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Kuroki Marina here, the actress who plays Sailor Moon!
Takagi Nao here, the actress who plays Sailor Uranus!
Asami Yuuka here, the actress who plays Sailor Neptune!
And we haven't forgotten about you viewers who have purchased the DVD! In this section we provide commentary on some of the most unforgettable moments we've had on camera. Please give it a watch!
Now, let's go!
Here we see Urai-san being photographed for a promotion of the musical.
Yes!
What a great Tuxedo Mask he makes right?
Indeed.
What's he doing?
He's playing around with a rose in his mouth!
Isn't he great?
But the thing to remember is, taking photos like that all day isn't easy work.
Our photoshoots last upwards of three hours. Even though there are hot bright lights, you've got to try to relax and look natural in what you're doing.
That's right.
What a nice smile!
Where is Urai looking anyway?
Ah your arm got tired.
I was really really tired!
You've got to hold it so long you really do get tired.
That pose was really hard. You've got to hold it so long you really do get tired.
That pose was really hard.
This was, um, the first read-through.
It was changed a lot huh?
Yes, this is when they first gave us the script to read wasn't it?
I was feeling really anxious.
The hardest part is staying in character during it.
That's true.
Has it ever happened that there are kanji you can't read in there?
Oh definitely!
You have to stop midway.
Yeah.
Yeah, everyone's pretty on edge, huh?
I could say the lines well enough, but knowing I'd have to sing before long...
They left this in;
Space Sword Blaster!
I said it loud enough, but I was really nervous.
And the studio, ah, there it is! This is where we practice for our performances, the Tokyo Oisumi Studio.
This is where we would always practice choreography, and this is when we were just starting.
Ah there's little Nanami.
She got tired, huh?
She can't move!
This was the day we did Unubore Shoujo. How many times did we wind up going through that?
About 20 times!
We had a lot of stuff to clean up didn't we?
I was so sweaty!
I wonder how many liters of sweat I made that day.
We were drenched.
Seriously.
We were ready to break down.
I'm the actress who plays Sailormoon, Kuroki Marina.
I'm sweating a lot right now from all that dancing, please excuse me!
This year is the tenth anniversary so we're putting a lot of effort into our performance. I'm personally really happy to be taking part in the celebration for Sailormoon by appearing in the musicals.
It's been ten years that the musicals have been running, but I've only been here for a year so I've begun acting here just in time. Please come to see me!!
This time I'm the most senior performer in the Inner Soldiers.
This time I get to sing Flame's Messenger solo,
I'm really looking forward to seeing the end result myself.
She sure looks like she's having fun.
She seems like she overdid it.
It's Kasumi.
Oh ho.
Hi there, I'm Watanabe Mizuki and I play Aino Minako as well as Sailor Venus.
This is my first time in one of these, um, it's not really related but I really want to have fun with everybody.
I want to work my hardest so our viewers come away with some great memories.
Thanks a lot.
I'm the Wakayama Manami, the actress who plays Sailor Mercury and Mizuno Ami!
Pleased to meet you all.
Um, what I want to do for the 10th anniversary is...
Um, Ami is a special elegant kind of role, so...
While in reality, I'm nothing of the sort, so...
So it's always, always a little strange for me.
She always smiles so brightly doesn't she? So it's always, always a little strange for me.
She always smiles so brightly doesn't she?
Such a happy girl. She always smiles so brightly doesn't she?
Such a happy girl.
So I'll do my best to make the show just as special!
She's laughing, really laughing!
Hey whatever works.
Thanks a lot.
I'm the actress who plays Jupiter, Okada Karina.
She was added in in a hurry wasn't she?
Um, I was only recently assigned the role of Jupiter, She was added in in a hurry wasn't she?
Um, I was only recently assigned the role of Jupiter,
But I'll do my best.
This is my first time,
But I hope I can meet everyone's expectations as a cool Jupiter.
They're all such adorable girls wouldn't you say?
This was "Sailor War."
This was just the Inner Soldiers, wasn't it?
How was that? The vocal arrangement was a little different this time, right?
Yes this time the feeling behind it was a little... different.
Different circumstances.
I'm Uranus, Tennou Haruka's actress, Takagi Nao.
It's the tenth anniversary, and everyone's really excited, and wants to make this a great show.
And this is looking like it may be my favorite show too.
Also, um, even though we've only half memorized everything...
You guys were there when I was yelling "Space Sword."
Jeez...
We've already accomplished a lot, but time is running short, so now we're just getting through one thing at a time,
I want to portray the best possible Uranus so I can leave with a sense like I've graduated, so everyone cheer me on, thanks a lot.
Bye bye.
I'm the actress who plays Neptune and Kaiou Michiru, Asami Yuuka!
First I'd like to express how happy I am to take part in the ten year anniversary.
Well it's a strong feeling I've had for a while but I've always wanted to do the Super series.
I'd just be really happy if everyone worked together to make this a really excellent show.
I'm Hosaka Yuuko, the actress who plays Sailor Pluto and Meiou Setsuna.
Mom! I'm Hosaka Yuuko, the actress who plays Sailor Pluto and Meiou Setsuna.
Mom!
She was like a mother to all of us, wasn't she?
I really want to do my best for the tenth year anniversary. She was like a mother to all of us, wasn't she?
I really want to do my best for the tenth year anniversary.
Um, look forward to seeing a Pluto different from one you've seen before. I really want to do my best for the tenth year anniversary.
Um, look forward to seeing a Pluto different from one you've seen before.
I'm Nakamuria Ruria, the actress who plays Sailor Saturn and Tomoe Hotaru!
This is my first Musical but I think I can do it and portray a really good Saturn.
Hotaru is a character who's often sick and not that energetic, but I want to portray her in a way that won't pale in comparison to Chibiusa and the other Sailors.
Thanks a lot.
I'm Nanami! I'm trying really hard to be super energetic like Chibiusa!
Did you get along with her?
Yeah I did.
I'm the actor who plays Tuxedo Mask, Urai Kenji.
This summer marks the tenth anniversary of the Sailormoon musicals doesn't it?
Well anyway, everyone is really pumped so we'll put on a good show I think.
So um... come and see.
The conceited girl is off! I'm not going anywhere.
You were playing with her too huh?
Be sure to wipe that sweat off.
W-When you sweat like this-
This sweat! W-When you sweat like this-
This sweat!
Her forehead's showing. A forehead debut.
You know I can do that just as well.
But we make a nice couple, huh?
My apologies to Urai, but he doesn't look like he's up to the task anyway.
There he is!
He's laying on the floor!
Why is she crying here?
I wasn't teasing her.
Marina!
It's too hard! Just kidding I got sweat in my eye.
Oh that's good.
Yeah.
Ah the Hoshino Shintaro guy.
He was really good! Ah the Hoshino Shintaro guy.
He was really good!
That was Yukimura,
"Crunch"?! What?
He broke his glasses didn't he?
How many times did they make him do that?
How come he always broke them?
Yukimura could always make me laugh.
He was really good!
This is how in one month we got through all the hard times, and got to the final show!
Final show!
July 21st, 2002 at Saitama's Toda City Cultural Center, we gave our first performance, then went on to do a total of ten different shows.
Saitama, Sendai, Tokyo, Kobe, Okayama, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Hamamatsu, and finally the tenth and final show in Yokohama.
A lot of people came to watch, which made us really happy!
We made a lot of great memories! Please keep watching the Sailormoon musicals!
So until next time, bye bye!