Harukanaru Ring - Vol. 3 Ch. 22 - Stupid Kid

[MangaDex]

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[frogread45]

today has been the best :3, i was already happy i got my own copies earlier today and now another chapter has been translated.

 

[PatrickBulbasaur]

today has been the best :3, i was already happy i got my own copies earlier today and now another chapter has been translated.

Nice! I only have Volumes one and two so far. I think they must have found some new oldstock because I've been seeing a lot of copies in perfect condition in the market lately.

 

[ninjaaqua]

Another Devil Chojin lost to the Idol Chojin side. You hate to see it.

 

[Username1122cat]

I cannot get over how sketchy some of the things are in this manga. The 90s are wild.

Anyone notice the way our idol character was doing neck bridges? Do people still do that?
Mike Tyson was known to do that, and it completely fucked up that guy's spine.

 

[Suben]

If you want an indication of what Takamine's archetype in these chapters would be IRL (idol who's strong as an ox and twice as dumb) then look up current TJPW wrestler Miu Watanabe. Lilia I assume is mostly a mash up of wrestlers like Cutie Suzuki and Takako Inoue. Also kind of funny because, for a variety of reasons, the "idol" style is more or less what won out in the end and is now the dominant style of joshi wrestling. The butch women kind of fell off with the aging of "Dark Ages" wrestlers.

I cannot get over how sketchy some of the things are in this manga. The 90s are wild.

AJW (of which I assume this fictional promotion is based on) had a notorious problem with bullying for, well, a long time really but it got really bad in the '90s and there was a whole sort of bullying chain that went on where one generation of rookies would get bullied and in turn bully the trainees below them and on and on. The mid-'90s seemed to be the absolute worst of it though which led to extreme situations like rookies literally just fleeing in the middle of the night, most of them never returning (Kayo Noumi would run away and get convinced to come back five times before coming back for good).

It still continued (and continues) in a lot of promotions although it's largely not as bad as it would have been back then. There's definitely promotions with bad/dysfunctional backstage atmospheres (Ice Ribbon over the last few years is the most obvious one) but ones that are the complete opposite (TJPW and its whole "friendly girls" image). Whereas back then the hyper competitive bullying was the norm.

 

[Late_Komei]

Thank you for the chapter!

 

[PatrickBulbasaur]

If you want an indication of what Takamine's archetype in these chapters would be IRL (idol who's strong as an ox and twice as dumb) then look up current TJPW wrestler Miu Watanabe. Lilia I assume is mostly a mash up of wrestlers like Cutie Suzuki and Takako Inoue. Also kind of funny because, for a variety of reasons, the "idol" style is more or less what won out in the end and is now the dominant style of joshi wrestling. The butch women kind of fell off with the aging of "Dark Ages" wrestlers.


AJW (of which I assume this fictional promotion is based on) had a notorious problem with bullying for, well, a long time really but it got really bad in the '90s and there was a whole sort of bullying chain that went on where one generation of rookies would get bullied and in turn bully the trainees below them and on and on. The mid-'90s seemed to be the absolute worst of it though which led to extreme situations like rookies literally just fleeing in the middle of the night, most of them never returning (Kayo Noumi would run away and get convinced to come back five times before coming back for good).

It still continued (and continues) in a lot of promotions although it's largely not as bad as it would have been back then. There's definitely promotions with bad/dysfunctional backstage atmospheres (Ice Ribbon over the last few years is the most obvious one) but ones that are the complete opposite (TJPW and its whole "friendly girls" image). Whereas back then the hyper competitive bullying was the norm.

If you want an indication of what Takamine's archetype in these chapters would be IRL (idol who's strong as an ox and twice as dumb) then look up current TJPW wrestler Miu Watanabe. Lilia I assume is mostly a mash up of wrestlers like Cutie Suzuki and Takako Inoue. Also kind of funny because, for a variety of reasons, the "idol" style is more or less what won out in the end and is now the dominant style of joshi wrestling. The butch women kind of fell off with the aging of "Dark Ages" wrestlers.


AJW (of which I assume this fictional promotion is based on) had a notorious problem with bullying for, well, a long time really but it got really bad in the '90s and there was a whole sort of bullying chain that went on where one generation of rookies would get bullied and in turn bully the trainees below them and on and on. The mid-'90s seemed to be the absolute worst of it though which led to extreme situations like rookies literally just fleeing in the middle of the night, most of them never returning (Kayo Noumi would run away and get convinced to come back five times before coming back for good).

It still continued (and continues) in a lot of promotions although it's largely not as bad as it would have been back then. There's definitely promotions with bad/dysfunctional backstage atmospheres (Ice Ribbon over the last few years is the most obvious one) but ones that are the complete opposite (TJPW and its whole "friendly girls" image). Whereas back then the hyper competitive bullying was the norm.

I'm gonna pretend you didn't call Miu stupid lol.
Miu is a genuinely talented idol.
Yu is just doing this out of spite.

 

[Suben]

I'm gonna pretend you didn't call Miu stupid lol.
Miu is a genuinely talented idol.
Yu is just doing this out of spite.

Miu is one of my favorites, even went to a show I otherwise had no real interest in purely because she was going to be on it and I missed my chance at seeing the WM weekend show in 2020. But being a lovably dumb musclehead is part of her thing.

It's kind of interesting reading this series in the context of what was going in the joshi world around when this came out (1992) since AJW was still reeling a bit from losing the Crush Gals and Dump a few years earlier and that was the year the original JWP imploded and split into the new JWP (which died in 2017 and was succeeded by PURE-J) and LLPW (which has been effectively dead for a long time) and led into the interpromotional era.

Also was the year my all time favorite tag team, LCO, was formed. For whatever reason I instantly thought of them when Kawachi and Nazz first popped up.