Aka to Kuro review: beware long rambliness
Apr. 8th, 2008 04:35 pmWarning: Spoilers contained within!
Warning: Spoilers contained within!
Yukigumi fans will really enjoy Je t’aime/Miroirs when it comes out on DVD. Je t’aime isn’t the best play ever, but it was much better than I thought it would be. Miroirs is a really great revue that I recommend for everyone. Regardless, both halves demonstrate how strong yukigumi is right now. Now please look at the pretty mirrors while I go steal Kimu for tsuki.
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On a random hoshigumi related note, I have a hunch that a star-track otokoyaku is going to be transferred into tsukigumi within the next year. If this is the case, I wonder if one of these could be Tatsuki You or Suzumi Shio, given that they weren’t promoted after Wataru left? Or are those two off the top star track at this point?
In closing, I think you guys know by now where my loyalties lie in tsukigumi. Despite that, I thought that Hollywood Lover was definitely the better of the two tsukigumi shows that came to the Nippon Seinenkan this January. Just uh, don’t tell the Kiriyan cultists that I said that -_-;;;;
Yuuhi fans, you definitely need this one. Tsukigumi fans, I highly recommend it. Even if you’re not a particularly big fan of either, I still really recommend Hollywood Lover. Really, I can’t think of any complaints.
In other news, exactly why did I get so fixed on this idea of going to the Mahoroba senshuraku? I tried bidding on one ticket and lost, and I have a feeling I’m going to get outbid on another. I’m not sure if I can get anything for less than 20,000 yen. With that money I could go see the show almost three times in S-seki on other days.
Is there any chance of getting something through the general sale? I have a feeling I’m going to start having dreams about the Loppi machine at Lawsons…
I saw the VHS of soragumi Elisabeth on sale at Takarazuka-an for about 2000 yen and decided to pick it up. I’m glad I did. Rereading what I wrote about everyone below may make it sound like I was lukewarm about this show, but I actually really really liked it. In any case…
Honestly, I’m not sure if there’s a bad version of Elisabeth out there. I’ve now seen three (sora, tsuki, and yuki 07), and they’ve all been really cool shows. I think to some extent it’s just a matter of who you like. However, I think it’s getting more difficult to do Elisabeth lately due to getting compared to everyone else who has done the role in the past. For example, even if you have a decent voice, you get blasted for not being Zunko. Unlike Berubara, every honkouen production of Elisabeth has ended up on DVD. This definitely isn’t a bad thing, but… Ah well. I have a feeling few people will complain if there’s another production of Elisabeth in a few years. I certainly won’t. I’d love to see Kiriyan’s Death. (Yes, I realize that I want to see Kiriyan in just about every major role in Takarazuka canon). Sadly this one probably won’t happen. Even if there’s another production of Elisabeth before she retires, it won’t be tsukigumi.
...why is it that I started out writing about soragumi Elisabeth and ended up writing about Kiriyan?