Brain Breakage

[masahi]

Hoshigumi's 2001 Rose of Versailles shinko. Yuu as Oscar. 2-ken Baby!Chie as Andre. Baby!Chie when she still occasionally lapsed into girl voice. Yuu as the girliest Oscar I've ever seen. My brain! It is broken!

(Incidentally, the people who were surprised when Chie was officially nibanted to Touko - WHY were they surprised? Nibante role in her second year shinko and 5 shinko leads in total + 5 main show leads as well? And her doing all Touko's dancing for her? How could they not see it coming?)

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[everchangingmuse]

Yuu as the girliest Oscar I've ever seen.

Girlier than Saeko in '01s Fersen and Marie Antoinette? Because Saeko!Oscar is pretty feminine. And, Chie has a girl voice?!

This shinko sounds fun. I want both it and the regular production. I've seen a few clips of Noru as Oscar, and it looks amazing.

[masahi]

Yuu is girlier than Saeko. Seriously. It's rather scary.

And yes! This is before Chie fully cultivated her deep, booming voice. It's there, but there are lapses when she squeaks like a girl ;)

[charis]

And her doing all Touko's dancing for her?

Best rationale ever. (And so true!)

The honkouen for this production is what broke me of my "OH GOD BERUBARA MAKE IT GO AWAY" reaction. I ... really like it. <_<;;; Only seen a few uploaded clips of the shinko, but now I await the arrival of my digest VHS even more eagerly. (Cannot believe girlvoice!Chie exists. This mandates watching, stat. *eyes postal service balefully*)

[masahi]

After watching the anime from start to finish, the show makes me want to hit things for one. specific. scene: Andre planning to poison Oscar. So out of character. So wrong. And then having her on her knees and girly in front of him. SO. WRONG. They could let Shuuichiro get his hands on this one and make it more anime-accurate instead of sticking with the same choreography over and over.

The only Oscar I remotely accepted in Takarazuka was Komu, because there was such fire and RAR!!! there.

[charis]

See, I have no experience with the anime or manga beyond being able to recognise the art, so while I intellectually know that's wrong (from what I've heard of it), there probably isn't that same visceral "NO NO NO" that fans (or even those just more familiar with it) have -- but I can completely understand that reaction. (I threw things at my computer screen over one particularly bad adaptation. I better understand? XD )

... do wish they'd mix things up sometimes and change choreography, because the differences in acting styles only do so much to make something new and interesting -- and because I love comparatives. But sigh, that seems to be Simply Not Done.

[masahi]

I'd definitely recommend watching the anime. It's so bitter and dark and delightful in some parts. Plus, much to my surprise, I ended up with a great big squee crush on Alain, who is simply wonderful. Plus, Oscar is hardcore ;) And it's actually surprisingly historically accurate.

[charis]

Oh really? I'll have to put it on my list -- I know I D/Led it at one point but have no idea where it wound up. Gonna need more things to watch when I actually get back to sewing again ... *fail*