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As if he actually needed to get any more amazing. Nagayama Takashi, sometimes I think I'm not exaggerating when I say you are the reason I love 1st cast so much, and will always, always see them as the cast that loves TeniMyu the most. Others may have played the characters better, acted better, sung better, danced better, but when it comes to loving the characters, the shows, your costars, 1st cast beats them all.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath...
I can feel the vibrations in the earth, the air, spreading from person to person, spreading from my ears through my whole body, my fingers, my nerves, my brain, and to the bottom of my heart, waking inside of me memories which had long lain dormant.
The oscillations are synchronizing with the quickening beat of my heart...
"Man, this is just so amazing (T_T)"
It's been over 6 years now, back when I first met up with that work that would change my life forever. It was nothing short of the start of everything for me, and I'm sure there are many, many people who came to know me through it.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath, returning to that time. Then just like when I would dash from the wings onto the stage, right now I open the door and move towards the hall.
"So amazing...so amazing...so amazing!!"
This is a really weird thing to compare it to, but it felt like watching firefly squid, shining and sparkling in the dark sea at night... This light, each rising from the deep sea to the surface... A strange feeling starts running through my body, and without thinking: "So amazing!!" I yell. "So amazing!"
Can't I manage to say anything besides "so amazing"?? (-.-;) I reason with myself that sometimes that's just how humans think, strangely enough.
A huge stage, monitors, a catwalk stretching out from the stage, and waving all those penlights...
Person, person, person, person person person person person person person person person person person person person person, chair, person person person, chair, person person person, chair, person, bag, person person
They're flooding Tokyo Taiikukan. Even as I'm bowled over by the atmosphere, I recall fond memories. We had our Live here, too, huh... But back then, it wasn't a full house, and there were still seats open on the 3rd floor...
But still, all those voices that cheered us on...were amazing huh...
I think back on that time when I was in this show, and the cast on stage at the moment starts to overlap with all my friends from back then...
Coming back to where it all began? Coming home? Whenever I come here, I feel from the bottom of my heart, "Gonna give it my all!" And I realize once again how many people people people people people are supporting us and this show.
Maybe the reason I'm getting this sentimental is because I heard that song we sang when we graduated this show.
"Ima, te no todoku shiawase ja naku,
Ima taeru koto de miete kuru ashita,
Ima yoishireru eikou ja naku,
Ima ha wo kuishbari miete kuru mirai (1),
Ima, ima wo tsunagete eien ni shiyou...
Now and Forever"
Now and forever... m(__)m I hope that each and every person involved in this show can be happy. And to that end, I'm going to continue to work hard, now.
As a graduate of this musical, "Prince of Tennis"--TeniMyu...
Nagayama Takashi
(1) ...wasn't this "te ni ireru mirai..."? XD
I was crying when I read this on the bus today ;_; CRYING. Fuck.
I was wondering why, of all the TeniMyus, the boys would be coming out to see this show, and it just...never hit me that maybe they wanted to relive their own time here. Maybe it was the hall with all their own memories tucked away in it, that called to them. Their first live, their only live, TeniMyu's first live ever, a bold step in a new direction with the shows, and they got to be a part of it. It doesn't surprise me that they went to see the show, now.
God I love how much this meant to them--all of them--and I love that Nagayan doesn't feel ashamed to admit it (or not really that the others are ashamed, just that they don't really consider it). I mean, this is where they all pretty much got KNOWN. Sure, Kime probably still would've been big. But *pnish*? Would it have still been as big as it is now without the help of Momo-chan and Oishi? Naoya, the D-boys, Hotta, would they have garnered as many fans so soon?
Nagayan's a little over-the-top with his attachment to the show, it seems, sometimes XD None of the others (NONE of the others--1st cast or otherwise, it seems o_O If I'm wrong, someone correct me!) celebrate their character's birthday (but he does that for Hitsugaya too XD;;;), he really just cherishes his roles. Guh.
1st cast, 1st love indeed.
As if he actually needed to get any more amazing. Nagayama Takashi, sometimes I think I'm not exaggerating when I say you are the reason I love 1st cast so much, and will always, always see them as the cast that loves TeniMyu the most. Others may have played the characters better, acted better, sung better, danced better, but when it comes to loving the characters, the shows, your costars, 1st cast beats them all.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath...
I can feel the vibrations in the earth, the air, spreading from person to person, spreading from my ears through my whole body, my fingers, my nerves, my brain, and to the bottom of my heart, waking inside of me memories which had long lain dormant.
The oscillations are synchronizing with the quickening beat of my heart...
"Man, this is just so amazing (T_T)"
It's been over 6 years now, back when I first met up with that work that would change my life forever. It was nothing short of the start of everything for me, and I'm sure there are many, many people who came to know me through it.
I close my eyes and take a deep breath, returning to that time. Then just like when I would dash from the wings onto the stage, right now I open the door and move towards the hall.
"So amazing...so amazing...so amazing!!"
This is a really weird thing to compare it to, but it felt like watching firefly squid, shining and sparkling in the dark sea at night... This light, each rising from the deep sea to the surface... A strange feeling starts running through my body, and without thinking: "So amazing!!" I yell. "So amazing!"
Can't I manage to say anything besides "so amazing"?? (-.-;) I reason with myself that sometimes that's just how humans think, strangely enough.
A huge stage, monitors, a catwalk stretching out from the stage, and waving all those penlights...
Person, person, person, person person person person person person person person person person person person person person, chair, person person person, chair, person person person, chair, person, bag, person person
They're flooding Tokyo Taiikukan. Even as I'm bowled over by the atmosphere, I recall fond memories. We had our Live here, too, huh... But back then, it wasn't a full house, and there were still seats open on the 3rd floor...
But still, all those voices that cheered us on...were amazing huh...
I think back on that time when I was in this show, and the cast on stage at the moment starts to overlap with all my friends from back then...
Coming back to where it all began? Coming home? Whenever I come here, I feel from the bottom of my heart, "Gonna give it my all!" And I realize once again how many people people people people people are supporting us and this show.
Maybe the reason I'm getting this sentimental is because I heard that song we sang when we graduated this show.
"Ima, te no todoku shiawase ja naku,
Ima taeru koto de miete kuru ashita,
Ima yoishireru eikou ja naku,
Ima ha wo kuishbari miete kuru mirai (1),
Ima, ima wo tsunagete eien ni shiyou...
Now and Forever"
Now and forever... m(__)m I hope that each and every person involved in this show can be happy. And to that end, I'm going to continue to work hard, now.
As a graduate of this musical, "Prince of Tennis"--TeniMyu...
Nagayama Takashi
(1) ...wasn't this "te ni ireru mirai..."? XD
I was crying when I read this on the bus today ;_; CRYING. Fuck.
I was wondering why, of all the TeniMyus, the boys would be coming out to see this show, and it just...never hit me that maybe they wanted to relive their own time here. Maybe it was the hall with all their own memories tucked away in it, that called to them. Their first live, their only live, TeniMyu's first live ever, a bold step in a new direction with the shows, and they got to be a part of it. It doesn't surprise me that they went to see the show, now.
God I love how much this meant to them--all of them--and I love that Nagayan doesn't feel ashamed to admit it (or not really that the others are ashamed, just that they don't really consider it). I mean, this is where they all pretty much got KNOWN. Sure, Kime probably still would've been big. But *pnish*? Would it have still been as big as it is now without the help of Momo-chan and Oishi? Naoya, the D-boys, Hotta, would they have garnered as many fans so soon?
Nagayan's a little over-the-top with his attachment to the show, it seems, sometimes XD None of the others (NONE of the others--1st cast or otherwise, it seems o_O If I'm wrong, someone correct me!) celebrate their character's birthday (but he does that for Hitsugaya too XD;;;), he really just cherishes his roles. Guh.
1st cast, 1st love indeed.
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Date: 2009-05-08 04:11 am (UTC)I can't even imagine being in something like Tenimyu and then have it move on without you...
(I think Tuti made a comment about Gin's birthday last year, haha- even I forgot)
First cast ♥
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Date: 2009-05-08 05:12 am (UTC)If I remember correctly, for a few years back when TeniMyu was still going on, I think, Eiji used to wish Momo a happy birthday every July 23rd. I seem to recall him mentioning Renji's birthday last year, too...
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Date: 2009-05-08 05:14 am (UTC)That just made me cry, too. I could hear and see them singing that verse of Now and Forever, and I remember their graduation speeches, too. It's kind of crazy to think that this all started 6 years ago with them and it's still continuing now, but with whole different generations of casts.
This was such a sentimental post. Gotta love Nagayan and the 1st cast.
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Date: 2009-05-08 07:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-08 09:36 am (UTC)Though Im worried about another cast singing now and forever ... i usually hate it when other cast touch first cast songs so we'll have to see !!!
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Date: 2009-05-08 10:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-08 10:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-08 01:45 pm (UTC)Shinpei mentioned Momo's birthday once. I think either Masei or Taka-san (Watanabe Kouji) also mentioned their characters birthdays at some point. And although I don't know, I wouldn't be surprised if Doori had mentioned Ryoma's birthday, because he was quite attached to that role.
But there is at least one other person who rivals Nagayan in his love for his character and TeniMyu -- Takiguchi Yukihiro. TakiYuki mentioned Oishi's birthday in 2007 and 2008. At least one of those years he had a cake for him. He's posted more essay-length entries about TeniMyu than I can remember. He's been to see the show several times since he graduated, and he's had at least one picture of 4th-Oishi on his blog. And I still don't think he's fully expressed everything Oishi, his cast, and the show itself meant to him. I think he would have played Oishi forever if he could.
....Anyway. Nagayan ♥
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Date: 2009-05-08 04:13 pm (UTC)Odd that though we were all "Dude! DL1 was here! DL1 was here!" we didn't think that maybe other First Cast-ies were thinking the same thing. ^^; That would be a good reason to attend. 6 years later, same place.
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Date: 2009-05-08 08:41 pm (UTC)I think the one reason this is so... touching, I guess, is just because it seems to justify my silly, nostalgic feelings about those first cast shows, you know? And also, I think that just knowing how much his roles mean to him really makes all those performances more inspiring too, or something. *__*
The squid reference makes me smile too. <333
It was nothing short of the start of everything for me - This too, just... I don't know, it's another one of those things where I feel like I've known and thought this for forever, but somehow hearing it come straight from him makes it so much more meaningful. *__*
♥
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Date: 2009-05-09 12:05 pm (UTC)how come you made me cry just like this...
i miss the first cast too...
I DO love D-Boys, so the other casts were amazing for this, and i DO love Sakaurada Dori, but to me morieiji is momo, tuti is oishi, yanagi is ryoma, kimeru is fuji and nagayan is eiji...
On the other hand... morieiji is renji, tuti is gin and nagayan is hitsugaya... yup they just get into their roles ne? ^_^
And yup 1st casts remain the best casts... (watched again the 1st cast graduation not long ago and cried like a baby... T_T)
thanks for the heart moving entry.. i like to go back to those old days sometimes^^
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Date: 2009-05-10 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-21 02:24 am (UTC)When I saw the lyrics... I don't know, my heart was so touched.
He so wonderful, really. Now I know how much I missed the first cast.
Your lasts words are perfect for this: 1st cast, 1st love (They're my first love, indeed. If I never knew them, I wouldn't writting here, and dreaming their return hopelessly)