January 24th, 1992
Bronze: Zetsuai since 1989 begins serialization in Margaret. It is a sequel to Zetsuai 1989.
Written and illustrated by Minami Ozaki
I just found out Minami Ozaki continued Bronze in 2011 and, though it is amongst my first yaoi reads, I don't know if I have it in me to go through the hassle of looking it up. I'd have to reread because there are parts I frankly don't remember and I am not sure if I have the strength to do so; my taste now isn't the same it was when I first read it as well... nor do I think I'd be satisfied with an open ending like the one she did in volume 13 and then again in volume 14 of Bronze. Ah, decisions, decisions. I don't know if the nostalgia is worth it
This was taken from the Minami Maito photobook, as kindly scanned by a mutual. At this time, Maiti was still in Flower Troupe.
Note: This is the second of my Research-100 translation series and it couldn’t be made possible without the contributions of fellow mutuals. Find my first translation of Aizuki Hikari’s photobook here!)
PROFILE
Name: Minami Maito
Troupe: Flower Troupe
Birthday: June 28
Blood Type: O
Nickname: Minami, Maitii
Height: 170cm
Vision: 2.0
Shoe size: 24.5
Finger size: I don’t know!
Charm point: Nose
Strenghts: I am passionate on anything
Weaknesses: Shy
Catchphrase: I want to be “All Maiti!!”...so I’ll do my best!!
Birthplace: Osaka
FAVOURITE THINGS
1. Favourite season –> Autumn
2. Favourite event –> New year
3. Place that you want to go –> New York. Because I want to see Broadway musicals.
4. Favourite animal –> Dog
5. Favourite song –> Yuzu’s “Bridge of Glory” and Ozaki Yukata’s songs
6. Favourite movie –> “Les Misérables”
7. Favourite musical genre –> Musical
8. Favouite television genre –> Probably TV dramas. Recently I’m watching “Stepmom and Daughter Blues” (Japanese drama 義母と娘のブルース), “Your Turn to Kill” (Japanese drama あなたの番です), “TWO WEEKS”. (Korean dramas 투윅스) 。
9. Favourite colours –> White and Black
10. Favourite book –> “A Letter from Father”(父からの手紙)
11. Favourite scent –> I like how the clothes smell after I finish washing them.
FOOD
12. Favourite thing to eat –> Noodles
13. Things I dislike eating –> This is probably quite problematic for me... (sweating) but there’s actually a lot. I hate all kinds of beans but I can eat Edamame! I also don’t like foods with too strong taste, but I also don’t like foods that’d be difficult for me to guess “What is this smell”? Oh and I also can’t eat bugs (laughs)/
14. Good at cooking –> Fried vegetables maybe.
I LIKE...
15. Meat or fish –> Um... meat
16. Japanese or Western or Chinese food –> Japanese
17. Japanese sweets or Western sweets –> Japanese.
18. Coffee or red tea –> I’m conflicted! Usually, it would be coffee, but on rest days or when I want to spend the day slowly, it would be red tea!!
19. Salt or soy sauce or sauce –> Because I’m from Kansai, it might be more often to say “sauce”... (laughs) but it’s probably salt for me.
OFF (STAGE)-ME
20. Morning or night type –> Night
21. The first thing I do in the morning –> Wash my face
22. I shower with hot water or cold water –> Hot water
23. When you sleep do you like to turn on some lights or leave it dark –> Leave it dark
24. What is the longest time you’ve slept before –> More than 12 hours
25. What do you do for a change of moods –> Clean up the house, watch television
26. How much time do you use your phone –> Depending on time and circumstances, around 2-3 hours a day
27. Do you like to contact by mail or by phone –> Mail
28. Usually I’m the speaker or the listener –> The listener
29. The joker or the teaser –> Depending on the partner, but I think I’m mostly the teaser.
30. Only hot or only cold –> Either. I feel I can be more tolerant than others on the very hot or very cold side.
31. You like to go on group activity or individual activity –> Individual activity.
32. Qualifications you have –> Car license. And also, Kanji qualification, English qualification and mathematics qualification. But I forgot which level I was at (laughs).
33. Favourite kind of shoes –> Sneakers
34. Your taste in interior design –> I don’t want to have too sharp colours. So it’d probably be just all white.
35. Things that you can’t stop doing, or habits –> My go-to phrase is always saying “Well, I dunno but” (laughs). I’m from Kansai so I can’t stop saying with a Kansai-dialect.
36. Jinx (bad luck) –> Don’t particularly have one
37. Something you’re scared of –> Bugs
38. Treasure –> People I’ve met so far
REST DAYS...
39. Indoor or outdoor –> Outdoor
40. Karaoke must-sing choice –> Ozaki Yukata’s songs
41. The place you’d always go to shopping –> Umeda
42. You’re quick to decide or conflicted when you’re shopping –> Quick to decide
43. The thing you want to do the most in rest days –> Would it be going to have a massage or going to a cafe...But it’d probably be going for a massage.
44. You spend your rest days slowly or with a plan –> Slowly.
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES...
45. The childhood nickname –> Minami
46. Favourite subject –> Sports
47. The subject you dislike –> Science.
48. The game you’d always play is –> Dodgeball
49. The club or interest you were engaged in –> Classical ballet
50. The dream job –> It has been being a Takarasienne since I was little. But if I could have another choice, would I be a cashier (laughs). Recently, there were more self-service cashier services and I thought it could be fun being a cashier.
RECENTLY, I...
51. Recently I’d always wear –> White
52. Last time I cried –> It was the shonichi performance of “Dream On!” where everyone wrote a message and autographed on their photos even though given a tight schedule. I was touched by the collaged decorated makeup desk I had.
53. Last time I laughed –> It was during a troupe dinner party where we were watching the DVDs of when Sayumi-san (Asumi) has become Top [Star]. Rather than feeling all nostalgic, everyone was happily singing and dancing together. From the tug of war to the relay videos in the sports day, even though we didn’t know about the results, we saw how everyone was supporting for their own troupes, and that excitement had been so long ago that I laughed and cried watching it.
54. Last time I was surprised –> I returned home and when I opened the curtains, some big moths flew in. I immediately took the bug spray and chased after them.
55. Something I could do –> I could come out of the shower and finish putting on makeup in 5 minutes. That’s only for the makeup spray part though (laughs).
56. Something I’m obsessed with –> Looking at the news in my smartphone.
IF 〇〇?!
57. If you have to describe yourself with a colour –> Marble. I have many emotions and they’re quite flexible.
58. If you have to describe yourself as an animal –> Since I’m shy it’s not easy for me to be close to others, but upperclassmen have described me that I was like a big dog.
59. If you lost your way, would you return to the original path or continue moving forward on an unknown path –> Even though I’m confused, I’d continue moving forward. Since I’m already at somewhere I don’t recognise, it would be difficult returning back.
60. If you’re a musumeyaku, what outfit would you wear? –> I want to wear a wide dress with a gradation that expands spreads out.
61. If you have to challenge to be a director or a choreographer, which would it be –> Director. I think it would be touching when you could portray your thoughts through the people, the lighting, the set through this dynamic stage.
62. If you could be born again would you be a boy or a girl –> Maybe a boy. I want to try walk on a different life.
63. If you have a time machine, would you go to the past or future –> I don’t want to go to both.
64. If you could use magic –> I want to wake up quickly in the morning and I want to have a charger for my body energy where I would never be tired no matter how much I dance.
65. If you could meet a historical figure –> Elisabeth. I love “ELISABETH” and I also want to try to be a role like Elisabeth, and when I was playing as Lucheni in the newcomers’ performance, I was always chasing on Elisabeth, so I was curious as to what she thought while she was living. I also want to hear how her real voice sounded like.
FAVOURITE 〇〇!!
66. Favourite tourist spot –> Saipan Islands. The shallow water below my knees continued all the way to the other islands that I could see, and the water was so beautiful that I thought I could walk there, so I recommend it.
67. Favourite stretching method –> Yamuna ball. It really helps the blood flow for the whole body.
68. Your favourite skincare routine –> Washing your face without using soap in the morning.
A-LA CARTE
69. Favourite picture style would be close up or full photo –> Close up
70. Do you like coloured or monochrome photos –> Coloured
71. Standby motion –> My dog, the toypoodle Pochi-kun.
72. Something you want to try –> Gymnastics. Because there were many cool actions such as backflip.
73. Someone that’s always influenced you –> Mother. Because she knows me the best, she’d be the first to realise if I had any changes, if I was doing something other people won’t be doing. Because that is really moving to me, I would often realise so much more about the stage performance and about being an otokoyaku from my mother’s words.
74. A thing I want the most –> Perfect head-body balance ratio (laughs). But if we’re talking it realistically, maybe I’d be wanting more time. To spend time slower, to relax at a home a little more, to think more about the stage performances. If only there was more time, then I could do so much more.
RELATED TO STAGE
75. When do you enter in the dressing room –> 2 hours and a half before the performance begins.
76. When do you leave the dressing room –> If I have to return to the dressing room it would take about an hour.
77. Which is your start of the warmup routine –> Stretching. I start from stretching.
78. A detail in stage makeup –> Eyes. Of course it’s important to do the foundation well, but it’s also about considering if it’s a cute role, a beautiful role, a fresh role, a warm-hearted role, the way I do my eye makeup would determine the role that I’m going to be playing.
79. The time to do makeup –> Around 45 minutes. I’m not sure but I could probably do 30 minutes the quickets but recently I’m trying to do it carefully and slowly (laughs).
80. Nervous level before entering for your scene –> Since it’s probably not a good thing to be nervous, I would say I am focused but not really nervous. But even on Shonichi (first day) performances, I am nervous as I could almost hear my heart beating.
81. Quickest time you could finish changing –> Within 1 minute
82. How far could you see into the audience –> Around until row 15
83. What would you do after a performance –> Sit on the chair
84. Are you good or bad at remembering choreography –> Good at it
85. Are you good or bad at adlibs –> Bad... Even if I could do, I probably wouldn’t (laughs). Because if you say this, then you would think of the next thing to say and it would be a hit or miss.
86. Do you like wearing military uniform or black tailcoat –> Tailcoat
87. Do you like acting in tragedy or comedy –> Tragedy
88. For love scenes, do you want to act in wordless embraces or say pretentious (shameless) lines –> Wordless embrace
89. Your detail in tailcoats –> Since black tailcoast are the royality scene of Takarazuka, when I’m wearing the tailcoat, I would have the feeling of “Otokoyaku Minami Maito!” And also depending on the difference of dancing, I’d focus on my bodyline and how the white shirt and the black jacket juxtapositions, and I’d also have to pay attention to how I do my hairstyle for the dance.
TILL NOW, MY FAVOURITE...
90. Song –> Nathan’s song when he was thinking about the difficulties with his father in “Stardom”
91. Dance –> “SANTE!!” where I paired up with Seto-san in the dance and when I danced as the character of Death in the bullfight scene choreographed by Yan-san in “Beautiful Garden -A Profusion of Flowers-”.
92. Costume –> That white and orange gradation jacket and that it was fluttering on the sides of the costume in the Finale of “DREAM ON!”
93. Scene –> In “For the People: Lincoln, the Man Who Sought Freedom”, when I saluted to Todoroki-san playing as Lincoln till Elmer died. (Mr) Lincoln was probably far away from where was, but he called out “Elmer!!” to [when Elmer died]. I really like how the flow of sentiments from Elmer was delivered to (Mr) Lincoln like that.
94. Still –> “CASANOVA” where I had a new image there.
95. Lines –> In “Messiah -The Legend of Shiroh Amakusa-” that final battle scene where [Matsudaira Nobutsuna] (her role) successfully advances and then he later said “You couldn’t come forward, could you” I thought how much emotion could I put into this line and it was so important so I was nervous eery day when I spoke that.
96. Role –> I can’t choose!!
CHALLENGE 〇〇!!
97. Handgrip –> Right 42kg, Left 38.5 kg
98. Wink (could you do left and right?) –> I could do left and right
99. Sit and reach –> 30.5cm
100. Ken-dama (you were given 10 chances) –> Done in one try successfully!
Hello All (。◕‿◕。)
Today’s new release is volume 14 of Bronze by Ozaki Minami!
This is our joint project with the amazing Game over or Continue and its thier 21th anniversary! I can’t beleive that a year has passed by so quickly since it doesn’t seem like it at all. Many thanks to everyone who worked on this release since without all of them it wouldn’t be possiable.
Bronze Vol 14: (Media Fire) (Mega)
Enjoy the new release and Happy Reading~!
We just have volume 15 left then this iconic series will be complete.
Sorry, but I wanted to do this meme for way too long, and spent too much time digging for the right caps not to share it lol.
Explanation time, because some people are probably going “what the hell” - character number one (caps 1-3) is Kojiro Hyuga known from Captain Tsubasa, character number two (cap 4) is Izumi Takuto, one of the main characters of one of the first hit yaoi manga, Zetsuai. The author of Zetsuai, Ozaki Minami, was a huge Captain Tsubasa fan and drew a lot of doujinshi for the series (cap no.3 comes from one of them, Touhou Retsuden) - and so, when she started drawing Zetsuai, she based the main couple, Izumi and Kouji, on her favorite characters, Hyuga and Wakashimazu.
Sooo basically Izumi is knockoff Hyuga and I can’t shut up about it and also think it’s hilarious.
(doujinshi cap taken from http://onami.free.fr/home.htm)
Everything shown is included. I will only sell these items as a lot. Included in this sale is three sets of art prints, three art books, a sticker sheet, a small note pad, 6 music CDs and the original official release Japanese VHS of Bronze. Everything except the Zodiac artbook (bottom) is in pristine brand new condition. The Zodiac artbook's jacket obi is torn from a move. Everything else about it is in perfect like new condition.
I am asking a firm price of $300 for everything. This price includes shipping within the US via USPS media mail. Any other location Or shipping method will incur an additional shipping fee. My price is non-negotiable and I will only accept paypal.