Cult of Joshi
A podcast covering Joshi from all over the world including Stardom, Marigold, Sendai Girls, and more!
Episodes
Stardom has come back with a massive PPV event, and in this episode, we review Stardom to the World in full! We also have our weekly updates for the Marigold Dream Star Grand Prix, where the tournament is quickly coming to a close. You will get to hear a full run down of this week's upcoming cards, including the start fo Stardom's Silver Week tour and the final night of league action for the Dream Star GP. All of that and so much m...
Stardom is back in action this week with a big show in Korakuen Hall that helped build and prepare us all for this weekend's Stardom to the World PPV! Along with that, we review the last 4 shows put on by Marigold in their Dream Star Grand Prix, which featured one of the best nights of Marigold action of the year! If you want a preview and our picks for Stardom to the World, you don't want to miss this episode of Cult of Joshi!
We've just come off of a huge weekend in the world of professional wrestling and we could not wait to talk about everything we watched. From the Dream Star Grand Prix kicking off in Marigold, to Sendai Girls' biggest show of the year The Top of Joshi Wrestling, and all the way over to London for AEW All In where we saw some of the greatest professional wrestling there is to see. This is a fun episode because there is so much to off...
We've come to the end of the tournament of the summer! The 5 Star Grand Prix 2026 has officially ended and we have a brand new champion! In this episode of Cult of Joshi, we review the full PPV from Ryogoku to give our thoughts and feelings on the matches and the build to Stardom to the World on September 12th. We also take some time to talk about the upcoming Marigole Dream Star Grand Prix that's kicking off this weekend, and give...
The 5 Star Grand Prix is coming to a close and I'm not sure a single bracket has been left unbusted in this thing!! This has been a wild tournament, and we talk about some of the most surprising results from the entire thing right here in this episode. We cover the final 3 nights of block action, plus the quarterfinals from Korakuen Hall! We also have a little Marvelous sprinkled in there for good measure. This was a super fun epis...
At this point in the 5 Star Grand Prix, we have a good idea of where the Red Stars blocks are headed, but we still have an entire weekend of Blue Stars action to get through before we have the full picture of the quarterfinals! With the final weekend of regular block action upon us, we are excited to see where Stardom takes us for this year's tournament. In this show, we also go over some really fun shows from Sendai Girls and give...
This weekend, we had another 3 nights of the 5 Star Grand Prix with some incredible action! But that's not all we watched. There are some significant things happening over in Marigold that we just can't ignore, even during tournament season! In this episode, we update you on all of the 5 Star matches and current standings, make our picks for this upcoming weekend, and review Marigold's recent Korakuen Hall show, as well as preview ...
The 5 Star Grand Prix continues to chug on, and we're not even close to getting off this train yet! This past weekend saw plenty of incredible Red Stars action, and now we have so much Blue Stars action to look forward to coming up this weekend! In this episode, we do a full review of nights 4, 5, and 6 of the 5 Star, as well as giving our thoughts and picks on the tournament matches coming up next. Get your updates from the best J...
The 5 Star Grand Prix has officially kicked off with 3 huge nights of action all in a row! These three shows brought some amazing matchups, emotional storytelling, and some of the craziest things we weren't expecting! That's just the fun of tournament season. In this episode, we give our reviews of the first 3 nights of the 5 Star Grand Prix and make our picks for this upcoming weekend. You can find all the 5 Star coverage you need...
Welcome to a super special edition of the Cult of Joshi. This is our full guide to this year's 5 Star Grand Prix, including the audio version of our preview video, where we go over every single participant in the tournament! This edition includes extra content, where we go over all three shows in the opening weekend of the 5 Star GP, make our picks, and have a discussion about our pre-tournament brackets! This is a fun episode of C...
This week has certainly been interesting for us. Lol. We had a lot of fun watching all of the wrestling this week. We talk about three Stardom shows in this episode, over the July 4th weekend and the Korakuen Hall show from the 8th. We also go over some updates concerning the AEW Women's Title pictures, both TBS and World Titles! There's so much going on that we've been enjoying, and, of course, we're keeping our eye on this whole ...
This weekend was full of amazing Stardom related wrestling! From 3 incredible house shows to Stardom featuring on AEW Forbidden Door to a big Korakuen Hall show with 2 title matches!! We had so much fun watching all of these shows and were so excited to come on and tell you all about it on this episode of Cult of Joshi!
This weekend was chock-full of a bunch of wrestling action! We got to see everything from the AEW Women's Owen Hart Tournament semi-final round to Sendai Girls and Marigold to a super fun Friday Night Gacha and, of course, Stardom The Conversion 2026. There's a lot to be said about trusting the process in wrestling, and we were given the chance to see some incredible matches this weekend, along with a lot of build and story for the...
Just as we predicted, Stardom released the full card for The Conversion 2026 literally right as our last episode was going up. We felt like we couldn't just pass up the opportunity to give you guys a proper preview for this upcoming PPV, so here it is! Let us know what your picks are!!
This week was so much fun! It kicked off with us getting to experience 2 incredible nights of AEW Summer Blockbuster live in Cincinnati, which included the taping of ROH Global Wars - featuring a lot of Joshi talent. Then, over the weekend, we had the final Stardom show before The Conversion. A jam-packed Korakuen Hall show full of storylines and incredible matches. We had such a good time this week, and we want to share it all wit...
It's been a really fun week where Stardom and AEW are concerned! With Forbidden Door coming up, there's a lot of exciting crossover in the works. Plus, The Conversion is on the horizon, which means Stardom is in full build mode heading into Korakuen Hall this upcoming weekend! Along with all of the excellent wrestling, we have a good old-fashioned Staromd press conference to cover and a lot of excitement coming up for AEW Live in C...
This weekend's shows for Stardom were a lot of fun! Not only did we get Utami Hayashishita's first matches back in Stardom, but we also furthered some storylines on our way to The Conversion. We go through all of the matches on both shows and have a discussion about the recent injury to Seri Yamaoka in Marigold as well. It's a short and sweet episode of Cult of Joshi!
Well, folks... it's happening!!!! We've talked a lot about how badly we would love to see Utami Hayashishita make her return to the World Wonder Ring, and at Stardom's recent Korakuen Hall show, we got exactly what we wanted! We couldn't let this monumental moment pass us by. We had to sit down and talk about this incredible show from start to finish here on Cult of Joshi, but especially about the potential and implications of this...
This weekend has been so busy already, and it's not even over for us yet!! In this episode of Cult of Joshi, we cover two shows from 5/23: Marigold Shine Forever 2026 and Stardom Queen's Dynasty. Both of these shows, honestly, overdelivered, and we had so much fun watching all of these matches, so we had to dedicate a show to them and talk about all of our thoughts and feelings. Don't forget to let us know what you thought of these...
In this episode of Cult of Joshi, we take a special moment to recognize all of the current top champions on the Joshi scene! There are so many amazing champions out there, but we wanted to speak on a few of them and what they mean to the current landscape of Joshi wrestling. We also go over the results and our reactions to the May 10th Sendai Girls show and talk about upcoming big cards for both Stardom and Marigold!
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