After feuding for a few months, Best Friends have reunited again. This time they are taking on another reformed tag team, Seven Star Sisters (Ohata & Matsumoto.) This gets off till an intense start as 3S attack Best Friends just as they are finishing up their entrance. They manage to keep the intensity up for the entire match while keeping a steady pace. The double countout finish might be a letdown, but the match does a good enough job teasing losing control that it makes for a reasonable conclusion to the match. Still, this is one of the top joshi matches early on this year. ****1/2

There’s a whirlwind of misdirection in this match, with tag partners coming out of nowhere to interfere at an interesting time. There’s also considerable animosity between Ohata and Nakajima. Ohata comes out of nowhere to pull Arisa out of the ring at a certain point and that sets off a great brawling section. Their partners happen to be two of the best wrestlers in the world, so that doesn’t hurt either,