SASUKE 24 Competitors

[lostinube]

The other rumor thread has maybe two pages worth of actual news and six pages of stupid so this thread is just for confirmed competitors.

I'm considering a person confirmed if:

they say so themselves via their blog, their schedule (for entertainers)
there is photo evidence (the All-Stars via Lee)
someone there confirms them there

Any TBS ad prior to the taping is not 100 percent reliable.

If you're not sure, it doesn't go here. It goes into the rumors thread.

THIS IS NOT THE THREAD TO SAY "SO-AND-SO IS THERE! GREAT!" or "SO-AND-SO ISN'T THERE! WHYYYYYYYYYY?"

Thanks mods.

So far..

All-Stars:
Makoto Nagano
Toshihiro Takeda
Kazuhiko Akiyama
Shingo Yamamoto
Katsumi Yamada

New Stars:
Hitoshi Kanno
Yuuji Urushihara

Taiwanese guy:
Lee En Chi

Athletes:
Kazuyuki Toda
Sachiyo Yamada
Takashi Fukunishi
Genki Sudo
Katsuhiko Nagata
Yoshiyuki Okuyama
Yukio Iketani
Paul ANTHONY Terek
Takehiro Ishikawa

Entertainers:
Hori
Korikki Choshu
Hiromichi Sato
Ryuhei Ueshima (Dachou Club)
Katsuhiro Higo (Dachou Club)
Jimon Terakado (Dachou Club)
Akira Omori
Udo Suzuki
Takeshi Nadagi
Toshiaki Kasuga
Tetsuro Degawa
Eiko Kano
Nocchi
Kuruo Hatoyama
Hanawa
Dandy Sakano
Tetsuya Nakamoto (Tetsu and Tomo)
Tomoyuki Ishizawa (Tetsu and Tomo)
Jun Itoda (Speed Wagon)
Rie Komiya
Satomi Kadoi
Tetsuji Sakakibara (Shinsengumi Rien)
Yoshiya Seki (Shinsengumi Rian)
Masahiro Inoue
Kenjiro Ishimaru
Naoki Iketani
Keisuke Katou
Harumi Edo
Hosshan
Toshiro Shimazaki
Hiromitsu Takahashi
Takuya Kawahara
Spinboy Aichi
Terukazu Ishikawa
Toshiaki Kasuga (Audrey)
Masayasu Wakabayashi (Audrey)
Wakky

Trio of Death:
Masami Harashima
Yasuo Aoki
Minoru Kuramochi

SASUKE "famous":
Katsuhide Torisawa

Not famous:
Seiji Maeda
Hiroaki Shimizu

EDIT (12/10): Added names from scnoi.

EDIT (12/12): Added names from TV magazine

EDIT (12/16): More names added

EDIT (12/18): Dropped Bunpei, added Torisawa

EDIT (12/25): Added names from Yahoo! TV Guide

EDIT (12/28): Added names from SASUKE Navi

[davidyko]

Stickied.

I'll be pruning this thread of unneeded posts. You're welcome.

[lostinube]

Thanks davidyko.

To everyone else, keep all rumor discussion to the other thread. If someone is confirmed, confirm them there then we can add them here.

[scnoi1217]

From an email I got from Hidenori Nagasawa (who was there, did not compete though) these people are confirmed (using Arsenette's blog):

* Akira Omori (大森晃) - Comedian Monkikki or Monkickey (モンキッキー) (or "Monkey") - Sasuke 1-7 and 3-time Finalist and Sasuke 23 (Checking his blog it seems he is training for it)
* Kenjiro Ishimaru 石丸謙二郎 -TV host (Sasuke 22) (Checking his blog it seems he is training for it)
* Yoshiyuki Okuyama 奥山義行 (Stage 3 competitor in Sasuke 22 and Stage 3 competitor in Sasuke 23)
* Dynamic Trio of Death!! Hang Glider - Masami Harashima 原島雅美 , Creepy Model Maker Guy - Yasuo Aoki 青木保夫 and Mr. Octopus (Tako Man) - Minoru Kuramochi 倉持稔

Muscle Musical (each year they have a long list of competitors from this Monster 9 created show). It is unknown how many of these will show up since some of the regulars are still in Muscle Musical Las Vegas.

* Naoki Iketani 池谷直樹 - Muscle Musical マッスルミュージカル (Did not attend Sasuke 23)

[Badalight]

Keita Tomina and hidenori Nagasawa were already confirmed as NOT competing.

Aswell as #1 cliffer Matsuda.

[arsenette]

That's correct but they were still present to cheer people on albeit not as competitors.