Takarazuka Journal

Hey all, I have a computer again! (Some of you have already seen me announce this on about twenty other media, sorry!) I have all these ambitions on things to catch up on when my New Year holiday starts next Thursday; hopefully some of them will be accomplished! This includes shaking TIP to see what falls out of the dusty box -- thanks for everyone's patience for the slight pause in projects for the last half year.


Rehearsals for Edward VIII started today, and I had actually managed to forget until I came home to a white envelope with a white senjafuda in my mailbox just now. And I let out a guilty sigh, because part of me had suspected as a ken-10 next spring that Rizu-chan might be retiring soon and I admit to selfishly having hoped she might do it with Kiriyan so that I would be there for her graduation. Isshiki Ruka, Aoki Izumi, and Ayahoshi Rion are other newly announced upperclassmen graduates that don't surprise me, although I will miss all of them. I'm glad Ruka and Morie will be in Kiriyan's dinner show. I'm a bit surprised Ayahoshi isn't in either dinner show, though. Hm. And Takamura Yuuki leaving makes me a bit sad, as I'm surprised. Kana Mikari is one of those musumeyaku that I have to admit tends to fall through the cracks for me.

Morie was so happy with the Tanabata event. :3 She still had this huge grin on her face as she walked by us.

Ruutaaaaaa~n♥ So stylish. Such awesome hats. So adorably cute, even when she kills us because we have to stay crouched while she talks to her club forever. ;)

Tamakichi is the secret mini-love of 70% of Masaki-kai, ever since Hamlet!!, so we all keep an eye on her. Usually she walks around the corner of Theater Crea with her daihyou after demachi, and then they stop to talk for TWENTY MINUTES. And then sometimes (usually) she'll take all of her bags and wave her daihyou off. SO CUTE. *ADORE*

Karan-chan always, always says "otsukaresama deshita" and nods her head to every fan club as she walks by at irimachi and demachi. It is incredibly cute.

I got another huge grin from Ruka-san's daihyou. It's my hobby (whenever I see her waiting for Ruka-san's taxi when I'm coming up or heading back down into the subway) to give her a big smile and a "good morning", and she always beams back at me. :D

Marimo was wearing capri-pants on Tanabata event day, and she was so slim and has such dancer legs and SO COOL. How so cool, Marimo, how so cool? I think everyone has a semi-otokoyaku-ish type crush on her. (^^; Also, I thought maybe it was just my imagination, but after talking to E she said the exact same thing without me even mentioning it, so I know it wasn't just me..... Marimo's singing really went down-hill in Tokyo. I was pretty sad about it and I'm not sure if it's just that her voice was tired or that she exhausted herself being first in and last out every day, or if she inexplicably changed her technique, but... :(

When I saw the show the day before raku, everyone' voices were giving out. Kiriyan had no volume left, although she was careful not to miss any notes, and Mirio's voice was giving out just like Masaki's had been doing in Mura. It's a hard show and I'm glad it's over, for their sakes.

On raku, kumichou walked by with this absolutely ENORMOUS, self-satisfied smirk on her face. :3 Someone was very pleased with getting her troupe through this show.

Speaking of raku, the taidansha were beautiful. The Chauvelin Plurality ended up Chanter-side with Kiriyan's club, so we were right behind the taidansha's supporters. It was.... a very odd feeling, being there. I don't think I'm ever going to get used to this getting promoted business, even if we are ken-10.


I think I've talked the Pimp to death, but let me know if there's anything I've missed that you'd like to know about. Other than that, time to start thinking about gypsies! *GLEE*

Touyan, Ahi & Masao got together for dinner *AGAIN* this week♥ Isshiki Ruka was with them this time, and they celebrated her birthday a few days early♥

... Now I see why Masaki was in such a good mood that morning -- she had a party to look forward to. ;)

Many thanks to lliri_blanc for checking it over for me. :)

Round-Table
Elisabeth -Rondo of Love and Death-
Moon Troupe Grand Theater Performance

Members: Koike Shuuichirou (Director/Script Adaption), Yoshida Youko (Music Director), Kiba Takeshi (Interviewer), Sena Jun, Koshino Ryuu, Kiriya Hiromu, Hanase Mizuka, Isshiki Ruka, Ryouga Haruhi, Ken Ruisu, Kiryuu Sonoka, Mihou Aya, Aoki Izumi, Shirosaki Ai, Ryuu Masaki, Asumi Rio, Hazakura Shizuku (Moon), Nagina Ruumi (Cosmos)

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The Floating Bridge of Dreams
Moon Troupe, 2008

Top Star: Sena Jun

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What I Thought:

When Hankyu announced that there would be no new top musumeyaku for Moon Troupe for a while, they said that they were going to use the opportunity to showcase the talents of a variety of musumeyaku in the troupe. I think a lot of people were skeptical, but... this show convinced me they weren't entirely blowing hot air. I thought it was a very interesting (and wildly different) adaption of the Ukihashi Chapters of Genji, and I thought Ono-sensei did a marvelous job writing in a lot of largeish musumeyaku parts: Kosaishou no Kimi, Ukifune, Onna Ichi no Miya, Kobai no Naka no Kimi..... As a huge fan of Hanase Mizuka and Shirosaki Ai, I was really happy with it.♥

Okay, Jen, great, you say, but what about the show? We know you hate Takarazuka Genji adaptions, and you always fall asleep in the middle of Asaki Yume Mishi.

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So, yes. I worried I wouldn't love it, and then I worried I'd only love it because of who was in it, but.... I don't think that's the case at all. I loved it as itself -- I really rather cool story that was staged beautifully with enough dancing in the aisles to keep you awake between all of the angst. Also, political plotting.♥ You win, Ono-sensei!

(The revue will have to wait a bit... this took me three hours. ^^;;)