You are undoubtedly right in choosing to do what's best for you. Only (a) I hope you will still maybe share the news about musumeyaku OGs - I love to hear about them doing well; and (b) I can't help noting that Chapi is good. I really wish they hadn't promoted her so fast - I would have loved to see her _next_ top musumeyaku, but she is a talented one no matter how she started her career (and I would have loved to see Rina top this time around, and she's a former otokoyaku too).
First of all, thanks for being so nice about it. :)
*smiles* I still love my OG, definitely. And it's not about Chapi being good--it's about how older, more seasoned, and very talented musumeyaku careers were squashed, because fuck them, we have a man, someone IMPORTANT, to put forwards, and besides, this one is younger!
Talking to Japanese fans, the older musumeyaku have more support, which would mean more ticket sales for zuka, and I don't see any difference in fan club sizes from musumeyaku vs. otokoyaku-turned-musumeyaku. But Zuka seems to put youth and chauvenism before even sales and fan wishes, and that's just...a blatant message on their part about their values. And it's not welcome.
This is, of course, not about Chapi, but I still felt the need to say that.
*trying to put thoughts into shape* I kind of want not everything being about top positions - I love it when there are Bow Halls for various kinds of people, but, well... also this - I do not know why they are doing this. Why Chapi now, and not next time - give her a couple more Bow Halls, shinko leads, second-important roles. I don't know if they know what they are doing, especially with what you say about older musumeyaku having more support (I am always thinking about how much the Western fandom opinions correlate with Japanese ones). Are they honestly convinced people aren't interested in older musumeyaku (sounds funny - what's _older_? I suspect Tsukigumi vice-kumichou is about my age, and I'm not old!)?
... I really wish we could know the reasons for this thinking. SInce they do search for new ways, obviously - this thing with demi-top Mirio and all.
Oh yes. ... and you keep waiting that things will change for the better, and they actually don't. I mean, in the past we had Asano Kayo become top musumeyaku as ken-3, but from the same class we had Nagisa Aki getting to the top as ken-14. And would it be possible now? And would O-Hana be possible now?
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*smiles* I still love my OG, definitely. And it's not about Chapi being good--it's about how older, more seasoned, and very talented musumeyaku careers were squashed, because fuck them, we have a man, someone IMPORTANT, to put forwards, and besides, this one is younger!
Talking to Japanese fans, the older musumeyaku have more support, which would mean more ticket sales for zuka, and I don't see any difference in fan club sizes from musumeyaku vs. otokoyaku-turned-musumeyaku. But Zuka seems to put youth and chauvenism before even sales and fan wishes, and that's just...a blatant message on their part about their values. And it's not welcome.
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*trying to put thoughts into shape* I kind of want not everything being about top positions - I love it when there are Bow Halls for various kinds of people, but, well... also this - I do not know why they are doing this. Why Chapi now, and not next time - give her a couple more Bow Halls, shinko leads, second-important roles. I don't know if they know what they are doing, especially with what you say about older musumeyaku having more support (I am always thinking about how much the Western fandom opinions correlate with Japanese ones). Are they honestly convinced people aren't interested in older musumeyaku (sounds funny - what's _older_? I suspect Tsukigumi vice-kumichou is about my age, and I'm not old!)?
... I really wish we could know the reasons for this thinking. SInce they do search for new ways, obviously - this thing with demi-top Mirio and all.
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