Ran and Ishikawa's fame from social media is no joke. Even the newcomer Kai already has a solid fanbase too.
Posts by Nghiphong
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What is Japan's fetish with young setters? Seems that's the one position you'd really want some experience at
I thought Manabe already called up all the available setters this time round (Seki, Matsui, Momii, Shibata, Nakagawa, Tominaga) then only Seki, Matsui and Shibata made to the final 3? Is there any hidden gem in JP atm
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Overall this week only revealed Wada's potential but Manabe isn't going to let her get that starting spot because she's too short
I do not realize Wada is only around the same height as Mayu and Hayashi. She looks a bit taller
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Wada is on fire
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Wada is in as OH.
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2 MBs are almost invisible at position 3. Yuan and Wang attacked without any trouble.
Tanaka was called in to cover the serve receive but then she hardly produced any threat offensively.
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Love the crowd's energy today
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Wada is on fire 🤟
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Miyabe will just be the interpreter her whole career for the national team. she deserves double pay.
If Manabe and co are brave enough to re-use MB1 system, Miyabe will probably get a place in starting 6 lol.
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ohhhh happy birthday Irisawa
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Wada and Hayashi
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Hey, we got Seki and Inoue, maybe throw in Yokota and Irisawa
But none can hold a candle to Princess Kaoru, Princess Meg, Kano and Saori in 2000s lol.
I want a Matsui/Wada dub sub today
As you wish.
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It does defly help the team's popularity if there're several eye candies in the squad like Princess Kaoru, Princess Meg, Saori, Oyama, Sugiyama during Yanagimoto's era or Kano, Princess Meg, Saori, Hamaguchi during Manabe's 2009 era. JPN team in 2000s was a disaster in term of achievement but remained relevant in media for so long partly thanks to those beauties.
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She's older than Osanai. I can't remember when exactly but I think she already had some NT experience during Saori's time.
Tanaka was called up last minute in 2016 but later eliminated before the last round of that year WGP. After a stellar performance at the high school championship, people called her the new and better "Risa Shinnabe" but she did not live up to the expectation.
Hopefully she fares better this time round.
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I actually like this week's roster. I hope to see Wada play!
It'd be interesting to see the JT girls to be in charge of offensive games this round with Hayashi, Tanaka, Nishikawa and Wada.
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She was never going to have a breakout year, match, or set. No one was ever going to write "Yes! Uchiseto banged it"
She was such a joy to watch at WGP 2014 along with Takada and Ono. Other than that, "above average" is about right.
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Almost everyone has released their squads but JP
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Guys, is there any new Opp in this year lis that we can look forward to in case both Hayashi and Nagaoka somehow underperform?
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Before Araki there was Tomoko Yoshinara - the current JT's coach who played at Italy's Series A for 2 seasons in the 90s. After Araki, there Yuki Soji who played at ... Denmark and Spain too lol.
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I still can't get over the fact that JPN lost after leading 2 sets to nil
. Yet, love how Yamada got 7 kill blocks in front of anyone but Carol. Unable to remember when was the last time a JPN MB dominated that much on the net . -
I also like Mayu’s new look, refreshing and more fierce. Yesterday’s game showed how important serve receive is in Japan’s game and Mayu played a huge part of the improvement. I can’t help but think is it still possible to switch the 2 liberos for someone else lol. Such a pain to see countless consecutive errors from them 😩.
brahmin could you please help specify Japan’s chance for quarterfinal or even semifinal
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