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For Whom the Alchemist Exists Stage Play Reveals 12 Cast Members in Costume

The official website for a stage play adaptation of the The Alchemist Code (Ta ga Tame no Alchemist or For Whom the Alchemist) smartphone game revealed the play's 12 main cast members in costume on Thursday.

Tatsumaru Tachibana as Kudanstein

Kanon Hanakage as Kanon

Kairi Miura as Kuuza

Miyu Suenaga as Kagura

Kōsuke Asuma as Othima

Daiki Ise as Monzein

Daichi Yamaguchi as Basheeny

Haruka Umeda as Yauras

Mio Hanana as Seida

Shiori Ishikawa as Chihaya

Ken Ogasawara as Orion

Seijirō Nakamura as Zain

The play, titled Ta ga Tame no Alchemist Butai-ban: Seiseki no Tsuioku (Recollections of the Sacred Stone), will run from June 26-30 in Tokyo at the Hakuhinkan Theater. Yōsuke Miyagi is directing and writing the play.

Fuji & gumi Games released the game in January 2016. The game is a tactical role-playing game centered on seven characters and themed around the seven deadly sins. The game is set on the continent of Babel, where the Tower of Babel looms large over seven nations. After the invention of alchemy led to its use as a tool of war that brought humanity to the brink of extinction, the seven nations struck an uneasy peace that led to a prohibition on alchemy for hundreds of years since. In the Continental Year 911, the nation of Lustrice broke the pact by assembling an army bolstered by alchemy, with ambitions of conquest over the continent. Led by Envylia, the six nations allied and struck down the rogue nation, casting alchemy once again to darkness. But 20 years after the war, alchemy once again begins to cause chaos in the land.

The game has more than 8 million downloads worldwide.

For Whom the Alchemist Exists, a theatrical film adaptation of the game, will open in theaters in Japan on June 14. Macross director Shōji Kawamori is serving as chief director on the project.

Sources: Ta ga Tame no Alchemist stage play's website, 4Gamer, Stage Natalie