Sannan-hen cast with character visuals

Character visuals for Sannan-hen have been posted on the official Hakumyu Twitter account!

Keisuke Sannan - Teruma  (輝馬)  

Chizuru Yukimura - Shion Aoki (青木志穏)

Toshizo Hijikata  -  Hidetoshi Kubota (久保田秀敏)

Souji Okita  - Kento Kitamura (北村健人)

Hajime Saito -  Shoichiro Oomi (大海将一郎)

Heisuke Todou -  Yuta Higuchi (樋口裕太)

Shinpachi Nagakura - Ryosuke Koike (小池亮介)

Sanosuke Harada  -  Shouta Kawakami (川上将大)

Susumu Yamazaki - Tsukasa Taguchi (田口司)

Isami Kondou  - Taira Imata (井俣太良)

Chikage Kazama  - Yoshihide Sasaki   (佐々木喜英) 

Kyuju Amagiri - Masafumi Yokoyama (横山真史)

Kyo Shiranui   - Takuma Sueno (末野卓磨)

Kodo Yukimura -  Hiroyuki Kawamoto  (川本裕之)

Kaoru Nagumo - Yuzuki Hoshimoto (星元裕月)

Sannan-hen cast announcement

Short disclaimer before we get into the topic: I don’t have as much time today as I did when I wrote my post about the Souma-hen cast announcement, I’ll mostly include their names, if they’re new to Hakumyu or not and some pictures. However, I will leave some links below each section so that you can follow their social media or check their past works, and of course you can always check the official Hakumyu website. I may post more info when the pictures with the stage costumes are released.

Keisuke Sannan - Teruma  (輝馬)  

His time is finally here! Our dear Teruma who has played Sannan since Reimeiroku gets to be the poster boy! The gods know I would pay to have both Ryosuke Mikata and Teruma working together to represent pre and post ochimizu Sannan, but I’m really excited to see Teruma with a leading role and listen to his strong and beautiful voice.

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And here you have some gifs from Souma-hen so that you can see Teruma with the Shinkai uniforms~

Chizuru Yukimura - Shion Aoki (青木志穏)

New route, new Chizuru, so it’s her first time participating in Hakumyu.

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Toshizo Hijikata  -  Hidetoshi Kubota (久保田秀敏)

Hijikata since Souma-hen.

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Souji Okita  - Kento Kitamura (北村健人)

Okita since Shinkai Saito-hen.

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Hajime Saito -  Shoichiro Oomi (大海将一郎)

Saito in Souma-hen and Hakumyu LIVE 3, but he wasn’t there for Shinkai Saito-hen.

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Heisuke Todou -  Yuta Higuchi (樋口裕太)

Heisuke since Shitan Hijikata-hen.

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Shinpachi Nagakura - Ryosuke Koike (小池亮介)

Nagakura since Souma-hen? I was very confused when I researching this because I saw everyone saying he’s the Nagakura in Souma-hen but back when I wrote my Souma-hen cast post the person who was casted was Yuta Kishimoto. I looked for tweets from the official Hakumyu Twitter account that included their names and apparently he was in the original cast announcement, but once the visuals with the stage costumes were released the one mentioned is Ryosuke Koike, so I guess there was a last minute change there.

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Sanosuke Harada  -  Shouta Kawakami (川上将大)

Harada since Souma-hen.

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Susumu Yamazaki - Tsukasa Taguchi (田口司)

New to Hakumyu, replaces Taizo Shiina, who had been playing Yamazaki since  Shitan Hijikata-hen. I’m looking forward to seeing his performance and I wonder if he will be here for Yamazaki-hen!

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Isami Kondou  - Taira Imata (井俣太良)

BEST DAD SINCE OKITA HEN KEEPS GOING STRONG. I still cry because Kondou wasn’t in the original Saito-hen and that means he was robbed of having the role in every single Hakumyu.

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Chikage Kazama  - Yoshihide Sasaki   (佐々木喜英)  

It’s no secret that Shogo Suzuki is my fave Kazama, but I guess he’s busy with the Moriarty the Patriot musical. Yoshihide Sasaki is the actor who has been casted as Kazama more times after Shogo (and my dearest  Viscount of Druitt). Kinda funny that none of his socials are on the Hakumyu official website when he’s pretty much one of the most popular actors/singers participating.

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Kyuju Amagiri - Masafumi Yokoyama (横山真史)

Amagiri since Souma-hen.

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Kyo Shiranui   - Takuma Sueno (末野卓磨)

Shiranui since  Shitan Kazama-hen   *cries in Yusuke Kashiwagi*.

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Kodo Yukimura -  Hiroyuki Kawamoto  (川本裕之)

Kodo since Harada-hen. There’s -1000 information about this guy in English, no Twitter, no Mydramalist and no anything. There’s a voice actor with the same name that pops up when looking for him, but it isn’t the same person.

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Kaoru Nagumo - Yuzuki Hoshimoto (星元裕月)

New to the role because Kaoru hasn’t been on Hakumyu since Hakumyu LIVE.

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And that’s it! It took a long time to write this post but I’m super happy to be back!

Sannan hen cast announcement post later today as soon as work allows me to 👀👀👀

SANNAN HEN ANNOUNCEMENT WAKING ME UP FROM THE DEAD HOURS

I'll leave the answer to the question below, but if you want to watch Souma-hen and can't pay the VPN + Niconico fee or the DVD I've got you covered! You can find my recording of Souma-hen (and the soundtrack) in the Hakumyu Livejournal community 😁

HAKUMYU SOUMA-HEN MINOR SPOILERS

HAKUMYU SOUMA-HEN MINOR SPOILERS

Kodo's role isn't anything major, it's been like two months since I last watched it, but iirc these were his scenes: Kodo telling Chizuru that he's leaving Edo, Kodo singing with Chizuru, Kodo telling Chizuru to leave the Shinsengumi and go with him, Miki telling Chizuru and Souma that it was Kodo who gave him ochimizu and the battle at the Sendai castle that was taken from someone else's route (fury battle, Sannan, Kodo dies and Chizuru cries for him). I may be forgetting some random scene but they could have left him out of the cast and there would be 0 difference to the plot.

HAKUMYU SOUMA-HEN MINOR SPOILERS

HAKUMYU SOUMA-HEN MINOR SPOILERS

That's correct! I replayed Souma's route right before watching the myu and I'd say it's a pretty accurate adaptation, but as you said he's not in his route. Iirc that's the only big difference between the two, there are some details that have been skipped for the sake of time and not having a huge cast but the rest is pretty much the same.

If I had to guess why he was included I'd say it's because Kodo has appeared in every Hakumyu (I can't remember any that didn't feature him) and as an excuse to show what happened to some of the Shinsengumi members whose deaths aren't witnessed by Chizuru and Souma in the game.

Souma-hen vid + soundtrack available in the LJ Hakumyu community

It is as the title says XD I thought it was time I gave back to the community that has provided me with so many hours of Hakuoki content, so you can find my download links for the Souma-hen recording (no subs) and the soundtrack I made in the LJ Hakumyu community (https://hakumyu-fancom.livejournal.com/).

You have to be a member to see the post, but I totally recommend it since you can find other soundtracks and musicals there (and I plan to do this with future Hakumyus as well).

If you have any issues with the links, questions about Hakumyu or want to simply chat about Souma-hen (or any other Hakumyu production) send me a message or comment either here or under the LJ post.

Getting back from the dead for like 5 seconds to fangirl about the new Souma-hen promotional pictures and post this 2013 Hijikata-hen vs 2021 Souma-hen comparison of our dear Kazama 💙

Okay, bye xD Going back to hibernating inside my coffin, I'll be back when my faith in humanity and the future is restored

SOUMA-HEN 2021 CAST

Hi, humans and oni, all fans of Hakumyu!

Since Souma-hen is a thing again I’ve recovered my original cast announcement post and updated it. The info about the actors is a mix between what I’ve found about them and info from the official cast page, but I haven’t included every past myu/stage play in the official info, so I’d recommend checking it if you’re interested in seeing more of any of these people.

Without further ado, I present you the official cast for the 2021 version of Musical Hakuoki Souma-hen:

28 years old, his Twitter is @MizukiUmetsu, and he’s been in Musical Touken Ranbu and the Sanrio Boys stage play .

She’s a member of Roys, a Japanese female duo chorus group. Playing Chizuru in this myu will be her first time as an actress. Her Twitter is @risadegozaimasu and she’s 24 years old.

Has worked in films and dramas before, also has myu/stage play experience (Sengoku Basara stage play , Moriarty the Patriot myu, etc.). He’s 33 years old and his Twitter is @kubotahidetoshi.

First difference with the 2020 cast! Shuji Kikuchi replaces Shogo Yamazaki, who first appeared in Hakumyu in Shitan Hijikata-hen. He’s 25 and his Twiiter is @kutisyu. He’s been in some stage plays before, like the Pirates of the Frontier UtaPri stage play .

His Twitter is @shoichiro_oomi. The protagonist/”your” character in the Fate/GO Babylonia Myu, also has some experience as a seiyuu (in fact google doesn’t list him as an actor but as a voice actor) and is/was in a group called "Hi! Superb" 

His first Hakumyu was Shitan Hijikata-hen! He is 25 and he won a Junon Superboy contest (Most Photogenic) and according to Anime on Stage he’s been in other myus/stage plays, like Ensemble Stars and Yona of the Dawn. According to the cast page he’s been in  Ao no Exorcist and Hitman Reborn stage plays too. His Twitter is @higuchi24yuta.

Second change in the cast, he’s replacing Yuta Kishimoto, who was Nagakura in both Shitan Hijikata-hen and Shitan Kazama-hen. He’s 25 and his Twitter is @ryosuke19951117. He was Akito/Agito in the Air Gear myu, and according to the cast page he wants everyone to think that Nagakura Shinpachi is cool (literally, 「永倉新八カッコいいな」kakkoii and everything)

He’s been in Tenimyu, Rice on stage, Hitman Reborn and Touken Ranbu stages/myus, among others. He’s 27 and his Twitter is @rjpmission. An anecdote: a few weeks ago someone I follow on Twitter went to see Rice on stage and he was one of the actors performing, which made me wonder if Souma-hen would happen since people from the cast were working on other things and I supposed that meant the situation in Japan was good enough to resume events like stage plays, included those that had been cancelled.

Sannan since Hakumyu Reimeiroku, he’s been in Kuromyu (William T Spears), Bungou Stray Dogs stage play, the Nanatsu no Taizai stage play and Tenimyu. His Twitter is @teruma_060 and he’s 31.

This makes me really happy! I still prefer Ryosuke Mikata, but he’s showed that he deserves the role, so I hope he stays in Hakumyu for many years to come! And I’m still mad that Teruma wasn’t in the Tango on the Campania Kuromyu...

First appeared in Shitan Hijikata-hen, and he’s been in some Sengoku Basara and Danganronpa stage plays, among others. He’s 34 and his Twitter is @TaizoShiina.

Best dad since Okita-hen (second Hakumyu) and by this point, everyone’s senpai, what else can be said about this man??? If you’ve watched any Hakumyu other than Saito-hen, you already know him. Great man and actor, he’s 45 and his Twitter is @TAIRANT1975.

These are the characters/actors & actress that I covered in my first Souma-hen cast post. I actually wrote another one with the rest of the cast, but thanks to a broken mouse the whole post got deleted when it was almost finished. Time to redeem myself!

Replacing Allen Kohatsu in the role of Miki, he’s 26 and his Twitter is @suna_syu_. It’s his first time in a musical, but he’s in the Kamen Rider Zero One drama. According to the Kamen Rider Wikia, he won the Avex Boys Award in 2016.

He’s 22 and he’s @masashisonomura on Twitter. He’s been in Tenimyu and has done some stuff on TV (the cast page lists some things but I’m not familiar with them ;_;)

He’s 34 and he’s @masafumi21yoko on Twitter. He’s been in Touken Ranbu, Ikemen Sengoku and Toki no Kizuna stages.And as my friend and Amagiri’s biggest fan Lawrichai pointed out, he played Amagiri’s grandpa/relative in the Toki no Kizuna stage.

He’s 36 and he’s @sueno0724 on Twitter. His first Hakumyu was Shitan Kazama hen. Has been in the Sengoku Basara stage play and the Rantaro Shinobu myu (this one wasn’t that long ago so I remember seen funny pics of this on Twitter).

Egg dad since the times of Harada hen, he doesn’t have a Twitter account and apparently there isn’t that much info about him on Google D:

And... drum roll a big round of applause for our returning demon, the original, the one and only, SHOGO SUZUKI (鈴木勝吾) AS CHIKAGE KAZAMA!!!

I already spoiled this in my Souma-hen is back post but I’m sooooooooooooooo happy to see him back. He’s @Shogo_Suzuki_ on Twitter (where he’s posted photos of his Hakumyu-watching sessions more than once),he’s 31 and he played Kazama from the very beginning in Saito-hen until Live 2. During his absence from Hakumyu he didn’t stop acting, some of you may remember my post about his appearance in the Moriarty the Patriot myu.

Not that I dislike Yoshihide Sasaki (Hijikata in Reimei, and Kazama in Harada-hen and the 2020 Souma-hen cast), but I will always see him as my dear Viscount Druitt from Kuromyu. And let’s be honest, Shogo has his “own brand” of Kazama. He took the character and made it his own, having a unique way of portraying him and enjoying every last bit of it.

And that was the complete main cast! This time we had all the info from the start so I don’t think a follow-up post will be necessary.

As an ending note, I would like to dedicate this post to Serizawa’s actor, Akira Kubodera, who passed away last month. I’m sure he would love to see that everyone has been hoping for Souma-hen to return and that the Hakuoki Shinsengumi, or at least its spirit, can’t be defeated.

SOUMA HEN IS BACK!!!!!

Hakumyu fans, I’m so very happy to share that Souma-hen is a thing again!!!!

It was cancelled earlier this year due to corona and there were plans to distribute the DVD even if live performances didn’t happen, but that idea was discarded later on so now one knew what the future had in store for Hakumyu.

But the Shinsengumi is on our side and the official Hakumyu Twitter posted this announcing the performance dates for April 2021!

They also updated the cast page with some changes, which I’ll cover at some point I guess, but I’ll spoil the best part rn because I can’t shut up about it.

SUZUKI SHOGO IS BACK!! THE OG KAZAMA CHIKAGE!!

100% true and confirmed by both the cast page AND the man himself through Twitter, Instagram and ameblo!!!

I’M SO HAPPYYYYYYYY I live for this man’s smiles on stage. You can tell he enjoys every second of it and that it means so much to him, he totally deserves getting his role back.

Pic taken from his Twitter @Shogo_Suzuki_

I made this gif and added the text LIKE A YEAR AGO and then left it sitting in my drafts 😊

This is from the Heisuke-hen backstage video, and takes place during one of the curtain calls. My dear Ryosuke Mikata was complaining about everyone wanting to kill his character or something along those lines (my Japanese is really limited 😭) and this happens right after that.

He’s adorable!! 😭 And look at Junya and Shogo joining in to shout “daisuki”!

I've had this in my drafts for MONTHS waiting for the new year to come, and then this afternoon omw to work I realised it's 2020 and I had forgotten about this! So, a bit late, but HAPPY NEW YEAR and here you have a Hakumyu LIVE gif 💙