#hakumyu cast

[inthegardensofourminds]

It honestly warms my heart to see the posts on Twitter in the 15th anniversary hashtag for Hakuoki, one of the few series from my youth that I continue to enjoy to this day, seeing fanart from various people and seeing the actors from the musicals celebrating and showing their love for it.

[xisanamii]

"i want to give my blood and follow in your shadow."

i felt the need to doodle this scene from sannan-san hakumyu because like... it's just so endearing? shion's chizuru really captures the wholehearted dedicated pining she has for him in his route (i mean, you really gotta CHASE this man). honestly she's in top three of my favorite chizurus. and of course, teruma's sannan-san really did grow on me. i was used to mikata's sannan-san (since i'm a hakumyu boomer), but i adore both their portrayals and voices.

haven't drawn hakuouki in a hot minute, but it'll always have a special place in my heart.

[queengurako]

Does someone would like to translate Lady Bess or Mata Hari from Toho stage (Japanese musical) ? 

I want to buy Mata Hari Toho version and I’m ready to stream it for people interested (same for Lady Bess). Sadly the story is cryptic for me and I would like to understand it to enjoy it more and I dont have the skills to translate it. So I would lik to know if someone is interested to translate this play (a fan of the musical or fan of the actors) ^^ ? Same question for Lady Bess too but Mata Hari seems more obscure in musical fandom even with a famous double cast.

For the Hakumyu stan, Higashi Keisuke plays in Mata Hari with Kato Kazuki (Kondo in Hakuouki SSL). If someone in the fandom would like to see it or help to translate it. 

[liliththunder]

Hakumyu in 2025

With Hakumyu currently running in the theatre and the current cast being active on twitter, there have been some clues flying around who's next with standing in the centre of attention and being recipient of Chizuru's affection.

There are categories to chances:

1. Cast members popularity

2. After a HijiHen a 〇〇Hen always followed

3. Routes that haven't been done yet

4. Spoilers/ character gets a spotlight with Chizuru in the current show

Within these categories are:

1) OkiHen, TouHen, KazaHen

2)KazaHen

3) IbaHen, SakaHen

4) (under the cut)

KazaHen appearing twice doesn't mean he has that much of an advantage over the others.

I personally think that IbaHen and SakaHen are currently the most likely. Even though OkiHen and TouHen aren't unlikely either considering how popular Kento and Yuta became.

KazaHen's possiblity is quite high, too, due to Sasaki Yoshihide's popularity and himself posting on twitter in a cryptic way he wants to do KazaHen.

4) again Heisuke Hen, maybe Yamazaki Hen as well (as he gets a harmonised song with Chizuru for the first time), maybe in the near future but not necessarily next year Nagakura Hen.

[kumoriyami-xiuzhen]

Morimyu Extras Translation Commission Group Order?

If anyone has ever enjoyed the Morimyu backstage extras, like the Op.3 adlibs where Louis drops a knife and terrifies Moran, there are a number of people from the Save our Twisted Hearts Discord group, including myself, looking to fund translation commissions to have subtitles for a bunch of non-main stage Op.5 and Op.2 extras content by pooling our monetary resources together, as they rarely get translated otherwise, regardless of the fandom.

To be very clear, contributing is not mandatory to access subtitles of any of the extras (I generally use this term or "extras content" to refer to Disc 2 of any stage Blu-ray or DVD, but also other content that is not included on the main stage disc), and the groups orders we have made have already been used to help fund translations for the Op.1 extras, and most of the extras content for Op.3 and Op.4 (the subtitles for Op.1 and Op.3's extras are available on Kanasmusing's postings for Morimyu subtitles!). Beyond that, I funded the commission for the translation and subtitles of the Op.3 adlibs and a few Hakumyu backstages and I have always made all the associated media accessible to anyone who wanted it... just in case anyone needs proof of us having paid for translations of Morimyu content before.

Anyway, at the moment, assuming nothing happens, we collectively have enough funds to pay for translations and subtitles of most of Op.5's non-main stage content (this includes things like the adlibs and cast comments from Disc 2 of the Op.5 Blu-ray/DVD, the bonus team videos that came with the purchase of the streams on DMM, and the pre-order bonus DVD, though this does not include videos that are purely songs)... and are fairly close to gathering enough commitments to fund almost most of Op.2's main extras disc (this would be disc 2 of the Blu-ray/DVD), though we could possibly instead fund a commission to get translations for the Op.2 pre-order DVD bonus (we can do almost one or the other, but not both).

Given this situation, and how close we are to funding the Op.2 backstage (our general preference is to pay for translations of the more costly content first), I would like to ask if anyone has an interest in contributing to our next translation commission for Op.5 and Op.2's non main stage content... and that they please message me directly for more details, preferably ASAP, if they do.

[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 (小池亮介)

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)

[aoihono96]

2022/10/29 - Kikuchi Shuuji’s Twitter Post

Musical “Hakuouki“

HAKU-MYU LIVE 3

Thank you very much for coming on the first day of Osaka performance!!*

I’m very happy to come back to this world after a year and a half.

It’s nice to be next to Kondo-san** after all...

I’ll do my best as Okita Souji***

From tomorrow onward as well!!!

Source: twitter

* Musical Hakuouki - Hakumyu LIVE 3 will be performed in Osaka between 29~30 October and in Tokyo between 11~13 November

** Kondo Isami’s role is performed by Imata Taira

*** Okita Souji’s role is played by Kikuchi Shuuji and Kitamura Kento, as Okita’s role is being double casted

[jq-hints]

SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS ON HAKUMYU

It's been quite a while since I last watched Hakumyu or any contents related to Hakuouki. I just re-watched it yesterday, so I suddenly came up with the idea of writing a few lines for it. I rarely share my thoughts, but no one on here  knows who I am, so, let's start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew Hakuouki quite early, but at first I only watched anime.

I watch Hakumyu before taking the exam. It helps me reducing stress.

Hijikata-hen was my first Hakumyu as my friend recommended to me

 Daisuke Hirose as Okita Souji is my favorite actor. I think a day is not enough for me to talk about his awesomeness.

 He's really attractive, in an outstanding way with just a smile. In the opening of Hijikata-hen, although the camera just panned over him for a few seconds, I had the distinct impression that he was truly Okita from Hakuouki, and only him.

His voice sounds a lot like Okita's voice actor.

His acting abilities astound me. His actions are also quite good, as seen by the way he accentuates the lines, every look, every grin, and even the amplitude of his movements.

 Actually, when it comes to video games, Okita is not my favorite character.

In fact, I like Hijikata more 

But after watching Hakumyu, everything changed.

Even though Kazama is my least favorite character, I re-watch Kazama- hen the most, for some reason I don’t really know

Souma-hen is far better than I expected. I may not be used to the change in music for the first few minutes, but after that, I'm at a loss for words.

The guy playing Saitou in Souma-hen impressed me the most. He's the one who looks the most like Saitou in my imagination.

Sannan's route is the play I most wait for.

Actually, my feelings towards Sannan are quite complicated, but I really like Teruma

I've just seen photos, but the cast of Chizuru and Kaoru in Sannan-hen impressed me. Yuzuki Hoshimoto's beauty is perfect for Kaoru

I guess that’s all. Maybe I'll try to write a better review for Hakumyu someday (maybe not) 

[inthegardensofourminds]

Selected backstage photos from Sannan-hen's opening weekend that I liked. Onwards to next week!

[demonsofthefleetingblossoms]

30 Day HakuMyu Challenge

original credit for this goes to masayume85  

#29: What surprised you the most about Hakumyu?

Basically, how much i cried over the same bits...no matter how many times they repeated and how attached i would get to certain cast members.

These three in particular...i just love them.

looking forward to your answer @legendary-girl-a​

[ununotter]

Kitamura Kento's fan meeting vol 2 "Forget-Me-Not" 2024.05.04 5pm - recap (from a 日本語下手 so I'm sorry it's not as complete as it should be)

Kento did the guest announcements over the PA from backstage, it was amusing when he tripped over his words a little and just seemed to be doing it off-the-cuff

MC asked us to call loudly for "Kento-kun", it took a couple tries before they were satisfied and he came out

Special guest for this showing was Kawakami Shota, Kento said "he's taller than me, so you have to call for him even louder"

They had a talk and Q&A that was pretty much just about Hakumyu, I'll try to recap the bits I can remember

Ootori's actor Iiyama Yuta had apparently (according to Kawakami) never performed a solo song on stage before Hakumyu, so his first time was in front of everyone, on a platform. Everyone agreed he did an amazing job

They were very complimentary about Ruri, but also mentioned a flub she made (that has also been talked about by attendees on Twitter) where instead of saying "be careful father, the capital isn't safe" she said essentially "be careful capital, father isn't safe" (appropriate warning, really, but considering the script it was a bit of a "huh? what did she just say?" for cast and staff)

Kento can do some surprisingly accurate impressions of Kubota's scoffing

Kawakami talked about how in the press photos and fan photo op shots posted to SNS, Kento always looked handsome, meanwhile he was photographed a lot holding his spear out and having a goofy grin or being mid-yell (he recreated this pose to great effect)

There was a question of what was the first thing they did or were really looking forward to doing after the last show, Kawakami said he just wanted to sleep a lot basically. Kento said he actually hasn't got round to it yet but he's really looking forward to having a massage, relaxing in a sauna and eating lots of meat

They definitely talked more about some specific scenes from ShinHiji hen, but I can't remember exactly what was said about them! I'm sorry 😭🙇‍♀️

Kawakami unironically and almost constantly calls Kento "Kenty". Kento settled on "Shota-kun" but it seems also sometimes calls him "Sho-kun" while Oomi Shoichiro is referred to as "Sho-chan". Kubohide is "Hide-kun".

Then they finished the talk section by playing an "Akinator game" - basically, the MC held up a paper with a Hakuouki character and their Hakumyu actor's names on for the audience to see. Kento and Shota could then ask yes or no questions, and we would react accordingly nodding or shaking our heads etc. They would then have to guess who it was. I can't remember which questions corresponded to each person but we had questions like "are they an energetic character?" "did they die during the main story?" etc

The first one was Koike Ryousuke (Nagakura Shinpachi) and after a few questions Kento guessed correctly

The second was Iiyama Yuta (Ootori Keisuke) and they couldn't guess - one said Koudou and the other guess I can't remember

Lastly it was Kitamura Kento (Okita Souji) and after a few questions they were both able to get it right easily

The final part was Kento reading his own written prose "Forget-Me-Not" which essentially functioned like a one-man reading drama. I'm sorry I can't tell you anything about it cause I did not understand most of it because my vocabulary is terrible but it was very pleasant to sit in the dark of the audience and just listen to Kento read.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed it and was glad I went even though I had some anxieties about going. I only bought a ticket last minute after Kento said "let's talk about Hakumyu a lot!" and he did not disappoint 😅

[liliththunder]

I've been having this silly vision. But because I persisted I finally can look at the real thing.

Please look upon my dream that has become reality.

(also I drew this for the Hakumyu cast, so you might see one or the other hint towards the the actors)

Drawing time 17. December 2023 until 27. April 2024.

(I still need to do some finishing touches, but I feel so proud of it, I cannot contain myself)

[blueneil]

Currently watching some hakumyu videos, and whoa i can say Hirose Daisuke is just too good at playing Souji 😭😭😭 Like wtf he is literally HIM.

I honestly don't really mind about other characters cast, because i think everyone did their best and doing fine. BUT FOR OKITA SOUJI....... its really hard for me to not thinking of Daisuke everytime i see other actors play him 🥲 especially since Souji is a complex character in general...

If there gonna be Shitan/Shinkai for Okita, i really hope thay can cast Daisuke again... i will literally sell my soul for it T____T

[queengurako]

Hakumyu - Souma Hen Kitan Cast 1/2

Souma Kazue : Mizuki Umetsu

Yukimura Chizuru : Risa Matsuzaki

Hijikata Toshizo : Kubota Hidetoshi

Okita Souji : Kikuchi Shuji

Saito Hajime : Oomi Shoichiro

Todo Heisuke : Yuta Higushi

Harada Sanosuke : Kawakami Shouta

Nagakura Shinpachi : Koike Ryosuke

[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.