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Latest Yowamushi Pedal Stage Play Cast Photographed in Costume
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The official website for the Yowamushi Pedal stage plays posted photos of the cast in costume. Yowamushi Pedal Hakone Gakuen-hen ~Yajū Kakusei~ (Yosamushi Pedal Hakone Academy Chapter: The Beast on the Road) will run in Osaka's Theater Brava! from October 23 to October 26 and Tokyo's Roppongi Blue Theater from October 30 to November 3.
The cast includes:
Hiroki Suzuki as Yasutomo Arakita (returning cast member)
Eiji Takigawa as Juichi Fukutomi (returning cast member)
Ryō Kitamura as Jinpachi Tōdō (returning cast member)
Shūto Miyazaki as Hayato Shinkai (returning cast member)
Takuya Kawaharada as Tōichirō Izumida (returning cast member)
Keisuke Ueda as Sangaku Manami (returning cast member)
Ryūtarō Akimoto as Yukinari Kuroda
Yūki Torigoe as Shōkichi Naruko (returning cast member)
Naoya Gomoto as Shingo Kinjō (returning cast member)
Kento Masui as Nobuyuki Mizuta (returning cast member)
Mitsu Murata as Akira Midōsuji (returning cast member)
The Puzzle Rider cast includes: Yōsuke Minami (captain), Yu Ichinose, Ryōsuke Maniwa, and Keita Seto.
Yowamushi Pedal Hakone Gakuen-hen ~Yajū Kakusei~is the fifth in a series of plays based off of Watanabe's manga; the first installment premiered in 2012. The play adapts the Yowamushi Pedal: Spare Bike spinoff manga and focuses on the Hakone Academy student and cyclist Arakita Yasutomo. Advance tickets went on sale on August 13.
Shatner Nishida is again scripting and directing the play. manzo (Genshiken, Is This a Zombie?) is also returning to compose music for the production.
[Via Nijimen]
