She also appeared in the Sunday theater drama “GIFT.” “Traditionally, a Takarazuka musumeyaku (female-role performer) was expected to be a gentle, refined woman who walked three steps behind the otokoyaku (male-role performer)—a very Showa-era image. But from the latter half of the Heisei era, overseas musicals began influencing Japanese theater, and female characters became stronger and more glamorous. That made me wonder: why aren’t there any cool, strong musumeyaku in Takarazuka?”