Takarazuka Music School<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cleaning location: A class you liked: Mistakes you made: Dorm student? Commuting student? Field trips: When did you decide to be otokoyaku or musumeyaku? Something that surprised you: When did you decide to try taking the entrance exam? The role you played in the Culture Festival: A memory that has stayed with you: Ideal…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Face: Sleep time: Husband: Pet: Breakfast: Bedroom: Alarm clock: Hair type: City (ideal city to live in): Old age: Image association<\/p>\n\n\n\n Otokoyaku: Big: Red: Sound: Theatre: Something expensive: Party performance: Japanese-style productions: Opening day: Day off performing: Vehicles<\/p>\n\n\n\n On your way to Tokyo, do you take an airplane? Or Shinkansen? Do you have a driver’s license? Do you get carsick? Is there anything you would like to ride? Can you ride a bicycle? A unicycle? What’s your favorite amusement park ride? When you’re on an airplane, what do you chose to drink from the inflight meal service? If you were on a round-the-world trip, what would you want to go by? Have you ridden an animal? What licenses would you like to have? Hands<\/p>\n\n\n\n Size of your palm: Dominant hand: Have you ever had your palms read? Do you wear rings? Are you good at rock-paper-scissors? Deftness with your hands Can you do sleight-of-hand? Shape you make rice balls in: Hand temperature: What do you refuse to let go of? Nature<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scenery that has stayed with you: Mountains? Ocean? What starry sky would you like to see? What natural scenery do you want to see? Cherry blossoms or autumn leaves: Your favorite season: Have you ever watched the first sunrise of the year? Something from nature you want to eat: Are you the type to pay attention to the weather forecast? Are you growing any plants in your home? What would you do if\/when\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026You can’t sleep: \u2026You feel like you’re about to laugh in a scene onstage where you absolutely shouldn’t laugh: \u2026You fell over in front of people: If you were going to be a teacher for the day, what would you teach? \u2026You had to use up 1 million yen in one day: If you had to sing at a party, what would you sing? If you were going to play a female role? If you were an invisible person for a day? If you had a Copy Robot?3<\/sup> If you suddenly time-slipped into the Edo period? Right now<\/p>\n\n\n\n A person or thing that you’re paying attention to: Something you want to eat: The shampoo you use: Somewhere you want to go: Something you’re into: Something you have to do: (Right now) what question are we on? Something that’s bothering you: Something that’s important to you: Are your shoulders stiff? Takarazuka 90th<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you think when you compare yourself with you 10 years ago? Past Takarazuka shows you would like to see live: Where (\/when) have you felt the 90 year history [of Takarazuka]? What is your average time putting on stage makeup? When do you feel happy that you entered Takarazuka? Takarazuka songs you like: [How did you feel] when you first saw yourself in Takarazuka stage makeup? If you were going to perform one of your past roles again, which would you want to do? Something you value as a member of Takarazuka: Your thoughts on the 90th anniversary of Takarazuka: 1 – Details about old Culture Festivals are hard to find, but from the details Mizu gives this play might have been based on Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Wild Swans’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 – Takarazuka members are not allowed to walk on the Road of Flowers under normal circumstances. (There are exceptions such as Sky Stage filming and photoshoots.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 – A robot clone device from Doraemon<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 – Sugatani<\/em> is a method of preparing food, especially seafood, while keeping its original shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5 – Dramas that aired in Japan in 2003. The Great White Tower<\/a> is a medical drama based on a novel that has been adapted multiple times, and Partners in Crime<\/a> is a thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2004, Graph published a series of Q&A features for the 90th anniversary of Takarazuka. 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<\/em>The Japanese dance classroom. I was in charge of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mizu-90-questions-1.png\")
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<\/em>Modern dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I was found by an Upper Student eating in someone else’s cleaning location and got yelled at (laughs). It was a day I thought probably no Upper Students would come by (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Dorm student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’ll never forget the time in Hokkaido when, just as I was about to start eating some unique green ice cream it all fell to the ground (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I had decided on being an otokoyaku before I entered the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>When cleaning the window frames, I thought “We’re doing it with paint brushes!?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Winter of my second year of high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I payed the oldest brother of eleven princes in “The Swan Prince”1<\/sup><\/sub>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>In night, I would slip out of the dorm wearing a skirt and walk down the Road of Flowers. The statute of limitations has run out (laughs)2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Beauty like a sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>My ideal is being able to sleep without any limitations. It’s hard to answer as ‘X hours’. If I sleep over 8 hours my face gets swollen, so around 6 hours is best for my face according to my body, but to me sleeping for 6 hours is a bit draining to do for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>“A considerate person”, maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’m not really interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Getting up whenever I wanted to a comfortable morning that wasn’t too hot or cold, and eating breakfast on a terrace (laughs). The best menu would be bread and salad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>A bedroom tied together with beige and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>3 is the [ideal] number. I’d like something that would wake me up with a beautiful sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>A city where I could see the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Living in a southern country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Black tuxedo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>E\u2026elephant?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>James Dean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Rippling brook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Audience seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Diamond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Something to watch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>White makeup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Nervous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Allllllllllllllllways airplanes!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I have a standard driver’s license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I don’t remember getting carsick recently but if I had to say, I’m more on that end of the range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Jet ski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I can ride a bicycle. I tried learning to ride a unicycle when I was little but I wasn’t able to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I guess it’s got to be roller coasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Coffee or soup. Soup when my stomach’s empty, of course (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I think a ship would be good if I didn’t get seasick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’ve ridden a horse and a camel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Just a car license is plenty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’m interested in it, but never had it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I don’t normally, but during revues I can’t calm down without them so I always wear them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’m bad at it (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I think I’m fairly capable (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I can’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Triangular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Normal, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>There’s a lot, but one thing that really left an impression with me was watching the Chao Phraya River flow by from the cafe of a hotel in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Ocean!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>The Southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>The clear ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Cherry blossoms! Every year I go all by myself to a specific spot to do flower viewing (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I watched it at Kujuukuri Beach once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I suppose I am, comparatively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’m caring for some potted plants in my room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’d just lay around in bed until I could sleep, or read a book, one of those things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mizu-90-questions13-460x1024.png\")
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<\/em>I’d fight to withstand it while my shoulders were shaking. Steadfastly trying to bear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I wouldn’t pay attention to the people around me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>PE! I’d make them run (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’d go shopping and eat out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>When The Violet Flowers Bloom (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>A strong woman like Scarlett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’d spy on the lifestyle of some incredible person (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’d have it organize my photos (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’d explore the interior of Edo Castle and film it with my video camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Hatsune Mayo-san (laughs). Since what she says and does is so funny (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Shark fin sugatani<\/em>.4<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>One with jojoba oil mixed into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Not really ‘right now’ but ‘all the time’, but a southern island (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Serialized TV dramas. “The Great White Tower” and “Partners in Crime”5<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Gosh, there’s so much~! (laughs) I guess tidying up my house (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I don’t know~! (laughs) Maybe number 47? (The correct answer is 77.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>There’s never enough time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>The theatre space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>They are. They’re extremely stiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I think that my consciousness onstage of always showing my best effort every day hasn’t changed at all. No matter who happens to come when, I never want to think after a show “I wish they’d let me know (before it started)”\u2026I’m always thinking about that. As for what’s changed, maybe that I cry so easily now. Recently, when my classmates have retired I’ve been streaming with tears (laughs). But even so, I think when I’m faced with difficulties, my ability to confront things and overcome them has become stronger than it was 10 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le Poison – Love Potion<\/em>. I’d also like to see Migiwa Natsuko-san’s shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>When I heard about the 90-person line dance (in Takarazuka Glory!<\/em>) (laughs), and when I heard about all the events that would be taking place like the Sports Festival. I was also able to take part in the events 10 years ago, so I would think “Ah~, so 10 years have passed (since the 80th anniversary)” (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>About an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>When I’m taking all kinds of dance lessons, or when I get direction and choreography from distinguished people I’d hardly hope to meet otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>“El Amor” from Sorrowful Cordoba<\/em>, and speaking in terms of the atmosphere I like the songs from Silver Wolf<\/em>, or the whole score of Elisabeth<\/em>\u2026Wow, there are so many\u2026I’m just a Takarazuka fan! (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>I’d done stage makeup in highschool when I was in the musical theatre club, so I wasn’t that shocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Julio, who I was able to play in the junior performance of Tango Argentino<\/em>. It was a really hard role for me at the time since he was so different from myself, but I feel like now that so many years have passed I’ve figured out how to play roles like that properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Though I’m the type to think about nothing but what’s in front of me, I feel like I have to thoroughly feel the weight of 90 years of history and accept that inheritance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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