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Fruits Basket Stage Play Streams Worldwide with English Subtitles
posted on by Alex Mateo
Avex Pictures announced last week that it is livestreaming the stage play of Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket manga worldwide on March 12 at 10:00 p.m. EST and March 13 at 2:00 a.m. EST. Avex Pictures will also stream the play with English subtitles on March 24 at 11:00 p.m. EDT. Tickets for the streams are available now.
The stage play is running from March 4-13 at the Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall in Tokyo. Nobuhiro Mōri wrote the play and is the executive producer, and Tarō Hasegawa directed the play.
The play stars:
- Ayano-Christie Yoshida as Tohru Honda
- Naoya Kitagawa as Yuki Sohma
- Shōhei Hashimoto as Kyo Sohma
- Hiroki Nakada as Ayame Sohma
- Shōgo Tamura as Hatsuharu Sohma
- Ruito Koga as Momiji Sohma
- Yūna Sekine as Kagura SohmaY
- Yūto Adachi as Ritsu Sohma
- Chisato Minami as Arisa Uotani
- Yukari Nakamura as Saki Hanajima
- Yuria Haga as Kyōko Honda
- Seiya Inagaki as Kazuma Sohma
- Yū Imari as Hatori Sohma
- Yūya Asato as Shigure Sohma
The manga inspired a 26-episode series in 2001, and then a three-season reboot anime series aired from 2019-2021. The reboot series also received a compilation film titled Fruits Basket -prelude- that opened in Japan on February 18.
Takaya serialized the original Fruits Basket manga in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine from 1998-2006. Tokyopop released the manga in English from 2004 to 2009, and Yen Press re-released the manga in 12 updated omnibus volumes beginning in June 2016.
Update: Typo corrected. Thanks, DerekL1963.
Thanks Anne F for the news tip.
Source: Avex Pictures' Twitter account
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