Tumblr apparently hates this gif, but it took too long to make not to post.
…This post has it twice so tumblr doesn’t stretch it out. I had to scale it down to 250 pixels for it to post, and then tumblr wants to make it big -_-’
Tag: sera myu
Sera Myu 30 Day Meme
Day nine- Who is your favorite only musical character?
Loof Merrow (specifically Hikari’s version) is one of my favorite characters in anything ever, so of course she’s my favorite invention of the myu. Everything about her is so heartbreaking for me. She survived 5,000 years alone, fighting as a pirate so that she’d be ready if Coatl came back. She’s rough, she’s guarded, but the moment a real human being shows her compassion, she falls in love. The way Hikari plays the love pain scene is one of my favorite things in the world. It’s easy to make that sort of thing seem a bit pathetic (which is how it came across for me in SKSD), but she makes it serious. This is a woman whose only companions have been androids for so long that she’s forgotten what human love is like. It hurts and she can’t place the feeling right away because she’s so used to being alone. And I love so much that falling in love doesn’t make her lose her rough edges. She stays a fighter to the very end.
Then it gets even more painful because she’d never ask Endymion to love her back. She barely even reacts when she hears he has a daughter (and therefore likely has a wife or lover). I don’t think she had enough of an expectation that he’d love her to get very surprised or jealous. And even though she doesn’t ask him for anything, she’s willing to give so much. Her final sacrifice is of course for the good of the entire planet, but it’s also for him– she says straight out that she wants to protect the future that he comes from.
The final blow for me is when she comes back in the end. She’s every bit the elegant and refined princess, and that means she never lost that part of herself. She spent five thousand years as a pirate and never forgot how to be a princess. That’s pretty amazing.
All of Sera Myu’s Haruka Tenou 1994-2005
Sanae Kimura – 1994-1998
Nao Takagi – 1998-2002 Longest running Haruka/Uranus
Asako Uchida – 2003-2004
Akiko Nakayama – 2004-2005 (previously played Sailor Star Maker)
All the Sera Myu Hotaru Tomoe’s 1995-2005
Keiko Takeda 1995-1997 1998 First appearance was just known as Mysterious Girl
Chihiro Imai – 1997
Asami Sanpei 1998
Mao Mita – 1999-2000
Mario Tomioka – 2000-2001
Ayami Kakiuchi – 2001-2002
Ruria Nakamura – 2002-2003
Yui Lizuka – 2003-2004
Eriko Funakoshi – 2004-2005
May calendar page – Kaguya Shima Densetsu Kaiteban
All Sera Myu’a Ami Mizuno’s 1993-2005
Ayako Morino – Longest running Ami/Mercury, 1993-1998
Yukiko Miyagawa – 1998
Hisano Akamine – 1999-2000
Mariya Izawa – 2000 (Chibiusa was played by her sister in the same production)
Chieco Kawabe – 2001-2002 (only myu performer to be in PGSM, where she played Naru)
Manami Wakayama – 2002-2005 (previously played Berthier in Black Lady Kaiteiban)
Sera Myu 30 Day Meme
Day Eight- Who do you think was the actress who matched her character the least?
I have to go with Ayano Sugimoto as Sailor Jupiter. She’s adorable and I don’t think she did a bad job, but she’s just very much not Makoto (especially her voice). It doesn’t help that the Black Lady musicals otherwise mostly have a particularly well-chosen cast, and that the musicals rarely gave Jupiter any strong characterizing moments.
summer makeup ideas via fuminamoon in kaguya shima densetsu (kaiteiban)
Let us all take a moment to note how adorable Makoto is during “Light Ni Adventure”
Sera Myu 30 Day Meme
Day Seven- Who do you think was the actress who matched her character the most?
I have to go with Sayuri as Seiya for this one. Seiya is one of my favorite characters, and Sayuri’s performances are just absolutely perfect in my eyes (even in the Shin Densetsu Kourin Fankan, when she’s not even in costume, she’s still absolutely Seiya). She does such a great job capturing the different sides of Seiya– the fun popstar, the serious leader, the unrequited lover, the survivor– that, more than with any other character in the musicals, when I think of Seiya I think of her version.
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