Voyage With You was a Kageki photoshoot and interview feature where the Top Combi picked a destination and time period for a photoshoot, as well as having a talk about the location and related Takarazuka shows. Tsukishiro and Umino picked ‘Nostalgic Morocco’ as the setting for their feature, which was published in October of 2022.
Continue readingThis lengthy special feature on Star Feathers and what they mean to the performers was published in the April 2022 issue of Kageki.
Continue readingEvery year in Kageki, each Top Star and Top Musumeyaku publishes a recap of their year in the December issue. While in the actual magazine, the Top Stars and Top Musumeyaku have separate sections, for posting I am combining the two statements for each troupe. (I have also only translated the statements and left off the rather overwrought advertising-style intro blurbs just to save time.)
Note that Moon Troupe’s statement was taken while they were still in rehearsals for the National Tour that played in November.
Continue readingMake a choice! was the 2021 Top Star feature in Kageki, where each Top Star answered a question with two choices, created by one of the other Top Stars. This one was published in November, with Rei Makoto asking ‘You’re lost! What do you do?’
Continue readingESPECIAL TIME was a long-running invitation talk feature in GRAPH, where one sienne is given the opportunity to invite someone else.
Tsukishiro Kanato’s feature, where she invited Yuzuka Rei, was published in the December 2018 issue.
Some of the outtake photos from the back of the magazine are also included.
Continue readingThis photo feature, which ran in GRAPH through 2016, had subjects selecting photos they had taken with other Takarasiennes. This edition features Seto Kazuya, Saotome Wakaba, Mao Yuuki, and Tsukishiro Kanato.
(By this point, the photos had captions naming their subjects, which some previous issues did not.)
Continue readingdays was a photo feature in GRAPH where performers created a journal or blog-style timeline of photos with captions. Tsukishiro’s features New Wave – Snow, rehearsals for Azure Moment, and her vacation to France with Ai Sumire.
Continue readingTHE Otokoyaku was a Kageki feature from 2016 where Top Stars talked in-depth with up-and-coming otokoyaku stars about their acting styles and behind-the-scenes history. The Snow Troupe edition, published in the May 2016 issue, featured Sagiri Seina and Tsukishiro Kanato (prior to her transfer to Moon Troupe).
Continue readingThis is a discussion with the scriptwriter/director of Azure Moment, Harada Ryou, and the three stars of the show: Miya Rurika, Tsukishiro Kanato, and Umino Mitsuki. It took place during rehearsals, shortly before the opening of the production, and was published in the May 2017 Kageki.
Please note: due to the nature of this feature there are some spoilers.
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