For New Year's Alice-chan went with her family to Kyushu to enjoy hot springs in what she expected to be warmer weather, but she discovered that there's actually a lot of snow. She says she made a tiny snowman while sitting in an open-air bath -- which she cruelly did not take a picture of* -- but at least she posed in front of one at the second ( Read more... )

I was thinking back on my time as a fan and reminded that two days ago was the 4-year anniversary of Wao and O-Hana leaving Takarazuka ( Read more... )

Alright, jess_in_japan has been taken to the train station after her overnight stay. Time for a quick post!

More name-dropping, as the mail just came -- lliri_blanc thank you so much for the awesome gift, and also a few days ago I got a birthday card from melikka which is really sweet ( Read more... )

Singing angels.

The singing of three Soragumi angels is what I just listened to for an hour and twenty minutes ( Read more... )

(1) TAKARAZUKA BEAUTIES ＃７ 「花影アリス ( Read more... )

I was going to just link Lucia to one stage photo and be done with it... And then this turned into a post that took me an hour and a half. ^^;;;

In response to how lovely Alice-chan looks in her finale costume, I wanted to say "very nearly as lovely as O-Hana looked in it".

And then I made a compilation of ( Alice-chan and other wonderful musumeyaku in the same dresses )

It's raku, only it doesn't feel like raku. Except for the fact that it's raining.

Actually, I have amazing news.

(Sorry for shouting down your f-lists again, but...)

O-HANA IS GOING TO BE BACK ON STAGE

AND IT'S WITH WAO.

O-HANA. ON STAGE. WITH. WAO.

See? The allcapsing is totally justified. ^__________________________________________^

I went to bed thinking about how awesome it would've been if Soragumi had done Casablanca before 2005 -- with Wao!Rick, Hana!Ilsa and Mizu!Laszlo ( Read more... )

Well, the good thing about going to an early dinner show that's over by 7:00PM is that I can come home and make a report tonight.

The other good thing about going to the early show as opposed to the later "cocktail show" is that the dinner show is apparently the one that all the Takarasiennes go to. :D :D

( Stay Gold )

Everyone is doing it, and you knew I would too, so...

The 95th class has been sorted.

Our newbies in Soragumi are Ayaka Mari, Suzuka Maya, Sakuragi Minato, Mirei Jun, Mamiya Ryouko, Nanao Maki, Reimi Urara, Asao Ren and Rumi JunI love all of them by default, of course. But my instinctive "squee!" reaction was at Sakuragi Minato, Mamiya Ryouko ( Read more... )