Talk 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 readingThis article about the opening of Rei Makoto’s El Halcon revival was published by Sankei News West on November 11. The original article can be found here (click through for photos). (Archive link here.)
Continue readingEnglish translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka production based on the comics.
Gilda:
“I am a sailor. To a sailor, the sea is everything.”
Grand mer: deep, deep blue, spreading on and on
I will sleep in your limitless embrace
Grand mer: I kept swimming without looking back
I am a sorrowful fallen angel who fell to you after losing my wings to fly
Red:
“I won’t give up as long as the sea and sky exist!”
Gilda and Red:
We put the setting sun behind us
This is a song for travellers with no place to return
The seven seas wait to tell their tale
The seven skies invite you to see their miracles
Deep, deep blue, like the kingfisher
Grand blue, Grand sea, Grand sky
Tyrian:
“I will keep going! I don’t need a reason for my ambition!”
Towards the empire of the never-setting sun
Grand blue, Grand sea, Grand sky
Gilda and Red:
The seven seas wait to tell their tale
The seven skies invite you to see their miracles
Tyrian:
Until I take hold of the blindingly bright sun shining in my eyes
Until my winds are torn off I will keep flying
Tyrian, Gilda, Red:
The seven seas wait to tell their tale
The seven skies invite you to see their miracles
The seven seas wait to tell their tale
The seven skies invite you to see their miracles
Grand blue, Grand sea, Grand sky
English translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka production based on the comics.
Tyrian (chorus):
(El Halcon, El Halcon)
Beating jet-black wings
The falcon sets his eyes on the sea
His goal is the sea: to the sea he must return
(El Halcon, El Halcon)
I don’t want peace or warmth
The faint scent from that day remains–the scent of oranges on my mother’s hands
I don’t care–I don’t care! I left everything far behind
I will never return: I said farewell to those days
And soared into skies I’d never seen (El Halcon)
The color of the sun shining down (El Halcon)
Staining the surface of the ocean (El Halcon)
Is the same color of the sins staining my hands that day
The deep crimson coloring my dreams is called ambition
(El Halcon, El Halcon)
“My wings will take me over the seven seas and through the seven skies!”
(El Halcon)
El Halcon, El Halcon
I will cross that blindingly bright golden sea
El Halcon, El Halcon
I will keep going until I achieve my sin-colored ambitions
Spreading jet-black wings I will fly over the sea wherever the wind takes me
Soaring over the high clouds, tearing through the darkness and bathing in the light
I will travel the seven seas and seven skies
(El Halcon, El Halcon)
My goal is the sea: to the sea I must return
(El Halcon, El Halcon)
My goal is the sea: to the sea I must return
(El Halcon, El Halcon)