Cho-Kabuki declares new model of Hanakurabe Zenbonzakura.
Because the world’s first, and most well-known, digital idol, there’s a futuristic, high-tech side to quite a lot of Hatsune Miku’s endeavors. The Vocaloid has proven she’s adept at collaborating with creators of conventional artwork types too, nevertheless, as we’ve seen in her hina ningyo doll and ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
So for her subsequent mission, Miku is taking to the stage not for an idol dance routine, however to carry out a kabuki play.
Hanakurabe Zenbonzakura is a kabuki efficiency impressed by each the traditional kabuki story Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura and Hatsune Miku’s iconic track “Senbonzakura” (senbonzakura which means “1,000 cherry blossom bushes”). Whereas kabuki performances are sometimes single-star productions, for Hanakurabe Zenbonzakura Miku will share the stage with achieved kabuki actor Shido Nakamura.
Miku and Nakamura have been periodically teaming up for limited-time Cho-Kabuki (as their collaborations are referred to as) productions since 2016, most lately in Tokyo in 2023 and Kyoto in 2019. They’ve introduced that they’ll be reuniting on the upcoming Expo 2025 world’s honest in Osaka for an up to date model of the play, to be titled Hanakurabe Zenbonzakura Expo 2025 Model.
▼ Somewhat than being utterly pre-programmed, the know-how concerned permits for real-time reactions from Miku to her co-stars ad-libbing, in keeping with this report on final 12 months’s Tokyo efficiency.
Hanakurabe Zenbonzakura Expo 2025 Model is scheduled to be carried out on Could 24 and 25, with particulars on ticket/seat reservations but to be introduced.
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