Hiroki Nanami


Hiroki Nanami is a Japanese actress, singer, voice actor, and former otokoyaku star of the Takarazuka Revue.

Troupe History

Unlike many Takarasiennes, Nanami Hiroki’s life pre-Takarazuka was not marked with an abundance of performing arts experience. Rather, with a brother two years older, from a young age she'd roleplay the heroes in stories and do other boys' things. She was class representative every year of elementary school, an honor student in whom the teachers placed great faith.
In her 6th year of elementary school, she happened to catch Takarazuka Moon Troupe's "Gone with the Wind" on television. She fell immediately in love with the star, Amami Yuuki, and began collecting all the shows she appeared in on video and watching them on repeat. A year later, Nanami went to see Amami Yuuki live for the first time in "Me And My Girl," and made the decision that she wanted to enter Takarazuka.
Though she had no previous dance experience, after entering middle school, Nanami enrolled in a ballet class in Tokyo that her father found specifically for those aspiring to enter the Takarazuka Music School. Once a week, she commuted 5 hours round trip from her home in Ibaraki to attend.
She entered a high-level high school and her parents gave her the ultimatum that she couldn't take the exam to enter the Takarazuka music school if her school grades slipped, so she worked hard on her studies and took her lessons simultaneously She passed the Takarazuka exam in her second year of high school on her second try.
Her stage name, "Nanami" takes one character from her real name, combined with "Nana" from the name of a character she liked from the anime "Tico of the Seven Seas." "Hiroki" comes from the vastness of the ocean.
After graduating from the Takarazuka music school, she made her onstage debut in 2003 in Moon troupe’s Takarazuka Floral Diaries/ Senor Don Juan. She was then assigned to Cosmos troupe, where she would stay until 2015. During her time in Cosmos troupe, she was given the opportunity to play many different background roles, and in 2009, she received her first and only shinjinkouen lead role, Justin in Raindrops Fall on Roses. In 2011, she was cast in a female role, Natacha Rambova in Valentino- playing the wife to then-Top Star Oozora Yuuhi. In 2013, Nanami had her first true theatrical lead in a Western-themed musical titled The Wild Meets The Wild. Following this, she was cast as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind.
During her time in Cosmos troupe, Nanami was also offered a voice acting role in an anime, an uncommon occurrence for a current Takarazuka actress, and in 2014, she voiced the character of Uesugi Kenshin in Satelight’s Nobunaga the Fool.
In 2015 Nanami was transferred from Cosmos troupe into Star troupe, where she would spend the rest of her time in Takarazuka. Through her time In Star troupe, Nanami progressed to playing larger roles, from the lead role of Takenaka Shigeharu in Strategist Takenaka Hanbei, to Shou Fu Kan in both the local productions and overseas tour of the stage adaptation of Thunderbolt Fantasy, a Taiwanese puppet drama. In 2019, Nanami decided to retire from the Takarazuka revue, stating that she had: “...decided I wanted to leave at the time when I could show my fans the best possible otokoyaku I could be."
Nanami Hiroki resigned from the Takarazuka revue on March 24th, 2019, after sixteen years as an actress with the company.

Post-Takarazuka career

Three months after her retirement from the Takarazuka Revue, Nanami announced her signing with entertainment and the King Records music label.
She made her post-Takarazuka artist debut with the release of her first mini album, , and an accompanying one-man live show with a four-concert run in Tokyo and Osaka. At the same time, she announced her post-Takarazuka seiyuu debut as Shizuno in Satelight’s Somali and the Forest Spirit.
On November 8, 2019, she was for Ibaraki Prefecture.
Her first theatrical performance post-Takarazuka will be the titular role of Red, in , an original musical which will run from January 24, 2020, to February 2, 2020 at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan.
In addition to her voiceover, theatrical, and musical work, Nanami currently hosts a weekly radio show on Tokyo FM, and a television program on the Takarazuka Revue’s television channel, Takarazuka Skystage. Her radio show, 七つの海への大航海,, is broadcast weekly in Japan. Her television program, '', is currently slated for an eight-episode run.

Notable Roles in Takarazuka

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