Fantasy Booking: It would never happen but what if New Japan acquires Kaito Kiyomiya how would you book him?

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1. Right now would be a great time for a Kiyomiya to appear in NJPW, with the aging main event scene of Suzuki, Tanahashi even Naito etc looking to be positioned in declining roles in the next few years. With Narita and Umino rising, having Kiyomiya in that same generation of up and comers could work amazingly for NJPW.

   As for booking him, get him straight into a hot feud with House of Torture 🤣🤣 just kidding! His NOAH booking (as is usual in NOAH) has run hot and cold so i’d say best way to book him in NJPW would be consistently, working his way up through the old generation, perhaps with a TV title run within a year before putting him in Main Event feuds. He’s good, but would be outshone by most Main Eventers right now, so a year of building momentum and character would give him a much better chance of success IMO.

2. Is this thread inspired by [that incident](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/132tr50/a_female_fan_of_kaito_kiyomiya_intruded_the_ring/) today? Oof. Talk about a burial that’s anything but worked. Despite how mistreated Kaito is booking-wise, I suspect that his undying admiration for Misawa is going to keep him in NOAH for the foreseeable future.

   In the unlikely event that Kaito defects, it’s going to be a while before he gets his shine back from Okada. If he defected today, he wouldn’t be allowed to beat Okada in singles until next year’s G1 at the earliest. It will also probably be a while before he’s allowed to win a tournament as an outsider (see Shibata and SANADA), but I could see that happening eventually. Could he be WHC? Obviously yes, but it would have to take many years of proving to management that he deserves that top spot. And I’m not sure Kaito is willing to start from scratch.

3. He debuts by hitting Okada with a minivan.

4. If new japan had him on a 5 year contract or someting

   I would push him to the moon he’s at the moment much more experienced and main event ready than Shota and Ren.

   I’d have him keep chasing Okada and have him win eventually and have a short teaser title reign, maybe defending against shota/Narita

5. I would book Okada to beat the piss out of him every PPV for the next 18 months for my entertainment

6. it’s gonna take him a while to be accepted by the NJPW faithful. Just looked at how KENTA’s jump worked out. So I’d stick him somewhere that can give him an edge. A place where he can be home among outsiders.

   United Empire.

   Their tweeners, so they won’t turn him full heel, but they will give him the grit he’s needed for a while. Being the heir apparent to a dynasty established by Misawa & Mutoh can be spun into becoming the ‘Emerald Prince’ of the Empire. That and he already matches the color scheme and he can bond with Ospreay over their mutual disdain of Okada.

7. As a future ace

8. He’d be the next Goto, with fewer Cup wins. Too many young guys like Shota, Narita, Uemura, Tsuji, Oiwa, and Fujita who can’t have him clog their path to the top too much. Eventually leaves to be Hangman Page’s right hand man in a new faction with a space cowboy theme.

9. I would get that fan that ran into the ring to come out and introduce him. Then I put them into a feud against Okada where they become partners.

10. I’m not good at booking but this is what came to me. Chaos vote to put him in everyone agrees expect for Okada he lets him in anyway. Months of Kaito getting wins but Okada ignoring him. Finally he snaps attacks him at dominion. Beats him in the G1. Months of fighting. Semi final WK Okada v Kaito.

11. Immediately dye his hair black so he stops looking like Cosplay Okada

12. Kaito vs Hiromu for the fits alone the drip is too clean to not have it. Plus it would be phenomenal as well