Written by Seo Yuria<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHow are you, everyone? \u2728 Sewatch is half over so quickly \ud83c\udf1e This month we\u2019re turning the Sewatch on Moon Troupe\u2019s personification of magnanimity, Kizuki Yuuma aka Mayupon! \u2728<\/p>\n\n\n\n
~About their dress-up theme~<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> This time, since I\u2019m with Mayupon, I was thinking it would be good to do something that expressed \u2018manly friendship\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Yeah! We decided since we had the opportunity we should do something su~per manly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em>\u00a0So we wanted to do something like\u00a0Umizaru<\/em>1<\/sup>, and when we told the nice editor lady, amazingly! they had these costumes hand-made for us!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both:<\/em> Thank you so much!!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> How was it to wear the outfit for real?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Yeah, it was super fun \ud83c\udfb5 Even though we get to wear costumes on stage all the time onstage, this felt totally different!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo: <\/em>That\u2019s right, these outfits had way more of a ‘real man\u2019 feeling! (laughs) It\u2019d be great if everyone saw new appeal from Mayupon after this!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n ~Takarazuka Music School~<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Our seating numbers were far apart, so at the beginning of our yokasei year we didn\u2019t interact that much, did we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> That\u2019s right! It must have started when we were in Popular Music together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Yeah! That\u2019s it!!!! In the Popular Music class, Kocchan (Rei Makoto), Seocchi (Seo), me, and Usshii (Tsukishiro Kanato) were all in a row together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> Oh~!! (laughs) I couldn\u2019t read sheet music at all, so I didn\u2019t know where I was supposed to start singing (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Even though on both sides all three of us would be like ‘Ready – now!\u2019 trying to show you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> I\u2019d just be like \u2019??????\u2019 and not even come in at all (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both:<\/em> (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> To be honest, I looked forward to that every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> I\u2019m glad you got some fun out of it (laughs). When it comes to Mayupon\u2026I was totally shocked in the yokasei loungeroom to see you stick a straw into a bottle of maple syrup and drink it!! (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> I di~d! (laughs) Important to note it wasn\u2019t honey but maple syrup!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> Do you not do that any more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Nope! Ah, I kept it up until I was about ken-2. I\u2019d stockpile it in the dressing room fridge!!! (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> And then there was that ‘Maple Sea\u2019 bread that was filled with an ocean of maple syrup\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> I used to love that!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> Even though it was dripping with maple syrup already you would always order special and say ‘lots of maple syrup!!\u2019\u2026 Sorry to say, I don\u2019t really get the maple syrup love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both:<\/em> (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo: <\/em>It\u2019s like your blood\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> It was all maple syrup! (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n ~After entering the company~<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> We were together the most around the time of our debut!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Right!! Our houses were close together, so we went to rehearsal together every morning \u2728<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> I\u2019d go and right the bell at your place\u2026 Even though you\u2019d still be sleeping (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Yeah, I would always oversleep \ud83d\ude13 That\u2019s why I\u2019d have you check I was still with the living (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> \u201cDing-dong \ud83c\udfb5 Mayupon, time to go!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> \u201cSorry \ud83d\ude13 I just got up, you go on ahead~ (laughs)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> That\u2019s how it went every day, but then one day I overslept (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Yeah! That one day, you didn\u2019t come and ring my doorbell and I was like \u201cShe just left me~ \ud83d\ude2d\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> I was asleep, I swear!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> I realized that when I got to the theatre \ud83d\ude13 But you somehow made it to the rehearsal just in time!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo: <\/em>It was an amazing assist play from the rest of the class!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Oh! Also, I used to go hang out at your place a lot, right? One day we decided to have a takoyaki party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> I made them!! (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> But then, that takoyaki turned into the fuel for a ton of banter! (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo: <\/em>When I was putting the flour into the bowl\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> \u201cWhat!? Hold up\u2026isn\u2019t that okonomiyaki flour!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> \u201cYup! You got it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> \u201cDon\u2019t give me that, you\u2019ve got takoyaki flour!!!! (laughs)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> As I withstood this barrage of Kansai snark and put the takoyaki – which were now under a lot of expectations – into the pan\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> \u201cWait wait wait!! Huh?! Seocchi, what are you trying to make right now?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> \u201cHm? Takoyaki!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> \u201cCabbage doesn\u2019t belong in takoyaki!!!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> \u201cNo way~ I always add it!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> \u201cThat\u2019s not takoyaki!! That\u2019s just\u2026round okonomiyaki with octopus bits!!\u201d was how it went (laughs) But that was a big culture shock for me!! (laughs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> For me too, having my usual takoyaki contradicted at every turn like that\u2026 (laughs) Well, even after entering the company we\u2019d hang out that way a lot~<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Both of us adored Tomomi-san (Yumeno Seika) \ud83d\udc95<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> That\u2019s right – After I was placed in Star Troupe, I ended up assigned to assist Tomomi-san.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Tomomi-san and Ririko (Nanase Ririko) would go out to eat with us!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> Whenever the two of us got together, we\u2019d end up talking about Tomomi-san really enthusiastically \u2728<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> That was so fun~ \ud83d\udc95<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> Come to think, we\u2019ve hung out more since joining the company than in TMS!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Though with this and that happening, we graduated from shinjin kouens before we even noticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo: <\/em>It\u2019s really moving to think about that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Ah~ I was so moved to see that Seocchi, who used to be totally unable to read music and didn\u2019t even know when to start singing, performing so many songs in shinjin kouens. Of course I\u2019d be emotional\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> You came to see me in the dress rehearsal for the shinjin kouen of Napoleon: The Man Who Does Not Sleep!<\/em> \ud83d\ude2d And then, when you got the role of the Prince of Verona in Romeo et Juliette<\/em> I was like, what!? At first I was sure it was your shinjin kouen role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> Actually, I thought it was my shinjin kouen role too! \ud83d\ude13<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em> Re~ally! (laughs) I was so happy for you though!!! I was able to go see you in a real show and watch you performing so skillfully – it had a big impression on me and made me think I should work harder too!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kizuki:<\/em> It\u2019s really wonderful to see your classmates working hard, right~<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo:<\/em>\u00a0Yeah \u2728 Let\u2019s all do our best from no on while polishing our skills~ \u2728 Mayupon, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me today~ \ud83c\udf1e<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 – Umizaru<\/em>\u00a0is a popular Japanese action franchise of the mid-00s about Japanese Coast Guard rescue divers, featuring a manga series as well as a television drama and multiple films. An American remake of the first film, called\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>, was released in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seo Yuria\u2019s 95th classmate interview series was published in GRAPH through 2016. Her talk with Kizuuki Yuuma was published in the July issue. 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