Kano Maria
Picture Credit: yaomeis | GRAPH 2017 February / Ernest in Love Le Cinq
Name: Kano Maria
Kanji: 花乃 まりあ
Current Troupe: n/a
Role: Musumeyaku
Status: Retired Top Musumeyaku (2014 - 2017)
Nickname: Kano-chan
Height: 164cm
Birthday: October 12th
Blood Type: O
Hometown: Tama City, Tokyo
Favorite Food: cookies by "Michel Bach", nonon bread
Favorite Flower: Chinese peony
Favorite Colors: pink-beige
Hobbies: relaxing
Collections: bear items
Special Talent:
Origin of Stage Name: thought of it with her family
Favorite Role: Everything from Legend of the Galactic Heroes @ Takarazuka, Emma Twinning from Wild Meets the Wild, and Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind shinjinkouen.
Would Like to Try Playing:
Debut: 2010 (96th Class) The Scarlet Pimpernel
Troupe History:
2014 - 2017 Flower Troupe
2010 - 2014 Cosmos Troupe
2016-17: Snowflake Anthology / Golden Desert, Talharmine
2016: Romanesque Mask / Melodia (National Tour), Marquise de Merteuil
2016: Me and My Girl, Sally Smith
2016: Ernest in Love (Umeda / Chunichi), Gwendolyn Fairfax
2015: The New Tale of Genji / Melodia, Fujitsubo
2015: The Rose of Versailles -Fersen and Marie-Antoinette- / Takarazuka Fantasia (Umeda / 2nd Taiwan Tour), Marie Antoinette
2015: Embraced by the Seas of Calista / Takarazuka Fantasia, Alicia Grandie
2015: Ernest in Love (Tokyo International Forum), Gwendolyn Fairfax (top star debut)
2014: Elisabeth, Court Lady, Etoile
2014: The Rose of Versailles: Fersen and Marie Antoinette (Chunichi), Rosalie / Young princess
2014: Robert Capa / Citrus Breeze II (Chunichi), Emma
2013: Gone with the Wind, Young Woman
2013: The Wild Meets the Wild (Bow Hall), Emma Twinning (musumeyaku lead)
2013: The Count of Monte Cristo / Amour de 99!!
2013: Legend of the Galactic Heroes @ Takarazuka (Hakataza), Julian Mintz
2012: Legend of the Galactic Heroes @ Takarazuka
2012: Brilliant Days / Climax
2012: Robert Capa (Bow Hall/Nippon Seinenkan), Emma
2011: Classico Italiano / Nice Guy!!
2011: A Beautiful Life / Luna Rossa, Kabuki Woman, Benzaiten, Soldier in the Eastern Army / Luna Rockette
2010-11: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Spanish Woman, Woman in Town, Young Woman, Rockette
2010: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Grand Theater), Rockette
2015: The New Tale of Genji, Nakatsukasa
2015: Embraced by the Seas of Calista / Takarazuka Fantasia, Mrs. Bardeau
2014: Elisabeth, Elisabeth (musumeyaku lead)
2013: Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara (musumeyaku lead)
2013: The Count of Monte Cristo, Mercedes (HY: Misaki Rion) (musumeyaku lead)
2012: Legend of the Galactic Heroes @ Takarazuka, Hildegard von Mariendorf (HY: Misaki Rion) (musumeyaku lead)
2012: Brilliant Days, Paula Austin (HY: Sumireno Rei)
2011: Classico Italiano, Silvia Rossi (HY: Sumireno Rei)
2011: A Beautiful Life
2010-11: For Whom the Bell Tolls
2010: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Grand Theater)
2016: Takarazuka Special 2016 ~Music Succession to Next~
2015: 53rd Takarazuka Buyoukai
2014: Takarazuka Special 2014 -Thank you for 100 years-
2023: The movie “The Concierge Hokkyoku Department Store” (voice) Peacock's girlfriend, with Nanami Hiroki
2022: Musical “The Parlor”, double cast Chisato Maruyama and Akira Maruyama(?), with Miya Rurika and Tsurugi Miyuki
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- Featured in New Generation III.
- The first Takarazuka performance saw was Star Troupe's The Rose of Versailles in 2001.
- She is the second top musumeyaku to have originated in Cosmos Troupe, after Toono Asuka.
- Got married in June, 2021.