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Vampire Knight Manga Gets New Chapter in February
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The January issue of Vampire Knight manga in the March 2015 issue of LaLaDX on February 10. The "Vampire Knight Special Edition" chapter will be 40 pages long.
The issue is also revealing more cast of the Night Class in costume for the stage play adaptation of the manga. Ai Matsumoto will play Senri Shiki, Riichi Amato will play Takuma Ichijo, Chiaki Kyan will play Hanabusa Aido, and oni will play Akatsuki Kain.
Root, a female model of "boys-style" clothing, will Mai Watanabe as Shizuka Hio.
Advance tickets will go on sale on December 6 at 10:00 a.m. and tickets will cost 6,800 yen ($57). Niconico will host a six-hour live show on December 7 from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. in Japan featuring Root and other cast .
Kōji Tokuo is writing the script and Shinnosuke Motoyama (choreographer on musicals) is directing.
The manga revolves around Yūki, a high school girl whose unique school features a "day class" of normal kids and a "night class" of vampires. She works with her adopted father and heaster to prove that vampires can coexist with humans peacefully, but the school — and the vampires — hide many secrets.
Hino launched the manga in LaLa in 2004, and the manga followup.
