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Given Boys-Love Manga Gets Stage Play in August
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stellar Ball in Tokyo from September 4 to 6.
The cast includes:
- Sayato Arima as Mafuyu Sato
- Ryō Shibuki as Ritsuka Uenoyama
- Fūta Sunaga as Haruki Nakayama
- Shōta Kawakami as Akihiko Kaji
- Shōgo Yamazaki as Ugetsu Murata
The cast will sing and perform the play's concert scenes live.
Yuniko Ayana is handling the script.
The manga's television anime adaptation premiered on streamed the series as it aired, and it describes the story:
Somehow, the guitar that he used to love to play and the basketball games that he found so fun just lost their appeal...That was until Ritsuka Uenoyama randomly met Mafuyu Sato. Ritsuka had started losing his ion for music in his everyday life, but then he hears Mafuyu sing for the first time. The song resonates with his heart and the distance between them starts to change.
The franchise's label is producing the Given film. The television anime focuses on high school students Ritsuka and Mafuyu, but the film focuses on the adult band Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu.
The manga runs in licensed the series, and the first volume shipped in English on February 11.
Sources: Given stage play's website, Comic Natalie
