The play will happen from February to March in Tokyo and from March to April in Osaka.
An internet site was launched on Monday to advertise the musical stage adaptation of Haruko Kumota‘S Ending tales: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju manga, titled Musical Showa Genroku Rakugo ShinjuThe play can be carried out in Tokyo on the Tokyu Theatre Orb from February to March 2025, and in Osaka on the Pageant Corridor from March to April. The play can even be carried out in Fukuoka.
The primary characters of the play Ikusaburo Yamazaki (left within the picture above), who will reprise his function from the live-action collection adaptation of the manga as Sukeroku; Rio Asumi (heart within the picture above) as Miyokichi; and Yuta Furukawa (proper within the picture above) as Yakumo.
Koike Shūichirō writes the script and directs the play.
© Haruko Kumota, Kodansha
Kodansha Comics publishes the manga in English, and describes the story:
The multi-generational epic delves deeply into this wealthy type of Japanese theater. Little rascal Yotaro has by no means forgotten the rakugo story “The God of Loss of life,” which grasp Yurakutei Yakumo carried out for Yotaro throughout his time in jail. After his launch, he goes to Yakumo’s theater and begs to develop into his apprentice. Yakumo reluctantly accepts, however Yotaro quickly discovers the complexities of the rakugo world and struggles with a rising bond with Yakumo’s scholar, Konatsu. In the meantime, the 2 younger individuals carry again recollections of Yakumo’s personal inescapable previous.
Kumota began the manga in Kodansha‘S STORY journal in 2010 and ended the collection in June 2016. The tenth and ultimate quantity was shipped in September 2016. The collection obtained the award for “Greatest Basic Manga” on the thirty eighth Kodansha Manga Awards, was honored with the Excellence Award on the seventeenth Japan Media artwork Pageant Awards, was nominated for the seventeenth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and received the New Creator Prize for the twenty first Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. The manga was additionally listed within the prime 10 manga for feminine readers by Takarajimasha‘S Kono Manga go Sugoi! Journey information 2017.
The anime tv adaptation of the manga premiered in January 2016, and the second season premiered in January 2017. Crispy bread streamed each collection after they aired in Japan. The manga additionally impressed an earlier authentic two-episode video anime undertaking.
The manga additionally impressed a live-action collection that premiered in 2018.
Sources: Musical Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju web site of stage musical, Comedian Natalie
