This interview with Minami Maito about her then-upcoming Bow Hall show, Senhor CRUZEIRO, was published by Everyday Discoveries (Mainichi ga Hakken), a web magazine which seems to be aimed at older women, on April 29, 2018; however, the page has now been taken down. An archived version (including photos) can be found here.
Continue readingRelaxing Breeze (Fuwari) was a musumeyaku feature published in GRAPH, where an interview would take place at a cafe. It was focused on offstage topics such as how they destress or what they do on days off.
Saotome’s was published in the March 2016 issue.
Continue readingTELL ALL! was a 2016 Kageki feature asking Top Stars and Top Musumeyaku various questions about their personality, their work, and their daily lives. Tamaki’s was published in the November issue.
Continue readingSeo Yuria’s 95th class interview series was published in GRAPH through 2016. Her talk with Minami Maito was published in the June issue.
(Yes, she does use that many exclamation points in the original)
If you have read the Seo Yuria/Minami Maito Sparkling Time, some of the anecdotes they discuss may look familiar. The two features were originally published around a year apart.
Continue readingPart 2 of the GRAPH survey feature about Hokushou Kairi. Part 1 is located here.
Continue readingThe ‘Top Star #1′ series was published in GRAPH in 2016, and surveys all the troupe members about their favorite roles, personality attributes, and mannerisms of the respective Top Stars. Hokushou’s ran in the October issue. It’s being posted in 2 parts due to length—Part 2 can be found here.
Continue readingSparkling TIME is a long-running photo/talk feature from Kageki. An and Shou’s was published in the September 2016 issue. They are classmates from the 92nd class; at the time, Houzuki was in Flower Troupe and Ayanagi in Snow Troupe.
Continue readingTo the Future is a small GRAPH interview of junior actresses. This one was published in the April 2017 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 Star Troupe member Amairo Mineri, and was published in the May 2016 issue.
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 generally gets a new title every year but has been fairly consistent format-wise in recent years. I’m giving him his own tag in the Staff category since he is one of the few interview conductors to be credited by name in the publications.
This interview with Nanami Hiroki was published in the April 2017 issue of GRAPH, but was recorded ahead of the opening of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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