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K: Missing Kings Stage Play Reveals 9 Cast Members in Costume
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the stage play adaptation of the K: Missing Kings anime film revealed visuals of nine cast members in costume on September 8 and on Sunday.
Yoshihiko Aramaki as Kuroh Yatogami
Kandai Ueda as Mikoto Suō
Karin Isobe as Anna Kushina
Juri as Izumo Kusanagi
Takahisa Maeyama as Tatara Totsuka
Kenya Nakao as Rikio Kamamoto
Kaoru Marimura as Seri Awashima
Yūya Kido as Saruhiko Fushimi
Yoshihide Sasaki as Yukari Mishakuji
The rest of the cast members include:
Kento Ono as Reisi Munakata
Keisuke Ueda as Misaki Yata
Konona Shiba as Neko
Natsuki Ōsaki as Yashiro Isana
Momoya Koyama as Kukuri Yukizome
Kenichi Suemitsu is directing the stage play and writing the script. The play will run in Kyoto at the Kyoto Gekijō from October 19-22, and then in Tokyo at The Galaxy Theatre from October 26-29.
The first stage play, titled Butai K, ran in Tokyo from August through October 2014. The second play, titled K Dai-ni-Shō: Arousal of King, ran in Tokyo and Osaka in August 2015. The third play, K―Lost Small World―, ran in Tokyo in July 2016.
The original 13-episode K television anime series aired in Japan starting in October 2012. The anime inspired the K: Missing Kings sequel film in July 2014, and then the 13-episode K: Return of Kings television anime series premiered in October 2015.
Viz Media licensed the original K anime series, K: Missing Kings, and K: Return of Kings. Hulu and Neon Alley streamed the first K anime series and the K: Return of Kings sequel series.
The anime is getting an upcoming theatrical anime project titled K: Seven Stories that will open in theaters "sequentially" starting in summer 2018.
The franchise has also inspired novels, CDs, and manga.
[Via Nijimen]