Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling (Sendai Girls)

[9.0] "I've been interested in the lineage of Sendai Girls thanks to the Gaea Girls documentary and Meiko Satomura for some time, but only recently starting watching Sendai Girls shows via WrestleUniverse. Although I can see the criticisms of a small roster and a lack of engaging storylines being valid, the quality of wrestling is just so high that I've been having a great time watching this small joshi promotion. My main thoughts as a new viewer: Every one of these wrestlers must be tough as nails to work in Satomura's promotion. All the strikes and moves look so good. Even basic moves like suplexes and powerslams look so fluid and amazing, which is likely due to great training with a focus on mastering the fundamentals. Even the young wrestlers around the age of 20 can all mat wrestle and already have years of experience despite being so young. Of course, the freelance talent making appearances helps the cards quite a bit. All in all, I haven't felt the need to skip matches even when it involves younger wrestlers because everyone can wrestle on Senjo cards. With Satomura's retirement coming in 2025, I look forward to seeing the promotion progress as she focuses more energy on booking and training instead of wrestling around the world."

[7.0] "One of the higher drawing independent joshi promotions. Somewhat similar to WAVE though with slightly more focus on workrate over comedy and less of an emphasis on multi-day tournaments. Definitely easier to find & watch compared to WAVE, which is a major plus. The shows are of a consistent high quality. I think that their roster has talented wrestlers, I just wish it was a bit deeper."

[10.0] "One of the most consistently high quality Joshi promotions. They book some of the best wrestlers in the world (Hash, Sareee, Mio, VENY, Aniki, Iwata, Takase, Meiko etc. etc. etc... I could really go on), and let them go out and be them. Plus, between Manami, Yurika Oka, YUNA + Yura Suzuki, they have one of the most promising young groups in all of wrestling. Really exciting promotion, and becoming a regular fan since the Wrestle Universe uploads has been one of my best choices of 2024!"

[9.0] "One of the best Joshi promotions around, every show has solid wrestling, some great match ups and usually a must see main event. The current roster are solid, with some new faces pushing through, in Manami and Yurika Oka. Chihiro Hashimoto, DASH and Mika Iwata as the top stars. Along with a rotating group of veterans that come in on various shows. Fantastic promotion that rarely have a bad show, even with a small but solid roster. I love their tag matches in particular. Always worth watching, especially now they're featured on Wrestle Universe!"

[7.0] "quite a small roster and headlined by Hashimoto and Hashimoto only, it's the most non ambitious promotion out there possibly it damn is still a top joshi indie promotion that really can let you be very familiar with some of the best unsigned yougner talents out there that would occasionally make apperance in the bigs or put on a really good one once in a blue moon."

[6.0] "A solid group with a lot of great talent, but for the most part the shows feel like they are treading water. Good for watching just to get your regular watching of Chihiro Hashimoto, but unless Meiko Satomura comes back, I don't know what else we can expect."

[6.0] "This promotion has a small roster but also some of the best talents of the joshi wrestling scene. Sadly, whoever is booking the shows doesn't seem very ambitious. Therefore sometimes it feels like these talented women are stuck in a stagnant and directionless promotion."

[2.0] "One of the most underperforming joshi promotions in the scene. Stale and has the bare minimum impact possible. The cards are constantly repetitive and has pushed exactly one person in its history. At least the small roster is trained well but doesn't matter cause nobody ever does anything unless they leave."

[7.0] "Very good Joshi promotion, used to be a bit better but still one of the best out there. Quite a small roster."

[7.0] "Good promotion in the past, but just like many other joshi promotions they have entered a serious slump starting in 2017 due to a series of unfortunate events cascading through the ranks. I also feel that as amazing as Chihiro Hashimoto is (an 8 out of 10 right now) the promotion has grown way too dependent on her: what if she gets hired by somebody else? As amazing as Meiko Satomura was, she's getting ahead with the years, and apart from those two huge names there isn't a whole lot going on."

[8.0] "Whilst not at the level; of premier Joshi promotions of the past, Sendai Girls provides a supremely entertaining product."

[8.0] "With so many joshi promotions, the only one that seems to get any notice is stardom, but Sendai Girls also has plenty of great talent, and is a great indie joshi fed to keep an eye out on."

[9.0] "Lots of the best Joshi come through here. They tend to get overlooked since there's an abundance of Joshi promotions and a lot of talent gets shared amongst them. The only knock I have on them is they've had founder Meiko Satomura on top for so long. Don't get me wrong, she still performs at a high level and draws emotion out of crowds, but she's achieved so much in wrestling and specifically in this promotion that maybe she should a backseat to other stars more often. All that being said their shows and matches deliver, and that's what really matters."