Naruto: Song of the Akatsuki Musical Unveils Akatsuki Members

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Nogizaka46 Idols' Sailor Moon Musical Gets Run With New Cast

The official website for the Sailor Moon franchise revealed on Sunday that the Nogizaka46 idol group's stage musical will get a new run in Tokyo in October with a new cast.

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The new main cast includes:

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Junna Itō (Nogizaka46) as Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter

Hazuki Mukai (Nogizaka46) as Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury

Shiori Kubo (Nogizaka46) as Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon

Seira Hayakawa (Nogizaka46) as Rei Hino/Sailor Mars

Mayu Tamura (Nogizaka46) as Minako Aino/Sailor Venus

The supporting cast members are reprising their roles from the previous musical, including Mikako Ishii as Tuxedo Mask/Mamoru Chiba.

The previous stage musical from Nogizaka46 ran at The Tennōzu Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo in June 2018, and at the TBS Akasaka ACT Theater in Tokyo in September 2018.

The recent Sailor Moon series of musicals began with Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon -La Reconquista- in 2013 to celebrate the manga's 20th anniversary. The fourth of the stage musicals, Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon -Le Mouvement Final-, ran in Japan from September to October 2017. The musical's final performance, recorded on October 1, 2017 in Osaka, screened in theaters in the United States in March 2018, and also screened in theaters in Canada in early April 2018.

The Sailor Moon The Super Live stage performance show had a preview run at AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo last August and September, before having performances at the Palais des congrès de Paris last November as part of the Japonismes 2018 event in Paris, France. The show had a United States run in March.

The new stage musical in the franchise originally planned to debut in summer 2019 has been delayed to summer 2020. The musical is titled Kaguya-hime no Koibito, the same title as a short manga that was adapted into the Sailor Moon S: The Movie anime film.

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Naruto: Song of the Akatsuki Musical Unveils Akatsuki Members

The official website for the new run of the Live Spectacle Naruto: Akatsuki no Shirabe (Live Spectacle Naruto: Song of the Akatsuki) stage musical revealed a new key visual and four new cast visuals for the Akatsuki members on Monday.

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The newly revealed visuals for the cast members are as follows:

Teruma as Pain

Takeshi Hayashino as Kisame Hoshigaki

Ryō Tsuji as Deidara

Hironori Katayama as Tobi

The play will have a total of 17 cast members and six ensemble members. Akiko Kodama again is directing the musical and writing the script, and Shunsuke Wada is again composing the music.

The play will run in Osaka from October 25 through November 4, then in Tokyo from November 8-10 and November 15-December 1.

Live Spectacle Naruto: Akatsuki no Shirabe first ran in Tokyo in May-June 2017, in Osaka in June 2017, then again in Tokyo in July-August 2017. The musical had a performance in Singapore in June 2017 with the English title Naruto: Song of the Akatsuki.

The first musical held performances from March to May 2015 in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, and Miyagi. The musical then held international performances in Macau, Malaysia, and Singapore. The second run of the musical ran in Osaka and Tokyo from July-August 2016.

The first Live Spectacle Naruto musical covered the manga's story from the first to 27th volume. The production included drama, songs, dance, and acrobatics.

Masashi Kishimoto's original manga has also inspired a kabuki play that ran from August 4-27 last year at the Shinbashi Enbujō theater in Tokyo, and is also running at the the historical Minamiza Theatre in Kyoto from June 2-28.

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High-rise Invasion Sequel Manga Launches on July 28

The 21st and final compiled book volume of Tsuina Miura and Takahiro Ōba's High-rise Invasion (Tenkū Shinpan) manga revealed the title and July 28 launch date for the manga's sequel on Tuesday. The new manga is titled Tenkū Shinpan arrive, and will be serialized in the Magapoke app. The sequel will feature new areas and characters.

Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the original manga in omnibus volumes, and it describes the story:

On the roof of a high-rise building, a young girl named Yuri witnesses a masked figure split a man's head open with an axe! It's not exactly an everyday occurrence for a high schooler, but things only get weirder from there. Yuri soon finds herself in a strange world of skyscrapers with only two options for escape—fight past the mysterious masked figures or leap to her death!

Miura and Ōba launched the manga on DeNA's Manga Box app in December 2013, and ended it on March 28. Seven Seas Entertainment published the manga's fourth omnibus volume on May 7. Latest chapters of the manga are also available in English digitally on Manga Box's English website.

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