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Seraph of the End Musical's 2nd Visual, Ad Unveiled
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The staff of the stage musical musical adaptation of the Seraph of the End manga revealed the musical's second visual on Wednesday. The visual features Gaku Sano as Yūichirō Hyakuya and Katsuhiro Suzuki as Mikaela Hyakuya.
In addition, the musical's official website began streaming a commercial for the musical.
Nelke Planning is producing the musical, which will run from February 4-11 at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo. Muck Akazawa is writing and directing, Shunsuke Wada is composing the music, and Shinnosuke Motoyama is handling the choreography.
The musical stars:
Gaku Sano as Yūichirō Hyakuya
Katsuhiro Suzuki as Mikaela Hyakuya
Kento Ono as Guren Ichinose
Karen Miyama as Mitsuba Sangū
Atomu Mizuishi as Shihō Kimizuki
Shinichi Hashimoto as Yoichi Saotome
Chihiro Kai as Shinoa Hiiragi
Saya Chinen as Asuramaru
Mariya Nagao as Krul Tepes
Seijirō Nakamura as Ferid Bathory
Other cast members include: Tatsuya Kyūtoku, Hironobu Nishioka, Ryōsuke Nanjō, Honoka Matsugaya, Kotomi Hirai, and Minami Watanabe.
Tickets go on sale on December 13 at 10:00 a.m., and all tickets cost 7,800 yen (about US$65).
The original Seraph of the End manga by novelist Takaya Kagami (The Legend of the Legendary Heroes, A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives), manga creator Daisuke Furuya, and manga artist Yamato Yamamoto takes place in a world where an unknown virus has killed the entire human population except for children. Those children were then enslaved by vampires. The manga centers on Yūichirō Hyakuya, a human who dreams of becoming strong enough to kill all vampires.
Viz Media publishes the manga in North America. Funimation streamed the first 12 episodes of the Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign television anime as it aired in Japan from April to June.
The second part of the television anime premiered on October 10. Funimation is streaming the series as it airs in Japan, and will offer a Broadcast dub for the show on November 11. In addition, an original event anime will run during this year's Jump Special Anime Festa tour in November.
Images © Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, Daisuke Furuya
© Seraph of the End The Musical Production Committee 2016
[Via Nijimen]
