Part 2 of the GRAPH survey feature about Hokushou Kairi. Part 1 is located here.
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Hokushou Kairi’s #1!! (Part 1)
The ‘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 readingTo the Future: Kazama Yuno, Moon Troupe
To the Future is a small GRAPH interview of junior actresses. This one was published in the April 2017 issue.
Continue readingTime to soar! #3 – Ashizawa Jin interview with Nanami Hiroki
Ashizawa 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.
Continue readingGRAPH Special Investigation: 86th Class Questionnaire
This 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 reading92nd Class – Manaharu Market! #1: Ayanagi Shou, Snow Troupe
Mana Haruto’s GRAPH column on the 92nd class members ran through 2013. The first installment, featuring Ayanagi Shou, was published in the February issue.
(Mana’s writing style is a little quirky, but I reproduced it the best I could)
Continue readingSEWATCH!! #10 – Asami Jun
Seo Yuria’s 95th classmate interview series was published in GRAPH through 2016. Her talk with Asami Jun was published in the October issue.
(Yes, she does use that many exclamation points in the original)
Continue readingRelaxing Breeze – Misaki Rion
Relaxing 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.
This interview with Misaki Rion was published in the December 2016 issue, a few months before her retirement.
Continue readingTalk DX – Elisabeth (Asaka Manato and Makaze Suzuho)
Talk DX is a GRAPH talk feature with the otokoyaku leads of a recent Grand Theatre show. This one, which was recorded towards the end of the Takarazuka run of Elisabeth, was published in the October 2016 issue, when the show was being performed in Tokyo.
Continue readingShizuki Asato Public Questionnaire
This reader survey was published in GRAPH in April 1999, midway through Zunko’s run as Top Star of Cosmos Troupe.
The questions included which of her roles was the favorite, which of her characters people would want to be in a romantic or friendly relationship with, and others.
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