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* NamesTheSame: It's rare but not unheard of for two or more actresses to use the same stage name, or ending up with the same nickname. For example, Ryuu Masaki and Asaka Manato have both been called Maa-kun on occasion (though ''Masao'' is a more common nickname for the former).
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* FilmedStageProduction: Almost every Takarazuka show is filmed and released on DVD. Sometimes more than one performance is filmed during a show's run.
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* CashCowFranchise: ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' and ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}''. As of 2020, the former has been staged 20 times (as two musicals, one following Marie Antoinette and Fersen, the other following Oscar and André), and the latter 10 times. A look at the [=TakaWiki=] page of any actress active from 1974 onwards inevitably reveals that she has been in either ''[=BeruBara=]''[[note]]the FanNickname for the series, from its Japanese name ''Berusaiyu no Bara''[[/note]] or ''Elisabeth'', or sometimes both.
* ContractualPurity: Takarazuka enforces this on their actresses, who are not allowed to date or have relationships ''at all'' while part of the company, in addition to other rules that are stricter than those for ''Disney'' teen stars. The founder, Ichizō Kobayashi, has also said that he expects ''retired'' actresses to become good wives and mothers.
* DawsonCasting: Practically enforced with child characters, since the bottom age requirement to enter Takarazuka Music School's two-year training is 15.
* MissingEpisode: The company only began filming performances circa the 1970s and it wasn't until the 1990s that performances were regularly filmed for broadcast, so almost all pre-1970s shows are lost forever. Even today some shows aren't filmed because of copyright issues (2013's ''Forever Gershwin'' and 2019's ''On the Twentieth Century'' are two of the most notorious cases).
* NamesTheSame: It's rare but not unheard of for two or more actresses to use the same stage name, or ending up with the same nickname. For example, Ryuu Masaki and Asaka Manato have both been called Maa-kun on occasion (though ''Masao'' is a more common nickname for the former).
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: No, Takarazuka didn't adapt ''[[Theatre/CompanySondheim Company]]'' by Stephen Sondheim. Takarazuka's ''[[Theatre/CompanyTakarazukaRevue Company]]'' is based on a novel of the same name by Ibuki Yuki, which depicts a story of Japanese salarymen. The full title of the Takarazuka show is ''Company -Lessons, Passion, and Companionship-'' that is often shortened to Company.
* ThoseTwoActors: Enforced with the top star system, with the top ''otokoyaku'' and ''musumeyaku'' being the pair in question.
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