Aka to Kuro review: beware long rambliness

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Warning: Spoilers contained within!

Thoughts on the show itself

After hearing in so many interviews and articles what a legendary show this is, I was a bit let down by the material.  The story itself was intriguing, but something about the way it was put together didn’t appeal to me.  Too much dialogue and not enough singing and dancing, I guess,

Comments

[faux_semblant]

thank you for this report!!!
I will buy the dvd for the sexy Chie dance at the end ^^:

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It's not as big as some of Chie's other recent roles, but you're a really big fan of hers and will most likely enjoy it regardless ^^

[wao_wao]

Aww, haha, I love it when the curtain calls go on and on and finally the 'sinnes are like "eerrr... please return home safely (because we want to go home too)..." Hehe. <3

Thanks for the review! :D

*edits again* Not that I mind, but you might want to warn people of "long, spoilery rambliness". ;)

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Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what Touko said. And when I saw The Second Life, Micchan was the same way after the sixth or so curtain call. It's very cute I think :D

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In response to the spoiler thing...gomen~~~~~! >_

[sumirepanther]

Wow, the senshuraku performance! How lucky!!
And Touko's tears...she kept posting "Julien Sorel" as the role she would like to play to Otome for so many years. Now that her long-time dream has come true, I'm curious to know what role she has come up with in the latest Otome.

[ruderal_species]

Heh heh. I was thinking the same thing. Now she was forced to come up with something else! ;)

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I just hope it's not a question she leaves blank, I want to know too!!

[tokugawa]

Now I want to see this show when it comes out on DVD, ^.^!

Around the fourth curtain call someone yelled out "Touko is the best!", to which Touko replied, "You (all) are the best!"

Aww how cute, ^.^!

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Fans are awesome XD

[ruderal_species]

Senshuraku???? How did I miss you were going to Senshuraku???

All out of context because I can't get it to cut-and-paste.

- It surprises me not a bit that the Tokyo cult provided the entire audience with lights. It was KAC and the over-achieving that inspired me to coin the phrase "Touko Cult" in the first place. ;)

- Plot-wise sounds pretty much like I expected. I know it's Touko's favorite show, but it was also her *first* show (that she saw), and who can judge their *first* Takarazuka show properly? Anyway, still not regretting prioritizing El Halcon over Aka to Kuro.

- Blowing kisses - she did that at El Halcon senshuraku at the daigekijou (footage was on my Ochakai DVD) and the cult sounded like they were going to pass out. It made me burst out laughing to see it. (Of course, had I been there, would I have remained calm?)

I'm probably forgetting something else I wanted to comment on, but oh well.

Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEW! I can't wait to see this on DVD. Which probably won't be until July! But still!

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So basically I was patrolling Yahoo! Auctions for B-seki (I certainly couldn’t afford a good seat at the prices they were going at). I saw a B-seki that happened to be on senshuraku. I put in a bid, not really thinking I was going to win, but then amazingly I did and I certainly wasn’t going to complain ;) In retrospect, I think the price wasn’t as expensive this time because 1) it was on a Monday, 2) there’s still the Nagoya run left, and 3) there were no retirements.

I was really impressed with the Touko cult for giving us all penlights. It couldn’t have been cheap with the number of seats in the Nippon Seinenkan, but it created a really cool effect in the theater ^^

Anyway, still not regretting prioritizing El Halcon over Aka to Kuro. And it was 100% the right decision. Aka to Kuro just didn't come together as a whole the way that El Halcon did so magnificently.