#But yeah. People need to accept that Hiroki Suzuki was otherwise perfectly cast as Mikazuki in the stage play while Kuroba Mario was

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This is an old ass post from a probably dead blog, but I wanted to share my thoughts after stumbling across this just in case someone from the future stumbles across it, too. In the first place, Mikazuki Munechika is never the same character across the spin-offs. Sometimes he’s more mysterious, sometimes he’s more silly and playful, sometimes he doesn’t act like how you’d expect Mikazuki to act at all. What is true Mikazuki is that, no matter how much better you think one portrayal is, neither the stage or musical portrayals are completely accurate representations of how Mikazuki Munechika actually is since both lean too far into portraying him a certain way and are ultimately how the writer envisions Mikazuki would/should act.

Browser game Mikazuki Munechika, which is the only completely true and accurate characterization of the character due to being the original one and the basis for all current and future versions of Mikazuki, is not the extremely mysterious and goofy yet tragic guy that Hiroki Suzuki portrays him as, nor is he the somewhat less mysterious, sometimes silly, and youthful guy Kuroba Mario portrays him as. Both portrayals are just the writer and directors’ interpretation of browser game Mikazuki, which is then expanded upon and molded to suit the medium Mikazuki appears in. It is, once again, not how or who Mikazuki Munechika actually is, and no one has officially gone on the record to make such a claim. In fact, official media accepts both portrayals of the character because.. well, they’re both official portrayals of the character. No one is superior to the other in that regard. They both just exist as the character and are recognized as different yet equal portrayals in alternate citadels.

I also think Both actors are perfectly cast for the medium they appear in as Mikazuki. Kuroba Mario suits the musical and that writers vision of Mikazuki, and Hiroki Suzuki suits the stage play and that writers vision of Mikazuki. I don’t doubt either of their acting ability, but I don’t think Kuroba Mario would be suited to portray a darker Mikazuki, and Hiroki Suzuki would definitely not suit the tone of the musicals, no matter how well anyone think he suits Mikazuki in the stage plays or how much more accurate anyone thinks his portrayal is. He would just not fit visually or acting wise. They’re just too different, as are the tones of the plays, and wouldn’t fit at all if they switched.

Anyway I think that’s all I have to. I’m tired of this Marichika vs Hirochika debate as if the obvious answer isn’t that they fit perfectly for the medium they’re cast in. Neither one is better or “more like Mikazuki” because neither are actually Mikazuki. They’re just a writers somewhat inaccurate and expanded upon version of them.

“Unpopular Opinion: I don’t like Hiroki Suzuki as Jiji, I wanted Mario to be in the stage play too. :(”