Japan Women's NT 2023

Naonobu Fujii God bless his soul

I don't like Seki's technique. Lacks intuition, zero creativity, low robotic tosses in short she's boring and predictable. No wonder Toray still hasn't won championships until now she's bad at creating opportunities in the most crucial moments.

I haven't seen Shibata before. No idea how she does things.

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I don't like Seki's technique. Lacks intuition, zero creativity, low robotic tosses in short she's boring and predictable. No wonder Toray still hasn't won championships until now she's bad at creating opportunities in the most crucial moments.

I haven't seen Shibata before. No idea how she does things.

there was a huge change in seki since last year she no longer cracks under pressure. the only other thing i noticed is that she reverts to playing it safest in matches that turn into rallies or whenever japan suffers from the opponents block she doesn't try to switch to plan b/c, her tosses quickly turn basic like she's trying to control the situation but instead she's making it easier for opponents to read the attacks. i'm not sure i've ever seen her incorporate a sneak attack before.

Angie Gromos / Kobayashi is in the University selection that will play in the Summer League as training for Universiade. Together with Ameze Miyabe, Yoshino Sato, Tsukasa Nakagawa, etc Maybe this is for the VLeague thread instead? I'll leave the posting of the list to sitenoise for the table

https://www.vleague.jp/summer2023/west/

Oh, gosh. This FISU team is so short.

Sarina is in her husband’s (Yuji Nishida’s) vlog

Mayu, Seki and Inoue will be on a variety show airing tomorrow night in Japan.

Sakoda and Seki look really cute here

Manabe will be on a Fuji TV show tonight with the head coaches of Samurai Blue (football) and Samurai Japan (baseball) Japanese men's national team

Phoenix posted a trick method to watch on Fuji TV you guys might wanna try it too just make sure to align the time difference with Japan's

Brazil posted that they will have another friendly game vs Japan today

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The whole bunch of players are there, including Iwasawa, Osanai, Okawa, Watanabe, Mayu.

Osanai and Okawa are the only ones who didn't play

Where's Airi.

I don't think some of these are correct. Why would they bring Miiku, Osanai and Okawa suddenly? I mean, I love Miiku and Osanai so I'll be thrilled but I just don't think this is correct.

I'm pretty sure also that Shibata played. She is in the videos of the game

The real question is why is Nishikawa still there?

Here's an interview of Angie Gromos. She talked about how she got connected to the National Team, and mentioned that she signed with Himeji???

Some videos of her game also in the video.

WEEK 2 ROSTER

manabe always cuts off matsui what's with that...

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WEEK 2 ROSTER

2	Hayashi Kotona	OH
3	Nishida Sarina	OH
4	Ishikawa Mayu	OH
6	Seki Nanami	S
7	Shibata Mika	S
9	Watanabe Aya	MB
10	Inoue Arisa	OH
11	Yamada Nichika	MB
16	Meguro Yuka	L
17	Tanaka Mizuki	OH
24	Irisawa Mai	MB
29	Nishimura Minami	L
34	Araki Ayaka	MB
37	Wada Yukiko	OH

Didn't Miyabe and Matsui come to Brazil? Is Miyabe being treated as part of their crew now? strictly as a translator?