#Harada-hen

[choujinx]

CHIHAYAFURU: CHUUGAKUSEI-HEN (2017-2018) by tooda oto

[queengurako]

You have no idea how much I love this song in Sannan hen and all the symbolism with the choregraphy, the color and lighting.

Edit : sorry for the mistake with "no" as "know" (Look like my emotions and the corrector biased me)

[yuushiiblog]

he has such strong dad vibes in this both scenes in Harada hen

[demonsofthefleetingblossoms]

A screencap tribute to Harada from Shinkai Souma-hen (part 2)

Source: hakumyu-fancom.livejournal.com

[kumoriyami-xiuzhen]

Hakuoki Drama CD - Hijikata Biyori Track 19 Eng translation

For some reason, I had the part of that song with Kodo and Kazama's final confrontation from Kazama-hen in my head today despite not having listened to it in quite a while... guess something's telling me that I should go watch Kazama-hen instead of Shinkai Hijikata-hen, which I've only seen the switching camera version of? 😂

Anyway, this is this week's translation!

Hakuoki Drama CD - Hijikata Biyori Track 19 - Various Problems

Translation by KumoriYami

(sound of door opening)

Toudou: Hey, Sano-san, Shinpach-san, if you want to head out, go now... Uh, Hijikata-san and Sannan-san?

Hijikata: What is it, Heisuke.

Sannan: What are you trying to do in such a hurry?

Toudou: Ah, no, um...

Hijikata: That's right, Heisuke, come sit down over here.

Toudou: Eh? Um, I… have something urgent to do with Sano-san and Shinpach-san...

Hijikata: Harada and Shinpachi went out earlier. They were probably going to Shimabara anyway. There even enjoying themselves/fooling around during the day.

Toudou: No... damn it... those two left me behind!

Hijikata: Oh? What's wrong?

Toudou: No, it, it's nothing!

Hijikata: Is that so. Hey, Heisuke, quickly sit down.

Toudou: Ah! Right! Let me bring those two back.

Sannan: Bring back... is it?

Toudou: Seriously, Sano-san and Shinpach-san, they're really troublesome. Going to Shimabara in the middle of the day.

Hijikata: I guess you're going to go with them too.

Toudou: No way! How could that be! After all, I'm the one always stopping those two.

Sannan: Toudou-kun?

Toudou: That's right, but no matter how much I try to stop them, they still won't listen.

Sannan: I see, that's quite a problem.

Hijikata: It's amazing that you, who usually likes to mess around, would actually stop them.

Toudou: That's right. I mean, those two get drunk and cause commotions in broad daylight.

Sannna: What do you mean by commotions?

Toudou: It's something they always do. Things like Sano-san boasting about the scar on his stomach and Shinpach-san bragging about his arm muscles. Ah, the other day/a few days ago, they were arm wrestling and the loser had to drink sake! It was really terrible.

Hijikata: What, you must been drinking with them too.

Toudou: Ah...

Sannan: Although I understand how you feel, it really is not commendable for a Shinsengumi executive to get drunk and then cause trouble in broad daylight.

Toudou: Ah, how should I put it, those two people insisted…

Sannan: If they insisted, then you should have refused even more. Rejecting other is a type of strength, Toudou-kun.

Hijikata: Be a bit more mature. Heisuke.

Toudou: What, why are you're saying that just to me! Are those two much better/Aren't those two more outrageous? Anyway, I have to bring Sano-san and Shinpach-san back!

Hijikata: In that case, there's no problem. The two of them didn't go out. T

Toudou: Huh?

Sannan: Thanks to Todou-kun, we now have a good idea of what Harada-kun and Nagakura-kun were secretly doing behind our backs.

Toudou: How could that be――what the hell were Sano-san, Shinpach-san doing!

Hijikata: Those guys went to that person's room. Harada brought tangerines.

Sannan: It's not right for two guys to barge into a girl's room.

Hijikta: Isn’t that better than going out to drink during the day?

Toudou: Huh? That's not better, that's a much bigger problem than going to Shimabara! What's with that excuse! Those two…!

(Heisuke rushes outside)

Hijikata: Seriously. When will he start behaving like an adult/he grow up/get more mature? I can't help but think he's entirely driven by his emotions.

Sannan: Yes, that's true. But, isn't that Toudou-kun's strength?

Hijikata: Ah, yeah. There's no difference.

---end---

[kurayami-no-ko]

A summary of the release event of Sannan Hen DVD/Bluray

So, on the 30th, I went to the release event of the DVD/Bluray of Sannan Hen.

https://x.com/m_hakuoki/status/1708018792889262336?s=46

This is an official picture of the cast that went to the event.

From left to right: Hoshimoto Yuzuki (Kaoru), Tsukasa Taguchi (Yamazaki), Higuchi Yuuta (Heisuke), Teruma (Sannan), Kubota Hidetoshi (Hijikata), Kitamura Kento (Okita), Kawakami Shota (Harada).

They also sat in that order during the event, with Teruma being in the middle.

The event lasted roughly 1 hour with three sections. The first section just had introductions and some questions related to the musical. In the second section, the MC read up something and the cast responded to it (I barely understood anything in this section so the description will be short). In the third section, they played a music game.

Please note, my Japanese is awful so I may summarize or describe things inaccurately.

First section

I don't remember it very much but I will just list out the things I remember.

Hoshimoto has been a fan of Hakumyu for 7 years! She was contacted by her agent about taking part in Hakumyu.

It was Tsukasa's first time to take part in Hakumyu so he was rather new to it all.

Teruma had been doing it for a long time and he said the experience had always been noisy and loud lol. At some point, Teruma also said the crawling scene was super hard on his neck as he had to keep it up very high lol.

Later on, the MC asked a question: which scene made them the most nervous? (I think, I have shitty memories). Hoshimoto said it was the scene with Chizuru at the end. She worked with Shion a lot on that scene. Tsukasa said it was the dying scene. He said it hurt to fall suddenly down like that. Kawakami said it was the scene after Kondou's death, the character Harada had a lot of thoughts and feelings. Higuchi said it was the scene of him getting stabbed by Sannan lol. He said it was super hard and the timings of Teruma and him were off. Then he actually said a quote from the game and the musical, "本気で斬ってきたじゃねえか！” which means "Didn't you actually stab me!". Kitamura said that it was the scene when Okita fought to his death and finally got aided by Nagakura (there were some jokes about muscles that made everyone laugh but I didn't understand it). Kubota said that for him, it was the fight with the rasetsu with Kazama at the end. For Teruma, I could not understand his answer very well but I think his answer was the fight he had with Hijikata?

Second section:

Unfortunately, the only thing I could understand and remember from this section is Kawakami eating ramen at some point and smelling like garlic. He said he kept fearing people would smell garlic off him and that the wind would blow his garlic scent at other people.

Third section:

They played a music game. They all were given a sheet of paper with the list of musical numbers from the games. Some were surprised and said they didn't know the songs were given names lol and that there were so many songs.

The rule of the game was that there was a button in the middle of the stage, nearest to Teruma. Music from the songs would be played and the cast would have to listen to the song, reach out to the button when they recognized what the song was and then say the title of the song. The winner would be given a price and the loser would have to drink the ochimizu. Higuchi won (getting 3 songs correct, I think) and Tsukasa lost (getting no song correct at all).

It was kinda funny at the beginnning before the game started with the cast farther away from the button attempted to jokingly cheated by moving their seats closer (Kawakami, Kento and Hoshimoto). Teruma, the one nearest the button, actually moved his seat closer to the button lol. But then they all settled down. The game started, the music was on for like a few seconds before everyone rushed toward the button besides Teruma who was still sitting still. The song was M4: Ao de are (I think). It was Kubota who got it correct, I think (don't believe me, I have shitty memories).

Now I will just be listing off what I can remember. A song that was played was M5: Tada Kurayami yori. When the music first sounded out, everyone was confused af, including Teruma, but Higuchi was the only one who figured it out, pushed the button and got it correct. I was screaming internally at Teruma to get this song but he didn't lol. He then teased Teruma about it, because Teruma sang that song. Teruma then explained that he didn't recognize it because the song has so many versions. Higuchi even sang Tada Kurayami yori lol. Can I please have a Tada Kurayami yori Heisuke ver. please? That edgy won't fit the character at all but it will be fun to see Heisuke sing it lol.

After this, the next song was M24-1: En (which was the song of Kaoru while he was venting out his anger on Chizuru). Hoshimoto got it right, yay, and then explained it was because it was her song. Then Teruma once again got teased for failing to recognizing his own song lol.

After a few songs, M9-2: Imakage (Chizuru and Sannan's duet in the first act) was played, once again, Teruma failed completely to recognize it. This time, Higuchi and Kento were competing to say the name of the song. Higuchi got it incorrect and lost his turn (though he got it correct later on). Kento also got it incorrect. Later on, Teruma pushed the button, hesitated, looked at the paper without saying any name and finally got it correct after Higuchi literally pointed out the name of the song on the paper for him.

A few of the songs played in the quiz (in no order because my memory is awful) were M22: Tada Ichido no Toki (Kawamaki got this), and M18: Katani ni Komeyou - Yadori Neko (Kento got this, a true Souji guy). I think there were more? I just don't remember them.

The winning song was the last one, the MC said that it was worth 100 points. The song was M20: Rasetsu no Mirai ni and Higuchi got it, and thus, won the game.

He got the reward while poor Tsukasa had to drink the Ochimizu. The guy had never drunk it before. Teruma said a Sannan's quote from Live 3: 心臓繁栄？which means invigorating to the heart. Then Tsukasa drank it, coughed and looked so miserable. He said it was sour.

In my opinion, Teruma needed to drink that, too. It is partly mostly because he didn't have to drink the Ochimizu in Live 3 (when he lost the game, he forced it on someone else) and also because the guy was so bad at playing this lol. Tada Kurayami Yori, Imakage, and also Rasetsu no Mirai (three of the songs Higuchi knew) were all either his solo song or his duets with someone else. He wouldn't have gotten any song correct if Higuchi hadn't pointed it out to him.

Then after this, they showed the poster to Musical Hakuouki Shinkai Hijikata Toshizou Hen. Kubota said he hadn't seen this final version of this poster before.

Then after this, it was just saying goodbye and the event finally ended, breaking my heart.

[kaysutcliff-michaelis]

Sannan-hen cast with character visuals

Character visuals for Sannan-hen have been posted on the official Hakumyu Twitter account!

Keisuke Sannan - Teruma  (輝馬)  

Chizuru Yukimura - Shion Aoki (青木志穏)

Toshizo Hijikata  -  Hidetoshi Kubota (久保田秀敏)

Souji Okita  - Kento Kitamura (北村健人)

Hajime Saito -  Shoichiro Oomi (大海将一郎)

Heisuke Todou -  Yuta Higuchi (樋口裕太)

Shinpachi Nagakura - Ryosuke Koike (小��亮介)

Sanosuke Harada  -  Shouta Kawakami (川上将大)

Susumu Yamazaki - Tsukasa Taguchi (田口司)

Isami Kondou  - Taira Imata (井俣太良)

Chikage Kazama  - Yoshihide Sasaki   (佐々木喜英) 

Kyuju Amagiri - Masafumi Yokoyama (横山真史)

Kyo Shiranui   - Takuma Sueno (末野卓磨)

Kodo Yukimura -  Hiroyuki Kawamoto  (川本裕之)

Kaoru Nagumo - Yuzuki Hoshimoto (星元裕月)

[liliththunder]

Because the post got too long, for further reading

Update:

So for the upcoming production in 2024, there are following options:

Okita

Iba

Sakamoto

Harada

Heisuke

The smaller possibilities:

Hijikata Shinkai

Kazama Shinkai

Yamazaki

Shinpachi

Not considered/surprising options:

Kitan

Reimeiroku

Why:

Okita Hen: Okita is one of the three most popular characters of Hakuouki, so considering that we had two Hijikata Hens and two Saito Hens, there's definitely a possibility.

Iba & Sakamoto: according to the muster he had right now, it could be either of these two. The only down in their possibility is that they aren't very popular routes and might be hard to adapt

Harada and Heisuke: these two routes could either get a Shitan or a Shinkai.

The smaller possibilities:

Hijikata and Kazama could always get a Shinkai Adaption looking at their popularity.

As for Shinpachi and Yamazaki: they haven't had a route yet. What makes them possible: they are closer to the story of all and probably easier to adapt. What makes them less possible: they are kinda close to Sannan as an old character new route characters.

[choujinx]

CHIHAYAFURU: CHUUGAKUSEI-HEN (2017-2018) by tooda oto

[blueneil]

Dear Hakuouki fandom, does Hakuouki Characters have emoji to representate or associate with them? I think many old fandom didn't have this but it's been normalize in nowadays fandom lol.

I've been searching for months but didn't find any of it 🥲

Personally i already have emoji for some characters in mind tho:

🐓 : Souma (TELL ME IN THE EYES HE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A POOR LITTLE HEN, TELL ME)

🐱 : Okita for obvious reason ^w^

🐥: Yamazaki, idk... he looks like... smol baby chicken.... mostly his hair giving it that way

🐍: Sannan (WELL)

🦞: Harada (PLS PLS I'M SO SORRY BUT RED HAIR, "LONG" BODY, STRONG APPEREANCE???) if its not this then its the 🍶 (sake) emoji (you can tell i'm not creative i'm so sorry)

❄️: Saito!! I'm thinking about bunny to but anyway snow flake really fit him :") Pretty, cold, but easily melt when he meet some heat.

🌸: Chizuru (my baby) but it will be funny if this an emoji to Hijikata, because Chizuru always associate him with Cherry Blossom tree

[yuushiiblog]

Harada's song from Souma hen destroyed me, so I drew this (plus tried new brushes)

[demonsofthefleetingblossoms]

A screencap tribute to Harada from Shinkai Souma-hen (part 1)

Source: hakumyu-fancom.livejournal.com

[kumoriyami-xiuzhen]

Hakuoki Drama CD - Hijikata Biyori Track 18 Eng translation

Now that this and everything else I probably need to worry about this week is done... I'm going to watch Hakumyu Shinkai Hijikata-hen!

😊

Hakuoki Drama CD - Hijikata Biyori Track 18 - Whether flowers bloom or not

Translation by KumoriYami

Nagakura: It's getting late, Sano, so isn't it about time for us to head out?

Harada: Ah, yes. Where are we heading tonight? Come to think of it, our last drinking comepetition ended in a draw. I'm definitely going to win today, Shinpachi.

Nagakura: What are you saying! I won last time!

Harada: You really know how to talk. When you came back last time, you were staggering as you walked.

Nagakura: Hm?

Harada: What is it?

Nagakura: Look, isn't that Hijikata-san coming over towards us?

Harada: Oh? Ah, there must be some meeting somewhere today...

Hijikata: Ah? What, it's just you guys.

Nagakura: Hey, Hijikata-san. Are you going back to headquarters?

Harada: Weren't you with Kondou-san?

Hijikata: Kondou-san went with some bigwigs. I was going back...

Nagakura: Hehe...

Hijikata: Going to Shimabara... seriously, be moderate.

Nagakura: I got it.

Harada: Areh? Hijikata-san.

Hijikata: What?

Harada: On your shoulder... this is...

Nagakura:....A sakura petal? Were there any places where the sakura are already blooming? It's really early.

Hijikata: The sakura tree in bloom/there were sakura blooming around that corner. Although it was/they were dried up by the sun. Maybe this fell while I was walking beneath it.

Harada: Really. I want to see it.

Nagakura: Okay, let's go! Where was it? Hijikata-san.

Hijikata: Just turn around the corner and you'll be there. Like I said, it was/they were in full bloom when I saw it/them.

Harada: That doesn't matter, as long as we can see it for a while, it'll be fine.

Nagakura: Hijikata-san, you're not coming?

Hijikata: No, I won't be going. You guys go.

Nagakuar: Alright, let's go! Sano.

Hijiakta: Also, don't drink too much.

Nagakura: Yeah, yeah, I understand. Harada: See you later, Hijikata-san.

Hijikata: Ah… they're obviously not in full bloom yet... Ah, that's right. We might not be able to see the sakura in full bloom. Alright, I have to the tell the others too. The sakura have begun to blossom.

------end-------

[kurayami-no-ko]

Mikata is so creepy I love it

I am currently watching Toudou hen now. And Mikata has the sweetest, most angelic ever as Sannan, but the guy is so good at acting as Sannan when he is gaslighting, being passive aggressive and manipulative. The scene in which he scolded and acted nasty towards Chizuru is just so good. Unlike Teruma, he is not a very extra Sannan but through minimal acting, he can convey very well a Sannan who is going to do something bad. Absolutely love it. 

I thought Mikata was absolutely amazing in Aware no Mouja but my favorite song so far right now has been that song about the path that starts with “Warera no suzumu michi”. It is just so eerie, creepy and absolutely gorgeous. It fits Mikata’s voice so well.  I have not finished watching it, though so I hope I will find some new songs to like at the end.

I know that Mikata was not in Harada hen but I honestly would love to see him in Harada hen so badly. Imagine Mikata in Harada hen and just being so snide and manipulative towards Chizuru. That will be absolute gold. 

Also, I would love to see Teruma in Toudou hen to see how crazy the guy can get. Can they just remake Toudou hen and then cast Teruma as Sannan? Teruma is going to be so wild and feral if they ever remake Toudou hen lol. 

They do invite old casts to cameo in Hakumyu so maybe, someday, we will see both Mikata and Teruma on the same stage together. I kinda wish Mikata would be able to sing a love duet with Chizuru, though. Something tells me the guy is gonna rock it.

[pumpkin-patch-cat]

*Suddenly remembering you have Hakumyu: Harada-hen to rewatch*

[ladyshiranui]

Shimada 😃

Shimada - Favourite Hakuoki Musical actor?

Only the most beAUTIFUL MAN IN THE WORLD

H i g a s h i   K e i s u k e   

and it’s a double win because he plays as Harada heuheuheuehuhe (´⌣`ʃƪ)