[Pro Wrestling and ZINE for Life Dedicated to You Who Stand in the Ring Every Day] 2.9 (Nitten Q)

Cover (paraffin paper) with the author's handwritten message!

ZINE (Booklet) Peach Blossom Stage, Peach Tree / The title is '2.9'. This is ZINE. This is Pro Wrestling ZINE.

It's not ZINE talking about Pro Wrestling.

It's not fan talk, nor is it commentary or analysis of matches or fighters.

A passionate 'Pro Wrestling ' (Atsukurushi?!) who thinks about people, oneself, and the world through Pro Wrestling . A collection of 12 essays.

Momoko Nakamura, a writer/essayist from Osaka, and Naruki, a ZINE writer from Toyama.

They love alcohol, literature, and Pro Wrestling, met through social media and ZINE, and even though they had never met before, somehow they resonated with each other to "swing."

Two people of different ages, genders, places of residence, and ways of life collaborated, co-authored, competed—no, a single match with Pro Wrestling in print, and an open-weight, time-unlimited one-piece showdown. Each essay was six essays, each over 2,000 to over 3,000 words, making twelve pieces. A total of 38,000 characters (+ handwritten).

60 pages long, deliberately handwritten copies here and there.

Everything comes out in the ring.

Strength and weakness, beauty and ugliness.

So I think about living, living on.

It's not just about being beautiful or stylish,

Are even the foolish things a dark past? And the weaknesses, too? In fact, maybe that's also myself.

I looked at and wrote about weaknesses, ugliness, and failures.

Laughing, making retorts, and even when I feel pathetic, I laugh.

It's precisely these two who made such a human essay collection, and I think it's because of the form and place of ZINE and its anarchic way of expression.

Every wrestler who steps into the ring, every performer who stands on stage, and on the stage of the world as a theater,

Living on the ring called daily life and life

We pour all kinds of feelings, respect, and love into everyone, delivering them from each ring with a spontaneous call.

This is a book that goes beyond being human, becoming truly human.