I don't say this very often, but the "Fifty Fifty" may in fact be the BEST. POSTER. EVER.

Seriously, look at it!  I literally started laughing out loud (and er, may have almost choked ^^;)  Look for the cows in the background, too ;)

Given that Mano Sugata is a former tsukigumisei, I can't help but feel a little proud ;)  I'm not really familiar with ( Read more... )

So, it looks like casting is up.  Unfortunately I don't know much about the original drama...isn't there one more female character that's Yuu-san's love interest other than Ayane-chan's character?

The only retirement is Mochizuki Rise, who I have to admit I don't really know (although she did have a shinko lead...).  It seems like the 86ths are ( Read more... )

(Note: Spoilers contained within)

Okay, it wasn’t quite as bad as I heard, but it was still pretty bad.  Judging by the musical half, hanagumi is in pretty bad shape right now.  (Luckily the revue was absolutely awesome and completely reversed my opinion of the new hanagumi).  It’s not really the fault of the Takarasiennes, though.  This just ( Read more... )

My Japanese is as spotty as ever, but from what I can gather from this announcement (and please correct me if I'm wrong):

1. Takarazuka will be doing an adaptation of a Korean drama.  I'm not familiar with it, but this is the NHK page.  Uh...cool costumes?  I'm intrigued.  (This was the part that confused the most, so please correct me if I got ( Read more... )

I accidentally hit a wrong button and deleted all of what I had written.  So this is the somewhat shorter version: Kiriyan has been announced as being in Arex, tsukigumi's upcoming Theater Drama City show.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that means with rehearsal schedules and everything that she's going to be staying in tsuki for the ( Read more... )

I'm assuming that everyone has seen this by now.

I had heard the rumors going around, but still I was surprised when I woke up from a nap today and saw the announcement on the Hankyu page.  I had lay down exhausted after getting home earlier around 3, thinking "Tomorrow is the start of Asaki Yume Mishi rehearsals, I guess nothing is going to ( Read more... )

The Black Lizard review

Note: this is a backdated entry of a review I originally posted to
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