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The story
On September 14 at 8:00 PM, the Nihon Eiga Senmon Channel aired the musical ‘Stacy’s: Reslaughtered Girl Opera,’ starring Morning Musume. Originally staged in 2012 and directed by Kenichi Suematsu, the show is set in a near future overrun by the ‘Stacy phenomenon,’ in which girls who suddenly die come back as zombies. To coincide with the broadcast, a live-reaction thread sprang up on 5ch’s Hello!Project board. While some posters hailed it as ‘the greatest Hello!Project stage production ever,’ the thread mostly buzzed with detailed back-and-forth about which members had speaking lines and the circumstances behind cast changes at the time.
What people said
Starring: Morning Musume. Director: Kenichi Suematsu. A musical set in a near future overrun by the 'Stacy phenomenon,' in which girls who suddenly die come back as zombies. (2012, 120 min)
9/14 (Mon) 20:00–22:10, Nihon Eiga Senmon Channel
Ma-chan is soooo cute (Nagasaki dialect for 'kawaii')
Turns out the only decent role Iikubo ever really got was 'the Attendant' (『ご学友』, a formal companion role) in this
https://www.nihon-eiga.com/timetable/daily/20260925.html
She doesn't have any lines though
You'll get it once you watch the whole thing. I felt the same way around this point in the story on my first watch too
Why'd they swap her out?
My bad, mixed it up. It's not this one — Reina was the stand-in for Mitsui in the previous year's stage production
Background and Talking Points
‘Stacy’s: Reslaughtered Girl Opera’ is a stage production written and directed by Kenichi Suematsu, originally staged in 2012 and starring members of Morning Musume. Reactions to this broadcast were split — some praised how closely the performers’ real ages matched their roles, while others felt it didn’t quite land — showing there’s a real range in how people receive the work. The thread was also full of behind-the-scenes tidbits that have never been officially compiled, like who did and didn’t have lines and the circumstances behind cast changes; it’s worth noting these are based on posters’ memories rather than officially confirmed facts. More than a decade after the stage run, some of the members who appeared have since gone on to lead roles, and several posts carried that particular sense of hindsight that comes from looking back with that knowledge.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello!Project board) thread ‘■ Morning Musume ■ Stacy’s: Reslaughtered Girl Opera ■ 20:00-22:10 Nihon Eiga Senmon Channel ■‘.
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