The play will run on the Mitsukoshi Theater in Tokyo from December 12 to 18
The employees for the stage adaptation of Kumiko Saiki‘S Kageki Shojo!! manga revealed on X (beforehand Twitter) on Tuesday that the play can have a sequel in December. The present will run from December 12 to 18 on the Mitsukoshi Theater in Tokyo.
The forged of the sequel contains (high row, left to proper):
- Nene Shida will reprise her function as Sarasa Watanabe
- Haruka Ogoe (NGT48) as Ai Narata
- Himeka Araya as Kaoru Hoshino
- Karin Takahashi as Chika Sawada
- Nagisa Aoyama as Hijiri Nojima
- Ibuki Mita as Risa Nakayama
- Rikako Aida reprising her function from the anime as Momo Kozono
(second row, left to proper):
- Kazuya Yuki as Akiya Shirakawa
- Ryunosuke Kawai as Kozabur Shirakawa
- Zan Yoko as Yukie Atarashi
- Haruki Nakagawa as Ken Watanabe
- Midori Hatsukaze as Oki Yoshiko
© Kumiko Saiki/Hakusensha/“Kageki Shojo!!” Manufacturing Committee © Stage “Kageki Shojo!!”
The primary play was carried out in Tokyo from October 18 to 22, 2023.
Saiki launched the unique manga underneath the title Kageki Shoujo! (with one exclamation mark) in Shueisha‘S Spring Kai journal from 2012 to 2014 and ended its unique serialization after the journal ceased publication in October 2014.
Saiki then launched the continued sequel manga underneath the title Kageki Shoujo!! (with two exclamation marks) in Hakusensha‘S Melody journal in 2015. The manga was nominated for Greatest Shojo Manga in Kodansha‘s forty fourth Annual Manga Awards in 2020.
Shueisha printed the unique manga in two volumes, however re-released the collection in a single compiled quantity titled in March 2019 Kageki Shoujo!! Season Zero. Seven Seas Leisure printed the manga in a single omnibus quantity in English underneath the title Kageki Shoujo!! The Curtain Rises. Seven Seas can also be releasing Kageki Shojo!! in English.
Seven Seas describes the story:
Ever since she was a little bit lady, Sarasa has needed to play the function of Oscar as a part of the Kouka Performing Troupe, an all-female performing group just like the Takarazuka Revue. However earlier than she will be able to do this, she should attend the Kouka Faculty of Musical and Theatrical Arts for 2 years. As Sarasa sings, dances, and acts, she grows nearer to the opposite women in her yr, together with her roommate, the stoic former J-idol Ai. Whereas Sarasa is nice at making pals, her outspoken nature and large ambitions additionally earn her a number of enemies.
The manga impressed a tv anime adaptation that premiered in July 2021. Funimation streamed the collection and likewise streamed an English one dub. Funimation and subsequently launched the collection on dwelling video.
Sources: Kageki Shojo!! play X/Twitter account, Strip Natalie
