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Kuroshitsuji trivia4: How tall are the characters?

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Kuroshitsuji trivia1: Cheslock & Ronald

Kuroshitsuji trivia2: Grey & Phipps

Kuroshitsuji trivia3: Finnian & Grell

According to Yana, the unit of measurement of height in Kuroshitsuji is 1 Sebastian (186cm / 6ft 1in). (source: x)

[…] To tell the truth, I still haven’t really decided on Ciel’s height, I only have a vague idea of it (lol) Actually, I decide on the heights of almost all Kuroshitsuji characters based on 1 Sebastian unit (186cm / 6′1″), like “This character is this tall in relation to Sebastian”, so I always forget the exact numerical values [of their heights].

Come to speak of it, when I checked Hanks’ long line about Ciel’s profile in the musical, I told *him [*the actor who played Hanks] “I haven’t decided on Ciel’s height yet, so let’s put it like ‘as tall as 12 Scones’”, but when I heard that line during the actual play I realised that that’s extremely small.

But wait… maybe the scones are really big…

It’s “Great” Britain after all…

Bonus:

Official heights of Kuro characters in “Sebastian” units

• Elizabeth = 0.83 Sebastian
• Ranmao = 0.85 Sebastian
• Finnian = 0.88 Sebastian
• Mey-Rin = 0.89 Sebastian
• Grell = 0.94 Sebastian
• Lau = 0.95 Sebastian
• Baldroy = 0.97 Sebastian
• William = 0.98 Sebastian
• Sebastian = 1 Sebastian

Bonus2:

• Matsushita Yuya = 0.97 Sebastian
• Furukawa Yuta = 0.97 Sebastian

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Musical “Tango on the Campania” cast:

• Furukawa Yuuta (Sebastian) = 0.97 Sebastian
• Uchikawa Reo (Ciel) = 0.82 Sebastian = 30 scones
• Uehara Takuya (Grell) = 0.95 Sebastian = 1.01 Grell
• Mikata Ryousuke (Ronald) = 0.95 Sebastian
• Harashima Motohisa (Snake) = 0.91 Sebastian

• Okazaki Momoko (Lizzy) = 0.85 Sebastian = 1.03 Lizzy
• Takagi Shun (Abberline) = 0.96 Sebastian
• Terayama Takeshi (Hanks) = 0.97 Sebastian
• Utsumi Akiyoshi (Edward) = 0.95 Sebastian
• Akisono Mio (Frances) = 0.87 Sebastian
• Nasu Kouzou (Alexis) = 0.95 Sebastian
• Kawai Ryuunosuke (Rian) = 0.96 Sebastian
• Sasaki Yoshihide (Druitt) = 0.94 Sebastian
• Izumi Shuuhei (Undertaker) = 186cm/6′1″ = 1 Sebastian (!!!)

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I laughed my sizable behind off.

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Exclusive Interview Furukawa Yuta – ‘Black Butler’ Musical - Tango on the Campania - Part 1

In ‘Awesome’ volume 23 – Part 1

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Note: I only translated the part that was about the ‘Black Butler’ musicals.

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Host: The curtains shall rise on the musical of ‘Black Butler’ – Tango on the Campania – on the 31st of December. [In this play] you shall be playing the main role of Sebastian. This will be the third time for Mr. Furukawa to play Sebastian. What was your state of mind when your reprise was decided?

Furukawa: “I was incredibly happy. Especially so after the previous run of the ‘Circus Arc’, of which the story evoked a great excitement, and its ending sure made one wonder how the story was going to proceed. I did not expect myself to be asked for [Sebastian] again for that story to begin with, let alone this time for the ‘Luxury Liner Arc’ which is even more climactic. So when I had the honour to be called again I really felt the happiness of ‘I can do it again!’ and yelled: “Please by all means, allow me!” With these words I accepted the role with great glee.”

Host: In your blog post we saw that you wrote “this time I will be in the biggest trouble I have ever been in before.”

Furukawa: “I did?”

Host: Yes (laughs).

Furukawa: “Ah~ I think I might have indeed (laughs). Story-wise, this arc reveals quite a number of things about Sebas. Therefore I think that I will start struggling before I do anything else. I have experienced quite a lot [of troubles] when it comes to theatre, but I have no choice but to stand my ground. I think that I will be struggling this time as well.”

Host: However, I have been thinking that this time would be easier for you, because Uchikawa Reo will be reprising his role as Ciel as well.

Furukawa: “That is right. I understand Reo to a certain extent, and I believe that Reo understands me very well. As such, in the aspect of building our relationship together, the fact that the both of us are reprising our roles is a very big help, indeed. However, whether it be the scriptwriters, directing team or the staff, they have mostly been replaced. I think it’s even possible to call this an entirely new team, so it is vital that we focus our minds [onto this production]. As for Reo, I would be so happy if we get to talk lots and deepen our relationship even more.”

Host: When the previous run, the ‘Circus Arc’ ended, Reo said that he wanted to work with you again, right?

Furukawa: “Yes, he did. On the last day he said: “I want to do this together again,” while crying.”

Host: He said while crying because he was overwhelmed by his emotions that came with the Final Performance’s closure?

Furukawa: “That was part of it, but also the feeling of loneliness dawning. It is quite rare to work on one thing with everyone being so united, is it not? And Reo was especially doted on by everyone, we truly were one team. Once having been a member of such a strong team, and then you get hit by the solitude of having to depart from everybody, the feeling of accomplishment as well as being so touched… that sure makes some tears well up.”

Host: Was it like: “We can do this together again!” when the two of you reunited?

Furukawa: “No, I actually have the feeling we were at a loss for words when we met up again. When we met up again we were both very shy, and just said: It has been a while.”

Host: Does that happen too among boys? Usually with girls, we hide our mouths behind our hands and rejoice.

Furukawa: “Ah, actually before that, when the ‘Luxury Liner Arc’ was announced, I got a Line message from Reo. At the time he was in a hotel in Hokkaido, and when the announcement came he jumped on his bed out of happiness, or so I heard. After the jumping he Line-messaged me (laughs). From that message I could tell just how happy he was; we understood our mutual joy very well.”

Host: How very cute of him to jump on his bed (laughs). Well then, let us look back at ‘Black Butler’. The curtains closed on the ‘Circus Arc’ that was highly praised. What was your reaction to the conclusion [of the previous show], Mr. Furukawa?

Furukawa: “When it ended the fatigue suddenly hit me like concrete, but at least I pulled through, I thought. That was my reaction.”

Host: Was there anything you paid more attention to as Sebastian in comparison to your performance in ‘Musical ‘Black Butler’ – the Lycoris that Blazes the earth 2015 –’?

Furukawa: “I have the feeling that I obtained a more distanced objectivity in comparison to the first time [I played Sebastian]. Of course I had the chance to reassess my own performance in ‘Lycoris’ through the DVD, but I realised just how scary this character is anew. As such, I started reconsidering how I should best deliver that scariness. I tried to interweave even the parts that were not under the spotlights with the play as a whole, while calculatingly work on the distanced objectivity in a demon’s perspective.”

Host: And your relationship with Ciel?

Furukawa: “I think that the ‘Circus Arc’ was one wherein Ciel played a very active role. Of course, Ciel is supposed to be a main character of the story to begin with, but I have the feeling that it is an arc wherein his growth is central to the story. As for their relationship, there were many scenes wherein Ciel advanced further onto the path of evil. So as the protagonist in the shadows, I have paid great attention to how Sebas is supposed to behave, and his position therein. [To Sebastian,] Ciel’s growth equals his advance into the dark. Those are the moments Sebas trembles in excitement, to the point you could say there is no greater happiness for him. That’s why [I have been thinking] how I should express that… However, I have the feeling that this goes beyond him smiling like a creep, but then I started wondering whether that isn’t just a very good way to express his demonicness as well, and then I end up overthinking everything again… It was very difficult. However, I do have the feeling that there is a great improvement in the tempo and smoothness in [Sebastian’s] arguing with Ciel in comparison to the first time.”

Host: Does this have something to do with your natural chemistry with Reo who plays Ciel?

Furukawa: “I think our chemistry is part of it, but I think it also has to do with a greater awareness I have gained in playing Sebas. On this aspect as well as the aspect of skill, I think I might have achieved some improvement.”

Host : I see. Moreover, you received a lot of praise from the original author during your first time [as Sebastian] right? I heard she spoke very highly of how much the angle of your legs resembled Sebastian’s of the original comics when you kneel down. Did Yana-sensei say anything to you during the ‘Circus Arc’?

Furukawa: “Sensei is very kind-hearted and respects the actors’ choices per default. That is why she would never command in the way of “do it like this please”, or criticise anybody; instead she is always full of praise. But honestly speaking, I really wish to know what she actually thinks.”

Host : No, I am sure that her praises towards you are the truth.

Furukawa: “But ‘Black Butler’ is something Sensei has been working on and built from scratch. That is why I am sure she has in mind what is ‘correct’, and I cannot believe it is possible that I am capable of expressing 100% of that. I dare say with certainty that when she looks at me there must be thoughts popping up of “Ah, this is somewhat wrong”. That is why I would be very happy if she would tell me what she really thinks. Although I would be very troubled if she would only do that after the final performance (laughs).”

Host : (Laughs) you are more of the type to say: “if there is something please tell me quickly”?

Furukawa: “Well, I also get very down if I get criticised too much. It is very difficult (laughs).”

Host : So if either, Mr. Furukawa, you are not the type to thrive under praise, but more the type who desires strict feedback?

Furukawa: “No, neither. If I get praised too much, I start fretting about having to do something exactly the same way I got praised for a subsequent time, and start overexert myself in the most absurd of ways. Reversely if I get told off too much, I will enter a spiral downwards into a corner that make me go “ah.” So I guess more than ‘pa!’(straightforwardly) it is better to go ‘fu~un’ (gently) with me, I guess?”

Host : Even though people go for the ‘fu~un’, would you not also worry if people say nothing at all?

Furukawa: “Ah, that is true. I would worry quite a bit (laughs). I am one big contradiction, am I not (laughs)?”

PART 2

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☆The Two Extremes of Dorkiness vs Awesomeness in Furukawa Yuta☆

★. Awesome: In order to understand the demonic aspect of Sebastian, Furukawa watches animal documentaries to gain insight on looking at ‘other species’. In particular, he watches hippo documentaries.

VERSUS!

☽ . Dork: Once Furukawa tried to make steak for dinner. However, he does not have a stove at home, so what he did was boiling hot water in his water cooker and soak the raw meat in there until it wasn’t cold any more… and ate it. Surprisingly - to his surprise - the steak tasted terrible. Another time Furukawa tried to make a broccoli stew. Neither having stove or proper knives, he just washed the broccoli, put the whole thing in his rice cooker and ate it with butter. To my surprise, he loved it. Later his mother found out and yelled at him for having no common sense.

★ . Awesome: For Furukawa, because Sebastian’s human body is generated, it needs to be moved with more consciousness. All movements should therefore look more precise and controlled. As a former ballet-dancer, Furukawa applies ballet to all of Sebas’ movements… even when slapping a mosquito off his face ⁽ˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ ‘ᴬᶜᵃᵈᵉᵐᶦᵃ ᴷⁿᶦᵍʰᵗ ᴳ’ ³⁰/⁰⁸/¹⁶⁾ .  Please click here for more of Yunbastian’s demon quirks.

VERSUS !

☽ . Dork: Despite being a talented ballet dancer, Furukawa’s legs are actually too long to be controlled easily. During rehearsal for the scene where Sebastian unceremoniously sits down on Ciel’s chair in the cinematic record, he missed the chair and ended up on the floor behind it. Additionally, during the musical ‘Mozart!’ at the Imperial Theatre, he fell off the stairs as many as FIVE times. His legs tangled. Click here for more leeeegs facts.

★. Awesome: Furukawa learns all lines of his scripts by heart within one mere week, every time, without fail. (Please note that the vocabulary of Sebastian’s language in Japanese is extremely difficult.)

VERSUS!

☽ . Dork: His English is hopeless. On his visit to America, he wrote in his blog that he had no idea why, but every time he tried to order food he would either get something completely different than what he had ordered, or get what he asked for, TWICE.

He has no idea why, but I do: When trying to order food, he would say in broken English “I want to… [insert food]”. To untrained ears, that does indeed sound suspiciously like “I want 2 [insert food]”.

Additionally, once he ordered a salad in America, but it took the waiter forever to serve it. Furukawa waited patiently at first, but he was running out of time fast. He tried to communicate this to the waiter but panicked, and ended up accidentally shouting “SALAD TIME!!”

★. Awesome: Furukawa is not above passive-aggressive burning. Out of respect for Toboso-sensei’s canon, he refuses to watch the anime, adding to his explanation that “the animated series is not faithful to the creator’s canon, let alone the second season.”

VERSUS!

☽ . Dork: Once when asked about evil conduct in humans, Furukawa used himself as an example, sharing how he would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and eat his entire fridge empty. Oh, what horror, police, arrest this man!

★. Awesome: Furukawa can master non-human insights, outrun small bikes,  perform complicated acrobatic moves or even learn how to juggle with lightning speed.

VERSUS!

☽ . Dork: He is completely hopeless with technology. He barely knows how to use the apps on his smart phone, and sometimes even gets stuck at switching off a simple concert penlight. Perhaps he truly is a demon from the 19th century…

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• “☽ . Dork: Another time Furukawa tried to make a broccoli stew. Neither having stove or proper knives, he just washed the broccoli, put the whole thing in his rice cooker and ate it with butter. To my surprise, he loved it.”

So, I thought it was time for me to try this myself too. Sheer broccoli with sheer butter.

I……… I quite liked it ≽ｗ≼

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daydragonart asked:

Inspired by the Anon's recent ask: What are your thoughts on an Emerald Witch musical?

Dear Daydragon17,

I personally think that the Emerald Witch Arc is the most likely next candidate for a musical adaptation.

Last Solid Arc

First of all, that arc is quite popular and is considered the last solid arc among the Japanese fandom. The arc wherein R!Ciel is introduced and Undertaker explicitly confirmed to be the villain is of course interesting, but many agree that the story was all over the place. Starting from the boy bands, to everything that only inspired more questions than it answered… The Blue Sect Arc is so vague that people can’t even tell whether everything that happened since the boy bands belongs the axis of same arc, or whether we have been reading multiple side-arcs. (Example; the part where Meyrin and Ranmao are doing research is commonly acknowledged as a new arc in Japan, but if one were to argue it is part of the Blue Sect Arc, nobody could very well argue against.)

The Emerald Witch Arc however, is solid. We know when it starts, we know when it ends. It also introduces interesting characters like Sieglinde and Wolfram, offers a high-stake villain, and also touches upon the truest emotions of our main characters.

Face Behind the Front

O!Ciel makes a very stupid mistake by not believing in ‘the werewolf’s curse’, so he recklessly enters the forest and falls ill. However stupid, we did get to see how incredibly broken O!Ciel actually is when he isn’t left with any spare mental capacity to put up the ‘Lord Ciel Phantomhive’ front. Similarly, we also got to explicitly see how terrible Sebas is at being human when his patience is tested too much, even now.

“Seriously Sebas… shocking a human OUT of trauma? Brilliant.”

Sebas: “It worked, did it not?”

“… touché.”

ANYWAY, in short, this is the arc wherein we see the two main characters unmasked for the first time in present timeline (i.e. not in a flashback).

Thematic Potentials

The setting of the Emerald Witch Arc could offer a very satisfying set provided that MKP (Musical Kuroshitsuji Project) has the budget for it. The artificial Medieval setting can also offer glorious opportunities for delicioussss costumes (unlike tame school uniforms), as well as provide a clear theme for the music and choreography.

Child Actors

Though it is always hard to find child actors who can bear the weight of a main cast, it must certainly be possible to find someone suitable for Sieglinde. I know TOHO has quite many very very talented girls, for example. If TOHO can find them, then surely someone else can too.

Reo is really too big now… so they’d also have to find a new actor for O!Ciel. I wonder who would be next. Reo also left some pretty big shoes to fill.

Female Characters

The Emerald Witch Arc is without doubt the arc with the most female characters who also take active parts within the story. So far in the Kuromyu, we have had a primarily male cast. With Sieglinde, the Witch and the rest of the ‘villagers’, Kuromyu would have a very stark change in cast structure. It would be very refreshing to see Kuromyu having more female characters in the spotlights. So far we’ve only had Madam Red who was actually part of the main cast. Grell and Lizzy were still more a support cast than main.

Wolfram

Wolfram is the character I am most excited about (partially due to a very biased dream). I have been dreaming of seeing Watanabe Daisuke - Furukawa’s best friend in the world - as Wolfram.

Not only is he a fierce friend and that I want him to be able to share Furukawa’s precious Kuromyu experience, but he is also a first tier actor from TOHO just like Furukawa (He no Prince though. IMPERIAL! DUB HIM ‘KNIGHT’~!)

Watanabe has a wide array of facial expressions; fierce, cute, emotional, poker… That’s Wolfram if you ask me.

Increasingly More Serious Tone

The Kuromyus have become increasingly more serious in tone.

🌹 In Lycoris that Blazes the Earth, the obvious comic reliefs were Aberline and Hanks, of course. But Grell, Lau, Undertaker, the Viscount, the Phantomhive servants and even the Double Charles were comical characters.

🎪 Then came Noah’s Ark Circus, where only the AberHanks duo were the comic reliefs. Other characters such as the Phantomhive servants and Dagger etc. had occasional comical scenes, but otherwise they were serious characters. However, I personally found AberHanks’ presence resulting in mood dissonance at times in this ultra dark story. Sometimes a very heavy event just happened, and the audience was not even allowed to time to let it sink in before AberHanks already burst with their slapstick. The pacing of this musical was incredibly fast simply because the arc is long and the musical only 2 hours. I understood that they had to rush it, but I think that a lot of time - time which they didn’t have - was wasted on unnecessary comedy. I did the sum, the unnecessary comedy in total was 30 minutes at least.

🚢The theme of Tango on the Campania was considerably less dark than Circus, but the tone felt much more serious still. There, the comical scenes were an addition rather than an integral part of the musical. To me, the balance felt better. AberHanks still got their moments, but they never hijacked the story the way they used to.

This darker and more balanced tone was very well received, and I think it conceivable that they will try to keep this up for potential future musicals.

🐺 Though developments do not need to happen linearly, I think the dark themed Emerald Witch Arc would be a befitting candidate for a next adaptation. It is an arc that deals with childhood trauma, gas-lighting, brainwash, racial genocide, child mutilation etc. If this will become the next musical, it would be wise to take itself more seriously. AberHanks are so iconic to the Kuromyu that there is no way they are going to leave them out, but it would be best if the balance could resemble Campania more than Circus.

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Also, I need to see Furukawa Yuta do this. ⇊

We have seen Furukawa being demonic before, but is that enough? Don’t we want to see Yunbastian FLIPPING HIS SHYTE!? Ò▽Ó

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Alan’s Crossdressing & Laughing Stock

Dear @aurorashenanigans,

First of all, thank you for your interesting prompt and your permission to use a screenshot of your comment.

Your question is very worthy of discussion in my opinion, because in theatre, even with the exact same script, one could still be watching an entirely different show if an actor has a different interpretation, and manages to express their interpretation.

This ⇊ post is an expansion to this post wherein I discussed the strikingly transphobic script and performance in ‘The Most Beautiful Death in the World’ (MBD).

Note: Please do read the post I referred to beforehand for a better and more complete understanding of this post, though this post will also contain a lot of overlapping information. If you are only interested in the conclusion of this post, please scroll all the way down to the 4th header ‘4. In Conclusion’.

So, let us unpack the differences between the scenes of MBD 2010 and 2013 wherein the characters prepare for the crossdressing-infiltration.

1. Premise of the Plot

The mystery around which the plot of the musical is based has its setting in the Crystal Palace where a masquerade is held which only permits the attendance of adult men - if - one is accompanied by a woman.

With most of the main characters being male, the key to solving this problem became ‘crossdressing’.

Grell in this musical was given the role as ‘a professional at crossdressing’ by making her criticise Ciel’s crossdresssing, which was given some weight (more or less) by making her use jargon such as ‘Clothes Language’. Herewith, the scriptwrights put Grell’s transgender identity on the same level as simple ‘crossdressing’.

2. Comparing Performances - 2010

In the 2010 of MBD, Alan makes his entrance in crossdress, starting with a traditionally feminine performative which is met with a roar of laughter from the audience. Only after having ‘successfully’ induced laughter from the audience, he drops the femininity and assumes a more neutral performative. Alan speaks the following line with a neutral voice:

• 皆さん、準備は整いましたね　行きましょう！
• Mina-san, junbi wa totonoimashita ne, ikimashou!
• Everyone, all the preparations are ready right? Let us go!

Grell is absolutely enraged, and challenges Alan as follows:

• “なんでアンタまで女装する必要あるのヨ?”
• “Nande anta made josou suru hitsuyou aru no yo?”
• “Why do even you need to cross-dress as a woman?”

By saying this, Grell sends two messages: 1. that Alan does not acknowledge her femaleness as sufficient to get Alan through the security’s screening, and 2. herewith the script equates Grell’s dress to Alan’s crossdress.

Then, Alan explains why he resorted to crossdressing and speaks the following line with a deeper voice:

• “俺 エリックと話さなければ　そのためなら… どんな屈辱でも甘んじてうけてみせる！”
• “Ore, Eric to hanasanakereba. Sono tame nara… donna kutsujoku demo amanjite ukete miseru!”
• “I need to speak to Eric. For that sake… I will resign myself to any humiliation!”

Instead of just walking down the stairs, Alan jumps down in an incredibly unrefined and masculine manner. However, is is entirely unnecessary to jump because the stairs connect to the ground normally. As such, it is safe to assume that Alan is trying to “compensate” for his crossdress with more pronounced masculinity. This is further confirmed by the line “resign myself to any humiliation”, which makes it explicit that Alan considers wearing a dress something a man should be ashamed of.

3. Comparing Performances - 2013

This script for the same scene in the rerun of BMD remains mostly unchanged. Just like in 2010, Alan enters the scene in crossdress. Unlike the previous however, 2013Alan speaks the line “everyone, all the preparations are ready right? Let us go!” in a high pitched voice. Instead of a slightly raised pitch however, he uses the type of exaggerated high pitch men conventionally use to mock women. Not unlike in 2010, Alan’s feminine performative is welcomed by a wave of laughter from the audience. This performative is so ‘funny’, that even Sebastian - who according to canon doesn’t give a damn about human gender norms - finds it hard to suppress the urge to laugh. Really, Sebastian, really?

After Crossdress!Alan’s introduction, both Grell and Alan are given a new line in the 2013 version before the scene proceeds like before.

Upon seeing Alan’s dress, Grell challenges as follows:

• ちょっとアンタ！何を、それ！？
• Chotto anta! Nani wo, sore!?
• Hey you! What (the hell) is this about!?

“One roar of laughter at men in dresses was not enough, let’s get an encore!” thought however came up with the following line:

Alan:

• 巻いたほうがよかったかしらっ？
• Maita hou ga yokatta kashira?
• Should I have curled my hair instead?

Grell: “No! Why do even you need to cross-dress as a woman?”

Then, instead of jumping down the stairs, Alan walks down normally, but strikes a dominant stance wherein he shows off his triangular MANLY chest and muscular arms. Not unlike 2010!Alan, 2013!Alan also feels the need to ‘compensate’ for the dress as he speaks the line “I will resign myself to any humiliation!”

In both versions of the musical, Grell responds with the following line:

• “だからそんな屈辱受ける必要ないわよ!”
• “Dakara sonna kutsujoku ukeru hitsuyou nai wa yo!”
• “But there is no need for you to endure that humiliation!”

Using Grell’s reply the script reconfirms that what Alan said is right. By making Grell echo Alan’s opinion, the script effectively makes her agree that ‘a man wearing a dress is indeed a humiliation’.

After some petty-fighting, Sebastian decides to put an end to this fight, and says:

• Sebastian: “まぁ女性は何人いても良いでしょう。それに　グレルさんよりもお似合いですし。”
• “Maa, josei wa nannin ite mo ii deshou. Sore ni, Grell-san yori mo oniai desu shi.”
• “Well, it does not matter how many women there are. And moreover, [the crossdressing] suits [Alan] better than Grell-san.”

Here, Sebastian acknowledges how there is no such thing as ‘too many women’. Herewith, he effectively confirms how a man can be turned into a woman using a mere dress. By having Sebastian say: “the crossdressing SUITS Alan better”, Sebastian invalidates Grell’s gender identity by reducing her to ‘a lesser crossdresser’ than Alan.

4. In conclusion

In conclusion, in both versions of BDM, Grell’s dress as well as EVERYONE’s crossdress is a joke and a source of ‘humiliation’, and EVERYONE’s crossdress except maybe Ciel’s is a laughing stock.

Alan‘s crossdress is, as extensively explained above ⇈, the script’s tool to shame ‘men’ in dresses, and delegitimise transgender identity. Alan’s character is normally rather neutral and certainly does not ooze with toxic masculinity. The moment he put on a dress however, he plays his masculinity up, as though to assure both the audience and himself that his ‘precious male identity’ is unharmed, despiiittee wearing a dress that’s not for men!

Likewise, Aberline and Hanks are established comic reliefs in the Kuromyu universe, so it is not hard to see how their crossdressing is also the laughing stock of the show. The moment they are crossdressed, the jokes they make suddenly all surround their failure to ‘pass as women’. Just like Alan, they are “proper men whose masculinity remains unthreatened.”

Only Ciel’s dress does not seem to be something that the writers wrote as a active shaming-tool. Ciel is still a child, and unlike adult men’s masculinity, a boy’s masculinity does not need to be protected at all cost. As boys are ‘lesser men’ or ‘not men yet’ anyway, gender-nonconforming behaviour by them are not considered a threat to society’s gendered order, and do not need to be punished immediately. However, I could still argue the pink dress to be a laughing-stock, albeit a smaller one. While the audience is still supposed to find Ciel in a dress funny, this joke is supposed to appeal to a sense of endearment, and maybe even from a type of pity because Ciel obviously hates wearing the dress.

Finally, we can conclude that even though 2010!Alan is slightly less demeaning towards transgender women and men in dresses, his small-dick-energy/fragile masculinity is still very obvious.

Soooo,

🥇 The gold medal goes to 2013!Alan for being 1. transphobic, 2. demeaning towards women, 3. playing the cross-dress-joke up to 11, and 4, not even having bothered trying to be respectful about it!

🥈 The silver medal goes to 2010!Alan for first making us think that despite being a bit transphobic, you were somewhat respectful towards men in dresses… and only THEN backstabbing us.

🥉 The bronze medal goes to Sebastian for being complacent in reinforcing transphobia and laughing at men in dresses, even though you really should know better after 3000+ years history of laughing at humans and their ridiculous social standards.

🎖️🎖️Aberline and Hanks get honourary mentions for their participation in the Small-Dick-Energy Cup🏆.

5. Epilogue

I am very aware that this musical is very dear to many people. But I beg you. Please do not wilfully unsee the problematic aspects just because you like something. One can like the musical for what it is, namely a show with flaws that some people enjoy.

Liking a problematic thing does not automatically make you look bad, justifying the problematic aspects does!

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Anonymous asked:

what’s your favorite photoshoot of yun?! 😍

Hello Anon!

There are many photoshoots I love, but if I really have to pick one, it is the photoshoot for Noah’s Ark Circus Visuals published in ‘BEST STAGE’ Volume 94.

It is the first Yunbastian photoshoot wherein Furukawa got a full grasp on the character. Furukawa was shoved into a swallowtail and then into the studio in 2015 for Sebastian, before he was even given the chance to read the manga properly. And we have all been to school; we all know what it is like to jump out of bed, into your clothes and roll for school at way-to-early-o-clock in the morning… It was probabaly the same for Furukawa.

Furukawa was not bad in 2015′s photoshoot, but the first visuals were not the proper representation of the Sebastian he would show us in the musical.

In 2016′s photoshoot of Noah’s Ark Circus, the set was - to begin with - an actual set, and not some greensceen studio where the team would just photoshop some stained glass everywhere, put a filter on top, and tadaaa ✨

Even by just comparing the final result of 2015 to the making process of 2016, we can see a stark contrast between ‘just a handsome gentleman’ vs. ‘the demon lurking behind the butler’s façade’. The circus set was bright and colourful, the balloons and props whimsical. And yet Yunbastian’s dark aura (together with lighting of course) managed to darken the entire atmosphere, turning a literal play tent into an uncanny nightmare.

The photoshoot of Tango on the Campania was also very good, but all in all I was less impressed by the set, which was - objectively speaking - just less present.

Besides Kuromyu there are also other great photoshoots, but I find myself coming back to Circus’ photoshoot because the set was interactive with the actors; it is something you don’t see often, after all. ^^

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vxleriaris asked:

Sebby, Pennywise is basically an entity who has lived since the beginning of the world (he is older than you, sorry to say... unfortunately, probably stronger too :( )

anywayy, he is extremely cruel monster who eats human flesh, especially children, because the more victim fear, the more it gets tasty. That's why IT eats children in Derry, he scares them with illusions, then eats them. He appears in Derry every 27 years and eats humans without looking at their age:( (I hate him)

Personally I think Pennywise is crueler than you. What do you think about him?

(Btw I'm a new fan of your blog 😼)

It sounds like he is a practiced cook who knows what he enjoys when it comes to his meals. I find that fear alone makes for poor flavouring for a human soul (it gets rather monotonous and bland), but that is a matter of personal taste. I wonder what kind of entity this Pennywise could be. He could be one of my kind, of course, but if he has been around since Earth came into existence he might be a different type of creature altogether.

As for cruelty… is it cruel to do what one needs to do to live? Humans eat animals to sustain themselves, and they season their flesh for their pleasure, yet when other creatures dare to season their food we are labeled as cruel. Humans truly are fascinating creatures.

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