Stories and Songs

Clash by Night Fritz Lang. 1952

I'm leaving Kondou-san to you... Kondou-san.

This is HakuMyu related, but you're free to set it where you want.

Needless to say, I have a lot of thoughts about a Hijikata actor taking on the role of Kondou. It's quite poetic, and thematic, in a lot of ways that relate to the original story. When Kondou died, Hijikata became Commander-- and Kondou instructed Souma to make sure his sword reached the other man.

Souma hen was Kubota's first musical as Hijikata, and in some ways, it sort of feels like Souma has finally managed to hand Hijikata the sword that was entrusted to him.

This drawing inspired by what I've read about the L4 release party that happened last weekend. Taira (Kondou's former actor), bestowing his sword to Kubota (new Kondou actor) and saying he'd leave it all to him. Kubota then proceeded to cut down Taira, but that's the never changing HakuMyu chaos

Even though Kondou's not necessarily main cast, it's still a heavy role to carry Stop giving me all the shitty jobs, Kondou!, but I'm sure he'll do great.

New York empties out on holidays, so this little Dachshund had Madison Avenue at 30th Street all to himself. July 4, 1958.

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