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Baby boy feature from September 2024 💐

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I forgot to post over here last week so it's a troupe report two-for-one 💓

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Flower Troupe talk featuring Ikuta Hirokazu (Director), Towaki Sea, and Hoshizora Misaki talking about the 2024 production of Don Juan! This was recorded during rehearsals but it's a little unclear how far along they were at the time.

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A cute column about performers' backstage habits and must-have supplies! This issue features Houzuki An, Ayaki Hikari, Arisa Hitomi, and Neiro Yui.

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A photo feature introducing costumes from Kiriya and Aono's Top Combi debut production of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL.

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In this essay Hizuki Hana fangirls all over the 2013 production of The Rose of Versailles: Fersen.

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Ootori Mayu writes about her near-death-by-otokoyaku after going to see Ranju Tomu in the Streak of Light concert (siennes: sometimes they're just like us fr), as well as Ocean's 11 and The Rose of Versailles.

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This Troupe Report features a lot of cute anecdotes from the Star Troupe (plus Minami Maito) production of Me and My Girl!

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This personal fashion column featuring Anon Yuusei was published in the July 2023 issue of GRAPH.

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In this week's translation, Nanami Hiroki interviews her classmate Asumi Rio. It's very cute 🥰

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A cute mini Q&A feature with 4 young performers! Please appreciate Misora Maru <3

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In this cute Kageki feature, Snow Troupe members talk about then-Top Star Otozuki Kei through a variety of surveys and quiz games.

It even has a comment from Ayakaze Sakina who would have been Just Baby at the time but had already done one of Otozuki's lead roles in a junior performance.

(Full list of participants tagged in the linked post!)

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An assortment of siennes talking about their offstage wear, including Kurenai Yuzuru, Ayakaze Sakina, Yuzuka Rei, and Seo Yuria.

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Todoroki Yuu's monthly photo column for February 2013. If you want to know WHY I guess you'll just have to read X'D

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Guest essay for the Berubara and I oral history book by Kunizuki Miki, a former Flower Troupe musumeyaku who was double cast as Jeanne/Rosalie in 1975.

(Left: Kunizuki as Jeanne)

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In this journal-style feature from 2008, Star Troupe member Tatsuki You shares photos of what she was up to including the start of rehearsals for the first Takarazuka production of The Scarlet Pimpernel. (A wild Frank Wildhorn also appears.)

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The second half of Setouchi Miya's chapter of Berubara and I, with accompanying Q&A feature.