Thrills and Frills in YaoiLand

And this is why I am not on the internet much right now...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:14:43 GMT

Lamasu: Weren't you reading THE LIES OF LOCK LAMORA a couiple of days ago?
Sivan: Yes! I stopped at a particular thrilling part.
Lamasu: Why did you stop then?
Sivan: I discovered your shelf of BL novels.
Lamasu:Hahah! The awesome power of Gay Porn! ^^;;.
Sivan: indeed - Porn has a lot more... more...
Lamasu:?
Sivan: *flails* SEX APPEAL! :D:D:D
Lamasu: ¬_¬.

And she was like that from the age of 12 - I know because I shared a room with the woman in boarding school ... she made me recite all the porn she was reading... MADE ME!!!

Ahem... yeah... ah ... oooh look a... a... THING!... RIGHT THERE BEHIND YOU!!! *hides under sofa*

;_;.

Stormy like WOAH! Carnival tomorrow and apparently it is just going to get worse. It passes just outside our window so I predict we will be upstairs with the Takarazuka, BJDs, Absinthe AND LOTS OF GAY PORN :D:D:D

Woo Hoo!

May I just say OMIGODDESS!!!!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:40:20 GMT

http://www.k-seven.co.jp/blog_maikaze/

That is Maikaze Rira... MAA-CHAN!!!

IN GLASTONBURY!!!

@_@

SCORE!

I have stealth Takarasienne visiting my town XD.

(you have to scroll down to 12th of October... there are also pictures from the 6ths ... HAHAH! She clearly liked the Glastonbury Tor ^^).

I actually wanted to see something else apart from Lucifer with her... THIS IS A SIGN!

*buys Silver wolf/ Wonderland*

AWESOME :D:D:D

Abraham!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:22:56 GMT

And after I was told I will have to wait for ages - He arrived in the nick of time. I didn't even have time to prepare his Rabbi attire so he is borrowing some of Solomon Clothes...

The first thing that struck me was just how WHITE Luts Real White Skin is... which was a pleasant surprise because Rebbe Abe is suposed to be Albino. He is much lighter than Solomon and he is BEAUTIFUUUUUUUL! I love him! ^_^.

The wig will either be trimmed or braided at the back leaving two long thin strands at the front... possibly also braided not decided yet. He will also have a kippah and a talit once I figure out how to make one. I will also change his eyes soon... they need to be a little more pink/lilac ^^.

So now Solomon has something to play with >:D.

The main problem I have with him is that he is SO white - I can't use the flash on him. He is hard to photograph and I am no photographer by any stretch of the word.

But here they both are mostly for comparison of skin tone.

And the main reason I bought this doll is for its scowl... I just didn't realise how dissatisfied he looks ... if I knew... the wait would have been A LOT MORE PAINFUL! I adore him! His dissatisfied frown is just so... so ... JEWISH!

Perfect!!! :D:D:D

Welcome home Abraham Rottenstein... I'll make a Rabbi out of you soon ^_^.

I guess that is why I love him ^_^

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:18:42 GMT

With a map in hand, a boy on shoulders, giving a lecture about the fall of Communism to another boy...

YUP!

It sums him out pretty neatly ^_^

And as infuriating as the Vulcan Mathematician is - this also captures the essence of why I love him so much :D:D:D.

Back at home guys. It was a gorgeous trip in three amazing cities I promise I will visit again. and now Sivan is here for three weeks *dances* ^_^.

Tons of mail and comments to answer - will do it in due time ...

Now to watch Takarazuka because I didn't for a full week and I am suffering from serious withdrawal symptoms XD.

Prague - The Return!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:36:09 GMT

Just as gorgeous as the last time ^_^

THIS TIME THOUGH....

I found the Golem :D:D:D

Which sadly shrank in the wash ... you'd think laundrettes in this city would know not to wash golems with whites... feh ¬_¬.

And then the chibi Golem and I went to say hi to Rabbi Loew :D:D:D

And then the children went to have a little climb on Kafka... who was weird... because he is Kafka and he CAN!

And now we are in Berlin where the only thing we really achieved this evening was getting lost and finding ourselves at the rather abandoned holocaust memorial... which is a rather bleak and eerie place especially after dark @_@.

But now we have sausages and beer in REALLY BIG JUGS because when you are a tourist you have to cover all stereotypes and cliches.

Tomorrow I storm the Pergamon and molest the Ishtar gates - woo hoo! but now... BED! *snores* ^_^.

Random In Vienna.

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:23:51 GMT

One of the greatest tourist regrets of my life is that when I was in Bavaria ten years ago - I felt too self concious to buy one of those tacky souvenir cups with Ludwig II.

So today as I was wondering fan-girlishly around every Hapsburg related site I could cram into one day I did NOT repeat that mistake!

KITSCH!

It makes Golden-Veg soup taste better! :D:D:D

And the London eye might be bigger than Prater's Ferris wheel... however:

"Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?"

When you can quote something as fucking awesome as that standing in one of its carts... then and ONLY THEN can you say it is equally cool!!!

Lamasu... Hapsburged out XD.

Question doll people.

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:08:37 GMT

Does anyone know how long it takes a parcel from LUTS to arrive in the UK.

They shipped the doll today which is much faster than I expected and I believe it means it will arrive when I am away. I don't know WHO they use to ship things but I am hoping it is Royal Mail because they keep hold of a parcel for two weeks as opposed to other delivery companies who hold on for one week only.

In an ironic way - I was hoping it would take them longer to ship my order. As it is - I need to know how stressed I need to be whilst on a trip to mainland Europe.

*sobs*

;_;

And it continues!!!

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:46:16 GMT

Do you remember how I told you that I have now got all the Rose of Versailles out of my system?

Well... I hope you also remember I told you I was LYING!!!

BECAUSE I WAS.

I decided to scan that little Naked Andre scene from the manga because they didn't put it in the anime... reasons being, I am guessing, that it would reduce the levels of angst, drama, angst, melodrama, angst, dramalama and ANGST!!! (Yes - this is why I love the series! My name is Lamasu and I am an ANGST WHORE!).

Here it is in all its glorious glory:

So I know... I know ... Andre is only semi-naked - but the look on Oscar's face is priceless :D:D:D

Also - he seems to be wearing Calvin Klein undies... but if you think THAT is anachronistic...

CHECK OUT THE ROCOCO FLARES!

Oh 1970s manga - why? WHY WERE YOU SO AWESOME!!! ^_^.

I still keep a grudge for the lack of Rococo flares in recent Takarazuka productions of BeruBara... true - they had them in the 1970s versions and it is now a new century and all that ... still!

IT IS NOT AN EXCUSE!

The BeruBara Facebook Digest...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:13:43 GMT

This is for my own record for posterity ... a comment by comment study of sudden re-infatuation for my own personal study XD.

12.10.09 - 14:24

"is watching 6 hours of vintage Rose of Versailles Encyclopaedia... Takarazuka has changed a lot since the 1970s... wigs no longer look like someone stuck a peroxide badger over Lady Oscar head then shot it dead... also - musumeyaku no longer squeak......... like said peroxide badger... but the fruitcake effect stayed till this day XD."

12.10.09 - 16:16

"Takarazuka Rose of Versailles seem to be like all the Korean Soap operas + all Arabic films in existence all squished into 3 hours of Japanese with fruitcake sparkly frills! AND I AM ENJOYING IT!!! @_@"

12.10.09 - 21:44

"wonders what went on in the heads of the people who made Takarazuka RoV. "All those roses and plastic horses around those ladies some of which dress as men, some of which dress as fruitcakes - all of whome grope each other... STILL not gay enoug...h ... what shall we do... what shall we... I know! PUT MORE GREEN EYE SHADOW ON ANDRE!!!" Perfect ^^;;."

13.10.09 - 20:59

"Finished snorting all of my Zuka BeruBara. I have strawbery shortcakes coming out of my nose and sparkly roses coming out of my arse! I SEE EVERYTHING THROUGH A RAINBOW OF SUGARY COLOURS!!! By all means I should have enough but for some reason ... I WANT MORE!!!"

14.10.09 - 13:34

" finds it strange... upon re-watching Rose of Versailles Anime... to find Andre is not wearing any green eye makeup *shocked!*"

14.10.09 - 18:38

"Andre: "OH OSCAR! One day I will give my life for you! But not before I try to rape you... a couple of times... and then poison you... almost... but then... THEN! (after shagging you of course!) I WILL TOTALLY DIE FOR YOU!!!" Rose of V...ersailles = Totally fucked up AWESOMENESS with sparkly roses! YAY! ♥ ♥ ♥ "

14.10.09 - 21:26

"thinks that 12 episodes of RoV for one day is enough... SO SHE IS READING THE MANGA NOW!!! :D:D:D Skip reading to favourite parts... Especially the part in vol. 7 when Oscar walks in on naked wet Andre! How on earth did I forget they are so wonderful??? Oh wait... I never did! ♥ ♥ ♥ "

14.10.09 - 21:27

"Oscar: "OMIGOD YOU HAVE ABS!!! You didn't use to have those when you were a stable boy... did you? *nosebleed* I ... I will just go and play with your sword... MY! MY SWORD! I wasn't referring to your penis... AAH! *runs*" And this is why Lamasu shouldn't be allowed to read your favourite manga XD."

15.10.09 - 11:00

"My only problem with RoV is that it is so bloody sympathetic to Marie Antoinette... OH COME ON!!! The woman was an idiot a fool and a moron to boot! She was such an air-head I am surprised her head didn't float into the sky after they guillotined the bitch! ¬_¬."

15.10.09 - 20:05

" Raphael just jumped into this room butt-naked screaming: "GIVE ME MORE OSCAR!!!" ... someone has been watching too much Rose of Versailles with his mummy XD."

16.10.09 - 10:05

"My laptop crushed... again... But I have bluebery muffins ... which I am totally going to pretend are Axel von Fersen and TOTALLY going to bite their heads off!!! MUFFIN DA!!! :D:D:D"

16.10.09 - 22:32

" OK... laptop had to be rebuilt ... I spent the whole day rebuilding it ... spent the whole day NOT WATCHING ROSE OF VERSAILLES... I will now watch Rose of Versailles and it will be delightful... until they all die... then it will still be delightful OMGWTFSPOILERBITCH!!! ¬_¬"

17.10.09 - 12:30

"needs a BeruBara wall paper for her laptop... preferably from the manga. It would most definitely make my life A LOT better if I can gaze upon Oscar face every time I stare at the screen... OMFG!!! I AM TURNING INTO ANDRE!!! @_@ ... where is my coc...k gadnamit? Did the Black Knight cut it along with my eye... DON'T ANSWER THAT!!! ;_;"

17.10.09 - 15:09

"Apparently people who don't watch BeruBara can't figure out why I scream "Second place Blueberry Muffin - go back to Strawberry Shortcake! Lemon Tart wants to shag Chocolate Gateau now!" ... also people who actually watch BeruBar...a don't understand... so I should really stop doing that ... right? ^^;;"

17.10.09 - 15:15

"Fall of the Bastille - 1789. First Publication of the Communist Manifesto - 1848. Quoting Carl Marx in an anime about the French Revolution - PRICELESS!!! Most things in life have logic - for everything else - there is JAPAN!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ "

And finally today:

"I know they couldn't fit everything from the manga into the anime but I really wish the almost poisoning scene was in for the sake of ANGST, the getting drunk in the gazebo from the Takarazuka... for the sake of ANGST and the "Wet Andre has... no clothes" from the manga for the sake of NAKED!!! :D:D:D"

And I would love to tell you that I have now gotten all the BeruBara out of my system but I would be totally lying and my mummy told me that lying makes hair grows on the palms of your hands and... oh wait... that is WANKING!

Too late for that then ^^;;.

And so it came to be...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:17:28 GMT

That my laptop died a death and had to be rebuilt ... AGAIN!

So I rebuilt it.

AND MADE IT FRENCH!

And thus my exciting story comes to conclusion!

THE END!

FeDex and Roses!

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:09:31 GMT

I think I should probably post this here even though I rather not dedicate my LJ to it but since many of you live in the UK and use amazon.co.jp you should be aware of this.

A couple of weeks ago I ordered a couple of Magazines from Amazon Japan. The whole thing came to around £25 which is pricey - but that is what you pay for having a ridiculous hobby like Takarazuka... you learn to accept the unacceptable XD.

At the time I noticed that amazon.co.jp changed their shipping arrangement for all goods to the UK to be handled by FeDex. I didn't think much about it at the time. Shipping was still about three times the price of the goods ... I buried the little voice that told me I am a SUCKER at the back of my mind under a big pile of "IT IS WORTH IT FOR IT IS SHINY!!!" and went about my daily stuff (mostly laundry, some taxes!).

Two days later upon returning from nursary school with the little harling - I discovered a note from FeDex informing me that I was away whist they tried to deliver a parcel - can I call and arrange delivery?

I call. They are located in the middle of nowhere so I can't pick up a parcel and they like to deliver JUST when I am away picking children from school... can I please tape a form saying they are allowed to leave my package in a puddle of water by my door?

Nothing I can do - so I agree. Tape the form to the door and then next day I return from school to find that LO AND BEHOLD - they left my parcel in a puddle of water by my door. Thank goodness for Japanese efficiency. The magazines where well packed and not damadged.

A WEEK LATER!

I am recieving an invoice from FeDex with a vat form demanding I should pay about £4.80 in VAT and FeDex custom handling fee for around £6.80... WOT?

I call FeDex politely telling them there must have been some mistake - there are NO VAT CHARGES for printed matter in the UK. I often have parcels from amazon opened by customs - I have a pile of invoice rating my books AND magazines are VAT ZERO RATED! What is going on.

The man on the other side laughed - called me a liar (in those words!) threatened to sue me and slammed the phone in my face...

WOW!

Since my job involves bashing my head around the many mistakes produced by HMRC... who, by the way , as confused as they are at their own complicated rules, never EVER slammed the phone in my face (although yesterday I made one of their customer service ladies cry... long story ;_;)... I decided to find out on my own.

I ring the VAT help line and spend a lovely hour (NOT) being bounced from person to person trying to verify what the vat status/code/favourite colour is...

I am on the right of course - so everyone in the UK should put this down:

Books and magazines be they educational or NOT - are all under zero rated items. No matter WHERE they come from we do not EVER have to pay VAT, customs or any kind of tax on them.

I call back FeDex getting a rather polite lady this time and start arguing with her. HER side is that they ALWAYS charge VAT for books for outside the EU and their recipient always cry a little but send them the check. My side is: "I just talked to ten people in HMRC... who are a bit concerned about you charging for material that shouldn't be... they even used the word "scam"... how does that make you feel?"...

Nervous - apparently. She told me FeDex will contact me again...

They did today after I sent them an email telling them their correspondence to me has been sent to the VAT Department of HMRC.

They withdrew their claims and apologized.

I would love to say I shan't use them again. However, they are the only delivery service amazon.co.jp are using. If this was amazon.com - I would write to them and explain that I am hesitant of making any order from them because their courier of choice are incompetent and maybe even dab in a little fraud. I don't really have enough command of Japanese to approach Amazon Japan about it.

Basically - I either go through the headache again or never buy anything from Japan... THIS IS A MAJOR PAIN IN THE ARSE!!!

Apart from that I have been wallowing in Vintage Zuka over the last three days:

That up there is a two DVD set composed of a digest of all the Rose Of Versailles shows fromt the very first in 1974 to 2001.

6 full hours of cheesy dialogue, enough angst and bad acting to crush every soap opera from anywhere around the globe under the might of it's sparkly, froofy FRUIT CAKE AND ROSE ATROCITY!!!

There are plastic Unicorns, skirts that look like meringue, dialogues made of cheese, songs composed of the word "love" repeated over and over and OVER, enough sequins and rhinestones to blind the rulers of Las Vegas and BY GODDESS! Andre in green eye make-up being shot twelve times and still sings to Oscar !!!

;_;

They took a manga that is made out of so much AWESOME and an anime made out of so much WIN and made CHEESE out of it... SPARKLY CHEESE!!!

I officially have Fruit cupcakes coming out of my nose and roses coming out of my arse... I can't see for the rainbow sparkle!!! I CAN HEAR THE GALLOP OF PLASTIC HORSES WHEREVER I GO!!!

It was HORRID....

¬_¬

....

I LOVED IT!!! XD

WHY did I have to love it ... WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY????

It was interesting to watch because it illustrates so well how much Takarazuka changed over the decades. In the 1970 there was much less of an attempt to hide the fact that Otokoyakus are, in fact - WOMEN. They all seem to be a lot better fed as well XD.

Although I confess - Takarasienne nowadays can act and dance better (Musumeyaku seem to do much WORSE a job singing though... they didn't falter on high notes so much and they DID sing to tune). They seem to last longer these days two which amounts to a better stage presence - it a lot more polish but... I am an archaeologist at heart and there is something in that vintage which I can't put my finger on but ... it is lost now...

This is probably more to do with the fact that times change - I feel the same about films, music and literature... and CLOTHES - duh! Because I do dress like my grandad :D:D:D.

I can talk about it for hours but those of you on facebook and twitter got the full commentary as I went along so I will spare you the repeat XD.

I am now left with no more Zuka BeruBara and I will fill the hole by watching the anime ALL OVER AGAIN!

But I will never be able to see Marie Antoinette and Axel von Fersen as anything other than Strawberry Shortcake and Blueberry Muffin...

Which is how they shall be known from henceforth.

HUZZAH!

HALP ME F-LIST!!!

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:16:40 GMT

Amazon Japan started using Fedex to ship to the U.K. Which results in so many levels of MUPPET WANKERY I have no words...

SO!

I don't want to buy magazines through Amazon Japan any longer.

Does anyone know any shop or service in the U.K. That can handle subsciptions for Japanese magazines?

Specifically I want to subscribe to Takarazuka Graph... with the hope they do NOT ship with Fedex because they are a bunch of swindling awkward and RUDE liars!

Any advice is appreciated.

A doll in waiting...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:32:18 GMT

Bored Solomon is BORED:

He read all his books but all he really wants is a nice Rabbi to melest AND LUTS HAVE NOT SENT IT YET...

... well... it has only been 4 days.

BUT SOLOMON IS BORED!!!

How exactly DO you say "Gadzooks, Begad, Odd's Fish" in Japanese?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:19:02 GMT

Yes! MUWAHAHAHAH! Indeed. You knew it was coming... you had plenty of warning and now it is here. The Lamasu rough love treatment of the Star Troupe SCARLET PIMPERNEL .

Look here. I had every good intention of making this review a lot smaller in terms of screen-caps... and ... ah... STUPIDITY but both Touko (Aran Kei) and ESPECIALLY Chie (Yuzuki Reon) had conspired against me and brutally guillotined my frontal lobe with their combined dazzling awesomeness. Both in terms of simply being SMEX and singing like SMEX .

... thankfully (or not) Asuka Touno who plays the ever so superfluous Marguerite, cannot sing to save her life (thus providing a balance to stop me from falling off the cliffs of blissful delirium)... sadly, Frank Wildhorn who wrote this gorgeous piece of gorgeousness - has given her many opportunities to sing COMPLETELY OUT OF TUNE.

However - the combine glory of Chie and Touko has rendered the attempt to hurt my brain with off key vibratos as superfluous as the character itself. I love this Takarazuka performance beyond reasonable reason of any reasonableness (is that even a word? IT IS NOW! (tm) ).

So it must now be subjected to my squeeful ministrations... it may never recover! Here we go:

Once upon a time in Revolutionary Taka-France there was a revolution and many many French people a lot of whom lost their heads... partly due to Madame le Guillotine...

But mostly due to excessive amounts of Eye-Candy that seemingly roamed the grim streets of Paris during the reign of terror spreading sparkles of bishie wherever they went... why HALLO THAR ARAN KEI :D:D:D

Oh ... right... I skipped the bit at the start where lots of peasants frolic around the guillotine and the Scarlet Pimpernel himself disguised as an old man smuggles some bloody aristos out of Paris... keeping the guards away with the cunning use of shoe polish!

And here just so you know it REALLY is sir Percy Blakney - it is written down for you...

actually it says Paashii Bureikunii but that is just part of the fun (Marguerite keeps on being called Marugit... which I believe serve her right because all she ever does is follow Paashii like a puppy, get her shoes a little muddy, scream at the appropriate moment and be a love focus... which by all means should be Chauvelin role! Ahh... I will... try to shut up the yaoi fangirl but she IS out of control... DOWN BITCH!^^;;).

One way or another... Chauvelin is NOT amused (but ever so fucking gorgeous!)

There is no real reason for posting the following picture apart from my expressed wishes to own Touko's coat, boots, hat and Touko herself kthx!

So far my endeavours to cut my sceen-cap escapade in half have come to miserable failure, so ... since I am NOT fond of Asuka Touno's singing I shall grace her with only one image because she IS very beautiful (and she can also act and has some back-bone which is largely lacking in musumeyaku and she has powerful lungs and her high notes don't falter and by all means I should WORSHIP the ground she walks on... if only she could sing those huge high notes TO TUNE!!!)

Here she is torturing the ear drums of the citizens of Paris:

After which she announces to the crowd and Robespierre and Chauvelin that her heart is in Paris but her pants obviously in Sir Percy's hands (and who can blame her... apart from Chauvelin who clearly want HIS pants in sir Percy's... ah... DOWN YAOI BITCH!!! >_<), so she is going to England where the hills are green and the muffins are grands!!!

Chavelin is NOT amused!

But he IS gorgeous!

And forceful and PHUWAR!

And you know, I am trying very hard NOT to make all this review about close-ups of Yuzuki Reon.

AND I FAIL!!! So here is another one mmmmmmmRAWR! :D:D:D

Here is Marguerite's little brother with his girlfriend because they are both made out of pretty and also - you can't accuse me now of only showing pictures of Yuzuki Reon all the time:

Said little brother is threatened by Chauvelin as per first novel and film so before she gets hitched Marguerite sends the Marquis de Saint-Cyr to the guillotine ... like this (yes - it involves Chauvelin - YAY!).

What follows is the reason why playing Chauvelin in this musical is the most brilliant part known to man. I took millions of screen-caps but they do not convey the greatness of the music or how amazing Yuzuki Reon voice is and how it is carried effortlessly over a massive chorus of singers... the set is lovely as is Ema Naoki who plays Saint-Cyr in a matted wig (she seem to be constantly cast in comedy roles that require her to clown about but she is always lovely doing this and I suspect my endearment to her has SOMETHING to do with her languid doe eyes and that gap between her front teeth ... which I totally have a weakness too XD).

And ... ummm....

Yuzuki Reaon. ^^;;.

Percy and Marguerite get married. This picture is only here to illustrate that as it is in YaoiLand, TakaLand does not allow the priesthood to be ugly... and TakaLand is a sister to YaoiLand because we all know what this bishie Bishop is going to do with those pretty altar boys after the wedding (oh goddess don't make that joke about playing the organ PLEASE!!!^^;;).

Wedding bliss is cut short by Andrew Faulks (him of "Zooks ejaculated sir Andrew" BARONESS ORCZY WROTE IT NOT ME!!!) who comes in bearing news about Marguerite involvement in Saint-Cyr hight reduction surgery... which all amounts to the fact that she isn't getting any on her wedding night ...

Instead of a sweaty night in the bridal bed, Sir Percy sets out to convince all his foppish friends (who seem to be playing some Japlish version of Cricket involving golf clubs ... for some reason...) that he is the famous Scarlet Pimpernel. He does this by showing them he has a map of France and Paris... NO REALLY! THAT IS HIS METHOD! People are so easily swayed in TakaLand ¬_¬.

They have a little fencing match with cricket bats and golf clubs to show us how laddish and Englishly brave they are... and then they dress as ladies (Huzzah - it wouldn't be Takarazuka without some ladies who play men who dress like ladies ^_^) and sail to France!

Where they save some aristocrats by making the entire useless imp brigade of the Committee For Public safety skip rope:

CHAUVELIN IS NOT AMUSED!!!

LIKE THIS!!! (haha... it's ... errrr... Yuzuki Reon...^^;;).

Next, Percy manage to worm his way into the confidence of Robespierre disguised as... something weird... I have a feeling Aran Kei had the time of her life mincing in a fat-suit around stage... apart from the excessive sweating in induced. Seriously - she was DRIPPING at some points... poor woman.

Anyway - Here she is coming to rescue the Dauphin as per Eldorado and the film. This scene is marked mostly by how fluffy the Dauphin is and how everyone call him Rui Sharuru which comes to illustrate how splendid Japlish (or in this case Japrench!) is and how it should be adopted as the international language of the world!

OK... I must confess that despite my loathing of the Kawaii musumeyaku syndrome that seem to permeate so many Takarazuka productions, I found the following scene, involving a gaggle of fluffy girls in frills really sweet. Possibly because they were all rather bouncy and did what appears to be a musumeyaku regency conga.

After trying to figure out who the elusive pimpernel is and trying to cheer up Marguerite who clearly still isn't getting any, Sir Percy comes flouncing in... looking splendid because he is Touko and she ALWAYS DOES!!!

Here is sir Percy Blakney posing for a portrait in a pose that from henceforth be termed "Hand over the Muffin" or if it was Chauvelin - "Hand over the Croissant"!

It is evening and the garden is slowly filling up with lovers. I suppose this scene exists to poignantly highlight Marguerite's loneliness but we don't care about that - we only care about how pretty it all is and it IS. Here they are all being adorable and frilly:

Armand and Marie:

Andrew and Suzanne:

And Anthony and whoever he found behind the rose-bush:

And then they all go to do what lovers do (play cards? amuse each other with hours of origami? EAT MUFFINS? one would hope... yes I AM AWARE OF THE HIDDEN MEANING ... BECAUSE I PUT IT THERE!!!).

And suddenly there is Chauvelin and Marguerite and seriously - I have no idea how she can resist!

Because Percy clearly can't - as you can see - he is obviously checking some Chauvelin arse here. I am not going to subdue the yaoi fangirl now BECAUSE HE CLEARLY DOES! XD

I have no idea what was going on during this scene but it involved a lot of "Kuru-kuru-kuru!" and "Pika-Pika-Pika" yes... thank you Japan for producing onomatopoeia for things that DON'T MAKE A SOUND >_<;;.

It all amounts to one big pile of OMG WTF TOUKO SRSLY WOT???!!!

Aran Kei makes the most splendid and amusing sir Percy moving effortlessly from vacant fop to cunning plotter in a blink of an eye.

But seriously:

OMG WTF TOUKO SRSLY WOT???!!!

As I believe the expression on Armand's face as he is seized by the useless imps of the committee for public safety, demonstrates better than words:

Now we are off to a masquerade ball where Saint-Cyr has quickly re-incarnated as the prince of Wales... complete with fat-suit and bad wig ^^;;.

And then sir Percy sing the famous "they seek him here - they seek him there - Those Frenchies seek him everywhere" song whilst having a good go at feeling Chauvelin...

...and the two pretty... yet very useless imps he brought along to the ball:

And in the spirit of the original book - Marguerite is roped into finding out who the Pimpernel is and she sneaks a peak at Anthony's letter whilst mocking him about Suzanne (OK ... I confess to being confused because in the book it was suzanne and Andrew but ... am I nitpicking again? *slaps self hard*... OUCH! ;_;).

Then Chauvelin shows up and honestly - HOW CAN SHE RESIST???

I WOULD HAVE FRENCHED THE LIFE OUT OF THAT FRENCHIE AGES AGO!!!

Which I think is what Sir Percy is trying to do here:

On to rescue the Dauphin - Touko in a box! I WANT ONE!!! :D:D:D

Marguerite follows and finds out from the Dauphin himself that her hubber is in fact the Scarlet Pimpernel...

Then we have a scene of cruelty and torture that comes to demonstrate violence perpetuated in the abuse of power that stems from the chaos inherent with the complete fracturing of social structures and the oppression of individuals by the delegation of absolute authority in the hands of unbalanced fanaticism...

Or in other words - Who gives a shit - IT IS YUZUKI REON WITH A WHIP!!! *JoyGasm* ^__^.

Oh Chie... CHIE - come and interrogate me NAO PLZ KTHX!!! ^_^.

Onwards and upwards - Chauvelin drags Marguerite to perform in the theatre again and she incites the citizens to violence with her atrocious singing... ok... no ... not really. She turns them against Robespierre with her singing which they find stirring which just proves they are a bunch of earless PEASANTS - gosh - this bit was awful...

CHAUVELIN IS NOT AMUSED!!!!

Oh wait...

wait...

Yes he is:

Right... Aran Kei... I want your Coat, your Boots and your line of High Kicking Otokoyaku!

I was actually going to select only one of the caps I snagged off the duel at the end but FUCKIT! It is one of the sexiest things in existence. Few screen-caps in no way convey the sheer nose-bleeding, squee-value of this scene. They clearly had some serious sessions of theatrical fencing before-hand because they really go for it:

HAVE AT YA!

Mummy - I have a nosebleed!

I came and died... I mean I died and came to squee heaven ^_^.

And I can't help but feeling Chauvelin is making allusions to the size of Percy's penis in ratio to the girth of his sword... although this might just be the yaoi fangirl speaking...

And then Percy married Chauvelin in a splendid shot-gun wedding! MAZEL TOV!

no, not really. I really wanted him to but he didn't - instead he sailed off back to England with Marguerite where he gagged her so she wouldn't topple the roof of their mansion with her off key singing!

So there was no resolution to Percy and Chauvy revolutionary romance but Chie doesn't mind because she is GORGEOUS!

"COME TO SEME, TOUKO!"

"TOTALLY YOUR UKE, CHIE!"

I REST MY CASE!!!

And I take it I do not need to explain why this is the most orgasmic Otokoyaku ballet EVER TO WALK THE EARTH!

I am actually lost for words...

KYAAAAA! THEY ALL HAVE SWORDS!!! *spasms* XD.

And finally ... The Scarlet Pimpernel - Scourge of Ostriches everywhere!

But fuck the ostriches! I want Touko's earing...

... and Touko's babies... and also Chie... and... and I am going now... REALLY... BYE! ^^;;.

So what we have here is Chie totally stealing the carpet from under EVERYONE'S feet... apart from Touko who maintains a state of utter awesome! But despite my unbelievable and blinding Touko love I must admit that Chie totally owned this musical and now my love for her is eternal. <3<3<3

Bottom line is that - my goddess! WHAT a staggering combination these two make! I am in love, in lust and in DEBT because I bought this DVD when I already had a rip and couldn't afford it but FUCK! Is it EVER worth it! ^_^.

And then ... for no apparent reason...

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:29:35 GMT

I just wanted to do this for a very long time ^^;;.

Review of The Scarlet Pimpernel soon to grace this space with a million and one screen caps ... including the above... without the MUWAHAHAHA!!! you will probably be glad to know...

Or not ¬_¬.

OH GODDESS! OH GODDESS!! OH GODDESS!!!

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:42:34 GMT

I ORDERED RABBI ABRAHAM ROTTENSTEIN!

I REALLY DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also ordered a couple of white wigs and a pair of lilac eyes... have no idea if they will be shipped with it or WAAAAAAAY before.

Long and painful wait now.

Also - officially broke - beans on toast now KTHX (make it beans on English muffin and I am fine!)

>_<;;.

Ill in Exeter...

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:06:24 GMT

You would think that not being able to hear properly (due to fluid building behind ear drum... cold related and PAINFUL!) would deter me from watching Takarazuka.

YOU WOULD THINK THAT WOULDN'T YOU???

But I am at the mother in law because The Vulcan had to come here help with clearing a garage and I rather be where he can drive me to a doctor if my ear drums decide to burst again ;_;.

So I sit here in misery and watch PHANTOM when the Vulcan... reluctantly... makes the effort of watching it for 5 minutes (he actually approves of the hobby but he hates musicals with passion and Takarazuka is often too FABULOUS even for musical lovers ... so he finds it painful ^^;;).

The part he watched involves Erik taking Christine to a picnic in the artificial forest in the catacombs.

Vulcan: He reads her BLAKE on their date? No wonder she ran off. What must she be thinking?
Lamasu: *slightly offended Blake fan* She SHOULD be thinking he is the right type of Goth.
Vulcan: The RIGHT type of Goth? I dread to think what the wrong type of Goth is.
Lamasu: The WRONG type of Goth reads Baudelaire.
Vulcan: Let me guess. There is also a regular, not quite right but ACCEPTABLE type of Goth too.
Lamasu: Yes.
Vulcan: *raise eyebrow*
Lamasu: They read Poe. They are allowed to quote from the RAVEN until they turn 21 - after that - they might as well move to Baudelaire and accept the state of utter FAIL.
Vulcan: I didn't understand any of that - but you are ill - so I forgive you.

Apart from this. There has been complication regarding the impending trip to Vienna. The Vulcan decided to leave Sivan stranded in London for a day so he can save £200 on flight ticket. I freaked out so much I broke my mobile phone (LAME) and promptly bought a doll for £500 to express what I think about money saving that compromises hospitality. (Ok... so I didn't buy it YET because it is a Korean National Holiday but Luts are producing the SDF Abadon in white skin again and... it is MINE as a revenge for pissing me off when I am ill and only making me tea ONCE ... and also dragging me to Exeter when my ears are bursting!)

He changed the flight now so we ARE coming back in time and Sivan only has to wait for few hours in the airport... still crap but ... acceptable.

This of course changed the plans from Vienna and Budapest to Vienna and PRAGUE... which I don't mind because I really really REALLY love Prague!

This time around I am determined to visit Kafka's grave AND I swear I will find the Golem... I WILL!!! :D:D:D

Also Vienna - That portrait of Elisabeth better be there for me to pose next to it ^_^.

Early days yet - first I have to shake this unshakable cold... and hope the Vulcan doesn't change the plan AGAIN!

Back to half hearing the PHANTOM...

Ah... the precious stink of old times!

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:56:50 GMT

Old Internet Acquaintance: "All you ever talk about is YAOI".
Lamasu: "I know... all those Takarazuka ladies taking each other up the arse with their massive cocks!"
OIA: "You see? You haven't changed!"
Lamasu: "... you have a point actually. ^^;;"
OIA: "What is Takarazuka!"
Lamasu: *gives up*.

I had a similar conversation 4 times in the last week...

People will always remember you for one thing and it would ALWAYS be the one thing they disapprove of...

Also - this just proves to me how truly interlinked are Takarazuka and Yaoi.

HUZZAH! :D:D:D

You are Music...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:13:08 GMT

Because I just love how the whole WaoHana dynamic work!

Because this is one of the most beautiful musicals/Operettas I ever heard!

Because Youka Wao's hair is so fluffy!

Because I am reading Phantom of the Opera again!

I could never buy Mari Hanafusa as Elisabeth - not spunky enough and at the time she was singing out of tune. Since then her voice certainly refined and her harmonies when she sing with Youka Wao are simply perfect... perfect... perfect Christine!

Also this is the Maury Yeston musical - Not the Lloyd Webber. Different Music, Different Plot. Practically the only thing in common is the fact that neither follow the original book.

I Love Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical like WOAH! But I love this one like WOAH X 1,000,000 ^_^.

KosherFail

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:58:54 GMT

Do you hear that sound? It is a sound of Jews munching! Yom Kippur has ended and was in fact the most surreal and LOLsome Yom Kippur I have ever experienced in my ever so lax Jewishness.

I have spilled all I have to say on the matter in many snippets over Twitter and Facebook - I find those two media channels suit the purpose of venting and knee-jerking and generally brain puking better than LiveJournal/InsaneJournal/DreamWidth...

So you get a digest of the day in terms of newly constructed internet terms:

KosherFail = This applies to me, my family and most of my friends. It does not only describe the case of vigorous BLT chewing on Yom kippur (of which I am guilty) nor the way that 3/4 of the Jews of Israel take themselves to the beach to have a barbecue because as my mum summed up: "God doesn't go to the sea-side on Yom Kippur" so he doesn't see all the Jewish sinners. But mostly in my opinion to those who never bother practising anything Jewish (not even on Purim when it is a Mitzva to get so plastered you would shag a duck and think it is Yuzuki Reon in pirate garb) but they just HAVE to fast on Yom Kippur ... so they eat tons the day before, stay awake all night and SLEEP THE WHOLE BLOODY YOM KIPPUR... That is just cheating = KosherFail!!!

LolGoy = Oddly does not apply to non-Jews only. One Jew seriously wished me Happy Yom Kippur today. It isn't that kind of a holiday, Kay? It is a JEWISH holiday - it isn't supposed to be about FUN - it is supposed to be about guilt, suffering and ridiculous levels of ANGST! Also under LolGoy comes anyone who think Jews pray and fast on Yom Kippur so they will be absolved of all their sins... HAH! No, this is not the Catholic confessional celebration - it is JEWISH... you are not forgiven for anything, EVER sometimes not even if you make amends... personally I think it is rather shit that we have to go without bacon sandwiches for a whole day just because our ancestors had a nifty orgy around a golden calf and I still believe this holiday came about because god got huffy over not receiving an invitation because he was too buy dictating commandments to Moses...

WTFJew mostly apply to hairy Jewish ladies who never bother practice Judaism and just moan about it on Twitter and Facebook and LiveJournal/InsaneJournal/DreamWidth and instead of fasting and praying and... errr... believing in god and... stuff... spends all day eating BLT sandwiches and watching her newly acquired swish copy of PHANTOM!!!

So I had a GREAT Yom Kippur thankyouverymuch! :D:D:D

This DVD is made out of so much pure awesome - I almost atoned to my sins by accident!

However... I could have done without discovering what : "due to copyright some of the scenes have the music cut". Note to TCA: having the Revue part of the show chopped and served as silent extras after the credits is made of FAIL! I would have hoped you polished up this act by now but apparently you have done the same to the 2009 Zorro... TakaFail of epic proportions! ¬_¬

Next year I even fast... between bites of my BLT sandwich.

A Day that Starts with a Rotten Egg can only End with Hair-Agst!

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:49:32 GMT

I should have known yesterday would turn out foul the moment I cracked that egg to make scrambled egg on muffin. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen or smelled and it actually made me throw up violently. It also put me off eggs - my muffin related escapades lay in RUINS before my eyes. I had to opt for the cross pollination of Mediterranean Roasted Halumi on English muffins... it proved successful with the children (who were home nursing colds and sport injuries - HUZZAH!).

Later in the evening Gabriel insisted I would trim his long lush hair, apparently his current teacher nags him about it and makes him tie it up during PE. Sadly I blundered it, leaving the Vulcan Mathematician to sort out the mess (He refused cutting Gabriel hair giving him a long lecture about succumbing to conformity and loosing his individuality) the whole incident resulted in me crying my eyes out in ENORMOUS guilt - the burden of which I am still feeling right now, the Vulcan spewing sermons about the evils of the establishments and the way they make us compromise our own principles, and Gabriel in the middle of this being really sad and depressed... it took all my strength not to kick my own head in, not to kick the Vulcan to the moon (he did salvaged my mess with a really lovely hair cut... albeit short) and not to burn everything within 10 miles radius by NUKING IT FROM ORBIT!

So fuck yesterday - it was AWFUL.

But today the children are back in school. They are healthy. Everyone in Gabriel's calss thought his hair in nifty which put him at ease... one of the girls came up to him to say she knew he had beautiful eyes so it is nice to see them... which made him go so RED it was utterly adorable. I also had a chat with his last year teacher who is a lady after my own heart being snarky and a real book worm... so I felt a bit more human once I returned home... the guilt will not go away though...

SO I WILL DROWN IT!!!

WITH TAKARAZUKA!!!

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D

When I purchased a legit and totally not YAAAAR copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel - featuring the most delicious Aran Kei as Sir Percy and the utterly MOUTH WATERING Yuzuki Reon as Chauvelin (Review with excessive screen-caps coming to this neighbourhood soon!) I also purchased a copy of VALENCIA PASSION/ SPACE FANTASISTA by the ever bouncy and OH-SO-TALL Cosmos Troupe!

Purely because I suddenly and without notice found myself totally enamoured with this troupe. It is odd... I think I just like the Soragumi energy. I think the requirement for a Soragumi Otokoyaku these days is :

1) Be able to change a light-bulb without standing on a chair.
2) Taken off Ritalin for the duration of a show run.

I haven't watched the show yet, I just skimmed through and already I am having a million WTF moments (this is a good thing - crack makes my world go round and Soragumi seem to be saturated with it quite often!) one of the main WTF question that is really keeping me awake at night... REALLY! is: Why did they paint Ranju Tomu ORANGE! srsly... did they think it will somehow reduce her AWESOME??? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK! She is just awesome AND orange... that is all...

OK... I am off to watch the show now... and later ship some Taka goodness all the way from Glastonbury to Transylvania - which is awesome in itself ^_^.

Have a day lacking in rotten eggs and hair angst and instead filled with SPARKLE! :D:D:D

The continuing Adventures of a Boy and his Penis.

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:59:41 GMT

Raphael: I want to do a wee.
Lamasu: Take your pants off and go to the loo.
Raphael: *does as he is told* Ooh! Look! PENIS!
Lamasu: Yes, it is indeed. Now lets get down to the business of actual PEEING.
Raphael: *sits on loo*
Lamasu: Make sure your penis is inside the loo please, I had enough mopping pee off the floor!
Raphael: It is inside. Wee is coming.
Lamasu: I don't need a progress report kthx.
Raphael: *ignores* Wee is in the toilet. Need to wipe penis.
Lamasu: You can just shake it.
Raphael: No. Penis needs Tissue!
Lamasu: *rolls eyes* TSK! Hands tissue.
Raphael: *looks down* I can't see Penis!
Lamasu: *rolls eyes again*.
Raphael: *giggles* Penis is gone.
Lamasu: *ROLLS EYES!!!*
Raphael: Bye bye penis.
Lamasu: Honestly - young man! Where did your penis go?
Raphael: IT GONE TO WORK!
Lamasu: *dies*

I should collect these stories and put them in a book - REALLY!

;_;

AVAST ME HEARTIES!

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:40:14 GMT

And this is why I need EL HALCON ... like... YESTERDAY!!!

Come plunder me Yuzuki Reon - I want to walk your plank! :D:D:D

Why the Lamasu Should NOT be allowed in ANY fanclub...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:45:53 GMT

Dear Yuzuki Reon.

I am writing this fan letter because I want you to be my wife. You can be my husband if you prefer. I will have your Takarazuka babies and cook you falafel every day apart from Saturday... when I will appreciate it if you could make me some sushi.

Yours with enormous buckets of love.

Lamasu ♥

I apologise to everyone on facebook who were already exposed to this.

I just thought it should be posted here for posterity as a warning to fanclubs, Takarasiennes and above all MYSELF ;_;.

The Smexy Bug-Fest!

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:09:47 GMT

Welcome to another Takarazuka Revue Review (I always wanted to say that - woo hoo!) that doesn't make sense. This is because I am reviewing the Revue (Woo Hoo ... again) part of the show. And Revue parts make little sense at best, no sense at all if you are lucky or are damn right cracky and insane if you are even MORE lucky :D:D:D. This Revue Review (OH SHE JUST WOULDN'T STOP!!!) is part II of LUCIFER'S TEARS which I spoke of lengthily if stupidly previously and you are welcome to brave the aforementioned link with it's unbridled use of screen-caps and angst.

The second part,TARANTELLA, has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with the first one (welcome to Takarazuka! We would like to mess with your head and make you overdose of sequins!) As the first one is a dark tale of fallen angels and the meaning of Christmas - this one is a sort of tale about a spider and lots of other bugs who wear sparkly clothes and dance a lot and do things with feathers!

HUZZAH!

Once upon a Time in Taka-Land a Lonely spider decided he wanted to be FABULOUS!

But before he could be FABULOUS a very sparkly heart-throb of mine came on to the stage wearing all the colours of the rainbow and holding on to a very suggestive woodwind instrument - Yay KIMU!!! :D:D:D

Tarantella was only at his very beginning of his search for the inner FABULOUS a search that will carry him through many lands populated by many strange insects. But he makes a good start by being played by Komu and donning some sparkly purple feathers.

Tarantella seem at this point to lord it over some sinister insects in a mini spectacular of WTF. Amongst the cornucopia of "What-the-hell-is-going-on-here" are some Nazi insects who seem to be doing what Nazi insects do ... in this case it seem to involve breast feeding off some random musumeyaku ^^;;.

Lactating Tegenaria Nazitica! I don't know... I am just a little hairy Jewish thing DON'T ASK ME XD.

All through this, Eritan seem to be a bit confused and distressed. Especially when she is suddenly accosted by a couple of fanatical musumeyaku.

The above picture is unfair to Eritan because she is in fact gorgeous incarnate and to prove that I just had to pick up another screen cap just to illustrate how stunning she is and how much eveyone in the world - EVERYONE!!! should aspire to have her cheekbones! *__*.

Pretty :D:D:D

Now Tarantella the smexy spider had enough of dancing with the lactating Nazis and he is accompanied briefly by two of his friends. Tarantella the blue (Mizu) and Tarantella the Pink (Rira)... and then there are lots of green hoppie things that I think are supposed to be grasshoppers but look more like giant leeks. And then there are the red things that bring rhubarb to mind and thankfully they do not stay on the stage for long because there is nothing I hate more than Rhubarb (since the mother of my dance troupe leader forced fed it to me when I was 6 months pregnant with Gabriel ;_;).

This has been a monstrous scene to screen cap so you will have to excuse the blurryness. I present to you a bunch of your friendly, smexy garden vegetable as they hop and skip around the stage...

One of the bouncy green ... thing... comes in the shape of Kimu... so ... who am I to complain when what meant to be an extravaganza of creepy crawlies ended up as ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEEKS!

"where is it?"
"IT'S BEHIND YOU!"

WHERE????!!!

Panto moments aside, I need to draw your attention to that bit of exposed thigh Kimu is displaying which I am CONVINCED is designed to make me nose-bleed to DEATH.

*Dies of the Nose-Bleed... happily :D:D:D*

GIANT LEEK IS YOUR OVERLORD OF AWESOME!

And then for unknown reason Eritan decided to do the most spectacular Back-Bend in the history of humanity... my GODDESS did I cream my pants a million times just by looking at her defying the laws of nature and physics and making it look EASY!!! *sparkles* ^_^.

Tarantella the sparkly spider had enough of all this horticultural bouncyness at this stage and he decided to go to SPAIN! Because there he can pose with Mizu!

OLE!

Also when he wasn't looking Lamasu focused her attention of Eritan again because she was totally making a move on Mayumi (Aki Itsumine - FINALLY I got around to learn her nickname because I love her so much^^).

And Wooooooosh! Rira came flying... no seriously ... FLYING! This is the bit when I started thinking that maybe... just MAYBE... she is worth my attention. Here she is being a beautiful butterfly and gah! She really can fly XD.

Although I was still not entirely sold on her because she just couldn't suppress those inane smiles ;_;

Anyhoo Tarantella came dressed as a spider for a change and started to play with all the froofy butterflies, he fell in love with one and ended up killing it by mistake... it just slid between his legs ... oh shut up already - YOU ALL WANT TO BE THAT BUTTERFLY!

Sad Komu Spider needs a hug ;_;

And so since Tarantella cannot drown his sadness in a bottle... because he is too small and would just fall in and will drown in bourbon (the choice of alcohol for hardboil spiders... it makes sense just ... bear with me), he decides to go all manly and invest in suit and fedora...

Now... I take it I do not need to explain why Mizu in a suit and fedora is made out of enough WIN to make me explode... so I will just express it with a grammar lesson explaining the various uses of the verb "PIMP"! (Because I can!).

Repeat after me:

Do you Pimp?

I Pimp!

Could you Pimp?

Lets Pimp!

GROUP PIMP!!!

At this point the producers ran out of costumes... seriously... so they had to borrow some from the set of THE LION KING ("Just stick some red sequins on it - it will be fine!")

The plot to try and make Komu die under huge arse costumes continues with THIS:

And then there is a lot of Copacabana style dancing and singing which is really extravagant and wonderful and involves a LOT of Mizu dancing on the very edge of the silver bridge... I think the Conductor was expiring with fear by that time... poor man XD.

It was all too active for me and I failed at screen-caps but I did snag the very end of it with Eritan and Mayumi being really cute :D:D:D

And now Ladies and gentelfops - Asami Hikaru's Sayonara show in which she will do her very best to commit suicide by dancing for a solid 15 minutes after being on stage for over two and a half hours already!

She lifts her leg and then ... that is it... she just stays like that whilst Rira orbits her about three or four times and eventually gives up and rest in her shadow *_*.

And when she finally get that leg down, Mizu comes to rest against her and Rira rubs herself against her as well ^^;;.

Right ... I promised I will show the very moment I realised why Rira is adorable and I actually found it hard to capture. Everyone comes dancing with Komu and then disappear to have a costume change again leaving her to continue dancing then they all come sparkling down the stairs with Rira at the front ... and then...

I can't quite explain it - she does this lovely shoulder shimmy and smiles a smile that is actually really really REALLY sweet and PADOOF - this is the best I could do ^^.

I couldn't help myself with this image - I am a sucker for a good leg lift and this one is just... Hello thar? There is a bloke in the pit! I THOUGHT ONLY WOMEN ARE ALLOWED HERE???

Just to express how strenuous this dance mania is - here is sweaty tired Komu making "I am about to die" faces to the audience...

I can't stress how awesome she is in this - I took a million screncaps but they can't capture the awesome not the copious buckets of WIN she has been expressing at this - it is SPECTACULAR. The woman is a GODDESS! :D:D:D

Which is why I sobbed my heart out when she took a little break and walked away from it all... stood on the silver bridge and LOOKED at what she was leaving behind:

But she is not allowed to go yet! First she has to dance more and then SING and finally, as the finale parade start coming down the big stairs bedecked with enough feather to eradicate the entire Ostrich population of the world... she slowly walks off up the same stairs, only looking back once... to make us burst into tears and scream "DON'T GO KOMUUUUUUUUU!"

And then she comes back of course - for a final time and I would like to take this opportunity to ask you all to spare a thought for the Ostriches:

In fact - spare a thought to ALL BIRD-KIND!!!

As you can see I have yet again over-done the screen-caps. Since this is my THIRD Takarazuka Review I am beginning to see a pattern here... I guess I will just have to continue being carried away ...

Since I watched this for the first time -I accumulated quite a few more shows and now I have a multiple dilemma: Which one of these sparkly goodies should I sink my fangirlish fangs in next.

Life is full of difficult decisions - I will just have to spend HOURS watching Takarazuka... Oh the burdens of duty! ^^;;.

And as always - Tea now - Spell and Grammar check ... NEXT WEEK! XD