The official Twitter account of the Persona 4 Arena Stage Project announced on Sunday that Arc System Works and Atlus' Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold) 2D fighting game will receive a stage play adaptation.

The stage play will star Mitsuaki Madono (pictured at right) as Tohru Adachi. Madono is reprising the role from the various Persona 4 games and anime adaptations.

The play will run from July 6 through July 10 at Tokyo's Theater G-Rosso. Shutaro Oku, who directed the stage play adaptations of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, and Persona 4 Arena (Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena), will return to direct the latest play in the series. Mio Inoue (Actually, I Am..., Is the Order a Rabbit?) will write the script, and Shin Megami Tensei franchise composers Shoji Meguro and Atsushi Kitajō will compose the music.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax arrived in Japan as an arcade game in winter 2013 under the title Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultrasuplex Hold. Atlus then shipped the game for the PlayStation 3 in Japan in August 2014. Atlus USA shipped the game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in North America in September 2014, and in Europe in November 2014.

The story takes place only a few days after the events of Persona 4 Arena, when the town of Inaba is clouded in a shroud of red fog in which time is warped and people disappear. Inaba has almost become like the world inside the television. To add to it all, the members of the Persona 4 team find Mitsuru and Akihiko being crucified on the Midnight Channel. In front of the Inaba students appear Yukari and Junpei, members of the Shadow Worker unit who have come to the rural town in order to save their upperclassmen.

Source: MoCa News