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japan week three ➜ FATE/grand order & jinro game

kicking off the week with double sana content!! as well as reo & shuuti ❤ this post contains spoilers for both FGO and jinro game.

FGO was quite a strange experience compared to the other shows and events i’ve been to, as the theater was filled with fans of the gaming/anime franchise, and not of actors or theater. i had a pleasant meeting with a girl who was also looking for the way to access the theater tho! i did enjoy the fate/zero anime from a few years ago so i kinda have enough knowledge of the franchise to discuss it www

however i got really unlucky with my seat, as i was in the second to last row ((i feel like i can’t complain when i have amazing seats for everything else but...)) and was surrounded by smelly guys who hid part of my view despite my own height... help i just want to see my boys and my girls i didn’t ask for this otaku immersion... on top of that i feel like people weren’t as familiar with theater etiquette and kept getting up to go to the washroom in the middle of the show and the like...

so, yeah, that made the experience SUPER weird, but!! it also made me even more proud to overhear & see these people who know nothing about actors complimenting the guys hehehe...

okay, on to the production itself!! i was obviously interested in seeing it thanks to the great cast of actors. sana and reo aside, takahashi yu, who plays saber, has been one of my favorite lady actresses since the olden days of kamen rider kiva, so it was such an honor to see her perform. she was so gorgeous and cool and regal and powerful... kento (A yanagi) was also super handsome, hearing his extreme lisp/potato in mouth voice in person made me very emotional okay. and talking about lisp, shunsuke who played aka ninger!! his costume was terrible but he was cute. i’m that one fan of ninninger so i was really happy to see him. and finally, ririka, a takarazuka graduate from the flower troupe!! she was so gorgeous and her singing... chilling. it’s always such an incredible honor for me whenever seigaku kids get to perform, and especially sing, with takarazuka actresses. my favorite boys & favorite girls. XD

oh, and this production had a double cast for the protagonist/player character? like the persona 3 stage from a few years ago, some shows featured the female protagonist and others, the male one. i hit a ticket for the show with the girl protagonist, which i ended up being happy about since her two main servants were also girls, so it was really cute to see them together. (and there was absolutely no heterosexual content at all, something that worried me and would worry anyone who has witnessed the mess that can be the fate franchise)

as for the negatives... well, i’ve never been much of a fan of projection mapping. i think the naruto stage handled it masterfully and tenimyu knows how to use it effectively and reasonably, but otherwise... yeah. and FGO went. way too far lmao. it was overwhelming, distracting, and, frankly, ugly. it just felt like they were covering up their own inability to come up with professional staging and lighting.

but when it came down to it, the actors’ performance was enough to make up for everything. i want to talk about reo first, because, quite frankly, he totally stole the show. aside from the opening & intermission numbers, his solo performance was the ONLY moment where the crowd applauded. people went wild, it was adorable. and... when i went to buy his bromide set after the show... it was... sold out... how does that even happen how did i buy kuroba mario bromides last week but now i can’t even get his less infamous son

reo sang with a voice much deeper than his usual, obviously way deeper than in tenimyu (LOL) but even deeper than in cheer danshi, too. honestly, if i didn’t have my binoculars to watch him sing, i wouldn’t have believed it was him LOL. i can’t wait for the DVD so everyone can hear this. and needless to say, his dancing was amazing. i think his number was approximately 3 minutes, but i didn’t want it to stop. i was on the edge of my seat expecting his acrobatics to kick in, and they did!! i think that was what probably impressed the crowd the most, since as i mentioned, most weren’t familiar with actors. oh and he looked sooo pretty... i really wished i had a better seat aaah.

and of course, sana in the leading role. he had three solo numbers on top of participating in group performances. if you’ve seen patalliro, then you know that sana is a wonderful singer, with that incredible low and raspy and s*xy voice... i was so happy to hear him singing more. ((i still loop his solo & duet from patalliro approximately 100 times a day and it’s been like 7 months. help))

the variety in the roles sana gets makes me so happy... his character was better than i anticipated based on his design, and i really enjoyed watching sana get so emotional, with both anger and sadness and admiration and betrayal. i feel like sana always puts a lot of drama in his acting while still managing to keep it believable and not too over the top. his acting during his final scene was especially incredible. i enjoyed watching him crawl around the stage

sana was really, really skilled at the action/swordfighting scenes as well. he moved so fluidly and it was so believable despite his big armor and all... so cool... 

i also thought he had a lot of chemistry with his co-actresses, especially takahashi yu, something that was really important considering sana’s character’s admiration and dedication to hers’. it made me really happy to watch sana work with girls for the first time in a while knowing sana is really close to his older sister and is so in touch with his own feminine side as well LMAO.

and then he died and it was great. the performance i went to actually got a standing ovation!! this is pretty uncommon for japanese theater. the cast came back on stage 3 times.

☆☆☆

jinro game!! i went into this movie with incredibly low expectations lmao, and it was definitely highly questionable and classically japanese-thing-featuring-teens-in-uncomfortable-settings... but i actually ended up having a lot of fun. once again, the acting cast really made up for everything else.

the two main girls were so cool... they were so cruel and chill about everything happening LMAO. there was a really cool twist at the end too. i think they were lesbians but it’s always hard to know what with the constant blatant queerbaiting in japanese media. anyways

i think i spent half of the movie trying to not laugh over sana and shuuti’s characters THEY WERE SOOO GOOD. THEIR ACTING WAS RIDICULOUS AND GREAT TO WATCH... i actually haven’t seen shuuti in anything since tenimyu so seeing him in such a different role was a lot of fun. there was this scene where he removed the crusts from sana’s pieces of bread and that was my favorite scene of the movie

no actually my favorite scene in the movie was sana’s entire existence. it was so funny oh my g o d. you know horror anime/games always have that one guy who’s a total asshole and kind of a creep but you somehow can’t help but love him. well. that was sana.

sana hiroki callout post: - forced a guy to lick his shoe - made a guy eat food off the floor - shoved his fingers in a dude’s mouth - made every other boy become his “dogs” - except shuuti who was his massage giving, bread crust removing manservant

oh also at some point one of his “dogs” got pissed off and beat him up and he looked really good with all the blood+bruise makeup. wow my review is extremely objective and professional isn’t it

right before he dies we find out that he’s actually been scared and anxious all this time and was just putting up a facade to defend himself in front of the others lmao. and that’s how i watched sana die a second time in two days