( ACT 2 )

★ ★ TAKIZAWA KABUKI ★ ★
2015
Tenth Anniversary

Once upon a time, there was a pretty elf prince named Takki.The pretty elf prince, urged by his company's president, created a musical blend of the modern and the traditional called Takizawa Kabuki ( Read more... )

Last year, a Japanese fan saw Tsubasa on the subway in Osaka. She tweeted (paraphrasing), "TSUBASA IS ON THE SUBWAY LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN PERSON WHAT THE FUCK HOLY SHIT WHOA," and added that he had silver hair. So...that happened. (Sadly, no one ever got a shot of the silver - next time he was photographed it was blond. Which was also a thing that ( Read more... )

So as far as I can tell Playzone people were like, "This summer's gonna be the last time we EVER perform Playzone in Aoyama!" and then like four days into it Tsubasa was like, "HA no, actually we're gonna do one more in January trollolol ( Read more... )

WELCOME TO A LONG REVIEW OF PLAYZONE IN NISSAY 2014. :D

[DISCLAIMER: I spent most of the show focused on Tsubasa and 4U. When they weren't onstage, I was either watching Yara or Yamaryo. Aaand that pretty much covers the full spectrum of my attention. :D]

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PLAYZONE in NISSAY
January 16, 2014
QUICK POINTS OF INTEREST:

• "どーしようもない," which was (essentially) Yuma's solo, has been switched to "どうなってもいい〜It’s BAD," which features Tsubasa. I really loved "どーしようもない" and all the incremental improvements Yuma made on it in both voice and dance this summer, so I was a little sad to see it removed from the ( Read more... )

My seat was on the second floor this time, which was actually pretty awesome! See, from the floor seats, you can't really see through the scrim they use as a screen for the video portions of the show, but from the second stand, if you look hard enough, you can see through the scrim and watch the set changes going on behind the performances. Also, ( Read more... )

PLAYZONE

SONG & DANC'N PART II

July 30th, 2012 was the Most Magical Day of Days:

~PLAYZONE DAY~This year was special, because I feel like Tsubasa's gotten more comfortable in his lead role and it just made me really proud to see him nailing all his performances so well. I remember hearing how nervous he was in 2010 about taking the lead, but ( Read more... )