Yesterday I went with a good friend of mine to Takarazuka Grand Theater to see the Phoenix Wright musical. The Takarazuka Revue is an all-female theatrical group that does original plays as well as plays based on popular works, like... Phoenix Wright!

This was my first time to see a Takarazuka musical and I was really impressed. The singing abilities of each performer was very good, and I was happy because a lot of the music during the conversational phases used the real music from the Phoenix Wright games. Even when they were "examining the crime scene", they used the music and the sound effects from the games!

Luckily, each performer did their homework on their character, and they really put in a good performance, especially Edgeworth, who got the finger-tapping, swagger and demeanor down to a freaking art. Gumshoe and Larry also did a very good job. I was less impressed with Phoenix because she didn't seem to come across as serious when the situation called for it, but during the humor scenes with Maya, she did a good job. My favorite part was when Maya picked up a bloody knife at the crime scene, and said "Wow, look! A real knife! Stabbity stab stab stab!" and Phoenix was kind of like "...would you mind putting that down please?" It came across really good in the play.

Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take pictures during the play, so I only got to take pictures outside the hall, so here they are.

This is in front of Takarazuka Bow Hall, where the play took place. You can see the times listed, as well as the fact that it was a sold out audience!

Here is an advertisement for Gyakuten Kenji (the Edgeworth game) in front of the theater doors.

Oh, and just for kicks, here's my copy of Street Fighter 4 that I got in the mail today! The disc on the right is the special anime DVD that comes with preordering the game. I can't wait to go home and play!

I guess I should make an introductory post before I blog about anything else, eh.

Uh... I live in Osaka and I have been in Japan for about four and a half years. I like Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter and Soulcalibur. I play two of the three competitively... can you guess which ones? :P Well, truth be told I love playing Street Fighter but I don't play it competitively. I guess I'm okay at the game, but I find myself much better at Virtua Fighter and Soulcalibur (SCII) so I tend to stick to those games. But since a lot of my friends prefer Street Fighter, I take the time to learn a character or two in each game so that I don't embarrass myself when we play, haha.

I tend to blog more on LJ and on mixi but I figure that blogging about games can be boring for some so I figured I might as well use this space for games, since most of the time I talk about fighting games. I figure blogging here, I can talk more technically about fighting games without boring the heck out of people. :P

That's it! Yay.