sumire_no_hana

JOY BEE, Hankyuu....


REALLY?!

*shakes head and goes to editing the wiki*

*edits*
*watching Shonichi digest*
Bad Touko! You're not allowed to crying during SHONICHI!!!

*edits again*
Oh, come on.. couldn't you have given us a bit more of an English description!?

*is watching Babylon for the first time ever and is in love with this revue already and it's not even half over.*

My first thought was "geez, some of this feels a lot like Solomon no Yubiwa and Tarantella"
*checks to see who the director was*
Oggy-sensei.
Of course, that would be why

It's been a long time since I've posted a TakaWiki related question to you here, but I figured it more likely to be seen here than on the actual TakaWiki forums ..... and it was better to ask before doing backlinking for Kaze no Nishiki-e / Zorro

I am curious about the translated title for Kaze no Nishiki-e. Is there any particular reason why we went with "Brocade Picures of the Wind" for it? I know that "Nishiki" means brocade... but I've never heard anyone refer to nishiki-e as "brocade pictures." In fact, I think I've only heard nishiki-e referred to as "nishiki-e." Even the English wikipedia entry is written as "nishiki-e." Should we just translate the title as "Nishiki-e of the Wind" or something similar?

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In non-wiki related news, the preview image for Kanashimi no Cordoba is up.

Retirements are up for Yukigumi:
Yurika Shiho, Tani Mizuse and Hozuki Haruna

Ducky and Taniyan, I actually know...

With Taniyan and Hozuki Haruna's departures, the 86th class dwindles yet a little more. After Kaname transfers and these two graduate, there will be only three 86ths remaining in yukigumi.

*edits*
So, it seems as though Suzune Ryou will miss both runs of the yukigumi show due to poor health.

Kotoshiro Manaka, aka Magee's hoshigumi musumeyaku clone, will be out YET AGAIN. This poor girl. I have to wonder what is up with her because this is how many shows now.... Though she is noted to be out only for the Takarazuka run... ;_;

I'm now trying to picture Tomomin being... black X_X

The hoshi okeikoba report started airing yesterday and I'm sitting down and actually trying to pay attention.


...

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....

Senka Encourage Concert, finally! (A year late, silly Hankyu)
Ritsu Tomomi, Yashiro Kou, Ban Akira, Kyou Misa, Isono Chihiro, Itsuki Chihiro, Ebira Kaoru

TCA Special 2007 - 'Allo Revue! - "Mon Pari" 80th anniversary commemoration
Hanagumi: Haruno Sumire, Sakurano Ayane, others
Tsukigumi: Sena Jun, Ayano Kanami, others
Yukigumi: Mizu Natsuki, Shirahane Yuri, others
Hoshigumi: Aran Kei, Toono Asuka, others

Sky Stage 5th Anniversary Special
OGs: Makoto Tsubasa, Emao Yuu, Kozuki Wataru, Asami Hikaru, Ootori Rei and others
Senka: Todoroki Yuu
Hoshigumi: Selected siennes from the Nissay theater performance
Soragumi: Yamato Yuuga, Hizuki Hana, others


Think that speaks enough for itself

Interesting little facts you learn:

Mimi Anri was actually in Hoshigumi from 1988 - 1996. I've watched the 1994 Daiundokai a dozen times but it never dawned on me that she was running with Hoshigumi not Yukigumi. *fixes her profile*

*edits to add* It also looks as though Asamine Hikari used to be an otokoyaku and switched to musumeyaku somewhere around 1996/1997 (I can't find any exact dates).


Maybe I'll finish up the DVD list today and work on some older sienne profiles.


God I have no life

In working on filling in missing profiles on the TakaWiki, I've discovered an interesting fact:

Members of the 86th class also performed in the revue half of Hoshigumi's Golden Pharaoh / Miracats Takarazuka run. (This was the Grand Theater show immediately following their hatsubutai show). All of the members played some variety of cats - Crazy cats, Paris cats, and of course, Miracats.

I knew that Maggie was in "Miracats," even though it was a Hoshigumi show and she's always been in Tsuki. (I'd also always wondered why someone had mistakenly added hoshigumi to Maggie's list of troupes).

Is this a common occurance? A special occurance? If so, any clue what might have prompted them to use the newly-debuted babies? Or am I just missing out on something?

(Yeah, I know I should get back to working on my Video/DVD List of DOOM, but I figured I'd take a break and work on other things)

Well, I had planned on putting up scans for you all this evening, but that obviously hasn't happened.

I suppose there is good reason. I happened to see that I had pictures that I could scan for a Takarzienne who didn't yet have a page (Narumi Jun). I didn't really know much about her, but that is one of the nice thing about working on these types of pages. You learn a lot.

I've had this tendancy to work on pre-soragumi tsukigumi performance pages (Okay, I'll admit my blatant bias, due to Zunko). Narumi Jun's name popped up in the cast lists as I built those pages. (She was in hoshigumi in her later career - And, unfortunately, that's the troupe I tend to know the least of). She seemed to be a young 'zienne that had a good bit of potential in the late 90's, yet nothing ever really wound up happening to her career. She wound up retiring in 2003. The interesting things you fine.

Well, I hadn't originally planned on spending so much on this page, but I suppose I'm intrigued by simple things. Well, off to finish of her page and link it up all over the place.