Roundtable Talk – 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille

This rehearsal roundtable talk was recorded for the May 2015 issue of Kageki.

Besides Director Koike Shuuichiro, 15 performers from Senka and Moon Troupe participated.

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Rhythm – Akatsuki Chisei, Moon Troupe

Rhythm was a Q&A feature for young otokoyaku stars published through 2016, with fun questions about the performers’ on and offstage lives as well as some drawings. The specific questions and number of questions vary between features.

Akatsuki’s was published in the November issue.

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Blossoming Takarazuka: Full speed ahead to being ‘An intense otokoyaku’ – Akatsuki Chisei (Moon Troupe)

This edition of Tokyo Shinbun’s column on Takarazuka features Akatsuki Chisei, talking about her current performance in Frenesie a Pigalle and WELCOME TO TAKARAZUKA. The original column was written by Yamagishi Toshiyuki (estimated name reading) and was published here on November 26, 2020. (Archive link here.)

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Sparkling TIME: Akatsuki Chisei, Amahana Ema, Rukaze Hikaru

Sparkling TIME is a long-running Kageki talk feature which includes a photoshoot (designed by the participants) and talk between performers, usually classmates. Akatsuki, Amahana, and Rukaze’s was published in the October 2017 issue.

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Akatsuki Chisei, second daughter of former Minami baseball player Yamauchi, has first Takarazuka lead role

This article about the opening of Akatsuki’s Bow Hall show A-EN was published by Daily Sports Online on September 9, 2015.

Akatsuki Chisei, second daughter of former Minami baseball player Yamauchi, has first Takarazuka lead role

Akatsuki Chisei, Takarazuka Revue Moon Troupe member and second daughter of former pro baseball player Yamauchi Kazuhiro (age 58), the pitcher who gained the Most Wins title for the Minami Hawks, had the opening night for her first leading-role show, “A-EN” on the 14th, at the Takarazuka Bow Hall in Hyogo.

Akatsuki has received prominent roles in Grand Theatre shows, as well as junior performance leads, and is a rising star in the Revue with a lot of expectations. Now she has passed through one of the gateways to success with a Bow Hall lead. Act I is a comedy musical set in an American high school, where Akatsuki plays a quirky nerdy boy. Her performance as a timid boy was excellent.

“If I’m satisfied with what I’ve already accomplished, I won’t grow any further,” Akatsuki said about why she continues to rehearse her specialty of dance. Just as she said, she displayed her charm as a star in the second-act revue. The fans were delighted with her otokoyaku-style suits and uniforms, as well as the rarely seen high-cut leotard costume she performed in.