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    Almael
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    AKB49 Renai Kinshi Jourei – The Musical

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    Type: musical

    Genre: musical

    Year: 2014

    Introduction:

    It is based on the manga of the same name. It covers the first 5 volumes.

    Synopsis:

    Minoru Urayama, a boy, has a crush on Hiroko Yoshinaga, who dreams of becoming a member of the idol group AKB48.

    He cross-dressed as a girl named Minori Urakawa to help her and accidentally becomes the 12th generation Kenkyusei member of AKB48.

    An adventure starts…

    Critique:

    In the first edition: The musical obviously features AKB48.

    Sae Miyazawa plays Minoru Urayama, an obvious choice. Mako Kojima and Nana Owada share the role of Hiroko Yoshinaga, also obvious choices.

    In the second edition: The musical features SKE48.

    Nao Furuhata plays Minoru Urayama. Ryoha Kitagawa and Ami Miyamae share the role of Hiroko Yoshinaga.

    As far as musicals go my standards are high with little to no compromises.

    Despite how amazing the girls are at learning a dozen or two songs and dances within a week on regular basis most of them don’t have it for a musical.

    This has been shown more than often enough in the (3?) Wizard of Oz or Dorothy and co. competitions over the years. AFAIK only Otabe, Mayuyu, Umeda Ayaka, Tano Yuka and Masuda Yuka have ever made it on this stage but only the last three won.

    That said the musical is not bad it just doesn’t excite me enough. BBC One’s Dorothy competition was more exciting. Many of the girls perform nicely, though.

    Half the songs are good enough the others are so-so. Frankly most of the good ones whether they are in the musical or encores or special features are all AKB48 classics. There are a bunch of familiar AKB48 (anime) songs I don’t remember where they are from. One is definitely a classic Sailor Moon.

    Verdict: 8

    Cast 8

    Cast performance 8

    Script/Directing: 8