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Naoshi Arakawa's Your Lie in April Manga Gets Stage Play in August
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The May issue of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) manga has been green-lit. The play will have live musical performances.
The cast includes:
Shintarō Anzai as protagonist Kōsei Arima
Arisa Matsunaga as Kaori Miyazono
Misato Kawauchi as Tsubaki Sawabe, Kōsei's childhood friend
Masanari Wada as Ryōta Watari, Kōsei and Tsubaki's childhood friend who is popular with women
Haruka Yamashita as Emi Igawa, a girl who began playing piano because she looked up to Kōsei
Shōjirō Yokoi as Takeshi Aiza, a top-class pianist
It will run at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo from August 24 to September 3, and at the Umeda Arts Theater in Osaka from September 7 to 10. Naohiro Ise is directing the play, and and Kaori Miura is penning the script.
Arakawa's original manga follows Kōsei Arima, a former child prodigy who lost his ability to play the piano when his mother died. His daily life is monochrome, but it begins to gain color when he meets a female violinist by chance. Kaori Miyazono is an audacious go-getter who is overflowing with personality. Enchanted by the girl, Kōsei begins to rediscover his love for piano when Kaori invites him to be her accompanist for a competition.
The manga debuted in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine in 2011, and Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga in North America, and released the 11th and final volume in December.
A television anime series adaptation of Arakawa's manga premiered in 2014. dub, with the first Blu-ray Disc released in March 2016, and the second volume released last May 31.
The manga also got a live-action earned 245 million yen ($2.40 million) by selling 200,000 tickets to rank #3 in its opening weekend.
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