(NOAH) Super Violent Army introduction video

From left to right: Masa Kitamiya, Kenoh, Takeshi Morishima, Maybach Taniguchi and Hajime Ohara (Kenoh and Hajime Ohara were the GHC Junior Heavyweight tag champions at the time)

"Super Violent Army" (or "Choukibou-gun" in Japanese) formed on January 5th 2014 after Takeshi Morishima defeated KENTA for the GHC Heavyweight Championship. At this time Morishima was a member of "BRAVE" (alongside Naomichi Marufuji, Taiji Ishimori and Mohammed Yone), as they came out to congratulate him, they were attacked by Kenoh and Maybach Taniguchi. Morishima told his fallen ex stablemates that from now on his new gang would be the center of Noah. Hajime Ohara joined in January 2015 as did Masa Kitamiya (then known as Mitsuhiro Kitamiya).

They were a strong successful and popular stable, (despite their actions as heels) and between them held most of the Noah championships at one point or another. They even had their own box office produce, "Super Brutal Army". What spelled the end for "Super Violent Army" was the retirement of Takeshi Morishima in April 2015 following an injury and suspected diabetes, but nothing was officially over between them (although they all pretty much went their separate ways), until December 24th 2015 when Naomichi Marufuji officially ended all stables in Noah to unite everyone against the invading Suzuki-Gun.

In this video, they visit a Ramen restaurant.
Or rather, they teleport to one (yes that's right, they possessed magic powers).


Episode starts with a lot of shrieking (and Kenoh trying not to laugh). The man waving a tennis racket around in the background is Mr. Okada, who works for Pro-Wrestling Noah (I believe he is still with the company in 2018 although I don't know exactly what he does, I think he is in a corporate role in an executive position).

Mr. Okada comes jogging over after Kenoh starts yelling at him.
Kenoh (to the surprise of absolutely no one) is going to be doing a lot of yelling


They teleport to the Ramen Restaurant.
Well, only three of them do, their powers must be weak in daylight or something, or else its defective as it only works on three at a time. Kenoh, Morishima and Ohara make it there first, then Taniguchi and Kitamiya try next, leaving poor Mr. Okada jumping up and down like a crazy person, who has to make his own way there.


The ramen resturant , Cha-Shu-Riki, is based in Saitama, and has a tradition of working with pro-wrestling companies (from visiting the website it looks like they have also worked with DragonGate and Westward Pro), and inside they meet the owner (or rather Hajime Ohara, who appears to be holding a wand to point at what he wants, and Takeshi Morishima do).


Hajime Ohara chose to have the pork Ramen. They all appear to have had the extra large bowls (courtesy of Takeshi Morishima, who is said to have a "Takeshi Morishima = Ultra Large Takeshi" size portion). Its true what they say, wrestlers do have tremendous appetites, as they not only finish them, they also have more food afterwards. 


The manager calls by the table and asks them how they are enjoying their food. Morishima raises his fist in a cheer, Hajime Ohara does the Muy Bien sign, Maybach Taniguchi grins, Masa Kitamiya smiles, and Kenoh looks as if the manager has called by on his birthday to tell him he's got to move from the table he reserved.  


Kenoh has this funny little habit whereby he touches his nose when he laughs.


This was at the time of the New Japan\Suzuki Gun involvement with Noah, and so after their meal, Kenoh makes a point of doing an angry promo against his opponents. Hajime Ohara joins in, Maybach Taniguchi growls, and Morishima speaks at the table for the first and only time during this segment. 

But where has Mr. Okada been? 
Well, it seems that because he doesn't possess super powers and the ability to teleport unlike the Super Violent Army, like ordinary mortals he has had to have got to the restaurant another way. So he arrives in a company car (it was said that during the Golden Era, the younger wrestlers could afford to drive foreign cars like BMWs, the company was doing that well). It would have taken him about forty-five minutes to an hour to drive from Tokyo to Saitama. 


He arrives at the restaurant at a run, and bursts panting through the doors.
Kenoh decides to yell LOUDLY at him for being late.


Having driven all this way, Mr. Okada decides to settle down and have something to eat, but an ominous presence in the shape of Maybach Taniguchi lurks behind him.
A heavy hand on his shoulder makes Mr. Okada turn around and look up.
Taniguchi growls, and walks off....


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