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Danganronpa Stage Play's Rehearsal Video Streamed
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web began streaming a rehearsal video for theater production company CORNFLAKES' Danganronpa The Stage ~Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei~ (Danganronpa The Stage: The Academy of Hope and the High School Student of Despair) stage play on Tuesday. The play opens on Wednesday and will run until November 3 at the main hall of the Nippon Seinenkan in Tokyo.
The cast includes:
Kanata Hongou (Btooom!, live-action Gantz, NANA 2, live-action The Prince of Tennis movie) as Makoto Naegi
Rei Okamoto as Kyōko Kirigiri
Ryouta Ozawa as Byakuya Togami
Hikaru Osawa as Tōko Fukawa
Ren Yagami as Mondo Ōwada
Manpei Takagi as Kiyotaka Ishimaru
Reina Fujie as Aoi Asahina
Nagisa Oshima also as Aoi Asahina
Haruka Ishida of AKB48 as Chihiro Fujisaki
Makoto Okunaka of PASSPO also as Chihiro Fujisaki
Reina Ikehana as Celestia Ludenberg
Seitarō Mukai of the Tenshin comedy duo as Hifumi Yamada
Yukie Yamaguchi as Sakura Ogami
Yuya Miyashita (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's' Yūsei Fudō) as Leon Kuwata
Hinako Tanaka as Sayaka Maizono
Akira Ishida (no relation to the voice actor Akira Ishida) of the comedy duo NON STYLE (Sgt. Frog ending theme) as Yasuhiro Hagakure
Masaya Matsukaze also as Yasuhiro Hagkure
Sayaka Kanda as Junko Enoshima
NISA licensed and released the first two Danganronpa games in North America and Europe as Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair. A spinoff game, Zettai Zetsubō Shōjo Danganronpa: Another Episode (Absolute Despair Girl Danganronpa: Another Episode), shipped on September 25 in Japan. The franchise inspired a television anime series that premiered last July, and Funimation streamed the series as it aired.
