Get In Loser, We're Going Moonsaulting

The pose they all did at the end of the show is called the "Sushi Zanmai" pose. For a while Chaos was doing this pose after group or tag victories, especially Goto and Yoshi-Hashi. I think (?) it was because Sushi Zanmai was sponsoring New Japan back then, but I'm not going to look it up to double-check. They got very enthusiastic about it, and it was very funny.

Sushi Zanmai is a popular sushi chain in Japan. The founder's "Sushi Zanmai Pose" became a meme in Japan. There are statues of him doing the pose in front of the restaurants, you can get toys of him doing the pose in gachapon machines, he had a cameo in one of the Yakuza games, and so on.

In real life he tends to do this pose in front of giant and impressive tunas.

Which is what Douki and Sho are supposed to represent here!

@choerrycolouredfunk @1701d

I know we’re not alone, I’d love to see some other people who sushi zanmai’d w/goto!! I know you have one @leaveharmony

This was his #squad retweet of mine :,)

The pose they all did at the end of the show is called the "Sushi Zanmai" pose. For a while Chaos was doing this pose after group or tag victories, especially Goto and Yoshi-Hashi. I think (?) it was because Sushi Zanmai was sponsoring New Japan back then, but I'm not going to look it up to double-check. They got very enthusiastic about it, and it was very funny.

Sushi Zanmai is a popular sushi chain in Japan. The founder's "Sushi Zanmai Pose" became a meme in Japan. There are statues of him doing the pose in front of the restaurants, you can get toys of him doing the pose in gachapon machines, he had a cameo in one of the Yakuza games, and so on.

In real life he tends to do this pose in front of giant and impressive tunas.

Which is what Douki and Sho are supposed to represent here!

@choerrycolouredfunk @1701d

I know we’re not alone, I’d love to see some other people who sushi zanmai’d w/goto!! I know you have one @leaveharmony

How the hell did he make it to 44

Questions like "I wonder what Hiromu is up to?" always lead to such interesting answers. There is...rarely a complete explanation as to why, though (it was a photo shoot, obviously, though I feel like they coulda done one less likely to drown the kid)

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

[image ID: a black-pen sketch of Kota Ibushi, performing a moonsault off the Budokan balcony. his body is outstretched, his face towards the floor. his shadow falls to his left, loosely outlined and only partially blacked out. lines are loose and quick.

a vertical line in red-pen goes down the middle of the page. it is a simplified force diagram, with the bottom labeled as "mg" and the top labeled as "F_drag". on the left, in loose hebrew text, are the words "נפילה חופשית". /.End ID]