[2000-01-30-ARSION] Etsuko Mita & Michiko Omukai vs Mima Shimoda & Yumi Fukawa

[soup23]

LCO collide. Some weird clipping as we go from Mita getting beat down to Omukai and Shimoda mixing it up. The fleeting moments of LCO going against each other are interesting. The clipping kind of kills this match for me though as we see less than half of it and the clips are so random and violent in how they are done mid transition move, that I feel some context is really lost. The action looked good but I am unsure if a cohesive story was told or not as the match ends in a draw. NR

[Loss]

The action here is amazing and I suspect if we saw the full thing that we could be looking at something incredible in the ****+ range, but it's impossible to say for sure because of the clipping issues. Lots of really fast-paced matwork and stiff strikes at a frenetic pace, and I loved the really hard open-handed slaps as big strikes. Fukawa sort of looks like the third unofficial member of the LCO in her mean streak and ability to be insane. Also nice to see a match involving Mita and Shimoda with no weapons or brawling outside the ring. Maybe the secret is just to keep them on opposite sides. About 7:30 of a 20 minute draw.

[Tim Evans]

This was all action so it's already better than GAEA and Jd'. I know who LCO are but the other two I'm not sure of but they all looked competent and some vicious kicks to the head. Having said that, this match made me laugh alot. Between the constant yelling, the facial expressions from LCO and the trash talk it was hilarious. It's a shame about the clipping though. Good match.

[Jetlag]

A Parejas Increibles Match! More disjointed pretty girl action! To make this even more disjointed, they clipped a 20 minute match down to about 6. I don't really bemourn this being clipped as it looked like their typical affairs that I wasn't in love with from 1999, plus they didn't really play up the Parejas Increibles aspect. To be fair, some of the exchanges here were kind of fun.