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Black Butler Manga Gets New Musical With 'New Cast'
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The May issue of Yana Toboso's Black Butler supernatural manga has been green-lit. The magazine teases that the new stage musical will have a "new cast," but did not specify if this means it will feature a whole new cast or just new characters.
The musical will debut at the Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo and will run there from November 18 to 27. The musical will then run at Fukuoka's Canal City Theatre on December 3-4, at Amagasaki's Amashin Archaic Hall in Hyogo prefecture on December 9-11, and then at Kariya's Kariya Cultural Center in Aichi prefecture on December 17-18. The magazine will reveal more information about the stage musical at a future date.
The new stage musical will be the fourth musical adaptation of Black Butler. The performance of the musicals in Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen last December.
Sono Shitsuji, Yūkō (That Butler, Friendship), the first Black Butler musical, ran in Tokyo in 2009. The second musical, Musical run in Tokyo in May 2013 and in Osaka in June 2013.
Toboso launched the manga Square Enix's Yen Press is releasing the manga in North America, and it released the 21st volume last November.
The original manga revolves around a noble English boy named Ciel Phantomhive and Sebastian Michaels, Ciel's butler who is more than he seems. The manga already premiered in July 2014.
A new anime debut in early 2017.
