Takarazuka Insanity Project

Thank you to everyone who has given us such sweet words of encouragement over the past 13 years!

We originally started this fansub group to make Takarazuka more accessible to Western fandom. However, today the Takarazuka Revue is available in ways we could never have dreamed of back then. An official English website with a ticketing system! Stores in Japan which will ship directly abroad! An official Takarazuka channel on Youtube! In light of all this, and looking at how amazingly popular Takarazuka has gotten among English-speaking fans over the past couple of decades, we feel that our mission is really accomplished now.

Additionally, Sky Stage has posted recently several requests to not copy their transmissions. With such an explicit request, we feel that it would be extremely rude to ignore their wishes.

Many of the texts from our translations are available at the TakaWiki, and we urge you to go there if that's what you're looking for now.

Heya! After saying it was going to be my next project for over ten years, I've finally actually sat down and done it. :D Announcing the release of "SAY IT AGAIN," #7 in the Bow Hall Shakespeare series of 1999, based loosely on Two Gentlemen of Verona. I love this show because it is comedic timing gold. All four young leads were excellent, but Misato Maya and Misa Noeru also contributed to making this gem. Masatsuka Haruhiko's ability to tell stories in snapshots of really intense dialogue has always been a favorite of mine, and I hope with a translation it will show his appeal to more foreign fans.

Also, I realized the other day that the DVD of "Akechi Kogorou's Incident Report -The Black Lizard-" is no longer in print, so I pulled out my 2007 translation, dusted it off, spruced it up, and slapped it on the closing night broadcast. That will be released as soon as I get beta edits back. :) This is one of my top five Takarazuka shows (I remember watching the live show very fondly), and Sakurano Ayane is really intense and great as the musumeyaku lead here. Kimura Shinji does adaptations really well, and his staging for this production was really creative too.

Yeah, hopefully my burst of translating means I'm back in the game. ;)

Also, apologies, but I had to update costs again. I've been letting them slide through the last couple of post office price hikes, and it was getting to the point that I was paying YOU all to watch the TIP shows. I mean, not that I wouldn't do that if I could really afford it.... Maybe I'll win the lottery some day.

~Jen

Ahahahah, lucky we have Deathaya, because I am slow as molasses about getting translating done these days.

Announcing the release of MAHOROBA, a 2007 Moon Troupe revue show! It's really a lovely show, and one I use often to hook people into the beauty of Takarazuka.

I've got 5 of the 11 eps of Back Stage done, and will keep working on them this month. :)

Since we reopened international distro, the amount of orders have been unprecedented. While I'm really glad that so many Zuka fans are enjoying our translations, this has been really tough on our brand new distro gal. So we're temporarily closing European distro until she can get caught up.

If you have already sent us an email order and/or payment, don't worry! We'll get to you.

Thanks for your patience and understanding. :)

Thank you, everyone, for all your patience over the summer! As of today, USA/Canada distro is re-opened. There is no longer a 4-disc limit. International is still closed, but stay tuned for news.

New releases in September:
Anna Karenina
Susano-o

In-Progress shows:
The Back Stage: Ep 1-11
Say It Again

Hey all,

So, when we started TIP we had a lot more members. Over the years it's narrowed down to mostly just Gen and I (Jen), and fabulous part-time contributors. But that means Gen and I have been doing distro non-stop for... a long time. And we're a bit burnt out. We've talked about just closing down TIP, since it's entire purpose was really to introduce new fans to Takarazuka, and to be honest YouTube made us obsolete long ago (not to mention the proliferation of social media). But many of you ladies (and gents) have been very sweet over the years and even recently have spoken up about wanting us to continue, so we're going to continue for a little longer at least. But it would help if we had others helping with distro. And it would help the crazy shipping costs if we had someone in Europe. Is there anyone who would be willing to take up the distro? You would need an ability to burn DVD discs, to be able to receive money through PayPal, to get to the post office fairly regularly, and to be very patient. XD

Let us know.

Thanks,
Jen

I'm determined to keep up the monthly updates this year. *stalwart pose*


NOTE: US/CANADA distro is temporarily closed starting today while the distro gal is on vacation. INTERNATIONAL is still open.

• Anna Karenina is in the subtitling phase.


• The Brothers Karamazov is in the final edits phase.




• Susano'o is likely to be one of our next projects.


• We are looking for a TV recording of Marrakesh as another possible future project, if anyone knows someone who has a copy.

Oops, I've let the monthly updates slip again.

• Yu the Beauty (Gu Bijin) is complete and available for distro! Whoo!


• Anna Karenina is still being translated.


• The Brothers Karamazov is newly added to our list of projects and is also in the translation stage. (We have a surfeit of Russian love right now, apparently.)

When I first began posting in this journal, I future-dated everything into the far distant future of November 2015.... which is now the past. How strange. This year T.I.P. turns ten (although we weren't publicly active until '07, we were plugging away at Elisabeth for much of 2006). Thank you to everyone who has supported us all of these years! Please let us know if you have any suggestions on how we should celebrate. :)

Due to starting a new job and moving, the international distro gal is going to be out of commission for a while, so international distro is closed until October 10th.

Two shows are in the beta-check phase: My Love Lies Over the Mountains and Yu the Beauty.

Junction 24 is officially released! For those who might be curious about Oura Mizuki's stage presence.