i'm sorry, my hotel room is too damn dark and the sky is dreary outside... so live with the 'blurred' pics for now...
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OK, I'M GONNA MARRY THIS GUY!!!
and Ochan's butai was unfortunately, not the 'scarry, vampire-ish' as the poster shows... in fact, he never wore that cool dark outfit at all in the butai... he only wore one same outfit, which is the one in the news clip...
well, it's more like a mix of comedy + action (lots of 'fake' but nice fighting sequences - ochan did some backflips etc...) + basically a stereotype storyline - girl hates boy who ends up liking boy, boy confesses too late that he likes her till she dies, boy's friend befriends demon and betray boy's gang and kills all, boy revenges gang and kills demon.
end of story. :hehe:
i'm not even sure how the 'vampire' part fits in coz with this 'typical' storyline, they could all be just samurais. :sweat:
there wasn't any 'sucking blood' scene at all... and they aren't afraid of garlic or crosses etc... well, the only scene 'vampy' is just them drinking goblets of 'red' liquid at the beginning. :sweat: oh ya, and when they die, there's lots of 'dry ice' :hehe:
Ochan's acting is super impressive though. and i love the ending to bits! i was at the edge of my seat when the traitor/demon killed all his friends and when all the 'ghosts' came out to bring the 'souls' away. i mean with more understanding of the japanese language i would have been much more touched, coz the girl next to me was crying like hell thoughout the 2nd half of the play!
and i really wanna cry too when ochan was crying + screaming for his dead pals... he was soooo impressive! (you can hear sniffs all around the theatre)
the ending was suggoi touching... it was a sad ending coz everyone died, including his girl, leaving him alone in this world. :shamefulcry:
there was a long silence at the end when the lights go out, then when the lights came on, ochan was already on the stage. and he looks kind of sheepish with his swollen eyes and tried to smile and bow, and that's when me and the girl next to me just stood up and clapped like crazy!
i mean, i was expecting an immediate standing ovation! but i think japanese folks are more subdued? but anyway, it was a standing ovation in the end!