Pony Canyon began streaming a promotional video on October 30 for the home video release for the filmed performance of the stage play adaptation of Yuji Terajima's Ace of Diamond manga. The video previews some scenes from the filmed performance, reveals the DVD's release date of November 18, and also previews the stage play's theme song "Grateful Story" by [email protected] featuring Masayoshi Ōishi.

(Note: The below YouTube video is region-locked to Japan.)







The DVD will include a 28-page original booklet, a bromide set, a "making of" video, a "batting center" video, the curtain call collection video, and a round-table discussion video. The DVD will cost 8,800 yen (about US$72).

The play ran from August 1 to August 9 at the Zepp Blue Theater in Roppongi. The play's main cast includes:

Ren Ozawa as Eijun Sawamura (seen right)

Tomoki Hirose as Satoru Furuya

Takuma Wada as Kazuya Miyuki

Taiga Fukizawa as Haruichi Kominato

Subaru Hayama as Yōichi Kuramochi

Taizō Shiina as Ryōsuke Kominato

Ryōsuke Takahashi as Jun Isashiki

Yūsuke Ueda as Masashi Yūki

Hiroyoshi Mizunuma as Tōru Masuko

NAO-G as Kōichirō Tanba

Airu Shiozaki as Chris Yū Takigawa

Daichi Nakashima as Keisuke Miyauchi

Shōhei as Ichirō Sakai

Yūki Aomine as Norifumi Kawakami

Ryōichi Wada as Kenjirō Shirasu

Takurō Sawada as Kenta Maezono

Yasuhisa Katō as Tesshin Kataoka

Saki Endō as Rei Takashima

Keisuke Fujita as Kazuyoshi Ōta

Ami201 as Kiyokuni Azuma

Hirotsugu Kurosu as J. Animal M.

Hisato Izaki as Naoyuki Zaizen

Office ENDLESS produced the play, while voice actor and scriptwriter Shintarō Asanuma (Ace of Diamond's Yōichi Kuramochi, Majestic Prince's Toshikazu Asagi) directed the play and wrote the scripts.

Additionally, this year's 49th issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine revealed on Wednesday that the manga has over 25 million copies of its compiled book volumes in print. The issue also revealed that Kodansha will publish the first compiled book volume of Terajima's sequel manga, Daiya no A act2 , on November 17.

Update: Region-free video added. Thanks, Dennis R.