(NOAH) "Follow me you bastards!" Kenoh's Weekly Pro Column
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Q: The Asahi beverage "Wonda Morning Coffee" is now on sale at Family Mart nationwide with a Weekly Pro cover on the packaging.
KENOH: It's a Weekly Pro drive. By the way, it is your strategy to make this the topic?
Q: Isn't it a strategy?
KENOH: In the first place, convenience stores in Japan are no longer a lifeline, and so if there is one in the neighborhood, you can survive for the time being. Moreover, it is open twenty-four hours. Wonda, whose packaging uses pro wrestling, is always placed there and so as a pro wrestler, I'm happy. Okay, do you want to do this this week? Pro wrestling fans go to wrestling on a daily basis, and I'm proud as they are always in the convenience stores. Recently, Weekly Pro hasn't been placed there!
Q: You are going to touch on a sore point...
KENOH: That's why I think it's very big that pro wrestling was selected for Wonda's packaging. It's a bridge between the world and the world of pro wrestling.
Q: Thank you
KENOH: If you look closely, the scale tips at All Japan. Giant Baba, Jumbo Tsuruta, Genichiro Tenryu, Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Stan Hansen and Tiger Mask II, there are twelve (covers) and they have seven. New Japan have Tatsumi Fujinami, Akira Maeda, Masakatsu Funaki and Shinya Hashimoto. Joshi have Manami Toyota. How did you choose people?
Q: They were carefully chosen by Editor-in-chief Yuzawa
KENOH: I'd like to ask why it became these twelve wrestlers. Do you know anything?
Q: No comment.
KENOH: What is it? It's interesting. What happened to Antonio Inoki and Riki Choshu? There is no Keiji Mutoh of current Noah.
Q: It is...
KENOH: This seems to be difficult to explain. This whole thing reeks of money. Pro wrestling fans want to know why they were selected.
Q: Changing the topic, Kenoh, is there anything that you collect?
KENOH: No. I haven't been in the habit of collecting anything for a long time. Naomichi Marufuji-kun, who is in the habit, is happy to complete and tweet. It's cute somehow (laughs sarcastically)
Q: Among these, do you have a memorable cover?
KENOH: Not really. When I was in elementary school, it was the time when professional wrestling was the most popular in the past. From the perspective that Giant Baba and Tatsumi Fujinami are not in their heyday, if you look this is centered around the 90s. Well, I can see that for these twelve wrestlers it was a big turning point. There are various 1st graders.
Q: Isn't Kongoh's first grader Masakatsu Funaki?
KENOH: That's right. What's this on the cover, "I'm coming to UWF"
Q: Its when Funaki, who was on a European expedition with New Japan, announced his transfer to UWF to this magazine before returning to Japan.
KENOH: I know, because I saw it on Pro mobile Premium. Liverpool, right? Has the first grader had a strong belief since he was nineteen years old? Isn't that a 33 year history of a strong belief, that is why his headband is red. Between you and I, it appears that drinking Funaki's Wonda will raise your strong belief level by 1.
Q: Really?
KENOH: Joking aside, if you think about it, the target is late forties or older, but when I tried drinking it, it was pretty sweet. Personally I like black coffee, so I wanted it to be black, but Funaki's cans were delicious.
Q: That's a great analysis
KENOH: If this is a big hit, then next time I want you to make one with a guy who will resonate with younger generations. Okay, I will brand it right away.
Q: Please!
KENOH: These cans are in the Kongoh colors.
Q: Yes, they are red.
KENOH: So, "Wonda Morning Shot", how about Kongoh cans? But, I want to say that as you can only make seven, how about Noah cans?
Q: It sounds good!
KENOH: This kind of thing can be a hassle with portrait rights contracts. But, if you only use Noah then you can save yourself a lot of trouble. Noah cans would be the best, and would definitely sell.
Q: You have been thinking this a lot
KENOH: FamilyMart, Asahi Beverages, collaboration cans with Noah, thank you!
Q: By the way, if you wanted to make a pro wrestling can, which cover would you use? The cover is the event that became the turning point for each wrestler.
KENOH: Naturally, I would chose the one from when I won the league...
Q: Huh, wouldn't it be the cover from when YOU transferred from Michinoku Pro to Noah?
KENOH: Not really. I don't like the cover with that cheap speech bubble. Don't try to make a pro wrestling can with the cover of "Kenoh's FA Declaration*"
Q: Well, pretend.
KENOH: Stop it.
Translated from Weekly Pro
Picture credit: Weekly Pro
Many thanks to JenJ for sending me the article
*FA: Free agent
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