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On a week-to-week basis?

I'm very hesitant to say NOAH, because history dictates that they will fuck it up and soon, but they're the fed with the most potential right now.

DDT has the highest highs of any company right now, but their weekly shows are pretty dull.

DragonGate is similar, their big shows are very consistently good-to-great but their lessor shows are repetitive as hell.

AJPW refuses to book competently, but could recover briefly when Anzai comes back from injury. They have a lot of young talent and some very good veterans but they don't want to use them. Also, they have fewer shows so you might find yourself waiting around between tournaments and big events.

The deathmatch feds have less to offer unless you really only want deathmatch stuff. BJPW has their strong division but the heyday of that group is in the past... Sekimoto and Okabayashi were carrying that brand unfortunately. The Astronauts were carrying the tag division. All of them are gone and Hashimoto's boy isn't cutting it. FREEDOMS comparatively has less diversity of style but has better deathmatch guys and more inventive stipulations.

I haven't seen enough BASARA, HEAT-Up, Ganbare, Evolution, GLEAT, etc. in order to judge. I stick to the highlights. I will say Kyushu Pro is surprisingly easy to watch and they upload everything to YouTube.

When it comes to Japanese indy shows I typically look for any events that feature: Hikaru Sato, Minoru Suzuki, Fuminori Abe, Takuya Nomura, El Desperado, GENTARO, Mochizuk, Yuji Hino, Keita Yano, or Jun Kasai. Usually, some combination of these guys will produce at least one watchable match.