#otokoyaku

[nessie665]

Wao Youka as Erik in the Takarazuka production of Yeston and Kopit's Phantom, 2004

My God, this place really is haunted!

#poto #phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #wao youka #yeston and kopit phantom #erik carriere #takarazuka phantom #erik x christine #y&k phantom #erik #christine daae #soragami #otokoyaku

[asakusasisters]

Orie Tsusaka - one of the best male impersonator in history and star otokoyaku from all-female theatre SKD (Shochiku Kagekidan), 1930s.

She was as famous as otokoyaku-legend Mizunoe Takiko.

#orie tsusaka #skdrevue #skd revue #male impersonator #otokoyaku star #otokoyaku #shochiku kagekidan

[pellicano-sanguino]

My zuka themed wedding dress

There were some bumps in the road but I did eventually get the otokoyaku style wedding dress I wanted. My wife's face is blurred according to her wish. She makes a fine musumeyaku to my otokoyaku in her lolita-style dress by Angelic Pretty. Originally I wanted a tailcoat but decided to go for a poet shirt, velvet pants and a cape, inspired by the Song of Grief number in Fascination II - Neo Egoist. (I wish there had been a curtain to hide away the gym equipment.)

We cut the cake with my sword.

Caketopper was a White Rabbit (my wife) and blood-covered Pelican (me).

Instead of saying our vows in front of a cross, I made us a "Seal of Roses." This is because I'm not a christian and because I just think it looks cooler. The symbol replacing the cross is an alchemical symbol for bloodstone that a friend of mine who is a blacksmith made for me. I placed the roses on the symbol mimicking the pattern of the rose seals in the zuka musical Seal of Roses, which is my favourite zuka vampire show. I originally wanted to have gem-shaped fairylights inside each rose to light them up, because in the musical the rose seals are supposed to have gems inside them and they light up beautifully, but unfortunately I didn't have time to find fitting lights. The Seal of Roses now decorates the wall of our home.

#takarazuka #seal of roses #otokoyaku

[mizusjawline]

Sometimes I think about Otokoyaku/Mesumeyaku sexism and how I don't want to condone it, and yet I'm perpetuating it because my pinterest boards are dedicated solely to Otokoyaku

#takarazuka #takarazuka revue #otokoyaku #mesumeyaku

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

Happy birthday to Jyou, the most brilliant ikemenstar in the ikemensky!!

#exist trace #exist†trace #ジョウ #Jrock #visual kei #otokoyaku

[ilovetkrzuka]

ALL- FEMALE TAKARAZUKA REVUE COSMOS TROUPE XCALIBUR MUSICAL 2023 POSTER

Starring: Serika Toa as Arthur & Haruno Sakura as Guinevere 

Takarazuka Revue Official Site 

#takarazuka revue #takarazuka #xcalibur #serika toa #haruno sakura #otokoyaku #musumeyaku #frank wildhorn #ivan menchell

[eien-no-gakusha]

Touken Ranbu:  The Contradictory Tale of Genji

Went in expecting fanservice and just a good time, left impressed.

Part 1/3 - Plot:

The videogame source material has a very barebones plot because it knows what it is:  a gatcha game for fujoshi to collect sword husbandos.  Basically, something evil is trying to change (Japanese) history and make the universe implode.  You, the player, are an onmyoji or priestess who is summoning famous swords like mad to save the world.  The touken danshi themselves basically have the personalities of their famous historical figure owners or forgers coupled with quirks related to random facts and legends surrounding them.  Some come with a Hachiko streak from losing their masters or their service in some darker parts of history.  (only your love can heal them!). Classic gatcha game fare.  In other words, there is a lot of room to be creative with this framework.  Just look at all the sexy derivative works spawned from the thirsty fujoshi.  This aspect of the fandom is surprisingly relevant to the plot of the musical.  Stick around and find out. 

Anyways, the plot of this specific show features a Tale of Genji crossover.  The usual evil is messing with history again and a squad of swords are dispatched to fix it.   The problem of the day is the entire Heian court has been isekai-ed into the novel Tale of Genji.  The author Murasaki Shikibu and her fans have all gotten merged with the characters of the book.  The Heian era swords are unavailable for vague reasons, leaving a bunch of young swords not forged in this era to untangle fact from fiction.

Thus, we start with team Kanesada finding themselves escorting a lady-in-waiting who explains that everyone around her has been suddenly larping Tale of Genji and she’s the only sane person left in court.  They realize they are trapped in the book and reenact all the early chapters as they figure out how to undo the curse.  Some of the more hot-tempered swords try to brute force their way out only to realize that book characters have protagonist halos to protect them from getting KOed.  At the center of this vortex, the titular character Hikaru Genji is effectively an NPC who has gained sentience a la RE:  Creators.  We learn he functions similarly to the sword boys as the embodiment of the book.  Not being a weapon, he can’t do much by way of fighting but he is unkillable and can act as dungeon master in his own story by transferring protagonist status to his victims.  In other words, Genji can possess targets to simulate his story as a substitute while he dicks off.  He uses this power to go OOC and try to retcon his own story.  This is all quite convenient for him since he has a complicated relationship with his author.  He is half reverential of her and half resentful.  This culminates in Genji ultimately killing his own author.  In the merged universe, Murasaki Shikibu and her readership have merged with the female leads of The Tale of Genji with Murasaki taking the role of the unobtainable Fujitsubo no Nyogo, Genji’s true love.  In breaking the story with literal death of the author, all hell breaks loose with Genji going rogue.

As the touken danshi dig deeper, they learn the source of this chaos was a result of toxic fan culture!  While many people enjoy Murasaki’s book and come away from it positively, a stalker fan voices his concerns that this is all vapid fiction with no value nor contribution to reality (the “wake up, loser” argument).  They debate about the point of writing “fake” stories.  While Murasaki understands the man’s point of view, she disagrees and refuses to put down her brush as this work is her passion.  The man becomes so upset he is taken over by the evil powers to cause the time rift and alter history.  His reasoning is if everyone is so obsessed with the book, they may as well live in it rather than face the real world. 

Back in the present, the touken danshi are having a bad time resolving the timeline.  They complain about needing grandpa Mikazuki’s help and keep getting possessed by Genji to reenact chapters while he escapes to cause trouble elsewhere.  However, during the final boss battle with evil Genji, the isekai-ed fangirls come to the rescue!  As they reminisce about their love of the novel (well, it would be equivalent of a serialized magazine at time of publication) and how it was therapeutic or inspiring for their real lives, they begin to return to themselves.  Now it’s important to note that Murasaki’s contemporaries did write derivative works or helped her transcribe chapters to share.  Therefore, these fangirls are effectively ancient Japanese fanfiction authors and thus have power to end Genji as much as the original author does.  But they love him as a character too much so are unable to strike the finishing blow and basically toss the responsibility to young Murasaki, Genji’s second wife who he had kidnapped as a child to groom into the perfect woman.  Unable to bear the suffering and moved by the women in his life both as characters and as his fans, Genji lowers his protagonist’s halo and accepts death.  The touken danshi are able to finally fix history and complete their mission.  When they return to modern day, they hear news that archeologists have found physical evidence that Genji existed as a historical figure and thus a conspiracy theory is born!  The touken danshi take this information with mixed emotions.

What an amazing story.  The theme was deep without being too obtuse.  The climax got meta and opened a lot of discussion about the value of fiction, derivative works, the dangers of escapism, censorship, and even spirituality.  Definitely worth a second viewing to digest all this.

There was a mini-revue number in the end where the cast performed an umbrella dance to anachronistic Touken Ranbu music.  Then the cast descended a staircase in parade order for final bows.  It was a much-needed break from the heavy and complicated plot.  It was also a small nod to the main cast’s Takarazuka roots or hina doll staging, which is a common set design when using Heian costume.  The umbrella dance reminded me of the finale Sakura dance OSK does at the end of their performances.  Perhaps this is a proud Osaka tradition.  I haven’t seen a different Touken Ranbu show (yet) so I don’t know if this is a part of the brand.

#touken ranbu #tale of genji #takarazuka og #og lyfe #my thoughts #my meta #my rambles #my ramblings #otokoyaku #theatre #theater #touken ranbu musical #刀剣乱舞 #宝塚 #宝塚OG #nanami hiroki #seto kazuya #kai #akira #ayanagi sho

[yugiri315]

[ブギウギ] Japan's Queen of Boogie

NHK recently produced a dramaticized "biopic" (aka historical fiction) of jazz singer and actress Shizuko Kasagi. It so happened she started her career in Shochiku Gakugeki Club, the proto-OSK Nippon Kageki, under the stage name Shizuko Mikasa. As such, NHK hired a bunch of OSK actresses to star in the women's revue scenes as their very own predecessors! It's short and sweet and has many nods to the Jazz age in Japan.

They paid attention to a lot of little details in portraying post-war Japan both on and off stage. I only pulled the OSK-relevant scenes given this is what my audience would be most familiar with. Sempai-kohai relationships are strict as usual. Otokoyaku hair has not yet evolved to the current form and not everyone has cut it all off. Otokoyaku still wear skirts. Everyone talks kansai-ben off stage. Kimono are stripey. A quant, fun watch.

#osk #theatre #theater #otokoyaku #musumeyaku #revue #jazz #nhk #osk日本歌劇 #japan

[akeaks]

Hello, it's been a while since I uploaded my post about ASAKA MANATO's Takarazuka works, and I deleted all the posts from my profile (almost all of them), and the last time I said I was going to re-download EVERYTHING to have it in better quality, and that's what I'm doing (or something like that) I just ask for some patience, when I have a work already downloaded I will upload a post giving you the information.

•I REPEAT IF THERE IS ANY WORK THAT YOU WANT, JUST TELL ME AND I WILL PASS IT TO YOU, YES, YOU SHOULD GIVE ME SOME TIME.•

#takarazuka #takarazuka trello #asaka manato #misaki rion #TOPSTAR #top #star #topmusumeyaku #musumeyaku #otokoyaku #gender #teatray #japan #woman #girl #onlywoman #only #couple #cosmos #soragumi #troupe #revue

[howmanyheartaches]

I thought I would never be able to spend more money on something other than Zuka

I WAS WRONG

#i'm going to the eras tour but at what cost #obviously i still wanna go back to zuka next year lol #and arlht already has a shopping list for me in fall soooooo #takarazuka revue #otokoyaku #musumeyaku #musical outfit #musical geek #i am from austria

[zuka-thirst-gutter]

lgbt? what, like all at once?

#some rei pride icons for y'all #yuzuka rei #rei yuzuka #hanagumi #flower troupe #takarazuka #takarazuka revue #pride icons #lgbt #otokoyaku

[taitavva]

the golden combination

#what if we were two girls & we fell in love on stage ??? #guess who recently discovered the takarazuka revue ... #theoretically. goro would b the otokoyaku bcause of the detective prince thing #but i hc him as looking like his mother/androgynous #soooo .. get in the dress akechi. #& it would b funny if she's angry about not becoming the top star #bcause she's a musumeyaku #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #p5r #procreate #2023 #goro akechi #persona 5 protagonist #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #shuake #akeshu #8 hours #took me so long to try & make the dress look like his prince outfit #but i give up ....

[asakusasisters]

Gorgerous Kawaji Ryuko — otokoyaku star (male impersonator) from all-female theatre SKD (Shochiku Revue), 40s-50s.

No way, she was an extraordinary woman. 

#skdrevue #skd revue #shochiku kagekidan #kawaji ryoko #male impersonator #otokoyaku star #otokoyaku #sexy otokoyaku #top of top #retro #japan

[liminal-roses]

Amami Yuki in 2022' Rose and Samurai 2 (薔薇とサムライ2) vid from amami_yurichan on ig

#otokoyaku amami returned for 5 seconds concentrated all her power in them and disapeared #amami yuki #takarazuka og

[opanchu]

ARE WE ALL SEEING THIS???????

#revstar #JUDY MOTHERFUCKING KNIGHTLEY!!!! AND SHES VOICED BY A FORMER TAKARAZUKA OTOKOYAKU

[ilovetkrzuka]

Takarazuka Actress found dead, believed to be suicide

According to multiple news sources, on 9/30/2023, at approximately 7:04 AM, a woman 25 years old was found lying on the parking lot of an 18th story apartment building in Takarazuka City. The police found on the 18th floor a bag with belongings found to be of an actress of Takarazuka Revue.

According to the article on Bunshun Online, the actress was born in 1998 in Kyoto, the oldest daughter of a 140 year-running vintage shop and is a member of the Cosmos Troupe. According to an affiliate of the Revue, the actress A had a younger sister, and lived in the apartment building owned by their father together. Actress A debuted in 2017.

Cosmos Troupe's first day of performance "PAGAD/Sky Fantasy" was on 9/29, and the actress went on stage as usual, but on 9/30 the actress did not appear for the performance. Takarazuka Revue announced cancellation of the run of the performance from 10/1 to 10/8, due to multiple performers feeling unwell.

^Official Announcement from the Takarazuka Revue

#takarazuka revue #takarazuka #soragumi #otokoyaku #musumeyaku #cosmos troupe