avanpiper wrote:Panic Nancy wrote:Jessi wrote:The ones who stood the most were Meimei, Ayumi, and Haruka.
I think I've seen a couple other people saying the same thing. I haven't been particularly impressed with anybody's acting skills in the previous plays besides Meimi, so I'm really interested in seeing how the other two did.
Trust me, you'll be in awe of Duu (especially) and Ayumin ( because I'm biased towards her). But Duu...she was so good. SO GOOD. I wasn't that fond of her in Gogakuyu or Stacy's but she was just amazing here.
I couldn't take it anymore, so I forced (lol) my sister who speaks Japanese to watch it with me. You were right about Haruka and Ayumi. Ayumi made me laugh more than once (which is pretty hard to do), and I really appreciated the variety Haruka had in her tone of voice and facial expressions. Dawa was also great. I'm surprised more people aren't mentioning Dawa's acting. She's very consistent. Anyway, those three weren't Meimi-perfect or like real actors or anything like that (sometimes their faces were not very convincing; that happened less with Dawa, I think), but I enjoyed their performances the most after Meimi. There were times when they were completely "lost" in their characters,
really feeling it like she was all the time, and when that happened, it gave me goosebumps. I'm such a dork, lol.
Riho was good, too. My sister wasn't quite as impressed with her as I was (part of it might have been because I was surprised she did so well compared to how she was before), but we both agreed that she was solid most of the time. Kana wasn't bad, either. I really want to watch it again with subs. (Take all the time you need, Estrea. Thank you very much for all your hard work.
) On a personal note, I almost cried after watching Haruka collapsing backstage in the extras. I KNOW THOSE FEELS. Of all the "usual stuff" (dance lessons, learning to play various instruments, etc) my parents had me doing when I was a kid, the only thing I miss is acting on stage. ;_;