the fact that this was the first thing they ever recorded and it was discarded until the absurdly huge box set series is how you know artists should not be in control of the curation or assessment of their own work

just watched this on loop about 300 times god bless

also extremely funny mlw commentary on the tjpw yt upload which features the phrase “young veteran” ijbol

i will go one further and say miu/shoko is more satisfying to me narratively than misawa/kawada post 94 🤷‍♀️

there is also the daydream v kyoraku kyomei match at summer sun ‘25 which this juiced by building anticipation of a substantive shoko win. still not satisfying enough on balance for me BUT in context as interesting in their series as the princess cup semi-final

it’s not just a matter of admiring the adaptation to different crowd rhythms which in fairness took the whole roster an entire show to adjust to. there’s more going on under the hood bookingwise that i did not appreciate until i saw the full miu princess cup arc

she did do it tho. she did do it