takase broke it up. From there, the blue corner launched a relentless wave of attacks on Hotta. As Takase tied Hotta up, Kandori trapped Anou and VENY grounded Hashimoto in a simultaneous submission display. Managing to escape, Hotta slapped Takase on the top turnbuckle and brought her down with an avalanche-style brainbuster. Takase fired back with a stiff sliding lariat and a volley of elbows. Hotta absorbed the blows and retaliated with a palm strike. After Anou and Hashimoto decimated Takase with back-to-back release German suplexes, Hotta sealed the deal by planting Takase with a Pyramid Driver for the three-count. She triumphantly closed out her first hometown event with a victory of her own.

Post-Match Comments (In-Ring)

Yumiko Hotta: “Hey, Kandori. Facing off with Shinobu Kandori after all this time feels pretty good, doesn’t it? Seriously, you need to have more matches with the younger girls. And on November 2nd, the Shinobu Kandori 40th Anniversary event will be at Tokyo’s…?”

Shinobu Kandori: “The old Tokyo Dome City Hall.”

Yumiko Hotta: “It’ll be held at the old Tokyo Dome City. A highly motivated Shinobu Kandori and… who was it again?”

Shinobu Kandori: “I haven’t announced it yet!”

Yumiko Hotta: “Oh, right, my bad. Anyway, it’s going to be the absolute top wrestlers, with Shinobu Kandori being the only one from our era in the mix. Go beat the crap out of them. Moving on, I’m sure there are many of you here who watched joshi puroresu for the first time today. How was it? (Applause and cheers) I think many of you weren’t fully aware of what pro wrestling was, or had never seen it before. But putting our bodies on the line and fighting in this ring is no ordinary feat. That’s exactly why I believe our passion reached all of you today. As long as my body holds up, I will stand in this ring. The younger wrestlers—it’s incredibly grueling—but the young girls are working so hard right now. Sendai Girls’ Pro Wrestling is building incredible momentum, and so is Stardom. Just the other day, Sendai Girls ran Yoyogi National Stadium Second Gymnasium—the very place where we (Hotta & Kandori) had our singles match. And they drew a super packed house there. I think that’s amazing. Stardom has run Yokohama Arena and packed it out too. Let’s use our collective strength to make joshi puroresu bigger and bigger. To do that, we truly need your power and your support. If you felt something today, I would be so grateful if you would come back to the venue the next time joshi puroresu comes to town. Thank you all so much for today!”

(Announcing her 60th birthday event at Korakuen Hall on January 10th of next year, Hotta yelled) “Thank you all so very much for today! And I want to do this again next year. Will you all come?!” (As a massive cheer erupted, Hotta closed the show) “Thank you! Thank you so much!”

Post-Match Comments (Backstage)

Yumiko Hotta: “(How does it feel finishing your homecoming event?) My house is about a five-minute drive from here. This is my true hometown, the place where I was born and raised. And the person who made me a pro wrestler was my mother. She was the one who opposed me doing pro wrestling the most, but she was also my biggest fan and my greatest supporter. She used to come watch my matches without fail, but she suffered a stroke and couldn’t come anymore.

(When was the last time your mother came to watch?) April 2021, I think, for my 35th-anniversary show in Ueno. After that, she had a stroke and was bedridden in the hospital. She’s in a care facility right now, but I wanted to show her my healthy, fighting spirit. I thought that if she saw it, she’d get her energy back and think, ‘I’m going to live a long life and do my best.’ That was my primary motivation—I wanted to show my mother, right here in my true hometown.

(Along with peers like Kandori and Takako, the current and new generation of wrestlers from beyond promotional boundaries also participated?) I’ve come to Kobe for matches many times, but this is my first time running my own independent show here in Higashinada Ward. I’m happy we were able to show that our generation is still going strong. I also want to thank the wrestlers who traveled so far to be here. Seeing our generation’s dedication and saying, ‘I want to participate,’ really makes me want to do something for them in return.

Both Kandori and I experienced the inter-promotional warfare era. There’s a lot of momentum right now, but I think everyone needs to cooperate to elevate joshi puroresu even higher. Not just SenJo, not just Stardom—if everyone pools their strength to do something, I think we can reach even more people. What I can do might be small, but I hope to start from a small place, give a little back to my hometown, have everyone spread the word, and build the excitement.

(It’s your 41st anniversary, and you’ll turn 60 next year, but do you still feel you have things left to do?) As long as I step into the ring, yes. Even if there are things I can’t physically do anymore, I think I can still captivate an audience. When people tell me, ‘That was great,’ or ‘Seeing you try so hard makes me want to try hard too,’ it makes me feel like I can keep going a little longer. As long as I step into the ring, I want as many people as possible to see the pro wrestling that I love so much.

(The venue, Mikage Public Hall, is designated as a Tangible Cultural Property?) I’ve been here before, and I used to ride my bicycle past it all the time. Also, the omurice at the restaurant downstairs is famous. I used to say, ‘Mom, I want to eat that,’ and she’d say, ‘No,’ so I still haven’t eaten it to this day (laughs). Also, this building didn’t collapse during the war or the earthquake. It has continued to stand. I’ve continued on as a pro wrestler, too. It feels like an overlap. That’s why I absolutely wanted to do it here, and with everyone’s help, I was able to make it a reality. (Next time?) I’d love to do it again around the summer next year. Next time, I want to get the kids involved and build up excitement in Kobe like a big festival.”

Translator’s Notes

• Misa Kagura / Samiton Club: The original Japanese text contains a formatting typo in the match header, referring to her as “Kagurahime Misa” (神楽姫ミサ) and her submission as the “Samiton Club”, while the prose correctly uses her recognized name, Kagura (神姫楽). This has been localized to Misa Kagura, and the move left as Samiton Club (though it is a likely typo for her signature Misaton Club).
• Hisho Tennyo (Flying Angel): A direct reference to joshi legend Manami Toyota. Sayaka Toyota’s moveset heavily features Toyota’s iconic signature maneuvers to pay homage to her namesake.
• Tangible Cultural Property: Mikage Public Hall is an esteemed historical building in Kobe that survived both WWII air raids and the Great Hanshin Earthquake. The author highlights this to humorously contrast the wild brawling of Hotta and Kandori against the venue’s dignified historical status.
• Korakuen Hall Typo: The original text accidentally used the kanji 個 (individual) instead of 後 (rear) for Korakuen Hall (後楽園ホール). It has been properly localized.