Aaa there’s so many!! Westfes is definitely my fav out of them all, I cried SO many times from the shymurr scene in the night casino to when shyjames looked like he was about to cry learning the shard voluntarily returned to Murr because shylocks bar was more important to him than his research, moritika’s “you are already a splendid western wizard” when miss witch said she wanted to be a wonderful wizard, and the way moritika and taitomurr’s expressions light up when Antonio remembers rustica and acknowledges Murr for being the Real Murr hart. I cried so often in that first 1.5h or so I was like aw yea this is what mhst is all about LMAO. The actors are so so good at conveying things without words through facial expression and body language, it’s definitely something I reconsidered the importance of in daily conversation with others.

I personally enjoyed the backstage for fes2 more than fes1 despite stage wise preferring the opposite. Haven’t watched fes1 backstage in months though so my memory is foggy of it but it felt like fes2 had more shots of the rehearsals and there’s a noticeable Amt of movement that I find gets lost in the stage because of all the accessories they’re wearing 😭😭 I think they probably knew much earlier that yumeto might not be returning (had a major relapse in health right after fes2 ended) which is why they were able to include quite a lot of shots yumeto was in compared to fes1 where taito didn’t particularly get more scenes </3

Tarou and Ayukawa getting in a heated argument over which type of Calpis drink was better and trying to drag kamikei into it was a fun silly episode all three of them talked about on their respective FCs😭 Back in July when kamikei was a guest on one of Ayukawa’s variety programs they talked about it again and he said they were scaring yumetsuka back then😭😭The North group don’t usually hang out backstage so I thought it was nice they were Getting Along😂

Iwkny personally talking about how he spent a lot of time backstage with judai and kamikei (and you can hear them talking in 2 of his FC videos taken during the run lol) but the backstage documentary having a lot of shots of him with haruchan and wagoshin was such a surprise!! I adored when he’d imitate wagoshin’s way of talking and when he’d sit up properly when he noticed he was being recorded😭😭😭

Idk if it’s just me but I felt like fes2 had more backstage scenes with the side characters than fes1 did. Tbf rento is a baby and daigo and shogo especially were playing with him a lot and raitas best friend haruchan is in here but I wish we saw more of miss witch and okasan😭😭😭

All in all I think the personal relationships the actors have with each other bring so much more depth to their portrayal of their characters bc they genuinely care about each other a lot. So much love goes into the work and it’s felt deeply from the audience