(Noah) The Green Guide to How to Follow Pro-Wrestling Noah
Hello and welcome to another edition of "The Green Guide to Pro-Wrestling Noah", in this edition I will provide you with the best ways to watch\follow Pro-Wrestling Noah.
Television, streaming service and live shows
At the time of writing (April 2018), I am afraid that Noah do not have a streaming service and have announced no plans to create one. This is due to a lot of legal reasons and the problems caused by the association with organised crime in 2010. In a nutshell Noah do not own a lot of their material as it is owned by the network (hence the reason the DVD distribution have dried up). The network are also shareholders in the company, and therefore after losing their TV deal, Noah couldn't simply jump to another station. Noah do not currently have a weekly TV show (it was pulled after the scandal in 2010), and at the current time the network have no plans to resurrect it and will only show select shows and very few live shows. Although it would benefit both Noah and the network, they will not currently take a chance on them due to the past association with organised crime.
Needless to say, it is complicated.
That said, there is a way to watch Noah for those outside of Japan.
FujiTV
The easiest way to watch Noah is to have a subscription to FujiTV. You can pay for a year or for six months, and you will get access to Japanese television (sports channels, films, etc). I recommend paying via Paypal for it for convenience. You might also want to buy an Amazon Firestick and watch through your television. You can watch through your laptop and the service is available on your phone, however the latter option is not recommended as the app does not shut down when you close it, the streaming continues and will eat into your data allowance.
You can get a trial version, but this will expire after seven days whether you use it or not. Unfortunately you cannot simply keep signing up as your old e-mail address will not be valid.
Relevant channels:
Samurai TV: Channel 72
Samurai show Battlemen (recap show featuring various Puro promotions, although fans do complain that Noah only get about five minutes, but often it is the only way to watch parts of a non televised show) and usually show full shows and sometimes live shows (usually the big events though like the end of year).
G +: Channel 49
G+ occasionally show live events or air shows a few days after they have taken place. They also show older Noah shows (usually from the last year).
TBS: Channel 5 (Amenji-Peng every Tuesday at 00:58)
Not really a Noah channel perse, but they do broadcast Amenji Peng which usually features Quiet Storm (it's a psychedelic show featuring him going around Japan)
NicoPro
NicoPro is another option, but it is not recommended. The service is on a pay-per-view basis (therefore you will be paying each time you want to watch something), and you can only pay via a Japanese credit card.
Other forms of social media
Website
Noah's official website can be found here.
Unfortunately the online shop has been closed since November 2016, and although Noah do mail order (domestic only, they don't and never have done, ship outside of Japan. The only way you are going to get anything ((and I am going to get that RATELS jacket)) is by finding someone in Japan who will buy them for you and send them on).
Noah did once have an English language website, but it was hardly updated, not as good as the main site and has long since vanished.
It is possible to follow match results through the Noah site; however following it live at the time of an event is frustrating as it is often updated long after the matches are over.
X means loss, circle means win. |
There are parts of the website that are out of date (the bios for example), however the news section is very well maintained. "Noah;s Ark Fanclub" is only available to those based in Japan.
PODCASTS
Noah does have an official podcast, however it is in Japanese, and usually features a guest. It is usually once a month.
The following Noah wrestlers have a Twitter account:
Akitoshi Saito
Atsushi Kotoge
Cody Hall
Daisuke Harada
Go Shiozaki
Kaito Kiyomiya
Katsuhiko Nakajima
Kenoh
Hi69
Hitoshi Kumano
Jay Bradley
Junta Miyawaki
Masa Kitamiya
Maybach Taniguchi
Minoru Tanaka
Mitsuya Nagai
Mohammed Yone
Naomichi Marufuji
Quiet Storm
Tadasuke
Takashi Sugiura
YO-HEY
HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa, and Hajime Ohara do not currently have Twitter accounts. President Uchida's can be found here. Two good Noah news accounts (in Japanese) are Noah GHC & RealNGreen.
Hisame's English language Noah news Twitter is here
Associated accounts
Akira Taue
Curioshift
(Naomichi Marufuji's company)
Eddie Edwards
Kenta Kobashi
KENTA
King's Ark
(Shows Noah matches, also some older All Japan shows)
LEONA
Satoko's Room
(Mohammed Yone's alter ego, the loud and exuberant Satoko)
Shu Nishinaga
(Long standing Noah referee)
Yoneya
(Mohammed Yone's restaurant)
Official Facebook
Cody Hall
Daisuke Harada
Go Shiozaki
Katsuhiko Nakajima
Hitoshi Kumano
Jay Bradley
Junta Miyawaki
Kenta Kobashi
Masa Kitamiya
Mohammed Yone
Noah GHC
Naomichi Marufuji
President Uchida
Quiet Storm
Tadasuke
YO-HEY
YouTube
Official Noah YouTube Channel
King's AARK (Mixture of vintage All Japan and some Noah)
Noah's Archive
Vine
Noah's Vine account has not been updated since February 2016. It doesn't look like individual wrestlers have accounts.
Periscope
The Periscope app is a live streaming service. Noah have used it to broadcast their press conferences (this is what their account is made up of), a few Noah wrestlers also have accounts. I recommend that if you do want to follow Noah on this account (they obviously don't broadcast shows), you download the app on to your phone and sync it to your Twitter account, this will show what wrestlers you follow have accounts. Having a look at the few Noah wrestlers that do, it seems that they haven't uploaded their own videos, and merely just follow Noah.
Satoko's Room
The best place to watch the exuberant Satoko (Mohammed Yone) is on Live.TV, Satoko also maintains a YouTube Channel.
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