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Fruits Basket The Final Stage Play Reveals Promo Video, Visual
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The staff for Butai Fruits Basket the Final (Fruits Basket on Stage: The Final), the new stage play based on Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket manga, revealed a new visual featuring 16 cast members on Friday. The staff also revealed a special promotional video that features footage from the Fruits Basket 2nd Season stage play.
The staff also revealed that Gaku Matsuda will play both Akira Sohma and God.
The play will run from October 18 to October 27 at Hulic Hall Tokyo.
The play will feature returning cast members:
- Ayano-Christie Yoshida as Tohru Honda
- Naoya Kitagawa as Yuki Sohma
- Shōhei Hashimoto as Kyo Sohma
- Yūya Asato as Shigure Sohma
- Shōgo Tamura as Hatsuharu Sohma
- Ruito Koga as Momiji Sohma
- Chisato Minami as Arisa Uotani
- Yukari Nakamura as Saki Hanajima
- Marina Horiuchi as Machi Kuragi
- Yūna Sekine as Kagura Sohma
- Elena Kamata as Kisa Sohma
- Airi Yoshiharu as Hiro Sohma
- Daiki Miyoshi as Kureno Sohma
- Sho Ayanagi as Akito Sohma
The new play adds two new cast members:
- Yūto Hiroi as Kakeru Manabe
- Nene Shida as Isuzu Sohma
The Fruits Basket 2nd Season stage play ran in October 2023 in Tokyo
The manga inspired a 26-episode series in 2001, and then a three-season reboot anime series aired from 2019-2021. The reboot series also received a compilation film titled Fruits Basket -prelude- that opened in Japan in February 2022.
Takaya serialized the original Fruits Basket manga in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine from 1998-2006. Tokyopop released the manga in English from 2004 to 2009, and Yen Press re-released the manga in 12 updated omnibus volumes beginning in June 2016.
Source: Press release
