The Takarazuka Revue, a famed Japanese theater troupe, is currently staging an adaptation of Castlevania: Awakening in Moonlight in Tokyo starring Towaki Sea and Hoshizora Misaki (after having played in their home theater in the city of Takarazuka, Hyogo in June/July), drawing in record crowds in its first week. But what sets the Takarazuka Revue apart from other theater companies?

The Takarazuka Revue is exclusively made up of female actresses, and the record crowds they are drawing are male theater goers, given that over 90% of the Revue's normal audience is female. The theater is owned by a railroad company and was founded in 1913, and still promotes that they are training women to be good wives and mothers, and that their shows are NOT sapphic thank you very much. Actresses must retir

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