Posted October 27, 201015 yr comment_5457724 It's been a while since I've watched any 80's joshi, and seeing this now, I think I just remembered why so many of your fancy-schmancy M0VES!! wrestlers don't impress me. It's because I've already seen Jaguar Yokota. When you've seen a wrestler who does two or three things per match that no one else has done before or since, and executes them flawlessly and in a way that makes sense in the greater context of the match, it's a lot harder for any given member of the Dragon's Gate roster to impress you. Of course, I could only guess at the "greater context" of this match. The damn thing moved so fast that to try and point to an over-arching story is a bit of a struggle. But I can't - and won't - complain. The fact that a match from 1985 could still be this eye-popping in 2010, that it could move at this speed, and that all that high-tech offense could be executed so perfectly without giving me anything to get hung up about (well, OK, maybe Omori constantly wiping her nose when she wasn't doing or taking a move was a little odd...allergies acting up?) means that you can get away with "these are two teams in a competitive sport competing against each other" as your only storyline of note. I don't know how this will hold up as I go along, but just as a baseline for 80's joshi greatness, it comes on pretty damn strong, so I'm not gonna fight the feeling.
