#Toho retj

[occasionalmercutio]

What’s the wackiest misadventure you’ve had with Romeo and Benvolio?

Day 4 : fighting and flirting are only two letters apart

perhaps not the wackiest misadventure of mine, but all three of them wouldn’t talk to me for a whole week afterwards. i’m pretty sure we all got blacklisted from that bar too.

actually, Ben is the one who calls it a misadventure. i still consider it a massive success!

[acting-pterygii]

i’ve been listening to nothing but francis forever and i’m your man Mitski for the past six hours so obviously it’s benvolio montague angst time!! i attempted to do some rendering but it’s pretty rough :( someday i’ll get good at rendering. but that day is not today.

characters in order from left to right are valentine, benvolio, and mercutio. designs are taken from Toho 2019 RetJ, white cast. the text and premise are taken from this fic! the original is in russian, and i google translated it into english. btw mercutio never actually appears in the fic but he is mentioned briefly. so i have to draw him now.

alternate versions + closeups under the cut :)

1. without text 2. no text + no funky ghost effects for merc

3. valentine 4. benvolio 5. mercutio

[drawn-and-talk-of-peace]

More Toho Romeo et Juliette + Onion Headlines

[cto10121]

A moment of silence for the random Capulet guy who went into Friar Lawrence’s chapel to use the bathroom and got a face full of the Aimer.

[wild-icarus]

Ensemble/ダンサー Returning Cast, Romeo et Juliette Jp 2011+13+17+19 (7/7)

Row 1 is 飯田一徳 /Iida Kazunori from 2011 and 2013. The second row is Kazunori in the 2017 and 2019 production.

Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

[margridarnauds]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Romeo And Juliet - All Media Types, Roméo et Juliette - Presgurvic, Romeo & Juliet - Toho Stage Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Benvolio/Escalus (Romeo and Juliet) Characters: Benvolio (Romeo and Juliet), Escalus (Romeo and Juliet) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Moving On, Grief/Mourning, Post-Apocalypse, Post-Canon, Past Benvolio/Mercutio, references to valentine and paris, Slow Dancing, Romantic Tension, Age Difference, Older Man/Younger Man, Guilt Summary:

“Are you happy?” He asks one day, when the coffee mug is half-drained. “Are you really happy like this?”

“Are you?” Benvolio replies.

And the truth is that he barely remembers what happiness is, much less what it feels like. Happiness is for the young, and for old men…duty. It is the first, chief area where Lord Capulet had failed, chasing after his ill-spent youth and forgetting his own household. Escalus learned, early on, that that was an impossibility, not when he had a city looking to him for guidance.

“I’m not certain I was meant for happiness.” He smiles, politely.

For almost anyone else, it would be enough, but Benvolio continues to look at him skeptically, before looking into his own mug. “Neither am I.”

[lenfantdeverone]

Hello!!! Hi!!! RetJ fandom please!!!! I made something something 🤲 my edits are wonky at best but please enjoy!!! Love you RetJ fandom!!!!

[alleyskywalker]

NEW FIC: Change In The Wind (Montacrew OT3)

Title: Change In The Wind Fandom: RetJ: Toho Characters/Pairings: Romeo/Mercutio/Benvolio Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 1,182 Summary: Mercutio drags Romeo and Benvolio to an underground rave on a quest to win his bet against Tybalt, any and all dangers be damned.

Read on AO3

[lehetsz-kiraly]

Was I just supposed to let the realisation that the Capulets are dressed like the Fire Nation slap me in the face at 12:41am??

[bencutiostan]

On this blog we love and appreciate a pure innocent soul named Benvolio Montague who always did his best for the sake of his loved ones and didn't deserve to live in such an horrible and cruel world which caused him pain.

[occasionalmercutio]

Day 1 : hey hey HEYYYYY!!!

Jumping on the Mercutio rp/ask blog train, here comes Mercutio from the Toho 2019 production of Romeo et Juliette! I will be posting semi-regular shenanigans in addition to questions, should you have them. Questions may also be left for friend and foe alike, including but not limited to: darling Benvolio, Romeo (the R is for left on read), Tybalt king of cats, and my stupid brother Parissssss! I’m here to have a good time and I really, really like knives. I do not take my title as Verona’s knife guy lightly!

main blog : @acting-pterygii (ooc: this is the most capitalization i will ever be using in a post, by the way. thank you!)

Since there are two casts and both are equally cool, designs will be alternating between the two :) this account is inspired by the other mercutio rp blogs, @/dailymercutio and @/mercutiosometimes!

[acting-pterygii]

shoutout to that time in summer 2023 where i spent an entire week looking for every retj slime tutorial on the internet. truly i don’t think i will ever come close to that level of dedication for anything again </3

[drawn-and-talk-of-peace]

Anyone up for a musical livestream Friday or Saturday? I’m not working those days and I’m totally up for a stream of the Toho 1789 or Roméo et Juliette (either cast of the latter).

[wild-icarus]

Ensemble/ダンサー Returning Cast, Romeo et Juliette Jp 2017 + 2019 (5/7)

Row 1-2 (L->R): FUMI, 織 里織/Ori Saori, 大場陽介/Oba Yousuke

Row 3-4 (L->R): 鮫島拓馬/Samejima Takuma, 小南竜平/Kominami Ryuhei,  鈴木凌平/Suzuki Ryōhei

Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

[margridarnauds]

Something I've been trying to articulate is why a lot of criticisms of Takarazuka productions (esp. adaptations) from outside the Takarazuka fandom don't often WORK for me, so here are some angles that I wish that people would go into more, instead of treating Takarazuka Musicals™ as a conservative, sparkly monolith:

Comparing different adapted musicals together -- Elisabeth, RetJ, and 1789 were both adapted by the same director, Koike Shuuichirou, so you can spot solid similarities there, but what about Le Roi Soleil, La Legende du Roi Arthur, Mozart l'Opera Rock, Anastasia, Don Juan, The Scarlet Pimpernel, I Am From Austria, etc.? It isn't even to say that they're all wildly DIFFERENT (there are certain changes that I'd argue are common among multiple adaptations), but it's to say that you can do better work when you have a broad pool to compare these things with.

Relating to that, comparing the work of different directors, or even the same director's work in different productions. (Koike's work in Elisabeth in the various Elisabeth Takarazuka productions over time VS the various Toho, or his work on 1789 between the 2015 Zuka to the Toho productions to the 2023 production.)

On the reverse side, instead of or in addition to questioning why changes were made, questioning why Japanese audiences are DRAWN to these foreign musicals in the first place. La Legende du Roi Arthur alone deals with themes of rape, incest, deals with the devil, adultery, etc. Is it the fact that it's foreign and therefore exotic enough that it can get away with things that other musicals can't, or does it show that there might be an interest in darker material alongside the stereotypical Takarazuka material (whatever that means)? (I have my own opinions, but this is an angle I almost never see in these critiques.)

What Takarazuka material looked like 20-30 years ago VS the present. How has the tone changed? How has it varied?

Like, Takarazuka is easy to take cheap shots at, and, a couple of years ago, I wouldn't have been far off from these criticisms myself (and I've made my own), but I feel like a lot of the criticisms are grounded in only using one or two adapted musicals from one director, pointing to them, and going "that's Takarazuka™"