Well my friends, that was pretty cool.
Day 13 brought us Atamifuji vs. Takakeisho and, for me, it delivered on all the hype that I was putting onto it. I even made a narrative thread on X (yuck) to set it up.
You can read who won that match and see the whole thing in gif form (with my analysis) over on Bloody Elbow now (link).
And you can watch it, with English commentary, via the fantastic Hiro Morita and the NHK backed Sumo Prime Time channel.
Here’s hoping this is a prelude to sumo being broadcast in English on YouTube, officially.
Bonus gif today is Midorifuji from a few days ago, shoving out Hokuseiho. One of the narratives of this basho has been struggling rikishi finding their feet again, looking forward to digging into that in my report card series.