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Sengoku Basara Gets New Manga, 2 New Stage Plays
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CAPCOM announced on Saturday that its Sengoku Basara franchise will get a new manga and two new stage productions.
The manga by Satsuki Urushiji is titled Sengoku Basara -Sarutobi Sasuke Eininden- (Sengoku Basara -Sarutobi Sasuke Hidden Shadow Chronicle-, visual pictured right), and will debut in the October issue of Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan magazine on September 25.
The first stage play, titled Sengoku Basara - Sōkō Ransei "Kurenai" Mirai e no Hokori (Sengoku Basara - A Turbulent World of Azure and Crimson "Crimson" Pride Toward the Future), will run at the Alternative Theater in Tokyo from December 7 to 16. The second stage play, titled Sengoku Basara - Sōkō Ransei "Ao" THE PRIDE (Sengoku Basara - A Turbulent World of Azure and Crimson "Azure" THE PRIDE), will run at the Alternative Theater from December 21 to 30.
The cast for Sengoku Basara - Sōkō Ransei "Kurenai" Mirai e no Hokori includes:
- Ryūnosuke Matsumura as Sanada Yukimura
- Kenya Nakao as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Atsushi Shiramata as Chosokabe Motochika
- Tatsumaru Tachibana as Yamanaka Yukimori
- Yuichi Ito as Kuroda Yoshitaka
- Yoshikazu Kotani as Mori Motonari
- Taisei Nishino as Miyamoto Musashi
- Yūsuke Seto as Akechi Mitsuhide
Kōji Okino and Shūto Mashima will also appear in a video.
The cast for Sengoku Basara - Sōkō Ransei "Ao" THE PRIDE includes:
- Shūto Mashima as Date Masamune
- Kōji Okino as Ishida Mitsunari
- Tatsuya Isaka as Keiji Maeda
- Tatsumaru Tachibana as Yamanaka Yukimori
- Airu Shiozaki as Goto Mototsugu
- Takeshi Terayama as Mogami Yoshiaki
- Takuma Sueno as Takenaka Shigeharu
- Takao Sasaki as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Ryūnosuke Matsumura and Kenya Nakao will also appear in a video.
Jun Yoriko is directing and scripting both stage plays.
CAPCOM's Sengoku Basara franchise already inspired three television anime series, one anime movie, a live-action series with two compilation films, and several stage plays.
A television anime adaptation of Gakuen Basara, a high school spinoff project based on the game franchise, is slated to premiere on TBS on October 4 and then on BS-TBS on October 6.
Sources: Comic Natalie, Stage Natalie
