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Miyuki Abe's Hakkenden Manga Gets Stage Play Next August

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Supernatural manga inspired 2 anime seasons in 2013

The wraparound band on the 14th compiled volume of Miyuki Abe's Hakkenden: Tōhō Hakken Ibun manga announced on Friday that the manga is getting a stage play in August 2015 at the Theater Sun-Mall in Shinjuku in Tokyo. The winter issue of Kadokawa's Emerald magazine will have more details about the adaptation when it ships on December 26.

Abe's manga reimagines the setting from the classic Hakkenden samurai novel as a female-oriented story with supernatural elements. The manga inspired two anime seasons from Studio DEEN in 2013.

The first 13-episode series premiered in Japan in January 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed the series in various countries outside of Japan as it aired. Sentai Filmworks released the first season on home video in May under the title Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East. The second season premiered in July 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed it as it aired. Sentai Filmworks released the second season on home video last month.

Abe launched the manga in Tosuisha's Ichi*Raki magazine in 2005. Abe then switched publishers to Kadokawa Shoten in 2011, and began serializing the manga in the publisher's Ciel magazine. Abe then switched the manga this year to new Sekaiichi Hatsukoi-inspired Emerald magazine.


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