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'If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die' Manga Gets Stage Play
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Auri Hirao's If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die (Oshi ga Budōkan Ittekuretara Shinu) manga will get a stage play in Aichi Prefecture and Tokyo starting in February.
The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the stage play also announced the series is casting active idols as members of the fictional idol group ChamJam. The series will reveal casting and more information on October 12.
The manga's comedy story centers on a woman called "Eripiyo," who is an extreme idol fan. She is wildly enthusiastic about Maina, the shy and lowest-ranking member of the minor underground idol group Cham Jam that performs in Okayama Prefecture. She gets so wrapped up in her love for Maina during a particular performance, that she has a major nosebleed. Eri will continue to give her complete devotion to Maina until the day she can perform at Budōkan (a major performing venue in Tokyo).
Hirao launched the manga in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryū in 2015. The series ranked on the top 20 list of manga for male readers in Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook in 2016. The manga has reached over 1 million cumulative copies in circulation. Tokyopop released the manga in English digitally and in print.
The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in January 2020. Funimation streamed the anime under the title If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die as it aired in Japan, and also streamed an English dub.
The series also inspired a live-action film in May 2023.
Sources: If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die stage play's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
