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* JumpScare: Kayama coming across Tamate's corpse is accompanied by a sudden scream of anguish from the Storyteller.
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* JumpScare: Kayama coming across Tamate's corpse is accompanied by a sudden scream of anguish from the Storyteller.Reciter.
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* JumpScare: Kayama coming across Tamate's corpse is accompanied by a sudden scream of anguish from the Storyteller.
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The play begins with the Reciter (played in the original production by {{Mako}}), commenting on Japan's peaceful and unchanging way of life. However, President Fillmore wishes to trade with the Japanese, and thus sends warships to the shores of Okinawa. The Americans arrive, give generous donations and leave. This paves the road to more and more trade with foreign powers, resulting in Japan becoming more and more western. Eventually, the Emperor Meiji decides to seize control and officially modernise Japan.
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The play begins with the Reciter (played in the original production by {{Mako}}), Creator/{{Mako}}), commenting on Japan's peaceful and unchanging way of life. However, President Fillmore wishes to trade with the Japanese, and thus sends warships to the shores of Okinawa. The Americans arrive, give generous donations and leave. This paves the road to more and more trade with foreign powers, resulting in Japan becoming more and more western. Eventually, the Emperor Meiji decides to seize control and officially modernise Japan.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Manjiro is a highly fictionalized version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakahama_Manjir%C5%8D Nakahama Manjirō]], a fisherman who became one of the first Japanese people to spend time in the United States and served as a translator during the opening of Japan.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Manjiro is a highly fictionalized version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakahama_Manjir%C5%8D org/wiki/Nakahama_Manjiro Nakahama Manjirō]], a fisherman who became one of the first Japanese people to spend time in the United States and served as a translator during the opening of Japan.
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The play begins with the reciter commenting on Japan's peaceful and unchanging way of life. However, President Fillmore wishes to trade with the Japanese, and thus sends warships to the shores of Okinawa. The Americans arrive, give generous donations and leave. This paves the road to more and more trade with foreign powers, resulting in Japan becoming more and more western. Eventually, the Emperor Meiji decides to seize control and officially modernise Japan.
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The play begins with the reciter Reciter (played in the original production by {{Mako}}), commenting on Japan's peaceful and unchanging way of life. However, President Fillmore wishes to trade with the Japanese, and thus sends warships to the shores of Okinawa. The Americans arrive, give generous donations and leave. This paves the road to more and more trade with foreign powers, resulting in Japan becoming more and more western. Eventually, the Emperor Meiji decides to seize control and officially modernise Japan.
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* EnsembleCast: The closest thing to a star part is the Reciter, but his role in the show is not large. Manjiro and Kayama are the closest thing to leads, but the script and score spend more time on Japan as a whole than their story. Really the show is about Japan, rather than any individuals.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Manjiro is a highly fictionalized version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakahama_Manjir%C5%8D Nakahama Manjirō]], a fisherman who became one of the first Japanese people to spend time in the United States and served as a translator during the opening of Japan.
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* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Deliberately inverted: in this show, it's the Westerners (especially the Americans) who speak in broken English meant to invoke this trope.
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* AffablyEvil: The Admirals in "Please Hello" all come bearing gifts under the guise of wanting to trade with Japan, except they also make increasingly grand demands and threaten the emperor with their warships (the Russian Admiral is more FauxAffablyEvil, playing into HuskyRusskie stereotypes). Since we're talking about actual history, the "evil" part is of course debatable, but they are at least shown to have ulterior motives and be somewhat duplicitous.
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* AffablyEvil: The Admirals in "Please Hello" all come bearing gifts under the guise of wanting to trade with Japan, except they also make increasingly grand demands and threaten the emperor with drop ominous hints about their warships (the Russian Admiral is more FauxAffablyEvil, playing into HuskyRusskie stereotypes). Since we're talking about actual history, the "evil" part is of course debatable, but they are at least shown to have ulterior motives and be somewhat duplicitous.
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* VillainSong: "Please Hello" functions as one for the Western powers as a whole, at least from the Emperor's perspective.
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* VillainSong: "Please Hello" functions as one for the Western powers as a whole, at least from the Emperor's Shogun's perspective.
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** The scene where Jonathan Goble (played by the Reciter in a cowboy hat and Texas accent) demonstrates the rickshaw evokes HonestJohnsDealership, with Gpble acting like a car salesman as he lists the rickshaw's "features."
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** The scene where Jonathan Goble (played by the Reciter in a cowboy hat and Texas accent) demonstrates the rickshaw evokes HonestJohnsDealership, with Gpble Goble acting like a car salesman as he lists the rickshaw's "features."
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** As mentioned under AnachronismStew, the use of the word détente brings to mind the U.S./Soviet détente, still in effect at the time of the show's debut.
** The scene where Jonathan Goble (played by the Reciter in a cowboy hat and Texas accent) demonstrates the rickshaw evokes HonestJohnsDealership, with Gpble acting like a car salesman as he lists the rickshaw's "features."
** As mentioned under AnachronismStew, the use of the word détente brings to mind the U.S./Soviet détente, still in effect at the time of the show's debut.
** The scene where Jonathan Goble (played by the Reciter in a cowboy hat and Texas accent) demonstrates the rickshaw evokes HonestJohnsDealership, with Gpble acting like a car salesman as he lists the rickshaw's "features."
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** TheLandOfWindmillsAndTulips: Invoked nearly by name in the Dutch Admiral's verse.
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** TheLandOfWindmillsAndTulips: LandOfTulipsAndWindmills: Invoked nearly by name in the Dutch Admiral's verse.
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** LandOfWindmillsAndTulips: Invoked nearly by name in the Dutch Admiral's verse.
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** LandOfWindmillsAndTulips: TheLandOfWindmillsAndTulips: Invoked nearly by name in the Dutch Admiral's verse.
