Former Takarazienne male actor who “resembles Meiku Nagano” suffers “until he becomes a woman again

Mayuko Ohara, a member of Takarazuka Revue’s 99th season and a member of the snow troupe under the name Haruki Yomukai, has been a member of the Takarazuka Revue for seven years and left the company in February 2019 at the age of 24. She is also scheduled to appear in the stage production of “Oni-no-Baeki” in September of this year. After leaving the company, she chose to become an actress and was troubled by the fact that she did not know how to play a woman. What difficulties did she face?

As a young girl, she aspired to become a professional tennis player.

Looking at Ohara’s Instagram photos, we see many soft, feminine expressions. When we interviewed her, she was as bright as the sun, and I felt as if I could understand the origin of her name from her Takarazuka days. Her facial expressions, which change as she speaks, have the power to attract people.

Ohara originally aspired to be a professional tennis player. His parents, who met through tennis, sent him to a hard tennis school from the age of 3. Her policy was that she should aim for the top in everything she did, so she worked hard to become a professional tennis player. By the time he was in junior high school, he was playing tennis at several tennis schools and was a member of a tennis club.

At that time, she spent most of her waking hours playing tennis, but she was somewhat calm and self-analyzed. By the time he reached the third grade of junior high school, he looked at his own performance and the abilities of the players around him and decided that he could not become a professional.

Her dream of becoming an actress, which she had kept in her heart as well as her longing for tennis since she was a child, blossomed. In the spring of her first year of high school, Ohara’s dream changed drastically when she saw the drama “Attention Please.

I admired Miki Maya in the drama, so I did a video search and came across a Takarazuka Revue video. Until then, I didn’t even know that Ms. Maya was from Takarazuka, but the moment I saw the video, I thought, “I definitely want to join this company! I thought, “I want to be a part of this! More specifically, I thought, “I want to be Miki Maya.

After deciding that she wanted to join Takarazuka, she acted quickly, quitting the two tennis schools she had been attending and submitting a notice of withdrawal from the school tennis club. He immediately found a private school for entrance examinations for Takarazuka and asked his mother for permission to enter the school. She was surprised to learn that when she entered the school, she had not yet seen a Takarazuka Revue performance live. When she saw her first live performance a few months after entering the school, she was convinced that this was definitely the world she wanted to pursue.

However, she also started from zero in ballet and voice. From there, she attended lessons five times a week, and in February of her first year of high school, less than a year later, she passed her entrance exam. Perhaps the stoic attitude she had developed through tennis helped her.