Everyone is Different. Everyone is Special. Hana Kimura Since May 2020, the 22nd and 23rd are forty-eight hours of complex emotions, as family, friends, and fans of Hana Kimura revisit the tragic loss of her life, but gather together to work through the lingering pain by celebrating her brief, but colourful legacy. For the last... Continue Reading →
Hana Kimura: Wrestling Fans Remember The Dangerous Flower
Today marks three years since the talented and sweet Hana Kimura passed away at the very young age of 22. She was a young wrestler who was full of charisma, amazing inside the squared circle and already carving out a fantastic career for herself in Japan's top women's [Joshi] promotion, STARDOM. On 23rd May 2020,... Continue Reading →
3 Years Later: How to Revive the Tokyo Cyber Squad
We're coming up on the third-year anniversary of Hana Kimura's tragic death. I am not going to lie, I miss Hana every single day and I miss that bright smile whenever I watch the Stardom product. Hana was a breath of fresh air, attracting misfits and giving everyone who felt out of place someone to... Continue Reading →
Tokyo Cyber Squad: A Cyber Goth Band of Misfits
Tokyo Cyber Squad was born out of International Army. Hana Kimura became its leader after the STARDOM draft of 2019, renaming the group to Tokyo Cyber Squad on 21st April 2019. Before TCS there was J.A.N [Jungle Assault Nation], which was the fourth faction of STARDOM. They would disband around the time of the draft, being... Continue Reading →
Hana Kimura: The Dangerous Flower | Lace ‘Em Up Profiles
Hana Kimura (Japanese: 木村花, Hepburn: Kimura Hana, September 3, 1997 – May 23, 2020) was a Japanese joshi puroresu professional wrestler. She worked for native companies in Japan such as World Wonder Ring Stardom from 2016 to 2020, and Wrestle-1, in addition to having made appearances for foreign companies such as Ring of Honor, Pro-Wrestling:... Continue Reading →