#stage: karakuri circus

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Karakuri Circus Stage Play -- Entertainment Station

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Karakuri Circus will get a stage play !!

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The Rising of The Shield Hero's Postponed Stage Play Newly Set for July 2021

    The official website for the postponed stage play adaptation of Aneko Yusagi's fantasy light novel series The Rising of the Shield Hero has announced that it is newly set to be performed at Theater Sun Mall in Tokyo from July 15 to 25, 2021.

   The stage play directed by Ken Ougida (Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits stage plays) was originally planned to be performed at COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA TT Hall in Osaka from March 27 to 29, 2020, then at Theater Sun Mall in Tokyo from April 2 to 12. However, all of the shows were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  All of the original cast members, including Yuuya Uno as Naofumi Iwatani and Karin Isobe as Raphtalia, are confirmed to return. Further details such as timetable and ticket sales will be announced at a later date.

          舞台『盾の勇者の成り上がり』 延期公演、２０２１年７月上演決定！ ↓↓↓https://t.co/Ep75FU9Qdk 【公演HP】https://t.co/Kux2WGP0mq 【日程】 ２０２１年７月１５日（木）～７月２５日（日） 【劇場】 シアターサンモール 【原作】 アネコユサギ 【原作イラスト】 弥南せいら#舞台盾の勇者 pic.twitter.com/b11n4NgN1l

— 舞台『盾の勇者の成り上がり』 (@shieldherostage) March 5, 2021

      The cast filmed a no-audience performance for a DVD/Blu-ray release at the original Osaka venue (COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA TT Hall) on March 27, 2020, the play's scheduled opening day. The 7,000-yen DVD and the 7,500-yen Blu-ray were released in Japan in September of the year. You can see how the cast portrayed their characters on stage in a two-minute PV below.

           Main cast: 

  Naofumi Iwatani: Yuuya Uno (Kunimitsu Tezuka in The Prince of Tennis musicals) 

Raphtalia: Karin Isobe (Sayaka Saeki in Bloom Into You stage play) 

Raphtalia (childhood): Elena Kamata  

Motoyasu Kitamura: Ikkei Yamamoto (Shuichirp Ohishi in The Prince of Tennis musicals) 

Ren Amaki: Yuuho Matsui (Shun Izuki in Kuroko's Basketball stage plays) 

Itsuki Kawasumi: Taiga Fukazawa (Masaru Saiga in Karakuri Circus stage play) 

Erhard: Maruyama Atsushi (Utsusemimaru/Kyoryu Gold in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger) 

Myne Sophia / Malty S. Melromarc: Sarah Emi Bridcutt (the anime voice cast of the character)

Slave dealer: Kotori Kojama 

Aultcray Melromarc XXXII: Isamu Ishizuka

Filo: Yuuna Sekine (Sakura Amamiya in New Sakura Wars the Stage) 

Knight Commander Nopus: Kenta Nishi  

Deputy Commander Sabre: Kiyoshi Ohno

Eyck: Ryuya Ishigami

            Source: Scissors Blitz press release

  © 2019 Yusagi Aneko/KADOKAWA/The Rising of the Shield Hero production committee

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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THE SAIMON FAMILY CASE recaps [9/13]

In which a demon makes a move, the greatest secret of the magical world is revealed, and a boy becomes supernaturally beautiful.

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PART 6

The first person narrator of the framing device shares a memory from May 19th, when he was in Tsuwano anticipating the next case. He was walking down Tonomachi street, a short distance behind a mother holding hands with two daughters; the three were Tsukumo Yumeji with little Emu and Nemu.

He was so wrapped up in looking at them that he didn’t notice him early enough.

He appeared in burial clothes—white kimono and pants, black prayer beads in his hand—and with the Noh mask of a white demon covering his face.

At his side was a sword.

--

The ninth murder happens right in front of Ajiro and Kirigirisu.

They’re walking down Tonomachi street, a short distance behind Tsukumo Yumeji holding hands with little Emu and Nemu.

They are so wrapped up in looking at the happy trio that they don’t notice him early enough.

A person in white hiding behind a demon mask comes out of nowhere and strikes Yumeji down with a sword.

Kirigirisu stands frozen in shock until Ajiro yells at him to call for help, himself breaking into a sprint to chase the white demon.

“Please, just hang on!” Kirigisu holds the still alive, but heavily bleeding woman. “The help is on the way!”

“...of seven stars,” Yumeji tells him with the last of her strength. “...with the Big Dipper…”

She dies on her way to the hospital.

This is the first incident in the case that was undoubtedly murder.

--

When the two detectives are being questioned by the police about Yumeji’s murder, they learn that this incident (and only this one, no other Saimon deaths) is considered an L Crime—something that can’t be revealed to the public unless through a very vague description. Ajiro knows this term well, as his own family’s murder case from 1970 is also considered an L Crime. But why Yumeji’s murder specifically?

The answer comes later when they talk to Uyama. He explains that another case has been going on simultaneously ever since the Saimon Case started. A murderer dubbed Shiroyasha (literally a “white demon”) kills people on 19th every month. Yumeji was therefore the 9th victim of both the Saimon Family Case and the Shiroyasha Case. Just looking at the dates involved, there has to be a connection between the two cases—but what is it?

--

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Ever since Kirigirisu watched the magic show in November, he’s been practicing the art of illusion: bought the Tarbell Course in Magic, trained whenever he had some free time, and expanded his arsenal of tricks, mostly using coins and cards. Kano is a wonderful spectator, who just like him is overtaken by surprise and wonder at even simple tricks and never demands to be taught their secrets. Ajiro comments positively on his progress and whenever they have to go to Tsuwano each month, they also visit the Magic Key, a magic shop in Yamaguchi owned by Tousen Maki, Yomiko’s mother. (Kirigirisu was afraid it would be a horrible faux-pas to have a fun shopping trip when investigating a murder, but the Saimons are deeply understanding of his passion.)

Kirigirisu finds some information about the Circus in all those magic books. They were never really the best performers in any era, but they did succeed at bringing magic and circus arts together for wide audiences. There’s even an old picture showing their famous old illusion, Courtisane and Bell, in which the performer appeared and disappeared inside three giant bells, seemingly teleporting between them in an instant, like a more dramatic version of the classic Cups and Balls. The method may seem obvious to anyone who knows about there being three Tamakos, but it seems that may not be the only secret behind the illusion.

It’s astounding how so many decades later Soga Tensui still performs a variant of Soga Tenju’s trick. History truly repeats itself.

Incidentally, Maki’s late husband, Tousen Yomi, created many magic tools used by the Circus. Yomi was unfortunately the classic type of a young genius who passed away too soon. As his wife, Maki is able to tell Kirigirisu a bit more about the secrets of the show.

For example, the Dancing Demon illusion uses a mirror box in which Tensui can hide. The stagehands bring in the wooden cross, position it over him, and Tensui takes care of the rest, the hanging edge of the black cloth allowing him to progressively climb on top of the cross without being seen. Once he reveals himself and the stagehands lower the cross, in the same moment the mirror box is being lowered through the trapdoor.

Adult Koyomi’s disappearance near the end also used a mirror, which was positioned beneath the chair so that she wouldn’t be seen as she entered the trapdoor.

As for the changing portraits on the front wall of the Origami Doll Box, it had all three illustrations already attached to it on top of each other. One just had to remove a picture reaching from the trapdoor, like pulling off a calendar page. 

Yomi was also the inventor of the Magic Hands… which, as it turns out, may have been not only a tool of magic, but of murder.

--

Back in January, Tsukumo Mitama fell and drowned in the bathtub in a locked room situation. The room had a window, but iron bars wouldn’t let even a child squeeze through.

Ajiro thinks that this “accident” may have been murder. The culprit would hide outside the window, wait for Mitama, then deploy the Magic Hands through the bars and do something to make the old woman fall, perhaps yank the bath mat away from under her feet.

There’s just one problem with that reasoning: only a single pair of Magic Hands was ever made, and at the time of the murder it was in the children bedroom in Kami-Saimon. Kotensui’s actor Saimon Juku must wear the Magic Hands at all times, even during sleep, so that he’s fully used to them. The only time he takes them off is when his brother Joukei is doing his own Kotensui training (Joukei is supposed to substitute for Juku in case of an emergency, though he never actually performed in the show before and he’s nowhere near as good as his brother.) Joukei claims that Juku was sleeping with the Magic Hands at the time of the murder.

--

A month later, in February, Akio was found in the family’s pond, he and all the fish electrocuted to death by a faulty water filter. The water was dyed red with the same chemicals the family used for the show.

The miraculous change of a transparent liquid into white “milk” or red “wine”, as well as they both turning transparent when mixed, were results of simple chemical reactions. As for the magically appearing fish, it was in the tank all along, but in a separated portion near the back covered with a mirror.

By the way, the illusion with the warrior’s burning fist was also possible thanks to chemistry. The heavy glove was first soaked in water for protection, then in acetone which was set aflame.

People like Kirigirisu, who barely knows anything about chemistry thanks to his amnesia, would never be able to fully explain the secret behind such an illusion. Similarly, those who didn’t consider the use of mirrors would never figure out much of the show. Without understanding the principles and tools behind the illusion, especially those based on new scientific inventions, maybe no one would be able to unravel an illusion.

Around that time, Kirigirisu reads two books recommended by Ajiro: Juuichi-mai no toranpu and Midare karakuri, both mystery novels written by an amateur magician Awasaka Tsumao. [Incidentally, both books were released by the publishing company Geneijo. I keep forgetting that it was an actual company and not just the place from Joker.] The first of these novels actually features an explanation of how a red liquid could turn transparent.

Kirigirisu realizes that reading and watching more media related to magic could help him solve the case, especially after he and Kano watch that one episode of Columbo with a magician, in which Peter Falk’s hand is intact after seemingly being cut off with an arm guillotine in a magic shop. The secret behind the illusion (as Tousen Maki explains to Kirigirisu) is that the blade is actually L-shaped, and the magician can secretly rotate it a certain way to avoid slicing through someone’s hand. If he makes a mistake, it could result in a seriously bruised wrist… or, if one is particularly unlucky, a missing hand or even death.

Just like what happened to the victim of March 19th, Saimon Chisato.

The next incident from April 19th was Daisetsu’s death from alcohol poisoning. This too could be tied to one of the show’s illusions, Miser’s Drinks & Drops, in which a clown poured an endless stream of beer from an empty bottle. The secret here was that the beer was pumped from off-stage using a tube leading through the clown’s sleeve and into the bottle.

It’s becoming more and more obvious that each murder really is tied to the magic show.

--

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On May 19th, the serial murderer known as Shiroyasha runs away chased by Ajiro and several other people. Once he reaches the foot of a steep forested hill Shiroyasha suddenly stops, turns to face the pursuers with his arms crossed, then—starts flying backwards up the hill and disappears inside the forest. No one is able to find him afterwards.

Ajiro, Kirigirisu and Soga Tensui walk into each other in the hospital after Yumeji dies.

“Where is the other one, Tensui?” Ajiro asks.

“I am the only Tensui, Souji.”

“No one asked. Answer my question, Gensui.” Ajiro seems unusually furious.

“My older brother should be inside Seiryoin right now.”

“Should be or is? Do we have a way to check?”

“Only by going there.”

Once the three arrive at the pond, Soga Tensui starts his Sea Walk towards the island. Kirigirisu is surprised seeing Ajiro follow in his footsteps with no hesitation.

“What are you standing there for, Kirigirisu? Let’s go!”

Kirigirisu carefully steps forward and realizes there’s a hard surface underwater.

“Invisible boards,” Soga Tensui explains. “Made from transparent plastic. They reach all the way to the island.”

“But when I checked earlier, I could swear these weren’t here…”

“The boards have hinges. They can be turned in order to protect the secret.”

Once they make it to the island, Soga Tensui and Ajiro both casually walk through the wall. Kirigirisu follows them and realizes it’s not actually a wall, but hanging stripes of material with a printed pattern that looks like a wall from afar, a great example of trompe-l'œil.

But behind the fake wall there’s an actual wall, which also doesn’t seem to have a door.

“Once upon a time, only Saimon Tamako could enter this place,” Soga Tensui says. “Now it’s only me and my brother who know the trick. Open Sesame!”

Like in the old tale, the wall splits in half in front of them, revealing Tensui—the actual Tensui—sitting inside in his usual tailcoat.

“Have you been sitting here all this time?” Ajiro asks. Tensui nods in an answer, completely silent like always.

“I understand your suspicions, but he couldn’t be the same man who killed Yumeji,” Gensui says. “It would be next to impossible for him to make it back here so fast, and even then he would be spotted. Neither of us could do it.”

Even while listening to Gensui’s fair observations, Kirigirisu can’t help but feel that something is off here. His intuition keeps telling him that no one else other than one or both of the two brothers can be the culprit of the Saimon Family Case. But how?

--

As they leave the shrine, Gensui explains how the hidden door works. When one brother outside shouts “Open Sesame!”, the one who’s inside opens it using a machine—yet another invention of Tousen Yomi. This makes it so no one can enter the shrine if the brother inside doesn’t want them to. If both Soga Tensuis have to be outside at the same time, like during a show tour, they use a special tool to close the passage.

“Gensui,” Ajiro suddenly says looking up at the shrine, ��this really is supposed to be Yumedono, isn’t it? I didn’t notice at first, since you’ve been using a different pronunciation.”

Kirigirisu has no idea what he means, but Ajiro seems full of confidence as he looks straight at Gensui and continues.

“I think this Seiryoin is actually Shouryouin (聖霊院). The “temple” of the “holy” “ghost”.”

“Oh, I really didn’t tell you that’s how you wrote it,” Gensui says. “It’s not that I tried to hide anything, you just haven’t asked and I forgot.”

Kirigirisu is still confused why they’re talking about it now, so Ajiro adds another hint.

“It has something to do with the last words Yumeji told you.”

...of seven stars… with the Big Dipper…

“She told you what she noticed during the attack,” Ajiro continues. “Shiroyasha’s sword had seven stars engraved on the blade in the shape of the Big Dipper. Just like the Sword of Seven Stars kept in the Shitennou-ji temple in Osaka. Shiroyasha having a sword with seven stars is yet another point in common, just like Shouryouin resembling Yumedono...”

Kirigirisu is still lost, but Ajiro doesn’t waste time on further explanations.

“Gensui, if we are to solve Shiroyasha’s case, I think it’s time for a lecture on the secret you’ve been hiding from Kirigirisu. The biggest secret of the magical world.”

“So the time has finally come,” Gensui says in a serious tone.

--

Gensui invites the detectives to the stage by the house, the same place where Saimon Tamako died. Ajiro is straightforward about deeply suspecting him and Tensui.

“I understand your thoughts, Souji,” Gensui answers. “But we are not murderers. We wouldn’t request your help if we were.”

“Requesting detective services is not proof of innocence. All the incidents are related to illusions and props from the show. Until we explain the connection, my doubts won’t clear.” Ajiro really seems angrier than usual, probably because he witnessed the murder of a woman looking so similar to his wife. “I don’t want to brag, but when I was part of the field-and-track team in my school years, I stood at the top of the country. No one could beat my hundred meter sprint record. I spend my free time running. It’s unthinkable that I wouldn’t be able to catch up with that masked man. Even among all the Circus athletes I can think of only two members of the Troupe who could be that fast and match the man’s physique: you and Tensui. What’s more, the masked man then floated up a hill without moving his limbs. There are maybe five magicians in Japan I know of that could perform such a feat. Physical constitution, knowledge of illusion, ability to act, terrain familiarity—all of that together leads to you two.”

Gensui takes the accusation calmly; he understands he’s the most suspicious person right now (if we assume someone from the Circus was at fault), and promises to keep helping them. Ajiro calms down a little.

"If the hypothesis about the incidents symbolizing the illusions is correct," Gensui says, "then today's case must relate to the warrior pierced with a sword… Well then, before we reveal the greatest secret of the magical world, let us touch upon illusions that have to do with penetrating and bending. Actually, Kirigirisu—I’ve heard you have improved lately. Would you please demonstrate an effect of this kind?"

It's a bit stressful when two magicians observe your act, but Kirigirisu performs the classic Coin Through Handkerchief and Coin Through Hand, and the others give him a small applause and words of praise.

Gensui then shows his own illusion: produces a 500 yen bill, folds it a few times, sets it on fire with a lighter, and once it burns out he's holding a 500 yen coin instead—which is not a coin denomination that would actually exist in 1978. (Kirigirisu thinks that Gensui actually switched the bill with a piece of flash paper before using the lighter.)

Gensui then magically perforates the coin with a cigarette, pulls it out, and lets the coin be inspected. Kirigirisu figures out that he must have used a gimmick that has an openable hole in it, but swapped it for a normal coin before letting it be inspected. Gensui confirms this hypothesis, then explains that these sort of gimmicks can't really be sold openly, since fake coins are prohibited in Japan… and right after he says that, he gives both coins to Kirigirisu. (Is it okay to accept presents from a suspect? Ajiro doesn't say anything, so…)

"The flag penetration in the show works on a similar principle." Gensui has them hold the big flag of Japan and demonstrates getting his fist through it only from the front. Apparently there is a vertical slit in the material that the audience won't spot if it's pushed gently from behind.

For the purposes of yet another explanation Gensui asks Kirigirisu to lend him a bill. But before the detective can pull out his wallet, Ajiro suddenly springs to occasion.

"It won't make any difference if I lend you one of mine, right?" There's a challenge in his voice.

"Not at all."

"I have all sorts of denominations, would you prefer a particular one?"

"Anything but one thousand yen should do."

Kirigirisu is a bit surprised (what kind of an illusion can't be done with specifically a 1000 yen bill?), but Ajiro says nothing and pulls out 10,000 yen. Gensui swiftly perforates the bill with a pen between the portrait and the watermark (a bit strange location to choose), removes the pen and gives the bill back completely intact. The secret this time is that the pen can be split in half, each part having a magnet at the end.

"It seems like it would work with any bill," Kirigirisu points out. "Why not with the 1000 yen one?"

"Please do not read too much into it." Gensui gives him a bitter, somewhat awkward smile. "It is simply an issue of personal interest. About fifteen years ago, there was a case of mass counterfeiting. As a result, the authorities changed the portrait printed on the 1000 yen bill. That change felt quite unsettling at the time, and we ended up not using this particular bill at all afterwards…"

"We—you mean yourself and Tensui?"

"No. I mean everyone related to our family. Whether a Saimon, a Tsukumo or a Tousen, not a single one of us will ever use that bill."

Kirigirisu once again gets the feeling that something is very odd here.

Ajiro doesn't say anything, just nods a few times with an intense expression, as if a hypothesis he was testing just got confirmed.

--

Done with explaining illusions to do with penetration, Gensui moves to the next topic, bending. The term reminds Kirigirisu of Uri Geller, who claims he’s able to bend spoons with the power of his mind.

“I have never personally met Uri Geller, so I cannot be sure whether he really is a psychic or not,” Gensui says. “There are many unbelievable phenomena in this world, and it would be dangerous to make claims before seeing something with your own two eyes. What I can say is that all of Uri Geller’s extraordinary feats can be reenacted by performing mental magic. Before he became known as a self-proclaimed psychic, he was a magician. A lot of those who claim to have special powers are magicians, I would say. Some even perform illusions looking like miracles and start religions.”

He seems very bitter. Ajiro adds that with the current boom for “supernatural powers”, some people start believing in “true” magic and become condescending towards magicians, treating them like “fakes”. It even led to job loss in the industry.

To brighten up the mood, Gensui shows them another illusion, Spoon Bending in the Sky. He throws a normal-looking spoon up and it falls down already bent. The method is very simple: the magician just brings the spectator’s attention to the sky before quickly pushing the spoon against his body and throwing it.

Ajiro adds that a lot of illusions rely on the spectator’s preconceptions. For example, spoons aren’t even that hard to bend.

Kirigirisu is a bit shocked at all those revelations, since he always believed in Uri Geller’s powers. Even when he and Kano once tried bending spoons with brutal force, it wouldn’t work, and besides, there was one show in which Uri Geller demonstrated he can fix the viewers’ clocks—and it worked with their own clock!

Ajiro has to explain to him that a mechanical clock can stop working due to problems with oil, but can magically start functioning again when said oil is warmed up… for example, in the hands of an excited viewer told by Uri Geller to hold the clock tight. No wonder many people believe in supernatural powers after those TV performances.

Ajiro then passes him a spoon from Gensui, asking that Kirigirisu tries bending it. He can’t. However, when Ajiro shows him how to position his hand to use the principle of leverage, he can bend the spoon with the slightest amount of force.

Now that the spoon tangent is done… Gensui gives Kirigirisu his lighter to investigate. It looks like a normal cheap plastic lighter. Gensui takes it back, covers it with his hands for a moment, uncovers it, and the plastic part is now bent. A lighter bending like that is clearly impossible… so was there a switch? But when…?

“The method is quite the same as in Change The World,” Gensui brings up the illusion he showed them months ago, the single disappearing card. “I will lecture you on that too, eventually.”

(Kirigirisu realizes at this moment that by letting himself be pulled into the world of magic so easily, his mind is being misdirected away from the case. It’s quite scary. Perhaps this sort of attractive force of illusion may be lurking behind the case too...)

“Just one more example: Chopsticks Bending.” Gensui holds two wooden chopsticks, asks Kigiririsu to choose one, them gives him the chosen chopstick and keeps the other. The detective isn’t even sure where to start, but Gensui somehow manages to make the end of his chopstick bend.

Kirigirisu actually guesses the method behind this one. It’s based on the principle known as equivocation or forcing: giving the spectator an apparently free choice that actually is anything but free. Kirigirisu chose a chopstick and got it handed to him. But if he tried to choose the other one, Gensui would just go "all right, I'll use this one for the show, you can take the other one". By doing that, Gensui would always get to keep his choice: the prepared chopstick that was already bent, and could be held in such a way to hide it before the reveal.

Gensui finally explains why he’s giving them all these lectures right now: because the sword illusion in the show was an example of both penetration and bending.

"Harimoto Isao, one of the greats of the Japanese baseball scene, once used a phrase I like: Hit the ball making use of your bat bending. A baseball bat is of course made of hard material and won't bend that much even with a forceful swing. What you actually need is achieving a swing so splendid that you're under the illusion that even the bat got significantly bent."

Kirigirisu has already heard that name somewhere before. Harimoto Isao... one of the people featured on the posters in the local bar. Is Gensui also a fan...?

Gensui reveals that Harimoto Isao's words were what inspired him to create the illusion with the sword. It's not actually made of steel; it's a special type of plastic.

"But enough theory already, time for practice. Let me show you the actual effect." Gensui reaches behind his back and—retrieves a sword. "A magician is prepared for every situation," he says seeing their faces. "Planning is our entire life. Souji, won't you please use this sword to stab me?" He passes it to Ajiro and presents his defenseless body. "Go ahead. No need to hold back."

Ajiro and Gensui stand against each other.

A confrontation between a detective and a murderer—is what comes to Kirigirisu's mind.

Ajiro wields the sword with grace, gallant like a true warrior. Gensui points at his own body in encouragement.

Ajiro makes a move and stabs just where Gensui is pointing to, between the buttons of his dress shirt. In an instant, the tip of the blade sticks out of Gensui's back.

But Gensui is completely fine, takes the sword out and asks Kirigirisu to have a go at him next. Kirigirisu hesitates.

"If you're still worried, let me make this easier to understand." Gensui takes off his tailcoat and shirt, leaving only a thin undershirt over his well-tempered physical beauty. [Yes, this is how the narration describes it. Thanks, Seiryoin.] There's something like a tube attached to his body. When Kirigirisu stabs into its opening, the blade bends inside the tube, wrapping around Gensui's side and emerging from another opening in the back.

"Today's incident was meant to allude to this illusion," Gensui says removing the sword and putting his clothes back on, "though of course the sword used was an entirely different one. You wouldn't be able to kill someone with the gimmick."

Ajiro doesn't seem fully satisfied, saying there is another illusion alluded to by today's incident: Soga Tensui's famous Sky Walk. Shiroyasha escaped by floating up a hill.

Gensui makes sure to properly fix his bowtie in place before answering to Ajiro’s accusation.

"It feels like you want me to be the culprit no matter what," he says bitterly. "While I haven't witnessed it myself, I've been told Shiroyasha floated up rather than Sky Walked."

"Is there a difference?" Kirigirisu asks.

"They are quite different things. Two types of illusions can take the magician in the air, floating and flying. Floating means just simply being in the air above ground. Flying additionally means the magician is moving around at will. My Sky Walk is neither of these. To walk in the air, I use "the biggest secret of the magical world" that Souji mentioned. We already got so far with our lectures that I simply cannot hide that secret any longer. I will gladly allow you to know it, Kirigirisu. You are both the ideal spectator and an excellent magician."

Gensui takes out the pouch that held those chopsticks from earlier. "Kirigirisu, do you think that invisible thread really exists? Just like the one made into clothing in Emperor's New Clothes?" As he speaks, he mimes tying thread around the pouch, and it suddenly rises a little… supported by Gensui's own finger from behind. "That was just a little trick on the side, don't worry. Now, let me show you the true invisible illusion."

He gestures to his bowtie, then moving his hands strangely makes it start magically floating. (Kirigirisu emits a surprised "oh!" that almost sounds like Uyama the journalist.) In the middle of this spectacle his fingers suddenly go still, and so does the bowtie—in mid-air.

"Please look closely at the bowtie, Kirigirisu," he says. "...a bit closer, please." (Kirigirisu is so close he almost touches Gensui, but still can't see anything.) "Closer!"

Kirigirisu puts his face right next to the bowtie and only then—sees it. It's so minuscule that at first he's not even sure if he's not just seeing things.

"Is this… thread…?"

"The newest weapon in the arsenal of magic, our biggest secret. The invisible thread."

Kirigirisu has heard about magicians using thread, but never of a version this delicate. It’s hard to see even from a centimeter away. But doesn’t that mean even the magician himself can’t see the thread while performing? It’s true. Gensui explains that using it effectively is still possible with enough training and relying on touch.

Invisible threads of different strength were used all throughout the magic show. For example, the globe ball hit the ground without bouncing not because it was heavy, but because it was suspended on just enough length of thread that it wouldn’t actually hit the ground. The loud sound was pre-recorded. As the ball was already suspended, it’s easy to explain how it would then start floating. The globe was actually a red ball covered in flash paper with the Earth’s map printed on it, so it could be ignited easily and would leave behind a red surface, making it seem like the clown was extinguishing a still burning ball with his cape. After the ball zoomed over the auditorium enough, it returned to the stage and was tackled by the clown. During the fake struggle, the clown cut the invisible thread and covered the ball with another piece of cloth: the big flag of Japan. Then the ball and the first cloth were taken off-stage through the trapdoor below, making it seem like the ball got flattened and disappeared, leaving the flag behind.

The invisible thread was also what allowed the giant flag card to rise from its deck and what was used to pull a glass pane into the frame in the mirror double illusion—just like Kirigirisu suspected earlier, the glass pane really was attached at a 90 degree angle to the frame. This doesn’t explain its sudden change into a mirror at the end, but Gensui wants to leave that explanation for a little later.

Ajiro strongly suspects that Shiroyasha used invisible thread tied to trees on the hill to pull himself up. Gensui can’t deny the possibility.

“Few people would be able to do it. If your hypothesis is correct, then it’s true that only my brother and I fulfill all the criteria for being the culprit. It’s quite a complicated feeling—to help strengthen accusations against yourself…”

Kirigirisu follows with another question out of curiosity: was invisible thread what allowed Kotensui to take a stroll in the air?

“It was, except it wasn’t him that was suspended, but the individual stairs under his feet. We used invisible boards, similar to the ones in the pond.”

And another invisible board attached to Tensui’s shoes allowed him to be pulled off stage without him moving his limbs.

That’s all fine and good, but Tensui’s Sky Walk near the end seemed a bit different than Kotensui’s stroll; more of an actual walk than climbing stairs.

Gensui demonstrates it again by Sky Walking off the stage and over the auditorium, where he stops and beckons the detectives to come and take a look. Once again Kirigirisu has to move really close before he spots a length of invisible thread that must be stretching all the way from the stage to somewhere in the auditorium. Gensui is balancing on top of it. The Sky Walk is actually a tightrope walk.

Gensui asks them to sit down for a moment while he shows them the last illusion of the lecture. He Sky Walks back to the stage, bows to the almost empty auditorium, then raises his right hand. The lights turn off, leaving only a spotlight for him. He raises his right hand again and the spotlight also disappears, only to return the next moment—

—but instead of Gensui, standing in the spotlight is a little boy in a tailcoat. One of Tensui’s twins. As far as Kirigirisu can tell from the boy’s confident stance, it’s Juku.

The spotlight blinks off and on again, returning Gensui to the stage instead. All other lights are turned on again, but there’s no sight of Juku (or Joukei?) anywhere. Gensui invites the detectives back to the stage and shows them a giant pane of glass standing there, turned 45 degrees so it partially faces both the auditorium and the backstage. 

Ajiro explains that with proper lighting a pane of glass can work as a mirror, just like when you see your own reflection in a window when standing in a bright room at night.

“This principle is used for many illusions,” Gensui adds. “When you were paying attention to my Sky Walk just now, Juku quickly prepared the glass. Then I stood behind the tilted pane and gave Joukei the signal to change the lighting. In the same moment when the stage was left completely dark, a spotlight illuminated Juku, who was standing in the backstage. The glass reflected his image.” A similar principle was used in the show, with the framed glass in an instant reflecting Tensui’s elegant image instead of showing the warrior on the other side. “Juku, Joukei, thank you so much for the help.”

He gestures to the backstage where the boys are standing, one in a dignified pose, the other with his usual air of helplessness. Joukei bows clumsily and scuttles away. Juku just gives them a quiet, expressionless look, and just before he leaves with his brother, he mutters a quiet kudaranai… ima wa kudaranai. The same strange line Kirigirisu heard from him a few months ago.

“Gensui, why does Juku keep repeating that?”

Gensui once again smiles in that somewhat strained, bitter way.

“It seems to be his favorite phrase. Saimon Tamako used to repeat it all the time. You know how children sometimes mindlessly parrot someone’s words.” 

This sounds like a fair explanation, but Ajiro’s face suddenly becomes grim as his eyes follow the leaving twins. Gensui falls eerily silent before announcing the lecture is over and asking if they have any questions.

“Did your Change The World also use invisible thread?” Kirigirisu asks.

“Oh my, you guessed it. I attached the thread to the card using magician’s wax, then put it on top of your card in my hand. When I was moving my other hand over it, I pulled the card up my sleeve at the right moment.“

Gensui doesn’t want to show them Change The World again for fear of it becoming too boring, so instead he asks for that gimmick coin he gave Kirigirisu.

“People tend to feel disappointment in magic after a lecture gives them a lot of answers, so I will leave you with a new interesting illusion to ponder. Here is the coin version of Change The World.” Gensui rolls his sleeves up. “I’m not going to use invisible thread or magician’s wax this time.”

He holds the coin on his open left palm, moves his right hand a far distance over it—and the coin has disappeared, just like that. No matter how hard Kirigirisu investigates, he can’t figure out where it may be hidden.

Yet another trick that Changes The World for Kirigirisu.

The case is close to changing its course too.

--

A month later, in the evening of June 19th, little Joukei suddenly goes missing. A few hours later he dies when a drunk driver hits him on the side of the dark road between Tsuwano and Yamaguchi.

The incident takes place even though both Soga Tensuis obediently spend the entire June 19th closed in Shouryouin together with Ajiro and Kirigirisu.

The drunk driver claims that he suddenly saw a car driving straight towards him and swerved to the side to avoid a head-on collision. Ajiro theorizes that someone brought Joukei there, had him stand in the right place, and put a pane of glass on the road, so it reflected the cars from the other lane—a driver who saw those phantom cars coming straight at him would instinctively drive to the side to escape, accidentally hitting Joukei in the process. But it’s just a theory with many gaps and the police classifies the case as a normal traffic accident.

After Joukei’s death, something... strange happens to his brother Juku.

Even his own family can’t explain it. It’s like the boy’s unusual angelic beauty became even more perfect, the sight of his eyes not only making others forget about the world, but outright making them fall unconscious. The boy is given a pair of sunglasses to shield the world from his unreal beauty and still repeats as if possessed: kudaranai… ima wa kudaranai.

--

A month later, on July 19th, Tsukumo Souma falls into the tank while feeding the sharks and is torn apart. It’s the third Tsukumo to die, after his mother Mitama and wife Yumeji. The sharks are quickly relocated to a professional aquarium in Tottori.

--

A month later, on August 19th, the former yakuza boss Fujita Kyuuzou is stung by a hornet in his garden and dies due to anaphylaxis. Other people from the house can clearly hear the insect’s buzzing in the garden at the time, though nobody can spot it.

This makes the twelfth victim of the Saimon Family Case; an entire dark year full of death. Shiroyasha also continues his own simultaneous murder spree in that mysterious darkness.

But perhaps a new dawn is starting to show on the horizon; the clues are just waiting for the right detective to put them together.

--

[>>>NEXT PART>>>]

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[Video] March releases you will need a proxy for

☆ March 2020 舞台劇『からくりサーカス』～デウス・エクス・マキナ（機械仕掛けの神）編～ (butaigeki karakuri circus ~deus ex machina (kikaijikake no kami) hen~)

☆ March 12th, 2020 舞台「魔法使いの嫁」(butai mahoutsukai no yome)

☆ March 13th, 2020 シザーブリッツ・オーセンティックステージ 舞台「キャッシュ・オン・デリバリー」(scissors blitz authentic stage ~ butai cash on delivery)

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[Stages] OCTOBER 2019

♪ October 3rd, 2019 ~ October 6th, 2019 進戯団 夢命クラシックス 15周年記念公演 #23「Lullaby」(shingidan yumei classics kessei 15 shuunen kinen kouen vol.1 #23 ~lullaby~)

♪ October 5th, 2019 ~ October 14th, 2019 舞台「魔法使いの嫁」(butai mahoutsukai no yome)

♪ October 5th, 2019 ~ October 27th, 2019 エン*ゲキ#04「絶唱サロメ」(en＊geki #4 zesshou salome)

♪ October 8th, 2019 ~ October 9th, 2019 ミュージカル『テニスの王子様』秋の大運動会 2019 (musical tennis no oujisama aki no daiundoukai 2019)

♪ October 10th, 2019 ~ October 19th, 2019 舞台劇『からくりサーカス』～デウス・エクス・マキナ（機械仕掛けの神）編～ (butaigeki karakuri circus ~deus ex machina (kikaijikake no kami) hen~)

♪ October 10th, 2019 ~ October 20th, 2019 五右衛門マジック (goemon magic)

♪ October 10th, 2019 ~ October 15th, 2019 アイ★チュウ ザ・ステージ～Rose Écarlate Deux～ (i★chuu the stage ~rose écarlate deux~)

♪ October 10th, 2019 ~ October 14th, 2019 乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 美少女戦士セーラームーン 2019 (nogizaka46 ban musical bishoujo senshi sailor moon 2019)

♪ October 10th, 2019 ~ October 14th, 2019 シザーブリッツ・オーセンティックステージ 舞台「キャッシュ・オン・デリバリー」(scissors blitz athentic stage ~ butai cash on delivery)

♪ October 12th, 2019 ~ October 21st, 2019 劇団シャイニング from うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪『エヴリィBuddy!』(gekidan shining from uta no☆princesama♪ every buddy!)

♪ October 12th, 2019 ~ November 10th, 2019 ミュージカル『忍たま乱太郎』第10弾 再演 これぞ忍者の大運動会だ！(musical nintama rantarou dai 10 dan saien ~korezo ninja no daiundoukai da!~)

♪ October 14th, 2019 ~ December 15th, 2019 舞台『里見八犬伝』(butai satomi hakkenden)

♪ October 15th, 2019 ~ October 2019 エン*ゲキ#04「絶唱サロメ」(en＊geki #4 zesshou salomé)

♪ October 23rd, 2019 ~ October 27th, 2019 舞台「OZMAFIA!! ~Sink into oblivion~」(butai ozmafia!! ~sink into oblivion~)

♪ October 23rd, 2019 ~ October 27th, 2019 舞台「ピオフィオーレの晩鐘～運命の白百合～」(butai piofiore no banshou ~unmei no shirayuri~)

♪ October 24th, 2019 ~ November 3rd, 2019 舞台「銀河英雄伝説 Die Neue These ～第三章～」(butai ginga eiyuu densetsu die neue these ~daisanshou~)

♪ October 24th, 2019 ~ October 28th, 2019 Otona Project第二十七弾 演劇ユニット 爆走おとな小学生 第十二回全校集会『勇者セイヤンの物語（仮）』(otona project dai 27 dan engeki unit bakusou otona shougakusei dai 12 kai zenkou shuukai ~ yuusha seiyan no monogatari (kari))

♪ October 24th, 2019 ~ November 2nd, 2019 首都争奪バトル舞台 四十七大戦 -開戦！鳥取編- (shuto soudatsu battle stage 47 taisen -kaisen! tottori hen-)

♪ October 25th, 2019 ~ November 10th, 2019 舞台版『PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス Chapter1―犯罪係数―』 (butaiban psycho-pass chapter 1 -hanzai keisuu-)

♪ October 25th, 2019 ~ December 10th, 2019 ライブ・スペクタクル NARUTO -ナルト- ~暁の調べ~ (live spectacle naruto ~ akatsuki no shirabe)

♪ October 30th, 2019 ~ November 4th, 2019 ミュージカル『青春-AOHARU-鉄道』コンサート Rails Live 2019 (musical aoharu tetsudou concert rails live 2019)

♪ October 30th, 2019 ~ November 4th, 2019 舞台「ゲームしませんか？」(butai game shimasen ka?)

♪ October 30th, 2019 ~ November 4th, 2019 「 ツキステ。」 第9幕 「しあわせあわせ」(tsukisute. stage 9 ~ shiawase awase)

♪ October 31st, 2019 ~ November 6th, 2019 LIVEミュージカル演劇『チャージマン研！』(live musical engeki ~ chargeman ken!)

♪ October 31st, 2019 ~ November 10th, 2019 Patch stage vol.13「カーニバル！x13」(patch stage vol. 13 ~ carnival! x13)

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GUIDA SIMULCAST - Inverno 2019

Giorni e orari delle serie in simulcast per l’Italia sulle varie piattaforme di streaming ufficiale.

Di seguito trovate l’elenco di tutte le serie distribuite ufficialmente in italiano (sottotitolate e/o doppiate) attualmente in simulcast/latecast presso le piattaforme di streaming che ne detengono i diritti. I titoli sono catalogati per giorno ed elencati secondo l’orario di uscita della puntata, in modo da creare un vero e proprio calendario settimanale completo di link alla scheda con le info sulla serie e a quella del catalogo della piattaforma. Buona visione!

LUNEDÌ

13:00 SAINT SEIYA SAINTIA SHO - Crunchyroll

15:30 DORORO - Prime Video *

17:30 THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS A SLIME - Crunchyroll

17:30 MOB PSYCHO 100 II - Crunchyroll

20:35 KEMONO FRIENDS 2 - Crunhyroll

MARTEDÌ

12:25 BLACK CLOVER - Crunchyroll

13:00 SHONEN ASHIBE GO! GO! GOMA-CHAN - Crunchyroll

16:00 WATATEN! AN ANGEL FLEW DOWN ON ME - Crunchyroll

19:00 RAINY COCOA SIDEG - Crunchyroll

19:30 RINSHI!! EKODACHAN - Crunchyroll

20:30 RUN WITH THE WIND - Crunchyroll

MERCOLEDÌ

15:15 KEMURIKUSA - Prime Video *

16:30 THE RISING OF THE SHIELD HERO - Crunchyroll

18:00 MEIJI TOKYO RENKA - Crunchyroll

18:00 MY ROOMMATE IS A CAT - Crunchyroll

18:30 VIRTUALSAN - LOOKING - Crunchyroll

GIOVEDÌ

12:00 FIGHT LEAGUE: GEAR GADGET GENERATORS - Crunchyroll

15:30 KARAKURI CIRCUS - Prime Video *

17:30 GIRLY AIR FORCE - Crunchyroll

20:00 THE PROMISED NEVERLAND - VVVVID

23:00 THE QUINTESSENTIAL QUINTUPLETS - Crunchyroll

VENERDÌ

15:00 BOOGIEPOP AND OTHERS - Crunchyroll

16:30 A CERTAIN MAGICAL INDEX III - Crunchyroll

17:00 HINOMARU SUMO - Crunchyroll

17:00 THE PRICE OF SMILES - Crunchyroll

18:05 JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: GOLDEN WIND - Crunchyroll

18:40 DOMESTIC GIRLFRIEND - Crunchyroll

20:10 MAGICAL GIRL SPEC-OPS ASUKA - Crunchyroll

21:00 LE BIZZARRE AVVENTURE DI JOJO: VENTO AUREO - VVVVID

SABATO

02:30 BONO BONO - Crunchyroll

11:15 MONSTER STRIKE THE ANIMATION - Crunchyroll

13:00 ACE ATTORNEY SEASON 2 - Crunchyroll

13:15 RADIANT - Crunchyroll

15:30 MONONOKEAN L’IMBRONCIATO II - Yamato Animation 

20:00 KATANA MAIDENS ~ MINI TOJI - Crunchyroll

21:00 SWORD ART ONLINE: ALICIZATION - VVVVID

23:30 FAIRY TAIL FINAL SEASON - Crunchyroll  

DOMENICA

03:30 GEGEGE NO KITARO (2018) - Crunchyroll

10:00 BORUTO - NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS - Crunchyroll

17:45 HOW CLUMSY YOU ARE, MISS UENO - Crunchryoll

18:00 MYSTERIA FIRENDS - Crunchyroll

LATECAST

19 MARZO BAKI (Seconda parte) - Netflix

20 MARZO HI SCORE GIRL EXTRA STAGE - Netflix

* orario indicativo

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2.5D Stage Plays and Musicals - January 2019

These are the Stage Plays and Musicals runnig during January 2019:

★ Musical Tennis no Ouji-Sama 3rd Season: Seigaku VS Shitenhouji (2018-12-20 to 2019-02-17)

[Official Website]

★ Ensemble Stars! Extra Stage ～Memory of Marionette～ (2018-12-28 to 2019-02-15)

[Official Website]

★ Karakuri Circus (2019-01-10 to 2019-01-20)

[Official Website]

★ Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE -Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia- (2019-01-11 to 2019-01-27)

[Official Website]

★ Gyakuten Saiban -Gyakuten no GOLD MEDAL- (2019-01-16 to 2019-01-21)

[Official Website]

★ Akuma to Tenshi (2019-01-19 to 2019-03-03)

[Official Website]

★ Musical Touken Ranbu - Mihotose no Komoriuta (2019-01-20 to 2019-03-24)

[Official Website]

★ Mankai Stage "A3!" ~AUTUMN & WINTER 2019~ (2019-01-31 to 2019-03-24)

[Official Website]

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FALL ANIME 2018 LIST

Akanesasu Shoujo

Anima Yell!

Bakumatsu

Barangay 143 i

Beatless: Final Stage

Beelzebub-jou no Okinimesu mama.

Castlevania Season 2 (Netflix)

Conception

Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu

Double Decker! Doug & Kirill

Fairy Tail (2018)

FLCL Alternative

Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san

Gakuen Basara

Goblin Slayer

Golden Kamuy 2nd Season

Gurazeni Season 2

Gyakuten Saiban: Sono "Shinjitsu," Igiari! Season 2

Han-Gyaku-sei Million Arthur

Hinomaru Zumou

Hora, Mimi ga Mieteru yo!

Ingress the Animation

Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara

Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken: Ougon no Kaze

Karakuri Circus

Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuite Iru

Ken En Ken: Aoki Kagayaki

Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet

Kitsune no Koe

Merc Storia: Mukiryoku Shounen to Bin no Naka no Shoujo

Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja Nai

Radiant

Release the Spyce

RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida

Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai

Senran Kagura: Shinovi Master - Tokyo Youma-he

Sora to Umi no Aida

Souten no Ken: Regenesis 2nd Season

SSSS.Gridman

Sword Art Online: Alicization

Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

Thunderbolt Fantasy 2

Toaru Majutsu no Index III

Tokyo Ghoul:re 2nd Season

Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san

Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudou-bu

Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!

Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc to Renkin no Kishi

Yagate Kimi ni Naru

Zombieland Saga

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Sentai Filmworks Announces New Titles

Sentai Filmworks has revealed upcoming titles for it’s catalog in addition to it’s March 2021 home media slate the press release for each can be seen below:

Sentai announced today that it acquired distribution rights to the sci-fi psychological thriller series, pet. Sentai’s licensed territory includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Nordic Countries, Spain, Portugal and Central and South America.

Hiroki and Tsukasa can manipulate the minds memories of anyone they target. With that power comes a dangerous prospect for those who wield it — madness or even erasure of a person’s entire self. And yet, an intense bond protects their psyches from corruption. But that bond is threatened when a powerful crime syndicate plots to exploit Hiroki and Tsukasa’s gifts to commit horrific crimes. Now they must do the unimaginable if they are to live to see one another again. Is the price of reunion a shattered mind and destruction of everything held dear?

The series is animated by Geno Studio (Kokkoku, Golden Kamuy) and produced by Twin Engine (VINLAND SAGA, Karakuri Circus). Takahiro Omori (Amnesia, Durarara!!) directs with Sadayuki Murai (Knights of Sidonia, Cowboy Bebop) providing series composition. The series stars Kisho Taniyama (High School of the Dead, Psychic Squad) as Tsukasa, Yuki Ono (Chihayafuru 2, Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun) as Satoru and Yasuyuki Kase (Perfect Insider, Soul Eater) as Hayashi. Newcomer Keisuke Ueda (The Royal Tutor, Pet stage play adaptation) stars as Hiroki.

Sentai announced today that it acquired home video rights to sci-fi anime series Cagaster of an Insect Cage for the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Central America and South America.

The year is 2125 AD. The world was decimated three decades earlier by a devastating pathogen that mutates humans into horrific — and horrifically deadly — giant insects called Cagasters. While on a scavenging mission, Kidow, an Exterminator trained to target and destroy Cagasters, encounters a young girl named Ilie and her father fleeing a vicious Cagaster attack. Kidow must make a fateful decision to deliver Ilie safely to her mother, but Ilie harbors secrets that could forever alter the course of human history.

Cagaster of an Insect Cage is produced by Studio KAI (7SEEDS, Super Cub, Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle) and directed by Koichi Chigira (Full Metal Panic!, LASTEXILE, The Tower of Druaga series). The series stars Yoshimasa Hosoya (Akame ga Kill!, Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Megalo Box) as Kidow, Kana Hanazawa (IS: Infinite Stratos, Senryu Girl, The Garden of Words) as Ilie and Natsuki Hanae (Food Wars!, Outbreak Company, Demon Slayer) as Acht.

The series will be available on home video in March 2021.

 Sentai announced today that it acquired rights to Happy-Go-Lucky Days, a frank exploration of love, yearning and hidden desire. The feature length animated feature, a compilation of vignettes, is based on the works of Takako Shimura (Wandering Son). Sentai will distribute the picture in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Greenland, Faroe and Aland Islands, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Central America and South America, including Latin America.

Happy-Go-Lucky Days tells three unique stories of young people in Japan from very different backgrounds but who all must grapple with changes, in mind, body and soul, on their bittersweet journey from adolescence. From a forbidden crush, to the wedding of a former lover, to the burgeoning feelings for a childhood friend, each scenario may differ, but they have one thing in common: These are universally frank stories of humanity that will touch the hearts of audiences everywhere.

Produced by LIDENFILMS (Love and Lies, The Heroic Legend of Arsland), Happy-Go-Lucky Days is directed by Takuya Sato (Kase-san and Morning Glories, Strawberry Marshmallow), who also penned the film’s screenplay alongside Yasunori Ide (We Never Learn: BOKUBEN) and Yoriko Tomita (Real Girl, Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond).

The series stars Kana Hanazawa (The Garden of Words, Senryu Girl) as Ecchan, Mikako Komatsu (Blue Spring Ride, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) as Aya-san, Takahiro Sakurai (Hatsukoi Limited, The Fruit of Grisaia) as Mr. Sawa, Seiichiro Yamashita (Girls Beyond the Wasteland, Orange) as Yagasaki-kun, Ibuki Kido (RE-KAN!, Blade Dance of the Elementalers) as Shin-chan, Kaori Ishihara (Waiting in the Summer, Kokoro Connect) as Mika-chan, Ai Fairouzi (Kandagawa Jet Girls, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon) as Sayoko, Saori Hayami (Glasslip, anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day) as Yuri, Mutsumi Tamura (Tada Never Falls in Love, MADE IN ABYSS) as Yoriko-san and Nobunaga Shimazaki (My Love Story!!, Parasyte -the maxim-) as Tanabe-kun.

Happy-Go-Lucky Days will be available on HIDIVE on December 10, 2020 with a home video release and additional digital distribution to follow.

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About Sentai

A Cool Japan Fund portfolio company, Sentai is a leading global supplier of anime and official anime merchandise, distributing and curating one of the industry’s most diverse libraries of top trending and classic titles. Sentai offers thousands of hours of content across both traditional and digital platforms and is dedicated to bringing captivating stories and iconic characters directly from Japan. With hit series that include MADE IN ABYSS, Food Wars!, Princess Tutu and Parasyte -the maxim-, Sentai’s catalog continues to grow with new favorites like Bloom Into You, Revue Starlight and O Maidens in Your Savage Season, as well as classic anime series such as Legend of the Galactic Heroes and The Big O. For more information, visit www.sentaifilmworks.com.

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Note all songs don’t belong to me but to all to their respective owners If you want a link to all or a specific song ask comment or repost I probably will forget a few so I will update this This is only vocaloid songs although I do like other song that don’t involve them Some of these songs don’t have translations on them so I’m sorry if you ask the translations for them I recommend you check out these few artists because I love ALL of their songs: Pinochiop, Maretu, nuyuri and Keiichiro Shibuya (Album exclusive most songs by PINOCCHIOP, Neru and others will not be here since there are no translation or videos to them I could find if anybody needs them except this from PINOCCHIOPs new album human) http://forgetfulsubs.tumblr.com/post/154860191126/written-arranged-and-mixed-by-pinocchiop-from

Vocaloid: Rin Kagamine

Melancholic Meltdown Kokoro Tengaku Daughter of Evil Electric Angel Tokyo Teddy Bear Demon Girlfriend I Like You, I Love You Shade Slide Abstract Nonsense Pet Me Yuuyami to Orange Black Rebel Don’t My List Me! Robot Falling in Love Mermaid First Virus Resistance ( all chapters) Ataraxia The Lost Ones Weeping Last Stage Rare No Molecular Underfloor 0 Jailbreak I Want to be a Nice Person Vocaloid: Hatsune Miku

World is Mine Rolling Girl Goodbye of the Physicist The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku The Intense Voice of Hatsune Miku Hold, Release, Rakshasa and Carcasses Sekiranun Graffiti Levan Polkka Yellow Tell Your World Secret Police Love Love Nightmare Two Breaths Walking Melt Meteor Blushifying Phenomena 100% Bacterial Contamination That Girl Isn’t Scared of Me Two Faced Lovers Boss Death Embarasxxx The Path to Eternal Happiness I Found it Rocket Dive Idola Circus AaAaAaAaAaAaAaAa Banshee Strikes 3331 Hayabusa the Falcon Glass Wall 2D Dream Fever Jessica Crime and Punishment Common World Domination Lonely UFO Last Continue Tho Hello There Mr. Earthling Rotten Heresy and Chocolate Good Kid Medicine Matsuri Come On 1 Year Love is an Onomatopoeia What Children are Made of Doshite Theme Song I Just Hate People Obscene Humanity So Many No Nos (Ooparts Socket) m/es Core Slow Motion Crappy Fantasy Days At the Mercy of the Emptines Mushroom Mother Feast Absurdity Boku No Kusu Dakara Black Hole Hill Shopping District Tokyo Manequin Animaina Motivation is Dying Jizemi in the Underground Wonderful World Fireworks Monster Universe Weekly Shonen Byebye Fushigi No Kohanasaichi Memury Shabadaba Happy Very Happy Sorezore No Jinsei Ga Aru Planet Mashirake Gorgeous Big Conversation Tel Tel A Mutant in Love My Friend Was Good at Drawing Game Specter 2 Yumeneko Shi-bou Kaisan Shichatta Band (Ooparts Socket) All I Need Are the Things I Like Sayonara Human Usora Sera Everything About Animals I’m Glad Your Evil Too The End Vocaloid Opera Yusei Mashirake Elf Nobody Makes Sense Radial Decorator Game Addicts Sprechchor Kimo no Taion Brain Revolution Girl Coin Locker Baby Mind Brand Ever Since I Was Born Adolescents Suji Bangs I’m High Scrumize Monologue Packet Hero Last Day Sakura Dislusioned Kawaki Thirst Mugoba Rational Time Wanna Bear My Baby 39 Thank You Odds and Ends Daughter of Green

Vocaloid: Len Kagamine Fire Flower Servant of Evil Re-Birthday Vocaloid: Luka Magurine Thousand-Year Solo Luka Luka Night Fever RIP Released Double Lariat Depression of Cybernetics Black Gold Vocaloid: Gumi Megpoid My Crush was a Monster Boy Childhood Blues Masked Bitch Thousand Year Weingenlied (Hatsune Miku and Yawane Haku) Just Google it (Gakupo and Luka Magurine)

Large Group(5-10) Bad End Night (Rin and Len Kagamine, Hatsune Miku, Gumi Megpoid, Kaito, Gakupo, Meiko, and Luka Magurine)(all of this series I like) PartyxParty (Rin and Len Kagamine, Hatsune Miku, Kaito, Meiko, and Luka Magurine)

You don’t have to agree to this list but this is most of all the songs I’ve listened and still listen from the day I discovered vocaloid. 2 years pass by don’t they? Glad now that I didn’t spam @fatchicken ? Jk

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Karakuri Circus Stage Play

Live broadcast, Rehearsal report, Genepro report photos

Sources: x, x, Theatertainment, Stage Natalie

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Main cast, staff return for sequel returning to Tokyo

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The Rising of The Shield Hero Stage Play's Opening Performance Clip Introduces Its Main Cast Members

    After the postponement due to the effects of COVID-19, the stage play adaptation of Aneko Yusagi's fantasy light novel series The Rising of the Shield Hero finally opened in Tokyo on July 15. An opening performance clip to introduce its main cast members, including Yuuya Uno (Naofumi Iwatani), Karin Isobe (Raphtalia), Yuuna Sekine (Filo), Yuuya Asato (Motoyasu Kitamura), Riki Tanimizu (Ren Amaki), and Taiga Fukazawa (Itsuki Kawasumi), is now streamed. 

  The stage play directed by Ken Ougida (Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits stage plays) was originally planned to be performed in Osaka and Tokyo from March to April 2020. However, all of the shows were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And now it is newly set to be performed at Theater Sun Mall in Tokyo from July 15 to 25, 2021. Advance tickets have been already sold out, and only a few same-day tickets are available.

    Opening:

    舞台『盾の勇者の成り上がり』 オープニングアクトの動画を公開いたしました！ 是非ご覧ください！https://t.co/uKZXWUBlr4 【チケット(当日引換券)】 https://t.co/fIbGjl1j8r にて販売中！ 【当日券販売】https://t.co/gyNfdOgpAd 【公演HP】https://t.co/vKSM65zhRo#舞台盾の勇者#盾ステ pic.twitter.com/HNqrJhD12f

— 舞台『盾の勇者の成り上がり』 (@shieldherostage) July 20, 2021

    PV:

    Key visual:

     Main cast: 

  Naofumi Iwatani: Yuuya Uno (Kunimitsu Tezuka in The Prince of Tennis musicals) 

Raphtalia: Karin Isobe (Sayaka Saeki in Bloom Into You stage play) 

Raphtalia (childhood): Elena Kamata  

Filo: Yuuna Sekine (Sakura Amamiya in New Sakura Wars the Stage) 

Motoyasu Kitamura: Yuuya Asato  

Ren Amaki: Riki Tanimizu 

Itsuki Kawasumi: Taiga Fukazawa (Masaru Saiga in Karakuri Circus stage play) 

Erhard: Maruyama Atsushi (Utsusemimaru/Kyoryu Gold in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger) 

Myne Sophia / Malty S. Melromarc: Sarah Emi Bridcutt (the anime voice cast of the character)

Slave dealer: Kotori Kojama 

Aultcray Melromarc XXXII: Isamu Ishizuka

Knight Commander Nopus: Kenta Nishi  

Deputy Commander Sabre: Kiyoshi Ohno

Eyck: Ryuya Ishigami

          Source: "The Rising of the Shield Hero" stage play official website / Twitter 

  © 2019 Yusagi Aneko/KADOKAWA/The Rising of the Shield Hero production committee

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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Karakuri Circus Stage Play Main Cast Strike Poses in New Key Visual

Karakuri Circus Stage Play Main Cast Strike Poses in New Key Visual

    The official website for the forthcoming stage play adaptation of Kazuhiro Fujita’s fantasy action shonen

manga Karakuri Circus is updated today with a new key visual featuring its seven main cast in costume,

including 26-year-old voice actress Riho Iida (Rin Hoshizora in Love Live!) as the main heroine Shirogane.

As reported, she and Momoka Ohnishi (AKB48 member) are double cast as…

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[DVDs] March 2020

♪ March 2020 舞台劇『からくりサーカス』～デウス・エクス・マキナ（機械仕掛けの神）編～ (butaigeki karakuri circus ~deus ex machina (kikaijikake no kami) hen~)

♪ March 4th, 2020 ミュージカル『青春-AOHARU-鉄道』コンサート Rails Live 2019 (musical aoharu tetsudou concert rails live 2019)

♪ March 11th, 2020 舞台「メサイア ―黎明乃刻―」(butai messiah -reimei no toki)

♪ March 11th, 2020 SCHOOL STAGE『ここはグリーン・ウッド』(school stage koko wa greenwood)

♪ March 12th, 2020 舞台「魔法使いの嫁」(butai mahoutsukai no yome)

♪ March 13th, 2020 シザーブリッツ・オーセンティックステージ 舞台「キャッシュ・オン・デリバリー」(scissors blitz authentic stage ~ butai cash on delivery)

♪ March 18th, 2020 舞台版『PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス Chapter1―犯罪係数―』 (butaiban psycho-pass chapter 1 -hanzai keisuu-)

♪ March 18th, 2020 舞台「血界戦線」(butai kekkai sensen)

♪ March 25th, 2020 体内活劇「はたらく細胞 II」(tainai katsugeki hataraku saibou II)

♪ March 27th, 2020 マジステLIVE 2019「NEO★FES」(majidesu live 2019 neo★fes)

♪ March 27th, 2020 S.Q.S Episode 4「TSUKINO EMPIRE2 -Beginning of the World-」