Hello. Welcome to r/StardomJoshi. While the reddit name may say Stardom, we strive to make this an inclusive place of discourse for all joshi promotions big and small, active or defunct. New users are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the General board rules and posting guidelines so they may seamlessly begin interacting with others in the group.

While the word “Joshi” is actually just the Japanese word for “girl”, in western wrestling context, Joshi refers to any female Japanese wrester or Japanese women’s pro wrestling as a whole. Like America, wrestling is a somewhat niche part of the entertainment industry. While wrestling did have a boom period in Japan, and there are famous active and retired wrestlers, some of whom have even gone on to have big careers after wrestling in the Japanese entertainment world, pro wrestling in Japan still remains largely a small sub-culture. So, while its far more organized and popular than its western counterparts, Joshi pro wrestling is a small piece of that sub-culture and remains largely unknown.

Currently, there are roughly 12 major joshi promotions active in Japan, along with a few semi-active promotions, micro promotions and small groups who both produce their own shows as well as provide support for more well known and or more well-established promotions.

To help those new to the world of Japanese Joshi wrestling and perhaps introduce users both new and old to promotions with which they might be interested, we will endeavor to provide vital information for each of the currently active joshi promotions below. There are also a number of men’s promotions that house one or two joshi talent on their rosters, unfortunately, these will not be covered in this write-up.

If you’re looking for more information on a promotion or group than is provided here, or information a specific wrestler, feel free to comment here or make a new topic and the members of the community will be sure to assist you.

So without further ado, here’s a brief synopsis of the joshi pro wrestling landscape at present.

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*special mention and gratitude to /u/LeloucheOTR for assistance with some of the writing.

General subreddit rules and posting guide.

This post will serve as a guideline to what you can post on this subreddit, r/stardomjoshi. Our goal is to curate and grow an open and inclusive community that is laid back and welcoming to all kinds of JoshiPro fans. Hopefully, we can cover all bases in this post, but if you have any questions, please feel free to comment. We'll address any questions as soon as we can.

Reddit Content Policy.

Please read this if you post often. All these rules are implicit and all posts that break any of them will be removed. Repeated infractions may incur a ban.

Reddiquette.

Not a set of rules as such, but an informal collection of values for Reddit at large.

Subject matter

Anything involved within the sphere of JoshiPro, whether now or in the past, is acceptable. Newbie questions are encouraged. We have many regulars who will probably be able to answer any questions, no matter the company or era. Disagreements are fine as long as discussions are kept civil. Spam, harassment and abusive or hateful comments directed toward users or Joshi will be deleted. Problem posters may be banned. As a general rule, we prefer that the tone of the subreddit be PG-13 or tamer.

Whilst it's natural for discussion to bleed into happenings in other non-Joshi companies (WWE, AEW, NJPW, DDT, AJPW etc) full-on discussion of these companies is not allowed. There are plenty of other places to discuss what happens in those companies. We are all here for Joshi, so it's preferable that all discourse remains on topic.

"Can I post (insert content type here)?"

Social Media content

• Yes. All text, photos, or videos posted by Joshi companies, wrestlers, or other related media officially through their social media are welcome.

Spoilers

• Use Spoiler Tags until at least 24 hours after the event.
• Take care not to articulate a spoiler in your post Title.
• Spoiler material includes match results, announcements, storyline developments or returns.

Gifs and video clips

Gifs and video clips are allowed, providing these rules are met:

• No gifs or videos of finishes, even with a spoiler tag.
• Gifs or videos should not exceed 60 seconds (approximately).
• No series of videos from the same match or segment.
• Ripping a video from an official video source and reuploading it onto your post is not allowed. Just link to the official video, with a timestamp if possible.

Image Posts

• These are fine, but if the images are not your work, please provide a source link. Sources aren't required for event posters, match graphics or screenshots.

Non-Wrestling content

• Non-wrestling related media of Joshi wrestlers are allowed as long as they aren't available on any streaming service or PPV. However, again, excessive length may lead to removal. For example, if a Joshi appears on a talk show, and it isn't widely available you can post it here.

Warning: We are not responsible for how Joshi companies or Japanese media copyright holders police their copyrights. Some may have heard stories of how ferociously Japanese television companies police their content.

Self-promotion

If you read the "Reddiquette" link above, you would have seen that self-promotion is considered very poor form. I'll roughly go through the guidelines here.

• Coming into the subreddit cold and self-promoting your content is unacceptable, and your post will be removed. Continued spamming of your content may lead to a ban.
• On the other hand, if you are a regular poster, a small amount of self-promotion is ok.
• The generally accepted ratio of submissions is one out of every ten submissions can self-promote. u/Trentus86, you are fine.

Piracy

• If you read the Reddit Content Policy, you'll know that this is forbidden. To back this up we have a zero-tolerance approach toward such submissions, no matter how easy or difficult it is to buy the original material. If you ask for links to pirated content or post them, the posts will be removed and the user warned.
• But realistically, we understand when certain Joshi matches or events are discussed, people are going to want to see them. We urge you all to make your own searches rather than ask for help here. Google is your friend.
• That said, we all love Joshi and the best way to help it thrive is to buy their content if you can. It really makes a difference, especially to the smaller companies.

Sexy photo shoots/Gravure Content

• In an effort to keep this subreddit as wrestling-focused and inclusive as possible, any posts of this kind are not allowed. Repeated posts may incur a ban.
• On a related note: any posts, even text posts, of a graphic sexual nature will be deleted and the user possibly banned.
• Also, it isn't uncommon for some Joshi companies to engage in what we will politely label as WWE Diva era storylines. We accept that these are part of the Joshi zeitgeist and tasteful discussion of these plots is allowed, however videos and photos showing whatever incidents may be occurring will be removed.

Everything else

• Everything else will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. A good rule to follow is that if it doesn't cost the Joshi Companies money and is not "problematic" it should be ok.

Wrestling Media

• Western wrestling media reporting and opinions on Joshi-related matters are usually comical at best often based heavily on rumor and hearsay. Therefore, posting it here is generally frowned upon.
• When speaking on reports and opinions given from these sources, a summary of the content is allowed and the source article from which the content came, however direct linking to articles is not allowed. Posting Mr. Cornette's opinions on Joshi wrestling especially will be met with extreme prejudice.
• Articles from Japanese wrestling news media however are permitted, these include sources such as Shukan (Weekly) Pro-Wrestling, Tokyo Sports, Nikkan Sporta and Puroresu TODAY.

Reporting

• Whilst every effort is made to read each submission and comment (Mods need to sleep) and even though we have an extensive Automod in place, some troublesome content still gets through the cracks. In that situation, we rely on you guys to report anything that shouldn't be here. By doing so, you help us enormously.
• That said, please don't abuse this function just because a post annoys you or two new users post similar questions within a short timeframe.
• Also, whilst we are talking about the Automod, if anyone gets caught by it, please message the Mods, and we will review the post and if we find the automod to be in error, we'll manually approve your submission.

Finally, I'd like to state that this subreddit, considering its high traffic volume (around 500k pageviews a month), is very respectful and well-behaved. Everyone that passes through should be pretty proud of themselves and here's to it continuing that way.

For everyone who has managed to read all the way down here, THANKS!