History Wrestling / KanakoUrai

** There have been some comparisons to Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura as well, for the same reasons as Itami.

!!! "Sekai no Torōpusu":

* WorkedShoot: The "how to save joshi wrestling" manifesto she wrote in the early goings of her SMASH heel run. Trouble is, it backfired by pissing off her peers instead of the fans. Even in WWE she has been shown practicing her strikes on a male striking coach who happens to be a retired UsefulNotes/{{mixed martial art|s}}ist.

* YouGoGirl: If a Japanese promotion includes men, she's willing and able to fight with them. Just ask Tajiri.

* TechnicolorToxin: Her cutesy demeanor, colorful hair, and extravagant kimono and ring attire make her appear as a cross between a geisha and a gravure idol, the latter her occasional trade, but in the ring she's just as dangerous as any BadassNormal woman you'll see in an anime. Corey Graves once lampshaded by comparing her to a poison dart frog — small, brightly colored, and lethally dangerous — though really, he could've mentioned any number of real-life natural creatures who use this as a form of bait or self-defense. As a face, she only turns the venom on those who turn it on her first, putting the toxicity on a level of BewareTheNiceOnes or GoodIsNotNice. As a heel, she outright tends towards LightIsNotGood.

* TechnicolorToxin: Her cutesy demeanor, colorful hair, and extravagant kimono and ring attire make her appear as a cross between a geisha and a gravure idol, the latter her occasional trade, but in the ring she's just as dangerous as any BadassNormal woman you'll see in an anime. This evokes the real-life juxtaposition of these two tropes, which can best be summed up as "bright colors = toxicity in nature." Corey Graves once compared her to a poison dart frog - small, brightly colored, and lethally dangerous. Subverted as a face, where she only turns the venom on those who turn it on her first, so it's a bit more like BewareTheNiceOnes or GoodIsNotNice rather than her being outright evil.

* ArchEnemy: Syuri Kondo was this in SMASH and other promotions especially after KANA's heel turn. Team Disingenous (Wrestling/{{Emma}} and Dana Brooke) have been this on NXT.

* There have been some comparisons to Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura as well, for the same reasons as Itami.

* LightIsNotGood / TechnicolorToxin: Her cutesy demeanor, colorful hair, and extravagant kimono and ring attire make her appear as a cross between a geisha and a gravure idol, the latter her occasional trade, but in the ring she's just as dangerous as any BadassNormal woman you'll see in an anime. This evokes the real-life juxtaposition of these two tropes, which can best be summed up as "bright colors = toxicity in nature". Subverted as a face, where she only turns the venom on those who turn it on her first, so it's a bit more like BewareTheNiceOnes or GoodIsNotNice rather than her being outright evil.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Before joining WWE, she wrestled barefoot, forgoing the standard boots for kick pads. This is no longer allowed after [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Rusev]] broke his ankle, so instead, her boots as Asuka are designed to give the illusion of this from a distance.

* MonsterClown: Evoked this during the time she led Kana-gun/Piero-gun.

* PowerTrio: The founding members of Triple Tails were KANA and the Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters, Mio and Io Shirai.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Especially as Asuka on NXT, where on the few occasions that she speaks on camera, her voice is noticeably lower than the rest of the women's roster.

* TheWorfEffect: Immediately did this to both Wrestling/SaraDelRey and Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa in SHIMMMER. Melissa got hers back. Sara didn't, but beat her most of they time when they wrestled elsewhere.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Her kick and knee pads, and thigh bands are seemingly designed to evoke a customized version of this.

** To Wrestling/BrockLesnar, as the beastly uber-dominant athlete who represents SomethingCompletelyDifferent to the usual sports-entertainment fare of WWE and seems utterly brutal and unbeatable as a result, and who it is [[TemptingFate a horrible idea]] to [[BullyingADragon taunt or provoke]]. Her cutesy demeanor and bugeisha look is the only aspect of her that seems like it may defy this trope…except it actually enhances the ''distaff'' part.
** In Japan she was this to Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, the dangerously stiff worker who also happens to be a freelancer and eventually a PowerStable leader looking to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over Japanese wrestling]]. One of her stables was even initially called Kana-gun, clearly modeled after Suzuki-gun.

* ArchEnemy: Syuri Kondo was this in SMASH and other promotions especially after KANA's heel turn.

* ExtremityExtremist: She's notorious even in the harsh world of joshi wrestling for her stiff kicks and strikes.

* WorkedShoot: The "how to save joshi wrestling" manifesto she wrote in the early goings of her SMASH heel run. Trouble is, it backfired by pissing off her peers instead of the fans.

Aside from staying with Wave, Kana continued to find work through other joshi promotions such as JWP Joshi Puroresu, Ice Ribbon, and Reina Joshi Puroresu, as well as her own Kana-Pro and Triple Tails.S shows. She has also made rare appearances for Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH and Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. She became was a one-time [[jwp-s.html JWP Openweight Champion]], one-time Reina World Tag Team Champion with Arisa Nakajima, and one-time Reina World Women's Champion during this time. She has also frequently traveled abroad to the United States to compete for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} and Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, often chasing after the SHIMMER Tag Team Championship with various partners but never obtaining. In contrast to the majority of her Japanese work, much of her time in America was spent working as a {{face}}.

Aside from staying with Wave, Kana continued to find work through other joshi promotions such as JWP Joshi Puroresu, Ice Ribbon, and Reina Joshi Puroresu, as well as her own Kana-Pro and Triple Tails.S shows. She has also made rare appearances for Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH and Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. She became was a one-time [[JWP Openweight Champion http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jwp/jwp-s.html]], one-time Reina World Tag Team Champion with Arisa Nakajima, and one-time Reina World Women's Champion during this time. She has also frequently traveled abroad to the United States to compete for Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} and Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, often chasing after the SHIMMER Tag Team Championship with various partners but never obtaining. In contrast to the majority of her Japanese work, much of her time in America was spent working as a {{face}}.

* ItsAllAboutMe / SmallNameBigEgo: As SMASH's BigBad, she gave herself the nickname of "Sekai no Kana", literally calling herself world-famous; tried to run Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri out of the business and take over the company alongside her main partners in Triple Tails, the Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters; and even pissed off the entire ''joshi'' community by writing a manifesto for the Weekly Pro-Wrestling magazine in which she claimed ''joshi'' was full of wrestlers had no personality, bad attitudes, and unrealistic wrestling styles, something many ''joshi'' wrestlers felt she had absolutely no business doing.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Before joining WWE, she wrestled barefoot, specifically in bottomless boots. This is no longer allowed after [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Rusev]] broke his ankle, so instead, her boots as Asuka are designed to give the illusion of this from a distance.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Her bottomless boots, knee pads, and thigh bands are seemingly designed to evoke a customized version of this.