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Saki Akai Thigh-Locking Pom Harajuku Redraws refers to a scene from the Japanese wrestling event TJPW: All Rise '22 showing female wrestler Saki Akai thigh-locking her opponent, Pom Harajuku, with her head trapped between her legs. The scene became a subject of redraw memes in February 2026, when Twitter / X user @mitsuayay asked people to draw fan arts of their ships using the scene.

Origin

On November 27th, 2022, the TJPW: All Rise '22 took place at Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan^[1]. In the wrestling match, the champion team, Saki Akai and Yuki Arai, fought against the challenger team, Yuki Aino and Pom Harajuku, in the Princess Tag Team Championship. In one scene, Saki Akai successfully thigh locks Pom Harajuku, which makes it so that her head is stuck between her thighs, and she can't move.

On February 8th, 2026, Twitter / X^[2] user @mitsuayay uploaded the still image from the scene, with a caption asking people to use it as a redraw reference to draw their favorite ships. The post received more than 7,900 reposts and 124,000 likes in four days.

Spread

Starting February 2026, the Saki Akai and Pom Harajuku post became the subject of redraws by artists on Twitter / X as they recreated it with fan art of their ships.

For example, on February 9th, 2026, Twitter / X^[3] user @kiwifrutii uploaded Uma Musume fan art of Gold Ship and Mejiro McQueen doing the wrestling move. The post received 700 reposts and more than 7,800 likes in three days.

On the same day, Twitter / X^[4] user @yppah1060 uploaded Hololive Virtual YouTuber Gigi Murin and Mori Calliope fan art using the still image as reference. The post received 1,600 reposts and 19,000 likes in three days.

On February 12th, 2026, artist Khyleri uploaded a Pokemon fan art to X^[5] that received more than 2,700 reposts and 46,000 likes in six hours.

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