This offstage fashion overview published in the July 2016 issue of Kageki features Kurenai Yuzuru, Miya Rurika, Nozomi Fuuto, Shimon Yuriya, Ayakaze Sakina, Yuzuka Rei, Seo Yuria, and Urara Reimi.
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 readingThis feature was published in Kageki for the 99th year of the company’s existence in 2013. Kurenai’s was published in the December issue; however, this translation used the reprinting in her memorial book (though it seems to be complete).
Continue readingThis classmates feature between Star Troupe members Kurenai Yuzuru and Mahiro Shun was published in March, 2009, a few months before Mahiro’s retirement.
The translation is sourced from Kurenai’s memorial book, so while the talk appears complete, some of Mahiro’s extra content was omitted.
Continue readingThis round-robin style talk with all the 88th class members was published in the May 2017 issue of GRAPH, as part of a series on the more senior classes (those who have been in the company 10 years of more).
The participants are: Kouzuki Ruu, Asaka Manato, Kagetsu Miyako, Sahana Mako, Kurenai Yuzuru, Hoshou Dai, Yugiri Rai
Continue readingTOP MANIA! was a 2017 Kageki feature where Top Stars and Top Musumeyaku talked about their work routine during performances. Kurenai’s was published in the April issue.
Continue readingMonthly Question!! was the new Kageki Top Star feature for 2018, taking over from That’s RanKING! It’s somewhat similar to That’s RanKING! in that it asks the Top Stars what they think the others would do in a particular situation, but without the points competition element.
An outtake from the back of the magazine is included.
This month’s question: If you were 10cm tall for a day, what would you do?
Continue readingThis article about Star Troupe Top Star Kurenai Yuzuru’s retirement press conference was published by Nikkan Sports on February 6, 2019. The original article with photos can be found here. (Archive link here.)
Continue readingEvery year, the Top Star of the show in which the new class of Takarasiennes debuts will hold a roundtable talk with the 5 students who graduated with the highest grades. In 2018, the 104th class debuted during the Star Troupe production Another World/KILLER ROUGE, and Kurenai Yuzuru hosted the talk which was published in the June 2018 issue of Kageki.
(Please note that 2 of the students in the talk have very similar last names, Mashiro/Mahiro, so keep that in mind while reading)
Some outtakes from the back of the magazine are also included.
Continue readingTroupe Report is a Kageki feature where an appointed reporter will write about current events in the troupe or ask troupe members for questions to answers sent in by readers. Reporters are generally only replaced on retirement, unlike other backstage features that rotate monthly or quarterly.
Star Troupe’s Troupe Report has been written by Kisaragi Ren since 2015. The June 2017 edition features questions for the leading members of the troupe and backstage anecdotes.
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