the next month, tanizaki made the jump to toryumon japan as a part of el numero uno 2004. when toryumon japan became, dragon gate in july 2005, tanizaki was the only toryumon x graduate to fully integrate into dragon gate (prior to kagetora in 2009.) due to his relationship with horiguchi, appealed to join magnum tokyo' do fixer stable. magnum agreed provided that tanizaki won one match out of a 10 match trial series. tanizaki lost all 10 matches and was given a five match re-trial series. he lost all of his five matches.