Make a choice! was the 2021 Top Star feature in Kageki, where each Top Star answered a question with two choices, created by one of the other Top Stars. This one was published in November, with Rei Makoto asking ‘You’re lost! What do you do?’
Continue readingTo the Future is a small GRAPH interview of junior actresses. This one was published in the December 2012 issue.
Continue readingSPOTLIGHT was a 2018 feature where Top Stars talked about roles that were major turning points for them, as well as their routines behind the scenes. Kurenai’s was published in the December issue.
Some outtake shots from the back of the magazine are included.
Continue readingRANDOM was a Q&A/variety feature for young otokoyaku that ran in GRAPH in 2021. Amahana’s was published in the August issue.
Continue readingTalk DX is a long-running GRAPH talk feature where Top Stars and their main otokoyaku co-stars discuss their current Grand Theatre performance before the shift to Tokyo. The El Halcon/Revue Orchis talk was published in the February 2008 issue.
Some outtake photos from the back of the magazine are included.
(Please note the translator has not seen Revue Orchis.)
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 readingThis edition of Tokyo Shinbun’s column on Takarazuka features Shidou Ryuu, talking about her current performance in Sherlock Holmes/Delicieux!. The original column was written by Yamagishi Toshiyuki (estimated name reading) and was published here on August 26, 2021. (Archive link here.)
Continue readingThis GRAPH feature gave stars a chance to talk about their current activities and interests, as well as share personal photos. The December issue included Serika Toa, Seino Asuka, Agata Sen, and Kiyora Haryuu.
Continue readingTo the Future is a small GRAPH interview of junior actresses. This one was published in the October 2018 issue.
Continue readingIn this Kageki feature, the follow-up to a feature published in 2002, a group of younger otokoyaku pick topics from a list and write a short reflection or anecdote.
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