Fuuka Matsuri to be multimedia extravaganza

As I said last week when Fuuka announced the matches for Fuuka Matsuri on Sept. 30 at Shin-kiba 1st Ring, There will be more than wrestling on the show. Fuuka went to the Sportsnavi office on Friday to announce some other things for the show. She was accompanied by Io & Mio Shirai from the MAHEKEN fed and a dancer/artist named RICA. Fuuka says she wants to be clear that Fuuka Matsuri will be different from the usual wrestling show. There will be singing and dancing that she hopes fans will enjoy. There will be other things like the exhibition with Karate Idol Yuka Kobayashi. One secret project she is working on is tentatively called Fuuka Ranger. And she also plans to record a CD for March release. She says she wants to be an entertainer who can do anything. Uh huh.

So she's bringing in this girl RICA for a couple of reasons. Though Fuuka wouldn't exactly say, it looks like the show will begin with some sort of dance segment. From what I can tell, RICA is a trained dancer and is the likely choreographer. I can understand the mystery. She wants fans to be surprised. I'm sure it will be OK. RICA is also a noted chalk artist and likes to do murals. She's done a mural of Fuuka and I guess that's how they met. RICA will be doing several chalk art pieces that will be displayed at the show. Fuuka also says there will be some sort of girl group singing on the show but she didn't elaborate. Shh. It's a secret.

Io & Mio Shirai have a match on the show. Mio will team with Yuri Urai against Io & Arisa Nakajima. These two rookies are sisters and work for the MAHEKEN indy fed. They're attractive girls and they're teenagers. What more do you want? Of course they're still green in the ring but they're working a lot and hopefully they'll improve. Part of the problem is MAHEKEN is not on TV and they don't tape their shows. So there's not much footage of them around right now. I saw a couple of matches from the POP Princess tournament. They're still young and learning. Apparently MAHEKEN owner/trainer Tomo Hashimoto will supervise their match on the show. That's probably a good idea. In addittion, it seems the Shirai sisters have a new finisher and have asked fans to come up with a name for it. Entries are supposed to be sent to Lady's Ring magazine. It was announced that Kana's opponent will be Atsuko Emoto.