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Poster for The Great Ace Attorney Musical by the Japanese all-female Takarazuka Revue Company

Cosmos Troupe

Starring: Rukaze Hikaru , Takato Chiaki , & Yamabuki Hibari

Info (in Japanese)

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TAKARAZUKA REVUE DAI GYAKUTEN SAIBAN MUSICAL??????!!?!?!?!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i dont think i can die before seeing this. thank God it exists in blu ray at least

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Great Ace Attorney Takarazuka Casting Update

because of course you can trust me to update you on this!

We got a little more information today about the casting choices for the new Takarazuka adaptation of The Great Ace Attorney, which I posted about previously. This is going to be a less formal update post, I'm just gonna give a summary of what I've found out so far. Links will be either to the official Takarazuka page or to Takawiki, which is an online wiki of Takarazuka info, where I'm getting most of my information.

In summary: this update revealed the cast for Ryunosuke Naruhodo (or at least confirmed it), Susato Mikotoba, and Herlock Sholmes, as well as all the other actresses who will play as-of-yet unidentified roles.

The previous information on the play said that the lead role (who is now confirmed to be Ryunosuke, though we could have assumed as much) is being played by Rukaze Hikaru. She's had one previous lead role in a regular musical, and four "shinjin kouen" lead roles, which are to my understanding special performances of a regular musical for the more junior performers in the troupe. She has been in the Cosmos Troupe since 2012, though unfortunately was not in the cast for the third AA musical.

Susato Mikotoba has been confirmed to be the lead female role, played by Yamabuki Hibari. She has been in this troupe since 2019, and has had two lead female roles in shinjin kouen performances, but this is her first lead role in a regular musical. Of particular interest for this topic, one of her junior leads was as Irene Adler in the Sherlock Holmes play this same troupe put on in 2021.

It feels relevant to note here that in all the previous AA musicals, the lead female role was occupied by an original character who ended up being the love interest - Leona, Lucia, Alison. The lack of an original character in this role suggests to me that this musical won't be pulling that. It does, however, suggest the possibility that Susato could be considered the love interest in this play -- though we do not have any confirmation of that, and having this role doesn't inherently mean she will be, and I sure am hoping that won't turn out to be the case!

The last casting decision is for the role of Herlock Sholmes/Sherlock Holmes, played by Takato Chiaki. From what I can tell from other plays, the secondary male role seems to usually be a deuteragonist or antagonist -- in the other AA musicals, this was the role occupied by Edgeworths (Miles in the first two, Gregory in the third.) This fits with information we had previously that Sholmes would likely fit in this position. If they continue the same opening song they had from the original three, Sholmes is the one singing about counting his falling tears. Anyways, Takato Chiaki has had one lead role in the past and two junior lead roles, and graduated at the top of her class in 2015.

The other roles haven't been decided yet, though I can find the list of other actresses who will be appearing in this play. Of note is Akina Rui, the only one to have been in a previous AA musical, with an unnamed role in the third one. Also of relevance is Natori Rei, who is a senior actress who has been performing since 1971! As far as I can tell she's part of the "Senka" troupe which consists of senior members that specialize in certain things and can join performances from any troupe as necessary. (Nagina Ruumi, the actress for Larry Butz in the third musical, is also in Senka, but won't be coming in for this one.) Natori Rei apparently specializes in Japanese dance, and typically plays male roles, so it'll be interesting to see what role she plays in this musical.

And not a casting decision, just something odd I noticed -- this troupe seems to have overlapping performances, with the other one being a small performance of Xcalibur, which wouldn't be odd on its own except that this performance is where the troupe's new top star is debuting. I don't know what that's about I don't follow takarazuka stuff outside of this, I just thought that was interesting. So this performance will only have half the cosmos troupe in it.

I will update again whenever full casting decisions are released and/or we get an official poster and/or if more plot information comes out. With what we have here it isn't enough to draw any conclusions about what the plot will be like, since the three characters mentioned were already in the summary, except that we can be pretty sure we don't have Victorian Era Leona. Though that might come at a cost :/

Anyways, thanks for reading if you're as interested in following this stuff as I am.

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Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe – Anon Yuusei in first junior performance lead “I was moved by the audience’s applause”

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Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe – Anon Yuusei in first junior performance lead “I was moved by the audience’s applause”

The junior performance for the Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe Production Sherlock Holmes: The Game is Afoot! Took place on the 20th in the Takarazuka Grand Theatre, Hyogo Prefecture. The lead, Anon Yuusei, is a member of the 103rd class, and the heroine, Yamabuki Hibari, is a member of the 105th class. They are the first members of their classes to have an [otokoyaku] lead and heroine role, respectively.

Anon is tall at 173 cm, and her figure shone onstage. She seemed comfortable onstage playing Sherlock Holmes, yet looking back on the performance she said “I was actually super-duper nervous (laughs). I was worrying about how I had to lead everyone from the center and such.” However, the main cast Top Star Makaze Suzuho advised her “You should just live as the character.” She also revealed that at times when she was thinking about how she wanted to be more like Makaze, she kindly suggested “You should be Anon’s Holmes.”

It was Anon’s first time acting in center stage, and she said “I was moved by the audience’s applause.” But on the other hand, “As I was acting and moving, I’d end up going back to my non-otokoyaku self. I want to develop a big-hearted aura that can envelop Yamabuki even more,” she reflected.

Yamabuki, who played the heroine Irene, also received encouragement from main cast Top Musumeyaku Jun Hana. “Irene is a strong woman. If you can live as the character, Irene will help you.”

“The Irene inside me is still so small. I want her to be a life-sized Irene by the Tokyo [junior] performance,” Yamabuki said, expressing her ambitions.

The junior performance in the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre takes place on September 2.

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Cosmos Troup "Yumechidori" distribution

https://kageki.hankyu.co.jp/revue/2021/yumechidori/index.html

Directed and written by Yuka Kurita (This is her first work)

Cast: 

Yujiro Shirasawa (Film director)/ Yumeji Takehisa (Painter): Sora Kazuki

Rena Akabane (Actress) / Takamki (Yumeji’s wife): Mineri Amairo

Hikono (A pure student who falls in love with Yumeji) :Hibari Yamabuki

Oyo (Model) :Shiho Mizune

Minato Saijo (An actor)/ Seiji Togo (A student who cares and loves Tamaki): Yuse Anon

Story:

The time is Showa era in Japan. A famous film director Yujiro Shirasawa (Sora Kazuki) and an actress Rena Akabane (Mineri Amairo) are married but without registration.

Shirasawa is trying to create a new film to make Yumeji Takehisa(Sora Kazuki) the subject matter. Yumeji Takehisa is a famous painter in Taisho era in Japan, who had numerous romances with a lot of women.

Yumeji was married with Tamaki(Mineri Amairo), a spirited woman who is senior to Yumeji, however, he fell in love with a pure student Hikono (Hibari Yamabuki).

As Shirasawa shot the film, he gradually immerses in Yumeji’s life...

My report:)

This is a really impressive “film”, rather than a musical. I can’t believe that this is Ms. Yuka Kurita’s first work in Takarazuka! She understands Sora Kazuki and Mineri Amairo’s strength, and also what musical we fan would like to see with Sora!

Every member played very well, but the heroin Mineri-chan was the best actress in this act for me. She played two roles- One is Shirasawa’s wife without resisration. The other is Tamaki, who is a key role of this stage.

Tamaki is not a typical musumeyaku character in Takarazuka. There’s something about her that’s just plain sexy with a black kimono and vivid red lips...

Her love to Yumeji is much more like “mad”. The relationship between Yumeji and Tamaki is a mixture of “love and hate”.

Yumeji violates her when they quarrel (unfortunately this is the era which husbands have “power” in family). Surprisingly he kisses her just after he hit her! This is why I express their love “mad” and “love and hate”... Their act in this scene was quite convincing...

Furthermore, Tamaki’s love becomes much mad while Yumeji falls in love with a pure student Hikono, who wants to learn arts under Yumeji. Actually she never felt jealousy to anyone even her husband made romances with other women (at least I felt so) because she knew that she is the only model of Yumeji’s work and believed that Yumeji could create nothing wihout her.  However, she finally noticed that he drew a portrait of a woman whose model is Hikono...

Mineri-chan is a typical cute musumeyaku, however, she surprised us with her act as Tamaki in this play. It was very nice to hear her beautiful singings:)

There are three women of destiny for Yumeji: Tamaki, Hikono, and Oyo. All of them have different features. Tamaki is a wife who had a baby with him. She’s really a spirited lady who could build a relationship pf equality with Yumeji. Hikono has a completely opposite nature to Hikono. Yumeji never violates and even quarrels with Hikono, and shows relaxing face... Oyo is expressed as uneducated but a beautiful model. How nice it is that various musumeyaku have their impressive scenes!

Other than musumeyaku, I really love otokoyaku who can play middle aged guys well! In this play, Ritsu Wakato plays the father of Hikono...You may not believe she is in the 9th year in Takarazuka! She is enough dignified and looks completely senior to Sora Kazuki (actually she’s 3 years younger than Sora) lol Of course she has a commanding presence in the play, but also shows affection to his daughter;( 

Oh I should not forget to refer to the finale!! It’s full of “typical gorgeous Takarazuka show”!! I’m sure all audience get moved with Sora and Mineri’s beautiful songs and dance!!

I can’t believe that there will not be Blu-ray sold. All the audiences cannot wait to the broadcast on Skystage. I can’t wait to watch the next stage of Soragumi<3

Good news! From May 12th, Takarazuka’s performances will start again!

FYI:

Yumeji’s works: https://pl.pinterest.com/japanesemasters/takehisa-yumeji-1884-1934/

Kurofuneya (One of the most important work by Yumeji. It’s said that the model Oyo): http://yumeji.or.jp/kurofuneya.html

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Sitting Nendoroids

While it’s true it’s possible to pose a Nendo as if he/she were sitting despite it not having sitting parts... well those make the work a lot easier and better on a visual level.

There are lots of female Nendo who come with sitting parts (120 so far plus the Nendoroid more sets) but not so many male Nendo (20 so far!).

While in the past it was completely okay as there were few male Nendo, the increase of male Nendo makes sad how they didn’t provide more with sitting parts (which is why I sort of bugged Goodsmile in hope they’ll make a Nendoroid more set with male sitting parts).

Still to fully realize the huge amount in difference I’m going to list all the Nendo who had sitting parts and let you see how many are females and how few are males.

I also think it can be useful to you if you’re searching for sitting parts.

Mind you, I’m listing only the Nendo that were commercialized as capable of sitting. If there are Nendo who can sit but it wasn’t said... well, that’s all good but I couldn’t know.

So... let’s start with the girls first... as they’re a lot. I could count 120 of them (though I might have missed some...)

010 Nendoroid Yuki Nagato

020 Nendoroid Binchou-tan

025 Nendoroid Kotona Elegance

037 Nendoroid Pastel Ink

054 Nendoroid Tsukasa Hiiragi Normal Ver

055 Nendoroid Miyuki Takara Normal Ver

083 Nendoroid Churuya-san

085 Nendoroid Kuro Kagami

094 Nendoroid Ritsu Tainaka

098 Nendoroid Mimi Usa

106 Nendoroid Black Rock Shooter

114 Nendoroid Leina

118 Nendoroid Tooko Amano

128 Nendoroid Dead Master

132 Nendoroid Archbishop

134 Nendoroid Nagi Sanzenin

143 Nendoroid Risty

145 Nendoroid Black Gold Saw

146 Nendoroid Haru-chan

157 Nendoroid Erika Sendou

159 Nendoroid Totori

166 Nendoroid Strength

187 Nendoroid MEIKO

188 Nendoroid Millhiore F. Biscotti

192 Nendoroid Yune

193 Nendoroid Yozora Mikaduki

195 Nendoroid Erio Touwa

198 Nendoroid Haqua

199 Nendoroid Sena Kashiwazaki

203 Nendoroid Ohana Matsumae

(It’s not exactly my idea of sitting Nendoroid but I’ve seen many people use this pose without the rope and the gag and a different set of arms to sit her)

208 Nendoroid Homura Akemi School Uniform Ver

212 Nendoroid Shuukan Hajimete no Hatsune Miku

215 Nendoroid Saber & Rin Tohsaka Cheerful ver.

225 Nendoroid Saber Nendoroid Complete File Edition

242 Nendoroid Nano Shinonome

264 Nendoroid Renne

267 Nendoroid Nodoka Haramura

270 Nendoroid Hakase

274 Nendoroid Sakura Miku

279 Nendoroid Leonmitchelli Galette des Rois

281 Nendoroid Wakana Sakai

292 Nendoroid Dead Master TV ANIMATION Ver

296 Nendoroid Alice

300 Nendoroid Hatsune Miku 2.0

303 Nendoroid Snow Miku Strawberry White Kimono Ver.

308 Nendoroid Miyako

309 Nendoroid Alice Kuonji

317 Nendoroid Kobato Hasegawa

320 Nendoroid Sasami Tsukuyomi

332 Nendoroid Madoka Kaname Maiko Ver.

348 Nendoroid Maria Takayama

379 Nendoroid Mami Tomoe School Uniform Ver

380 Nendoroid Snow Miku Magical Snow Ver

381 Nendoroid Hatsune Miku Sailor Uniform Ver.

384 Nendoroid Suruga Kanbaru

391 Nendoroid Akagi

394 Nendoroid Komari Kamikita

396 Nendoroid Nadeko Sengoku

397 Nendoroid Sasara

399 Nendoroid Saki Miyanaga

403 Nendoroid Nagisa Momoe

404 Nendoroid Tsubasa Hanekawa

405 Nendoroid Kongo

419 Nendoroid Iona

422 Nendoroid Sayaka Miki Uniform Ver. & Kyouko Sakura Casual Ver. Set

426 Nendoroid Kaga

(posing with 391 Nendoroid Akagi who was previously shown)

434 Nendoroid Saori Takebe

440 Nendoroid Suigintō

441 Nendoroid Marine-chan

446 Nendoroid Mashiro Mitsumine

453 Nendoroid Hana Mutou

456 Nendoroid Devil Homura

471 Nendoroid Teru Miyanaga

476 Nendoroid Lingyin Huang

483 Nendoroid Akari Yomatsuri

491 Nendoroid Kirishima

493 Nendoroid Snow Miku Snow Bell Ver

520 Nendoroid Yamato

521 Nendoroid Patchouli Knowledge

524 Nendoroid Umaru

532 Nendoroid Sega Saturn

536 Nendoroid Akira Oono

560 Nendoroid Hestia

582 Nendoroid Hana Isuzu

583 Nendoroid Mako Reizei

602 Nendoroid Sybilla

639 Nendoroid Aoba Suzukaze

653 Nendoroid Shiro

700 Nendoroid Reimu Hakurei 2.0

701 Nendoroid Snow Miku Twinkle Snow Ver.

710 Nendoroid Caster

722 Nendoroid Homura Akemi Haregi Ver

738 Nendoroid Utaha Kasumigaoka

770 Nendoroid Mami Tomoe Maiko Ver

783 Nendoroid Warspite

785 Nendoroid Hatsune Miku Magical Mirai 5th Anniversary Ver.

787 Nendoroid Sāya Yamabuki

797 Nendoroid Sayaka Miki Maiko Ver

805 Nendoroid Tomo Kunagisa

812 Nendoroid Tinker Bell

814 Nendoroid Hifumi Takimoto

822 Nendoroid Lucifer

832 Nendoroid Nana Ebina

850 Nendoroid Snow Miku Crane Priestess Ver.

861 Nendoroid Beatrice

868 Nendoroid Kyoko Sakura Maiko Ver.

897 Nendoroid Ai Hinatsuru

899 Nendoroid Kizuna AI

903 Nendoroid Nadeshiko Kagamihara

904 Nendoroid Archer/Ishtar

919 Nendoroid Fennec

941 Nendoroid Shielder-Mash Kyrielight Casual ver.

963 Nendoroid Futaba Sakura

981 Nendoroid Rin Shima

993DX Nendoroid Hunter Female Rathalos Armor Edition - DX Ver.

995 Nendoroid Lacia

1024 Nendoroid Nekomiya Hinata

1064 Nendoroid Yotsuba Koiwai

1073 Nendoroid Yuri

1097 Nendoroid Aoi Inuyama

And with this the list of girls Nendo that can sit end. But your chances to sit down a female Nendo don’t end here as we’ two Nendoroid more female only set that allow you to sit your Nendo.

Nendoroid More: Dress Up Pajamas

(It actually includes 6 pajamas but one is a secret one. I guess you can have a male Nendo wear the blue pajama but it wasn’t really thought for males...)

Nendoroid More: Dress Up Swimming Wear

(It actually includes 6 swimming suits, two are school swimsuits like the one below, three are bikinis like the one below and one is a secret one. They’re clearly all for female Nendo)

Now let’s look at the boys.

They’re sadly a lot less... -_-

017 Nendoroid L

117 Nendoroid Ciel Phantomhive

147 Nendoroid Hideyoshi Kinoshita (I don’t know this series but it seems Kinoshita’s gender is up to debate... though Goodsmile gives this one as a male Nendo in its description so I’ll go with it because they thought at this as a male Nendo. Take this not as a classification based on the character’s gender but just on the Nendo made by Goodsmile)

151 Nendoroid Moritaka Mashiro

177 Nendoroid Prince

435 Nendoroid Armin Arlert

487 Nendoroid Noiz

605 Nendoroid Kenma Kozume

638 Nendoroid Ichimatsu Matsuno

652 Nendoroid Sora (with the previously listed 653 Nendoroid Shiro)

753 Nendoroid Japan

811 Nendoroid I-chan

848 Nendoroid Tatara Fujita

866 Nendoroid Loki Ragnarok Edition

913 Nendoroid Kyoya Hibari

935 Nendoroid Kamina

937 Nendoroid Reinhard von Lohengramm

1017 Nendoroid Torbjörn Classic Skin Edition

1046DX Nendoroid Woody DX Ver.

1063 Nendoroid Mukuro Rokudo

And with this the list of the male Nendo that can sit down end. It counts 20 Nendo, some of those are rather old and hard to find.

Mind you, it can be that some other male Nendo can sit down due to their legs having joints that allow for more poses but as I wasn’t sure they can I didn’t list them.

For the sake of this being a complete list I list the remaining Nendo that have sitting parts... but those sitting parts can’t really be used on other Nendo due to those parts being... not human.

234 Nendoroid Jack Frost

313 Nendoroid Monokuma

793 Nendoroid Morgana

796 Nendoroid Alphonse Elric

836 Nendoroid Ariel

980 Nendoroid Jashin-chan

996 Nendoroid Winnie the Pooh & Piglet Set

1065 Nendoroid Danboard

And this ends the list of Nendo that can sit down.

As you can see the male department is seriously lacking so I truly hope Goodsmile will take care of it, hopefully in a Nendoroid more extension.

(Also it would be lovely to have a male swimming suit dress up version or an Onsen version... it’s a bit sad the boys can’t really splash in the water...)

[rivalsforlife]

Okay! Finally getting around to that Musical 4 Speculation Post I said I'd do a while ago. Now that we have the cast list and I think this is the most information there'll be until the musical is actually shown in a little over three weeks, I'm going to put down my "final" guesses as to what the plot is going to be like and what the characters will likely do. This is all complete speculation and is just for fun and I will probably be horrifically wrong.

Obviously since this is based on the great ace attorney chronicles I will be discussing spoilers for that game. And I am very aware that few people actually care about this so I'll put all my speculating underneath a cut.

Okay let's start off with:

CHARACTER SPECULATIONS

I'll also be linking to the takarazuka wiki pages for the actresses, so you can look into them a bit more, their appearance, and their previous roles. Not sure how helpful it would be for what to expect from them, but more information can't hurt. The full cast list is here. And here is the takarazuka wiki page for the musical overall.

Ryunosuke Naruhodo:

Played by Hikaru Rukaze

I don't honestly expect them to deviate too much from his canonical role here. He's still the protagonist and will probably be doing protagonist-y things. We know from the summary the basics are the same (college student going to great britain to learn more about the judicial system here) and there's really nothing standing out to me that they're going to do something too extreme.

Susato Mikotoba:

Played by Hibari Yamabuki

I'm going to be worried about Susato forever because takarazuka apparently enjoys adding in random romances, and she's the lead female character. If they don't do a romance this might actually keep her character relatively close -- unlike, say, Maya, who was purely comedic relief.

There's nothing yet that indicates that there's going to be a romantic subplot for Susato (thankfully) -- with musical 1, at least, it was pretty obvious from the start that Leona was going to take over everything, and the musical summary mentioned that she was Phoenix's ex, but Susato is only mentioned in her canonical role as judicial assistant. At the same time, Alison (the love interest for musical 3) was not obviously marketed as a romantic interest from the start from what I can tell, so... we might not be totally out of the woods. I would be cautiously optimistic at most because I have been let down before.

(S)Herlock (S)Holmes:

Played by Chiaki Takato

He's in the same role previously occupied by Edgeworth (x2) and Edgeworth Sr (x1) so I'm thinking he's going to be in a role that's like... not necessarily antagonistic but definitely going to be getting in the way of things until joining the protagonist's side at the eleventh hour. He'll probably be critical to solving the mystery in one way or another.

With the lead female role being Susato (and not the defendant) and Sholmes being in the major male character role (as opposed to, say, van Zieks) it makes me think that this musical might have more of an emphasis on the investigation parts. At the very least, if I don't get at least one dance of deduction, this musical will be an even greater waste of time than any of the other three :/ like you can't have a musical and then NOT add in a dance of deduction musical number.

Sholmes is still a candidate for Six Dancing Sholmes(es) for this reason.

Barok van Zieks:

Played by Shion Yuuki

Is obviously going to be the prosecutor. I doubt they're going to do anything about his backstory aside from, like, giving a monologue about how he was betrayed by a Japanese person in the past and that's why he's making all these racist comments or something. There's far too much to cover with canon DGS so I'm expecting them to stick to an original case, and since Sholmes is in the deuteragonist role, I'm not expecting BvZ to have much of a significant role aside from being the prosecutor, racism, and vague allusions to his backstory stuff. More significant than Payne in musical 3 (who was basically nothing) but less significant than Edgeworth in 1 and 2 is my guess. He might not even get a song.

I watched takarazuka's casino royale livestream earlier today in order to try and pick out the actresses that will be in this play. I'm pretty sure the actress who will play BvZ did some very impressive kicks in a dance number, and that's probably the most important trait, so good casting. Hopefully there will be at least one leg slam. I'm not sure how they'll be able to reasonably handle the chalice/bottle throwing.

Kazuma Asougi:

Played by Hyuuga Kazeiro

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE MADE IT IN <3 but I'm pretty sure he's not making it in alive. Since this is explicitly taking part in Great Britain he is probably "dead", unless they're really messing with the timeline and, like, killing him off in Britain? There's no reason for Ryuu to be the protagonist if Kazuma is here, so. And like I said before I really doubt they'll go into the later DGS2 plot, so having him come back as masked disciple will severely derail everything too close to canonicity for takarazuka. It would require far too much focus on the Ryunosuke-Asougi relationship than takarazuka has historically given me any reason to believe they'll give a shit about.

But he still made it in, and my main guess is that he'll show up in sort of flashback-type scenes. This might mean they'll actually talk about Ryuu wanting to live up to his ideals and be a lawyer in his stead which is more canonical motivation than I'd expected, and is a very good thing. I don't think they'll talk about the real reason Kazuma came to Britain because, again, that's too close to a decent adaptation. There will probably be at least one song about how cool and inspiring and incapable of wrongdoing Kazuma was. A very slim possibility of six dancing kazumas, and if that happens I will forgive takarazuka for everything.

Iris Watson/Wilson:

Played by Hanna Misei

ANOTHER PERSON I DIDN'T EXPECT TO MAKE IT IN and so far like half my bingo card has been invalidated. I don't think her role is going to be particularly notable, though. She might just be Sholmes's Cute Sidekick. Maybe a witness if we're lucky? I don't know how much care they'll be putting into the murder plot this time around.

It will be interesting seeing how they make her look ten years old in comparison to the other characters? They showed Baby Edgeworth in the third musical, but that was obviously a very short role, and only shown next to Gregory (who was a much taller actress) - there's not much of a height difference between, say, Susato's actress (164 cm) and Iris's (158 cm), who I would expect to be in the same scene at times. That was the main reason I thought they might cut her out.

There is a very slim possibility they could now do Iris Watson As Ditzy As They Come, which would be extremely stupid and mischaracterizing (though they've done it before), and not even six dancing kazumas could spare takarazuka from my wrath (angry posting on the internet).

Tobias Gregson:

Played by Noan Houjou

I'm even more convinced he's going to be comic relief. On the website they listed the cast generally in order of how experienced each of the actresses are, and Gregson's actress is the least experienced of the named roles, so I'm not expecting Gregson to have a major role in this. There might be some comedic duo stuff with Gregson and Iris like in the games.

Hilariously, in the same troupe's 2021 production of Sherlock Holmes, this actress also played Tobias Gregson (in the "shinjin kouen" production, which to my understanding is a run for less experienced actresses). I haven't seen that so I can't say how Gregson was handled in it, but I don't think that was a huge role.

Hart Vortex / Mael Stronghart:

Played by Rui Akina

This could go multiple ways. He could be the culprit, but considering I doubt they're going to go into the later DGS2 plots, it's probably going to feel like a waste in comparison to that game's ending. He'll probably be like he was in earlier DGS cases where he's just an intimidating background figure.

Soseki Natsume:

Played by Runo Oumi

I DID NOT EXPECT HIM TO SHOW UP AT ALL. He could be a Wacky Witness. He could be the defendant. I'll elaborate more on theories when I start speculating about the plot. No matter what, though, I'm expecting him to be somewhat comedic, and if it's anything close to canonical he's going to be having a terrible time.

Judge:

Played by Shin Arashino

he's the judge

Queen Victoria:

Played by Sayo Koharuno

LITERALLY WHY IS SHE HERE. This is the only thing that could possibly mean they try to resolve dgs2's ending plot without actually talking about any of the things that make dgs2's ending plot interesting. and this would probably be miserable for me to watch.

My joke theory is that there's going to be a Queen Victoria / Sholmes side romance. I don't think it's especially likely and I have no justification for this other than that it popped into my head and would not leave.

As for the original characters:

Brad Menickson (your romanization may vary):

Played by Rei Natori

This role is being played by a senior member specially showing up for this play, so I'm not expecting it to be a minor one. My automatic guess is that he's going to be the killer. Since the actress is older (having been in takarazuka since 1972!!!) I'm expecting her character will be older as well, possibly some sort of aristocrat.

Nina Jones:

Played by Mineri Amairo

ALSO an original role, but played by one of the troupe's more experienced actresses, so I'm again not expecting this to be a minor role. My automatic guess is that she'll be the defendant of the original case. This may mean she gets Leona'd into being Ryuu's love interest, which I'd certainly prefer compared to Susato, but again that's me assuming takarazuka's going to force another romance on me.

Even if she's not Ryuu's love interest specifically she could end up being a forced one for Sholmes. or something like that. can you tell I don't trust takarazuka.

My only other speculation regarding her is that the name "Nina" reminds me a bit of "Gina", who doesn't have a role in this play. It could be a "Leona totally isn't Lana" situation where she plays a Gina-like role, and I'll get more into that later.

I'll discuss the jurors and the unnamed secretary more when talking about the plot, because obviously there's very little we know about them.

PLOT THEORIES

I have several theories for how the actual murder cases could go.

In general: we know from the summary that this is taking place in Great Britain. The summary also mentions that the world exposition is "just around the corner", which may mean that comes up in the plot. Assuming jurors are going to be playing a role in the case -- I'm guessing here they might fit in "witness" roles -- I think we could probably speculate somewhat from their roles. There's a spirit medium (which will be interesting in itself), a noblewoman, an ordinary citizen, a clown, and a "hotel man". Some of these, like the mentions of hotels and clowns and spirit mediums, does suggest some kind of exposition-y event to me.

I think there's a non-zero chance the spirit medium juror will attempt to channel the victim. This will probably mock spirit mediums so that this musical will spit on Maya's character a hundred years before she's even born.

One major question I have is who the victim is going to be. As I said before, with Brad Menickson and Nina Jones as presumably major roles, I doubt either of them will be the victim. It's possible the victim isn't a named role (I don't believe musical 2's victim was) but it's something to keep in mind going forward.

Also of note is that the summary says that Ryunosuke is involved in "one difficult case after another". I'm going to operate under the assumption that this will be two linked cases. All the other musicals have had two investigation days and two trial days, with musical 2 covering two related cases, so I'll expect something similar here. Since there are only five jurors, I'm expecting them to recycle them for the second case, assuming there is one.

This case will probably mostly be original, but previous musicals have referenced other cases (the first being an obvious RFTA attempt, the second case of musical 2 being loosely related to 2-4, though musical 3 was wholly original.) Since there's not nearly enough information to predict what they're going to do, I have a few theories for inspirations:

Theory 1: a 1-3/1-5 - style case

These are two related cases from the games that they can draw from, mostly inspired by, like I mentioned previously, the name "Nina" having some similarities to "Gina".

In this kind of scenario, Nina would be our "totally not Gina" role, starting as a manipulated witness in the first case and then as the defendant in the second case. Brad Menickson would presumably be the "McGilded", so possibly defendant in the first case, and then victim of the second. The problems here come down to a lack of named roles, like who the true killer would be in the second part, and who the victim would be in the first. There is the unnamed secretary, but again, they'd probably have listed her with a name if they expected her to do anything. (I'm assuming she's either Stronghart's or Menickson's secretary, and will be showing up extremely briefly in their office to welcome Ryuu and do nothing else.)

Since we have Soseki in the picture, he could possibly be the defendant for the first case, with Menickson as the true culprit for both cases, which would be fitting. Again, they could possibly have Stronghart as the culprit, but I really feel like that would be a massive waste to DGS's plot.

Theory 2: a 1-4/2-2 - style case

This is an option because of Soseki's existence. Soseki would be the defendant for both, possibly with Nina as the "Olive Green" role, being the victim of attempted murder in the first case and then significantly involved with, if not the culprit, of the second -- but again, that's about all they'd be drawing from this, since, well, they don't have obvious Garrideb-like candidates for the first case, or an obvious Shamspeare. They might not even be separate cases, just two days of the same trial about Nina, where she wakes up for the second blaming Soseki...? Again expecting Menickson to be the ultimate culprit either way.

Theory 3: They Actually Try Wrapping Up DGS2 But Badly

Here's where Stronghart would be the ultimate culprit. Either Nina or Menickson or Soseki could be the defendant of any of the cases. Ultimately no matter what happens, first case is setup, second is "everything is corrupt!", sholmes calls in queen victoria who is here for some reason to put everything to rest as Stronghart has an incredibly underwhelming breakdown.

They don't have time or characters for a proper Professor plotline, I don't think, and again I don't think they have enough time or motivation to bring back Asougi in a role that would do him justice, and even if they COULD you can't condense the back half of DGS2 into a two hour musical, so this would be a very lackluster adaptation overall. It would have to focus around the characters of Brad Menickson and Nina Jones, so it could never live up to the original.

Overall though I have no idea how significant the role of Queen Victoria is going to be, and that's the main thing that's throwing me off here. She could come in, no matter which of these theories comes close to the truth, to basically say "hey Stronghart your system is corrupt stop it" and they all have a speech about truth or whatever. I honestly don't expect or want Stronghart to be the ultimate culprit, because it's pretty clear this will mostly be an original case, and based on the other musicals, their murder plots kinda suck and will not get nearly enough devotion for it to work.

Theory 4: 2-3 But Asougi Isn't There

This is solely based on the idea of there being a world exposition coming up. I don't think they'd take any more than that, though? Like I said I doubt Asougi would be around, and much of the plot related to Sithe is connected to setup that they won't be able to pay off later, AND I don't expect van Zieks to have a significant enough role where he'd have any connection to the defendant. (... van Zieks / Nina romance might be possible and incredibly cursed.) But it could take similar ideas to the main plot being connected to some sort of exhibit at the world exposition gone wrong, which is where multiple jurors have some sort of connection to the case.

Ultimately, the main things that I am curious about that could influence this are how major some of these roles are going to be. As I said before, with Ryuu Susato and Sholmes being the main characters, I'd expect a little less focus on the original characters in comparison to other musicals... but who knows for sure. I'm curious (and terrified) mostly of how they're going to handle Susato in here. A lot comes down to what Nina's role is going to be -- it probably wouldn't overshadow Susato, which could be interesting, since in the other three musicals the lead female character had a personal connection to the actual murder plot, and that doesn't seem to be the case this time. It's possible the murder plot is going to be even less significant than usual, and more will be put on Susato's arc (assuming they'll even let her have one).

Soseki is another one that could influence how this goes depending on if he's closely tied to the murder plot or is just another wacky witness who is there for mainly comedic relief. And of course whatever the hell Queen Victoria is doing.

In summary, as far as plot is related, my guesses are:

Nina: defendant or (later) victim or sympathetic culprit. I just don't get the vibe they go for totally evil women often.

Brad Menickson: culprit (evil) or defendant (only in the case of Stronghart being the true culprit). Either way we will probably know in like five minutes because takarazuka is really bad at hiding their killers.

Soseki: defendant or witness with no significance to the plot.

Stronghart: small chance of being culprit, most likely intimidating figure in the background.

Music Guesses

If they don't have "the truth reborn" as the main theme song again I'm going to be so disappointed. I have it basically memorized at this point. Ryuu and Sholmes will be singing it, I'm like 99% certain.

I'm now hoping for a Kazuma Asougi song, which will be Ryuu singing mournfully about how he can't live up to his expectations, or Asougi singing for a little bit about his totally noble and totally honest intentions for going to Great Britain that don't involve murder or revenge at all.

And, obviously, I want a dance of deduction song, whether that's Sholmes on his own or a Sholmes-Ryuu duet.

I hope Susato is able to sing a solo or a duet and I hope it's not as part of any sort of romantic plotline.

If they do a romance plot, whoever it may be with, there's going to be a love song somewhere in here. In the casino royale show I watched, their love song had lyrics that were, literally, this:

Do you know that dolphins are intellectual beings? They send soundwaves to communicate and save a child from drowning. They protect people. They serve the gods in the Greek myth. Now, they're higher organisms that protect people. There would be no war if we love each other like dolphins love people.

So I'm hoping for something at least as hilarious as that.

At the VERY LEAST, there should be at least one ocean reference in every song. it would actually be appropriate this time.

IN CONCLUSION

I am not dreading this as much as I thought I would be at this point, which either means it might actually be a fun and interesting adaptation of TGAA, or they have been hiding everything terrible from me in hopes of blindsiding me with something awful after I pay an absurd amount of money to get a DVD to watch this.

I would love to talk about more speculations over this if anyone is interested. The musical itself has its first showing on July 19th and I will try to find reviews or previews or anything to learn more about it until they come out with a performance DVD and then eventually someone who knows more Japanese than me translates it, which could be relatively soon, or could be like... ten years. Until then I'm hoping for the best.