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Isobe Isobee Monogatari Stage Play's Additional Cast, Main Visual Revealed
posted on by Kyle Hallmark
The eighth issue of Isobe Isobee Monogatari ~Ukiyo wa Tsurai yo~ (Chronicle of Isobe -The Life Is Hard-) manga on Monday. The show's official website has also posted the visual and additional cast. The main visual imitates the volume cover for the first volume.
The play will star:
- Takuya Inoue as Isobee Isobe
- Yoshihiro Nakayama as Mother
- Shōri Kiyama as Jō Nakajima
- Keigō Murakawa as Shūsai Takasugi
- Takashi Yoshimoto as Hanao Hanaoka
- Shingo Iwasaki as Daihachi Shiga
- Daiki Miyoshi as Gennai Hiraga
- Yūho Matsui as Hanba Hattori
- Kento Takeshita as Miyamoto Musashi
- Raikō Sakamoto as Narrator (voice only)
- Other of Watanabe Entertainment's Gekidan Patch (Patch Stage Troupe)
Haikyu!! stage plays) is in charge of the music.
The play, whose full title is Ukiyo Gigen Kageki "Isobe Isobee Monogatari ~Ukiyo wa Tsurai yo~" Takaozan Jigoku Shūgyō-hen (Fleeting Life Nonsense Opera "Chronicle of Isobe -The Life Is Hard-" Mt. Takao Hell Studying Volume), will run at Osaka's ABC Hall for 10 performances from April 20-26. Tickets went on sale on December 4 and cost 6,500 yen ($53) in advance and 7,000 yen (US$57) at the door.
Nakama originally published the manga as a one-shot, then he launched the serialized version of the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in October 2013. Shueisha describes the manga as follows:
A loser samurai—Isobee, who lives in any way a dawdling, slacking life, takes action (sort of) in the city of Edo. Weekly Shonen Jump's gone mad with a new style Ukiyoe Gag Manga!!
Shueisha published the manga's eighth compiled volume (pictured at left) on October 3. The ninth compiled volume will ship on February 4.
The series inspired a four-episode series of online Flash anime shorts that premiered online in December.
