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mandilo · 6 years

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Touken Ranbu in Paris - Shunya Fan reporting on the shows

So yesterday (as i started to write) i attended the 2 toumyu shows. first near the right exit then middle 3rd rank. that’s very different experiences and i only regret not having experienced the other side too because of shunya !

First it was a pleasure to meet my friends in the flesh and meet fun persons ! I didn’t take photos but the germ..ans are fun to hang out with!

The “stage” part and the differences are pretty well described by other fan reports. A few things to know before i start :

- i am a big Shunya fangirl(read i will gush over him) and i will barely mention Ryuji however since as expected, i wouldn’t add anything to what’s already been said.

- i love the show but the subtitles were attracting my attention a little too much during the first show but the second show was more enjoyable thanks to knowing what to listen for and not being easily able to see the screens !

Now let’s get to business the shows ! It will under the cut because it’s a massive impression and spoilery dump for small specific moments !

The contrition/excuses were very Japanese and everyone was very tensed. And.... well very emotional but since I’m very short sighted i could catch the faces at the first representation. However during the second one when Ryo was on stage since the beginning i felt they were less tensed!

As difference between the representations, outside of Tsubasa’s drawing session were he forgot the stylus during the second one, the “honpen” part was pretty much the same. Not a difference but seeing Daichi passing close and in awakening state, he is very impressive (I completely agree with the feeling in the tweet I saw just screaming in all caps “IWATOOSHI’S NIPPLES”) ! Kimi no uta and the entire opening of the second show had my friend and I crying. Being on the third row with a very good view of the faces, it left a very lasting impression!

For the sentences to the saniwas, we had Mario performing the first one! As was already said he opened his vest to reveal his back (he knows how to please his public) and as he was having trouble closing it again, Daichi came to the rescue in a moment(daichi was in a very big brother mode) i really wish has been captured.

The second to be punished for slacking off for our delight was Tsubasa. Pretexting to have been too busy praying at the French “tori”: l’arc de triomphe ^^. The team dynamic trying to explain that the arc is not a tori was hilarious. I didn’t quite catch the meaning of the sentence itself but he ended with the gesture of a hug and Shunya came immediately to hug him!

The live part as a whole was good; i love the trio ishi/iwa/ima and the public song. Seeing otokomichi live was a dream come true. And I really want to see again the duo Ryo/Mario because the choreography we saw is very promising !

As expected seeing them passing close was awesome, I had Tsubasa and Mario passing and stopping near on the 2 shows Ryuji passing and waving and Shunya passing too very quickly but Daichi only happened to come near on the second show. Tsubasa’s smile is really a gorgeous and a dreamy thing to see directed your way and having both him and mario pose together is an image i won’t forget. I was in an aisle seat on the second show and Daichi’s big smile, Shunya running everywhere so fast were not as dizzying as Mario just passing by.

Daichi has improved so much in both acting and singing, so has Tsubasa’s voice and Mario is more regal than ever. To me all the first 2h the first and second time was vocally perfect, visually amazing and so touching. Yoshitsune and Benkei’s actors were also very impressing since neither of them had an easy task. The affection the whole team has for each other really shines through and all the sanjou caring for the character of imanotsurugi in the stage is really natural.

Shunya: the improvement of his singing is obvious, his voice being more stable more rarely sounding pushed to its limits; when it comes to dancing and fighting he was on fire (to my eyes the best dancer of the second show)! The strain of the 5h of representation seems not to exist on his energy even though the modifications have added more acting and fighting to Daichi and Shunya. And I think Shunya worked a lot to give us the best fighting he could ! Ima was portrayed as more bold, more self-assured in his desire to save yoshitsune and his brother to the point where ishipapa felt more like restraining him for his own good than protecting him. Plus all his interactions with Daichi, Tsubasa and Mario on stage and during the public scenes were the cutest, more awesome thing ever !

Let’s admit it, Mario as Mikazuki is hypnotic, regal and fries my brain as easily as he smiles, his costumes are always eye catching and generally designed with his more noble presence in mind wich makes it difficult for me to remember some parts because of an overwhelming presence of shunya’s little cute interactions and Mario in my memories. Unlike Ryuji who stayed very concentrated on the stage Mario really played as much as he could with ryo up in the technical booth, the stage didn’t feel as empty. The heavier impacts of ryo’s absence were on mario’s shoulders and he really needs to be applauded for being able to carry alone the stage and so many implications for tsuwamono.

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