this has been sitting in my drafts for god knows how long, and given that i have a hetamyu url i should be posting about it more. Anyway! As the local hetamyu and tenimyu lover, it's time for:
HETAMYU CAST MEMBERS IN TENIMYU PROPAGANDA
for the unfamiliar, Prince of Tennis is a classic sports manga from the early '00s that chronicles middle school tennis prodigy Echizen Ryoma and his tennis club's journey to win the national tournament. it spawned a hugely successful series of musicals that launched the careers of countless 2.5D and tokusatsu actors, including half the actors in the Hetamyu cast!
Tenimyu has to date ran 4 seasons: the 1st premiered in 2003 and the 4th season is currently running! All seasons cover the same storylines, but the actors and and some of the songs and/or the instrumental/vocal arrangements for the songs change with every season. Most of the Hetamyu cast who were alumni appeared in the Tenimyu 1st and 2nd.
From 1st season, we have:
Juri
Juri, who plays France in Hetamyu, plays the aggressive but talented delinquent Akutsu Jin in Tenimyu! He originated the role in 1st season during the run of Side Yamabuki feat. St. Rudolph Gakuen in 2005 when he was 24, and continued to appear as a guest in succeeding 1st season myus.
I can't find a clip of his solo song on youtube, so here's Yuki vs Ijii (Courage vs Will), the song that accompanies his character's match against Ryoma. Forgive the crusty video quality, the 00s were a hard time.
Here's a mirror link on the Wayback Machine, because Marvelous Inc (Tenimyu's production company) hates fun and has been copyright striking Tenimyu 1st clips left and right for the past month, so I have no idea how long the videos I embed will stay up lol
Isogai Ryuko
Ryuko, our myu America, portrayed the genius player Chitose Senri! He was first actor to do the role as part of the Shitenhouji A cast, and he debuted in the Treasure Match Shitenhouji feat. Hyotei Gakuen musical in 2007 when he was 20. He doesn't have a solo song, but he has a duet with Tezuka, one of the principal characters: Hyakuren Jitoku no Kiwami vs Saiki Kampatsu no Kiwami (Pinnacle of Hard Work vs Pinnacle of Great Wisdom).
Mirror link on the Wayback Machine
Yamaoki Yuuki
Okki played Yanagi Renji, one of Rikkai's best players, in Tenimyu. He was the second actor to play the role in 1st, replacing Ono Kento, and he debuted in the Final Match Rikkai Part 1 when he was 18 years old. Here's him singing Sago e no Canon, his character duet with his doubles partner Kirihara Akaya, from Final Match Rikkai:
Mirror link on the Wayback Machine
From 2nd season:
Ueda Yusuke
Yusuke played Tachibana Kippei, Fudomine's dependable captain, in Tenimyu 2nd! He debuted in Seigaku vs Fudomine in 2011 when he was 20 years old. Unfortunately I can no longer upload any clips from Tenimyu 2nd to youtube because of copyright blocking me right out of the gate, so I've linked to a clip of Kejime, his solo from Seigaku vs Shitenhouji (aka the song that should've bagged him the role of Germany from the very beginning):
Hirose Daisuke
Daichan played the twins Ryou and Atsushi Kisarazu! He first appeared in Seigaku vs St. Rudolph~Yamabuki in 2011 as Atsushi Kisarazu when he was 20, and then debuted as Ryou in Seigaku vs Rokkaku in 2012. Unfortunately neither of the twins are major characters, but they do have parts in their team songs! I've linked Rokkaku's team song, Court de Aou (warning for flashing lights):
ROU (Kikuchi Takuya)
ROU played Hyotei's aloof genius player with an iconic deep voice, Oshitari Yuushi (my fav)! He debuted in Seigaku vs Hyotei in 2011 when he was 20. Even back then, he was an incredible singer, and the production certainly knew it; here's him singing an acoustic solo version of Hyotei's theme song, Koori no Emperor, in Dream Live 2011
Sugie Taishi
Taishi, our myu China, played Hitouji Yuuji, a player from Shitenhouji known for his vocal impressions and one half of a *canon* gay couple! He debuted in Seigaku vs Shitenhouji in 2013. Here's him singing his duet with Konjiki Koharu, his character's doubles partner and boyfriend, Geijutsu teki na Tennis:
Honorable mention: The first actor who played Germany in Hetamyu, Omi Yoichiro, was also in Tenimyu 2nd as Mori Tatsunori, one of Tachibana's (Yusuke) teammates!
And that's it! I'm sure there are Hetamyu fans here who are curious about what other musicals the cast members have been in, so I hope this helps XD And if your interest in Tenimyu was piqued..... I have a guide here
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summer
while digging through boxes of old stuff, I found folders of old writing. this is one of the few things I'm willing to admit exists. it's something like 12 years old, probably.
tenipuri, second-person yanagi POV, was planned eventual yanagi/kirihara. incomplete/discontinued. unedited from what I had handwritten.
He is the sun, the sweat, the impression of tennis in the harshness of the blazing heat, and you want to catch that summer and keep it close.
“Summer,” he says, and his eyes are bright, dark eyes lit up from inside, so much a contradiction like the rest of him, “is for tennis.”
You feel the corners of your mouth quirking upward, and you feel the question he wants you to ask, and so you oblige him. “What about the rest of the seasons?”
He grins, and his teeth flash brightly white in the sun. “Spring is for tennis too,” he explains, though you know and he knows you know what he'll say, “and so is fall.”
“And winter?” you ask, amusement bubbling within you, amusement to match that dawning in his eyes.
“Winter is for snowball fights,” he answers, and then, almost as an afterthought but not quite because he was planning to add it all along, “and tennis.”
Everything is tennis with him. Sometimes you even believe that. Sometimes you wonder if you're tennis too, and that one day “Tennis-senpai” will slip from his mouth as easily as your name.
The world is more complicated than that. People are more complicated than that. They are not so easily classified, most of them, except for him, and that is because he is purely, simply summer.
*
When you first met him, it was spring and he was out of place, a raging blaze of heat among the newly budding leaves.
(Spring, you thought, was Seiichi's season, and maybe that was why he lost so easily. But Seiichi wasn't spring, not like he was summer.)
He came in like a storm, a summer monsoon, and you stood calm against him, a dam that weathered the storm until it wore itself out. You were the one who picked him up afterwards, even as those green eyes the color of hydrangea leaves looked at you distrustfully.
You instilled the basics of control in him. You taught him the law of Rikkai Dai. He was vicious, pure energy, innocence, single-minded dedication. He was raw, he was wild, he was childlike, and slowly he came to trust you, like a feral beast trusts someone he will sometimes consider not biting.
That was the first time anyone noticed him. Seiichi said he was interesting. Gen'ichirou grunted and looked vaguely disapproving. It fell upon you to make sure he...
You weren't sure what you were supposed to do with him. No one did, really. Masaharu suggested once that you were trying to make him a productive member of society, and then laughed, like it was impossible, and maybe it was.
He truly came into his own that summer, and if nothing else, that is how you will remember him, fierce grin on his face and curls wet with sweat. He met all of Gen'ichirou's standards, though the vice captain would never tell him, and he exceeded all your expectations, and maybe even Seiichi was satisfied by his progress.
He always was that summer, even when the season passed and faded into autumn reds and browns, and even when that was eclipsed by a cold dead winter, colder than usual when Seiichi collapsed and the world started falling apart. Even then, in the sterile white rooms of the hospital, you couldn't help but think that the warm spark of him still burned brightly. The place subdued him—it subdued you all—but the look in his eyes and the scent of summer remained.
He was quiet when you made the promise to win, through Prefecturals and Regionals and all the way up through Nationals, without losing even once, any of you. It was more than possible, your data said; it was even probable. Hyoutei Gakuen and Shitenhouji Chuu would probably give you some trouble along the way, but you could handle them, given the right preparation. You would win, and win, and win, until you came out on top, undefeated.
At the sound of the word “Nationals,” his head lifted like a dog that had caught a scent on the wind. A grin broke across his face, and you knew it was because that was his goal, had been his goal all along. Nationals in the summer, under the harsh beating sun and with the roar of the crowd in his ears.
That was all right. You could use that drive, that relentless determination. Gen'ichirou saw it, too, and approved.
He would be useful, the Second-Year Ace, the Devil. He had so much potential, but he was careless. It fell on you to teach him self-control, to hone his skills, so that he would be at his best.
He never thanked you. There was no room for thanks, not in this mad drive to be the best.
*
You were the first to lose, to break the promise made far, far away from green courts and white lines, in rooms that stifled and smothered and smelled of medicine and sterility. You were the first to lose, in a game you had expected to win, but Sadaharu surprised you. Sadaharu did like to surprise you, and sometimes it worked, and this was one of those times.
No one was more disappointed in the outcome than you. No one was more satisfied than you. It was a disappointment tinged with pride, and a satisfaction tinged with sadness, because after all, this was not your fight alone, and you had let down more than just yourself.
You knew the moment the referee called “game and set” that Gen'ichirou would be angry with you. You were already steeling yourself for the blow, as you walked up to him, looked him straight in the eye, and said, “I'm sorry. I broke the promise with Seiichi.”
He rose to his feet, and though he was shorter than you, he always did have such a presence about him that made him seem to tower. He drew back his hand, and you waited, knowing that you deserved the slap—welcoming, almost.
What you did not expect was the racket that stopped the hand before it got close, and the pair of bright green eyes that regarded Gen'ichirou with just a hint of challenge. Perhaps it was his way of getting revenge, and through the cocky words and the confident grin, you thought you detected something else. It might have been your imagination, or it might have been his payment to you, for everything up to now. Nevertheless, it surprised you.
You knew from the beginning that against Fuji Shuusuke he did not stand a chance of winning. You knew, but you did not tell him. And if his protection was his way of thanking you, then your silence was your way of showing your gratitude.
It paid off. You had not been expecting him to reach that level of play, at least not so soon, and you supposed you had Fuji Shuusuke to thank for acting as the catalyst.
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