This Kageki feature from 2011 has the results of a survey of all the troupe members of the time, asking their impression of their Top Star through various questionnaires.
Otozuki’s was published in the November issue, and the survey seems to have been done during the performance or rehearsals for The Man in the Iron Mask/Royal Straight Flush!.
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.
This edition was written by Sahana Mako, and talks about events backstage of The Rose of Versailles: Fersen.
(Sahana consistently refers to otokoyaku with male pronouns and honorifics; this is not a translation error but her personal writing style, as is the various bold text, strikethroughs, etc.)
Continue readingBackstage Journal is a short Kageki feature where very young cast members write anecdotes about what’s going on behind the scenes of the productions. They’re not very deep, being full of emojis and more like blog entries than articles, but they are a cute and fun way to get to know actresses and hear more about behind-the-scenes goings-on from a different point of view than the main stars.
This one is by then-Snow Troupe member Arisa Hitomi (of the 98th Class) and was published in the April 2015 issue.
Continue readingIn That’s RanKING!, the Kageki Top Star Q&A feature that ran from 2015-2017 with some variation, the Top Stars rank each other based on various questions. This month’s question: Who is the most outdoorsy?
I’ve also included an outtake that were printed in the back of the magazine.
Continue readingON THE RISE was a 2008 Kageki feature for up-and-coming young stars, asking them various questions about their on- and off-stage life. Sagiri’s was published in the September issue.
(As this was sourced from her memorial book it is missing the ‘profile’ section from other translations of this feature.)
Continue readingThis talk, recorded towards the end of the Takarazuka run of Snow Troupe’s 2011 Romeo et Juliette production, features Otozuki Kei, Sagiri Seina, and Misuzu Aki. It was published in the March 2011 issue of GRAPH.
(Note that while this production is known for the March 11 earthquake occurring in the middle of it, it is not referenced in this talk as it was recorded around a month before and published likely a few days before or after.)
Continue readingThe Costume is a GRAPH feature where Top Stars give a detailed photoshoot of certain costumes and explain their key details. These two feature Snow Troupe Top Stars of the time Sagiri Seina and Sakihi Miyu introducing costumes from their holiday revue Greatest HITS! and were originally published in the January 2017 issue.
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.
Snow Troupe’s Troupe Report has been written by Sahana Mako since 2012. The April 2017 edition focuses on Snow Troupe’s performance of One Night of Stars/Greatest Hits! in Nagoya’s now-closed Chunichi Theatre.
Continue readingThis interview with Sagiri Seina, former Top Star of Snow Troupe, was published by Oricon on October 5th. (Archive link here.) The original article was written by Uehara Kahori, and there are many pictures on the original website, so please click through!
Continue readingMonkey Punch, the manga artist who originally created the Lupin III franchise, passed away on April 11, 2019, at the age of 81. Sagiri Seina was asked to make a statement. The original article was posted by Daily Sports Online on the 17th. (Archive link here.)
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