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Bluelock -Episode Nagi- Manga Gets Stage Play in November
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Kōta Sannomiya's BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi-, the manga spinoff of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura's Blue Lock soccer manga, will get a stage play adaptation titled Butai "BLUELOCK" Episode Nagi in November at the Theatre G-Rosso at the Tokyo Dome City.
The cast includes:
- Takamichi Satō as Seishirou Nagi
- Shūji Kikuchi as Reo Mikage
- Kenta Matsui as Zantetsu Tsurugi
- Nobunaga Satō as Meguru Bachira
- Ryō Saeki as Hyoma Chigiri
- Yu Imari as Shoei Baro
- Yūya Uno as Tabito Karasu
- Kento as Otoya Eita
- Yō Maejima as Ikki Niko
- Tomoya Nakanishi as Jin Kiyora
- Seki Hayata as Aiki Himizu
- Hiromu Sakata as Reiji Hiiragi
- Ryōhei Takenaka as Yoichi Isagi
- Ryono Kusachi as Rin Itoshi
- Shōjirō Yokoi as Jinpachi Ego
Naohiro Ise returns to direct and write the stage play.
The stage play will run from November 20-30 at the Theatre G-Rosso at the Tokyo Dome City. Tickets will be on sale between May 25-June 15.
The first stage play ran from May 4-7, 2023 at Osaka's Sankei Hall Breeze, and at Tokyo's Sunshine Theater on May 11-14, 2023. The second stage play ran in Kyoto and Tokyo in January 2024. The third stage play ran in Osaka and Tokyo in August 2024. The fourth stage play ran in Tokyo from May 15-25, and will run in Osaka from May 30 through June 1.
The spinoff inspired an anime film that premiered in Japan in April 2024. The film sold 337,000 tickets to earn 463 million yen (about US$2.99 million) in its first three days, and ranked at #2 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. The film opened in North America in June 2024. Crunchyroll began streaming the film with subtitles and with several dubs in October.
Kaneshiro and Nomura launched the original Blue Lock manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in August 2018. The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award in Kodansha's 45th annual Manga Awards in 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing is publishing the original BLUELOCK manga in English digitally, and is also releasing it in print.
The original manga inspired a television anime series that premiered in Japan in October 2022 on TV Asahi and its affiliates in the NUMAnimation programming block. The anime ran for 24 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and is also streaming an English dub.
BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, the second television anime season, debuted on October 5, and aired for 14 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.
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