[ENG SUB] Ciboulette (Moon, 1982)
Oct. 25th, 2022 01:42 pm

Summary: A lively village girl named Ciboulette (Kuroki Hitomi) has 8 suitors but doesn't love any of them. She goes to the local market’s fortune teller (Natori Rei) to ask who it is she'll fall in love with, only to receive a ridiculously impossible set of circumstances to find her one true love. First, she must find him underneath a cabbage, second, she must win him from another woman who turns white in seconds, and third, she must receive a letter on top of a tambourine. After confiding with the comptroller of the market, Duparquet (Haruna Yuri), he decides to play matchmaker between Ciboulette and Antonin (Daichi Mao), a spoiled aristocrat who just got dumped by his girlfriend.
CW: the topic of suicide being used in a joking “light hearted” manner
Takarazuka's charming adaptation of the comedic French opera Ciboulette, directed by renowned French director Nicholas Bataille himself. The above illustration which was used in the TV broadcast was made by shoujo manga artist Miya Chie (宮 千恵). Special thanks to Daz, Fig, and Mel for helping and proofreading!
EDIT 11/8/2022: fixed a runaway line and some other minor corrections( Read more... )