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Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! Gets Stage Play
posted on by Egan Loo
Play to run in Tokyo March 10-13
A stage play adaptation of the Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! anime has been green-lit for a March 10-13 run at the Zepp Blue Theater Roppongi in Tokyo. The cast will include:
Tomoru Akazawa as Yumoto Hakone
Maasa Igarashi as En Yufuin
Yūki Ochi as Atsushi Kinugawa
Shōta Takasaki as Io Naruko
Yoshihiko Aramaki as Ryū Zaō
Takahisa Maeyama as Kinshirō Kusatsu
Yū Imari as Ibushi Arima
Sōta Kashiwagi as Akoya Gero
Hiroki Murakami is writing and directing the production, and Marvelous, Pony Canyon, and Segan Live Creation are sponsoring it.
Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Viewster streamed the first anime season this past winter. Funimation describes the story:
Teenage boys are notoriously lazy, and the members of Binan High School's Earth Defense Club are no exception. Their definition of “earth defense” is bumming around all day at the local bathhouse. But when a pink wombat appears out of thin air and begs the boys to help him save the planet, even the idlest high schoolers jump to action. Watch the magical boys transform and save the earth with the power of LOVE!
In addition to the stage play, a second anime season has been green-lit:
