This brief report on Asaka’s Takarazuka retirement was released by Sports Hochi on September 25; however, the original article has since been removed with no archives remaining.

6000 fans at Cosmos Troupe Top Star Asaka Manato’s home territory retirement parade! ‘Thank you for showing us a love larger than the galaxy’

The home territory retirement parade for Cosmos Troupe Top Star Asaka Manato, who retires from the Takarazuka Revue on November 19th, took place at the Takarazuka Grand Theatre in Hyogo on the 25th, and Asaka smiled for the approximately 6000 fans who gathered for her.

Asaka beamed at the sendoff from Takarazuka’s home base as her fans, unified in their white clothes, called out to her: “Maa-sama is surely the person I was destined to meet in this huge cosmos! Thank you for showing us a love larger than the galaxy!” “You’re the sun of our Cosmos! We love you, Maa-sama!”

“Thank you. I was safely able to make it through the Takarazuka run; I’m glad,” Asaka thanked her fans. Her farewell performance at the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre runs from October 13th to November 19th. “Please come again!” she said.