#he's amazing as der Tod and even better a year later as Rudolf

[none-ofthisnonsense]

I think it's just Jesper Tydén who's great.

[stavhameiri]

Hii!! how did you come to love Yuta so much? I recently became really interested in him because of his role as Sebastian, and I wanted to know how you got to know this wonderful man

AHHH HI!! I’m so so glad to know there are new people in the FY fandom

I got to know Yuta around 2015, when he first got his role as Sebastian for Lycoris 2015. I was already a big fan of Yuya and X4, and didn’t really approve the new actor with the monsterous nose (said the jew) and really wanted to stick to Yuya and whatever silly stuff he was doing. I was really sad when Matsushita quit, and shared my murmur with my other fan-friends.

I kind of tried to live with it, and continued to be a fan of Yuya until L2015 came out and I watched it and. I. was. so overwhelmed!!! I know everyone’s talking about how Yuta’s Sebastian is just very good and canon and that’s what brought them to love him so much, But I just get this kind of special feeling from him as Sebastian I couldn’t and still can’t explain. I just loved it, I loved how he visually looked as Sebastian and I loved the entire scene he put on as him. As a person when I get to love someone like an idol or even just a franchise, I love to never let it go in order to see my “loyalty” to that kind of thing. awkward, I know, But I just love seeing people who continue loving stuff for long long years ^^. and so I didn’t want to bid my farewell to Yuya, I still loved him, but then.. very weird news came in about him and his band, and how he lied about some member “being sick” while he escaped their home (the band used to live together). Also a piece of information where Yuya pretty much bullied Yuta and made him puke, so that kind of let me get that man out of my mind and focus more on Yuta.

around that time, maybe a little later, I decided to pick Japanese (and later Chinese aswell) and study it, just becuase, very plainly, 12 years old Stav wanted to understand what Yuta said in Lycoris 2015 backstages XD I didn’t know Japanese would become something that’s so close to me, and an amazing tool that comes so nicely and that I love so much. I really love studying languages and other than the fact I can now understand Yuta, it is also a really important tool that can help me in the Army and in business abroad and in my future career. so thanks Yuta!

I was still really starving for more Yuta content, so I stumbled across his Ameblo blog (I LOVED SO MUCH!!! rip..) and tried to read every post in it, to understand what Yuta’s life is like, and I just straight up fell for the kind of person he is.

I think one thing that is really really hard for us overseas fans or non-Japanese fans is really getting the hang or who really the idol-person that’s infront of you and that you love so much. I heard it happens in the various K-POP fandoms, too. I love Yuta, but I don’t think I can really grasp the way of his being because we come from other cultures. Sometimes he does stuff that are inconsistent to the past things or he has already done, and I don’t understand it until my friends get to explain it to me. Nonetheless, this might be the reason I find Yuta so awesome and “mysterious”, and have some sort of a true undying love and will to read and know more about him ^^

I’d say Yuta changed a lot in me, but he just made me understand why being humble is okay, to an extent. and also buy a shit ton of Adidas clothes and walk around like a homeless. He truly is an excellent impact.

From that point of already seeing Sebastian and seeing what Yuta’s life kind of was like, I wanted to see what other productions or roles he has already done in the past, and got to Tenimyu. I watched all of his performances and all of the backstages and I was just SO excited about him. I really really loved what he did in Tenimyu and he introduced me to a whole new franchise and a lot of friends I have a very good bond with until this day, and it’s really truly very thanks to him! I also watched all 200 episodes and movies of Prince of Tennis later. You can read what Yuta was like around Tenimyu in the post I made HERE.

I was a little lonely around that time with my love about Yuta. I posted a lot about him til my friends encouraged me to make some Kuromyu-updates page on Facebook, and it gained a lot of love, but I (later on) closed it. I was still lonely with my love to Yuta.

after a little while, I found a 3 hour long video on bilibili that ABSOLUTELY changed my life, and that was Elisabeth 2016!! I remember literally running out of school at 12am to get home and watch it from my computer. and I was OBSESSED. GOSH. I loved it so much and watched it countless times to the point where I knew the entire musical by heart !! I really loved Yuta’s Rudolf, and the entire musical became my most favorite one. I admit I can’t until this day connect Yunbastian to Yuta and Rudolfuru to Yuta. (I mean. Maybe Rudolf I can, because they are both very Ó~Ò.. but Yunbastian? WHO IS THIS MAN?)

I also really really wanted Yuta to do Der Tod since then. A friend also introduced me to the world of Takarazuka with the amazinfg version of Sena Jun as Der Tod in Elisabeth 2008. If you ask me, her and Asaka Manato are the IDEAL der tods!! *sighs out of love*

I continued to be a fan of Yuta, slowly got some merch of him, read many interviews about him thanks to the wonderful translator in this fandom and gathered more productions and movies and stuff he participated in. (LIKE 2STEPS!! best movie ever 10/10)

I extended my love to the Japanese Theater out of Yuta, and got to know about Takarazuka, Imperial Theater and other 2.5d productions and fall in love with the concept of musicals and operas and concerts and the entire entertainment world, as well as study Japanese and Chinese and nonstop draw him and having him as my main inspiration in a lot of stuff. He’s not my rolemodel, but he is definitely someone I adore to death. I really love him and I am so so happy and glad he got Der Tod’s role. I couldn’t really hand out a post or a drawing or really think about the new Der Tod pictures we got recently due to personal stuff, But I’m just.. so so happy to see this man being the beautiful thing he is and ACTUALLY doing a role I love so dearly, in a theater I love so dearly with other actors I love so much..

I’m really thankful for Yuta for giving me these new hobbies, friends and new paths of life. I’m really grateful for him and for who he is and hopefully hopefully.. I’ll someday get to Japan and go to see him in the theater.

Thanks anon. you really distracted me from some bad thoughts with that ask. I love talking about Yuta in this form and it made this evening a better time than what it was ^^

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Elisabeth Das Musical - thoughts

Ok, so after seeing this beautiful Lestat-lookalike on my dash for several months now, I finally decided to see what he’s from. I began by watching the 2005 version of Elisabeth and got confused after ten minutes because this actor (Uwe Kröger) wasn’t there and I was like, “Wait, why is this a musical about the Empress of Austria? I thought I was supposed to be watching some vampire show? Is he actually from Tanz Der Vampire?” And then I went to Wikipedia to read stuff and even detoured to read about the giant fiasco that was Dance of the Vampires and here’s all you need to know about that: On January 25, 2003, after 56 performances, Dance of the Vampires closed. According to The New York Times, it was "one of the costliest failures in Broadway history," losing roughly $12 million, easily eclipsing the infamous musical Carrie. (Michael Crawford was in it and he definitely contributed to the trainwreck, jsyk.) And then I realized I had been watching the right musical, just the wrong year. So I found the 2002 version and I was like, “No, he doesn’t look like Lestat here!” and then I found the 1992 version, which was finally correct. And I binge-watched both shows yesterday because I wanted to compare and contrast.

Well, I definitely prefer the 1992 version. I’m going to spoil some things below the cut, so go ahead and read if you’ve already seen the show or just don’t care about spoilers:

So, I don’t want to get too into details because that would take all day, but I want to discuss a few things I enjoyed. I particularly liked Der Tod’s scenes with Rudolf in this more than the 2002 version, which is kind of the bottom line for me. I like how he cradles young Rudolf in his arms in “Mama, wo bist du”...I like how he lies next to Rudolf in “Die Schatten werden länger” and they almost kiss. I like the choreography during this number and the manhandling of Rudolf who really just looks like he wants to fall into someone’s arms and stay there forever. And I like how in the later scene Der Tod dons a dress and whirls Rudolf around before kissing him and helping him blow out his brains. It just looked so much better and elegant in this version than the 2002 version. I prefer the prolonged kiss, dangit! And the dress. It helps me think of Death as a genderfluid or agender being, able to shapeshift into whatever gender the victim prefers. And that’s cooler than a Death who is simply male. I wonder why they got rid of this change? Was it just too much hassle or was the audience too close-minded for it? Additionally, I kinda prefer the prostitute scene in the earlier version since it’s more risque and I like the carousel and giant cash register. As for the 2002 version, I love the addition of “Wenn ich tanzen will” which is my second favorite song in the musical (after “Die Schatten werden länger”). It’s just so grandiose and romantic-sounding. I also like that they moved around some scenes and added scenes that made the story more coherent and involved more interaction between the main characters. And I like that they changed the stabbing scene so she actually gets stabbed in the heart with a sharpened file. Maybe the rose exchange and hysterical laughter wasn’t necessary/historically accurate, but oh well, it looks good on stage.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I was actually surprised how much of the musical is historically accurate... because most of it seemed Hollywoodized at first glance (and it definitely is, but not to the extent I thought it was). Overall, the musical has beautiful costumes and brilliant staging/sets and the music does a wonderful job conveying the mood and emotions of the characters. I kinda don’t like how the songs tend to have the same melody repeating over and over within a song (It gets a little tiring after awhile) and it seems like they recycle their songs within the span of the musical more so than the average musical, so it feels like they only wrote like five distinct songs, even though I know it’s more than that. (I’ll have to give the soundtrack an actual listen though since this is just based on my first impression and I was constantly switching back and forth between the musicals so that may have screwed me up.)

I think Pia Douwes was amazing and gorgeous in the role of Elisabeth and was just as great at portraying a sweet teenager as she was at portraying a hardened older woman. And Uwe Kröger was more mesmerizing in 1992. He was just more ethereal and so androgynous, and perfect for the role. (Maybe the blue lighting and overall darkness of the videos contributed to that.) I thought it was great how he would use deliberately slow movements and would sing stone-faced into space sometimes before looking at someone. And he and Pia had fantastic chemistry. (I hear they’re like besties in real life, which is warming to my heart.) Anyway, I’d love to see it live one day. For now, I’m just gonna draw fanart of 1992 Der Tod...and put a video here of Pia and Uwe singing “Wenn ich tanzen will” and “Phantom der Oper,” or in English, “When I Want to Dance” and “The Phantom of the Opera.” I just love how the camera circles around them during the first song even though it’s slightly dizzying for me XD. Skip to 2:20 to get right to the songs unless you wanna see Pia and Uwe’s mothers hanging out and answering questions: