Cast revealed for Makoto Shimada, Yūsuke Takinoue

This year's 44th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump revealed two more cast members in costume on Monday for the Haikyu! stage play adaptation. The previously revealed cast includes Shige Uchida as Ittetsu Takeda (pictured at left in image below) and Tsuyoshi Hayashi as Keishin Ukai (pictured at right).

The issue also revealed that Kento Yamaguchi will play Makoto Shimada, and Shinnosuke Sakaguchi will play Yūsuke Takinoue.

The previously revealed cast for Aobajōsai High School includes:

Kōsuke Asuma as Tōru Oikawa

Yūya Hirata as Hajime Iwaizumi

Kōta Sakamoto as Yūtarō Kindaichi

Shōtarō Arisawa as Akira Kunimi

Masanari Wada as Shigeru Yahaba

Kenshin Saitō as Shinji Watari

Sonde Kanai as Takahiro Hanamaki

Ryō Hatakeyama as Issei Matsukawa

The cast for the Karasuno volleyball team includes:

Kenta Suga as Shōyō Hinata

Tatsunari Kimura as Tobio Kageyama

Ryōtarō Kosaka as Kei Tsukishima

Kairi Miura as Tadashi Yamaguchi

Kōhei Shiota as Ryūnosuke Tanaka

Shōhei Hashimoto as Yū Nishonoya

Kazuma Kawahara as Chikara Ennoshita

Keita Tanaka as Daichi Sawamura

Hiroki Ino as Kōshi Sugawara

Justin Tomimori as Asahi Azumane

The "manga x play x video hybrid performance hyper projection play" will run at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo in mid-November. It will then travel to Osaka's Theater Brava! in late November, and finally to the Tagajō Shimin Kaikan's Great Hall at Miyagi's Tagajo City Cultural Center in early December. "Worry Kinoshita" is directing the stage play, and Norihito Nakayashiki is writing the script.

Production I.G's anime adaptation of Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga premiered in April 2014. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series for North American digital and home video release, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired.

The anime franchise received two compilation films on July 3 and September 18, and a second season of the anime will premiere on October 3.

The story follows Shōyō Hinata (voiced by Ayumu Murase in the anime), who began playing volleyball after seeing the "Small Giant" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio Kageyama (Kaito Ishikawa). So, Hinata joins Karasuno High School's volleyball team, vowing revenge against Kageyama.

However, Kageyama is also on Karasuno's team. The former rivals form a legendary combo with Hinata's mobility and Kageyama's precision ball-handling. Together, they take on the local tournaments and vow to meet Kurasuno's fated rival school in the nationals.

Furudate's manga also received an anime special for the Jump Special Anime Festa event last November. This special received a DVD release with the 15th volume of the manga on March 4. The manga has also spawned a series of novels, and a Nintendo 3DS game adaptation shipped in Japan last September.