Fabulous 30 The Series

[Mellissa Sprock]

Setin Seoul's fashion industry, The Fabulous depicts the stories of young adults who navigate their work, personal lives and relationships while struggling in a dynamic and competitive environment.

On October 31, 2022, Netflix announced that the series, which was originally scheduled for release on November 4, was postponed due to the Seoul Halloween crowd crush tragedy.[20] In late November 2022, it was announced that the series will be released on December 23.[21]

Single tickets for productions in the 2024-2025 season are available on the Fabulous Fox website or at metrotix.com. Our fabulous 2025-2026 season will be announced in the spring of 2025. Sign up for our email list to be among the first to know.

The 2024-2025 Season features 8 fabulous Season Ticket shows plus 6 Broadway specials including our third run of HAMILTON! Season Ticket holders will have the option to purchase HAMILTON when purchasing a new Season Ticket package.

PRIORITY PURCHASE opportunity for Broadway Specials before they go on sale to the public (Season Tickets holders will have the opportunity to purchase Hamilton when renewing or purchasing a new Season Ticket package)

Tsunashi Takuto transfers to a high school on a small island in southern Japan in order to sing out the joys of youth and find his father. But the island holds a host of secrets: ancient traditions and inhereted super powers, a mysterious society, and marionette-like robots that could change the world if the four seals restricting them were broken. Embroiled in these conflicts, will Takuto find his father, find the strength to protect his new and important friends, and still find a way to live out a joyous school life?

Though I had seen a couple of preview images beforehand, my real introduction to Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto came from a friend after the first episode had aired. "Have you checked out Star Driver yet?" he said. "It's so fabulous!" He was, of course, not just using fabulous as a synonym for good, but rather as a way of describing the show's aesthetic. Bright, rainbow colors. Outrageous costumes featuring epaulets. Conditioned hand signals and long transformation sequences. Star Driver is a show that is defined by this aesthetic. It has catchphrases like, "Your galaxy, too, will surely sparkle!" But even so, to judge Star Driver by this aesthetic alone would be shortsighted.

Studio BONES has a history of creating original anime with fascinating settings and deep character development, and despite its seemingly shallow exterior, Star Driver continues this trend in full force. BONES also has a bad habit of abruptly ending its series before satisfyingly exploring and explicating those settings; and though Star Driver continues that trend as well, the tone and pacing it lives by make the suffering rather mild. Perhaps more interestingly, another thing that BONES tends to do is to make series that interact, reinterpret, and otherwise builds upon well-known anime by other studios. Consciously or not, that's exactly what they're doing here.

The most obvious and direct influence is Code Geass, which manifests in a number of ways. Visually, Star Driver takes a similar, bright color palette and advances it a step farther, making it positively radiate with every color of the rainbow. Code Geass caught the attention of both sexes, playing to fanboys with its of sexily attired (or under-attired) heroines while attracting a fan-girl audience with confident pretty boys of ambiguous sexuality. That, too, Star Driver takes to a new level, attiring much of its well-proportioned female cast in costumes that are just as likely to cross over into being a parody of sexy than to be actually attractive; meanwhile, it inverts the standard love triangle such that the main heroine is at the center and she has two too-cool ambiguously heterosexual boys to choose from. Some shows try to appeal across multiple genders by avoiding fanservice whatsoever; Star Driver goes the opposite direction, providing or at least implying a little something for just about everyone. That might be too much, but Star Driver somehow makes it work. While talking to two (completely straight) friends of mine, we came to the surprising realization that each of us might enjoy cosplaying Takuto. After all, he's so cool, he's got a distinctive and great-looking costume, and he's just gay enough to stimulate fangirls' imaginations without being so gay that it would be awkward for a straight male to dress up as him.

But Code Geass is not the only recent success from which Star Driver draws. The occasional influence from GAINAX's Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann is unmistakable in the mech design and, from time to time, the way action scenes get animated. But perhaps the most interesting way the series plays on shows before it is explained with Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. That series is praised with having taken the magical girl genre as a frame, and treated it like a mecha series. That's a story for a different post, but what's remarkable about Star Driver is that, to some extent, it acts like the counterpart to Nanoha: it takes what is ostensibly a mecha series and brings it closer to the magical girl genre. To start with, Star Driver's director, Igarashi Takuya, has a lot of experience in magical girl series dating back to Sailor Moon, and it shows. Each episode of Star Driver tends to closely follow genre-conventional structure: pick a character to feature, explore that character's relationship to other characters around them (both in school events and the conspiracy), and ultimately end in a short battle. The mech battles are really only a couple minutes long, with the transformation sequence leading into the battle often taking up a comparable amount of time. And unlike mech shows (or Nanoha) where tactics and advanced technology tend to be the biggest factor in battles, Star Driver's battles feel like they're powered by love and determination. On the other hand, that concept found its way into the mech genre long ago, most recently and notably demonstrated in the aforementioned Gurren-Lagann.

As such, Star Driver is a show that bends expectations and genre conventions while also sticking to them. It doesn't take itself seriously, but it provides enough depth to be taken seriously if you want to. It's visually stimulating (bordering on overstimulating) with a high budget and good production values all around. It has quality music, an all-star voice cast, and a plot that provides suspense, action, twists, and resolution in good measure. It's not perfect, but it's one of the better series in recent memory, with relatively broad appeal, and likely to be a cosplay standby for a while to come, too.

Marc Thompson does a fabulous job with all the books. Having a consistent narrator through each of them is a huge help to unifying the Fate of the Jedi series on audiobook. Honestly, he really is near the top pantheon narrators. His range of voices, pacing and nuance really bring alive the stories. At times, he does reuse a voice for different characters in different books but never within the same book. He is also able to retain the feel of the characters introduced in the movies whether is Han, Lando or Leia. Moreover, the consistent incorporation, in just the right measure and time, of music and sound effects really add (and never distracts) from the overall experience. This is a series I would really encourage listening to the audiobooks over simply reading the books, although both are great.

Fabulous House series - a 12 part series released in 2023/2024!

Please choose this item if you wish to purchase the Complete series. We will send one design per month as they arrive. The designs in this series will be $15.95 each plus shipping as they are released.

If you are interested in individual designs, see the Related Items below.

The first chart in this series is #1 Santa's House!

This series is similar to other past series' - it can be stitched as individual designs or stitched as one overall design including all 12 charts. We have included a number of different linen sizes to suit everyone's needs. If you are ordering the Yard piece to stitch each design individually, you will need to cut this piece to size for your 12 designs!

Individual design stitch counts will be 120 x 120 stitches! The complete 12 Fabulous House design will measure 370 W x 495 H.

Designer has suggested stitching on 40 count Prehistoric hand dyed linen from Fox & Rabbit. We are also suggesting Pearl Grey linen from Zweigart as an alternate more readily available linen with a similar look.

If you are stitching the complete series as one piece, Cottage Garden Samplings suggests 3 designs across with 4 rows of houses. Designs are stitched with 5 stitches in between next design.

Models were stitched with a combination of hand dyed cotton floss and DMC. We have also listed 36 count choice linens, but if you would like to stitch on another count, just contact us and we can assist with your supplies for the new choice!

For the hand dyed linen, if you prefer to stitch each design on an individual piece and have the wide eighth piece sent with each chart, please note there may be a variance in the dye lot of the linens. We cannot guarantee they will be the same for each order if these are sent with each newly released chart - to insure they are the same, we strongly suggest ordering the full yard piece to guarantee the same dye lot.

Please check the boxes above to add these items to your order.

For more information on this series, visit the Cottage Garden Samplings website here

This is one of my favorite natural history series. The vibrant, detailed illustrations really bring the flora and fauna of the Sunshine state to life - and the series includes oft-overlooked topics like spiders, butterflies, reptiles and amphibians.

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