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I checked for earlier ohen.tv-livestreams and found several of tournaments 2021 to 2023. I included fitness and male tournaments, too. (I checked downloading with yt-dlp):
2023 tournaments
2022 tournaments
2021 tournaments
Nagano 2023
(screenshot of award ceremony)
Muscle Gate Saitama 2024
(screenshot of award ceremony)
Not so serious "contest" at a party (2024-01-21), including lat-spread poses:
Kabasawa Sachiko (2023 3rd place Tokyo), Takasugi Makiko (Bikini Fitness), Maeda Eri (eritore10) (2022 2nd place Tokyo Body Fitness -158 cm), Harigae Hitomi (hari_nyan.nyan_14) (2023 winner Nihon Challenge Cup), Ônaka Hiroko (2024 2nd place East Japan 158+ cm)
Schedule of future tournaments:
In 2023 you could access edited livestreams of the Muscle Gate tournaments on youtube, the livestreams of the national tournaments (Nihon Physique, Nihon Class, Nihon Masters, Japan Open) on ohen.tv and videos of the Tokyo tournaments on youtube. So this may be the same this year.
Muscle Gate has a new website: https://musclegate.jp/ They already published the entry list for the Muscle Gate Kyoto tournament in mid June! So it will be harder to enter multiple tournaments in a short time (for example Honda Seira entered three Muscle Gate tournaments between September and November 2023).
Will the new “Wellness” Category decrease the number of active Japanese FBBs?
Two days until Muscle Gate Tokyo. There will be a livestream on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLB28OuaPzM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZSLL4CNHw (they will delete this video after the tournament and upload an edited version later; I prefer the live version because it contains the original background music for the posing routine/free pose.) EDIT: Youtube Links now private!
(schedule: https://musclegate.jp/wp-content/uploads/2024...; contestants: https://musclegate.jp/wp-content/uploads/2024...; both documents in Japanese.)
I am looking forward to see the only female physique contestant of this tournament, Horie Kazumi (堀江 一未) - her first physique competition. (She is 45 years old, 166 cm tall and weighs 55 kg according to her entry for the Tokyo Novice in May)
(photo of her competing in a leggings category last year: https://vitup.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/0...)
Link to the new edited video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqLR8o1hnA (sections 2:04:50-2:07:05, 3:33:50-3:36:15 and 4:14:55-4:15:35)
(screenshot of award ceremony)
youtube-video of her free pose by VITUP! Official: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S581UeI9d1c (4K)
Tokyo Novice tournament takes place on 2024-05-03. Eight woman will compete in the women's physique category (see:http://bodybuilding-fitness.jp/Tokyo/Taikai/2... entry numbers 1 to 8 on the first page).
Six of them already started in FBB or FBB-related contests:
Another contestant, (3) Mikami Emiko (三上 江身子) has an instagram account (https://www.instagram.com/sunsunny.amy/):
I didn't find any additional information about the last participant, (6) Ebihara Nachi (海老原 那智).
Hirata Manami had already won two contests last year: Musclegate Tokyo and Kitaku Open. So she could be the favorite.
UPDATE
Hirata Manami won, Horie Kazumi second place and Mikami Emiko third place. (http://bodybuilding-fitness.jp/Tokyo/Taikai/2...)
Youtube video(s):
Videos covering Muscle Gate tournaments 2023 in chronological order (focus on FBB/female physique):
Most of the videos are edited livestreams (music during free poses muted). 3 sections: 1st round with standard poses; free poses and a short posedown; award ceremony.
Muscle Gate Saitama
Muscle Gate Osaka
Muscle Gate Hamamatsu
Muscle Gate Kumamoto
Muscle Gate Gunma
Muscle Gate Tokyo Bay
Muscle Gate Kobe
Muscle Gate Fukuoka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWHjMbm_r5w (sections 1:48:35-1:51:45, 3:07:40-3:14:40 and 4:00:20-4:01:30)
Muscle Gate Aichi
Muscle Gate Tohoku
Muscle Gate Kyoto
Muscle Gate Ichikawa
Muscle Gate Shizuoka
Muscle Gate Chiba
Muscle Gate Tokyo
Muscle Gate Beppu
Gold's Gym Japan Cup
It looks like interest in this competition has increased over the year (less 1-person-competitions in the recent months). The winner of the Muscle Gate tournaments and several JBBF-athletes were eligible for the Gold's Gym Japan Cup. Yano Kazumi (矢野 かずみ) won the female physique and the bodyfitness contest.