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Namushitsuji 9/13 Osaka

Act 1

- Opening song by Baba sama is suuuper cool, a really epic start

- Interesting way to include the contract scene, it’s after opening scene of them entering the forest and it leads into the main title song

- Toshiki’s Sebastian kinda always feels like he’s lamenting(?) now

- Sullivan’s voice is soooo good, she’s gotten a lot of song moments

- They definitely switched some stuff up structurally, like they talk about the outside world at the dining table for example, and no language barrier

- Sullivan gets a cutesy song during her perv scene lol

- Really cool screen use when she’s cleansing Sebastian and Ciel after they go outside. It looks like water behind her and toward the end they include a recording of Ciel floating in the water

- Ciel is sooo cute, his singing is really good too. He might be one of the best Ciel singers

- SERVANT SONG IS SO CUTE bocchan no tame ni~

- Finny solo so good too it’s so emotional, his high notes in chorus are so good???

- When Sullivan imagines going to the outside world and all the characters are dancing happily around her, even Ciel in all his gauze lolol. A favorite moment

- Oh my goddd Sebastian solo when almost ending contract. The switch into lower octave during chorus shocked me. It’s so cool and dark

- Lots of cool dancing from Ciel and “cult people”. They make it look like Ciel is being moved all around tormented. He’s a good dancer

- Switches into Ciel’s mind after that, screen has “other Ciel”. The sudden switch of “other Ciel” in regular outfit to bloody shirt stunned me

- He sings twin duet here as the past arc characters also appear on the screen, Sebastian sings some here too

- Ciel has really good note at the end when he’s being like boku no tame niiii

- Ciel is seriously so good, he could end up a fan favorite

- Overall structure feels most similar to Circus musical. I think like lots of different things happening back to back, given the source arc it’s hard to create a musical with as good of a plot-flow as Campania imo

- Toshiki’s voice definitely shines when he’s doing high or low notes compared to the mid range

- Intermission song title song reprise, when they take Sullivan from her room. Her note at the end is reallyyyy good

Act 2

- Oh my god Baba sama’s song right after intermission left me stunned. It’s her and all the women in their military fits now and it’s just so amazing. She’s all like 見ろ~ smth I forgot the words already, as they’re doing the werewolf stuff and get discovered by Sullivan

- Ciel, Sebastian, and Sullivan come down right (stage left) aisle

- BABA SAMA’S FLASHBACK SONG omg it’s like madam red level. She was def the standout. Might be my favorite song

- Her and Sullivan share this same motif that Sullivan uses when singing about the outside world where she’s vocalizing like “turururu” but when Sullivan does it it’s wistful and dreamy and Baba sama’s desperate and dark

- Sebastian really does sing Ahhh from Campania, when fighting the soldiers, some changed lyrics and he also goes higher at the end. I guess they’re making that his battle theme now cause the instrumental also plays some later when fighting Wolfram

- Ciel + Sullivan’s do you wanna live moment is really good

- Ciel orders all the servants and then they reprise their bocchan no tame ni song from earlier but epic version. Soldier ladies verse is really cool and they do part of a dance that I swear was used by the cult people in Circus or the zombies in Campania (but I’ll have to rewatch those to verify) and then some really cool march style moves

- Each servant gets a verse as they’re fighting

- CIEL IN THE DRESS IS SOOO CUTE

- Cuts away from them as he shoots at Wolfram, goes to Sullivan and Finny

- Finny lil flashback moment continuing his lil song and also about getting his name from Ciel

- No Diedrich, Sebastian saves Ciel from Wolfram and they have a really good fighting duet

- Funny moment where Sebastian is shaking Ciel around from behind by his shoulders, some dress banter

- Preparing the train pretty much goes same as original, then Wolfram has song after getting shot

- Surprisingly not using the cinematic record screen much like they used to? It was a lot more minimalistic in those scenes (except Baba sama’s hers had a lot going on)

- Sullivan saves Wolframs life, they have a really good song together about going to the outside world (reprise of Sullivan song from earlier)