Gaku Sano, Katsuhiro Suzuki star in musical premiering in Tokyo in February

The November issue of Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine and the official website for the stage musical adaptation of the Seraph of the End manga revealed the musical's first visual and the main cast on Saturday.

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, 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 will premiere on October 10. 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

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