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Originally Posted by Fignuts It depends on where they're pulling from. Stardom has a wealth of talent, but I doubt they'd get anyone from there. Sendai Girls, Seedlining, and Marvelous are relatively close in style to classic AJW, but they each only have 3-5 really notable talents. Tokyo Joshi Pro has some good talent too. Besides that, there's a stand out here or there, but it's mostly crap. The biggest problem is none of these women speak english. If they really go hard into making this feel different and focus on pure sport presentation as opposed to typical story and character based stuff, it MIGHT be intriging enough to work, but it's still going to be an uphill battle.

it really boils down to what will it take for it tobe profitable. There's a not insignificant number of anime fans and they nearly exclusively consume the product in Japanese so i think the language barrier isnt a big deal as long as your goal, and budget, reflect a realistic expectation.

Any show is successful as long as it generates enough revenue to properly motivate making future shows. The bar of success isnt "well youre in 2nd place so youre a loser" any more than "well you're in 100th place so youre a loser." If the people behind it are growing their coffers then its successful. So again its all about what are they aiming for and itll be interesting to see how it pans out.

Ive contended for time something like a twitch or a kick is the ideal platform for a wrestling product. Its free global distribution plus you get the gate regardless. I think crowd funding for increasingly niche ideas is the future of entertainment as a whole. You put something like this in the right physical market and build up a healthy online following that subscribes/donates/etc i could see a scenrio where this works pretty easily.