Merch Adjustments

I am highly partial to cutesy merch, even more so if the merch becomes some level of ridiculous in its cutesiness. Thus, when I saw the NJPW 2025 desk calendar for sale at the Tokon shop last year, I had to buy it. 

These ‘lil guys really make me want a pro-wrestling version of “Animal Crossing.”

Calendars, unfortunately, have to be designed and laid out in advance before they go on sale and, in the time between when this calendar was conceived and released to the public, a few... changes occurred. Take, for example, the page for May:

Awkward... and they even put them in May because 5. “The best laid plans of wrestlers and creative...”, or something to that effect.

All is not lost though, thanks to my super amazing image editing skills. In what took me a whole 10 minutes, I fixed the calendar to make a J4G version (but didn’t switch the month as United Empire already has April and they don’t need to be brought into this feud). 


And, just for the heck of it, I made a pro-Sanayan version too. Changed the month in that one because, well, you can see why.

That's supposed to be a dog on Sanada's shirt by the way, not an elephant with a pink nose. As I often tell my students, there is a reason I am an English teacher and not an art teacher.

There are other pages in the calendar that also need some adjusting, but this was all the art I was willing to do today. Obviously I did not deface my actual calendar (I paid good money for that), but I may print out both of these and clip them to the sides of the calendar when it’s May. I have it on my desk at work, so that should cause the start of some fun conversations!

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