bizarre, tourmenté, complètement fou

It is with so much love in my heart for this production, fuelled by so much caffeine, that I present English subtitles for Musical Touken Ranbu: Sanki Shutsujin Happyakuyacho Hizakurige.

To everyone who has contributed and encouraged me in this process, thank you. Thank you for indulging in my late night ramblings, whether about the history or the script or Yama-san's beautiful face. Thank you for helping me bring a play that encapsulates so poignantly what it means to be an artist to a wider audience.

Sanki means something to me that I can’t properly express in an announcement post, but I am going to hope that the work I put into my first subtitling project shows. And I say this on everything I write: everyone please love your Manbas. And your Kane-sans. And your Horikawas.

You can download the softsub file, timed to the Blu-Ray version: HERE. In the same folder, you will also find my TL/research notes.

codyyy :D

und du erzählst noch immer so viel von ihr dabei ist sie sieben Jahre nicht mehr hier

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

But in 1962 an ad came out full of effusive praise from every prominent theater critic in New York. Every single one. From the Times to the Post, all of the famous theater critics in New York LOVED Subways Are For Sleeping

Except...

One of the papers paid to run this ad noticed something...off. Namely, that he knew Richard Watts the theater critic and he wasn't African-American.

It turns out that the producer of the musical had found seven New Yorkers with the same names as the seven biggest theater critics in New York, since while he couldn't lie and say they liked it, but he could pay for *a* John Chapman or *a* Robert Coleman to see the musical and quote them next to their photo truthfully, bc how many people even knew what the leading theater critics in NYC looked like?

Turns out the producer had wanted to do this for ages, but had to wait for the NYT's critic to retire bc he couldn't find anyone with the same name. Anyway it worked: it went from being about to close, to running another couple hundred shows and winning a Tony