The Fantastica Mania event series was a result of the working relationship between Japanese-based
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) who had been exchanging wrestlers for short or long periods of time for several years before 2011. In late 2010 NJPW and CMLL announced that they would co-promote two shows in January 2011 under the name
Fantastica Mania. The shows would take place in Japan organized by NJPW with CMLL sending a number of their wrestlers to Japan to work the shows. In 2011 and 2012 some CMLL wrestlers toured with NJPW prior or after the shows, while some of the wrestlers flew in just for the show. In 2014, the Fantastica Mania tour was expanded to five days, with events for the first time scheduled to take place outside of
Tokyo's
Korakuen Hall, in
Osaka and
Kyoto. In 2015, Fantastica Mania was held over six shows in Osaka,
Takamatsu, Kyoto and Tokyo. In 2016, Fantastica Mania was again held over six shows in
Kōchi, Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. The following year, the tour expanded to seven shows, held in Osaka,
Matsuyama, Kyoto,
Nagoya and Tokyo. In 2018, the tour is set to include eight shows. As of the conclusion of the 2017 Fantastica Mania tour 78 individual wrestlers have competed in 207 matches split over 31 shows in total.
Gedo,
Jyushin Thunder Liger and
Okumura have worked at least one match on each of the seven tours.
King Fale,
Kenny Omega and
Toru Yano have only worked on one show in total. The Fantastica Mania events have hosted 24 championship matches, with five title changes;
Ryusuke Taguchi defeated
Máscara Dorada to win the
CMLL World Welterweight Championship,
Apollo 55 (
Prince Devitt and
Ryusuke Taguchi) defeated
Golden☆Lovers (
Kota Ibushi and
Kenny Omega) to win the
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, La Sombra defeated
Dragón Rojo Jr. to win the
NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship, Máscara Dorada defeated
Bushi to win the CMLL World Welterweight Championship and Kamaitachi defeated
Dragon Lee to win the
CMLL World Lightweight Championship. The
CMLL World Heavyweight Championship,
CMLL World Middleweight Championship,
IWGP Tag Team Championship,
CMLL World Trios Championship,
CMLL World Welterweight Championship,
NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship,
IWGP Intercontinental Championship,
Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship,
CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship,
Mexican National Welterweight Championship and
Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship were all successfully defended. Fantastica Mania has hosted one
Lucha de Apuestas, or bet match; while the
Luchas de Apuestas match is the most important match type in CMLL, NJPW hardly ever promotes matches of this type. The match saw
Tiger Mask put his
mask on the line against
Tomohiro Ishii, who lost and had his hair shaved off after the match. ==Japanese shows==