#hi ikemen grandpas! :D

[quartz-the-cosmic-manta]

omg the ikemen grandpas are following me :O

hi, grandpa blaze and grandpa whirl!

[kaysutcliff-michaelis]

SOUMA-HEN 2021 CAST

Hi, humans and oni, all fans of Hakumyu!

Since Souma-hen is a thing again I’ve recovered my original cast announcement post and updated it. The info about the actors is a mix between what I’ve found about them and info from the official cast page, but I haven’t included every past myu/stage play in the official info, so I’d recommend checking it if you’re interested in seeing more of any of these people.

Without further ado, I present you the official cast for the 2021 version of Musical Hakuoki Souma-hen:

Mizuki Umetsu (梅津瑞樹) is Kazue Souma

28 years old, his Twitter is @MizukiUmetsu, and he’s been in Musical Touken Ranbu and the Sanrio Boys stage play .

Risa Matsuzaki (松崎莉沙) is Chizuru Yukimura

She’s a member of Roys, a Japanese female duo chorus group. Playing Chizuru in this myu will be her first time as an actress. Her Twitter is @risadegozaimasu and she’s 24 years old.

Hidetoshi Kubota (久保田秀敏) is Toshizo Hijikata

Has worked in films and dramas before, also has myu/stage play experience (Sengoku Basara stage play , Moriarty the Patriot myu, etc.). He’s 33 years old and his Twitter is @kubotahidetoshi.

Shuji Kikuchi (菊池修司) is Souji Okita

First difference with the 2020 cast! Shuji Kikuchi replaces Shogo Yamazaki, who first appeared in Hakumyu in Shitan Hijikata-hen. He’s 25 and his Twiiter is @kutisyu. He’s been in some stage plays before, like the Pirates of the Frontier UtaPri stage play .

Shoichiro Oomi (大海将一郎) is Hajime Saito

His Twitter is @shoichiro_oomi. The protagonist/”your” character in the Fate/GO Babylonia Myu, also has some experience as a seiyuu (in fact google doesn’t list him as an actor but as a voice actor) and is/was in a group called "Hi! Superb" 

Yuta Higuchi (樋口裕太) is back as Heisuke Todou!

His first Hakumyu was Shitan Hijikata-hen! He is 25 and he won a Junon Superboy contest (Most Photogenic) and according to Anime on Stage he’s been in other myus/stage plays, like Ensemble Stars and Yona of the Dawn. According to the cast page he’s been in  Ao no Exorcist and Hitman Reborn stage plays too. His Twitter is @higuchi24yuta.

Ryousuke Koike (小池亮介) is Nagakura Shinpachi

Second change in the cast, he’s replacing Yuta Kishimoto, who was Nagakura in both Shitan Hijikata-hen and Shitan Kazama-hen. He’s 25 and his Twitter is @ryosuke19951117. He was Akito/Agito in the Air Gear myu, and according to the cast page he wants everyone to think that Nagakura Shinpachi is cool (literally, 「永倉新八カッコいいな」kakkoii and everything)

Shouta Kawakami (川上将大) is Sanosuke Harada

He’s been in Tenimyu, Rice on stage, Hitman Reborn and Touken Ranbu stages/myus, among others. He’s 27 and his Twitter is @rjpmission. An anecdote: a few weeks ago someone I follow on Twitter went to see Rice on stage and he was one of the actors performing, which made me wonder if Souma-hen would happen since people from the cast were working on other things and I supposed that meant the situation in Japan was good enough to resume events like stage plays, included those that had been cancelled.

Teruma (輝馬) is back as Keisuke Sannan!

Sannan since Hakumyu Reimeiroku, he’s been in Kuromyu (William T Spears), Bungou Stray Dogs stage play, the Nanatsu no Taizai stage play and Tenimyu. His Twitter is @teruma_060 and he’s 31.

This makes me really happy! I still prefer Ryosuke Mikata, but he’s showed that he deserves the role, so I hope he stays in Hakumyu for many years to come! And I’m still mad that Teruma wasn’t in the Tango on the Campania Kuromyu...

Taizo Shiina (椎名鯛造) is back as Susumu Yamazaki!

First appeared in Shitan Hijikata-hen, and he’s been in some Sengoku Basara and Danganronpa stage plays, among others. He’s 34 and his Twitter is @TaizoShiina.

Taira Imata (井俣太良) is back as Isami Kondou!!!

Best dad since Okita-hen (second Hakumyu) and by this point, everyone’s senpai, what else can be said about this man??? If you’ve watched any Hakumyu other than Saito-hen, you already know him. Great man and actor, he’s 45 and his Twitter is @TAIRANT1975.

These are the characters/actors & actress that I covered in my first Souma-hen cast post. I actually wrote another one with the rest of the cast, but thanks to a broken mouse the whole post got deleted when it was almost finished. Time to redeem myself!

Syuya Sunagawa (砂川脩弥) is Saburo Miki!

Replacing Allen Kohatsu in the role of Miki, he’s 26 and his Twitter is @suna_syu_. It’s his first time in a musical, but he’s in the Kamen Rider Zero One drama. According to the Kamen Rider Wikia, he won the Avex Boys Award in 2016.

Masashi Sonomura (園村将司) is Risaburo Nomura!

He’s 22 and he’s @masashisonomura on Twitter. He’s been in Tenimyu and has done some stuff on TV (the cast page lists some things but I’m not familiar with them ;_;)

Masafumi Yokoyama (横山真史) is Kyuju Amagiri!

He’s 34 and he’s @masafumi21yoko on Twitter. He’s been in Touken Ranbu, Ikemen Sengoku and Toki no Kizuna stages.And as my friend and Amagiri’s biggest fan Lawrichai pointed out, he played Amagiri’s grandpa/relative in the Toki no Kizuna stage.

Takuma Sueno (末野卓磨) is back as Kyo Shiranui!

He’s 36 and he’s @sueno0724 on Twitter. His first Hakumyu was Shitan Kazama hen. Has been in the Sengoku Basara stage play and the Rantaro Shinobu myu (this one wasn’t that long ago so I remember seen funny pics of this on Twitter).

Hiroyuki Kawamoto (川本裕之) is back as Kodo Yukimura!

Egg dad since the times of Harada hen, he doesn’t have a Twitter account and apparently there isn’t that much info about him on Google D:

And... drum roll a big round of applause for our returning demon, the original, the one and only, SHOGO SUZUKI (鈴木勝吾) AS CHIKAGE KAZAMA!!!

I already spoiled this in my Souma-hen is back post but I’m sooooooooooooooo happy to see him back. He’s @Shogo_Suzuki_ on Twitter (where he’s posted photos of his Hakumyu-watching sessions more than once),he’s 31 and he played Kazama from the very beginning in Saito-hen until Live 2. During his absence from Hakumyu he didn’t stop acting, some of you may remember my post about his appearance in the Moriarty the Patriot myu.

Not that I dislike Yoshihide Sasaki (Hijikata in Reimei, and Kazama in Harada-hen and the 2020 Souma-hen cast), but I will always see him as my dear Viscount Druitt from Kuromyu. And let’s be honest, Shogo has his “own brand” of Kazama. He took the character and made it his own, having a unique way of portraying him and enjoying every last bit of it.

And that was the complete main cast! This time we had all the info from the start so I don’t think a follow-up post will be necessary.

As an ending note, I would like to dedicate this post to Serizawa’s actor, Akira Kubodera, who passed away last month. I’m sure he would love to see that everyone has been hoping for Souma-hen to return and that the Hakuoki Shinsengumi, or at least its spirit, can’t be defeated.

[joshay98]

Day 85, 86, 87 of Sky Deception

Heya! Hewwo! Hi! Servus! How are ya? Good? Had something to eat? Hopefully. :D

So the Days of Love event is over. Which means no more pink home area and the pier is also gone. Shame but that just means the next event is coming soon!.. next month... by then the season is done. Oh well. I can wait. ^^

Love how todays (Day 87) quest was reliving the memory of the grouchy grandpa spirit. The spirit that was a traveling spirit for the last couple days and left just yesterday. Really smart choice on the quest timing gamecompany. X]

Otherwise I've been having bad experiences with chibis lately. Urgh. Twice I have been left sitting at a door that requires multiple players. They just use the chibi fall trick, fiddiling around for a minute and then just go and leave everyone else hanging... instead of just taking 3 seconds to do the emote to open the door and having easy access. Really 200 IQ players right there. Never had that problem with Ikemen. They are usually chill and just want to be left alone most of the time. --

Oh well. Speaking of tall players. During the grandma event there was one giant player again. Seems like they have a lot of fun with those growth potions. X]

But overall was a good time. Just a bunch of daily routines that gives me some solidity. Hope your days are also nice. :D

[hello-vampire-kitty]

“Too cool“

Tetsu is super handsome and cool :D Hmm, all wet from the rain, his muscles showing trough his shirt, take it off..*ahem* oh my, I was daydreaming it seems~ Don’t mind me :))

A new translation! I’m glad I could manage to finish this comic (from the Official Guidebook). It took a while to clean it and I was a bit indecisive  with some words,  so here are also some translation notes :

-First of, I really wanted to convey Hugh’s manner of speech, which as we know is a bit archaic but he is also polite. Here, he has said the word “umbrella” twice (in the second panel) and I tried to avoid this repetition. I mentioned that he uses polite speech and that was evidenced by his line 「おニューかさ」 (O nyū kasa). It easily translates as “new umbrella” but the added prefix お gives it another nuance. The prefix お is added to certain words to convey polite/humble speech. You might be familiar from anime with the word okyakusama, right? Well, that’s basically saying something like gracious customer. I haven’t heard this prefix used with words of foreign origin and which are written in katakana, but Hugh isn’t Japanese so maybe he doesn’t know of this. He just keeps being his polite self and talking like a grandpa xD That’s why it might have seemed weird to Mahiru and Misono to hear him say おニュー ?

Oh yeah, and I hope “exquisite” is an appropriate word that Hugh uses in his conversations :D

The last thing I had to think about a lot on how to translate was the infamous

イケメン (Ikemen) which I am sure you have heard plenty of times and translates in general as “good looking guy” or “handsome”, but it could also be “cool guy”. I wasn’t sure if Mahiru and Misono (I’m not quite sure if they both speak in unison in some of the speech bubbles xD), would just outright say that Tetsu is handsome, it would be embarrassing to call their guy friend like that (I’m just assuming, LOL), so I think the option of considering him cool would be more appropriate, but I do believe that they consider him good looking as well :D

Just felt like I should explain a few things and I thank everyone who read these notes. I really hope they are understandable cuz I’m not to good when it comes to that.