​6/9 card:

• Miu Watanabe (Champion) VS VertVixen (Challenger)

• Yuki Arai (Champion) VS LA Taylor (Challenger)

• Shoko Nakajima, Mizuki, Rika Tatsumi & Yuki Aino VS Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI, Shino Suzuki & Toga

• Moka Miyamoto VS Hikaru Shida

• Aja Kong, Yuki Kamifuku & Kira Summer VS Maki Itoh, Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami

• Nao Kakuta & SAKI VS Raku & Harajuku Pom

• Chika Nanase VS Uta Takami

• Daisy Monkey [Suzume & Arisu Endo] VS Haru Kazeshiro & Runa Okubo

Notes

• It may be the beginning of the rainy season in Japan but ToJo is gonna steam things up with their PRISM show. This show will take place in its standard venue of Kourakuen Hall and will contain 8 matches.
  
• Match order may be different than how it is listed here.
  
• The card subject to change depending on participating wrestlers’ physical conditions.
  
• For Miu’s next challenge, a familiar face was announced. Vertvixen who has fought in Tokyo Joshi on a number of occasions last year and also participated in the Tokyo Joshi USA show earlier this year will now fight for ToJo’s top prize! Vertvixen’s battle record in ToJo is quite impressive. She has been on the winning side in all of her matches except her battle for the International Princess championship against Rika Tatsumi, a competitor for whom Miu thus far has also had no answer. This will be an interesting match due to the two competitors’ similarities. Both boast a strength and power-based offense and so its likely that neither of these competitors’ weights will be an issue when it comes to hoisting one another, rather, the problem in move execution will come whenever one or the other have the wherewithal to muscle out of a technique. However, where Vertvixen holds a notable advantage over the PuriPuri champion is size. Vertvixen holds a roughly 5 inch height advantage over the champion. The greater reach of the challenger could easily be a problem for Miu if she attempts to play a striking game. That said, Miu has an experience edge having debuted a year prior and having nearly double the amount of documented matches. She’s battled some big veteran names in the business and will in all probability be ready to react to any battle strategy Vertvixen plans to employ. Also of note, Miu just debuted a new submission she’s calling “reverse paradox” which supplements much of her offense by focusing on the small of her opponents back. Will this new submission come into play during the match? Was it a mistake to debut prior to the match and give Vertvixen a chance to develop countermeasures?
  
• In the semi-final, the blue belt is on the line as with another 6 foot monster entering the the ToJo title picture. British wrestler LA Taylor has made a name for herself over the past 4 years in various promotions across the U.K. She has managed to acquire a number of titles over her career and looks to add the International Princess belt to her list of accolades. Champion Yuki Arai is one of the taller wrestlers in Tokyo Joshi but she still gives up a near 20 centimeter (7 inch) height advantage to the challenger. Thus, it will be difficult for Arai to employ much of her big boot offense while Taylor is upright. The possible good news for Arai is that Taylor’s fight style doesn’t appear to be one of using her reach advantage to keep her opponents at bay but rather one where she uses her immense size as a weapon and throws herself at her opponents or uses her impressive power to lift her enemies high into the air and drive them down. This at least gives Arai a fighting chance at a win. Arai has fought giant monsters and more experienced fighters before and somehow come out on top, her key to victory thus far has been capitalizing on mistakes made by her opponents and hitting them with her “Finally” kick when they were downed. “Finally”, to date has been Arai’s strongest weapon and if she hits it, it almost guarantees a win. The question is will she be able to repeat her success with LA Taylor or will we see a new International Princess champion.
  
• A number of the brightest up and comers of ToJo will be forced to test their mettle when they face off against some of the top names in the promotion. Wakana, HIMAWARI, Shino and Toga all with just over a year’s experience in the ring will have to pull from all of their experiences and more if they want to have any chance against the team of Shoko, Rika, Mizuki and Yuki Aino. Outside of experience these two teams match up surprisingly similarly. Each team has a power fighter (Yuki and HIMAWARI), and 2 faster more technique and speed users (Shoko, Mizuki, Wakana & Shino). The fourth wrester on each team is where they are divergent. Over her short career, Toga has developed a solid striking offense that can’t really be seen on the other team whereas the fourth veteran member, Rika, while being a bit difficult to categorize given her penchant for bouts of insanity, is usually classified as a primarily technical wrestler. Now the problem comes in when you realize that while the rookies fit firmly into specific categories, the veterans have the ability to “wear more than one hat” as the expression goes. Meaning that while they each have their main style, they all have at least one other set of skills and abilities from which the can draw. Aino while best at using her strength and size to run into, drop onto or throw opponents, also has a number of submissions she can employ and is also known to go into a brawling style from time to time. Shoko is best known for her speed and high flying, is also a master mat wrestler with and unexpected power game as seen in her spectacular battle against PuriPuri champion Miu Watanabe last month. Mizuki, also known as a speedy striker, can change things up by using a submission game as well as a reactive countering game. Using opponents’ speed, bodyweight or even their own techniques against them. Lastly, as touched upon earlier, Rika’s style often changes with her disposition; floating from technical wrestler, to makeshift high flyer to striker to brawler as it suits her. The only thing that remains unchanged through her sojourn through temperaments is her in ring IQ and gamesmanship remains second to none. All and all this means that any of the four veterans can match up against more than one if not all the rookies and feasibly come out with the advantage. The rookies only have 2 advantages on which they can rely, 1 being more of a corollary of the first. The rookies are very close with one another, they prepared for their debuts together and consistently train together and fight with one another. They know each other very well and can potentially use that familiarity in teamwork that the veteran team does not have. The veteran wrestlers have all of course tagged with one another on various occasions but none of them works on the regular with any of the others. In addition to this of course is the Mizuki and Rika factor. Rika is known for her intense enamor for Mizuki. When working side by side, Rika often becomes uncontrollable with a desire to tandemly work with the sugar rabbit and this need often hinders the team as she will stop other teammates from working with Mizuki and even go so far as attacking them. If the rookie team can find a way to take advantage of this at the right moment, you could be looking at a major upset victory.
  
• A big star was announced for a singles match on this show! AEW’s 3 time women’s champ, Hikaru Shida will be in action. Shida last appeared in ToJo in 2022 where she participated in 3 matches. One of those matches paired her with fellow martial arts practitioner, Moka Miyamoto, against 121000000, the powerful tag team of Maki and Miyu. Now the pair will be pitted against one another for a special match at Kourakuen Hall. Moka has been rising through the ranks of ToJo earning a few title shots in the last couple years, gaining opportunities to work overseas and working with a number of high profile opponents. She did however suffer a small setback when her tag team partner, Juria Nagano, graduated from Tokyo Joshi earlier this year. This singles match against Shida will likely help push her star even further towards the top of the card. Moka is an accomplished striker. Her signature attack are knife edge strikes, a powerful straight punch and her jumping leg lariat which she often brings out late in matches. Shida, also an accomplished striker, is equally proficient in foot and hand attacks making her slightly more dynamic and giving her an advantage in the match. Moka is full of heart and fortitude but she will need all of that and potentially more to put one over on Shida.
  
• More multi-woman tag action as Kamiyu again pairs with Aja Kong on the heels of their team-up at her hometown show. The two also add Kira to their group as they battle Kamiyu’s good friend Maki, her regular tag partner, Mahiro, and a bird. Maki, Mahiro and Kaya is a very strange team and neither Kaya nor Mahiro pair up with Maki very often so it will be exciting to see how these three function together. This will also be Kira’s first interaction with Maki.
  
• We are now less than 2 months from Nao Kakuta’s graduation as a professional wrestler and ToJo management has started indulging many of her last requests in terms of partners and opponents. This time she matches up against nonsense dream team: Raku and Pom. To help seize the win, Nao is joined by former co-worker and current leader or the joshi wrestling unit, Colors, SAKI. Many ToJo fans will remember SAKI from her appearance at the Tokyo Joshi show in Philadelphia this past spring, however she has also made appearances on 2 inspiration shows in previous years. Prior to her departure from ActWres Girlz in 2020, Nao and SAKI worked together in the AWG promotion for a couple years and developed a friendship. Nao wanted to work with SAKI again before her graduation. For those less familiar with SAKI, she is a veteran wrestler of over 10 years and debuted alongside Mizuki in the LLPW-X promotion. SAKI is extremely talented but years of working in promotions like Gatoh Move, YMZ, WAVE and of course her current group, Colors has given her the ability to roll with all kinds of weirdness without flinching. Seeing her and Nao face off against pom and Raku will be nothing short of a laugh riot.
  
• Match 2 will be an exciting singles match between 2 of ToJo’s newest members. Chika will take on the white Up Up Girl, Uta. This will be the first singles battle between these two and probably the opening salvo of a career long rivalry. Tokyo Joshi historically is known for the strong bonds of friendship and competition between women of the same class and this class is shaping up to be no different. Neither wrestler has managed to get a 3 count on an opponent. So, with both Uta and Chika looking for their first win, expect both of them to pull out all the stops and make use of everything they’ve learned in their training and their match experience thus far in the hopes of capturing first bragging rights over their classmate.
  
• At the last Kourakuen Hall show in May, the tag team champions, Suzume and Arisu Endo, took on a challenge from what are generally considered the standout members of the ToJo rookie class of 2023. They were able to pass that test and while not a tag title match, the champions will now take on another pair of 2023 rookies, Runa and Haru. Runa and Haru are Tokyo Joshi’s youngest members. Both have been getting big match-ups against some of ToJo’s current and former big stars and now they have an opportunity, albiet not for the titles, to battle the tag champs. Haru has been establishing herself as a technical and agility-based wrestler. Runa however has gone the route of a heavy striker and potential power figher. She’s still early in her career but her forearms are starting to become fearsome. Haru and Runa seem to be close outside of the ring, Due to Runa’s age, she currently has no social media but when she has something to say, Haru allows Runa to communicate it through Haru’s own social accounts. Due to their closeness outside the ring and the numerous times they’ve teamed together inside the ring, the high school duo is bound to have some surprises in store for the champs. Will they be ready?
  
• English commentary this time around will again be provided by Mr HAKU and Gaia Hox.
  
• For any foreign fans attending this show, the signing after the show will be held off site but just across the way from Kourakuen Hall in Tokyo Dome City Prism Hall. Just in case you need map info you can check that here.
  
• Nao Kakuta will graduate from Tokyo Joshi on July 25^th, 2024. Her final show will be at ShinKiba 1^st ring. The details for this show are yet unknown, however prior to her retirement, a Nao Kakuta self-produced show named CROSS has been planned. This show, also set at 1^st Ring will take place on July 6^th and will be a celebration of her 9 year career and some of the people she worked most closely with throughout it. Former ActWres Girlz coworkers, Saori Anou, Tae Honma, Maika Ozaki, Kakeru Sekiguchi, Himeka Arita (AKA Himeka), and Natsumi Maki (AKA Natsupoi) are scheduled to appear as well as freelance wrestler Cherry.
  
• It was announced that Up Up Girl Hikari Noa who hasn’t been competing since December of 2023 has decided to Graduate from both the Up Up Girls (Puroresu) and Tokyo Joshi. Hikari Noa debuted on January 4^th, 2018 as just “Hikari” alongside fellow Up Up Girl (Puroresu) members Miu (Miu Watanabe) Raku (now stylized differently) and former member Hinano (Pipipipi Pinano) before changing her ring name to Hikari Noa in December of that year. Hikari was extremely popular with fans and through them was able to successfully produce a photobook and solo song via crowdfunding. She was a former International Princess champion and Princess Tag champion until the belts were relinquished as a result of her hiatus. Hikari was best known as a tag team specialist and formed popular teams with Natsumi Maki (Pandemic Boo Boo) with Shiori Sena and finally with Nao Kakuta (Free WiFi). Hikari was a huge fan of deathmatch wrestling and was one of only a select few ToJo members who participated in any kinds of matches using weapons. Probably most notable was her appearance in an exploding bat deathmatch at DDT’s Peter Pan show. Hikari’s 6 year career in Tokyo Joshi was unique and extraordinarily memorable and she will be greatly missed.
  
• Miyu Yamashita is also slated to return at the June 15^th Kobe show.
  
• Hyper Misao and Neko Haruna are currently on the disabled list. Timetable for return is unknown.
  
• A group of 4 Tokyo Joshi stars have been announced for the collaboration show with EVE pro wrestling in England. Miyu Yamashita, Raku, Mahiro Kiryu and HIMAWARI are now slated to appear at the show on August 24^th. It is unknown whether or not if other talent will be added to this list, but they will also need talent to fill their shows in Japan on adjacent days.