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The Eccentric Family Stage Play Suspended
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official Twitter account for the stage play adaptation of the Uchōten Kazoku (The Eccentric Family) franchise announced on April 7 that the play has been suspended.
Ticket sales website Confetti revealed the stage play in its April newsletter last month. The play was scheduled to run from May 31 to June 4 in Tokyo. Takumi Sugi was going to direct the play and Riki Tanimizu was listed as a performer. ADK Arts was producing the play.
The franchise also inspired a stage play in 2014.
Tomihiko Morimi's original Uchōten Kazoku novel inspired a television anime in 2013, and a new television anime based on the second novel in the series premiered on April 9. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs. NIS America released the first series on Blu-ray Disc in January 2015.
The comedy drama is set in Kyoto, where tanuki (shape-shifting raccoon-dogs), tengu (long-nosed goblins of Japanese folklore), and humans intermingle. The story follows the tanuki Shimogamo Yasaburō, the third son of the Shimogamo family who live in the Tadasu no Mori forest of Shimogamo Shrine. One day, Yasaburō's father is eaten as a hot pot by human members of a group known as the "Friday Club." As Yasaburō takes care of his teacher, an old tengu, fights with other tanuki, and plays with a psychic human girl, Yasaburō approaches the truth about his father's death.
