Hisamitsu's latest article on their offensive front https://www.saga-s.co.jp/articles/-/587850
Not impressed by Arisa Inoue at all, she still needs a lot of polishing but Shingo Sakai has high expectations for her and Miyu Nakagawa.
It's safe to say they won't bench Nagaoka at least in all the important games
Toray's Shimokitazawa duo better come through and even if Mayu underperforms this season she's still likely to make the cut because she's already a media darling. I also want Nagaoka to pull through but I don't wanna expect too much from her. There's lots of secrets surrounding her ongoing treatment and she's also apparently consulting some American doctor on how to properly land a la Ben Patch as per Nakada's orders
Olympic Channel / Tokyo 2020's official website released a new feature of Araki (Oct. 15) in which they directly talk about Japan not having an ace, they mention Boskovic, Zhu Ting and Egonu. Erika also talks about the lack of an ace in the video which she already mentioned in her last interview. The whole tone of the first part is kinda self-deprecating talking about their own team but then there's also the whole "Japan Way" aka Nakada's Way which puts emphasis on backattacks and speed
Full article
https://tokyo2020.org/ja/news/news-20201015-01-ja
Victorina had a tune-up match with PFU. I think it was after PFU vs Hisamitsu
Aratani looks solid from that sneak peek
Foluke just did an IG live which lasted like 15 minutes or less. It was pretty quick, I didn't catch the first 5 minutes. It was basically just a Q&A session. She says she's in good condition and has been training with the team.
She doesn't like the notion of rivals, doesn't focus on rivalry or the other teams, she just likes competing in general. I don't think she knows the other teams aside from Annie's team lol.
Anyway it looks like Hisamitsu is highlighting both her and Nagaoka's return. I think this will be the first time they'll play together. I mean Hisamitsu is already milking Nagaoka's "restart" with a 2nd batch of limited Welcome Back Miyu shirts after the initial stock ran out within 12 hrs and fans demanded more
Hisamitsu also ordered a mandatory FIVB feature for Foluke a week ago
How many American players will be participating this season?
unrelated but I haven't seen Thatdao with JT
What? So is Foluke in Japan already?
Yes, Foluke is in Japan already. Springs posted a video of her via IG Story thanking everyone for the birthday greetings the other day.
Empress's Cup All Japan Volleyball Championship will be held from December 11th (Friday) to 13th (Sunday) at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza (Chofu City, Tokyo) on December 19th. It will be held at the Ota Ward General Gymnasium (Ota Ward, Tokyo) from Sunday (Sat) to 20th (Sun).
Due to the spread of new coronavirus infection, the final round was canceled last year. Although the prefectural rounds and block rounds were canceled this year, the teams participating in the final round have been decided based on the recommendations of all V.LEAGUE V1 teams and each category. We will limit the number of participating teams in consideration of the current infection situation and will not participate in the high school category.
Tickets will be sold at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, where the semi-finals will be held, and tickets will be sold at the Ota Ward General Gymnasium, paying attention to infection control measures. Please note that it may change depending on the infection situation in the future.
Details of the tournament, application for coverage, ticket information for the final, etc. will be announced as soon as they are decided after November.
[Schedule / Venue] (planned)
■ Musashino Forest Sport Plaza (Chofu City, Tokyo)
Remote match (no audience)
December 11th (Friday) Men's and Women's Round 1 / Round 2
Saturday, December 12th Men's and Women's Quarterfinals
December 13 (Sun) Men's and Women's Semifinals
■ Ota Ward General Gymnasium (Ota Ward, Tokyo)
Scheduled to sell tickets
Saturday, December 19th Women's Final
■ 18 women's teams
<V1> JT Marvelous (Osaka) ▽ Okayama Seagulls (Okayama) ▽ Saitama Ageo Medics (Saitama) ▽ Denso Airybees (Aichi) ▽ Toyota Auto Body Queenseis (Aichi) ▽ Toray Arrows (Shiga) ▽ Hisamitsu Springs (Saga) ▽ NEC Red Rockets (Tokyo) ▽ Hitachi Rivale (Ibaraki) ▽ Kurobe Aqua Fairies (Toyama) ▽ PFU Bluecats (Ishikawa) ▽ Victorina Himeji (Hyogo)
<V2 recommendation> Gunma Bank Green Wings (Gunma) ▽ GSS Tokyo Sunbeams (Tokyo)
<Club recommendation> Ligare Sendai (Miyagi) ▽ CLUB EHIME (Ehime)
<Uni recommendation> University of Tsukuba (Ibaraki) ▽ Fukuoka University (Fukuoka)
[Scheduled to air]
<Men and women 1st round / 2nd round> Adjusting
<Finals after the men's and women's quarterfinals> DAZN
<Men and women final> NHK-BS
JVA has never closed their comment section before right? I checked it out and hers is the only one closed. What did they say? It must have been extremely personal to the extent that Hisamitsu demanded they disable comments.
yeah...i think this is a first. idk what he and the others said, i never saw the comments. but this already started when ishii was used to as the main rep for tokyo olympics for women's NT . it's not an isolated case because even her twitter was trashed by trolls. the interest rate for the women's NT has also fallen ever since Ishii became the main rep and the crowd favorites Kurogo and Koga got injured and Miyashita getting excluded from big games
Nakada has a message for everyone this season. It'll broadcast via Gaora Sports on Sat/Sun. I wish these things would get subbed but it's not like Gaora will even upload it on their youtube.
also some people pointed out on twitter that shit went down under Ishii's JVA post. It got so bad they actually closed the comment section a couple of hours ago
apparently one of the staff from 一般財団法人全日本大学バレーボール連盟 commented something really nasty which pretty much became a chain effect of negativity targeting ishii. The staff is related to the V.League MC, Motoko Obayashi 
and because of that. she deleted her post on IG of the Women's V league
Cool. Thanks. I didn't know SAGA played PFU. (or did I?
) I heard about the Toray but didn't see anything about streams.
Nomoto missed half the season last year for some reason. Rostered but didn't play. She's a good offensive player but SAGA is stacked with swingers, and she doesn't seem to have NT charisma. It is weird.
No streams for both matches just the one with Saitama which is basically a Springs made to win production
https://twitter.com/PFUBlueCats/status/1312331366411894789
They had the opportunity to bless us with an Ebata and Nagaoka photo but didn't bother. The one with Yamagishi and Uchiseto is as good as it gets
Also what happened to Nomoto? I forgot about her and so did Nakada it seems. You'd think she'd be right up there with Yuki in the rankings but Hisamitsu puts her on the back burner.
sitenoise did you watch the rest of the springs vs ageo sets? what happened to nagaoka, was she benched?
Erika and Tomoko ... nice!
everyone was asking Kobata stuff but none for Ishii? shocking. so popular indeed
hnnnnn why do you hate ishii so much lmao. her presence might magnify
Oikawa is super awkward
Miyashita looks like a kid here
The presscon is happening right now. Their new slogan is "Set to Tomorrow"
PFU vs Toray yikes. Does PFU have any promising players?
Why doesn't V. League upload the matches on their official youtube? That should be priority content that they should provide. CVA has at least 10 min videos on bilibili. seriously wth are those 1 minute clips for is v league running on tiktok timer
I want to say Haruka Yamashita their setter but I can't fully say that she's actually good, I just like her oops.
For V.League anything that exceeds a minute is privilege abuse 
Is Plummer in Japan already? Which team will she be playing for?
She'll be playing for Denso
