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3rd Hetalia Stage Musical's Title, Cast Revealed
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for the stage musical adaptations of Hidekaz Himaruya's Hetalia - Axis Powers manga announced the third musical's title and cast on Thursday. The musical is titled Hetalia ~in the new world~. Gaku Takamoto, pictured below, is joining the cast as Prussia.
The cast members returning from the second musical are as follows:
Ryōki Nagae (Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Satomi Hakkenden) as Italy
Yūsuke Ueda (Ace of Diamond stage play) as Germany
Keisuke Ueda (Yowamushi Pedal) as Japan
Ryūko Isogai as America
Daisuke Hirose as England
Juri as France
Yūki Yamaoki as Russia
Taishi Sugie as China
In addition, Takuya Kikuchi (also known as ROU, pictured below) is returning from the first musical as Austria.
Yūsei Naruse (Yowamushi Pedal, Diabolik Lovers stage plays) is again writing the script for the musical, and Kōtarō Yoshitani (Sengoku Musou, Amnesia, Bakumatsu Rock stage plays, Alice in the Country of Hearts musical, La Corda d'Oro Blue Sky musical) is returning to direct. tak is again composing the music and MAMORU is again handling choreography.
The musical will run from July 15-17 at NHK Osaka Hall in Osaka, and then from July 21-August 2 at Theatre 1010 in Tokyo.
The first stage musical, Hetalia ~Singin' in the World~, ran at the Zepp Blue Theater Roppongi in December 2015. The second stage musical, Hetalia ~The Great World~, ran at Osaka's Morinomiya Piloti Hall and Tokyo's Theatre 1010 in November. The musical's last performance had a live viewing in theaters nationwide.
Himaruya's original manga takes the archetypal characteristics of countries and regions throughout the world, and anthropomorphizes them as (mostly) bishōnen characters. Right Stuf released the manga in North America in collaboration with its former English-language publisher, Tokyopop, and its Japanese publisher Gentosha Comics.
Hetalia The World Twinkle, the sixth anime season inspired by Himaruya's manga, premiered in Japan in July 2015, and Funimation streamed the series as it aired. Funimation has released all the anime seasons and the Hetalia Axis Powers: Paint it, White! film in North America.
[Via Comic Natalie]
