Aran Kei – Aran: Message from Ninagawa Yukio

This book is a memoir of Aran Kei’s time as a member of Takarazuka, as well as her post-Takarazuka career and memories of her childhood. It was published in 2010 to commemorate the 20th year of her stage career. It also features messages from Takarazuka classmates and other colleagues and theatre artists she has worked with.

Some paragraph breaks have been added to make it more readable in English. I have also collected archival images from many sources.

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Aran Kei – Aran: Chapter 9 – A happy “normal life”; but in the end still an otokoyaku once in a while?

This book is a memoir of Aran Kei’s time as a member of Takarazuka, as well as her post-Takarazuka career and memories of her childhood. It was published in 2010 to commemorate the 20th year of her stage career. It also features messages from Takarazuka classmates and other colleagues and theatre artists she has worked with.

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Aran Kei – Aran: Chapter 8 – A new start as a “woman”

This book is a memoir of Aran Kei’s time as a member of Takarazuka, as well as her post-Takarazuka career and memories of her childhood. It was published in 2010 to commemorate the 20th year of her stage career. It also features messages from Takarazuka classmates and other colleagues and theatre artists she has worked with.

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Aran Kei – Aran: Message from Takeda Shinji

This book is a memoir of Aran Kei’s time as a member of Takarazuka, as well as her post-Takarazuka career and memories of her childhood. It was published in 2010 to commemorate the 20th year of her stage career. It also features messages from Takarazuka classmates and other colleagues and theatre artists she has worked with.

Some paragraph breaks have been added to make it more readable in English. I have also collected archival images from many sources.

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Takarazuka Revue – Torodoki Yuu’s retirement press conference: as herself to the end

This article covering Todoroki Yuu’s retirement press conference was published by Kobe News Next. The original article was written by Kataoka Tatsumi [estimated reading] and was originally published here on March 18. (Archive link here.)

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99th Class debut talk: Let’s fly! To that sparkling stage of dreams

This talk featuring Sou Kazuho, who was starring in the 99th Class debut performance, The Rose of Versailles: Fersen, and the top members of the new class, was published in the June 2013 issue of Kageki.

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Aran Kei – Aran: Message from Urai Kenji

This book is a memoir of Aran Kei’s time as a member of Takarazuka, as well as her post-Takarazuka career and memories of her childhood. It was published in 2010 to commemorate the 20th year of her stage career. It also features messages from Takarazuka classmates and other colleagues and theatre artists she has worked with.

Some paragraph breaks have been added to make it more readable in English. I have also collected archival images from many sources.

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Let’s Ask 2 Questions! – June 2013

In the 2013 Top Star feature for Kageki, the Tops of each troupe took turns submitting questions that they would all answer, as well as predicting the question writer’s own answers.

The questions from June (submitted by Sou Kazuho):

1) Do you like rainy days?
2) What is your favorite color for umbrellas?

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Aran Kei – Aran: Message from Ohwada Miho

This book is a memoir of Aran Kei’s time as a member of Takarazuka, as well as her post-Takarazuka career and memories of her childhood. It was published in 2010 to commemorate the 20th year of her stage career. It also features messages from Takarazuka classmates and other colleagues and theatre artists she has worked with. 

Some paragraph breaks have been added to make it more readable in English.

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