Meep.  I feel bad saying this, but I liked the Daigekijou version better.

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Why do I not have a Taki-san icon?

Anyway, I noticed an advertisement in Kageki the other day for this.  Taki-san will have a dinner show called "My Revolution."  If this is old news I apologize, but it makes me feel somewhat better about her retirement.  Ah, if only money grew on trees...

In other news, in the section of this month's Kageki where ( Read more... )

To give some background, I have a copy of the 1995 version on DVD.  I watched the first act but somehow never got around to watching the second.  As MiiMai’s Tokyo start date got closer and closer, I consciously decided not to go back and watch the second act.

I started off grumpy for reasons that I won’t go into here, but I even have a ( Read more... )

It’s always the ones you don’t suspect.  I was worried that it was going to be one of the M girls unexpectedly taking off.  Obviously I’m happy that didn’t happen, but…this sucks just as much as that scenario would have.

And I swear, I am cursed when it comes to background people in tsukigumi.  Every time I start to notice someone they announce ( Read more... )

General show thoughts:

The score wasn’t as bad or sparse as I remembered it being.  It’s still not great, but there were a few memorable tunes.
I think it was

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So I saw this show once about a week ago.  At the time I was really tired and honestly, probably over-hyped.  I was also coming down with a cold.  The result is that I didn't enjoy it very much, which was pretty disappointing since I'm such a big tsukigumi fan and had been looking forward to this so much.

I decided to give the show another chance.  ( Read more... )

I saw the VHS of soragumi Elisabeth on sale at Takarazuka-an for about 2000 yen and decided to pick it up.  I’m glad I did.  Rereading what I wrote about everyone below may make it sound like I was lukewarm about this show, but I actually really really liked it.  In any case…

I think everyone, including me, has already weighed in their thoughts ( Read more... )

Pre-show stuff:

-A couple of bitchy notes to my fellow audience members:   1. Be there on time.  Regardless of whether or not it's me that you're climbing in front of when you come in late, it's still distracting.  I can believe that a few of you really did have problems that you couldn't have prepared for that made you late, but there were so many ( Read more... )

Paris no Sora Yori mo Takaku/Fancy Dance review

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