Naomichi Marufuji vs Momotaroh
NAOMICHI MARUFUJI (PRO-WRESTLING NOAH) VS MOMOTAROH (THE MOMOTAROH)
丸藤正道(プロレスリング・ノア)VSモモタロウ(ザ・モモタロウ)
I hope you will like it. I would appreciate your feedback for this drawing.
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Extra Notes:
Let’s start with what originally inspired me to do this. I wanted to re-draw my drawing of Momotaroh from the manga series “THE MOMOTAROH”. It’s been years since I did the drawing, so I thought it’d be nice to draw it again. But I wanted to give it a twist.
Then I remembered a pro-wrestling event back in 2017 dedicated to THE MOMOTAROH. Pro-Wrestling NOAH wrestler Naomichi Marufuji wrestled in that event as Momotaroh, giving life to the manga character. Thus, I decided to make a NOAH-style match card involving a crossover between Marufuji and Momotaroh.
The interesting thing about this is that Naomichi Marufuji recently started a faction in NOAH called the M’s Alliance. Members of this faction have to be pro-wrestlers whose names begin with the letter M. Since the fictional Momotaroh fits that description, it seemed like a good crossover to illustrate. This M connection idea was supposed to be a surprise, but Marufuji realized it by himself days ago.
Nevertheless, I hope you guys enjoy the drawings I have for you today.
Alternative versions
“The Peach Boy” Momotaroh
「キングオブマンガプロレス」: モモタロウ
KING OF MANGA PRO-WRESTLING: MOMOTAROH
This is my portrait of the professional wrestler Momotaroh. He is the main character of the Japanese comic series “THE MOMOTAROH” 「ザ·モモタロウ」.
I hope you will like it. I would appreciate your feedback for this drawing.
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EXTRA NOTES:
In honor of Pro-Wrestling Day in Japan (February 19), I decided to make a slight modification of m8y old 2014 drawing of The Momotaroh so that it would be formed as a trading card for my parody series King of Manga Pro-Wrestling.
I would’ve wanted to do much more for this day had I known about it much earlier. At this point, this is the only new thing I could think, so I hope you would enjoy it.
I might start doing this with the other drawings I did before, so that there would be more uniformity in my works.