Grimmas Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 Jetlag said: "Obscenely underrated worker who is like an almagation of all my favourite wrestling tropes. Hard headded, lithe agile grappler with innovative offense and a knack for cool moments. She has some impressive singles matches in many different promotions and I'm down to do a deeper dive into her work." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ma Stump Puller Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 It's really depressing watching 2000's Joshi because there are so many talented workers who should and could be absolutely be on the same level of reverence as the 90's generation prior, it's just that there was so little actually floating around that many of them (Ray/Bloody/Nagashima/Kimura/Bolshoi/Hamada/Kurihara, the list is endless) were lost to the sands of random tape traders and the occasional random Youtube listing that never got took down. Amano absolutely qualifies despite her being one of the luckier ones that got a lot more taped time. As Jetlag says above she's a terrific mix of insanely cool grappler and deliverer of epic headbutts in ways I've never really seen one try to do a headbutt before, which is already a winning combination in my eyes. Not only is her peak showings pretty great (from what I've seen, anyway) her consistency in regards to floor is stellar. She stays great all the way to the very end of her performing career (starting about 1999 and ending in 2014) and even at the very end she's still having a blast working really good TV-style sub 15 minute matches; impressive given she spent most of her years doing wacky headbutts and not exactly going easy on them. I'm not qualified enough yet to say how truly good she'd be on a potential 100 list, but she definitely has earned a spot for me just by what I've watched and reviewed so far. Real crime how little attention she gets despite having so many high-quality stuff looming in the distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted May 3 Author Report Share Posted May 3 I love her matches with Bolshoi, two of the greatest technical wrestlers ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ma Stump Puller Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Alright so I actually wanted to put out a proper watch list as soon as I had got through basically nearly every comprehensive Amano match worth watching minus the occasional filler tag or two lol. Jetlag didn't throw recommendations up above, so consider this the unofficial version I suppose. It can be tricky finding 2000's OZ and whatnot but there are sites and resources worth searching out if you dig. Best of: singles vs Mayumi Ozaki (03.06.1998 JWP) vs Tomoko Miyaguchi (05.10.1998 JWP) vs Meiko Satomura (01.17.1999 GAEA) vs Azumi Hyuga (09.23.1999 JWP) vs Azumi Hyuga II (02.23.2002 Neo-JWP) Any Command Bolshoi match she had/was involved in 2002 vs Mariko Yoshida (04.30.2004 GAEA) vs Aja Kong (04.10.2005 GAEA) vs Kyoko Kimura (05.13.2007 Battlarts 2.0) vs Kaori Yoneyama (10.21.2007 OZ Academy) vs Aja Kong II (01.13.2008 OZ Academy) vs Mayumi Ozaki II (04.12.2008 OZ Academy) vs Kana (09.15.2013 OZ Academy) vs Sonoko Kato (11.10.2013 OZ Academy) Best of: tags w/ Tomoko Miyaguchi vs Command Bolshoi & Kanako Motoya (04.21.1996 JWP) w/ Mayumi Ozaki vs Devil Masami & Hikari Fukuoka (02.09.1997 JWP) w/ Chikayo Nagashima vs Meiko Satomura & Toshie Uematsu (11.30.1997 GAEA) w/ Aja Kong vs Meiko Satomura & Toshiyo Yamada (02.28.1999 OZ Academy) w/ Hiromi Yagi vs Chaparita ASARI & Yuka Shiina (05.04.2001 NEO) w/ Meiko Satomura vs Dynamite Kansai & Toshiyo Yamada (09.24.2001 GAEA) w/ Chigusa Nagayo vs AKINO & Mariko Yoshida (01.16.2005 GAEA) w/ Dynamite Kansai vs Eagle Sawai & Takako Inoue (01.28.2007 OZ Academy) w/ Yuki Ishikawa vs Kana & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (01.10.2011 Kana Pro II) w/ Manami Toyota vs Hikaru Shida & Kagetsu (02.03.2014 OZ Academy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 I would throw in her 2001 singles matches vs Ran Yu Yu, and the 2002 sprint against Meiko Satomura in for singles recommendations. I haven't yet done a full-on deep dive into Amano, but I can safely say she's always worth watching when she's not in some bullshit tag playing the jobber. The GAEAISM channel has put up lots of good stuff lately on YouTube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ma Stump Puller Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 6 hours ago, Jetlag said: I would throw in her 2001 singles matches vs Ran Yu Yu, and the 2002 sprint against Meiko Satomura in for singles recommendations. I haven't yet done a full-on deep dive into Amano, but I can safely say she's always worth watching when she's not in some bullshit tag playing the jobber. The GAEAISM channel has put up lots of good stuff lately on YouTube. Honestly you could throw any singles Amano/Ran match in there, they have great chemistry all things considered. The 1998 match is their most ambitious mat-heavy work though so it's a good addition to throw in Haven't watched the Meiko 2002 match but that should be good. It's a real shame that their 2013 rematch in OZ got clipped to 2 minutes because they always bounced off each other especially well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ma Stump Puller Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Also done a C&A on Amano that really goes deep into some cool stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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