Odachin and all that jazz

We have a record breaker on our hands!!

Congrats to Hozuki An, who at ken-19 will set the record formerly held by Oozora Yuuhi for longest tenured in Takarazuka before becoming top; and Amashi Juri, who will be the first top of the 101st class.

Their debut performance will be a national tour of In the Amber-Hued Rain / Grande TAKARAZUKA 110! beginning August 22.

Download the subs here: wtheckzukasubs.tumblr.com/shows

Maybe it’s just a silly manga adaptation, but it’s entertaining even if you’re not familiar with all the historical characters depicted or with the manga (my case). And maybe it’s nice to have a nihonmono that isn’t bound for tragedy.

Above all, Reiko is looking SO GOOD!

We also have Chinatsu living a love tragedy, Odachin being evil, Umino in such pretty outfits!

I had great fun translating this.

It’s that time again! Believe it or not, it’s been over 3 years since we last put out the hat to collect donations.

We’re running low once more, so it’s time to collect donations to keep us going for 3 more years. Current server fees are $30 a month, so I’d like to collect $1,080, enough to keep us going for 3 more years. Any small amount will help! If each user donates $5, that would get us to our goal!

Download here: wtheckzukasubs.tumblr.com/shows

Thank you so much to everyone who helped me do this one! I was dying to get my hands on it.

Download here: wtheckzukasubs.tumblr.com/shows 

(Note that this is a prerelease, timed to the livestream)

As noted above, the subs are timed to the livestream. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to retime them to the official release, I should write more about this in another post.

This isn’t a show I’ll fully recommend. I’ve seen better from this director but I’ve seen much worse. I think this story grew on me while I was subbing it.

Also, some trigger warnings for gun use, incest innuendo, death (lots of deaths in the first half of the first act in fact), and probably more that I can’t think of. And the way of thinking is not on par with the situation of the world now, it is a 20-year-old show from a time Earth wasn’t flat, so we took things for granted (like Earth being round), that’s why I understand it, but some of it didn’t sit well with me, living in Brazil, under who Brazil’s president is. It’s nothing big, it wasn’t even a trigger for me, it just made me uncomfortable to see… Earth is flat now. 

Sorry about the rant.