KinchStalker

Just want to give a status update on the stuff I've been transcribing.

1. Etsuji Koizumi wrote a three-part biography of Michiaki Yoshimura for G Spirits Vol. 62-64, and I am transcribing it as a primary source for my own Yoshimura profile. It's around 36 pages in total, and I am down to the last four pages of part two. I have not yet scanned part three, and my scanner's been weird lately, so this might be put on hold.

2. I am working through G Spirits' 2022 feature on the first year of NJPW (Vol. 63) for a planned serial on my blog that will significantly expand on the "Naoki Otsuka and the Early Years of NJPW" thread, called RAMPANT. It features interviews with Fujinami, Inoki's brother Keisuke, early fan (turned wrestler) Masahiko Takasugi, and journalist Masakiyo Ishikawa, as well as a feature on all the gaikokujin hired in this period. I have completed Fujinami and Keisuke and have done all but two pages of Takasugi.

3. I've been slowly biting away at "Fly, Jumbo!", the first extended serial on Jumbo Tsuruta. Written by Takashi Yamada under a pseudonym and published by Monthly Puroresu in ten parts from spring 1973, the serial features the kayfabe story beats of Tsuruta's early life, but it also provides some useful granular details. I don't transcribe everything because there's a lot of conversations (which I assume were created for narrative purposes), and the relatively low-quality scans I am dependent on make for a slower turnaround, but I am essentially done with part seven.