Beastars Stage Play Reveals Visuals, Cast

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Crying Freeman's Ikegami, Fist of the North Star's Buronson End 'Begin' Manga on January 10

The second 2020 issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine revealed on Friday that Ryoichi Ikegami (Crying Freeman) and Buronson's (Fist of the North Star) manga series BEGIN will end in the magazine's next issue on January 10.

Ikegami and Buronson launched the manga in October 2016. Ikegami is illustrating the manga, and Buronson is writing the story under the name Sho Fumimura. Shogakukan published the eighth compiled book volume on November 29.

Ikegami and Buronson launched the Rokumonsen Rock manga in Big Comic Superior in 2013 after ending their Soul Lord 2 manga. Shogakukan published Rokumonsen Rock's fourth and final compiled book volume in August 2015.

Ikegami ended his Tenshi wa Maiorita series in January 2015 and launched the Adam to Eve (Adam and Eve) manga in October 2015, and ended it in 2016. Shogakukan published two volumes for the manga.

Buronson began the story for the Fist of the North Star action manga in 1983. The original manga has been adapted into numerous television anime, original video anime, and films.

Viz Media, Dark Horse Comics, ComicsOne, and Marvel Comics published several of Ikegami's previous works in North America, including Crying Freeman, Mai the Psychic Girl, Samurai Crusader, Sanctuary, Strain, Wounded Man - The White Haired Demon, and Ikegami's re-imagining of Marvel's Spider-Man. Gutsoon! Entertainment, Viz, and Dark Horse also published some of Buronson's manga, including part of Fist of the North Star, Fist of the Blue Sky, Japan, and King of Wolves.

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Beastars Stage Play Reveals Visuals, Cast

The official website for the stage play adaptation of Paru Itagaki's BEASTARS manga revealed the main cast and visuals for the play on Thursday.

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The play stars: (from left to right in above visual)

Shōta Kawakami as Legosi

Ryōhei Takenaka as Rui

Sakina Kuwae as Haru

The stage play will run in Tokyo from April 30-May 4 and in Osaka from May 8-10. Naohiro Ise is directing and scripting the play.

Viz Media is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, it's personal relationships that maintain the fragile peace. Who among them is a Beastar—an academic and social role model destined to become a leader in a society naturally rife with mistrust?

Last night at Cherryton Academy, an herbivore student was killed and eaten. Among the members of the drama club, the herbivores' suspicions naturally turn to their carnivore classmates… The prime suspect? Legosi, a large wolf. But he wouldn't hurt a fly—or would he? And will dwarf rabbit Haru bring out the beast in him? Or are his feelings for her…something else?

Itagaki launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in September 2016, and Akita Shoten published the manga's 16th compiled book volume on December 6. Viz Media published the manga's third volume on November 19.

The manga also inspired a television anime that debuted on Netflix in Japan on October 8, and then premiered on Fuji TV's [+Ultra] programming block and on TV Nishinippon on October 9. The anime will debut in Netflix outside of Japan in early 2020. The anime will get a second season.

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ARP Backstage Pass TV Anime's New Promo Video Streamed

The official website for ARP Backstage Pass, the television anime of the ARP (nominally an abbreviation for Artists Republic Production) dance vocal group, began streaming a new promotional video for the anime on Friday.

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The show will premiere on Tokyo MX1 on January 13 at 11:00 p.m., before airing later that evening on BS11.

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The show's characters include:

Shinji

Daiya

Rage

León

Daisuke Namikawa as Eiji Kanō, Shinji's father

Takuya Eguchi as the chairman's secretary

The voice actors for the four main characters are credited under the same names as the characters themselves. Additionally, Kazuhiko Inoue will play the chairman, and Wataru Komada will play Haruomi Matsumoto.

Tetsuya Endo (Hikaru no Go, Saiyuki Reload) is directing the anime at Dynamo Pictures. ARP are performing the opening theme song "Burn it up" and the ending theme song "Celebrate Good Time."

ARP's executive producer Akari Uchida once produced Konami's LovePlus and Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side game franchises before leaving Konami in 2015.

The ARP group holds live performances — featuring singing, dancing, and interactive talking with the audience — in real-time using the latest augmented-reality technology. The ikemen (handsome) group members include their de facto leader Shinji, the talented dancer León, and the members of the Rebel Cross duo (designer Daiya and composer/writer Rage). ARP mainly hold concerts in the winter and summer under a talent contract with Avex.

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