#tsuchiya naotake

[ghostoftheyear]

There have been a lot of lovely photos coming out of the new run of the stage play, and I am beyond grateful to finally have clear, up-close images of my boys, I can’t even tell you how amazing it’s been. But I think this most recent one from this 4gamer.net article finally did me in. At this point I’m not actually sure I’ll survive the livestream.

[fullmetalgirl98]

30 days Paradox Live challenge

DAY 16: favorite stage actor

💿 Naotake Tsuchiya (土屋直武)

I'm sorry to be so BRUTAL but I honestly believe that the Paradox Live Stage is not among the best, cast-wise. There are very few actors that I think are fully centered for the character and able to play their role flawlessly. Those few times that I've had the opportunity to see anything inherent I've seriously had chills…HOWEVER. With the exception of Simon's actor (for obvious reasons, considering that he's the seiyuu himself) and Iori's actor (whom I find very good, though not fully centered from the aesthetic pov), I think the one I like the most both for physical resemblance and especially interpretive skills, is really Kanata's actor. Let's start with the fact that on stage he LITERALLY is Kanata. Even the voice, it's identical!!! I was seriously shocked by how perfectly pitched the attitude is, especially it was the MV of Here we Go that made me realize how much Tsuchiya is really into the character (I apologize, but I necessarily had to gif all his parts -here-).

[nyxravessnow]

2023 Dramatical Murder Stage Flashback Report

Long time no see Tumblr!

I am finally back in Japan, and I am coming back with maybe a controversial post.

Back in 2019 I think I was the primary one on Tumblr talking about the stage play and I saw it twice live.

This time I managed to see it 5 times live and I have so many thoughts.

I have not seen the livestreams yet so these are all my thoughts based on seeing it live and on the Ren, Clear, Noiz, and Vitri routes which I saw. I will also not be putting in screenshots as I don't have any from the livestream.

Recast

Before I get into the report I just felt like I should deal with the recast I understand was hard for some people.

I just wanna put out a few thoughts i had on this.

No.1: Your feelings of being sad to not see Seiichan back are completely valid

No.2: Seiichan himself decided to step back and the fact that Nao was announced so soon shows that he was the understudy, and Seiichan knew about this. Therefore, Nao being there as an understudy allowed Seiichan to prioritize his health and not worry about the show his friends were so excited to return to was canceled and feel pressure to perform for them or fans.

No.3: Tsuchiya Naotake had less than a month to prepare everything for the character and yet developed such a deep and close bond with the cast, the character of Aoba, and the stage. He improved so much as the show continued and poured his heart and soul into this role. He respected the character that Seiichan set up for him and took care of the role very well.

I want to emphasize that Seiichan was not in this show and still made money from all the merchandise that had been prepared, however Nao had barely any merch, which is often the bulk of their pay for stages in Japan, and yet never once complained about the amount of work he was putting in. In the final show he even said that he has never once had negative thoughts about the show or thought it was to hard, he just loves it so much.

P.S. I am not saying Seiichan doesn't deserve to get money from merch, I am just pointing out that it is slightly unfair on Nao.

Tsuchiya Naotake

Since I've been talking about him, I will start my thoughts on the play by talking about the man playing the lead.

I will say that I liked Nao before this role in something else and was very excited to see him, however I feel like he still won me over as the show went on and I discovered trepidations about his performance I didn't know I had. I just want to highlight my thoughts by specifically talking about 3 shows that I saw.

Additionally, this is a bad situation that was not Nao's fault and this is probably the worst situation to get cast in your first main role but Nao never showed any negativity towards Aoba or the fans for this.

5/2 - Ren's Route

The first show I saw him in was Ren's route on the 2nd. I immediately knew he was very good for the role, but overall was not wowed by his performance. I think a big part of this was his chemistry with Shogo which I will get back to later.

5/5 - Clear’s Route

I could not have been more shocked by the difference only a couple of days made to Nao's performance. While on the 2nd he still seemed extremely nervous and to be holding himself back, on the 5th he was throwing himself as hard as he could into the role. My friend and I had spoken before the show about how we believed Seiichan had been better at screaming in Mink's SA scene in the first half and that night Nao performed that scene and put every ounce of himself into it. His chemistry with Yuuki was off the charts and when Yuuki (Clear) was giving him 100% of that Clear love he was giving it back 100%. Clear's route is also had bc it has 4 adlib sections for Aoba and Shogo (Ren) was being a bad senpai and not helping at all. His adlibs were so funny and really got Aoba. My favourite being 'I wonder what Clear’s face is gonna be like. Well, he has to be good looking as no one with an ass that good has a bad face.' Overall in this show he felt more relaxed and at ease with the show.

5/6 - Vitri Route

Nothing in heaven or earth could have prepared me for this route. I did ask my friend not to spoil me and I'm glad I went in blind but wow it went so much harder than I expected and Nao performed so incredibly. This route would be nothing without Nao's acting and the fact that it was so good is predominantly down to him. He was willing to go quite far to deliver a performance as game accurate as possible. His subtle changes from blank, to fear, to sadness, to anger, to pleasure were incredible to see and I was genuinely moved by his acting.

He gave himself freely to his costars and trusted in them to look after him and simply immersed himself in the performance which is difficult to do, especially for a show such as that.

I am so glad he got a route all of his own where he cannot be compared to anyone else as I feel this took the pressure off him and relaxed into it.

P.S. Also if you see any post show pics around curtain call of Nao looking blank they are most likely from Vitri route as in all the other curtain calls he was smiling so widely and was so happy, and the contrast with Vitri's was amazing.

He put his whole heart into this show, did so much research and loves this show and every character truly so much

He could have acted the exact same without the same love for the show and he still would have been excellent

But the amount of positive things he said about the other actors, characters, rehearsals, all the routes, and the play in general really showed a deep love and appreciation for the original and the fans. He even was constantly positive about the Vitri route, shocking even their actors, as he poured out his love for every single one in an effort to make the audience love it even a little bit more

He had to, rather quickly, learn a really difficult script and choreography (created for another actor with acrobatic talents that he did not possess prior to this show) And by the final shows there was no way you could have known any of that from just watching the show

Aoba is truly one of the hardest roles in not just 2.5D, not just Japanese theatre, but theatre in general bc you basically have to learn 6 separate scripts, hard dance and fight choreography, be on stage for like 2 hours straight and in every scene, do all of the sex scenes too

But this never once dampened his love or spirit.

In the first show for Noiz route, he forgot two of his lines and had a couple of seconds of silence before he remembered them and he was crying at curtain call.

He put so much pressure onto himself and delivered to us I think some of the best acting in 2.5D, especially from a relatively new actor

As a result of this role, it would not be an exaggeration to say he is among my favourite actors.

I also appreciate how, despite this being his first ever experience of anything BL (yaoi is a term used exclusively in the west), he approached it with 0 judgement to the genre or fans. He said he once believed it was a genre where men fell in love with men, but through dmmd has discovered it is rather about a love that gender is not dependent on, or someone you fall in love with that happens to be a man.

Also, he is an absolute Koujaku simp and it was so sweet to see his eyes glitter every time Koujaku did anything. (This made me want to see Koujaku's route so much as my friend said it was their best one and Nao even added an extra kiss in the final performance)

Whatever you think about Nao and the recast, he has now played Aoba for the same amount of time as Seiichan and has made the role as much his own as Seiichan did. Aoba belongs to Seiichan and he now belongs to Nao too.

Routes

I now want to finally give my thoughts on some of the routes and the show in general. The only order I have put them in is how much I have to say about them.

5/2-5/5-5/6-5/7-5/7 First Half, 'Mizuki's route'

Unofficially dubbed Mizuki's route by some of the cast, which is incorrect pls give us actual Mizuki route, the first half of the play is a simple improvement on the original. The group has different dynamics, acting choices are different, and there are parts I prefer with Nao and parts I prefer with Seiichan but overall as a show, it is an improvement on the original and the blocking and staging sees little change. Naoya (Mizuki) screams his heart after scrap and he is truly the mvp of the first half.

5/7 - Noiz's route

I will start with the show I have the least to say about. It was good! Nao and Rikiya (Noiz) have good chemistry and the show felt very true to the original. Personally Noiz and his route isn't for me and I think some of the jumps they make in the story can be a bit jarring but overall is very good. The hospital sex scene is still really weird in its choreography and I don't necessarily vibe with it. If you liked it before l, good bc it is exactly the same XD

5/2-5/7 - Ren's Route

I'm not gonna say too much about this route bc I don't want to be negative but I do think this is the worst route on stage, including Koujaku's and Mink's too from what I have heard about them. Nao and Shogo have fantastic chemistry...as brothers. They never give off the vibe of lovers and first day I saw the sex scene they barely looked at each other. Nao is a very reciprocal actor and it was clear that there were not really any romantic sparks flying from either side for the route. This is the only route I will say, and ever say, that I wish we'd had Seiichan instead of Nao for. Shogo felt like he was holding himself back with Nao and, with how well he knows Seiichan, I can't see him doing that with him. Whenever not with Ren, Nao was excellent but I was left wanting a bit more from their dynamic.

5/5 - Clear’s Route

This was beautiful and heartbreaking in all the right ways. On the final night of Clear’s Route, Yuuki poured every single ounce of love he has for Clear into the role and Nao answered this in kind. During their final sex scene there was not a dry eye around me.

Yuuki delivered the cutest Clear but also showed how mature Clear could be when speaking to his brothers or Toue. Despite not having much to work with as Toue not having an official actor to play off, Yuuki screamed, shouted, and showed us the human heart that Clear has. His kindness, his love, and his maturity.

Like I said above Nao's adlibs during Clear’s various dressing scenes were also very amusing, and it contrasted well with the heartbreaking moments in Clear’s Route.

5/6 - Vitri's route

So, where to begin. I do want to say, in my very personal opinion, this route would have been very different either Seiichan and I don't know that he would have been comfortable with going as far as Nao did for parts. This is purely speculation and is not meant to demean Seiichan as an actor. It is a hard thing to do and we are not owed him feeling comfortable with it.

Sections that are covered in this route are:

- Beginning of Ren's route

- Aoba abduction

- Introduction of Aoba in Vitri's house

- Shower scene

- How Vitri became fans of Aoba

- Picking a hand

- Virus' room

- The box

- Trip's room

- Being taken from the box and back to Virus' room

- Vitri past

- Vitri and Aoba scene

- Ending with Aoba's situation after half a year with them

We did also get to see them talking to Mizuki about Dry Juice and Morphine but I cannot remember where this slotted in.

Whereas other routes had 2-3 min sex scenes, Vitri route had 3 seperate scenes, not including force feeding, all about 2-3 mins.

It was weirdly moving(?) to watch? Nao's acting was just phenomenal and was incredible to see three completely different sides to Aoba. Modern Aoba, past Aoba, and Vitri route Aoba, within a short span of time and acted so differently.

Also, Nao's dancing without a shirt on to Masculine Devil is something that has to be witnessed.

I love how before the curtain call for every show Nao was smiling ear to ear in every route as he looked at the character Aoba had fallen for, but in Vitri, he removed all expression from his face and just looked empty.

There was a lot of hilarity about the fact that when the dancing starts Aoba is just lying on the ground as everyone claps their hands and waves their ringlights.

Overall

If you are thinking of which one to buy, this is my ranking of the ones I've seen:

- Vitri (mainly for Nao's acting) 9/10

- Clear 8.5/10

- Noiz 7/10

- Ren 6.5/10

This show was a fantastic Rerun that showcased many actors improvements from the years they've been away and an amazing performance from a new Aoba.

I can only hope that we get another stage soon and get to see more of these actors and characters.

Let me know if you have any questions or what me to expand on anything!

[hazukiyouka]

Look who just got together :))

I WAS SHAKING WHEN I SAW THIS!!!

I've been wondering how would Seichan act towards Nao. And thank God, they are going well with each other~

Well, not that I thought it wasn't well before. It's just that this is the first time I see them together, and talk about each other. They even said they had a fun conversation everyday!! What more I could ask... ☺️☺️

Oh btw they will be in Yakumo stage this upcoming February. I wanna thank whoever the staffs that got them sitting side by side in the dressing room............

[form-sweet-form]

Nao's smiling more~!

I'm sure by the time the live streams are out we'll see more, I had guessed he was a bit uncomfortable at first.

Nao's Official Twitter

[paixarina]

song ranking of avest lily flower album:

- follow me

- human made

- lily flower

- more & more

- love suddenly

- masquerade

[legthief]

the actual reason kanata’s stage actor could capture his energy and his constant pissed off mood is really simple.

that’s literally just how he looks. he has the exact same face in every single photo. as a casual fan of avest i need you to understand that naotake tsuchiya literally just looks like that. that face alone conveys kanata yatonokami

[littlerabidfox]

AYO!! YOUR TRUSTY FOX ALLMATE HERE WITH SOME MORE NEWS 🦊!!! Twitter's translator has NOT been kind to me and I am still learning hiragana so I am not even close to being able to translate for myself 🥲 but I finally, after several days on the look, was able to check the news properly!! Apparently there was a new DMMD play that was running from april the 28th to may the 7th!!

The cast was:

*Naotake Tsuchiya(Replacing Seiichiro Nagata): Aoba Seragaki

*Allen Kohatsu : Koujaku

*Rikiya Tomizono : Noiz

*Takanori Yamaki : Mink

*Yuki Yamagata : Clear

*Yuya Tominaga : Virus

*Dai Isono : Trip

*Naoya Iwaki : Mizuki

*Tetsuya Makita : Akushima

*Shogo Yamazaki : Ren / Sei

The hashtags to find the content people have been uploading on twitter (mainly pics and videos) about this play are #ドマステ再演 and #ドマステ

Special thanks to @/asarigg on twitter who were the ones who put the play's content on my TL!! Go follow them, they mainly do kouao content and their drawings are very pretty 💃

[leenaevilin]

[Announcement] こくみん共済 coop ホール／スペース・ゼロ提携公演 舞台「アオアシ」(kokumin kyousai coop hall / space zero teikei kouen butai aoashi)

the show will be running from May 18th, 2022 to May 22nd, 2022 (Tokyo) @ こくみん共済 coop ホール / スペース・ゼロ (Kokumin Kyousai coop Hall / Space zero)

Cast:

Aoi as Aoi Ashito (青井葦人) Hiramatsu Raima Ootomo Eisaku (大友栄作) Suzuki Yuuta as Tachibana Souichirou (橘総一朗) Nagata Kaoru as Togashi Keiji (冨樫慶司) Shimura Reo as Takeshima Ryuuichi (竹島龍一) Miyazato Sol as Asari Martis Jun (朝利マーチス淳) Tsuchiya Naotake as Kuroda Kanpei (黒田勘平) Fukushi Nobuki as Motoki Yuuma (本木遊馬) Tanaka Toshihiko as Kuribayashi Haruhisa (栗林晴久) Hashimoto Zenitsu as Akutsu Nagisa (阿久津渚) Hatani Shouta as Kaneda Akinori (金田晃教) Kikuchi Hayato as Nakano Junnousuke (中野淳之介) Oikawa Kou as Mutou Chiaki (武藤千秋)

Takada Jun as Satake Kouji (佐竹晃司) Tani Yoshiki as Tsukishima Aki (月島亜希) Ukai Mondo as Date Nozomi (伊達望) Fujiwara Yuuki as Fukuda Tatsuya (福田達也)

Shirosawa Kanae as Ichijou Hana (一条花) Akimoto Honoka as Kaidou Anri (海堂杏里)

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[yukimuraseiichi]

Tenimyu 4th Season Cast List

SEIGAKU

Echizen: Imamaki Hikaru (Shintenimyu Echizen) Twitter

Tezuka: Yamada Kento (Shintenimyu Tezuka) Twitter

Oishi: Hara Takakazu Twitter

Fuji: Mochida Haruki (Shintenimyu Tenimyu Boys: Sengoku, Gakuto) Twitter

Inui: Shiota Ichigo

Kikumaru: Tomimoto Sosho Instagram

Kawamura: Otomo Kai Twitter

Momoshiro: Juyama Shun (Shintenimyu Momo) Twitter

Kaidoh: Iwasaki Yuga Twitter

Horio: Ryota

Kachiro: Shiraishi Kotobuki Twitter

Katsuo: Ichikawa Manato

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FUDOMINE

Tachibana: GAKU (Shintenimyu Tachibana) Twitter

Kamio: Maiguma Kosuke Twitter

Ibu: Tsuchiya Naotake Instagram

Ishida T.: Totaro Instagram

Sakurai: Fukazawa Yuto Twitter

Uchimura: Kikuchi Hayato Twitter

Mori: Rayshy Twitter

—

Inoue Mamoru: Kitadai Takashi (1st season Shitenhouji Tachibana)

Nanjiroh: Nakagauchi Masataka (1st season Niou) Twitter

[hazukiyouka]

Personal Impression on DMMD Flashback 2023

First of all, even though I could pass through the region block thingy, but I had to set the video quality on auto or else the buffering time would drive me mad. So the result was, sometimes I got a super clear images then suddenly could switched to blurry ones. Which is kinda annoying cause I couldn't focus on their faces. 🙃

Anyway, I'm not really good at writing in Tumblr, so probably I'll just straight out pointing my impressions. Yes, this is my personal take after watching Virus & Trip route live streaming. I'll try my best not to spoil everything. 😄

Nothing really changed at the first part of the story. It just brought back the memories. Except that it wasn't Seichan as Aoba. 🥲

I should say both Seichan and Nao had their hit-and-miss parts. And strangely I feel like they can complement each other. Like, there were some parts where I thought Seichan did it better, or vice versa.

Everyone who were back to their respective roles really upgraded their game. Since I was watching this route, I think Tominaga Yuya really brought out the "quiet madness" of Virus.

(A bit) SPOILER ALERT: this ViTri route covered their Re:connect bad end story. Yes, most of it.

The second part where the story branched was really DENSE!! It felt like they try to squeeze the entire ViTri bad end into a single scene. Well, of course we just couldn't ask for more "detailed scenes", are we? 😌

Even so, I think Nao did well in this. I want to praise him for his courage to go...... uhmm.... shirtless.... on stage.

The interpretative dance at "those scenes" was appealing to me. I mean, it felt delicate and kinda suppressing. I like Nao's expressions here, especially when his eyes started to went dead. Uumm, please excuse my do-S part... lol

The ending was just like the game where Aoba was resigned to his fate. After that, we got all casts dancing to EVIL MASCULINE song (in which we can see it roaming around Twitter).

Overall, I'm quite impressed with this new route and how they performed it. As for the casting, I still think that Nao will be more suitable in portraying Sly Blue. That boy is surely sharp. While Seichan was softer, but I felt that he was a little bit overdid in some parts.

And finallyyyy! Though I'm, myself, still quite biased to Seichan but so sorry that I won't tolerate any slanders toward Nao. He had worked so hard and did a great job in this. Thankfully, he seems pretty calm and stays positive. So let's be kind to him~ 💙

[fullmetalgirl98]

Well guys... I'll introduce you to my most recent human crush.

《Here We Go》 - Paradox Live on Stage Vol.2

[ghostoftheyear]

Naotake posted today on twitter about the DMMd streams being back on DMM and said that he likes going back and watching his work, and that he's glad he met Aoba. And I don't know why, but that made me cry a little. Like, I'm always glad when an actor enjoys a role and has respect for it, but that was such a nice personal way to put it.

He's such a sweetheart and I'm glad he's doing stuff like Chainsaw Man and Paradox Live now. I hope he keeps getting great opportunities.

[ghostoftheyear]

Naotake as Aoba (Naoba) to go along with the Allen-as-Koujaku piece. This one was started a few weeks ago and then I decided to try and finish it today. I still love the Ren plushie so much, why did they never make them.

[ghostoftheyear]

My long-awaited Zenmarket order finally came in. I pre-ordered Arancia last year sometime and the Naotake Aoba stand when those preorders opened in...June? Meanwhile, the poster has been in my possession since before I moved, but I ordered the frame in May or so and then was frantically waiting for the other stuff to come in so that I could ship and package it all together. Huge box. Shallow. Still cost me more than I'd like to admit to ship it all.

Arancia, the orange stuffed cat, is an UtaPri prince cat, the kind with a wired skeleton (or bones) so it's poseable. He's going with my Iris to sit on my computer desk together. I do have another, non-poseable, Arancia, who will go with some more of my UtaPri stuff on a shelf in the bedroom. Naoba has already joined the Mink and Koujaku stands. And now I have posters to hang, woo. (I'd had some others up already, but then I moved shit around in an effort to better arrange my living room, so they need a new space.)

[form-sweet-form]

Happy Birthday Aoba!

[Happy Birthday] Today, April 22nd, is Aoba, Ren, and Sei's birthday🎉 congratulations!

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Correction, Aoba's actor Naotake Tsuchiya was also celebrating Aoba's birthday!

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OK, so he's warming up on me. When he's not super serious he does look Aoba Like...