Rhythm was a Q&A feature for young otokoyaku stars published through 2016, with fun questions about the performers’ on and offstage lives as well as some drawings. The specific questions and number of questions vary between features.
Akatsuki’s was published in the November issue.
Rhythm – Akatsuki Chisei, Moon Troupe
Q: When has your awareness towards the stage changed?
When I played Hans Axel von Fersen in 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille. Since it was my first time having a role in the main cast, I learned both how fun and how hard it is to create a role from scratch all by myself. Every day I could feel the way I performed it transforming, and it was a different feeling from anything else up until now.
Q: What moment have you been you the most nervous onstage?
I was nervous in 1789, but maybe the opening day of A-EN (ARI VERSION) which I starred in. It made me so nervous to be standing in the center myself and having the performance happening around me.
Q: Morning person? Night person?
I’m a night person. Definitely! I don’t want to get up in the mornings to the point that every day I’d rather die (laughs).
Q: Your signature…
Q: What is your favorite seasoning?
Mayonnaise. I love the oiliness of it (laughs).
Q: What are you particular about in fashion?
Manliness! I don’t wear heels very much. I usually wear clothes that don’t show the lines of my body. Also, my shoulders are broad, so I don’t wear things that make them look any broader (laughs).
Q: I actually…
I hate bugs… I hate them more than monsters. A while back a couple tiny flying bugs got into my house, and I managed to drive them away with bug spray, but the next time I didn’t have any spray on hand… I had my classmate living nearby, Senami Haya, come over. “What!? Even though they’re this small!?” she said (laughs).
Q: What are your favorite stage costumes?
I want to wear uniforms! They make me feel ‘Takarazuka!’ and they’re so cool. I was able to wear a uniform as Fersen, but I really want to wear a white uniform (laughs). I want to perform wearing lots of medals (laughs).
Q: Tell us your party entertainment repertoire!
I don’t have anything!! I always play princely roles, but I don’t know if that would actually be funny so I’m not planning to put it on my repertoire (laughs). But maybe the character of “someone who acts really cool but is actually totally inexperienced”, so like in Snow White, he wants to wake up the princess but it’s his first kiss so he has no idea what he’s doing…something like that (laughs).
Q: Are you someone who replies on LINE right away?
I do!!
If it’s my parents or someone who would forgive me for not replying I won’t right away (laughs), but on the whole! I’ll reply within a minute.
Q: Do you have a drivers’ license?
I don’t. I’d totally get in an accident if I was driving!! When I was in middle school I crashed into a garbage collection site on my bike, and was thrown off when I hit something, all kinds of things. So probably if I was in a car I would immediately die (laughs).
Q: What do you do first when you get home?
I get in the bath right away! If I sit down it’s all over. So I’m the type to get all my laundry and things done, and then relax and eat my food.
Q: Please draw a self-portrait!
…I look kinda like an animal. I often get told, ‘Oh you’re like a dog’. But before Takarazuka, I was told more that I looked grown-up because of my height.
Q: What do you want to become one year from now?
Ken-6 huh…let me think. I want to be able to express what’s inside my heart with my acting and singing… But probably it would be too hard to get there in one year (laughs).
Q: What is your favorite part of the stage makeup?
…It came out looking like eyelashes (laughs). I like layering colors like paints, so I use about 4 colors to make the double line. I love how the colors feel and how it starts out faint and gradually gets darker.
Q: What kind of movies do you like?
I watched Shawshank Redemption because Tamaki [Ryou]-san recommended it, and it was really neat. It made me think about a lot of things… It’s a dark story, but there are funny moments, and it has a great optimistic ending.
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