Cam Cam June 2021 - Mizue Kenta x Okamiya Kurumu Interview Translation
hiiya! as I have become used to being a second year at university and everything regaring my study abroad next semester has calmed down a bit, I’ve been able to spend some more time on my hobbies lately, which means I’m finally reading all the magazines (featuring Kenta of course) I’ve bought in the past year and am trying to translate them again! This short interview from June 2021, right before the first part of the Banana Fish stage play was happening (if I remember correctly?) was the first out of a lot of magazines I have chilling on my bookshelves, so if you’re interested in reading it, don’t hesitate to message me!
I would kindly like to suggest to buy a copy of the magazine through sites such as amazon, cdjapan, buyee (mercari, rakuten, etc) to support the industry! :)
[English Subs DL] Banana Fish Stage Play Part 1 & Part 2
Hello, friends~! I come to you this time with English subs for the Banana Fish stage plays~!
Thank you to @emerald-trashart for requesting me to do both plays!
I had such a blast working on it even though it got a bit overwhelming and heavy at times (because Banana Fish (╥_╥))
The stage play is just so amazing, and beautifully made...! I went into this not knowing what to expect, and I came out of it just mesmerized. If you're familiar with Banana Fish, of course it will be as heavy as its source material, but I think that you would enjoy it!
The production did a really great job respecting and staying true to the events of its source, and I think long-time fans would love it ^^
The actors, too...! They were so great at their roles, and gosh the emotions and intensity they portrayed were really convincing. Mizue Kenta and Okamiya Kurumu were so perfect as Ash and Eiji, and their chemistry was just beautiful T^T>
Alright, enough rambling! I'll let the stage play speak for itself!
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For those who are interested in getting the Blu-rays for themselves, I’ll provide links below~
BD Purchase Links: (From Animate JP) BANANA FISH PART 1 | BANANA FISH PART 2
* Purchase links would require proxy since the BDs are sold-out on CDJapan and were requested through proxy either way. I couldn't find them on Animate International either ^^;
Notes, disclaimers, trigger warnings, and link under the cut, enjoy~! (Long post ahead ^^;)
NOTES:
※ THE FILE IS SUBTITLES ONLY, VIDEO IS NOT INCLUDED!
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
Heavy mentions/depictions of drugs/drug abuse, sexual abuse (rape, pedophilia, child prostitution/pornography, among others), mental disorders/illnesses, gun violence, racism, general gang violence, suicide, death.
Above themes are rampant in both stages, so please watch with caution. If you start feeling uncomfortable or anxious, please take a step back and stop watching until you feel better.
For those who want to start watching the anime after getting into it from the stage play, please refer to these guides for trigger warnings: Twitter | IMDb
MISC. NOTES:
From what I remember, the stage play follows the manga more than the anime (since the anime changed some stuff). So if something from the stage was not in the anime, you can check the manga for them ^^
RULES:
[MOST IMPORTANT] Please DO NOT re-post the subs and the link outside of Tumblr! If you want to share outside, please, please DM me about it and link my blog to your post. That’s all I ask.
Please DO NOT remove my credits.
Please DO NOT re-translate without permission.
SUBS DL LINK: PART 1 | PART 2
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April 30 - May 7, 2023 at Tokyo Dome City Hall
May 13 - 20 2023 at Amashin Archaic Hall Hyogo
May 26 - 28, 2023 at Kitakyushu Soleil Hall Fukuoka
June 3 -18, 2023 at Tachikawa Stage Garden Tokyo
Livestreams on DMM TV:
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April 30, 2023 18:30 JPT
June 18, 2023 13:00, 18:30 JPT
alan-san is very pretty lol like i wish i could say he’s the prettiest samatoki but that’s also a judgement based on the assumption that samatoki has given us anything under an 11 LOL
but he’s still a gorgeous samatoki lol
asanuma-san is a god tier seiyuu so anyone having to embody samatoki i doubt can capture what asanuma-san does with samatoki’s voice but alan-san’s take isn’t bad i don’t think!!!!!
like when he raps aggressively, it’s really cool lol
stage samatoki is like, the most emotional sad boy samatoki we’ve gotten and alan-san’s face sure does give it just that man just looks so sad sometimes lol
this is less to do with his samatoki and more of himself lol, but during a separate event unaffiliated with hypstage but featured a handful of them, he challenged akira-san to a video game on the basis that because both their names start with the letter 🅰️, they gotta throw down because there can only be one Ace in town and that was so funny he’s a goober lmao
asanuma-san made a very similar joke the year prior to that event and that’s how i know he shared the samatoki braincell LOL
throwback to the samatoki cross talk where he and asanuma-san had to guess what’s samatoki’s default pose on the official website. asanuma-san got it right but alan-san didn’t and upon getting it wrong, he attempted to run out from the venue LOL
mi…………….. mizue kenta sir 🥺🥺🥺
he’s slain many a human with that face of his and i’m not strong enough to fight it either lmao
juto used to have a modicum of coolness in the beginning and has been nerfed significantly over the years lmao but mizue-san’s juto is an old relic from those times lol
like it’s so funny to me both komada-san and mizue-san used to voice juto on a higher register but eventually deepened his voice as their perception of the character changed lol
mizue-san is legendary at video games and i’m not saying juto’s gamer status came from him but—
speaking of arb lol y’all know that one horn-knee bait juto card with the handcuffs????? mizue-san’s juto said hold my beer and showed the true hornee juto bait lol
like what do you mean he gets TWO solos where he tramples on and seduces men?????????????
there’s a scene at the end of track 4 where once that conflict had been resolved, juto quietly walked up beside samatoki, who was brooding to himself, and expressed an ice cold rage towards samatoki for leaving his team behind in that conflict that has stayed with me lol it’s probably the mtc moment i think about most
besides the rep live skit where samatoki gets falsely arrested but wants to stay arrested because rio wants to feed him so juto’s running back and forth confusedly trying to extend samatoki’s sentence LOL
RIO MY MAN IS SUCH A CHARACTER IN THE STAGE LOL
canon rio’s stoicism is surface level actually like stage rio is more along the lines of stern with a very heavy side helping of silly and i like to that it’s the version of rio canon rio thinks he is lol
that doesn’t mean stage rio isn’t cool tho like his rap game is no joke 😭👌
that part in bop2023 where they do a solos relay and as rio’s solo transitions to juto’s he goes, ‘juto, rock that shit’ and i lose my shit tbh LOL especially when you see that pleased smile on juto’s face pls!!!!!
byrnes-san is the brand of wasian that’s good at english and i enjoyed reading reports of rio’s english lessons during mtc’s rep live
and then to come back later in bop2023 hyping the crowd up with english their japanese audience didn’t understand so he scolded them for not studying it came full circle i want to cry—
I don't have the knowledgeto translate the title but the name of the humans have been revealed :
Mitsuru will be playing Honami Kotoku. In history he is known to be a sword appraiser/inscriptor/ polisher from a pretty well known familly that appraised or inscribed many of our boys
Yasuto Kosuda will be playing toyotomi hideyoshi
and our dear ex-ensemble will be playing a character named Kage
So for now our best and most credible theme is going to be around the worth of a sword !
speaking of swords we have new more complete visuals :
Let's be honnest i am ready to see the stream of the first day on dmm and then in person.
A palate cleanser since it's just 4 eps 25 minutes each. It's a Jdrama about a PI, Mackey, who lives out of an old camping van, travelling Japan. One day, he meets a young man, Kenta, who's also travelling without any destination in mind. Neither having anyone in the world, they start travelling and working as PIs together. But there's a really bad guy after Mackey who decides to use Kenta as a leverage...
Funny and touching and sweet. Mackey takes Kenta in on a whim, basically, because Kenta reminds him of his younger brother. They bicker constantly but they also find family in each other. The relief that they aren't alone in the world anymore is honestly almost palpable.
Give it a try if you want to watch something a little different and short, something that won't force you to commit for days or weeks. Done in under two hours, it was a nice change of pace. Also, Mizue Kenta who plays, well, Kenta, is really pretty.
kenta mizue’s performance of jyuto ruins my perception of jyuto being a loser who can’t dance, since kenta mizue is really good at dancing and so by default jyuto is good at dancing too. but it makes sense to me because jyuto being hot and good at rapping and dancing but being absolutely incompetent at functioning like a regular person just makes him funnier
I know I've been putting art up and all for a bit and haven't said much but,
My name's Kat. ^^ I draw an awful lot of HypMic especially D4 and Mad Trigger Crew, and occasionally maybe some Black Butler idk.^^
I'm also into stageplay boys especially Mizue Kenta, Abe Alan, Ryuji Sato, and Goto Dai.
I had an old Tumblr account many years ago, but it's pretty much messed up and confusing so I'm putting all my recent art here so it'll be more organized ^^.