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>[How Wakana Uehara Started Pro Wrestling]
>As I briefly mentioned in last week's column, the starting point for me to begin wrestling was the YouTube project by Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling called "Dream Pro Wrestling." Let me tell you about how it all came about!
>It was in early spring of 2022 (I believe around February of that year?). I received information about a certain audition from my agency manager.
>"If you found out that you needed to do something completely opposite to your dreams in order for them to come true, what would you do? This show is a documentary program that measures the determination of dreaming warrior girls like that."
>The introduction was something along those lines.
>Just before the outbreak of the pandemic, back when I was still an idol, I started getting more entertainment industry work gradually, appearing on popular shows like "Ariyoshi Seminar's Mega Serving Challenge," "Shabekuri 007," "Bakuhou! The Friday," and trying my hand at variety shows and gravure modeling. It was a slow but steady increase in entertainment work. I had been yearning for success for so long, but it just wasn't happening. Finally, after six years in the industry (I'll talk about the time before that some other time), I felt like chances were finally coming my way.
>And then came the coronavirus.
>It was like a bolt from the blue. The TV appearances and other entertainment gigs that had been slowly increasing suddenly plummeted, and the chance I had finally grasped slipped through my fingers like sand in a dry sandbox.
>At that time, my main activities after graduating from being an idol were posting videos on YouTube, doing live streams, occasionally appearing on variety shows, and hosting monthly photo shoot events organized by the agency...
