This article about Yuzuki’s first REON JACK press conference was published by Sanspo.com on December 11, 2015.

Yuzuki Reon working towards first solo concert since Takarazuka retirement – “What is a non-otokoyaku concert like?”

Yuzuki Reon (36), ex-Star Troupe Top Star who retired from the Takarazuka Revue in May, held a press conference about REON JACK, her first solo concert since her retirement, on the 11th.

For Yuzuki, who held her position as Top Star for 6 years–an exceptionally long time by recent standards–a solo concert not as an otokoyaku, but as ‘Yuzuki Reon’ is a challenge. “I asked everyone ‘what is a non-otokoyaku concert like?’” While the concert is still in the planning stages, she said that she plans to perform a new song: “I wrote it about my mental state after retirement, like my worries and how I hit a plateau.”

She began performances for her first post-retirement musical, Prince of Broadway in October. In order to rehearse, she stayed in New York for three months starting in July.

“While I was in New York, everything around me was advancing so fast that I didn’t realize that I myself had stopped.

She wrote her internal conflict of that time into song lyrics. After retirement, she was constantly asked things like “are you going to wear skirts? Are you going to wear your hair long?”

“But while I was in New York, I thought there wasn’t anything where ‘I have to do things this way’. If I want to grow my hair out, I’ll grow it out then. I’m glad I can become more feminine in my own timing. I want to show everyone how I am in real life,” she declared about the change in her way of thinking.

The concert will have singing, talk sessions and acting. “On Broadway, I wanted to convey the fun I was having onstage. For this performance too, I want to enjoy myself together with the audience,” she said for PR. Yuzuki is taking her first steps down a new path.