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prettyallfriends · 3 years

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Pretty Rhythm: My☆Deco Rainbow Wedding Chapter 15+16 English Translation

(These two are seriously my fav chapters so far, they were legitimately hilarious at times. Also Mia has disappeared for some reason, and So-min becomes the player's new sidekick for a while which is soooo good)

Chapter 15: The Gold Spiral Cup is a Bad Omen?

So-min: So you really did enter, Player? The third Spiral Cup… The Gold Spiral Cup! Hm… In that case... Kachow!

Shi-yoon: Ahaha, what kind of weird pose are you doing, So-min~?

So-min: It’s not a weird pose, Shi-yoon! This is… my… um… 'challenging Player pose'!!

Jae-eun: Munch munch! Slippery flavour~

So-min: Jae-eun! I’m not slipping!

Shi-yoon: It’s okay, that uhh, “focused” face of yours is funny, So-min. Ya~y!

So-min: I wasn’t trying to be funny! God! Jae-eun and Shi-yoon really drive me mad sometimes!

Shi-yoon: Ahaha! Thanks for the compliment!

Jae-eun: Munch munch! The flavour of happiness~

So-min: How was that a compliment!? Christ… why are we doing this right before the contest!? We don’t have time to waste talking like this! You want to be able to concentrate before the big contest too, right Player?

Choice: Nah, I’m feeling pretty relaxed! / Yep! Let me focus.

Shi-yoon: Yaa~y! Relax, relax. Charge up your power for the show.

So-min: As expected from the winner of the Bronze and Silver Spiral Cups. The aura of a star shines through your whole body. In that case I’m satisfied! However! We won’t lose to you! We’ve been preparing for this day by… huh? Player, are you looking for someone? Hm, Rinne? Looks like she’s not here. Though, if you work hard enough, she’ll probably hear about it… in which case, it will not have been a waste of time! Kachow! ...Whoops, I did it again.

Jae-eun: Ah! So-min’s doing her weird pose again~!

Shi-yoon: Ahaha. She’s so funny, ya~y!

So-min: It’s not a weird pose! You two are really…

Jae-eun: Oh, it tastes like the contest’s about to start~

So-min: Ah, we talked until it started! Anyway, Player… let’s both do our best in competing!

(prism show)

So-min: It’s finally time for the results.

Jae-eun: Munch munch! I can taste everyone’s nervousness… The winner is…

Shi-yoon: Player-san! Ya~y!

So-min: So now you’ve won the Bronze, Silver and Gold Spiral Cup… Y-you’re definitely n-not a run-of-the-mill prism star~!

Jae-eun: Losing to you tastes frustrating… but your show was wonderful, and had a really fun flavour!

Shi-yoon: Congrats, Player-san. Ya~y! Ah! It looks like you’ve won the Gold Spiral Dress frame!

So-min: It’s so sparkly… it’s shining almost as bright as your show today!

Shi-yoon: Hurry up and let us see you in the dress you make with it!

So-min: I’m sure the golden sparkle of this dress will reach Rinne’s heart… No matter where they are, rivals are always interested in what their opponent is up to.

Shi-yoon: Though, now that you’ve won three Spiral Cups, Rinne won’t be the only person interested in what you’re up to… Other prism stars will hear rumours about you, Player-san.

So-min: Good point… You’re probably going to get a lot more rivals now. Well, I doubt they’ll show up that fast. Kachow!

??? (Shi-yoon foretold you, Serena): So it’s you, huh~? You’re this Player I've hear so much about, right?

So-min: What!? Instantly a rival-ish person has appeared!

??? (Kanon): We’ve heard a lot of rumours about you.

??? (Serena): Come with us for a sec...

So-min: Ahhh! Somehow we’ve gotten into a bad situation~!

(i have no clue what serenon are ever saying bye. Wasnt expecting them to show up ngl)

Chapter 16: The Chaotic Manzai Princesses

So-min: Ooooh… They brought us with them, just like that… Those two are MARs’ rivals, Serenon. This isn’t gonna turn into a… dangerous situation, right? I feel like we wouldn’t be able to run away even if we tried!!! Though maybe it’s not too late, let’s run away…

??? (Serena): Sorry to leave ya waiting~...

So-min: EEEP! They’ve appeared~!!

Serena: My name’s Jounouchi Serena! And she’s…

Kanon: I’m Toudou Kanon. It’s nice to meet you, Player-han.

Serena: We’ve been hearing a lot of rumours that a rookie star just appeared out of nowhere.

Kanon: You’re a newbie, yet you’ve been winning tournaments left and right, and…

Serena: You’re the rival of Rinne, the promising new prism star!

Kanon: How could Serenon leave such an amazing prism star alone like that?

So-min: They’re going to do something to you, Player!

Serena: Hehehe. We’re gonna…

So-min: I can hear my heart thumping!

Serena: ...ask you for a favour!!

So-min: Gah--! Wait, a favour?

Serena: Player, your power as a prism star is the real deal! We need ya to join us in a manzai prism show!! Serenon perform manzai prism shows, and we want loads of people to come see them!!!

Kanon: So we need Player-han’s power to achieve that. Would ya consider doing manzai prism show training with us!?

Choice: Hm… What shall I do…? / No~ I’m really not good at manzai…

Serena: (She’s crying. Why are both choices bad) Whyyyyyy!? You have the sense for comedy! You’re trampling on our dreams!

So-min: Please wait a minute! Player can do something else to help you two! They can’t practise with you, as they have to do lessons to prepare for the Rainbow Cup. And their showdown with Rinne isn’t over yet!

Serena: Rinne… She’s like a partner to you, huh?

So-min: They’re a bit different than manzai partners…

Serena: I’ve got it! I hear ya loud and clear! In that case, get ready to compete against us!

Kanon: If ya win, you’re free to form a pair with Rinne.

Serena: But if we win, you gotta do manzai with us!

So-min: Why this… I don’t get what’s happening anymore, but it looks like you have to do this.

Serena: If you look down on the power of laughter, you better look out! I’m Serena!

Kanon: And I’m Kanon!

Serena: And together we’re Serenon! It’s a pleasure to be here~

(prism show)

Serena: Gah----!! Player, your show was super fun...

Kanon: Being able to make the audience smile more than Serenon could is a great feat!

Serena: Grr~ It’s frustrating, but since you won, you can group up with Rinne.

So-min: No… They never wanted to form a pair with Rinne in the first place.

Serena: Huuuh? That so? That’s too bad, so.

So-min: Why is that?

Kanon: Player-han and Rinne-han seem to be really close after all. How do I put this, they seem to share a bond that’s different than their bonds with others.

Serena: A pair or group will end up having a mysterious bond, right? Our rivals in MARs are like that, and so are we!

Kanon: When I’m with Serena, whether it’s manzai or prism shows, I’m happy.

Serena: Woah woah woah! Why are you saying that kinda thing so suddenly!? I’m gettin’ all shy…

Kanon: What are you getting shy for!? You’re a manzai prism show star, how can you handle being the boke if you can’t handle this!?

Serena: Damn, I really messed up!! How could I~!?

Kanon: Hehe. Well, being able to joke around like this is one of the most fun parts about being partners. Of course, rivals have strong bonds too, like us and MARs. Player-han, forge some strong bonds with Rinne, okay?

Serena: Rivals and friends… If a duo like that did manzai, it’d be hilarious!! Player, you sure ya won’t try doing a manzai prism show?

So-min: ...they will not.

Serena: Ah! You’re a really great tsukkomi, ya know!

Kanon: Player-han, if you ever feel like a manzai lesson, drop us a line whenever, okay? Prism shows and manzai are both about making the audience members happy. I’m looking forward to seeing if you can make your audience smile at the Rainbow Cup!

Serena: Looks like it’s time to go. This has been Serena!

Kanon: And Kanon!

Serena: And this was Serenon! Thank you very much for coming!!

#pretty rhythm #pretty rhythm aurora dream #pretty rhythm dear my future #pretty series #mdrw

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mononoke-no-ko · 4 years

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[Translation]Lelouch of the Resurrection Picture Drama: Re;f 1.05 Private Talk in Hammam

Hammam is a Turkish bath house btw.

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Translation below. Please inform me if you notice any mistake, thanks.

----- Nina: Ehh?! Lelouch left to go after C.C.-san?

Nunnally: Yes! I ended up being left behind!

Anya: Woman over family

Nina: Wai-, Anya-san, putting it that way is a bit...

Anya: Why?

Nina: Because, you know...

Kallen: Why are you looking at me like that?

Nina: You liked Lelouch, right?

Kallen: EHHHH

Anya: Hooo

Kallen: W-w-w-what are you saying?! There's no way I liked him! Ahaha you made me laugh. Stop it, it's not funny...

Nina: You've kissed at school right?

Kallen: Bbuuh

Nunnally: Eh really?

Nina: We had a hidden camera installed there for the Demon Tag Royale event, and it was left running there...

Kallen: OH MY GOD!

Nunnally: Nina-san, are you saying it was recorded in a video?

Nina: Yup, Milley-chan wickedly made a copy of it

Kallen: H-h-hold on! I-i-i-it's already in the past so let's drop this issue! More than that, we should look toward the future, the future!

Anya: Future...

Kallen: How about you, Nunnally?

Nunnally: Eh? Me?

Kallen: I'm talking about Suzaku!

Nina: Oh! I'm curious about that too!

Anya: Love-gossip yaayyy

Nina: Ever since you became the ambassador, he's always been by your side protecting you. That is quite a dedication! What do you think of Suzaku, Nunnally?

Nunnally: Suzaku-san was killed at the Battle of Damocles.

Kallen: Eh?

Nina: Well, that might be true for the general public, but... eh, you're joking right, Nunnally?

Nunnally: I too hope this isn't true, but there's his grave as proof... However, there's Euphie big sis in heaven, so I'm sure Suzaku-san won't be lonely!

Nina: Nunnally-san is unexpectedly strong.

Kallen: Yeah... she may be better at being a "top" than her brother...

Anya: Nunnally the best~!

---

Kallen: Fuuuh... What are you going to do after this, Nina?

Nina: I'm going to wait for Cecile-san to be relased from hospital, then we will go back to the research institute. What about you, Kallen?

Kallen: Hm let me see... first I'll return to Japan, show my mother that I'm fine... and go back to college, I guess.

Nina: Are you going back to Orange Farm, Anya-san?

Anya: Yeah. I like 'orange' after all.

Nina: Eh? That means...

Kallen: Seriously?! That Lord Orange?!

Nunnally: Everyone, it's rude to act that surprised.

Kallen: Ah... ahaha, sorry.

Nina: After all, heart is not something you can control.

Nunnally: About Euphy big sis, are you still...?

Nina: After she's gone, I realize that she was a very important person to me. I'm already at a point where I won't be able to forget about her anymore.

Kallen: I think it's fine even if you don't forget about her.

Nina: You can't forget about him too, Kallen?

Kallen: EH?

Nina: You can stop the act now, we've exposed ourselves quite a bit already.

Kallen: Ah... yeah, it seems I won’t be able to move on anytime soon.

Nina: Isn't it fine?

Nunnally: Yes, I also think it's fine.

Anya: 'Move on'...?

Kallen: Well forget it, I wish you happiness at Orange Farm.

Nina: Hey, what do you like about Orange, Anya?

Anya: The taste...

Kallen: Eh?

Nina: The taste? By 'taste' you mean..!?

Anya: Um, orange is sweet and taste good.

Nunnally: Ohh! So the one you like is the other orange!

Nina: "Taste good"? Does that mean Anya has already 'eaten' Orange? Well, Lord Jeremiah is an adult man, and Anya is cute, even though this is a conclusion from a sufficiently build calculation, but still...ohoho ohoho

Kallen: Nina, you think way too much into it.

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Anya: What are you going to do after this, Nunnally?

Nunnally: Soon, someone will be assigned as a temporary ruler for this country. I'm thinking of going back once I've seen it through.

Kallen: Ah... that person will arrive here tomorrow right?

Nunnally: I still haven't heard exactly who it is, perhaps it will be Kanon-sama or Toudou-sama...

Kaguya: Tuuut wrong guess!

Kallen: Eeeeh!? Kaguya-sama?!

Kaguya: I heard everyone's here so I come. Hammam is great, no? I very much liked it.

Nina: Yes, we like it too, that's why we decided to come here once more before going home

Anya: Hammam in Hammam~

Kaguya: By the way, everyone, did you talk about Lelouch just now?

Nunnally: Yes, actually...

Nina: Nana-chan, come here for a second...

Nunnally: Huh?

Nina: For Kaguya, Lelouch is a hateful enemy! Moreover, even though it was just for a short while, she once held a position as his wife...

Nunnally: Eh? Isn't that just Kaguya-sama's own claim?

Kallen: Now that you said it, C.C. also acknowledged Kaguya.

Kaguya: Hey! What are you guys talking about, whispering like that?

Nina: Oh, I'm sorry! The matter about Lelouch is a secret, okay?

Kaguya: Did someone just mention Lelouch?

Nina: You heard wrong! We were talking about lu...lu...RULES in Hammam, there are plenty of them so it's quite inconvenient...

Kallen: YES! The procedure here is different from Japanese bath house....

Kaguya: I see.

Everyone: Sigh...

Kaguya: By the way, I heard Lelouch left to go after C.C.?

Nina: Kaguya-sama, how do you know about that?

Kaguya: I've received the report from Shinozaki.

Kallen: Ah... well that makes sense.

Nina: Are you... fine with it?

Kaguya: With what?

Nina: I just thought that for you, Lelouch is someone whom you have complicated feelings for in many ways, Kaguya-sama

Kaguya: Complicated? Fufufu. Isn't it a sign of a good woman, to wish for the happiness of the man she fell in love with?

Nina: Eh?

Nunnally: Yes, I think so too.

Anya: Kaguya so cool~

Kaguya: Moreover, if it's to C.C.-san, even if I lost I can accept it.

Everyone: Ah...

Nunnally: Right!

Kallen: Well, yeah.

Nunnally: C.C.-san has been there with Big Brother ever since the beginning of his rebellion after all

Nina: I'm glad for you, C.C.-san.

Kaguya: It's regrettable that I couldn't rush here to send them off to their new life.

Nunnally: I hope Big Brother won't get dumped by C.C.-san

Kallen: Ee?

Nina: Well... that might not be impossible.

Kallen: Pft, Lelouch seems like the type who will never move on if he gets dumped!

Nina: Yet he'll put up a strong front and say "I've totally gotten over it"

Kaguya: Well, that is one of his good points!

Nunnally: Everyone understands Big Brother really well!

Kallen: I mean, even during the cultural festival...

Nina: Ah, you mean the the horse-riding club incident?

Kaguya: I have stories like that as well!

Nunnally: Oh, please let me tell stories about Big Brother too!

Anya: Lelouch is loved.

Nunnally: Big Brother sure likes to act strong.

Nina: He really does.

Kaguya: I’m the one who loves him the most!

#code geass #kallen kouzuki #nunnally #Anya alstreim #Nina Einstein #Kaguya Sumeragi #Code Geass Picture Drama #lelouch #c.c.#kururugi suzaku #jeremiah gottwald #lelouch x c.c.#lelouch x kallen

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hoshigomi · 4 years

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Valley of Xuanyao // RAY! (not a review.)

Some thoughts on Xuanyao/Genyou/Dazzling Valley/Mysterious Valley/whatever you want to call it + Ray!

(This isn’t a fully-formed, plot critical review by any stretch of the imagination, but I wanted a chance to say everything I loved about these pieces of theatre, as well as a few criticisms I have.) (These are all my opinions and I’m sure people would agree or disagree with plenty of them!) (It’s literally just a couple lists, read at your own discretion.)

There are MANY SPOILERS HERE so watch out.

First off: Genyou no Tani / Valley of Xuanyao / Chinese Aterui (I guess it’s not as much like Aterui as I initially assumed) / AVATAR (the blue people one) (but set in China) / not NOT Pocahantas ~

Call it what you want, I’ll admit right out of the gate that I didn’t follow the entirety of this show. It got a lot better on the second and third try, but the first go was a little rough.

Official plot summary here.

Things I LOVED:

This show is beautiful. The set is very Alphonse Mucha aesthetic in style, and it makes me very sad that exactly 0 pictures do it justice. Not only is the set STUNNING, but it’s INNOVATIVE as well, the way they used huge hilly mountainous set pieces to create, well, valleys (haha) and set the scene actually grabbed my attention SEVERAL times. There are also no pictures that do the palace set justice, but the grandeur of it took my breath away, as did the EASE with which the set took us between settings. Unfortunately the visual aesthetic of the show is like not something I’m skilled enough to describe in words, but my point here is that if you get the chance to see this show, it would be worth it for the visual feast alone.

This show is beautiful (music edition). BOY! The music is HAUNTING and POWERFUL and simple and complex all at once. I have told several people that if either the opening or finale songs are put on that custom CD maker thing in the theatres I would literally buy a custom CD just to get my hands on these songs like a couple weeks before their official release. I got chills every time Shirotae Natsu opened the show (we could NOT ask for a better new fukukumichou), and without fail, at the (spoilers) mass exodus of the Wen people (hello, Coto Moses?) song.

The show is beautiful (general stage edition): It’s SO DANCEY. IT IS SO EXPRESSIVE. Even though the vast majority of the cast is costumed… nearly identical to one another, watching a n y one of them is a treat different from any other. There is no shortage of opportunity for these women to emote physically, and not a single one of them holds back. There are also like a billion acrobatic tricks in this show for some reason. They don’t take you out of anything, it’s just all VERY PHYSICAL. The Wen men and women specifically use physicality HARD to express their… history, I guess? There are several scenes with a few singers and a few dancers working together to tell a story. They give me CHILLS. The women (led by Honoka) in the palace also serve to set the aesthetic world and honestly I don’t have anything smart to say about them but they blew me away. Aomi Sario does several cartwheels. Yuunagi Ryou jumps like five feet in the air and does a somersault. I don’t know why any of these women are airborne as much as they are but they sure are good at it.

Other standout things I loved- there were a LOT more, but I need SOMEONE to talk about these people and moments, and I guess it’s my burden to bear.

FOR SOME REASON OOKI MAKOTO TALKS LIKE A LOT. She may talk more than Amahana Ema, freshly-transferred Ayaki Hikari, or Kiwami Shin. I can’t stress enough how much there is NO REASON FOR THIS. She ALSO, in a TURN OF FATE, IS NOT PLAYING AN OLD MAN. She’s playing a young soldier (NO FACIAL HAIR!!!!!) who at one point is goofing around under a tree on the edge of a stage and does some incredible pantomime work getting a spider off of her. I’m a little in love with her. I could not be happier that they truly just let her GO OFF this show. If you have ever liked Ooki Makoto, you need to see this show.

Ooki Makoto is always accompanied by Tenju Mitsuki who, as usual, is doing The Most for the Least Payoff because she like angered a God in her past life but not enough for the God to not give her the most beautiful face known to man. She doesn’t get to do much at all, unfortunately as USUAL, though her character very much has the vibe of her Kamatari character, and she does get to do a really fucking sick trick where she gets hit by an arrow and despite watching her through opera glasses three times in a row I have no idea how she does it.

SEO YURIA REALLY STEPPED UP HER GAME? This was a good meaty role with a nice little bit of her Red Oni from Another World mixed in for like chaotic measure. She sounds vocally FANTASTIC and looks at times actually TRULY PHYSICALLY IMPOSING. I’ve always been theatrically on the fence about Seo, but it looks like she’s really finding where she fits onstage and her strengths and is working HARD. I’m really into it.

Arisa Hitomi does beautiful work as the narrator of the whole piece, more or less, I just wish we could have seen more of her. That’s kinda how it’s gonna go from now on huh. Sigh.

Amato Kanon Amato Kanon Amato Kanon Amato Kanon Amato Kanon Amato Kanon . I will live and die in Hoshigumi, but if one day they move her to somewhere else to be top star, (after I mourn for a year and go through the five stages of grief), I will be right there by her side. Her character is spunky and fun and young and then gets tortured and killed (sorry, I said there were spoilers) in a way that I almost couldn’t WATCH. She’s an expert on throwing her (rapidly becoming lifeless) body around onstage in a way that really, really, really broke my heart. I winced. I’m sure I’m not the only one in the audience who would have put myself in her place to save her.

It’s very cool when they use projections to enhance moments in this- like a sword striking a rock and the sparks that fly, or the mysterious man disappearing. Additionally, the SOUND DESIGN of this show was pretty flawless.

Current Kumichou and Soon-To-Be-Senka member Mari Yuzumi played, obviously, Coto’s mom, and the two of them share some really beautiful moments and part of a song- it was a fitting and sweet part to give her, and I’m so glad she got some real stage time here because lord am I gonna miss her.

There’s a little drumline throughout some scenes of Wen people featuring (I THINK) Toudou Jun, Asamizu Ryou, Sayaka Rin, Sakuraba Mai, and POSSIBLY Kuresaki Rino. They don’t do anything to serve the plot, they just sometimes act as a transition in and out and winding through group scenes. It kicks ass.

Though this show was by NO MEANS an “ensemble show” (it was obviously very heavily (and wonderfully!) pulled by Coto, and all the ensemble was…. To be honest, visually mostly indistinguishable from one another), it like… WAS an ensemble show. There are MANY scenes with the HUGE chunks of the troupe, whether it’s the soldiers doing some INCREDIBLE sword and spear work or the dancers as the Wen people telling stories through the sheer power of their NUMBERS, or the women in the palace with their ribbons and dance, the real power of this show is in the ensemble and what they give to the story. Personally, ensemble driven stories tick ALL my boxes, so even if the plot was a little rough for me, the sheer POWER of Hoshigumi really made this a show that I realize now, sitting at my desk in Tokyo, I wish I was seeing again like today. This show did a complete 180 for me, and I can not recommend it enough. It isn’t FUN, but I can’t find the words to express how MOVING and BEAUTIFUL it is. If you can’t see it in person, I guess I recommend buying the blu ray, renting out a movie theatre, and watching it on as big of a screen as you can possibly get.

RAY:

Ray was just OKAY to me, though I admit I DID love it a little more with each consecutive viewing. I wonder how I’ll feel about it at the end of the Tokyo run- it very well might grow on me and stick in my heart as a revue I really love, but for now I’m personally a bit lukewarm on this one. I’m gonna express my three gripes first, and then move on to the things I love.

1.) God this revue really fucking abuses projections. Not only does it OPEN AND END with an unnecessary mini movie, and not only do they use the projections to transition us literally through the starry galaxy to the PANTHEON which they make with like Windows Screensaver level skill and then for some reason also show us on a real backdrop- if they had the REAL backdrop, why did they need to also show us a CGI version?, but they also straight up show us MOVIES while people are singing. As captivating as I find every single woman in Hoshigumi, I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the acid trip that was the projections. They weren’t STILL EITHER. They were THIS distracting, down to the literal giant eye. I hated them so much. They didn’t make any visual sense, they didn’t enhance a thing, they really weren’t even vaguely thematically appropriate. I hope beyond hope that the venues they use for the tour just don’t have the tech power for this and the projections get cut. I didn’t like a SINGLE one of them.

2.) I can’t really explain this one but something was… missing. The numbers weren’t…. varied , I guess? They were all the same like. Power level and mostly had the same amount of people onstage (a lot), and while there’s NOTHING I love more than a big group number, this one had… I guess maybe too many? Or maybe it wasn’t the amount that is the issue, maybe it’s just how they weren’t like tonally varied. The numbers were all GOOD, but the flow was weird? I don’t know. Something felt off. If anyone sees this and gets what I mean, please talk to me about it.

3.) And this one is personal preference, but I thought the whole Ray theme was…. Much too heavy handed for an ohirome GT. To clarify, I think this would have been VERY suitable for a taidan revue, thematically, but I think it’s too early to be playing top star name games and adorning the whole stage with her name… repeatedly. I GET that it’s clever because like, ray of light, starlight, etc, but I didn’t like it. I wouldn’t have liked like, Dramatic ‘S’ as a first revue either, for example. This isn’t personal or about Coto, if they had made Kai top and called her first revue like ‘Seven Seas’ I also would have been like ….#yikes. I just wish they’d save this stuff for later in Coto’s run.

That said, the good outweighed the bad! Some numbers of note (this is NOT all of them, just the ones that stuck with me) include:

The opening, which was very fun! The set was cool, multi layered and opening with just Coto inside like a cut out diamond shape on a platform and made good use of a pretty bare stage to really give EVERYONE a moment. There were more featured faces in this number alone that I didn’t even RECOGNIZE than I can count- and that made me really happy to see! Special shoutout to Taiki Hayate and Ruri Hanaka for getting to stand on the edge of the stage and sing. I just think they’re neat. The opening was rock-y and sexy and mature and it was very fun to get to see so many people shine in it.

This was followed by Seocchi in a number with again, a BEAUTIFUL set. Seriously, when they aren’t abusing the hell out of a projector, this revue IS VISUALLY STUNNING. It’s like set on Jupiter kind of, there’s a swirling galaxy all lit up behind the dancers (Seo, Amato Kanon, Minato Rihi- who has big Renta energy and always makes me happy to look at) Aomi Sario, Ruri Hanaka, notably.) This number has big Look At The Youth Of Tomorrow energy. Seo sounds INCREDIBLE, and everyone who is featured here makes my heart leap. This was definitely one of my favorite numbers.

There was a tango that would have been 90x sexier if only it didn’t feature those stupid turbans on literally everyone. Mikkii gets to sing her bridge solo (thank God), and the energy is rowdy. Everyone is in white pants.

The chuuzume is nice. It starts what feels like oddly early, but probably isn’t. They abuse the projections during the start of this one, (Hanagata Hikaru) and then thankfully pull the screen up and get rid of them for a while. The chuuzume is neat in that it also features a lot of little groups of siennes, from the young ones (who even get to SING small solos and things) (and I mean SMALL ones)- Amato Kanon has a solo at a point (and is CENTER ON THE BRIDGE for the kyakuseki part of the chuuzume), Aomi Sario and (iirc) Yuuhi Maki get a small duet, little groups are coming on and off constantly. It’s fun. They put the otokoyaku on the bridge and they do some sharp dancing and some kinda… seductive, to me, stuff. Most everyone is in red. The aesthetic of this chuuzume is GOOD.

THIS ROCKETTE MIGHT BE MY FAVORITE ROCKETTE EVER.

Aesthetically it is flawless, and it’s led by three girls including RURI HANAKA who gets a CENTER OF THE BRIDGE SOLO. These costumes are BEYOND adorable as well! Look at them! This rockette really shows off how skilled some of these girls are. They also do a lineup that goes as usual from shortest to tallest to shortest again, except they break this up by putting the three leads in the MIDDLE, which really means its like, short to tallest to SHORTEST to tallest to short again and believe me when I say it is COMICAL. There’s a solid foot difference between some of these women.

The Olympics number which immediately follows the rockette is lovely, it features a biiiiiig group of the cast and then Mizuno Yuri, Otosaki Itsuki, Sazanami Reira, Aomi Sario, and Amato Kanon as the colors of the Olympic rings. Musically this one didn’t stick that hard with me, but it’s a visual treat, and everyone’s dance proficiency is on full display. Plus if you look at the back of the stage you’ll see Yuunagi Ryou and Hiroka Yuu doing like a dance battle and pulling and pushing each other around which is extremely relevant to my interests.

From here it got really lovely for me personally. Amahana Ema and Kiwami Shin led Swingin’ On A Star on the bridge (and both of them sound lovely and sweet), and then theres a couple dance featuring about 10 or so people including Toudou Jun and again Yuunagi Ryou (this is the only place in the revue I didn’t have trouble spotting her unfortunately, and I’m GOOD at finding her), going on while Maisora finishes up the number. It’s sweet and it’s sugary and it’s a piece of like small lightness after all the very Heavy and Full group numbers before.

The kuroenbi is pretty good, it felt somehow… unfinished? But immediately after that is Coto jumping into You Are My Sunshine which I personally find to be the most charming thing in the world. It includes solos for Seo, Hanagata Hikaru, Aichan, and a LOT of attention on Hoshigumi’s musumeyaku who get to ALL line up on the bridge together and sing. It’s a treat. It made my heart happy and made me grin really big.

Other shoutouts go to

Sazanami Reira and her wild hair flips

Akachan who for some reason sounds vocally like she’s underwater, which was hard for me to place until recently

Maisora and Coto who really DO work together well as a combi though these two shows didn’t give them much chance to see that (please watch Mozart once it’s out on DVD to see what these two can DO together)

Mari Yuzumi for still killing it with everyone else in every number despite the fact that she’s so up there that they’re moving her to senka after this- boy I am gonna MISS her

Amato Kanon for holding my future in her, soft, capable hands.

Minato Rihi for smiling like Renta

The upperclassmen for not letting being completely sidelined ruin their attitude and for still giving their all to everything and pulling my attention with their YEARS of expertise

Kisa Kaoru, Soua Takeru, Houma Toa, Hiroki Yuzuha, and Kuresaki Rino just because they make me smile.

Sakuraba Mai and Haruto Yuuho who should actually be a top combi together.

Seo Yuria for really just like stepping it up all around and drawing my attention and taking up SPACE.

Ruri Hanaka because holy shit, girl….

All in all, this was a good pair. Not every revue works for everyone, and maybe this one just didn’t grab my heart the way I wished it did. It was still fun, and it definitely had enough numbers that I loved for me to want to go back multiple times, and whatever Ray lacked, Valley picked up for me. It’s a good set of shows, and everyone does really lovely work. I can’t wait to see where Coto and Maisora’s Hoshigumi goes!

#takarazuka #hoshigumi #valley of xuanyao #ray #tkz

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