Voyage With You was a Kageki photoshoot and interview feature where the Top Combi picks a destination and does a photoshoot inspired by their choice and a famous film set there, as well as having a talk about the location and related Takarazuka shows. Yuzuka and Hoshikaze picked France and did a Beauty and the Beast-themed photoshoot.
Continue readingESPECIAL TIME was a long-running invitation talk feature in GRAPH, where one sienne is given the opportunity to invite someone else.
Aine Harei’s feature, where she invited Koto Marie, was published in the February 2010 issue.
Some of the outtake photos from the back of the magazine are also included.
Continue readingThis interview, conducted by Ashizawa Jin, was published for Asami Hikaru’s last appearance in GRAPH before her retirement.
Continue readingThis cute comparison Q&A was published in the March 1993 issue of GRAPH. It features 3 of the Top Musumeyaku of the time: Asano Kayo (Moon Troupe), Morina Miharu (Flower Troupe), and Shiraki Ayaka (Star Troupe), classmates who were known as the ‘Young Trio’ after they all ascended to Top Musumeyaku positions very close together.
Continue readingThis Kageki feature brings brief updates on the lives of Takarasiennes. This issue features Yumena Rune, Asazuki Kiwa, Hiryuu Tsukasa, and Kazeiro Hyuuga.
Continue readingAshizawa Jin is an illustrator/columnist who seems to have worked for GRAPH since the 1960s (yes, you read that right). His interview column gets a new title every year but usually the format is fairly similar. The 2019 column, which featured musumeyaku only, was called The Lovely Flowers Bloom. This interview with Ousaki Ayaka was published in the March issue.
Continue readingBackstage Journal is a short Kageki feature where very young cast members write anecdotes about what’s going on behind the scenes of the productions. They’re not very deep, being full of emojis and more like blog entries than articles, but they are a good way to get to know the newest actresses in each troupe.
This one is by Flower Troupe member Kashiro Kiho (of the 87th Class), and was published in the February 2003 issue.
Continue readingThis talk between Asami Hikaru and her classmate Aran Kei was published in Asami’s final GRAPH issue, published in December 2006.
Some outtake photos from the back of the magazine are included.
Continue readingTo the Future is a small GRAPH interview of junior actresses. This one was published in the October 2018 issue.
Continue readingIn this Top Star survey series published in GRAPH in 2006, fans were asked to rank characters in a variety of categories (such as ‘favorite character’, ‘character I would most want to marry’) as well as their favorite costumes.
Haruno Sumire’s was published in the December issue.
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