Hankyuu continues to fail.

Oh, I know, I should be excited about us getting Keiko-san again, and Maya-san for the first time in like six years.

But.

Ouka isn't listed in the cast.

All my paranoia about her, all this time, it's turning out to be true. She's mysteriously absent and goddammit Hankyuu, you're obligated to tell me why. They always ( Read more... )

I was up late reading, and then I noticed that no one had said or done anything about this or this, and then suddenly I was up really late wiki-ing. >.>;;;

( Mei-chan cast first, since I did it first. )

For some reason I've lost the knack of posting about my dreams in a timely fashion -- the first of these is over a week late.

Not that my dreams are really that amusing to anyone but me; I guess I just record them because they persistently roll around in my head until I do.

So the first of these... ( It seems like four separate dreams, but I actually had them all in the same night. )

Ah, Masatsuka-sensei. You finally got one right! Such a solid show <--- this equates to "pretty decently good" after I've been disappointed time and again...

I've always wanted to do a review this way, where I take the official summary and break it down to "what this actually means onstage". It seems Roget is the show where I finally try it out. ( So here we go. )

Mwahaha. Perhaps you all thought you'd escaped the Je Chante blather... Admittedly I let myself get distracted for a while because it was hard to talk about this show, but now I'm in the right mood again.

( I left off where Kacha and Alice-chan did their first pair dance of love... )

Fun stuff! The details! :D

(*edits* With added Asahi picture links.)

I thought about making a separate post for "The Music", but I'll just incorporate it into this one and see how far I get.

( The first three scenes )

I figure if this is ever going to get done it has to be done in a series of posts, and all of them long. The logical place to start is with the story, so... I figured I'd do it in straight narration style using only character names, and adding no detailed asides such as "and then Alice-chan comes in to sing counterpoint" etc. Those will come later ( Read more... )

Of course people immediately jumped on Shangri-la, but no one even breathed a word about Je Chante casting, thus allowing me the pleasure of editing the Wiki myselfAmong those listed, at least Henri Varna (Isono-san), Mistinguett (Keiko-san) and Raoul Breton (Susshii-san) also appear to be real people. Mii-chan's ゲオルグ・シュタイネル is a little ( Read more... )

Full cast lists for Je Chante and Shangri-LaMISSING FROM SAID CAST LISTS ( Read more... )

Hanagumi's Berubara DVD now has a special shiny page.. I'm kind of jealous. ;P

Also, Daily Sports has more Exciter!! photos, mostly (as far as I can see) of Ayane being criminally hot.

On the subject of DVDs, it occurred to me to check on Rio de Bravo! and sure enough, they're cutting the vocals to the entire "Girl from Ipanema" section. :\ Shame ( Read more... )