I dedicate this to everyone I love. Even though it might not be appreciated.
Males
1. Yoshio Akamatsu
2. Keita Iijima
3. Tatsumichi Oki
4. Toshinori Oda
5. Shogo Kawada
6. Kazuo Kiriyama
7. Yoshitoki Kuninobu
8. Yoji Kuramoto
9. Hiroshi Kuronaga
10. Ryuhei Sasagawa
11. Hiroki Sugimura
12. Yutaka Seto
13. Yuchiro Takiguchi
14. Sho Tsukioka
15. Shuya Nanahara
16. Kazushi Niida
17. Mitsuru Numai
18. Tadakatsu Hatagami
19. Shinji Mimura
20. Kyoichi Motobuchi
21. Kazuhiko Yamamoto
Females
1. Mizuho Inada
2. Yukie Utsumi
3. Megumi Eto
4. Sakura Ogawa
5. Izumi Kanai
6. Yukiko Kitano
7. Yumiko Kusaka
8. Kayoko Kotohiki
9. Yuko Sakaki
10. Hirono Shimizu
11. Mitsuko Souma
12. Haruka Tanizawa
13. Takako Chigusa
14. Mayumi Tendo
15. Noriko Nakagawa
16. Yuka Nakagawa
17. Satomi Noda
18. Fumiyo Fujiyoshi
19. Chisato Matsui
20. Kaori Minami
21. Yoshimi Yahagi
[A pro wrestling fan's rant in an alternate world]
What? Battle Royale? "What's Battle Royale?" Come on, don't tell me you don't know that!? Why bother coming to a pro wrestling match, huh? The name of a move? The name of a tournament? No, Battle Royale's a pro wrestling match. What? "Today?" Today, here, you mean? No, it's not today's program. It's only held in large arenas for big events. Look, there's Takako Inoue. O-oh, sorry. That's right Battle Royale. It's still held in the All Japan Pro Wrestling League. In a nutshell, let's see Battle Royale is—you know how your usual pro wrestling match is one on one or between paired up partners, well with Battle Royale, ten or twenty wrestlers all jump into the ring. And then you're free to attack anyone, one on one, or ten against one, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how many wrestlers pin someone down—what, you don't even know what a pin is? Once your back's on the mat, the count goes, one, two, three, you lose. It's no different from a normal match. Players can also forfeit, and occasionally someone'll get knocked out. Oh yeah, and there's the count out. You can also be disqualified by breaking the rules. Most wrestlers lose by falls in Battle Royale. Hey, go Takako, go! Go, go! O-oh, sorry sorry. In any case, the ones who fall lose, they have to leave the ring. Fewer and fewer players remain in the game. There're only two left in the end. One on one, a very serious match. One out of those two will eventually take a fall. Then there's only one player left in the ring, and he's the winner. He wins. He's given a huge trophy and prize money. Get it? Huh? What about players who've been friends? Well, at first, of course they help each other out. But in the end they have to fight each other. You have to follow the rules. Which also means you get to watch some rare matches. Like way back when the tag-team partners of Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith were the remaining players. Same thing happened with tag-team partners Animal Warrior and Hawk Warrior. In that match though I don't remember which one, but the guy intentionally went for a count out letting his partner win, a display of camaraderie which was kind of a letdown. Oh, you can also team up with players who used to be your enemies. But the moment you think you're teaming up to get rid of someone else, this sneaky
Government Internal Memo 1997, No. 00387461 (Top Secret)
Dispatched by Central Authority Secretariat Special Task Force Defense Supervisor and Battle Experiment Advisor of the Special Defense Army
To: Supervisor in Charge of No. 12 1997 Battle Experiment No. 68 Program (May 20, 18:15)
