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Ghost in the Shell Arise Stage Play's Motoko Previewed in Costume
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for the play revealed the first key visual on Monday featuring Kaede Aono as Motoko Kusanagai in costume.
The website also features more images of Aono in costume (see gallery below), and it is also streaming a commercial for the play that features the main cast outside of costume.
The show's main cast is as follows:
Kaede Aono as Motoko Kusanagi
Ikkyū Juku as Daisuke Aramaki
Ren Yagami as Batou
Kentarō Kanesaki as Togusa
Tatsuya Isaka as Ishikawa
Katsuhiko Ibuka as Paz
Ryūnosuke Matsumura as Saito
Yutaka Matsuzaki as Borma
Shingo Takasaki as Ibachi
Asana Mamoru as Kurtz
Asami Yoshikawa as Saeed
Misaki Momose as Tsuda Ema
Keisuke Minami as Jose
Juku also provided the voice for the character of Aramaki in Ghost in the Shell Arise and the Kōkaku Kidōtai Shin Gekijō-ban film.
Tow Ubukata (Ghost in the Shell Arise series composition, scripts) is serving as editorial supervisor.
The play will run at the Tokyo Geijutsu Gekijō Playhouse from November 5-15. Tickets go on sale on the e-plus website on August 25.
The play will also "for the first time in Japan" use 3D videos as part of the main performance, and will feature the cast acting alongside the videos to enhance the performance. Attendees will wear 3D glasses. (This year's Universal Studios Japan is also using 3D videos alongside the actors' performances.)
The Ghost in the Shell Arise released the first episode in a special imported edition in 2013, and then released all four episodes in North America last year.
A television broadcast of the four OVAs with two extra episodes premiered in Japan on April 5 under the title streamed Ghost in the Shell: Arise Alternative Architecture as it aired.
The Kōkaku Kidōtai Shin Gekijō-ban (performed the film's theme song "Mada Ugoku" (It Still Moves).
Images © Ghost in the Shell ARISE Production Committee
Source: Comic Natalie
