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Cyborg 009 Manga Gets 1st Stage Play
posted on by Anita Tai
Shōtarō Ishinomori's classic science-fiction hero manga Cyborg 009 is getting a stage play adaptation for the first time at Tokyo's Nippon Seinen-kan Hall from May 18-26.
The cast includes:
- Hiroki Nanami as 009/Joe Shimamura
- Shunichi Takahashi as 002/Jet Link, Joe's ally
- Minori Otoha as 003/Françoise Arnoul
- Masamichi Satonaka as 004/Albert Heinrich
- Haruto Sakuraba as 005/Geronimo Jr.
- Toshiya Sakai as 006/Chang Changku
- Kazuma Kawahara as 007/Great Britain
- Toyotaka as 008/Pyunma
The cast for the members of the Black Ghost faction are:
- Ryo Takizawa as 0010/Plus, as well as Shiki
- Rita Aizawa as 0010/Minus, as well as Riku
- Hiroo Ohtaka as Isaac Gilmore, the creator of Cyborg 009
- HILOMU, Dolton, KIMUTAKU, KENTA, GeN, Katoh Takahiko, and Ryota Kamiya as Black Ghost soldiers
Gō Ueki will direct the show, and Shinjirou Kameda will pen the script.
The story follows a global organization known as Black Ghost, which seeks to lock the world into eternal war. Black Ghost captures nine men and women and turns them into cyborg soldiers, but the cyborgs rebel and fight against Black Ghost.
Kyoichi Nanatsuki and artist Masato Hayase ended the 8 Man vs Cyborg 009 manga in 2023.
Tsuguo Okazaki launched the Cyborg 009 Bgooparts Delete manga based on Ishinomori's original series in July 2019, and the manga ended in September.
Kazumasa Hirai and Jiro Kuwata's 1963 8 Man manga inspired a television anime the same year. The 8 Man After original video anime debuted in 1993.
Sources: Cyborg 009 stage play's Twitter account, Comic Natalie
