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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 19, 2022 3:08:30 GMT -5
Maybe it'll work out and she'll be like Yuka Sakazaki looking all sweet and innocent but can be a dead eyed killer when needed.
Sure the chances they can book such a gimmick well are slim but it could work.
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Post by Totorob101 on Jan 19, 2022 3:13:01 GMT -5
Awful.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 19, 2022 3:19:17 GMT -5
There might be a lot of magical girl gimmicks in joshi promotions, and they aren't inherent death sentences, sure, but joshi promotions are also Japanese? Run by and written by Japanese people, and the cultural understanding of their genres and tropes goes a long way in it being a silly thing that plays off of stories that get told and helps angle for the general way that joshi promotions appeal primarily to male fans and otaku in the way that magical girl anime a lot of times are made with an adult male audience in mind. There's a purpose and there's execution and if you said anything in the last sentence to any higher-up in WWE their eyes would glaze over because that's not what they are doing and WWE is so unbelievably not equipped for this. At best we're going to get a superhero character style booking that'll fizzle out after four months, and at worst everyone is going to be taking so many more showers. Let me put it this way. The super hero gimmick is insanely dumb and is like lower midcard. But considering Nikki ASH was the last gimmick and she absolutely flopped, there is probably still a market for it somewhere. The only thing they need to do is not give Sarray a stupid outfit and also let her actually win matches decisively, instead of Nikki who had to fluke into everything. With all the problems the Nikki ASH thing had, the outfit was never really the problem. It seemed like a first draft idea to be expanded upon, but on the things that didn't work for the gimmick the look ranks way down there. And yeah, just from the teaser posted in the first post it absolutely looks like a Magical Girl thing due to the closeup of the pendant at the end... does that mean that it'll be good? No, but I don't think it's a straight up like WOW/GLOW/Wrestlicious wrestling school girl gimmick.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 3:27:55 GMT -5
LolWWE
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 19, 2022 3:56:56 GMT -5
Sarray has been benched so much, it feels like that, this is at least something.
WWE's needed more gimmicks for a while, so while I am not optimistic, I guess it's worth a shot.
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Post by Andee9001 on Jan 19, 2022 5:13:42 GMT -5
There's this anime called D-Frag. It's pretty silly but a bit bonkers too. Anyway there is this schoolgirl character who believes her secret power is being really cute but it doesn't work on the protagonist. Eventually it's revealed her real power is darkness and she blinds him. Really she just puts a bag over his head.
Point is i want this to be her gimmick. Make people think she has the power of the sun but really it's just darkness and that she isn't all cute and sweet. Use black mist or something. I think it could work. Screw it have her terrorise some poor guy on the roster. Cameron Grimes would be fun.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 19, 2022 5:22:49 GMT -5
If she is a magical girl then I must insist that whenever she turns heel she does so by giving into despair and transforming into a witch.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Jan 19, 2022 5:30:58 GMT -5
So how long do you all give it before Toxic Attraction steal her necklace and destroy it?
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Post by Totorob101 on Jan 19, 2022 5:54:45 GMT -5
There's this anime called D-Frag. It's pretty silly but a bit bonkers too. Anyway there is this schoolgirl character who believes her secret power is being really cute but it doesn't work on the protagonist. Eventually it's revealed her real power is darkness and she blinds him. Really she just puts a bag over his head. Point is i want this to be her gimmick. Make people think she has the power of the sun but really it's just darkness and that she isn't all cute and sweet. Use black mist or something. I think it could work. Screw it have her terrorise some poor guy on the roster. Cameron Grimes would be fun. Heard of that series,sounds cool! I think this gimmick only works if she's actually evil so hopefully it's a heel gimmick rather then some cheap live action sailor moon like hero who loses all the time.
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Post by Andee9001 on Jan 19, 2022 6:08:41 GMT -5
There's this anime called D-Frag. It's pretty silly but a bit bonkers too. Anyway there is this schoolgirl character who believes her secret power is being really cute but it doesn't work on the protagonist. Eventually it's revealed her real power is darkness and she blinds him. Really she just puts a bag over his head. Point is i want this to be her gimmick. Make people think she has the power of the sun but really it's just darkness and that she isn't all cute and sweet. Use black mist or something. I think it could work. Screw it have her terrorise some poor guy on the roster. Cameron Grimes would be fun. Heard of that series,sounds cool! I think this gimmick only works if she's actually evil so hopefully it's a heel gimmick rather then some cheap live action sailor moon like hero who loses all the time. Well the character in the show is kind of a combination of being this cute, manipulative, unassuming but is actually a badass, well meaning, strange girl. I would rather they try to do something like this because it would be at least somewhat different.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 6:53:09 GMT -5
I gotta see where this leads. If it's a magical girl gimmick then that'll be dope and actually unique for this company. If it's not and is just a Japanese schoolgirl then it'll be horrible. Someone on a different board just lost his shit because he believes Sarray is Yugi because she has her own Millenium Puzzle. That would be too amazing for this company. I severely hope that comes true.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 7:24:25 GMT -5
Well, I'm okay with this.
More gimmicks, the better in my eyes.
This is not as bad as changing WALTER's name to Gunther.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jan 19, 2022 8:27:12 GMT -5
I think what makes gimmick changes like these especially hard to stomach beyond the obvious is that it's very likely she has to make this work or else she's going to get fired. And I'm not going out on a limb here. We've seen this over and over the past year. NXT talent especially are on six month contracts where they'll get cut if the front office doesn't see anything in them. They clearly didn't see anything in Sarray at first and came up with this to give her another shot. And if she doesn't make it work for the front office, this could be it. And that makes it really hard to get into it even if it ends up not being a horribly offensive Japanese school girl gimmick. And sure, she'll be fine in the long run if that happens. But it must suck to uproot your whole life to move to a different country and have that just taken away from you at a moments notice which has happened to several talents there. It's a really sad status quo right now. And if you're someone like Sarray in this position, I'm not sure she's even able to or feels comfortable enough to say no to something like this if she isn't comfortable with it.
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Post by King Devitt on Jan 19, 2022 8:46:17 GMT -5
I'd kinda like to think (much like Nikki ASH) that this was her idea, b/c I can guarantee you Vince, nor Bruce know what the f*** a magical girl is, and if they saw any footage of one they'd be confused and make it look nothing like this.
It's rare, but I'm in the "wait and see" camp with this one.
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Post by sunnytaker on Jan 19, 2022 9:50:21 GMT -5
so wendy choo and sarray for the women's dusty classic?
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Jan 19, 2022 10:57:08 GMT -5
Someone in WWE has a thing for Japanese schoolgirls.
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Post by MrElijah on Jan 19, 2022 11:19:22 GMT -5
Someone on a different board just lost his shit because he believes Sarray is Yugi because she has her own Millenium Puzzle. That would be too amazing for this company. I severely hope that comes true. Only if Tony D'Angelo wins every card game thanks to his......"connections".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 11:21:53 GMT -5
That would be too amazing for this company. I severely hope that comes true. Only if Tony D'Angelo wins every card game thanks to his......"connections". Imagine D'Angelo being the NXT Bandit Keith. Imagine him just doing foul shit just to get one up on whoever he's dueling.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 19, 2022 11:23:53 GMT -5
Only if Tony D'Angelo wins every card game thanks to his......"connections". Imagine D'Angelo being the NXT Bandit Keith. Imagine him just doing foul shit just to get one up on whoever he's dueling. I had to make sure I didn’t read that as NXT Kidd Bandit. A genderfluid anime mafiosi is a hell of a character pitch, I’ll say that for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 11:27:48 GMT -5
Imagine D'Angelo being the NXT Bandit Keith. Imagine him just doing foul shit just to get one up on whoever he's dueling. I had to make sure I didn’t read that as NXT Kidd Bandit. A genderfluid anime mafiosi is a hell of a character pitch, I’ll say that for sure. Tony D would do his best to pull it off that's for sure. Actually, it makes me wonder how he was without his current gimmick. I don't even know if he's really Italian.
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