#amashi

[musumeyaku-forever]

TAKARAZUKA REVUE 2024

Tsukigumi combi - Hozuki An & Amashi Juri

[zukadiary]

Moon Troupe new top combi announcement

We have a record breaker on our hands!!

Congrats to Hozuki An, who at ken-19 will set the record formerly held by Oozora Yuuhi for longest tenured in Takarazuka before becoming top; and Amashi Juri, who will be the first top of the 101st class.

Their debut performance will be a national tour of In the Amber-Hued Rain / Grande TAKARAZUKA 110! beginning August 22.

Simultaneously, Kazama Yuno will lead a restaging of Bluff, based on the movie The Sting and first performed by Kuze Seika in 1990, at Tokyo Geijutsu Gekijou and Bow Hall.

[bulanpagi]

Official poster for In the Amber-Hued Rain/Grande Takarazuka 110! (Moon Troupe, 2024)

[kiealer]

I would never force the nazu black twins on any other iteration of Black (bc of course etiquette and comfort reasons), but god is the mental image of him finding out he has alternate timeline children (TWINS, no less) and interacting with them is. fucking hilarious to me.

[amitsuma]

very basic draft for the twins' current / adult outfits--

[wtheckzukasubs]

“The Wind of Buenos Aires (2022)” subs for the Bluray

Download here: wtheckzukasubs.tumblr.com/shows

Why not make the release all over again? I have retimed my subs to the bluray release. But really, the text of this post is the same as the first one. Just adding my thanks to @matchala​ for proofreading the translation. Of course, if you still find mistakes, they were all my fault, due to revising the way I translated, and not matchala’s fault.

This isn’t a show I’ll fully recommend. I’ve seen better from this director but I’ve seen much worse. I think this story grew on me while I was subbing it.

Also, some trigger warnings for gun use, incest innuendo, death (lots of deaths in the first half of the first act in fact), and probably more that I can’t think of. And the way of thinking is not on par with the situation of the world now, it is a 20-year-old show from a time Earth wasn’t flat, so we took things for granted (like Earth being round), that’s why I understand it, but some of it didn’t sit well with me, living in Brazil, under who Brazil’s president is. It’s nothing big, it wasn’t even a trigger for me, it just made me uncomfortable to see… Earth is flat now.

Sorry about the rant.

[arrakun]

[nu-haruto]

I said on my art blog that I'd talk about my own story with my OCs but I haven't... Let me cook with it, as I proceed to not write anything about it. I'll take questions about it at @hana-amashi though in my ask box if anyone wants to.

[harutos-silly-little-delsuions]

Didn't know that the LC actor AU pitch blew up, I mean. I kinda did but damn. At this rate it'll beat out my art that I posted on my main blog (@hana-amashi self promo lol??), I'll mainly start with writing but I don't mind having help from people in the community.

[musumeyaku-forever]

「琥珀色の雨にぬれて」

[zukadiary]

Flügel / A Kaleidoscope of Life ~ Moon 2023

4.5-year awaited Grand Theater return on September 22 (before things) ft. my eyes dead from the unseasonable heat and yet another failed attempt to get my FLYING SAPA REFUND FROM 2020 THAT THEY STILL OWE ME.

This, unexpectedly, turned out to be the hands-down Takarazuka highlight of Tadaima ’23, and that’s… despite a play of extremely questionable content. Tsukigumi—Mugen Musou / Krung Thep—had the honor of being my last live Takarazuka before the shit hit the fan globally, and the troupe is such different vibes I felt like I stepped through a portal (not that Yukigumi isn’t, dear lord, but small theaters are always a little weird vibe-wise). I had a feeling this would be my first and last live top Tsukishiro Kanato, and she did indeed announce taidan days later. We have no shortage of 95th top stars, but, since I was a hardcore Yukigumi fan ten years ago, Reiko is the only one I’ve been closely following since her shinko days. She’s gotten so good, and every time I’ve watched her since the Romance Gekijou stream, I’ve seen in her movements and expressions that she's absolutely watched Komu on repeat in her moments of doubt. It makes my heart sing.

FLÜGEL SPOILERS (can’t believe I’m saying this again, but cw suicide, also nazis 🙄):

If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Gee, you know whose take I’d love on the politics of a divided Germany? TAKARAZUKA’S,” well, maybe this show is for you! It’s the 1980s (although you wouldn’t know it till they bust a hole through the Wall… they really dropped the ball on costuming) and Jonas (Reiko) is a GDR officer who grew up thinking his mother (Shirayuki Sachika) was a nazi after she was arrested in his childhood for war crimes and they were separated on opposite sides of the partitioned country. After we open with a completely historically inaccurate scene from the Russian Afghan war (just SCREAMS Takarazuka, doesn’t it?), Jonas is put in charge of overseeing an East German concert featuring wildly popular West German idol Nadia (Umino Mitsuki), while other GDR officer Helmut (Houzuki An) is tasked with keeping an eye on them/preventing spying or something (idk, this plot doesn’t hold a ton of water to be honest). The general conflict is that Team Reiko is pro-unification, and Team Chinatsu is staunchly anti. Amidst a flurry of various activities that realistically would have gotten Jonas thrown in the gulag 1000 times over—including helping old war buddy?? Amashi Juri escape to West Germany via an underground route operated by Irodori Michiru and Haon Mika—Team Helmut attempts to dampen pro-unification sentiment by plotting a terrorist attack at the concert (in the form of an exploding microphone) and pinning it on a priest (Yumena Rune) and his band of peaceful student protestors. Thanks to Jonas and Luis Wagner (Kazama Yuno), who is Nadia’s manager and also secretly the best spy in the world or something, the mic is retrieved and the plan is thwarted. When Nadia returns to West Germany, she is moved to become a pro-unification activist thanks to the friends she made on the other side, and leads a protest that results in breaking the wall down. Helmut, unable to cope with the defeat of his ideology, takes his own life quite dramatically (so be aware of that). After travel is permitted between east and west, Jonas discovers that his mother (aging with dementia), while employed by the nazis, actually used her position to help Jews escape. Jonas and Nadia don’t fall in love, but they do look off into the sky together in hope and friendship.

I really did not care for this plot, yet somehow I also didn’t absolutely hate watching it. I think there were enough isolated highlights to make the experience worth it:

I! Love! Reiko! And I’m so happy I got to see her as top once! And her voice is fantastic lately!

Reiko and Chinatsu have an unexpectedly compelling chemistry

Chinatsu has an unexpected chemistry with me and my feelings

The final protest scene (set to a dramatic rendition of Ode to Joy) features Chinatsu repeatedly trying to hit Reiko, while Reiko just blocks all her punches and stares straight into her eyes. It’s a lot.

I had similar feelings watching Oda as I did watching Agachin; she wore those 4.5 years loud and proud. +1000 confidence, absolutely ready for her nibante era.

Nice little send off role for Ren Tsukasa, who is ABSOLUTELY BELOVED. People cheered the theater down for her, it was genuinely moving. No one in anything else I saw got that much applause except for maybe Kaiho Naoto.

KALEIDOSCOPE SPOILERS:

This, brainchild of Kurita-sensei making her revue debut, was the revue of the year, and probably the revue of all pandemic era for me. It was fresh, it had a theme, the music slapped, it actually called back a little to Ogita-sensei who I will miss in tkz until the end of time. LET WOMEN MAKE REVUES!!

The premise is a journey through different eras of Tokyo, triggered by the turn of a magic kaleidoscope. Each era’s scene is beautifully designed, and has a little self-contained plot. The transitions are seamless, and I loved the song choices (CITY! POP! CHUUZUME!). Tsukigumi as a whole is vocally outstanding right now, and the impact was awesome. Verbal descriptions don’t do it justice! If you’re tired of Fujii/Saitou/Nakamura B throwing all their old scenes into a tumble dyer and pulling them back out in a random order, watch Kaleidoscope, even if you aren’t a fan of Tsukigumi.

[bulanpagi]

amashi juri as fujiwara no takaiko and reika haru as fujiwara no tokitsura in ohten no mon (moon, 2023) | agata sen as saeba ryo in city hunter shinjin kouen (snow, 2021) | takato chiaki as herlock sholmes in the great ace attorney (cosmos, 2023)

[kiealer]

❝Saiyan Day? … We count as saiyans, don't we?❞

❝--We should? Dad's a saiyan, so that makes us half saiyans.❞

❝So we should get to celebrate. Don't you think, Azimua?❞

❝…❞

❝Just don't get into too much trouble, Amashi. Mom might scold you again.❞

[amitsuma]

Oh no..he just got warped through another time-line and this one..well vegetation sure was nicer and then..wait.. "Nina??" He spotted a young woman.. "Wait...you're not Nina.." That energy..it was definitely different.

The new arrival is met with an icy glare, not a single glimmer of warmth within those silver hues. The particular name that left his mouth coaxed her brow to quirk, furrowing immediately.

❝No, I am not my mother,❞ her voice is authoritative, stern, defensive. (The word 'mother' almost sounded like venom.) Fingers twitch with the urge for violence. ❝Who are you and why are you here?❞

[wtheckzukasubs]

“The Wind of Buenos Aires (2022)” subs

Download here: wtheckzukasubs.tumblr.com/shows 

(Note that this is a prerelease, timed to the livestream)

As noted above, the subs are timed to the livestream. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to retime them to the official release, I should write more about this in another post.

This isn’t a show I’ll fully recommend. I’ve seen better from this director but I’ve seen much worse. I think this story grew on me while I was subbing it.

Also, some trigger warnings for gun use, incest innuendo, death (lots of deaths in the first half of the first act in fact), and probably more that I can’t think of. And the way of thinking is not on par with the situation of the world now, it is a 20-year-old show from a time Earth wasn’t flat, so we took things for granted (like Earth being round), that’s why I understand it, but some of it didn’t sit well with me, living in Brazil, under who Brazil’s president is. It’s nothing big, it wasn’t even a trigger for me, it just made me uncomfortable to see... Earth is flat now. 

Sorry about the rant.

Anyway, I proofread version should be coming, if you prefer to wait!

[insertdragonpun]

I drew some Kami things because she is my baby and is so fun to draw.