Hanako Takeuchi

[Hanako Takeuchi]

WRESTLER APPLICATION

NOTE: Hanako's shtick has many working parts to it, therefore I shall refer you to the universal app (click me)

Birth Name: Hanako Takeuchi
Ring Name: Hanako Takeuchi
Height: 5'11”
Weight: 141 lbs.
Birth Place: Kamagasaki, Osaka, Japan
Billed From: Kamagasaki, Osaka, Japan
Alignment: See the universal app
Stable: What Stable are you In? *Note you don’t have to worry about this right now*
Pro Debut: September 2017

GIMMICK SUMMARY
Depends what she's doing that night. See the universal app.

HISTORY
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IN WRESTLING

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Finishing Moves
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Signature Moves
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Basic Moves:
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Wrestling Style
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Entrance Theme
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IN RING APPEARANCE
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CHAMPIONSHIPS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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OUT OF CHARACTER

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HANAKO TAKEUCHI – THE PERSON
- General Information (Height, weight, hometown, etc.)
- Early Life
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Relationships
- Residences

HANAKO TAKEUCHI – THE COMBAT SPORTS STAR
- Accomplishments
- Promotions
- Tag Teams
- Units
- Gyms
- Notable Matches
- Combat Artist
- Primary Moveset
- The Black Rose (Normal, standard rules pro wrestling match)
----- Gimmick
----- Combat Style
----- Additional Moves/Spots
- Black Rose Ultra (Deathmatch)
----- Gimmick
----- Combat Style
----- Additional Moves/Spots
- Muay Thai Murder Momma (MMA, kickboxing, boxing, bare-knuckle boxing fights)
----- Gimmick
----- Combat Style
----- Additional Moves/Spots
- Sukeban (Avante-garde, comedy matches for adult crowds *Face*)
----- Gimmick
----- Combat Style
----- Additional Moves/Spots
- Ravishing Red Rose (Avante-garde, comedy matches for adult crowds *Heel*)
----- Gimmick
----- Combat Style
----- Additional Moves/Spots
- Feathered Serpent (Avante-garde, comedy matches for family-friendly crowds)
----- Gimmick
----- Combat Style
----- Additional Moves/Spots

HANAKO TAKEUCHI – THE MUSICIAN
- Musical Talents
- Vinyl Disc Jockey
- The Enforcers
- Heel Wives
- Solo
- Collaborations

HANAKO TAKEUCHI – THE BUSSINESSWOMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST
- Masatake Kawamata's Spring Break Rager
- The Rumble Room
- Hanako's Killa Kickboxing
- Philanthropy
- Sponsors

HANAKO TAKEUCHI – THE ACTRESS, MODEL, AND PRESENTER
- Fashion Model
- Hanshin Tigers
- Hanako's Killa Kickboxing

HANAKO TAKEUCHI – THE PERSON

- GENERAL INFORMATION

Name: Hanako Takeuchi (Takeuchi Hanako, 竹内花子)
Nicknames: The Black Rose, Muay Thai Murder Momma, Battleground Network Box Office Hit, The Kamagasaki Killa of Real Killas MMA, The Queen of Korakuen Hall, Hanako-senpai, Hanako Talkeuchi (she has a lot to say during press conferences)
Gender: Female
Age: 28 (born on June 11, 1991)
Hometown: Kamagasaki, Osaka, Japan
Currently Resides: Long Beach, California, USA and Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Height: 5'11”
Weight: 141 lbs.
Blood Type: B
Reach: 75”
Stance: Orthodox
Alignment: Generally a neutral who leans face, but it ultimately depends on what she's doing that night
Languages: Japanese (first language), English (fluent), German (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (basic), Russian (basic)
Picture Base: Saki Akai

- EARLY LIFE

- ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS

- RELATIONSHIPS


- RESIDENCES



HANAKO TAKEUCHI – THE COMBAT SPORTS STAR

- ACCOMPLISHMENTS

DTW World Champion
XWA World Television Champion
XWA Hardcore Champion
2x DTW Eternal Warfare Champion
IJPW Shoot Crown Champion
Union Grand Prix Lightweight Champion
Union Battleground Battalion Champion
3x Union Grand Prix Performance of the Night
SFN 1 Fight of the Night
After Dark Fusion Champion
XHF Women's Champion
Omega Academy Duelling Dyad Champion
RCW Artemis Champion

- PROMOTIONS

Death Trip Wrestling
Iron Japan Pro Wrestling
After Dark
G2 YaMMAshi
Union Battleground
Union Grand Prix
Xtreme Wrestling Alliance
Slaughterhouse Fight Nights
8 Corners MMA
KAMIKAZE Pro
J-ROK
Sakura Shoujo Stampede
Omega Academy
Slaughterhouse Wrestling
Rose City Wrestling
CWC Japan: Legacy
Elite FC
Vengeance Pro Wrestling
Limitless Wrestling
REBELLION Pro
Big Apple Wrestling

- TAG TEAMS

Osaka Rebels (with Masatake Kawamata, 2017-present)
Real Killas MMA (with STRiFE, 2019-present)

- UNITS

Filth Parade (2017-present)

- GYMS

Real Killas MMA (2018-present)

- NOTABLE MATCHES

Information to come later.

- COMBAT ARTIST

Hanako sees combat sports as an extension of herself as an artist. While she values wins and titles belts, Hanako views combat as something much more than a list of results on a web page. In MMA, Hanako wants the early highlight reel knockout. In pro wrestling, Hanako wants the five-star match of the night.

To understand her mentality is to know the history of both sports. Antonio Inoki vs. Muhammad Ali – pro wrestler vs. boxer – is considered the first MMA fight. Pancrase was a proto-MMA promotion with rules based in pro wrestling, meaning MMA has puroresu roots. Inokiist NJPW presented pro wrestling as its own martial art against MMA as a different style. The two worlds coexist just fine in kayfabe, making sense for anyone who bothers to do more than five minutes of research and knows how to connect the dots.

MMA fights have timed rounds. One must exert more energy and/or hit harder to win before time runs out. The conditions make for a more specialized field of combatants. That creates smaller margins for error, meaning victories are sweeter and losses are more cold.

Pro wrestling is based in extravagance and pageantry. It's more ego-driven, theatrical, and accessible to freaks and psychopaths. It's rooted in 19th century carnival attractions, so there's a greater emphasis on showmanship and spectacle to sell tickets. It's just as important to be a captivating performer as much as a great fighter.

Hanako walks the plains of both worlds, embracing their respective conventions while bringing elements from one into the other. Regardless of medium, the goal is to always obtain the Performance and/or Match of the Night. Winning championships are important for this because they provide more opportunities to achieve those goals.

Some general combat notes:

- Possess the stiff-striking and aura of Katsuyori Shibata in that there's a calmness, but also a visceral allure. Can get sadistic as her blows get harder and more vicious the longer the match goes. It can take a dark turn to the point where it's almost as if she's working heel. This becomes more apparent against opponents who are smaller, which is nearly every other woman. It also comes out against Barbie Doll types and “walking jack off dreams,” who she has little to no respect for and will want to take them to school.

- Comes with all the fighting spirit and strong style tropes, so she still makes for a great underdog in the event where she is physically outmatched.

- Muay Thai style similar to Dieselnoi Chor Thanasukarn, who used his height (something Takeuchi can do against most women) and was an extremely effective knee striker, though Takeuchi herself is more known for head kicks and punches.

- Super aggressive and her strikes often come in waves. Her long arms and legs make it even harder to get away. Elite stand-up game is rounded out by her dodging ability and KO resistance.

- Trained in the defensive aspects of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu with help from Sawtooth Grin. She wasn't so great on the ground, but has worked on that part of her game at the Real Killas gym and with her sparring partner, STRiFE.

- She was trained by a deathmatch legend in the dojo of a deathmatch company (of which she eventually became World Champion). Death Trip Wrestling's Death Dojo is run by a drugged-out Satan-worshipping metal head who's known for nailing bunnies to steel chairs and hitting his students with them. She's been in there with some of the most dangerous at this point and won't shy from bloodshed. Forget trying to scare her if you're not a literal dragon or a murderous coprophile. This deathmatch background also accentuates her sadistic nature in the ring.

- Great with aerial attacks and not afraid to dive out of the ring.

- Speed. She can whip around the ring like nobody else. This makes even more cringe-inducing impact for moves like her penalty kick.

- Depending on her schedule, she could be prone to bleeding when a cut gets opened back up if she's neem in a deathmatch recently. Bleeding brings out more thunder from Hanako as the match takes a turn toward the dramatic. This plays into the aforementioned visceral allure.

- Hanako NEVER, EVER starts a wrestling match with a lockup. Most of the time she comes out in a Muay Thai stance, looking to start the match with strikes. Sometimes she'll taunt a much smaller joshi by challenging them to a test of strength to start the match, but has her long arm up way too high for them to reach.

- PRIMARY MOVESET

*Set-Ups don't have to be strictly adhered to, for they are merely suggestions.
*Primary Finisher and Alternative Finishers can happen in place of one another in order of occurrence. Alternative Finishers can also be used in place of the Primary Finisher to end a match.
*The “Primary Finisher” is labeled as such because that's the finisher Hanako uses to finish the common match. In real-life terms, that would be anything from your standard Raw singles bout to an NJPW Road To show where a “flashier” finish than a Strike or Submission Finish is called for, but it doesn't call for anything like a Super Finisher. It's a bigger move than her Strike or Submission Finishers and, unlike Alternative Finisher #1, she can use it on anyone.
*It's common for Japanese wrestlers to have Strike Finishers and Submission Finishers. Inoki's vision was pro wrestling as a mixed martial art, where one is more likely to see a strike or hold as such suddenly win a match. As a highly accomplished mixed martial artist herself, Takeuchi can use these moves to great affect in the true Strong Style spirit.
*Super Finishers shouldn't be attempted until at least the Primary Finisher or an Alternative Finisher has been kicked out of – ideally, two kick outs total. It's all about escalation – a gradual build adherent to the King's Road style synonymous with '90s All Japan.
*The more ultraviolent moves make it into her Primary Moveset because Black Rose Ultra always threatens to come to surface.

FINISHERS
Primary Finisher: Over The Moon (Top Rope Moonsault Double Foot Stomp to the ribs with graceful hang time. In more extreme moments, Hanako can do this with a steel chair or light tubes placed on their ribs.)
Set-Up #1: Yamanote-sen (Reverse Roundhouse Kick. Named after the circular Yamanote Line in Tokyo. This is her primary set-up for Over The Moon but could also be a knockout blow as she's won with it before. After all, the foundation of the art of Muay Thai is the Roundhouse Kick and this is a reverse one.)
Set-Up #2: Spider Suplex, which is a German Suplex from the top turnbuckle where she hooks her legs on the top rope and stays safe while her opponent crashes.
Set-Up #3: Michinoku Driver. The heaviest she's done this one to was 230 pounds and that's the limit.

Alternative Finisher #1: Black Rose Driver (Small Package Driver into pin)
Set-Up #1: Tilt-A-Whirl DDT
Note: The heaviest opponent Hanako has done this move to was about 230 pounds. That's the limit.

Alternative Finisher #2: (Strike Finisher) The Parting Glass (Running Double Knees from a corner, a.k.a. HARASHIMA's Somato)
Set-Up #1: Shouten (Vertical Suplex Side Slam). It's the Primary Finisher of ex-boyfriend Masatake Kawamata and was once her own finisher. Now she would use this move to set-up The Parting Glass by peeling them off the canvas into a kneeling position, quickly step back into a corner, then run back at them.
The Story: Hanako was a bartender at a pub owned by an Irish expat in Osaka. It's where she strengthened her English and gained insight into Irish culture. “The Parting Glass” is a popular Irish folk song. She first used this move to put down Josh Kennedy to win the DTW World Championship. So the move has great importance in her career, meaning it should be treated like a big deal should someone kick out of it.

Alternative Finisher #3 (Strike Finisher): Any strikes with an asterisk in the striking portion of her move set. Most of these have earned her knockout victories in MMA, boxing, and kickboxing.
Alternative Finisher #4 (Submission Finisher): Reverse Chin Lock
The Story: Her trainer, deathmatch legend SPIDER, somehow submitted an opponent with this hold and became known for the shock result. Hanako learned from him in making this simple hold very effective as a rest hold. She's actually submitted a few with this hold.

Alternative Finisher #5 (Submission Finisher): Kimura Lock
Set-Up #1: Tilt-A-Whirl
The Story: The Tilt-A-Whirl Kimura Lock has been in Hanako's arsenal since the beginning, even when her ground game was mostly nonexistent. The Kimura Lock is what she used to win a Submission Match.

Super Finisher, No Kick Outs: Komakino (Steiner Screwdriver)
Set-Up #1: Tilt-A-Whirl DDT
Set-Up #2: Snap Suplex followed by backwards roll and vertical deadlift. For heightened drama at the end of a killer stretch, Hanako could do a Two Amigos with the third lift (usually the Third Amigo) being for Komakino.
The Story: First used off the top rope through an upside down fish tank to beat Lisa Seldon in the DTW Carnage Carnival Group Stage. “Komakino” is the name of a Joy Division song. In German; “koma” = coma, “kino” = cinema.

Ultimate Killer Finisher, Absolutely No Kick Outs, 6 Stars At The Tokyo Dome: Kamagasaki Crash 2020 (Double Underhook Front Flip Piledriver, a.k.a. Tiger Driver '98 from a Canadian Destroyer).
The Story: Ex-boyfriend Masatake Kawamata uses the Kamagasaki Crash (Tiger Driver '91) as his Ultimate Finisher. Hanako is still seen in his shadow in some corners even after all she has done, so she came up with Kamagasaki Crash 2020 to trump his on the biggest stages.

SIGNATURE MOVES
1. Shinkansen Attack (Running Double Knee Strike to cornered opponent from the adjacent end, either sitting or in the Tree of Woe. Can play to the crowd first with a train conductor's “CHOO CHOO,” accompanied by vocal crowd participation.)
2. Triangle Choke from guard
3. Eiffel D'Parachute (That move from Fire Pro that doesn't actually exist. Often set-up with a Front Kick to the chest to knock them down, then followed by a push-off into a dazzling flip ending in a splash for a pin attempt. Sometimes done with the opponent already laying, where she steps onto their chest and pushes off into the flip).
4. Ultra Hurricanrana (Springboard into Hurricanrana – snapped into a proper rana pin attempt, a.k.a. a Double Leg Cradle).
5. Any Moonsault through light tubes placed on top of her opponent (often a Triple Jump Moonsault with a steel chair, but could be an Asai Moonsault to opponent laying at ringside). If wearing a shirt, she'll often take it off and wear nothing but a sports bra as she goes through the glass, then admires the shards in her torso. Sometimes will make snow angels in the broken glass.
6. Powerbomb lifts, sometimes into Powerbombs (see Powerbomb variations) but can transition to other moves:
--- Powerbomb lift into a Death Valley Driver
--- Powerbomb lift into a Fireman's Carry Diamond Cutter
--- Powerbomb lift into a Fireman's Carry swung into a High-Angle Over The Shoulder Back-To-Belly Piledriver, a.k.a. Hiromu Takahashi's Time Bomb
--- Powerbomb lift into a Fireman's Carry dropped into a Knee Lift, a.k.a. KENTA's Go 2 Sleep

AERIAL MOVES
1. Tope Con Hilo
2. Suicide Dive
3. Leaping Corkscrew Body Splash to ringside
4. Cartwheel Over The Top Rope Suicide Corkscrew Moonsault, a.k.a. The Great Sasuke's Sasuke Special
5. Top Rope Frankensteiner
6. Asai Moonsault
7. Running Double Foot Stomp off the apron
8. Shotgun Dropkick (top rope)
9. Kamikaze Dropkick
10. 450 Splash (top rope or springboard)
11. Phoenix Splash
12. Springboard Forearm
13. Springboard Moonsault into Reverse DDT (either off the middle rope or twisting from the apron off the top rope)
14. Tight Rope Walk from top turnbuckle into Springboard Moonsault into Reverse DDT
15. Springboard Shooting Star Press into DDT

REBOUND/RUNNING MOVES
1. Busaiku Knee Kick
2. Running Single Leg Dropkick
3. Running Corkscrew Forearm Smash
4. Penalty Kick
5. Running Boot
6. Bicycle Knee
7. Cartwheel Twisting Hurricanrana
8. Running Hurricanrana
9. Shotgun Dropkick
10. Bicycle Kick

STRIKE MOVES
1. Spinning Back Fist*
2. Hanuman Thayarn (Muay Thai jumping knee. Can either nail them in the face or crush their ribs.)*
3. Thai Clinch (Knee Strikes and/or Punches)*
4. Ripcord Knee Strike
5. Ripcord Forearm Smash
6. Ripcord Slap to the face
7. Demoralizing, loud, bullying slaps against Barbie Doll opponents, walking jack off dreams, and heels or arrogant assholes who probably deserve it. She likes to say there's great power in those hands, and with power comes responsibility. She sees herself as a justice dealer or teacher in these situations and a few slaps asserts herself in those roles.
8. Super Kick, because of course.
9. Roundhouse Kick*
10. Corner Step-Up Roundhouse Kick*
11. Jumping Switch Push Kick
12. Superman Punch* (an actual Muay Thai one with the faked teep kick to set up.)
13. Downward Spiking Elbow*
14. Spinning Back Heel Kick*
15. Step-Up Enzuigiri
16. Bicycle Knee (no-run set-up)
17. Bicycle Kick (no-run set-up)
18. Body and head punches to cornered opponent
19. Teep Kick (when working with a heel lean or against someone she hates, Hanako could Teep them in the face – a show of disrespect in Thailand. Only really works within the first moments of the match. It's out of place for the match's flow otherwise.)
20. Rolling Solebutt

SUPLEX VARIATIONS
1. Snap Suplex, holds on and rolls back, getting them up for a Falcon Arrow
2. Overhead Belly-to-Belly Suplex
3. Northern Lights Suplex
4. Bridging German Suplex for a pin
5. German Suplex rolled backward into a Prawn Hold Pin, a.k.a. Super Delfin's Delfin Special (can be done from a Deadlift)
6. Bridging Tiger Suplex for a pin
7. Tiger Suplex into Cattle Mutilation
8. Half Nelson Suplex
9. Dragon Suplex
10. German Suplex rolled back into Half Nelson Suplex rolled back into Bridging Dragon Suplex for the pin. Depending on where they're at in the match, Hanako might forego the third suplex and hit a set-up move (Michinoku Driver or Shouten) for one of her finishers (Over The Moon and The Parting Glass respectively).

POWERBOMB VARIATIONS
1. Bridging Package Fallaway Powerbomb into a pin, a.k.a. Ryu Lee's Dragon Driver
2. Elevated Powerbomb
3. Liger Bomb (Both Standard and Running. Can do this after flipping back after taking a Lariat.)
4. Tiger Bomb (Standard and Release)
5. Spiral Argentine Powerbomb (often from a Torture Rack)

MISC. FRONT MOVES
1. Chokeslam (Bends forward before lifting for additional momentum, high elevation. Great for punishing smaller joshis.)
2. Tilt-A-Whirl Backbreaker
3. Frankensteiner
4. Standing Moonsault Side Slam, a.k.a. Will Ospreay's Rainham Maker
5. Leg-Hook STO, a.k.a. Katsuyori Shibata's Musha Gaeshi

MISC. BACK MOVES
1. Reverse Frankensteiner
2. Torture Rack
3. Full Nelson Facebuster
4. Crucifix Driver
5. Backslide Pin

SUBMISSIONS
1. Leg Scissors Choke
2. Guillotine Choke (From Guard or Standing)
3. Octopus Hold
3. Rear Naked Choke
4. Triangle Armbar from closed guard
5. Straight Foot Lock, a.k.a. Achilles Lock

GROUND MOVES
1. La Magistral Cradle
2. Standing Moonsault
3. Running Shooting Star Press for a pin
4. Gedo Clutch
5. Double Foot Stomp
6. Stands over them and just sadistically kicks the shit out of her crawling opponent, stalking them and savoring the punishment.
7. Ground and pound
8. Knees to the head from side control
9. Pulls a laying opponent up into a seated position by their wrists, either into a knee to the face or she will just stomp the fuck out of their face multiple times. With the latter, she pulls back on their arms as she stomps them.
10. Jumping Double Knee Drop

- THE BLACK ROSE (NORMAL, STANDARD RULES PRO WRESTLING MATCH)

----- GIMMICK

Whether it's a high school gym or the Tokyo Dome, The Black Rose is there to bring the house down. Wherever there's a fight to be had, Hanako-senpai brings her hurting war-torn self to go balls-out and mostly likely bleed when her stitches open. While bringing the authenticity of her MMA background, Hanako in this form still has a keen eye for the theatrical and dramatic – something required to achieve five-star match status.

THIS IS USED FOR: Most standard rules matches, title matches contested in standard rules.
ENTRANCE MUSIC: “Fast and Frightening” (Original 7” Version) by L7

----- COMBAT STYLE

Hanako can proudly work any style the match calls for. Breakneck junior heavyweight bout? Striker's duel? Technical masterclass? Hoss-style against smaller joshis? Feisty underdog against heavyweights? She can work whatever style is necessary. While she generally works face as The Black Rose in standard rules matches, her bitterness comes out at times. She'll stretch the limits of the five counts. Like always, Black Rose Ultra threatens to surface and shit can get ultraviolent.

REAL LIFE STYLE COMPARISONS: Katsuyori Shibata, Will Ospreay, Shinsuke Nakamura, Kota Ibushi, Low Ki.

----- ADDITIONAL MOVES/SPOTS

N/A

- BLACK ROSE ULTRA (DEATHMATCH)

----- GIMMICK

The woman who once held deathmatch wrestling's biggest prize – the DTW World Championship. Black Rose Ultra always festers in the back of her mind, itching to murder and bleed. Hanako's a total psychopath and it's on full display in a deathmatch. While still bringing MMA in her moveset, Black Rose Ultra is far more theatrical with an air of malicious mystery. Hanako will do things like paint her face (often with black kanji characters on a white base), dye her hair, wear contacts, etc. It's all to not only embrace the deathmatch scene where her career started, but to express the many conflicts within herself.

THIS IS USED FOR: Ultraviolence only.
ENTRANCE MUSIC: “Handsome and Gretel” by Babes In Toyland

----- COMBAT STYLE

Nothing is too shocking or vile – either done to herself or her opponent. The more fucked up and gross, the better. There isn’t a bodily fluid she hasn’t dealt with in the ring. Nothing is too high to jump off of either; having launched herself off ladders, cages, and balconies countless times. She still incorporates MMA, but that's usually at the start of the match as things escalate from there.

REAL LIFE STYLE COMPARISONS: Katsuyori Shibata, The Great Muta, Sabu, Hayabusa, Jun Kasai.

----- ADDITIONAL MOVES/SPOTS

1. Blood Mist (Blinding Red Mist)
2. Barbed Wire Love (Any sort of Leg Drop with barbwire wrapped around her own leg. Named after a Stiff Little Fingers song.)
3. Gallowdance (Hangs her opponent over the top rope with barbed wire. Named after a Lebanon Hanover song.)
4. Hanako either dares her opponent to put a syringe through her cheek, or she does it to them first. Either way, they both end with two syringes in both cheeks.
5. Hanako injects her own blood into her opponent.

- MUAY THAI MURDER MOMMA (MMA, KICKBOXING, BOXING, BARE-KNUCKLE BOXING FIGHTS)

----- GIMMICK

It's nothing new to see Japanese wrestlers juggle puroresu with MMA and Hanako is cut from the same cloth. She is a self-admitted violence junkie who can't get enough of fighting. Hanako considers sports like MMA and kickboxing to be a fun challenge because she can only use her fists and feet. It's a different change of pace from pro wrestling too and keeps her busy, which is good because Hanako probably shouldn't have too much time alone to her thoughts.

Current records are...
MMA: 10-3
Boxing: 4-1
Kickboxing: 1-1

THIS IS USED FOR: MMA, kickboxing, bare-knuckle boxing, boxing.
ENTRANCE MUSIC: “Fast and Frightening” (Original 7” Version) by L7

----- COMBAT STYLE

Hanako primarily uses an orthodox stance, but is known for switching to southpaw. Sometimes she'll switch stances in just a few seconds apart.

Hanako loves using her reach and long legs to strike from her comfort zone while not letting the opponent into hers. However, she's shown to be a great clinch fighter and loves a good slugfest. Both hands and feet have proven to be deadly (“Galactic punches and seismic kicks,” as she says), but she's become more known for Head Kicks. Regardless, she's turned on the style and gotten knockout victories with both a Spinning Back Fist and a Spinning Back Heel Kick.

Hanako's poor ground game has often been a target of criticism, even after fights where she held her own against some of the game's best mat workers. It's been such an obvious weakness for an otherwise elite fighter. Her understanding of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu used to just be based in the two areas a practitioner starts their training – takedown defense and submission defense. However, she's improved greatly on the ground after many hours of training, learning to use her long limbs to wrap around her opponent. She won't be confused for a Gracie anytime soon and still greatly prefers a stand-up fight, but Hanako is much more well-rounded than before.

REAL LIFE STYLE COMPARISONS: Dieselnoi Chor Thanasukarn, Wanderlei Silva

----- ADDITIONAL MOVES

N/A

- SUKEBAN (AVANTE-GARDE, COMEDY MATCHES FOR ADULT CROWDS)

----- GIMMICK

Sukeban is slang for “girl boss,” used for leaders of the '70s schoolgirl gangs in Japan. They were delinquents who often engaged in street fighting. This form is inspired by the Japanese “Pinky Violence” genre that produced some of the best grindhouse films (note: “pink film” is almost any Japanese film that features nudity or sexual content). These were sexed-up bad-girl action films. So Hanako adopts a schoolgirl uniform with a rebel twist. She uses axe-crazy {No Means No}-revenge film tropes, carrying out ludicrous violence with insane laughter and a slasher smile. Japanese society is still very misogynistic and sexist against women. Many Japanese women are just now becoming bold against it. The Sukeban form is outwardly defiant, albeit violent feminism.

THIS IS USED FOR: Comedy matches vs. men in front of adult crowds.
ENTRANCE MUSIC: “Rebel Girl” by Bikini Kill

----- COMBAT STYLE

She uses her Muay Thai as a starting point before launching into extreme violence. Unlike Black Rose Ultra, this violence is more comedic in nature and often targets the genitals. She brings a bamboo sword to the ring for matches in this form, so she'll incorporate that into moves and ball sack thwacking. She'll move away from her more athletic and aerial moves for the most part, but brings the Sukeban Splash so fans who prefer that style still have something to look forward to when she works in this form.

REAL LIFE STYLE COMPARISONS: Katsuyori Shibata, Tetsuya Naito, Raven, Kikutaro

----- ADDITIONAL MOVES/SPOTS

1. White Russian Leg Sweep (Russian Leg Sweep using the bamboo sword)
2. Sukeban Splash (Corkscrew Moonsault, a.k.a. Tetsuya Naito's Stardust Press)
3. Violent stomps to their balls
4. Testicular Claw
5. Viagravated Assault (Shattered Dreams)

- RAVISHING RED ROSE (AVANTE-GARDE, COMEDY MATCHES FOR ADULT CROWDS)

----- GIMMICK

Hanako trades black roses for red ones and expresses her narcissism. The Ravishing Red Rose simply believes she's the most beautiful woman to ever exist. Love for herself turns to disdain for her opponents, who must be punched and choked to death for being ugly. Ugliness can often be defined as simply being shorter than her. Hanako hasn't forgotten the children making fun of her height back in school. These runts must pay because she is now, in her own words, “a super sexy cunt.”

THIS IS USED FOR: Comedy matches vs. smaller women in front of adult crowds.
ENTRANCE MUSIC: “The Scratch” by Seven Year Bitch

----- COMBAT STYLE

This is Hanako at her most cocky, heely, and hossy. She works a slower, more punishing style at the start – Muay Thai strikes mixed with punishing power moves and chokes. Depending on what the match calls for, it can escalate and Hanako can work a lucharesu style – a course that's preferred to keep the match from plodding. Her pin attempts are often done with extravagant model posing so she can look good for the cameras in victory.


REAL LIFE STYLE COMPARISONS: Vader, Katsuyori Shibata, Sakisama, Super Delfin.

----- ADDITIONAL MOVES/SPOTS

1. Release German Suplex, done with very little control as Hanako basically throws them in the air and lets gravity do the work.
2. Delfin Clutch pin attempt with bicep flex
3. Red Roses For Me (One foot on the chest pin attempt while striking a model's pose)
4. Elevated Texas Cloverleaf
5. Face pulling, chokes, and all sorts of heel mannerisms
6. Swats them in the face with a dozen red roses.

- FEATHERED SERPENT (AVANTE-GARDE, COMEDY MATCHES FOR FAMILY-FRIENDLY CROWDS)

----- GIMMICK


Look. George Carlin was Mr. Conductor at one point...

Hanako is an international star, but she's especially famous in Japan. Hanako is very popular for her Saitama Super Arena MMA main event match at UGP 10, where she won the Union Grand Prix Lightweight title via knockout. Everyone in the country knows her. She's a household name, often spoken of on a first name basis. This has drawn attention to her other mediums and, well... turns out families don't like showing their young children ultraviolent wrestling, punk rock, and potty-mouthed women upholding loud Osaka gangster stereotypes. In response, she got very colorful attire made and has found a way to present herself to those audiences. Now everyone can enjoy Hanako-senpai and she can make more money as a result.

THIS IS USED FOR: Comedy matches for family-friendly crowds, mostly aimed at children though often viewed by adults who love anime shit. Some lucha libre crowds in Mexico and California would love this, for it plays into the more colorful culture and many lucha fans strictly adhere to face/heel alignments. Her style in this form also fits most for lucha libre style.
ENTRANCE MUSIC: “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet

----- COMBAT STYLE

This is Hanako at her most flashiest, faciest, and athletic. She still incorporates Muay Thai, but there's a much bigger emphasis on lucharesu. She wants to fly through the air like a superhero in this form, believing that's what those audiences want from her most. Unlike the Sukeban and Ravishing Red Rose forms, the Feathered Serpent's comedy spots are not cruel or malicious.

Of course, with Black Rose Ultra always threatening to surface, things can get very bloody if Hanako gets pissed off... Which, honestly, is where the real comedy would be as a dozen children scream at the sight of someone pissing blood from their face after getting hit with light tubes.

REAL LIFE STYLE COMPARISONS: Katsuyori Shibata, The Great Sasuke, Kenny Omega, Kikutaro.

----- ADDITIONAL MOVES/SPOTS

1. Divine Dive (720 Moonsault, a.k.a. Double Rotation Moonsault using the ropes to springboard outside or done from a very high spot)
2. Serpentine Dream (Dragon Sleeper with Grapevine)
3. Spin-A-Roonie
4. Palm Thrust, a.k.a. Shotei with claw gesture before the strike
5. Tiger Feint Kick



HANAKO TAKEUCHI – THE MUSICIAN

- MUSICAL TALENTS

- VINYL DISC JOCKEY

- THE ENFORCERS

- HEEL WIVES

- SOLO

- COLLABORATIONS




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- PHILANTHROPY


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