Becca's Adventures in Sakura/Secret Hunter Land 5/20/07, Part 2: my review

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I feel like when I try to sum up my thoughts what I keep coming back to is the rather bland phrases “pretty” and “well-done”, but they do fit here.  Somehow I’m finding it much harder to squee when I don’t know the cast that well.  Which is unfortunate because I want to squee ^_^

Pretty is maybe not quite accurate here because it sounds a

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I haven't actually been to the Grand Theater yet, although I'm making a pilgrimage there this July. I think the Tokyo Theater will always have a place in my heart because well, it's mine. (In that way that it belongs to thousands of other people, but you get the idea -_-) Still looking forward to see what the homeland of Takarazuka is like, though.

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I love them equally, but in different ways.

Or maybe like children, each for their own good qualities. And bad qualities, for which one loves them anyway...

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Yay, I've been waiting for your review! :) I'm so glad you enjoyed the show.

I had read earlier that there was some concern that Touko was having vocal problems. I don’t know how to judge singing in technical terms, but she sounded fine to me. I’d go as far as to say good, as I ended up really liking her voice.

You may be thinking of "Hays Code" - Touko almost completely lost her voice during the Osaka run of "Hays Code" (her very, very first show as top) and apparently you could barely even hear her talk, much less sing. :( I'm told it was better for the Tokyo Seinenkan run (which is probably why they recorded the DVD there, come to think of it) and is now completely back to normal - that is, perfection. ;)

As did Touko’s finale costume.

God, wasn't it hideous? :)

Was this an adlib?Probably a planned-in-advance one. She didn't say it either of the days I was at the daigekijou. Instead, one day she just said she was stiff and the other she said she was stiff "because of her day off

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To be honest, I don't like the vast majority of finale costumes to begin with. But this one was particularly...yeah. I'd like to ask a sienne sometime what they really think of some of these costumes ^_^; Although I would imagine that some of them are fun.

Would you recommend Hays Code?

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Would you recommend Hays Code?

Er, *technically* I haven't watched it yet, as I was too busy watching the Tea Party... *hangs head in shame*

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Daijobu desu ^_^ I haven't been able to watch A/L yet. And besides, Tea Partie are important *nodnod*