/Oedo/ Tai and TCS General

No, why?

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Konami beat baldy lol

Konami eliminated Momo with Triangle Lancer

Me too, fucking awful work shift and all I wanted to do was get home and study and/or look at armpits.

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agua seems to think you do

We miss you
Looking at hana hurts

I just want Hana to be my bride. Is that really too much to ask?

so the second round is Hana vs Natsuko, Arisa has a BYE since Kagetsu and Tam had a draw, Kitto vs Hazuki, and Konami vs Azumi
I don't think about him at all

Says over the top rope, not triangle lancer, but still good.

Hana vs Natsuko
Hazuki vs Starlight Kid
Azumi vs Konami
Arisa has a bye to the semi finals.

based lmfao
that's some heavy lifting, Hana is winning this.

Kitto threw Hazuki over the top rope

>Kid defeated Hazuki via over the top rope.
kek

why would they make Konami wrestle again already if she was in the last match of the first round?

Lets go Konami!

No FUCKING way. They're really going in on her now that she's near graduation hey? I was writing up a post about how doubtful I was that she'd get past Hazuki but here we are.

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Her match was under 5 minutes. It's not a big deal.

it adds more fuel to their rivalry, which has been very fun this year.

Konami won via Triangle Lancer. Konami vs SLK in the semi finals.

what's the win percentage of the triangle lancer again?

I do believe it's HYAK PASENTO

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Hana been lifting

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sup /kon/?

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what is wifebeater-san working on?

Natsuko going through TCS to win the tourney would be kino, I don't see her beating Hana though

Rossy won't let her past Kitto. Such a shame.

a theory on how to defeat the triangle lancer

Can you watch this with subtitles or is it like NJPW where all you hear are japs screaming? I want to see hana for once

technically there's subtitles, but to call them inconsistent would be an understatement. You can watch here for free watchwrestling.co.in/category/stardom-wrestling/

japs screaming is actually much better than any commentary team in the world

MAAAAAAAAYUUUUUUUUUU

There's no live stream. A fat Mexican employee will upload a VOD a few days from now with subtitles he pulled out of his ass.

It's subtitled, so it's easy to follow what's going on.
stardom-world.com/

HOLY FUCK IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow Natsuko beat Hana

>Tora wins via over the top rope.
kek. Semi finals:
Arisa vs Natsuko
Konami vs SLK

n-nani

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I'm happy with any outcome here

not enough

it's early, but I vote for this for next OP

Arisa vs Konami would be a dream final

Thanks, I'll watch it later tonight.

let us know what you think!

Is Kitto gonna wish to remove her mask at the next Korakuen?

I think Arisa's winning at this point. I would have preferred Arisa vs Hazuki, but her vs Konami is good too.

never mind

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Fatsuko can't even fit in the dress

>Kagetsu's shirt

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maybe she'll wish for Rossy to buy a prostitute for you so you can finally have sex

the dream is dead, go Konami!

Arisa pinned Natsuko and goes to the Finals.

>going from the second fiddle of the least dominant faction to slamming your way through 3/4 of a tournament in one drafting
this is the power of Oedo

Konami tapped out Kitto

Konami defeated Kid via Triangle Lancer.
Arisa vs Konami finals.

Arisa will win to sell photobooks

probably, either way this match should be good since they are two of the best kickers in the company

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/kon/ new outfit was commissioned for 4.7 million yen

this pic makes up for the Carp starting off so shitty

Konami.

I forgot to fucking upload it

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Finally a good look at her full face with her hair held back and it gets fucking obstructed by the ropes.

They're a blessing and a curse, user.

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tense moments waiting for the results

I have TJPW results to keep me busy.
This is like the internet version of ball games being aired on the radio

Arisa won, can't wait to see the match

RIP Bronamis

Guess who?

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Arisa is secretly our girl.
Big leagues the fuck out of Stardom until she gets a monster push in exchange for wrestling more often.

I was expecting Bea or Momo to win so I'm pleased

Mayu replacement confirmed

I like Arisa and happy she won. But she's just going to job to Momo to pad her title defenses, so not sure how big of a win it is.

Kagetsu bought Rossy new glasses hours before the show

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yeah she's based, feel bad that she has to deal with certain fans though. She's built for breeding too, so that's a plus.

/kon/ eliminated Momo, so a battle was won here.

Fairly sure every joshi except the ones like Yoshiko have thousands of salarymen trash talking them or trying to take pictures down their shirts.

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Oh. You meant that fan. Yeah, perverts and bullies ain't so bad.

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Any pics of Arisa's new gear?

Who is the wifebeater guy? Just a superfan?

yeah twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=#スターダム&src=typd

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Makoto is not of this world.

here you go

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Pretty cool.
Meant her new ring attire, but that's good to see as well.

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Glad she brought the blonde streaks back, it looks way better on her than plain brown.

Who has a link to that tweet where Arisa makes duck noises?

Yellow tigers
crouched in jungles
in her dark eyes

I preferred it black instead of either.

she's got 36 accounts, you're trying to find a needle in a haystack

Arisa's wish was to challenge Momo for the Wonder of Stardom title

>not wishing for three wishes and then having one of them be a pallet of rubber ducks delivered to the dojo
simp

based hojo

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Does she have any chance of going over? Arisa's pretty based and I'm bored of Momo's reign.

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She's the only person who can believably win it right now aside from Kagetsu. I think they go for it and make Arisa the new 2016-17 Bito.

Checked

here's a cute mom

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Hopefully Arisa wins and her first defense is against Hazuki. They always work so stiff with each other and I want to see them have a big singles match.

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shitty unimaginative wish

my wife

The one that has been beaned the most

They always wish for a shot at one of the 2 belts. That's the point of the tournament. They're not actually going to do meme wishes.

Tamu would've

Why is Arisa shooting on HZK?

Hazuki welcomes it

Hazuki does the same to her. Seriously, every time those 2 are in the ring against each other, it suddenly looks like they are shooting on each other. I love it. They NEED a singles match for a belt.

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All I can see in that webm is how big Kitto's dumper is

The point of the tournament should be wild wishes like faction changes, gimmick matches, feud payoffs, etc.

You can build up title matches normally.

They will eventually.

imagine the smell

Kagetsu wouldn't treat Mayu like that

twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1122739223813996544
agua wen't postal and tried to jump in the ring with Arisa

She probably would have big leagued him like Hana did and then he would start neglecting to tag her in twitter posts out of petty spite.

Kagetsu wore Mayu's shirt again

I assume this was shitchanting.

Agthe
Big league wod not be t

Shit i give up, what a disaster podt
Time for bed

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agua is having a stroke after getting heem'd by Arisa

I want to go on a bender in Rappongi with Hana :(

Thats already an impossible reality because a fan at a show would have left their home with the intent of supporting their hobby

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based shoot headbutt victim

Poor Mayu. She really misses being in the ring.

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twitter.com/wwr_stardom/status/1122748236735737856
a message from the ace

This is not a video of Kagetsu

Apparently these shitters were at All Japan and SEAdLINNNG, too.
Olympics season next year is gonna be horrible.

wrong link? I don't see Kagetsu

looks like this is about people chanting during a wrestling show, what a weird thing to get upset about.

Has this been posted yet?

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Maybe "respecting" the culture thing should be a something you should learn.
And looks like people on Jap twitter dislike that as well. Loud gaijin? Hmmm, weird that there are a lot of gaijin fans on other shows, but this time it is being mentioned.
Aren't you one of them?

Fuck.

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Mayu sold $1000 worth of aliexpress wristbands that probably cost Rossy $17 to have manufactured

Hrm....
kinda hit the right things here with this bracket.
Not well, of course, but almost.

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So are you actually there?

But still? Why would you not tell Konami killing whole QQ on her way to the finals? But the way they booked this one, I cannot be angry. Even if I didn't get Konami tearing whole QQ limb by limb.

lmfao I'm in my bed nigga, get some help you delusional cunt

What?

/Kon/ a RN

the file name led me to believe it was a direct upload from your phone and not a repost

Buy stocks in the triangle lancer.

>REEEEEspecting the culture
it's a fucking wrestling show, it's not like they're in church or some shit

>Getting this defensive
Just don't be a shitter at wrestling shows, brother.

This this number

I saved it on my phone since I'm not near my computer. I wish I was there, though.

Being an ass at shows where no one else is being an ass, gives a bad name to those who want to eventually visit and not be treated like a liability. Fuck em. No one should be disruptive to the manner implied or we will all have trouble attending in the future.

I should add this is personal for me because I do plan to visit a joshi show within 3 years and hate the stigma that all the white visitors will start dumb chanting and leave trash in their seat.

Which one of you is this?

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bottom right, holding the camera

Why are you fuckers so sloppy? Have you no shame? Take a shower, hit the gym, get a clue.

I agree with you but god damn is this a cringey post

Not Kagetsu. Or Mayu. I'd take her over Momo, though.

This. I am going to WK weekend again and I hate being looked at by people sitting in the same row as some kind of scum.

I miss Tam.

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same

Just got back and checked results. Based. Can we claim Arisa as honourary Oedo as well?

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not until she retires or leaves again

Tam getting a red belt title shot after Bea?
twitter.com/doranyanpa/status/1122774596703252480

based

No, I don't think we can.
But has it right. We claimed /bito/, because /kon/ tag teamed with her and that made her retire.
So if you want to claim Arisa as part of /oedo/ you need to have her challenge for tag team belts with /kon/ and she will retire like a week later.

Sonny promised he will upload shit as soon as possible.
Good I want to see /kon/ killing fools.

Why didn't Kagetsu pose with them.

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having sex with mayu

Sorry, she's already with Tam. Probably the real reason Kagetsu called out Tam on twitter.

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Based Hana corrupting 12 and 14 year old Rina and Ruaka.

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All the while Emperor Leo still has shit gear.
Why.
Why?

JANnetty were too poor to get her a new outfit and QQ are too boring.

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Better version for next thread.

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Where can I this AZM shirt?

I want to do the same thing with Kyona.

Just subscribed to watch /Hana/, but I'm open to other things. What should I watch?

Also, is there a better way to catch up with the current storylines other than watching the all the videos? If not, from which point should I begin catching up from?

Go watch the show before draft and then the first after draft show.
You will have like only 4 hours of content to watch and you will discover who you like and then we can maybe point you to some matches and stuff.
And draft was jsut recently

Sorry, in 5XL I mean.

Do this: And don't be afraid to ask us in any of those two threads. There are people who watch everything. I fall off and on from time to time, because I either don't want to spend the money or don't have time. But there will certainly be someoen who will help you out.

Watch the shows from this month at a minimum. There's only been 4 this month before the Cinderella tournament which isn't uploaded yet. There was the New York show earlier in the month too, I guess, but that's not on Stardom World and isn't required viewing to catch up. If you want to go deeper to catch up, just start from the beginning of the year. It's about 7 or 8 shows a month. Then just watch shows as they come out, or based on which wrestlers you find you like if you aren't interested in everything or just don't have time.

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To add to this, matches are uploaded individually, so if you find you are only interested in certain wrestlers, it's easy to only watch their matches from a show instead of the entire thing.

If you find you want to go deeper, most of the archives of 2011-2018 aren't uploaded since it recently switched to a new site.There's a few there, otherwise you will have to wait or look elsewhere.

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Strong contender for future OPs.

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Finals is up. Japanese twitter account also changed their icon to based Arisa.
stardom-world.com/set/343

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It's too early and this is messing with my beain.

Based twin making your peepee hard?

Hana's mini me.

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This is literally the best development from the draft.
Konami Fuck QQ gimmick is good as well, but I really, really want Konami to change her gear more.

I think we all agree that you weebs only like joshi wrestling because you're low test and you fetishize asian women because you're threatened by rejection by western ideals so you cope with "I-I d-din't like you a-anyway" not knowing that asian women probably have a deeper disgust and aversion to you but you can't understand them expressing it? And before you weebs reply I'm ding-dong diddly hiding this shitty thread. Good bye chinlets.

Fucking loud puro twitter cunt chanting there.

Don't say ding-dong diddly, my man, it makes you look like a fucking meringue.

Haven't watched it, but heard about some controversy over behaviour. Was it just that? What were they chanting?

I'm five minutes into it and all I hear is "KO-NA-MI" roared every three seconds. You can tell that the wrestlers and other fans didn't like it one bit.

lmfao

based /kon/ bros working the antidraws

this is fucking dope, Rina is dimes

we should warn him that the other thread has been mostly unrelated autistic arguments for the last few months. This current one hasn't been as bad, I'm guessing agua finally got banned.

Hana is raising her right.

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Pity she probably makes enough money not to take an escorting gig. I would pay good money to fuck her.

Natsuko gave her half-assed best and did a great job; I've been thinking about her thighs all day

my love has returned!

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Arisa vs Konami was lit. Both girls looked great. The one fan trying to start Konami chants like three times was kind of annoying, but not nearly as bad as I expected given Sonny's tweet. I'm glad I don't have autism and don't seethe over shit like that. Can't wait til the rest of the show is uploaded.

Konami fans are cancer

I love Arisa's kicks.

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now that Tamu has finally accepted her maybe

Konami sold this so well, I also appreciate Arisa selling Konami's leg work even during the promo ending the show.

kino

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huh, apparently it was a Jewish fan causing all the ruckus twitter.com/jajohnso/status/1122781620811878402

it was nice while it lasted

this is too much lmao

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No. It's that she looks like she raised her big sisters closet, but forgot part of the outfit as she's wearing her regular boots and kick pads instead of the fuzzy rainbow coverings Hana had. She half-assed it. Maybe Natsuko is her actual, non kayfabe role model.

nobody is cooler than Natsuko

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It was nice until you started shit stirring as usual

I only posted the Mayu Kendrick Lamar pic

damn I just noticed the boots too now

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so many workers tweeted nice things to Kris, she deserves that appreciation.

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And funnily enough STARDOM didn't.

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no surprise there, Sonny is a bitch

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I hope AZM becomes the leader of OT one day.

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Based Konami begrudgingly waves to the fat westerner who ruined the entire evening with chants.

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I thought the /kon/ curse died when she signed with Stardom

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Konami seemed to like the fan chanting for her

But did it really?

unfortunately since Momo hasn't retired yet

Empath is alright but it's not even on the same level as prior releases. Maybe it needs a second listen.

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I doubt that, my man.

she looked happy

"There were a couple of guys at least one of which was from Israel who kept trying to start various chants. I know he was from Israel because he brought a sign."

the day agua began to hate

Alright, this is an archive of 308 images from last night's show. There may be a part 2 if more photographers upload things today. My hope is that by putting things into a folder within the archive, it preserves the save date and thus keeps something of an order when browsing.

Furthermore, I've updated the photographer pastebin with some additions.
pastebin.com/pqEwvtwy

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Wew. actually forgot the link. It is missing the recent photos from hiroaki007 because I haven't saved them yet.

mega.nz/#!091AlYCL!OMc-95iuIkoJCsG8oL4ZL4RdFqoTLLpUydzFhgPKK4U

Good pictures in it.
Thanks, user.

thanks so much man, this general is the best

gold lol

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>Hey Natsuko, what did defending Cinderella tournament winner Momo do in the first round?

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Fatsuko's outfit looks like she made it herself

based DIY chad Cutesuko

She mentioned that it's a temporary costume with letters cut and attached.
nice

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does hana have a cloaking device too?

I'd like her to cloak my device if you catch my drift

Is there any way to buy one of her gas masks?

>is there any way to buy [Hana merch]
her merch table is always the only answer, sadly

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>PUT THE YEN IN THE FUCKING BAG

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Cute heso

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y-yes sir

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Hana looking worn out

it's hard work carrying joshi to the promised land

You can buy her masks online but they sell out quickly.

The last time I saw her without eye bags was almost a year ago. I don't know if it's because she came into contact with Nao and that's a permanent result, or if she just goes too hard.

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she stays up at night reading the brainless shit flinging in asp joshi threads

>threads
I thought that was just /stardom/?

Hana get some sleep, your visuals are more important than refreshing for (You)s

I bet Hana is one of the /Kon/ posters as well as the I miss Tam poster

no OPetty clamors for agua's attention all over the board

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lol nobody cares about you
based boba poster

this will change the game

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suriwe bataru

Not sure how to feel about Rina becoming mini-Hana in 2 shows, and already beating on her sister. They're rushing it ,but whatever.

Maybe now that she's under contract it'll be less hectic for her than bouncing between Stardom, Wrestle-1 and other promotions every week that the eye bags will recede.

she'll work more matches than any year of her career so far working stardom fulltime

I found the site, but it doesn't seem like they do international shipping unfortunately.

yeah Stardom seems to do more dates than every other company by a large margin

Lowkey want hina to beat the crap out of everyone. She's the goofball of the sisters and I can respect that.

ゆりえのピットを覗くすぎるたら、激しく死ぬよ。

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Ice Ribbon runs the most events

Oh? I never have time to watch their shows but I don't doubt it given the massive amount of show uploads I see.

"Thank you for your visit to Korakuen yesterday. I lost in the finals. The game almost without an interval of four games was really harsh. But I was able to stand up many times because there was a small wave call on the whole hall. I can't quit wrestling because I don't go as hard as I can. Please look forward to the future of the pleasantness."

based Israeli fans giving Konami the push she needed to go wild

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She was already working basically every Stardom show before signing full time anyway, on top of other promotions, so it will be less overall.

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She missed a lot of Stardom shows, if she works them all this year the total will be more than she worked for Stardom+Sendai Girls+Wrestle1. She didn't really work much elsewhere, probably less than 10 shows.

still mad Nao never got to progress past opening tag/3 way rookie matches and reveal her latent skills

She was working an almost complete Stardom schedule, but did other dates for the other promotions and the MMA ring girl gigs as well. She probably didn't have a lot of downtime with that type of schedule. So even working a full Stardom schedule, as packed as it is, she's not running around doing the other shows on top of it, so she may have more downtime now.

there you go, she liked it

google translate said I'd die hard which would be true if I saw them, but I'd die happy that's for sure

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guilty looking post

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