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This was the last musical in the storyline for Tenipuri! I was practically grinning through the whole thing, but possibly this will only happen for Ryoma fans like me. XD; Because wow, this musical was full of Ryoma. It was Ryoma, Ryoma, and more Ryoma. Plus some rivals. And boy, do I love Ryoma's rivals (I'm a fan of almost all of them), so that made me grin even more. I'm very glad Ryuuki was the Ryoma for these last musicals. I didn't think he felt like Ryoma when I first saw him, but I've come to really like his voice, and the way he asks if tennis is fun amuses me to no end.

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Oh man, the musical finished its run in March! You can watch the trailer here. There are also some cast interviews on that page. It looks like a cute musical. They have an orchestra too! I was wondering what exactly a La Corda d'Oro musical would be like...from the trailer, it looks like they're actually acting out the story. I wonder if the actors sing, or if it's all instrumental, classical music played by the orchestra? Lili has a double cast and is played by two young girls. I hope they have a DVD release of this! XD

I bought volume 14 of the manga a while back but I still haven't finished reading it. I used to keep up with all the latest chapters, but now I wait for the volume releases. :3 Ah, still need to buy the latest game...but La Corda d'Oro games are so much more involved than Gakuensai. XD; Requires planning, haha.

Awesomeness, the DVD for the Shugo Chara musical is out~. I wanted to attend this when I went to Japan in August, but that thought was easily shot down by the group since none of them are interested in musicals. =P I haven't finished watching the Shugo Chara musical yet (must sleep...) but YAY for KENN with cat ears. I don't like Ikuto, the character he portrays, but maybe KENN will make me like him more. XD; KENN is...one of the oldest in the cast. Man, everyone else is so young. And so high pitched. The shugo chara are all...puppets. Kind of amusing. Amu takes a while to change into her Amulet Heart outfit, so everyone has to get beaten by the X characters, which sound like how they sound in the anime. Will watch the rest tomorrow, hopefully. I think by the end everyone will have their character transformation. Frilly clothes for Tadase...pirate outfit for Ikuto? Do want to see KENN in that.

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I probably should have watched a musical with the 5th cast since they'll be the ones in the Rikkaimyu...oh well. Next on my list. I need to go back and finish Higamyu too! And the 2nd Dear Boys musical. Ahaha, I've accumulated so many musicals...

Mm, Shitenhouji is just hilarious. Gosh, Seigaku was singing very seriously "One more step!!" and there Shitenhouji started singing, "Shiten-ho-ho-ho-ji." They're too funny. ♥

I entirely have to agree now that Fuji ALWAYS gets a part. A good part too.

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When I went to find the new Higamyu, I found that the Dear Boys musical was being shared too! *___* I never thought I'd get to see it.

The musical adapted the series pretty well. I'm surprised that they really did do all the basketball scenes...because man, they have to dribble the ball, play out a pre-scripted game, and shoot tons of baskets on stage. @___@; That must have taken tons of practice. They did have this box thing that they threw the basketball in for harder shots. XDDD It lights up and everything.

Ahaha, I'm entirely unused to seeing females onstage. Anzaki's actress had a nice voice. Himuro-sensei was pretty good too, though one had to wonder why she was around since there's no girl basketball team in the musical. XD;

Aizawa was quite perky, though he didn't actually get a lot more stage time than the others, so I didn't really get the feel that he's the main character. Well, except for the songs when everyone's singing about how he's bringing a wind of change. XD; Otherwise, Miura actually gets to start a lot of songs, and Fujiwara gets to be mopey all over the place. I don't care much for the rival team, but Shimojo was pretty awesome despite how despising he is in the original.

I didn't recognize that Miura was Tenimyu's 3rd cast Tezuka until I watched the backstage video and he was trying on glasses. XDDD Is he a lefty? Since, he's always cast as a lefty character. He also mentioned on the website that other than Miura, he'd have liked to play Meiwadai's Yuuki Nozomi, who is also a lefty. Haha, Meiwadai is never going to be part of the musical though. That school hasn't even shown up much in the actual series.

I love Ishii's actor in that he says that he'd have liked to try out Shounan's Ayumi Fuse. Fuse~ ♥. Aizawa's actor says he'd have liked to try out Miura's part because the character is different from his normal personality. He really seems to be the cheerful type.

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There's going to be a Dear Boys vs. East Honmoku musical in July. I guess they're going to keep going. XD; East Honmoku is much funner than Narita Chuou.

*jaw drops*

There's going to be a Dear Boys musical. Woah.

Here's the cast of the main five characters:



Aikawa, Taku, Miura, Ishii, and Dobashi, in that order from left to right. It's going to be Mizuho versus Narita Chuuou. Too bad I'm not too fond of Narita. ): I'd love to see any of the other rival teams instead...like East Honmoku or Shonan. It's going to show 12/20/07~12/29/07.

Here's the info page that came at the end of the volume 26 of Act II.

I'm really surprised. xD But yay for more Dear Boys stuff going on!