Kai Hosako, the twin brother of Kaori Hosako, is Japan's first autistic pro wrestler who made waves in New Japan Pro Wrestling and would be considered one of the greatest Japanese wrestlers to ever step foot inside the wrestling ring, proclaimed by...
Now that Masami and I had gotten engaged and my Warrior Award speech was done, I had to be ready for tonight.
Although Masami was emotionally drained from me proposing to her, she was still dedicated to help me prepare for the fight ahead. I was wondering what I would do to make my performance tonight memorable, but then all of a sudden, I started thinking about my stint in Suzuki-Gun from 2015 to 2018.
Back then, after I joined the group, I looked at mostly anime for inspiration, while I looked at Shogugeki No Soma (Food Wars!) for inspiration, one in particular was the movie Ghost In The Shell from 1995 and the anime from 2002. There was one character that gave me an idea to look intimidating and trying to stand out and that was Batou Jericho, Major Kusanagi's right hand man.
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He had this outfit where he had long black pants, boots, brown leather bomber jacket, white eye caps, and white hair. My look in Suzuki-Gun was a black bomber jacket with white fur and black eye caps. I wanted to dye my hair black, but it would be a bitch to clean up if I did it myself.
To solve that problem, I went to a salon in Yamaguchi, where a hairdresser, who was a family friend, offered to dye my hair black free of charge. I was elated when she did it and I kept it as that ever since. I didn't want to change it back to brown, my sister and I's natural hair color and I'm still stubborn about it.
The caps and the jacket were for making an entrance while the hair was permanent, and luckily, I kept all this gear when I signed with NXT, so I don't have to fly all the back to Japan to grab them.
Also, when it's for Championships or whatnot, I would sometimes wear black military style pants to go along with my look, but I'm not gonna to wear that tonight, because I don't think it matches my character right now.
Now, with my hair being dyed black already, I made sure to use certain types of shampoo and soap to keep the color in my hair, that way none of it ever goes away.
I want all of this to be a surprise for the fans as this was a big deal for me. I was attempting to make history by becoming the first autistic NXT Champion and what better way than to bring back the look that made me a star in Suzuki-Gun and one of the most popular wrestlers in the entire world?
Thinking about that made me emotional because the reinvention of my character reinvigorated my career as I was given a new nickname, "The Heart And Soul of Suzuki-Gun" while I was keeping the other nickname, the "Broken Winged Angel".
Masami, Kaori, Minoru, and myself got to the Amelia Arena and we were ready for war.
We went to our locker room and Minoru was already in his tracksuit, in case he has to be out there, but I don't know what was making him wear it.
Either way, I know it's going to be awesome.
Once I got into my Suzuki-Gun gear, I started limbering up with some leg exercises and some conditioning exercises to help me prepare myself for the big match up ahead.
