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GANTZ:L Stage Play Reveals 4 More Character Visuals, Video
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for GANTZ:L Ace & Action Stage, the stage play adaptation of Gantz manga, revealed visuals on Wednesday featuring four more of the show's cast in costume. The website also began streaming a promotional video for the play that shows that cast posing for the character visuals. (Note: name romanizations for original characters aren't confirmed)
Ray Fujita as Makoto Yano (original character)
Fuminori Murase (30-DELUX) as Minoru Sakamoto (original character)
Tatsuya Kageyama as Osamu Koike (original character)
Kaiki Ōhara as Kōichi Takahashi (original character)
The site previously revealed visuals of five cast in costumes:
Hiroki Hyakuna as Kei Kurono
Kensuke Takahashi as Masaru Katō
SUPER☆GiRLS) as Kei Kishimoto
Yuki Kubota as Shion Izumi
The play will run for 12 performances from January 26 through February 4 at The Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo. Katsuhide Suzuki is directing and writing the script for the play. Jūji Shimizu (30-DELUX) is in charge of the action sequences.
Oku launched the original Gantz manga in ended the manga in 2013. Shueisha published the 37th and final volume in Japan in August 2013. The original manga followed a young Tokyo man who is reanimated after a deadly subway accident. Kei and other resurrected people go on violent, seemingly endless missions at the behest of an unseen host.
The manga inspired a television anime series animated by GANTZ:O that premiered in Japan in October 2016.
The manga also published the original manga in North America.
Source: Animate Times
