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ihateornithologists · 1 day

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low quality takarazuka memes (i've posted some of them already but it was 150 years ago so.)

#my favourite part is that i don't really like takarazuka portrayal of elisabeth in general #so i always just kinda drew her like. just. normal elisabeth.#whos for some reason kissing with (my beloved) anime girl tod #so i was joking about this constantly #yep that's like the context i guess #elisabeth das musical #takarazuka

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timemachineyeah · 6 months

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Takarazuka Revue is so funny because it’s like we are a fine upstanding institution of good family values, like homophobia. Please ignore the lesbians making up the majority of people both on stage and in the audience.

Takarazuka Revue is like: we enforce only the strictest gender roles in our troupe as is right and proper, sorting them into the two genders: women who are women, and women who are men. How dare you suggest there’s anything queer about that.

Takarazuka Revue is simultaneously the queerest thing and the least queer thing to ever exist. Takarazuka bucks tradition and is tradition incarnate. Takarazuka is like

and then is like, “no homo”

and maintains itself as one of the most hierarchical artistic organizations in the world with intense control over its performers. This alternate reality where the talented (and lucky, and connected) few can gain the right to openly perform queerness in the one setting comphet capitalism has carved out for them as long as they follow a different even stricter set of rules for dress and behavior. It dissembles traditional gender by its very existence and so must reinforce it at every turn.

And yet despite being the product of a conservative capitalist railroad owner who only really sought to exploit women for entertainment aimed at men (and their hetero families) that remains loyal to those deeply normative puritanical roots, it was and is also one of the most liberating theater and media experiences of queer Japanese people for decades. You can tell from all the queer art about it, by queer people. By the fact that the audience who flocked to it were not (cis) men.

Trying to untangle the mutual influence of shoujo manga to takarazuka is even more difficult that trying to untangle something like the history of modern Broadway and Disney movies. We wouldn’t have The Little Mermaid without Little Shop of Horrors, but we wouldn’t have Wicked without the Disney renaissance, but we wouldn’t have Frozen without Wicked, and going back further to things like Cinderella and Rogers and Hammerstein and they are intertwined but listen to me. Takarazuka and shoujo manga, especially yuri, are more intertwined. And then so much western media has been inspired by shoujo anime. Rose of Versailles the manga was inspired by Takarazuka and then in turn was adapted into their most famous play which then in turn influenced so many more artworks. Uranus and Neptune are an otokoyaku and musumeyaku. Utena and Anthy (and honestly that whole ass show. The stairs?? C’mon). And all the works and creators THOSE works inspired.

We owe so much to Takarazuka but also if we tried to thank them for their role in queer history they’d be like “we’ve never been queer in our lives!!!!!!!!” and then say a slur to your face while taking your money. Incredible. Wish more people knew what the fuck it was and I could get fansubs.

#timemachine wuz here #takarazuka

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goryfluff · 8 months

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Kaname Ouki as Tybalt in Gérard Presgurvic's Romeo & Juliette | ロミオとジュリエット Takarazuka Star Troupe | 2010

#takarazuka #takarazuka revue #romeo et juliette #romeo and juliet #宝塚歌劇団 #宝塚 #ロミオとジュリエット #star troupe #kaname ouki #ouki kaname #romeo & juliet #tybalt #musical #i definitely put way too much effort into this when there are probably like 3 people #on here who will care about this specific show #but actually this was so much fun to make and i think i will make more

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dozydawn · 3 months

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“A group of girls from the Takarazuka womens theater rehearse in the gym for a show in honor of visitors to the Expo '70. Osaka, Japan, March 1970.”

Photographed by Mario De Biasi.

#takarazuka #mario de biasi #1970 #1970s

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bioh4ck · 10 months

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Fujisaki Eri as Franziska von Karma and Sumireno Rei as Maya Fey in Gyakuten Saiban 2: The Truth Reborn, Again...

#im always thinking about them #yes i will tag this as #franmaya #let me be delusional in peace #fujisaki eri #franziska von karma #sumireno rei #maya fey #ace attorney #phoenix wright #gyakuten saiban 2: the truth reborn again #takarazuka #soragumi #my gifs

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jubigiuu · 10 months

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Hi 🧍 umh i might have developed a fascination for the takarazuka plays... And miss Asumi Rio in particular... I've only watched a few but she inspired me so much, maybe here on Tumblr there's more of an audience for this i don't know uftxfjxjhsry

#takarazuka #takarazuka revue #asumi rio #der tod #elisabeth das musical #elisabeth

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perplexingly · 1 year

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Fanart of Rudolf and der Tod, based on Bühler’s Heimkehr

#my art #elisabeth das musical #takarazuka #elisabeth #idk if they’re recognizable #but I based their looks on Tamaki Ryo and Akatsuki Chisei

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meduka-ebooks · 2 months

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Takarazuka Revue Phantom of the Opera inspired Madohomu

#madoka kaname #homura akemi #madohomu #pmmm #madoka magica #puella magi madoka magica #madoka #my art #homura #homumado #takarazuka #takarazuka revue #POTO #phantom of the opera

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mizusjawline · 1 year

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↳ James Bond Musical (Takarazuka), Feat. Suzuho Makaze as James Bond

#James bond #takarazuka #cosmos troupe #soragumi #suzuho makaze #james bond takarazuka #gif #gifset #not art

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mimiadraws · 1 year

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thank you serika toa as rocky in high and low: the prequel for being the most guy of all time

#takarazuka #soragumi #cosmos troupe #serika toa #art tag

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nessie665 · 3 months

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Soragami's Y&K Phantom '04// Ivy by Taylor Swift

I wish to know The fatal flaw that makes you long to be Magnificently cursed

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zukadiary · 11 months

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Cosmos Troupe's Casino Royale to get a worldwide livestream subtitled in 8 languages!

The last day of Cosmos Troupe's Casino Royale will get an unprecedented worldwide subtitled live stream via the platform Beyond LIVE!

Dates/Times: LIVE: June 11th (Sunday) 1:30pm (JST) Re-streaming: June 26th (Monday) 4:00am (JST)

Languages: English Korean Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) Spanish Vietnamese Indonesian Thai

(The stream will not include the sayonara show or taidan speeches)

For the vast majority of Takarazuka history, this would have been unthinkable! Please consider buying tickets and attending one of the Beyond LIVE streams (even if you typically watch a Rakuten stream) to show that there is demand for Takarazuka all over the world!

[TICKETS AND INFO]

#takarazuka #soragumi #cosmos troupe #makaze suzuho #jun hana #james bond #casino royale

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cethvalier · 3 months

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