Not that this is very surprising, but Kiriyan gave Yumiko the douki flowers at Yumiko's sayonara show.

If that's not cute, I don't know what is <3

The Shangri La poster looks even more like Final Fantasy X a video game XD  (The photoshopping only makes it moreso ^^;) But in all seriousness if this is any indication, I'm seriously excited for the costuming possibilities.

For the record, I think I'm predicting Tomu as the Dragon King and Micchan as part of the troupe of traveling entertainers ( Read more... )

First, list six Takarazuka plays you love, or ask someone to assign you six.

1. El Halcon
2. LUNA
3. A/L
4. The Second Life
5. Silver Rose Chronicle
6. Scout

(I personally decided to go with original Zuka works, and therefore omitted tsukigumi Ernest in Love, Me and My Girl, and Elisabeth)

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It made my speculation-happy heart very joyful last night to see some new show announcements <3333  The rest of the 2009 schedule (as in which troupe is playing where, *not* which shows and their leads) has been up here for a while now.

The things we still don't know about are:
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It's been interesting reading the opinions on potential tsukigumi Elisabeth casting.  Some people are really excited about the idea of someone they like being cast as Franz, and some dread the idea.  The same goes for Lucheni.

I'm wondering if Franz vs. Lucheni is kind of like Kiriyan vs. Yuuhi: You may like both of them, but you strongly prefer one ( Read more... )

( Thoughts on when (not if :P) Kiriyan will become top and musing on the possibility of nibante!Micchan )

Hankyu just made an announcement about the release of the 2009 calendars, which will be on October 10th.  Along with the usual suspects, Kimu will have her own personal calendar this year.  She also makes it onto the star calendar along with the top stars and nibante.  This fact, along with a lot of other little things, only confirms my hunch that ( Read more... )

I’m afraid I have to agree with others who have said that Kimura-sensei is better at adapting than writing original scripts.  The script itself was nothing special, although I’ll admit that I’m always a sucker for a story about bohemians.  Unfortunately there were a few too many times when the show was almost Ueda Shinji-esque in going off on ( Read more... )

I should be taking care of some e-mails.  I should be cleaning my apartment since I have a friend coming in tomorrow from out of town.  Instead, I'm writing my review of Silver Rose Chronicle, which I saw tonight.

This one grew on me.  It took me a while to get into it, but by the end of it I decided that it fell into the "thumbs up" category.

If I ( Read more... )