The Kageki Top Star feature for 2009 was a spinoff of the 2008 feature, where Top Stars were asked to pick a side on a question. Unlike the 2008 edition, which had 2 questions, the 2009 version only has 1 question, and the stars are then asked to predict everyone else’s answers.
The May question: Do you prefer…
A – Traditional sweets?
B – Western sweets?
Every year, the Top Star of the show in which the new class of Takarasiennes debuts will hold a roundtable talk with the 5 students who graduated with the highest grades. In 2018, the 104th class debuted during the Star Troupe production Another World/KILLER ROUGE, and Kurenai Yuzuru hosted the talk which was published in the June 2018 issue of Kageki.
(Please note that 2 of the students in the talk have very similar last names, Mashiro/Mahiro, so keep that in mind while reading)
Some outtakes from the back of the magazine are also included.
Continue readingThis is an older iteration of To The Future in GRAPH, so some of the questions being answered are different. This feature was published in the September 2006 GRAPH.
Continue readingMonthly Question!! was the new Kageki Top Star feature for 2018, taking over from That’s RanKING! It’s somewhat similar to That’s RanKING! in that it asks the Top Stars what they think the others would do in a particular situation, but without the points competition element.
This month’s scenario: You are Momotaro. You are headed to Demon Island. The dog, the monkey, and the pheasant tell you ‘If you give me a millet dumpling we’ll join you’. However, if you only had one millet dumpling…
Continue readingIn That’s RanKING!, the Kageki Top Star Q&A feature, the Top Stars rank each other based on questions from readers. This month’s question: Who would be the best at setting up a practical joke?
I’ve also included some outtakes that were printed in the back of the magazine.
Continue readingI’m not sure what the title actually is, if it has one, as it was referenced from the Oscar and Andre 2013 Le Cinq script, which did not include a title.
This song was first used in all of the side stories, and has been incorporated into the canon Rose of Versailles shows as of 2013.
Continue readingThis feature asked all the current members of the 86th class as of 2011 to rate each other according to various questions. There were 2 other sections that were basically just charts that I may translate at a later date, but for now I have just done the questions portion with everyone’s comments on each other.
Continue readingIn the 2016 version of That’s RanKING!, the Kageki Top Star Q&A feature, the Top Stars rank each other based on questions from readers. This month’s question: On a drive, who seems like they would be best at navigating for you?
Continue readingThis round-robin style talk with all the 92nd class members was published in the October 2017 issue of GRAPH, as part of a series on the more senior classes (those who have been in the company 10 years of more).
The participants are: Chinami Karan, Shouno Chio, Ayanagi Shou, Kizaki Reo, Tenma Michiru, Matsukaze Akira, Shizuki Otone, Takasumi Hayato, Rinjou Kira, Houzuki An, Marika Yume, Makaze Suzuho, Seki Yurito, and Mana Haruto.
Continue readingThis interview, published in the December 1992 Kageki, features the four Top Stars of the time (Shion Yuu, Mori Keaki, Anju Mira, and Suzukaze Mayo) reminiscing about their experiences in the Takarazuka Grand Theatre before it was entirely rebuilt. There’s a lot of details about their early careers and time as fans themselves before entering the company.
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