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Danganronpa Stage Play's Video Previews Cast in Costume

The official website of the Danganronpa The Stage 2016 ~Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei~ (Danganronpa The Stage: The Academy of Hope and the High School Student of Despair) stage play began streaming its second "spot" video on Friday. The video previews the play's main characters in costume.

The website also added two new character visuals for Makoto Naegi and Junko Enoshima on Friday. The play's cast includes:

Kanata Hongou as Makoto Naegi (returning from original play)

Rei Okamoto as Kyōko Kirigiri

Yūichi Nakamura as Byakuya Togami

Kanon Nanaki as Toko Fukawa

Masaya Matsukaze and Shōhei Osada (double cast) as Yasuhiro Hagakure

Shun Matsuo and Masaaki Amenomiya (double cast) as Hifumi Yamada

Reina Ikehata as Celestia Ludenberg

Yuya Miyashita as Leon Kuwata

Kaoru Gotō as Sayaka Maizono

Mitsu Murata as Mondo Owada

Taishi Sugie as Kiyotaka Ishimaru

Shizuo Yamasaki as Sakura Ogami

Haruka Ishida (AKB48, returning from original play), Mizuki (THE HOOPERS), and Chinami Moriyama (triple cast) as Chihiro Fujisaki

Sumire Satō (SKE48), Karen Iwata (AKB48), Matsuda Sakii (triple cast) as Yuta Asahina

Sayaka Kanda as Junko Enoshima (returning from original play)

TARAKO as Monokuma

The official website revealed earlier this month that voice actress TARAKO will voice Monokuma in the stage play, replacing Nobuyo Ōyama in the role. TARAKO and Oyama both provided messages regarding the change.

The official website for the Danganronpa 3 -The End of Kibōgamine Gakuen- (Danganronpa 3 -The End of Hope's Peak Academy-) television anime series also revealed that TARAKO will play Monokuma in the new series as well. Hongou will voice the new character Ryōta Mitarai in the anime.

The play is a rerun of the original 2014 stage play, which adapts the first game. It will run in Tokyo from June 16 to 26, in Nagoya on July 1 and 2, in Osaka from July 7 to 10, and in Kanagawa from July 14-16. Tatetsu Tashio is directing the play and writing the scripts, while the game series' original composer Masafumi Takada is composing the music for the play.

The first stage play debuted in October 2014, while the second stage play, Super Danganronpa 2 ~Sayonara Zetsubō Gakuen~ (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Academy), debuted last December.

Source: Dengeki Online