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Yeah, I liked the mother with Ted so much that I guess I would have been fine with her still dying if the endgame wasn't Ted and Robin. After all the on and off again stuff with Robin though, the Mother was always going to end up as the silver medal. Someone else somewhere said that in order for Ted and Robin to get together they had to sacrifice the life of the Mother and Barney's character. Two things that they spent years building up just to trash it all in an hour or so. Also, the mother's name is Tracy (if they said it during the show I think I missed it but it was in the closing credits). I will forever be annoyed that Ted got to have his romance with the mother and fulfill all the different things that he said he wanted in a woman yet still end up with the woman who didn't embody any of those things but still loved for ever and ever. I'm sticking with my idea that Ted and Robin, regardless of how they've changed over the years, will not work in the future. They get together and break up and get together and break up and one of them will die before they settle on whether they should have just stayed together all these years.

I much prefer the pairing of Ted/Mother and Robin/Barney. Basically Ted got to live out all the little fantasies he built up in his head from college via the Mother but still ends up with the woman he was never supposed to get. My one solace is that the show ends with Robin and Ted seeing each other again and stopping there. We're supposed to assume that they live happily ever after but it gives me enough space to imagine that they end up apart like they always did before.

So this past Friday (the 21st), I went to my first ever BJW show. I had never actually watched BJW but it was holiday and it was a day show so I could watch it and get back home the same day with no problems. There was actually a Zero-1 show at the same place in the evening but I couldn't stay. It was a fun show. I'd seen Hakata StarLanes on TV via a bunch of Dragon Gate shows so it was nice to be there in person (there was also a BJW fan thing at the bowling alley after the show). Opening match was interesting in that they were trying to get pins off of things like body slams and dropkicks. The women's match was OK if a bit sloppy. Risa Sara whiffed on a kick that Sumire Natsu had to sell and at the end of the match Natsu took a nasty looking kick from Tsukasa Fujimoto that left her with this. The main event was bloody, which is understandable although crazy since they did a light bulb tag match the night before in Yonago. At least this show was being filmed (actually, I think it was or will be broadcasted). To take that much abuse for a crowd in the hundreds is something else. A few photos. I forgot to charge my camera battery so these were all taken with my phone: Shinjiro Otani was selling stuff. He signed my poster. I had a slight bout of indy pride and decided to buy stuff.

Yeah, that's what it looks like. They even have their own page on the Japanese wikipedia. Unfortunately the link at the end of the article is old. They seem to be very parody heavy. Not surprisingly some DDT guys came out of student feds.

From Hansen's Japanese wiki page: ブレーキの壊れたダンプカー Whereas Hyper Choshu Aihara's is ブレーキの着いていないダンプカー For Hansen it's a truck with broken brakes and for Aihara it's a truck with no brakes. I think.

Oh, and the only thing I could find for Zero was their twitter account. They look like another student fed. https://twitter.com/0_prowrestling

Tottori Darazu has a youtube channel. Or they are on the facebook page for Tottori Darazu. You just have to keep scrolling down.

Dunno if this is helpful but: HEAT-UP http://heat-up.biz/ Student Wrestling Summit: http://gpws2014.blog.jp/ Pacific Ocean Wrestling: https://twitter.com/pacificproresu Matsue Dandan Pro Wrestling (MDPW): http://www21.atpages.jp/matuedandan Oretachi Pro (OPG): http://www.nh-kr.com/opg Kyushu Wrestling Federation (KWF): http://puroken-blog.jugem.jp/ Tottori Darazu: https://www.facebook.com/pages/%E9%B3%A5%E5%8F%96%E3%81%A0%E3%82%89%E3%81%9A%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9/105923179529542 KWF is a university student fed. Oretachi Pro is originally a student fed? Seems to mainly run shows in Okayama.