sumire_no_hana

Ah, taking a vacation day to extend my holiday weekend to 4 days is quite nice. Perhaps today I 'll take a trip to Chinatown to go grocery shopping (I have the craving for donburi and I'm pretty sure we need more dashi and soy sauce. I think we're fine on the mirin). Or maybe I'll take a trip to the thai/vietnamese grocery store on Washington so I can make some lemongrass soup... or some red or green curry... hmmmm....

ANYWAYS

BeruBaraKids never fails to come through.

Osaka Samurai.

Maggie.

Love.

That is all.


Dal Lake no Koi

Makes me want the DVD even more. So gorgeous!

I'm thinking of what little I've seen of the 1997 Hoshigumi version. My mind keeps placing this cast with these outfits into it. August and September are going to be very very expensive months, I see...

The one question I have though - for those of you who have seen the hoshigumi version. The scene with Saeko in drag in the charmante outfit..... "Welcome to Paris" or something to that effect. I have to wonder who will Asumi Rio be performing that part as well? I'm fairly sure that Mirio <3 is playing the same role that Saeko did .... but will it be Mirio in drag in the charmante scene as well?

Somehow having a ken-4 in drag, even for a scene or two, just doesn't seem the same. XD Well, she was in drag for a bit in Les Bijoux...

It seems like such a large role for a ken-4. (Saeko would have been, what, a ken-7? ) But it IS a national tour, where the 1997 version was a grand theater show. That could explain the babies playing larger roles. Mirio also DID have significant stage time in PariSora....

YouTube is really just the little treasure trove tonight. It appears that the file list hadn't updated when searching for "takarazuka" the last few days, but they're definately all there in force today!

Yukigumi Shinjin kouen rehearsal
(Touko! Kashi! HamakoInAskirtAsSophie! Hacchan!)

There's a lot more things I've never seen before that popped up, such as the Excalibur shinjin kouen...with Yumeki Noa <3 and Hoshi Elisabeth shinjin kouen rehersal (I love Saeko so much more without that annoying vibrato.. And hey, isn't that Suzuna Saya?!)

God I love shinkos.....I only wish that more were actually released to be purchased!

Why am I so amused that Tatsu Tsukasa's nickname is "Kotatsu?" It IS the most ingenius Japanese appliance/piece of furniture ever, truly. Why do I find it so adorable that both she and her sister Kotobuki Tsukasa share the same "given" name? That they were both Black Angels in Soragumi's Elisabeth?

Family relationships in Takarazuka always interest me - Particularly those between siblings. Take, for example, Ayaki Nao and Ayano Oto. There's always something simultaneously strange and amusing about Death singing to Young Rudolf when Death and Young Rudolf are sisters.

Well, back to linking up Mugen Houjushou. Eventually I'll do the scene descriptions as well...

And this post really tells me I need to make myself a generic Soragumi icon...