#Kotobuki Tsukasa

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Rehearsal photos of Classico Italiano ~The Tailoring Style of the Best of Men~ / Nice Guy!! ~The Rules According to the Man “Y”~ by Cosmos Troupe 2011

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Chance encounter 猫に逢う | ‘To meet a cat’

Black Cat | Spider-Man

Kotobuki Tsukasa ことぶきつかさ (art)

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カジノ・ロワイヤル ～我が名はボンド～ Casino Royale – My Name is Bond – Shonichi Photos (Part 3)

Sources from the following:

Asahi: https://www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20230311002174.html

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Aquarian Age (card game) spread featuring original character illustrations by Hiroko Kazui and Shingo Suzuki. Also included are card examples in the bottom left corner featuring art by Tsukasa Kotobuki and Hikayu, respectively. Characters are Stella Blavatsky (left) and Yohako Ashley (right). Taken from AX Magazine (02/2000)

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End of Year Zuka Tag 2023

Many thanks to @beccalendsahand for putting together the prompt list

3. Never Say Goodbye (Which taidansha was the hardest for you to say goodbye to this year?)

This year, there were two taidans in soragumi that stood out for me.

The first was Yurika. As a zuka newbie, she was the first Top Star that I gravitated towards. I found her very accessible because of her stand out appearance, her onstage charisma, her acting talent and her beautiful singing and speaking voice.

This was the first taidan that I was experiencing in real time and boy. did I have no idea what was coming for me. In fact, I was so emotionally distracted by Suzuho Makaze, that I didn't realise that Kotobuki Tsukasa had also retired after James bond until about a month later.

For me, there was no soragumi without Susshii. The idea of her leaving seemed unimaginable. Who would now play the old man roles of soragumi? Who?????

Susshii first stood out to me in cosmos troupe's Sherlock Holmes for the maturity of her performances. You can see the many years of experience that go into her acting. At the time, I did not know much about troupe hierarchy and I'd hoped she'd still perform for soragumi for many years and eventually become Top Star. So her taidan came as a bit of a slap in the face :(

I wish both these women all my best in their lives from here on out, may their transition into the outside world go smoothly ❤️✨🌌

Pls enjoy this crappy doodle I did of Yurika (lmao, her ears are way too big)

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THAT TOP IS FIGHTING FOR IT'S LIFE GOOD LAWD

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TOSHINDEN

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The cast of Classico Italiano ~The Tailoring Style of the Best of Men~ / Nice Guy!! ~The Rules According to the Man "Y"~ by Cosmos Troupe 2011

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Promotional poster for the TV broadcast of "VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire" anime series, TV Tokyo, April 1996. Artwork by Tsukasa Kotobuki.

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Our household suffered a loss over the Christmas period, so I'm going to post some random comments about stupid shit to help divert my focus away from being depressed.

New BLOOD+ Anthology!

I received my copy of this year's BLOOD+ Petit Event Anthology this week. The title of this year's volume is "Season Calls Me" and like, the previous anthology, it contains a solid mix of short comics and novels by the small band of active Japanese fandom members for the series.

There are a couple of great little comics (that actually feature my faves, surprisingly) plus, like last time, Fujisaku Jun'ichi and Ishii Akiharu participated as well so we got some great additional content that makes it worth the effort of BUYING RIGHT NOW. What do I mean by this? Brand new colour illustrations from Ishii again, baby!

David smiling is so awkward, I love it. Ishii you have truly blessed us.

I won't be scanning in these images because this is a brand new publication. I ask that you please support all the wonderful fans involved in this doujinshi and purchase your own copy before it sells out.

Kotobuki Tsukasa draws ADG art again!

Kotobuki Tsukasa drew a new version of his Aphrodite illustration that was used for the first Akihabara Dennou Gumi ED sequence. The pic will be featured on his Comiket postcard for this year (2023 is the 25th anniversary of ADG) and I reeeeeaaaaaally want it. Edit: He just posted, it's limited to 127 units & has asked people not to resell so there goes my chance lol. :(

Kotobuki doesn't have the original image anymore so he had to use an online pic as reference and honestly, I think it looks pretty great even without the full studio finish (I particularly love that he incorporated Hibari's expression into Aphrodite as this is the fusion version from the movie).

大切なものなんですか... (it's stuck in your head now, watch here)

In a comment to someone mentioning the possibility of an art book he did say he'd discussed it but it hadn't progressed further. Please, for the love of god, I need an art book to happen! I WOULD PREORDER THE SHIT OUT OF THAT! I just love my '90s anime girls with faces like half-sucked mangos that much, ok?!

I Have an Autographed Yamamoto Yohko Novel!

Honestly this isn't a huge deal, back when the novel series received a kanzenban release Shouji Takashi autographed a lot of books for fans and they surface again every so often for sale. I happened to score one and now I have his autograph.

I'm not a big autograph person, but because the series was canned in 2001-ish the 12th kanzenban volume is the only way to get Shouji's conclusion to the story so I figured two birds with one stone and all that (not that I can read anything these days).

Anyway, it's nice to have. Maybe one of these days I'll work on my TBR pile.

I had actually planned to spend my few days off over the New Year catching up on things, then everything kind of just went to shit. So instead of me achieving anything you get this post of random nonsense while I struggle to process my grief, sorry.

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Made a Tuskasa Kotobuki style Origin Tokwan!

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Kotobuki Chop 6: Toshinden Subaru (2 of 3)

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Sofia and Ellis illustration by Kotobuki Tsukasa, for Battle Arena Toshinden 2.

Toshinden 1&2 Settei Shiryoushuu (Jan. 20, '96), pg. 8

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Hi! I hope you're well! I wanted to ask something I was curious about. I recently saw a DVD of Me and My Girl with Yuzuka Rei as Jacqueline. I’m impressed by her versatility, I usually know her for otokoyaku roles. Could you explain how casting decisions are made when otokoyaku are given female roles or vice versa? Are there specific criteria for this? Also, any other notable performances of this kind you'd recommend? Thank you so much for making this blog btw! I've learned so much from it. ^_^

Hi! I don't think there are any hard and fast rules about this, but there are definitely patterns.

First off, there are certain female roles in big-name, frequently restaged shows that are either always or usually played by otokoyaku. Off the top of my head, some include:

Jacqueline in MeMy, as you mentioned

Scarlett in Gone with the Wind

Anita in West Side Story

Rafaela in Grand Hotel

Then sometimes they are just one-off casting decisions (Towaki Sea in Liszt, Ayanagi Shou in Hikarifuru Michi, etc). Regardless of the situation, it's usually for one or a combination of these reasons:

It's a "spunky," or more mature, or canonically cross-dressing role, that would break the mold of the musumeyaku-otokoyaku relationship

It's an incredibly high profile role, but the troupe has no top musumeyaku—e.g. Sena Jun as Elisabeth in '05, Nagina Ruumi in '09—and a secondary musumeyaku would not be nearly as much of a draw to the audience as a higher ranked otokoyaku

Or it's a really high profile role, and otokoyaku just bring in more money than musumeyaku, so a heavy supporting female role goes to an otokoyaku rather than a secondary musumeyaku

Fan service!

Here are some of my recommendations:

Grand Hotel - lots good about it, but cw for egregious racial makeup in supporting characters

Soragumi's Anastasia, for both Kazuki Sora and Kotobuki Tsukasa in female roles

All for One, which is quite fun, and features Saou Kurama as the Duchess of Montpensier

Ok this is pretty Tamaki Ryou heavy for some reason, but Legend of King Arthur for Miya Rurika's Morgane

Shall we Dance, one of my all time favorite shows, featuring Sagiri Seina as the female lead

A Song for Kingdoms, the 2003 Hoshigumi version, featuring Aran Kei as Aida (also cw for some racial makeup)

There's a lot of other great stuff too!

EDIT: HOW COULD I FORGET ADELAIDE??? Highly recommend thanks for the comment!