- Cash-Cow Franchise: The Rose of Versailles and 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 BeruBaranote or Elisabeth, or sometimes both.
- Contractual Purity: 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.
- Dawson Casting: Practically enforced with child characters, since the bottom age requirement to enter Takarazuka Music School's two-year training is 15.
- Filmed Stage Production: Almost every Takarazuka show is filmed and released on DVD. Sometimes more than one performance is filmed during a show's run.
- Missing Episode: 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).
- Similarly Named Works: No, Takarazuka didn't adapt Company by Stephen Sondheim. Takarazuka's 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.
- Those Two Actors: Enforced with the top star system, with the top otokoyaku and musumeyaku being the pair in question.
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